Returning to Tarentum, Fyodor Chaika learns that Hannibal really refused to obey the Senate and seized power in the territories of Spain, Southern Italy and Sicily under his control, declaring himself a new tyrant. The war with Rome has not yet ended when a civil war begins within the possessions of Carthage. A new redivision of the world is coming. His own Senate, which had recently supported Hannibal, is now ready to do anything to stop the advance of the rebel troops towards Carthage. Even an alliance with Rome. But Hannibal intends to destroy the resistance of the Senate and become the absolute master of all its possessions. To the aid of his brother’s army, which is already in Numidia, fighting with the troops of the Senate, he sends another one under the command of Fyodor Chaika. This army was assembled secretly and its appearance on the theater of operations should tip the scales in favor of the new tyrant.