Who knew what the magical history of this world was all about? It did not matter anyway.
Standing atop a beacon tower was hardly an ideal place, so Su Ming chose to take Harley to the top of the Great Lighthouse instead. It was not a military structure, so no one would disturb them anytime soon, and it stood on a mountain, thousands of meters tall.
This Athens in this universe felt like someone else's city in Civilization, with the Great Lighthouse, the Colossus of Bronze, and Wonders resembling the Hanging Gardens and the Great Library. Its vast footprint did not seem like something from the classical era at all.
Of course, that was even more obvious when a squadron of Pegasus Knights flew past them.
Sparta's fleet was storming the shore, while Athens's army had built a defensive line along the rocky beach. The two sides exchanged catapult fire and volleys of arrows, as though a war without warning had suddenly erupted.
The sky was overcast, rain falling swiftly alongside lightning. Everything beneath the nightfall was repeatedly illuminated like a camera's flash.
Rain slid down armor and weapons, blood flowed through the crowds, and the cries of battle could be heard even from the lighthouse several kilometers away.
"What's that? A Giant? He's eating people. Sort of Killer Whale's style, hehehe."
Having come here on vacation, Su Ming took out two chairs and some snacks. The pair sat in the lantern room at the top of the Great Lighthouse while Harley peered through binoculars at both battle lines and pointed somewhere.
Killer Whale and Killer Croc had both been Harley's former teammates. One liked to eat people starting with their heads, while the other preferred lurking underwater and eating their legs first.
"A Cyclops. They're said to possess a