Pompeius was angry. Xabier had only brought 1,500 men, yet he had managed to deploy 15,000 men against Labienus. When confronted with this argument and why were there no Hispanic cavalry among the numbers, Xabier pleaded that his men had all scattered to their homes.

"Bullshit!" Pompeius shouted at the top of his voice. "You, yourself, had an inner core of 5,000 men following the confrontation with Titus Labienus. Where are they?"

"I shall return home to raise more men." Xabier said meekly.

"No, you will not. We leave for Carthago Novo today, but you and your 1,500 men will have to work doubly hard to convince me that I should endorse your claim to kingdom status..."

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Before the middle of the day had been reached, Pompeius Magnus and his XXIst legion, along with the Vasconi, were on their way to meet Pompeius Minor.

OOC: The journey will take 2 days IRL. The party will then spend 1 day embarking the XXIInd Legion. Then 3 days IRL traveling to Utica, another day embarking Quintus Cicero and his legion and then finally 6 days IRL to travel to Antioch, via Sicily, the Peloponnese, Crete and Cyprus.

While in Cyprus, Pompeius Magnus will take a cohort each from the XXIst and XXIInd Hispanic legions and use them to garrison Cyprus. These two cohorts will then raise an auxiliary legion.