Side Quest: The Smugglers of Cyrene
- Prerequisite: Complete Side Quest: Cat and Mouse
- Suggested Level: 37
- Rewards: 3,000 XP, Rare Heavy Blade
Talk to the Mouse, Smithnos, near the north coast of Cyrene. He is standing under a large shelter. Follow the Mouse as he heads north to the docks. He tells you to steal the dock manifest so you can get the Black Crow’s scheduled route into the harbor.
Send Senu up and to the northeast over the pier to locate the soldier carrying the manifest. While scanning, mark the soldiers around the pier. You face Level 37 to 38 enemies here. There’s very few guards who stand between where you last talked to the Mouse on the docks and the shelter where the manifest carrie is located. Just run in and catch the patrols off guard. Eliminate them quickly so as not to start a big battle with guards farther beyond the manifest location.
Shoot an arrow into the manifest holder’s head, and take out the next nearest soldier so he won’t see you looting the dead soldier for the schedule. Confirm the kill to acquire the Apollonia Dock Manifest. Now run to the Mouse to the southeast. He is standing on the end of a small dock.
Four markers appear onscreen, all about 300 to 370 meters away to the east. The booty was dropped near the Thibron Expedition Shipwreck. Take the boat from the dock and sail toward the shipwreck and the markers. Shoot any nearby enemies on other smaller boats in the area. Send Senu up to pinpoint the submerged booty. Then go swimming and retrieve the four objects from the shipwreck area. Collect the two treasures while you’re down there to complete the Thibron Expedition Shipwreck location objective.
Now take a boat to the shore and find the Mouse at the Sunken Shrine of Aristoteles. When you arrive, you find soldiers attacking him. Mouse’s health bar appears onscreen. If you do not defend him and his health drains completely, then you fail and must retry the objective again. Fend off the five enemies to save Smithnos, who is bound and kneeling in the middle of the ruins. Use chain attacks to make quick work of them. Approach the Mouse to free him and to complete the quest.
Side Quest: Dead in the Water
- Prerequisite: Discover Kyrenaika
- Suggested Level: 38
- Rewards: 2,250 XP
Talk to the old woman in Apollonia. She says her son, Titus, has been imprisoned at the barracks for trying to leave the army. You tell her you’ll look into it. You’re a block from the barracks. Send Senu up to locate Titus in the Apollonia Barracks.
- Prerequisite: Approach the barracks
- Suggested Level: 38
- Location Reward: 600 XP
Senu locates the prisoner in the barracks’ southeast corner. There’s not many soldiers in this base but it’s best to eliminate those on the southern half who will see you marching out the front gate with the prisoner. So, climb the southeastern wall and kill any guards on the wall walk. Sometimes you find one in the southeast guard tower. Set the brazier trap just in case. Move around the wall walk looking for opportunities to perform a drop attack or bow attacks.
Enter the captain’s building from the east interior hallway entrance so you can sneak up behind him while he sits at his desk. Assassinate him and take the treasure from the same room to complete the location objective. Once the area is clear, head back to the southeast corner and free Titus from the cell on the building’s first floor. Open the cell and free him.
Have Titus follow you west to the main southern gate that opens to the street. March out the main entrance and get to a secluded area quickly. Titus wants to fight Romans, and if he sees one, he will attack. If he does, finish the job quickly for him so it doesn’t attract more Romans in the area and turn into a huge ruckus.
Take a boat from the barrack’s pier and sail east toward the marker. When you get near the marker, send Senu up to pinpoint the navarch’s ship. Have Senu mark the five Level 34 to 35 soldiers aboard. Sail to the ship and board it. Try stealthily pulling a couple overboard from the deck’s edge and maybe climbing the ropes above the ship to perform drop assassinations. After you kill the navarch, the quest ends successfully.
Side Quest: My Brother for a Horse
- Prerequisite: Discover Kyrenaika
- Suggested Level: 38
- Rewards: 3000 XP, Rare Mount
The horse master Darius is at the stables near the eastern boarder of Kyrenaika. Speak to him.
Travel east into Marmarica to the Archile Pandocheion. When you get close to this village, send Senu up to investigate. She can locate the list in the main house near the main road. There’s also a few bandits guarding the list. When you near the building, one of the bandits picks up the list and takes it with him toward the main road.
Enter through the back door of this house and follow them out to the road; this gives you the advantage of stealth. Sneak up behind the marked soldier and assassinate him. You can put all three bandits to sleep and then assassinate them. Confirm the kill of the list-holder if you don’t have the loot on kill ability. You’ll receive the Supplies Secured list.
Travel northeast to the Chersonesos Roman Fort. Have Senu scan the fort to locate Praefectus Equites. He rides his horse Hermes on his daily route around the fort. Perfect! You don’t need to raid the fort right now (save it for a side activity). Simply tag the target and wait for him to exit the fort and ride on the road west of the fort, well enough away that only his bodyguard will see you kill him.
Select your warrior bow and follow Praefectus. Shoot the target first and then deal with the second mounted soldier last. With them both dead, hop on Hermes. Now ride Hermes back to the horse farm and return him to Darius. Enjoy the ride.
Leave a Reply