I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 35
There were one hundred and two men on the Lowe's side, and a hundred on the Pirate's side.

On the surface, the numbers on both sides appear to be about the same, which is why the pirate leader wants to surrender without a fight.

But more than half of the sailors on Roy's side were teenagers under the age of 20, with immature faces, and they had obviously never experienced fighting on the battlefield, let alone killing anyone.

The sailors on the pirate side are not only men over the age of 20, but also have experienced fighting.

The most important thing is that the weapons used by the sailors on Roy's side are all wooden spears, and the weapons used by thirty sailors on the pirate side are bronze war spears.

Hearing Roy's refusal to surrender, the pirate leader shouted with a ferocious grin.

"You have made the most stupid choice, and then the most unfortunate of you will be buried in the sea, and the rest will become slaves, and we will sell them to the Phoenicians for food."

After saying this, the pirate leader ordered the pirate sailors to row the boat to Roy's cargo ship.

Looking at the approaching pirate ship, Roy tensed his whole body and shouted while holding the bronze spear in both hands.

"Companions! Don't panic, these pirates are flesh and blood, we will not lose to them. If you don't want to be killed by pirates, or become slaves by pirates, do your best to kill these pirates."

finally--

Ten pirate ships collided with Roy's ten cargo ships.

Roy's sailors fought fiercely with the pirate sailors immediately. The pirate sailors held wooden shields in their left hands and attacked with spears in their right hands.

The fifty personal guards of Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, used the same tactics to fight back and forth with the pirate sailors.

Roy's fifty teenagers completely abandoned their defenses, wielding wooden spears with both hands and attacking with all their might.

The wooden spears or bronze war spears of the pirates pierced the paper armor on the youngsters. Because they were using one hand, not only could they not break through the defense of the paper armor and hurt the youngsters' bodies, they could not even push down the youngsters' bodies.

The teenagers waved wooden spears with both hands, and stabbed the pirate's body quickly and fiercely. The pirate who stabbed immediately was injured and screamed in pain. Some pirates were even pushed down and fell directly from the pirate ship into the water.

The battle between the two sides showed a one-sided battle at the beginning, but it was not the confident pirates who had the upper hand, but the sailors on Roy's side.

Seeing the one-sided battle situation, the pirate leader asked in shock.

"What are you wearing on your body? Can it withstand the attacks of wooden spears and bronze spear blades? Is that a kind of armor?"

Roy said with a contemptuous sneer.

"If you run away now, you can save some people from dying."

Roy's words seemed to anger the pirate leader, and he said, waving his battle axe.

"I will not lose to a group of brats like you."

After speaking, the pirate leader swung his tomahawk and slashed at Roy.

Roy backed away from the attack, then swung his bronze spear with both hands and thrust at the pirate leader.

Bang Bang!
The pirate leader raised his wooden shield with his left hand to block Roy's attack, and then fought back with his tomahawk.

As soon as the battle between the two began, Roy confirmed that the pirate leader not only possessed powerful fighting skills, but also his strength far surpassed that of ordinary people. No wonder he was able to become the leader of hundreds of pirates.

If Roy fought head-on with the pirate leader, Roy would definitely lose in the end.

But Roy wanted to use the [Saltization] power to kill the pirate leader, and it took a little time to activate the power.

During the process of activating the power, Roy will be defenseless. I'm afraid that the pirate leader's battle ax will chop off Roy's head before [Saltization] is activated.

Just when Roy was in a hard fight, Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, rushed over and attacked the pirate leader with a wooden spear.

A loud bang!
The pirate leader used a wooden shield to block the attack of the captain of the guard Pallas, and felt that the captain of the guard Pallas was far superior to ordinary people. He immediately regarded the captain of the guard Pallas as the target of the attack, as if he wanted to kill him first. Drop Captain Pallas.

After Roy stepped back to a safe distance, he happened to see the pirate leader swinging his battle ax at Captain Pallas.

Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, raised his wooden shield to resist, but his wooden shield was split in two by the battle axe.

After dodging the attack of the tomahawk in panic, the captain of the guard, Pallas, shouted at Roy.

"Master Priest! Although this guy is not a hero-level [enemy of a hundred people], his strength is far superior to that of a captain-level [enemy of ten people]. You should join forces with me to deal with him."

"Captain Pallas, hold him for a while longer."

After responding to the captain of the guard, Pallas, Roy mobilized his divine power to activate [Saltization], staring at the pirate leader and muttering in a low voice.

"Great Goddess Metis, please let me use your divine power once again——salting!"

With the activation of [Saltization], azure blue divine light burst out from Roy's eyes, covering the body of the pirate leader.

The pirate leader who was fighting with the captain of the guard, Pallas, immediately found that his body was rapidly salted, and turned to look at Roy in shock and said.

"You turned out to be a god priest with divine power—"

Before he finished speaking, the body of the pirate leader turned into a salt statue from top to bottom.

After successfully salting the pirate leader, Roy breathed a sigh of relief, and then swung his bronze spear at the pirate leader's salt statue.

There was a crisp bang!
Roy's bronze war spear pierced the salt statue of the pirate leader, and the salt statue of the pirate leader immediately shattered into a pile of salt blocks.

Roy's sailors suppressed the pirates in battle, and the pirates were able to fight tenaciously because the pirate leader gave them the confidence to win.

Now that the pirate leader was killed by Roy, the pirates immediately gave up the fight and frantically rowed their oars to keep their pirate ship away from Roy's cargo ship.

Seeing that there were only more than 70 living people left on the escaped pirate ship, Roy said in surprise.

"In the battle just now, we killed more than 20 pirates?"

Then Lowe turned to check on his sailors.

Roy's fifty teenagers wore paper armor to protect their bodies, so none of them were injured in the battle just now.

On the contrary, among the fifty guard soldiers, more than a dozen were injured and bled, and among those who were not injured and bled, some showed very painful expressions, as if they had suffered internal injuries.

Fortunately, Lowe's sailors suffered no casualties.

Guard Captain Pallas said with a complex expression when he saw this situation.

"Our guard soldiers have received more training, but our performance in this battle was lost to a group of teenagers. When I return to Athens, I will tell the leader about this and ask him to let all the guard soldiers wear paper armor. "

After confirming the location with the nautical chart, Roy told Captain Pallas.

"Captain Pallas! Now we have more than 20 people injured. In order to let the injured people recuperate, I decided to go to the nearby Milos Island."

The injured people were all guard soldiers, and the guard captain Pallas certainly would not object to Roy's proposal.

"My lord priest, thank you for being considerate of my companion."

After confirming that no new pirates appeared, Roy and the others put the paper armor and spear back into the cabin.

Then the uninjured men rowed the oars in the sailor's position, and the ten cargo ships sailed quickly to the island of Milos.

(End of this chapter)