I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 135 The Story of the Minotaur
Roy had already provoked and humiliated himself unscrupulously. Of course, Perseus would not choose to endure it. He stood up angrily and said.

"Roy, I want to fight you."

Roy immediately laughed jokingly.

"Then I'll teach you, the defeated general, a lesson."

At this moment, Deucalion walked between Roy and Perseus and said coldly.

"You are my guests, if you really want to duel, then you must first duel with me."

Seeing Deucalion come forward to stop the duel, a beautiful boy beside Perseus said in a low voice.

"Cousin Perseus, we must not offend Prince Deucalion."

Perseus calmed down and said to Deucalion.

"Deucalion, I'm not in a hurry to get revenge on Roy. For your sake, I'll pretend I can't see Roy."

After speaking, Perseus sat down next to the beautiful boy again.

Roy also said to Deucalion.

"Deucalion, I am willing to fight with you, but today is obviously not the right time. For your sake, I will not have any more conflicts with Perseus."

After speaking, Roy sat down beside Deucalion.

Deucalion glanced at Roy and Perseus with a satisfied smile, and then said to the princes and princesses.

"My noble princes! My beautiful princesses! You are all my guests, so I don't want any conflicts between you. Now I thank you all for accepting my invitation to the city of Knossos, and then enjoy my service for you. Prepare the banquet!"

After Deucalion finished speaking, a group of young male servants poured in from the door on the left side of the hall, offering barbecue, wine, white bread and other food to the princes, and a group of beautiful maidservants poured in from the door on the right side of the hall to serve The princesses offered barbecue, fruits, pastries and other food.

After Deucalion sat down to taste the food with the princes, the princes talked to each other, and soon the topic turned to women.

A prince who knew both Perseus and his cousin joked about them.

"Prince Perseus! Prince Pelops! Neither of you seems to have a fiancée. Is there any goal you want to pursue among the princesses?"

Perseus and his cousin Pelops shook their heads simultaneously.

Seeing the reaction of the two, another prince joked.

"Don't you two like women, but men? It would be so exciting if you two cousins ​​liked each other."

Perseus immediately said angrily.

"Of course I like women, and I already have a target to propose to, Princess Andromeda of the Egyptian Empire."

Pelops continued.

"I also have a target of marriage proposal, Princess Hippodamia, the daughter of Olympia, the king of Olympia in the Elis region."

Although Perseus and Pelops had the status of princes, they were only the grandsons of Acrisius, king of Mycenae.

The two cousins ​​even dreamed of marrying Princess Andromeda and Princess Hippodamia——

The princes could only suppress their smiles to avoid offending Perseus and Pelops.

Everyone was chatting while tasting barbecue and wine, a prince suddenly looked at Deucalion and said.

"Prince Deucalion must be the happiest among us, able to marry the goddess-like Princess Pandora."

Hearing this sentence, all the princes nodded in agreement.

Deucalion couldn't help laughing.

"It's all because my love for Pandora touched her elder brother, King Radamandis of Donia City, so I was lucky enough to become Pandora's fiancé."

Radamandis—

Hearing this name, Roy couldn't help showing a surprised expression.

Because in ancient legends, although Radamandis was the king of Donia, his Donia city was later captured by Minos, king of Knossos, and he himself was expelled by Minos.

Since Radamandis and Deucalion were contemporaries, Minos who defeated and expelled Radamandis was obviously Deucalion.

Radamandis had already married his sister Pandora to Deucalion, why did Deucalion start a war against Radamandis?
Didn't Pandora marry Deucalion in the end?
Or maybe Deucalion married Pandora, but still did not give up his ambition to capture the city of Donia?
Before you know it, time goes from afternoon to night.

The princes and princesses were full of wine and food, and it was time for the banquet to end.

"Dear friends!"

Deucalion, who was already a little drunk, stood up and said.

"It seems that today's banquet should be over! My father decided to hold a spring plowing ceremony the day after tomorrow. After everyone goes back, they can still sleep in tomorrow."

After the princes and princesses started to leave separately, Roy found Procne and was going to take her back to their guest room.

As soon as Roy and Procne walked out of the palace hall of Deucalion, Perseus and Pelops stood in front of them.

Before Roy could speak, Perseus took the initiative to speak.

"Roy, I'm not here to see you. I want to ask Princess Procne how my mother is doing in Athens."

Procne and Roy looked at each other, and after Roy encouraged Procne with his eyes, Procne said to Perseus.

"Prince Perseus, now your mother has become my father's very favorite concubine, and she is doing well."

Perseus nodded.

"Although I don't want to accept it, your father has actually become my stepfather, and you have become my stepsister. If Roy can't take good care of you, you can come to me as a stepbrother."

After speaking, Perseus took Pelops and left voluntarily.

Looking at the backs of Perseus and Pelops, Procne said with a frown.

"My older brothers are only Loy and Erechtheus."

under night.

Labyrinthine palace.

Every sheltered corner was lit by an oil lamp.

When Roy and Procne returned to the guest room, they hugged each other and lay on the bed ready to fall asleep.

After a moment of silence, Procne whispered.

"Brother Roy, I can't sleep."

"Then let me tell you a story!"

"What story does brother Roy want to tell?"

"I'm going to tell you a story about Minos who lived in a labyrinth. On the island of Crete, there lived a mighty king named Minos [the tauren]."

"Brother Roy, why is King Knossos called Minos [Tauren]?"

"Because the goddess Europa who guards the city of Knossos is a cow-shaped goddess of nature and the goddess of the earth. The king and queen of Knossos, as the highest priest and highest priestess of the goddess Europa, wear Horn ornaments, let yourself have a tauren image similar to the goddess Europa."

"Ah—is it possible that the goddess Europa is also in the form of a bull-headed human?"

"That's right! The goddess Europa is a beautiful pure white heifer, so she turns into a human body with two horns on her head. This image of the goddess Europa is also regarded as a female by the people who believe in the only god in the Near East. The image of the devil. The next thing I want to say is that because King Knossos built a maze-like palace, plus King Minos is a tauren with bull horns, so Minos is also called living in The Minotaur in the Labyrinth."

(End of this chapter)