After returning to Tarent, Fyodor Chaika learns that Hannibal indeed refused to obey the senate and seized power in the territories under his control in Spain, Southern Italy, and Sicily, declaring himself the new tyrant. The war with Rome is not over yet when a civil war begins within Carthage’s possessions. A new struggle for the division of the world is coming. The senate of Carthage, which only recently supported Hannibal, is now ready to do anything to stop the advance of the rebel troops toward Carthage—even to the point of forming an alliance with Rome.
But Hannibal intends to destroy the resistance of the senate and become the full master of all its territories. To help his brother’s army, which is already in Numidia and fighting the senate’s forces, he sends yet another army under the command of Fyodor Chaika. This army was assembling in secret, and its appearance on the battlefield must tip the scales in favor of the new tyrant.