I was a priest in the city-state era.

Chapter 230 Conquest and rule are two different things

Kithira.

This is a dry island across the sea from Sparta in the southern Peloponnese Peninsula. The island is hilly and lacks a natural port.

Although the island covers an area of ​​about 280 square kilometers, it produces only a small amount of wheat, barley, grapes, olives and olive oil, so the island's permanent population is only a few thousand people.

Kythira is very close to Sparta, but the patron saint here is not Hera.

Because the Phoenicians turned Kythira into a colony during the Age of Discovery, the goddess Astarte [Aphrodite] brought by the Phoenicians is the true owner of Kythira.

In the long historical evolution, the goddess Hera of the Spartans broke away from the worship of the snake goddess of the native Greeks and became a god of the sky, a god of animal husbandry, and a patron saint of navigation similar to Astarte [Aphrodite]. It is the result of being influenced by Aphrodite for a long time.

At this time, in a port on the island of Kythira, the coalition fleets of Sparta and Tenaron were moored.

When the rising sun in the east illuminates the world with infinite light, King Perieres of Sparta stepped out of the cabin and saw that the storm covering the entire Sea of ​​Thira had disappeared, and immediately rekindled his fighting spirit in his heart.

At this moment, Hera's voice sounded in Perieress' ear.

"Perius, stop the war with the Donians. Now that the city of Donia is part of the Kingdom of Athens, that is not a powerful enemy you can defeat."

"Goddess Hera—"

Hearing Hera's request, Perieris said with a complex expression.

"Even if I am willing to stop the war, will the Donians—King Roy of Athens be willing to stop the war?"

"King Loi of Athens has agreed to end the war."

Hera has accumulated hundreds of years of authority in the Sparta region, and is the only patron saint of the Sparta region. As the highest priest serving Hera, the Spartan king Perieres naturally dare not question Hera's words .

After conveying the oracle to Perieres, Hera was about to return to Sparta from Kythira when a familiar voice suddenly said.

"Dear sister, you came to my territory, wouldn't you say hello to me?"

Hera stopped vibrating her wings high in the air, turned her head to look at the Temple of Aphrodite on Kythera Island, and saw Aphrodite appearing above the Temple of Aphrodite with a height of [-] meters .

"Aphrodite, do you want to go to war with me?"

Hera flew to Aphrodite and said coldly.

"How dare you call yourself my sister, you think I dare not let the Spartans conquer Kythira Island, so that you can't gain a foothold in Kythira Island?"

"What a ruthless guy, you don't even think about who is responsible for you becoming what you are now."

Aphrodite teased with a playful face.

"The current native Greeks belonged to the same ethnic group 500 years ago. Therefore, from the Pylos region in the south of the Peloponnese Peninsula to the Thebes region in the north, these Greek natives all worship Mne Goddesses of snakes such as Mosyne, Metis, Amphitrite, and Persephone. Because Artemis has lived in the forest for a long time, her form has evolved into the most powerful beast in the forest. Will you It's all my fault to be a different winged dragon from your sisters!"

After listening to Aphrodite's words, Hera said with a sneer.

"Aphrodite, I don't deny that I absorbed and reproduced your godhead, but didn't you also absorb the many godheads you have from Ishtar in the Mesopotamia and the lion goddess in Egypt? Would you take the initiative to come to Ishtar and those lion goddesses and treat them as your dear sisters? If you can't do this, don't provoke me in front of me. Even if you are willing to be someone else's sister, I I'm not interested in being your sister either."

After speaking, Hera vibrated her wings and turned into a stream of white light and flew towards the Sparta area.

Looking at Hera's disappearing figure, Aphrodite said with a complex expression.

"Although I'm not interested in being someone else's sister, I really want to be your sister."

Donia City.

The Temple of Pandora in the palace.

When Roy and Pandora entered the temple, they saw that the throne in the depths of the temple was empty, and Pandora's human body was lying next to the throne, being taken care of by three priestesses serving the goddess Pandora.

When Pandora walked to the throne and was about to return her soul to a human body, Roy couldn't help but said.

"Pandora, why do you want to return to a human body?"

Pandora smiled and said to Roy.

"Honey, have you forgotten that gods can't directly interfere with humans? If I don't use this human body, but use the body of a god to disguise myself as a human, every minute and every second I spend pretending to be a human will consume divine power."

After the explanation, Pandora's soul escaped from the divine body and returned to the human body, and Pandora's divine body became a statue on the throne.

Roy and Pandora, who had turned back into a human, left the temple and came to the hall, where they saw Admiral Gortis reporting the news to Radamandes.

After seeing Roy and Pandora, Gortes said in panic.

"Your Majesty Roy, are you really still alive? If this is your undead appearing in front of me, please forgive me for abandoning you in order to save more soldiers."

"Gortes, you think I died in the storm?"

Seeing Gortes' reaction, Roy said jokingly.

"The ones in front of you are not undead. I didn't die in yesterday's storm, and I won't blame you for abandoning me to escape. After all, if you don't escape in time when you encounter a storm in the sea, not only may your entire army be wiped out, but you will also be unable to save me. I."

Then, Roy looked at Radamandis and said.

"Radamandis, our war with the Spartans is over, you are ready to leave Donia with me."

"Are we leaving like this?"

Radamandis said with a dissatisfied expression.

"You let Pandora stay and rule Donia City, shouldn't you first solve the biggest threat to Donia City-Knossos City?"

Hearing Radamandis' request, Roy rolled his eyes and said.

"Radamandis, with my ability, not to mention conquering Knossos and unifying Crete, I can even turn the Mediterranean Sea into my inner lake within five to ten years. But Conquest and rule are two different things. Conquering the city of Knossos is very simple. How can I manage and establish a rule? Now I haven’t even solved the food problem in Athens. Come and provide me with food to feed me for several years. Ten thousand Knossos, make them my allegiance?"

Roy knows very well that the status of the Aegean trade hub has been transferred from Knossos to Athens, and the large population of Knossos will become a huge burden.

Now Roy is not going to conquer the city of Knossos, and the food problem of Knossos is solved by Minos.

If Roy conquers the city of Knossos and Knossos becomes part of the Kingdom of Athens, the pressure to provide food for the Knossos will fall on Roy.

The rulers of this era may be able to ignore the life and death of civilians, and even treat civilians who have no food as slaves to solve the problem.

But Lowy is a person who has received a civilized education, so naturally he will not use these methods to solve problems.

(End of this chapter)