I was a priest in the city-state era.

Chapter 237 Rejecting Goddess Artemis

Even Artemis, who followed her subordinate god Calypso, could be sold to Roy, so how could she care about Callisto's feelings.

Seeing Callisto's reaction, Artemis said expressionlessly.

"Calisto, our goddess wants to never marry for life because we are gods with eternal life and don't need offspring as the continuation of our life. But you are only a human being, so you don't need to follow my example and never marry forever. "

"I understand……"

Callisto looked at Roy sadly and said.

"King of Athens, as long as you are willing to enshrine the goddess Artemis as the patron saint of Athens, I will break the vow of never marrying for you."

Roy shook his head without hesitation and said.

"Goddess Artemis, even if you marry Goddess Calypso and Princess Callisto to me, I will not change my mind. As I said just now, I will only consider letting you marry me." Be the patron saint of the Kingdom of Athens."

"You guy-"

Artemis looked at Roy with angry eyes, and his expression was a little shaken.

If the Kingdom of Athens was just an ordinary large city-state, Artemis would definitely reject Roy without hesitation.

But the Kingdom of Athens was not only a super-large city-state, but was transforming into a centralized kingdom.

Now that Artemis is the patron saint of Athens, she will be able to become the queen of the gods who will rule over the gods of Athens in the future.

It is precisely in order to become the queen of the gods in the Kingdom of Athens that Artemis will not hesitate to use his subordinate god Calypso and virgin Callisto as bargaining chips in exchange for Roy's support.

After hesitating for a moment, Artemis finally gave up the idea of ​​marrying Roy himself.

Even if Roy can make her the queen of the gods in the Kingdom of Athens, she doesn't want to break her sacred vow of never marrying for Roy and marry a human man.

"Human! I will never marry you, you should be satisfied with Calypso and Callisto!"

Hearing what Artemis said, Roy couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Artemis is unwilling to let go of the pride of the goddess. It seems that she has not been severely beaten by reality, and has not yet regarded herself as a down-and-out wandering goddess.

Perhaps in another five or even ten years, Artemis will regret the decision she made today when she finds that she cannot regain the throne of the patron saint.

Hestia, who is also a wandering god like Artemis, is willing to let go of the pride of the goddess and become half-siblings with Roy because Hestia has experienced the deepest despair and knows that Roy is right. How hard-earned her help is.

"Goddess Artemis, since we can't meet each other's requirements, you should go to other places to seek opportunities to become the patron saint again!"

After saying this, Roy turned and left without hesitation.

Looking at Roy's leaving back, Artemis said angrily, gnashing his teeth.

"Stupid human beings! You would rather guard a weak new god than a powerful Artemis, you will definitely regret it."

"Mighty Artemis—"

Roy stopped and turned around, teasing with a playful smile.

"Since the goddess Artemis is so powerful, why did you become a wandering god when Zeus took your territory away? Although the goddess Metis is a new god, our city of Athens defeated Mai under the protection of the goddess Metis. Cinnaeans, let the Mycenaeans dare not have ambitions for the city of Athens. Goddess Artemis! Since Zeus defeated you, and Goddess Metis defeated Zeus again, normal people can conclude that Goddess Metis is better than you Come to a stronger conclusion!"

After speaking, Roy turned and returned to the palace.

"Loy, King of Athens—"

Humiliated unscrupulously by Roy, Artemis' eyes were burning with flames of anger, and strong fluctuations of divine power appeared in his body.

"Owner!"

Calypso comforted Artemis.

"If you turn back into a god now, it will only attract the goddess Metis to expel you as an invader, and we will not be able to avenge King Roy of Athens."

"I know—of course I do!"

Artemis suppressed his anger and said excitedly.

"If I could take revenge on mankind, I would have killed Acrisios, king of Mycenae, when I lost my status as the patron saint of Arcadia. But I know that Zeus will protect Acrisios, I would have revenged myself on Acrisius only to be attacked and humiliated by Zeus."

Callisto said with a complicated face.

"Goddess Artemis, now that we have been rejected by King Roy of Athens, where are we going to seek your chance to become the patron saint again? The west of the Corinth region is the mountainous Ahai region, and the west of the Thebes region It is the Calydon region of the mountains, the people of these two mountains live the life of herding and hunting like us Acadians, maybe they can accept the goddess Artemis."

Hearing Callisto's words, Artemis looked northwest and said.

"The Ahai region is surrounded by the Argos region and the Arcadia region, and will definitely become the target of the Mycenae conquest in the future. The Calydon region is far away from the Mycenaeans, and perhaps it can become my new territory. "

Calypso couldn't help but said.

"Artemis, there is already a patron saint named Althea in the Calydon region. Although the goddess Althea is not as good as you in the past, you are now a wandering god. Even if I help you, we are very happy. It is difficult to defeat the goddess Altea who has the patron saint seat. Perhaps we will spend decades or even hundreds of years developing believers before you can have the opportunity to replace the goddess Altea."

"Calypso, are you underestimating my ability?"

Artemis glared at Calypso angrily, and then said with a firm expression.

"It won't be long before I can regain the patron saint seat."

In the mythology of another world, after Artemis lost her status as the patron saint, she never regained the throne of the patron saint.

It wasn't until the Dorians invaded hundreds of years later and the exchanges between the Greeks and the northern nomadic Thracians deepened that Artemis got a chance to rise again.

The re-emergence of Artemis has nothing to do with her own abilities, but because the Greeks wanted to replace gods from other places with local gods.

The Greeks originally wanted Artemis to replace Bendis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt worshiped by the Thracians.

In Thrace, Bendis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt, was the sister of the sun god Helios.

Later, because the Greeks wanted Apollo to replace Helios, the sun god, Artemis and Apollo became sibling gods.

The re-emergence of Artemis first relied on being confused with Bendis to become the goddess of the moon, and then became a sibling with Apollo.

After the Dorians invaded, the Mycenaeans had become slaves of the Dorians, and Zeus, the patron saint of the Mycenaeans, naturally no longer had real authority, but could only have fabricated authority in mythology.

Athena, the patron saint of the city of Athens, and Apollo, the god of Asia Minor, became great gods whose real authority surpassed that of Zeus.

The gods who rose up by being Apollo's parasite were not only Artemis, but also Dionysus, the god of wine who offered to be Apollo's younger brother.

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