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And somewhere beneath the palace, Emperor Trajan dreamed of roots.

When King Cadwallon’s chariots charged at dawn, they rode not upon grass, but upon a pale, trembling carpet. The horses’ hooves sank. Men screamed as white threads laced through their sandals, into their heels, up their spines. Cadwallon reached for his sword, but his arm had become a branch of fungus, flowering with gray caps. thmyl-labh-rome-total-war-2-llandrwyd

“Thmyl-labh,” the Greek scholar called it. The Mycelium Lab. And somewhere beneath the palace, Emperor Trajan dreamed

“Where is your tribe now?” Marcus asked—but the voice came from every blade of grass, every rotting log, every fallen warrior’s open mouth. Men screamed as white threads laced through their

But spores do not respect quarantine.

Marcus’s legion marched inland, but his scouts carried no horns or banners. They carried clay pots. At every stream crossing, every ancient oak, every ford, they buried a shard of the mycelium. Within a day, the fungal god had woven itself into the roots of Siluria.