The Tyrant's Tomb

A badly burned Apollo staggers away from the explosion, grieving Frank’s death. As he finds himself facing the remaining enemy troops and the fleet in the Bay, a burned Commodus crawls from the tunnel just in time to order his fleet to attack the city with Greek fire, and a subordinate passes this order on. However, an infuriated Apollo tackles the weakened emperor and disintegrates him with a divinely empowered roar of rage. He then watches in despair as the yachts fire all of the Greek fire mortars, but he is astonished when the mortars rebound and destroy the ships. After the enemy soldiers flee, Apollo frees the two abused Pegasi from their harnesses and entreats them to give him a ride to New Rome. One, whom he privately dubs One Eye, agrees.

Apollo lands outside New Rome, which is under siege by the undead. He finds Meg leading a squadron of combat-ready unicorns. Deducing that the assault is a diversion, they realize that Tarquin is after the Sibylline Books. They find Hazel fighting zombies, and together they all head to the bookstore, where an infuriated Tarquin is interrogating the cat, Aristophanes. Recognizing that Apollo has almost succumbed to the poison and is now within his power, the king uses magic to force Apollo to reveal that the prophecies are tattooed on Tyson, who is currently located at Temple Hill.