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Casca returns to Europe and soon joins the army of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Spain. Charles' many opponents mean plenty of battles, and Casca is sent to Italy as part of the Spanish garrison there. In Florence he meets Machiavelli and is interested in his political theories. However, war looms and Casca is part of the Imperial army victorious at Pavia (1525), but when this army participated in the infamous Sacking of Rome (1527) Casca deserted in disgust and sought out Machiavelli but his friend had just died. Hearing of new religious leaders arising in Switzerland and Germany, and thinking perhaps Jesus had returned, he sought them out but found Zwingli and Luther to be mere men with new religious ideals.
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Another religious conflict rises in Germany and Casca decides to help Luther in his struggle. Forming a volunteer Saxon army he is involved in minor skirmishes with Catholic forces in Thuringia. Hearing of more religious discord, this time in England, Casca decides to see if Jesus is in fact there, and resigns his commission. Crossing to England he is recognised and imprisoned by the Brotherhood and tortured for eight years until Henry VIII's soldiers attack and burn down the monastery. Casca kills the Elder after his release. Granted an audience with the old king, he realises Henry is not Jesus and returns to Germany and enlists in the protestant army. For a while things go his way but at the Battle of Muhlberg (1547) the Catholics triumph and Casca and the other survivors are chased into Germany. Casca heads east, away from the Christian arguments, seeking peace again.
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In the Steppes of eastern Europe he has an argument with two Cossacks and kills them with his bare hands, a feat that impresses the others, so they spare his life and he lives amongst them, becoming a Cossack in his ways, a welcome change to recent decades. When war with Poland and Sweden looms, the Cossacks join Ivan's army and partake in looting and plundering, until news reches them that some of the Tsar's soldiers have attacked their village and killed many women and children, Casca's woman amongst them. Saddened, Casca an dhis comrades return and bury the dead, before Casca bids his friends farewell and rides west.
He eventually reaches Spain once more and crosses a squad of arrogant Spanish soldiers. After three are dead and four injured, Casca is taken to prison and sentenced to serve on the galleys. He becomes an oar slave and in 1588 is part of the Armada that is defeated by the English and the weather. Casca's ship is sunk but he manages to break free and swim to English soil.