Chapter 502 - Discussion with Crassus

The capital of the Roman Empire stretched endlessly, a sprawling sea of stone and marble, its labyrinthine streets filled with countless houses that pressed tightly together as though competing for air. The city was alive with a restless energy, yet there was something undeniably chaotic about its arrangement. Even the homes of the nobility, those supposedly reserved for the refined and powerful, stood in awkward clusters, as if Rome itself cared little for order.