I was a priest in the city-state era.

Chapter 239 King's Power Can Overwhelm Theocratic Power

After Roy made a decision, he first went outside the hall and said to the Egyptian businessman standing in the courtyard.

"Egyptians! Now you can leave the city of Athens and go back and tell the king of Egypt, Cepheus, that I will not be his mercenary for food."

Hearing Roy's words, the Egyptian businessman first bowed his head to salute Roy, and then quickly left Roy's palace.

When the Egyptian businessman walked out of the palace, Roy also left the palace and went to the Temple of Metis.

Temple Square.

Roy came to the statue of Metis in the center of the square, looked up at the face of the statue of Metis and said.

"Great Goddess Metis, now I have something important to discuss with you."

After Roy finished speaking, the statue of Metis immediately burst into dazzling blue divine light.

When the azure divine light disappeared, the statue of Metis in front of Roy became the goddess Metis herself.

Metis lowered his head and looked at Roy, asking expressionlessly.

"What is the important thing you said?"

"I'm not used to looking up and talking to you like this."

Roy said with a smile.

"Goddess Metis, can you get smaller?"

"How dare you make such an impertinent request to me—"

With an angry expression on Metis' face, Roy said without fear.

"Aren't you willing to meet even this small request? You must know that you are not the only patron saint of the Kingdom of Athens. I can choose to let the older and more authoritative goddesses Mnemosyne and Amphitrite replace you." You. If I let Hestia, who has become a wandering god, replace you as the patron saint of Athens, even if I make more excessive demands, Hestia will gladly satisfy me."

Metis took a deep breath to suppress the anger in his heart, then his body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a human girl about 17 years old in front of Roy.

"Are you satisfied with this?"

Roy looked at Metis with straight eyes, nodded and said.

"Metis, you will meet me in this form in the future! Now let me tell you something important. The city of Athens needs to obtain food from other areas to feed the population that has increased during this period. You know that The Egyptian King Cepheus recently banned the export of Egyptian grain, and the grain that Athens can buy has been reduced by more than half. In order to solve the grain problem in Athens, I plan to go to the city of Sais on the coast of Egypt to rob grain.”

After a pause, seeing that Metis didn't respond, Roy couldn't help but said.

"Dear Metis, you really deserve to be a new goddess. Haven't you noticed that your chance to become stronger has come? There is a guardian goddess named Knight in Sais City. I took the Athenian soldiers to conquer Sais. Si City, when you occupy the temple of Goddess Nate, you can also use Goddess Nate as a trophy to plunder Goddess Nate's godhead!"

After being reminded by Roy, Metis' eyes immediately lit up, and his beautiful blue eyes showed a strong fighting spirit.

"You're right! Under normal circumstances, it would take me hundreds or even thousands of years to copy the godheads of other gods, and have the same godheads and attributes as other gods. But using war to plunder other gods I can directly obtain the godhead and attributes of other gods. As long as we conquer the city of Sais, not only you Athenians can take the rich spoils from the city of Sais, but I can also take the gods from Knight. Only spoils."

Seeing Metis' reaction, Roy boldly walked up to Metis, looked at her closely and said.

"Now that you know that I am going to start a war that will allow you to have more godheads and attributes, are you still angry at my rudeness?"

Metis said with a faint smile.

"Seeing what you are about to do for me, I am willing to forgive you and consider meeting your request."

"Then can you consider accepting my love and becoming my wife?"

"Let's talk about the dream talk in sleep!"

Metis immediately said with a cold face.

"Roy, if you were an incompetent king and couldn't let my power as a patron saint continue to increase, I would have turned you into a corpse long ago. I really don't understand, I don't love you, why would you Keep pestering me to let me accept your love?"

"Maybe it's because you keep rejecting me that my desire to get you becomes stronger and stronger."

Roy thought for a while and said.

"I originally wanted to pursue you to share your eternal life and divine power. Now there are many goddesses that I can target, but the goddess I most want to pursue is always you. Metis! Before my patience in pursuing you is exhausted Before, you should seriously consider accepting my pursuit. Only when you lose something will you know how to cherish it, maybe when I don’t want to pursue you, it will become you chasing your husband to the crematorium.”

"It's ridiculous, how could I fall in love with a human man."

Metis said confidently.

"When your funeral is held, I will attend your funeral based on your merits. If you have the potential to become a hero god at that time, I will help you become a god after death, but I and the [chaser] two Words will never be involved. Because I want to be a virgin goddess who is always holy, I will neither surrender myself nor let any man blaspheme me."

After listening to Metis' words, Roy couldn't help but think of a sentence - the one who is favored has nothing to fear.

If Metis were to lose the throne of the patron saint and become a down and out wandering goddess and be beaten by the cruel reality for several years, she would definitely let go of the pride of the goddess.

In this world where gods really exist, when the power of the gods is strong, the gods are of course the stronger side.

But when the royal power is stronger, the royal power can also overwhelm the divine power.

For example, Roy’s Kingdom of Athens included Attica, Thebes, Eubia, Corinth, and West Crete, and Metis was only the guardian of Attica among these five regions. God, and only a new god who has become a patron saint for less than three months. Of course, the kingship of Roy is stronger than that of Metis.

Roy wanted other goddesses to replace Metis as the patron saint of Athens, and there would be little resistance.

Even if Metis wants to punish Roy, there will be other patron saints of the Kingdom of Athens to stop Metis.

The Mycenaeans conquered the Argos region and the Arcadia region, and regarded Zeus as the supreme god of the two regions. Other gods must become the subordinate gods of Zeus, and Zeus has accumulated authority for thousands of years. In this case, of course, Zeus' theocratic power overwhelmed the king's power.

If the king of Mycenae wants to challenge the authority of Zeus, even if Zeus punishes the king of Mycenae, there will be no other gods to protect the king of Mycenae.

Because in the area ruled by the Mycenaeans, other gods have become subordinate gods of Zeus.

Gods who do not want to submit to Zeus will be driven away by the Mycenaeans and become wandering gods.

"Metis..."

After all, Roy didn't want to do anything to hurt Metis, so he could only say helplessly.

"Tomorrow I will lead the fleet to go out, and you will go to the Eastern Mediterranean with us. If you stay in the waters of Athens, you may not hear my call, and even if you do, you will not be able to arrive at the battlefield in time."

(End of this chapter)