I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 189 Burning Deucalion's Warship

The sea between the southern part of the Attica peninsula and the island of Kea.

After Roy's [-] warships and Deucalion's [-] warships entered the sea area, Deucalion did not take the initiative to let his warships attack.

Because Deucalion could no longer afford a second defeat.

In order to ensure the victory of this naval battle, Deucalion decided to step by step and win steadily by relying on the numerical advantage.

Roy, who was full of confidence in winning this naval battle, let his warship rush towards Deucalion's warship without any scruples.

The endless sea.

Deucalion's two hundred warships were like monsters with their mouths wide open, and soon surrounded Roy's warships.

When Roy's warship and Deucalion's warship got closer to less than five meters away, Roy took the lead and picked up a clay pot containing twenty catties of olive oil and threw it at Deucalion's flagship.

Bang Bang!
The pot hit the deck of Deucalion's flagship and immediately shattered, and the olive oil in the pot began to flow on the deck.

Soldiers on the same ship as Roy threw another nine jars of olive oil onto Deucalion's flagship.

"Is this olive oil?"

Judging from the taste that the liquid on the deck was olive oil, Deucalion said doubtfully.

"What are the Athenians trying to do? Don't they think that the deck is full of olive oil, and our soldiers will not be able to stand on the deck? Then they really underestimate our Knossos navy."

bang bang bang bang-

At this moment, the sound of broken clay pots kept ringing.

Deucalion turned his head and saw that on every warship of Roy, there were soldiers smashing clay pots containing olive oil onto his own warship.

Seeing this scene, Deucalion felt ominous.

After all, olive oil is not water, but liquid gold whose value is five or even ten times that of food.

Even in the Aegean region, where olive oil is abundant, Roy's [-] warships threw [-] catties of olive oil onto Deucalion's warships, which is equivalent to a waste of [-] catties of grain.

Switching to a region that buys olive oil is equivalent to wasting 20 catties of grain.

Of course, Deucalion would not be stupid to think that Roy really wanted to cover the deck of his warship with olive oil, so that his soldiers could not stand on the warship and lose their combat power.

At this moment, Deucalion got the answer he wanted.

Because Roy and the soldiers used candles as kindling, lit the cloth ball soaked in olive oil, and threw it at Deucalion's warship.

Deucalion finally understood that Roy's tactic was to set fire to his warship.

"Roy, you crazy-"

The burning cloth balls hit Deucalion's warship like meteors. These cloth balls fell on the deck and immediately ignited the olive oil on the deck, causing a raging fire on the deck of the warship.

Deucalion watched all this happen, but was powerless to stop it.

As more and more warships were on fire, those warships that were not burning fled the battlefield one after another, and Roy's warships followed closely behind.

"Sea battles can still be fought like this?"

Deucalion stood blankly on the burning flagship deck, his eyes full of despair.

Seeing that the flames on the deck were about to burn to Deucalion's side, four soldiers came to Deucalion's side to persuade him.

"Prince Deucalion, this warship has been destroyed, you should transfer to the ship behind."

"What face do I have to live on after losing this war?"

Deucalion shook his head and said.

"Now I want to use my life to atone for the failure of this war."

After listening to Deucalion's words, the four soldiers stopped persuading Deucalion, picked up Deucalion and ran to the warship behind.

After Deucalion was transferred to another warship, although his flagship was not sunk, the soldiers on board were either transferred to other ships or jumped into the sea to escape the raging fire.

Roy commanded the warships to rush towards Deucalion's new flagship, seeing dozens of his own warships on fire, and thousands of his own soldiers in the sea calling for help, Deucalion suddenly regained his strength yelled.

"Knossos, the enemy has no more olive oil to light our warships. We can still win this war because we have more ships and soldiers than the enemy. Unite and fight Only by defeating the enemy can we save the comrades who fell into the water."

Hearing Deucalion's cry, more than 100 warships that were in a panic regrouped and began to counterattack Roy's warship.

Roy was not disappointed at all when he did not use fire to attack Deucalion's large fleet.

Because the loss of nearly half of Deucalion's large fleet with fire attacks was already an unexpected result.

"Roy, you are so vicious."

Roy's warship collided with Deucalion's new flagship, and Deucalion gritted his teeth and glared at Roy angrily.

"War is supposed to be men fighting each other with weapons, but you use flames to deal with us. You are considered a hero? Don't you think you have the honor of being a hero at all as the scum who stole my fiancée?"

Roy shook his head with a smile and said.

"Deucalion, you are really naive. The purpose of war is to win. As long as you can win, you can use any means. Now you are suing me, just because you didn't come up with a tactic to defeat me."

"Don't be too complacent, I haven't really lost yet."

Deucalion turned around and prayed to Crete with a pious expression on his face.

"Great goddess Europa, please help me win this war and give me the strength to defeat the enemy."

Accompanied by Deucalion's prayer, the goddess Europa once again came to the battlefield in a gigantic figure with a height of one thousand meters, stepping on the sea behind Deucalion's fleet with her bare ankles.

Whirring whirring--

After the goddess Europa came, the wind direction changed from north wind to south wind immediately, and those burning warships also crashed into Roy's warship under the force of the wind.

Before Roy could summon the goddess Metis, the goddess Metis floated on the sea with a huge figure of a thousand meters tall, and teased Europa.

"Europa, do you think you can defeat the sea goddess in a sea battle?"

While speaking, Metis summoned the spear and waved it lightly.

The direction of the wind changed from south to north immediately, and the burning warships were also driven by the north wind to crash into Deucalion's warships.

"Metis—"

Europa's beautiful red pupils stared at Metis and said.

"Do you think that you defeated me by your own strength?"

"Even without the assistance of Mnemosyne and Amphitrite, I will not lose to you."

After Metis finished speaking, he took the initiative to attack Europa with his spear.

Clang!
Europa summoned a huge double-sided battle ax to block Metis' spear.

Just when Europa wanted to fight back, the goddess Amphitrite stabbed at her with a silver trident, and Europa could only retreat helplessly to avoid Amphitrite's attack.

After forcing Europa back, Amphitrite stood beside Metis and said with a smile.

"Metis, I'm here to help you."

"Even if I'm the only one, I can deal with Europa."

Although Metis said so, she did not refuse to join forces with Amphitrite.

(End of this chapter)