I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 34 Encountering Pirates Refusing to Surrender
Seeing Luo Yi and Aries coming out of Ete'o's stone house, the guide Caron immediately stepped forward and smiled.

"Dear strangers! Your deal with Master Eteo must have been successful!"

Roy said with a faint smile.

"After all, our cargo is olive oil."

In this day and age, olive oil is known as liquid gold.

The main reason why olive oil can become gold in liquid is that it is rare and expensive.

Olives, a plant with special environmental requirements, are currently only widely planted along the eastern Mediterranean coast, and only the Attica Peninsula and the Peloponnese Peninsula can produce high-quality olive oil.

Hearing what Roy said, the guide Karon rubbed his hands excitedly and said.

"Since you have successfully traded with Master Eteo, then pay me according to the agreement!"

"can!"

After Roy agreed to the request of the guide Karon, he took the white sheep and the guide Karon back to the artificial dock of the port.

After the guide Caron left holding two cans of olive oil, the guard captain Pallas looked at his back and said.

"Master Priest! He just took a little time to lead the way, and took away our two cans of olive oil. We are not at a disadvantage."

"Captain Pallas! Thanks to Caron, I know that ten catties of olive oil can be exchanged for fifty catties of grain in Knossos. With this important information, we didn't lose money when we traded with Eteo , so hiring Caron is worthwhile."

After explaining this to Pallas, the captain of the bodyguard, Roy continued.

"Now I'm going to take half of the staff to move our olive oil to the warehouse in Eteo and bring our food back. Next, you have to continue to guard the ship."

After speaking, Roy directed fifty teenagers, including Aries, to move the olive oil out of the cabin.

After a moment.

Roy took fifty young men and moved the olive oil to the warehouse in Eteo.

Eteo seemed to suddenly attach importance to this trade, and waited for Roy in the warehouse himself.

Seeing Roy coming, Eteo ordered the servant to open the warehouse, walked up to Roy and said.

"Outlander! I forgot to tell you some important things. You know my name, but I don't know your name yet, and I don't know your identity."

"I am the priest Loi of the Athenian tribe!"

After Roy explained his identity, Eteo nodded and said,

"Sure enough, as I expected, you are the god priest who leads the tribe. As you, you can meet the great King Minos, and I can introduce you."

Eteo apparently misunderstood that Loi was leading the Athenian tribal leader as a priest.

After listening to Etteo's words, Roy shook his head without hesitation.

After all, King Minos was the ruler of the city of Knossos with a population of tens of thousands. Compared with the city of Knossos, the Athenian tribe was only a small tribe with a population of several thousand.

Even if Roy had an audience as the leader of the Athenian tribe, he would inevitably be required to submit to King Minos and become a vassal of King Minos.

"Master Eteo! You have misunderstood. Although I am a priest of the Athenian tribe, I am not the leader of the Athenian tribe, so I am not qualified to meet King Minos now."

"You are not the leader of the Athenian tribe, so you are the son of the leader of the Athenian tribe?"

"I'm not the son of the leader either."

"Could it be that the leader of the Athenian tribe went crazy and let an outsider become the priest of the tribe?"

Eteo said in surprise.

"In Knossos, King Minos is the priestess serving the goddess, and the queen is the priestess serving the goddess. Except for King Minos and the queen, only princes and princesses can be priests."

This is a world where gods really exist, and it is also in an era when the power of the king is granted by the gods, and the power of the gods is greater than the power of the king.

For the ruler of a tribe or a city-state, it is indeed incomprehensible for an outsider to become a priest of a god and hold divine power.

Looking at Ete'o's reaction, Roy said with a smile.

"Lord Eteo, you should just state your purpose directly! As long as your request is reasonable enough, I will try my best to meet your request."

Eteo hesitated and said.

"Priest Loi! The amount of paper you sold me is limited after all. I hope you can sell me the method of making paper. As long as you teach me how to make paper, I can give you two gold belts and two gold necklaces for you Take it back to please the wife at home."

Hearing Etteo's request, Roy shook his head without hesitation.

"Lord Eteo! The paper-making workshop of our Athenian tribe belongs to the leader Pandion, so I cannot tell you the technology of paper-making."

Roy's words are deliberately leading Eteo, making Eteo think that it is Pandion who masters papermaking.

Eteo said with a disappointed expression.

"Then after you go back, discuss it with the leader for me. I am willing to buy papermaking at a high price."

As a businessman, Eteo has clearly seen the business opportunities in this new thing, paper.

As long as he masters the technology of papermaking, he can obtain huge wealth by selling paper.

"I will definitely discuss this matter with the leader."

After agreeing to Ete'o's request, Roy took fifty teenagers and carried 650 catties of grain back to the port.

After loading the grain into the cabin of the cargo ship, Roy immediately ordered everyone to set sail.

As soon as the ten cargo ships sailed out of the port of Knossos, the sailors rowed the oars with all their strength, eager to go home.

It's a pity that because each cargo ship is loaded with more than 400 catties of grain, the speed of the cargo ship can never be increased to the limit.

Roy didn't notice that after the fleet left the port of Knossos, a fast ship without cargo also left the port and sailed to the same sea area as Roy's fleet.

In a blink of an eye, it was the next day.

As soon as Roy's fleet entered the Myrtoon Sea from the Cretan Sea, a fleet of ten small boats appeared in the sea ahead, heading directly towards Roy's fleet.

"pirate--"

Roy, standing on the flagship deck, saw that the small boats were neither fishing boats nor cargo ships, and immediately judged that the other party was a pirate who wanted to attack him.

After a brief panic in his heart, Roy immediately shouted to everyone.

"There are pirates rushing towards us, everyone is ready to fight."

Hearing what Roy said, everyone lowered their oars and ran into the cabin.

After a while, Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, and fifty of his personal guard soldiers came out with wooden spears and wooden shields.

Fifty teenagers were wearing paper armor, standing on the deck with wooden spears in both hands, waiting for them.

Seeing that everyone was ready to fight, Roy returned to the cabin, put on the paper armor that Procne made for himself, and walked out with the bronze spear that Philomela gave him.

The ten small boats of the pirates soon arrived at the location of Roy's fleet. Seeing that the sailors on the cargo ship were already in full battle, the tall and fierce-looking pirate leader raised his double-sided battle ax and shouted.

"Don't resist stupidly, as long as you surrender, we can only take half of your goods."

There are only a hundred pirates on ten pirate ships.

Obviously these pirates also know that it is not easy to defeat the same number of sailors, so the pirate leader wants to surrender without a fight.

Roy looked at the pirate leader expressionlessly and said.

"If you want to steal our food, you must first turn us into corpses."

(End of this chapter)