Metal Ranger of the Endless Plane

Helping the survivors of the Pericles faction escape from Athens, Cassandra obtained further information about Myrrine from his widow Aspasia.

The pirate queen named Phoenix, who controls the Siren’s Song, appeared in people’s sight for the last time, on the island of Naxos.

In the Greek myths circulating in later generations, in addition to the stories about the twelve gods such as Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon, Hades Ares, etc., there are also many stories of heroes.

For example, the illegitimate son of Zeus, the demigod Heracles, also known as Hercules, who possessed twelve achievements such as beheading Hydra.

Another example is Theseus who solved the Minotaur Minotaur in the Crete Labyrinth.

But why are there these legends of heroes?

Hey, a very important reason is that the Spartan royals claimed to be descendants of Heracles, so the capture of the Peloponnese is not an invasion, but a return. Although this demigod was not born here, but only made a few great contributions here.

Similarly, Theseus, who settled the tauren, was called his ancestor by the Athenians.

In fact, above them, there is a more famous hero, Jason, who is sitting on the Argo and looking for the Golden Fleece everywhere.

The two above have a relationship with Jason.

Why? Because the story of Jason is the story of his royal heroes spread by Thessaly, the most powerful area in Greece, before the rise of Sparta and Athens.

Jason is believed to be the de jure king of Iorkos, a port city, but was usurped.

The seaport city of Iolkos is in the area of ​​Thessaly.

Therefore, human beings, especially human beings in ancient civilizations, have similar preferences.

It can also be said that the royal family likes to climb relatives with epic heroes. It can also be said that only the heroic deeds of the royal family's ancestors can be preserved.

So, what do these things have to do with the island of Naxos that Lu Yuan is going to go to?

Well, the aforementioned Theseus, who killed the tauren, had the help of Ariadne, Princess of Crete, in mythology, to survive the Cretan Labyrinth and kill the beast.

Afterwards, the princess left Crete with Theseus, enjoying her beautiful married life.

But Theseus is worthy of being an ancient Greek hero, who has always been ruthless with ancient Greek epic heroes. He threw this beautiful princess who helped him build a worldless feat to an island halfway through.

Guess what the island is called?

You got it right, this is the island of Naxos.

To be honest, Lu Yuan is quite fond of such stories in Western history or mythology.

After all, a considerable number of Chinese people in later generations like to use this method to pick up the black material of Chinese historical mythology, and use the information gap that most Chinese people are not familiar with Western historical mythology to fool and prove that Westerners are noble and inferior.

In this regard, Lu Yuan would only squint and chuckle: Uh? Is it? Let's take a bite~

Speaking back, in fact, Cassandra and others are not unfamiliar with this place.

Because this island of Naxos is the ring-shaped archipelago mentioned before, which is the largest island in the Cyclades.

The Hephaestus Forge, which upgraded Cassandra's Broken Spear, is located on the northernmost island of Andros.

At this time, because of the war between the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta and the Delian League headed by Athens, it was also affected here.

Naxos belongs to the Spartan side and is at war with the neighboring island of Paros on the west side of the Athenian faction.

The shortest distance between the land of the two islands is even less than five kilometers.

At this time, the so-called tyrant who ruled Naxos in favor of Sparta was the mother Kassandra was looking for, the daughter of King Leonidas, Myrigne.

The word tyrant is the etymology of the word tyrant in English.

However, it is not very similar to the tyrants of the Chinese people who seek self-interest regardless of the life and death of the people. The so-called tyrants in this period often rely on uniting the masses of the middle and lower classes, overthrowing the previous middle and upper classes, especially the upper classes, and ascending to the peak of power. of.

So in fact, they tend to care more about the interests of ordinary people than their predecessors.

Somewhat similar to the founding king of China after the change of dynasty.

But why this name will slowly become a derogatory meaning, hey, this is the credit of the nobles and religious figures who have long dominated the interpretation of Western civilization.

These things need not be mentioned.

At a glance, I recognized Myrini, who had handed it to his daughter Leonidas's broken spear, and it was soon easy for Cassandra to recognize each other.

But the beautiful reunion time soon cast a shadow over it.

It's not just the war here, but the missing person in the family, Alexios.

Myrigner, who thought that her daughter and son were both dead, saw her lost daughter on the same day, and learned from her daughter that her deceased son was actually alive. The old mother should have been happy.

But at the same time, I learned that my son was instilled into a fierce weapon full of hatred by the group of careerists in the church, but the old mother was not happy anyway.

When Cassandra and Lu Yuan helped her solve the problems on the island, an uninvited guest also brought them even worse news.

That man was Aspasia, the widow of Pericles, the former consul of Athens.

The bad news is that after her investigation, she was convinced that one of the two kings of Sparta was also a person of the Order of God.

Regarding why Sparta has twin kings, it is also a product of the limited technical conditions of the times, coupled with Spartan culture, and aristocratic politics.

On the surface, Sparta established the country by military force, and the king must command the army to fight, but in order to prevent the enemy from stealing the home, someone in the family had to stay behind, so the two kings.

In fact, if there are twin kings, the two kings plus the influence of the noble veterans can form a three-way stable triangular structure that restrains each other.

Another kind of separation of powers.

Hearing that one of the two kings of Sparta had become the minion of the Order of God, Myrigne, a descendant of the royal family, couldn't believe it at first, but combined with his own experience, the more he thought about it, the more likely he realized it was.

So after the Naxos crisis was resolved by Cassandra Luyuan and others, the tyrant handed it over to the homeless Aspasia, ready to return to his hometown with Cassandra, Sparta. Up.

But before setting off, she finally told Cassandra about another thing that Cassandra cared about, which was what Cassandra had learned from Nicholas, about her own father.

Who is his biological father? My mother Mirine did not tell Cassandra directly.

She told her daughter that the man was on the island of Thira.

Contrary to Andros, Thira is the southernmost island of the Cyclades ring archipelago.

So, after saying goodbye to the mother who had set off to Sparta first, Cassandra and others went there first.