I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 157 Hydera and the Nemean Lion

The city of Corinth has joined the Alliance of the Three Goddesses, so of course they cannot refuse to attack Mycenae with their allies.

Hearing Harmonia's words, Sisyphus immediately explained.

"Don't get me wrong, I support Roy's idea of ​​attacking the city of Mycenae. After all, the city of Corinth is the closest to the Mycenaeans, and the city of Corinth is the city that forced the Mycenaeans to accept the peace treaty. I'm just worried... The Mycenaeans have the advantage of being condescending and easy to defend in the city of Mycenae, and it will be difficult for us to defeat the Mycenaeans."

Sisyphus' worry was not unreasonable, Roy said with a confident smile.

"Sisyphus! I'm just going to force the Mycenaeans to accept the peace treaty. I don't have to go to war with the Mycenaeans. Since the Mycenaeans take the initiative to end the war, it means that they don't want to continue to lose soldiers. , so I am confident that the Mycenaeans will be forced to accept a peace treaty without fighting between the two sides."

Sisyphus suddenly said.

"Then I will let Glaucus lead [-] soldiers with bronze spears and [-] soldiers with wooden spears to go out with you, and I will stay in Corinth City to transport food for you."

Of Lowe's 350 men, although no one was killed in yesterday's battle, 50 were wounded.

Now the soldiers that Roy can use to attack Mycenae are only Roy's own [-] soldiers, Harmonia's [-] soldiers, and Corinth's [-] soldiers-a total of [-] soldiers. Hundreds of soldiers.

The Mycenaeans left [-] corpses outside Corinth, and minus the wounded soldiers, the Mycenaean army only had [-] soldiers who could fight.

Even if he returned to the city of Mycenae, King Acrisios of Mycenae could summon the young and strong in the city to join the battle, and Roy could fight a war with the Mycenae with [-] soldiers, because In Roy's army, there were [-] soldiers with bronze weapons, and [-] of them wore paper armor.

After Roy, Harmonia, and Glaucus left Corinth with [-] soldiers, Sisyphus also began to command the Corinthians to clean up the battlefield and cremate the corpses of Mycenaean and Corinthian soldiers.

Because leaving these corpses alone will not only attract many dangerous beasts, but may also breed plague.

When night falls.

Roy, Harmonia, and Glaucus brought eighteen hundred soldiers to the Nemea region between Corinth and Argos.

In this era, there was a lush Nemea forest in the Nemea region.

In the past, there was a powerful Nemea tribe next to the Great Nemea Forest. Because the leader of the Nemea tribe, Laikagutu, was a hero with copper skin and iron bones, the Nemea tribe often fought against the city of Corinth.

When the Mycenaeans conquered the Argos region ten years ago, Acrisios, king of Mycenae, who had the power of a great hero at that time, personally led an army to annex the Nemea tribe and killed the great hero Laikagutu.

After Roy's army was stationed outside the Nemea Forest, Roy, Harmonia, and Glaucus sat around a bonfire, Glaucus couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"If the king of Nemea came to Kagutu ten years ago without arrogance and arrogance, but chose to fight against the Mycenaeans with our city of Corinth, perhaps we can defeat the Mycenaeans only with the strength of our Corinthians."

Harmonia asked curiously.

"That Nemea king who came to Kagutu is really powerful?"

"Harmonia! Although I haven't seen King Nemea come to Kagutu with my own eyes, he should be really powerful."

After Harmonia and Glaucus looked at Roy, Roy said with a smile.

"I heard that the Mycenaeans integrated the defeated hostile forces into their mythology in order to boast of their achievements. After the Mycenaeans migrated to the Argos region, the first powerful enemy they encountered was In the Argos region, the leader of the Lena tribe, Inax, ruled the Lena Plain. After conquering the Argos region, the Mycenaeans wrote the Lena Plain as the Lena Swamp in their fabricated myths, and Inacos and The Lena tribe he ruled was written as the indestructible Hydra. After a hard fight, the heroic leader of the Mycenaeans finally used his wisdom to destroy the nine heads of the Hydra—that is, to eliminate Inakus and His eight sons then annexed the Lena tribe that had lost their leader. The king of Nemea came to Kagutus, which was the second powerful enemy that the Mycenaeans encountered. Because in the myths fabricated by the Mycenaeans, they In the future, Kagutu will be written as a Nemean lion with copper skin and iron bones. Their heroic leader had to spend a lot of effort to kill the Nemean lion. As locals, you should know that the Peloponnese Peninsula There are no lions at all, and you don’t even know what kind of beast a lion is. Only the Mycenaeans who migrated from Egypt know about lions, so they use giant lions with copper skin and iron bones to describe powerful enemies.”

After listening to Roy's words, Glaucus widened his eyes in surprise and said.

"Priest Loy, you are obviously a foreigner, but now I can't help but suspect that you are a native of the Peloponnese Peninsula. Because I am a Corinthian, I don't understand the things you said like you do .”

Harmonia also said curiously.

"Honey! I only heard that lions are very powerful beasts. Do you know the specific information about lions?"

Roy nodded.

"Lions are beasts that live in Africa in the southern Mediterranean and Asia in the east. They live in groups like humans, and a male lion will have many female lions as partners. Because lions are the most powerful beasts in Africa, Egyptians used to Worship the Lion Goddess, and worship the Lion Goddess as the supreme Sun Goddess among the Egyptian gods."

"Even that beast called a lion is like us humans, a husband can have many wives—"

Upon hearing this information, Harmonia's little face showed an expression of disbelief.

In order not to cause any misunderstanding in Harmonia, Roy continued.

"Halmonia, not every male lion can have a colony of lionesses. Just like other animals, male lions have to fight and kill each other in order to be the winner with a territory and a colony of lionesses. Egyptians The lion goddess is worshiped because among the lions, the male lions are only responsible for guarding the territory and expelling stray male lions and sideburns. The worship of the Lion Goddesses has waned, causing those Lion Goddesses to become subordinate wives to powerful male gods."

Harmonia half-understood what he heard, looked at Roy with adoring eyes and said.

"Honey, your knowledge is really profound. I have a question that I didn't mention just now. In the myths fabricated by the Mycenaeans, the heroic leader who defeated the Hydra and the giant lion of Nemea was named Ake. Lisius? After all, in reality, the king of Mycenae, Acrisius, was the prototype for defeating the hydra Hydra and the Nemean lion."

Roy shook his head and said.

"In the myths fabricated by the Mycenaeans, the name of the hero leader is not Acrisios. Because the future Mycenaean king's achievements in defeating powerful enemies will also be fabricated into myths and belong to this hero. Chief, so this fictional heroic chief of Mycenaean mythology would have a fictional name."

After stopping here, Roy said silently in his heart.

The name of the fictional hero - none other than Hercules.

(End of this chapter)