Maximus's gaze swept over his comrades who had fought alongside him back in Campania, earnestly advising, "Spartacus, Hamilcar, Antonix, Attutmus, didn't we make a promise to resist Rome and gain freedom when we escaped from the Gladiator School and started a rebellion in the Vesuvius Region?! Now that it's about to be realized, for the sake of those brothers who have always believed in us and followed us, we absolutely cannot back down!—"
"Maximus, you are talking nonsense!" Cleonis loudly interrupted Maximus's speech, "Will leaving Italy grant us freedom?! Do you know that north of the Alps are terrifying Gauls and even more terrifying Germanic tribes!
I have asked some Gaul brothers in the army, and they all told me that each of those barbarian tribes has its own territory, and if outsiders enter, they will treat them as enemies, waging war to kill or expel them!
