I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 354 Unexpected Wedding Guests

When the invited wedding guests came to Athens, Roy would always meet them personally and express his importance to them.

Even for the uninvited guests, Roy will personally meet them and decide whether they can stay in Athens to attend the wedding.

The banquet hall of the Royal Palace of Athens.

Roy is sitting on a recently made golden throne, receiving an unexpected guest.

The person standing in the center of the hall was a beautiful girl in a short skirt with her calves exposed and her long black hair tied into a braid.

Looking at the girl with a nomadic style, Roy asked calmly.

"You are Hippodamia, daughter of Oenomanos, king of Elis? Although we have invited many guests, we did not invite you Illyrians."

Hippodamia, who looked like a huntress and a female warrior, looked directly at Roy with her beautiful big eyes and said.

"Loy, King of Athens, are you going to drive me away?"

"No—since you're here, join the other guests in my wedding!"

Roy looked at Hippodamia's tall and beautiful figure and said.

"Because you are an unexpected guest, the city of Athens didn't prepare a guest room for you, so you can stay in the guest room of the palace!"

Roy then waved Hippotamia to leave the hall.

"I still have something to say."

Hippodamia said anxiously.

"I came to your wedding in the hope that the mighty Kingdom of Athens will uphold justice for us and punish the Mycenaeans who wage war against us."

"I have already told the messenger of your father Oenomanos that I have no interest in intervening in your war with the Mycenaeans."

Roy said impatiently.

"And saving you, what good will it do for the Kingdom of Athens?"

"The Elis Plain is suitable for raising horses and grazing. We can provide many war horses to the Kingdom of Athens, and we can also sell our cattle and sheep to the Kingdom of Athens."

There are no precious metal mines such as gold and silver mines in the Iris area, and there are no copper or iron mines for casting weapons. The Illyrians living there are still nomads who do not do production.

If Roy did not control the Pheres and Phthia tribes to raise horses for him, maybe Roy would be interested in asking Elis King Oenomanos to raise horses for him as a condition for saving the city of Olympia.

Now Roy already has someone who raises horses for the Kingdom of Athens, and Oenomanos, king of Elis, is a dispensable chicken rib to Roy.

In order to impress Roy, Hippodamia continued.

"Loy, King of Athens! My father has already said that as long as you are willing to save the city of Olympia, I will be your wife, and we will inherit the throne of Olympia together."

"You can't beat the Mycenaeans."

Roy said with a playful smile.

"Olympia would have been conquered by the Mycenaeans without my intervention. As Oenomanos would soon lose his throne, he was willing to make me his heir. But you beautiful princess, and The throne of Olympia does not impress me at all."

"Loy, King of Athens—"

"If you are dissatisfied with me, you can leave Athens at any time."

Hippodamia suppressed his anger and glared at Roy, then turned and said.

"I will not leave, I will continue to persuade you."

After Hippodamia left, another uninvited guest entered the hall.

"Perseus!"

Looking at Perseus who walked to the center of the hall, Roy said in surprise.

"I didn't expect you to come to the city of Athens."

"My stepsister is going to marry you, so how can I not come!"

"You treat my father-in-law Pandion as your stepfather like this. Aren't you afraid that your father will crawl out of the grave?"

"If the Kingdom of Athens is weaker than us, I certainly cannot bear the humiliation of my mother being occupied by Pandion."

Perseus said helplessly.

"But now the Kingdom of Athens is too strong, and we Mycenaeans are no match for the Kingdom of Athens. In order not to be destroyed by the Kingdom of Athens, I must regard your father-in-law as my stepfather and your wife as my stepsister, That way we are family."

Half a year ago, the Mycenaeans were stronger than the Athenian tribes, and even Roy was worried that the Mycenaeans would use all their strength to destroy the Athenian tribes.

Now, half a year later, the tribe of Athens has become the Kingdom of Athens, and the territory and population have increased hundreds of times. The Mycenaeans have become a weak enemy that the Kingdom of Athens can easily destroy.

In order not to be destroyed by the Kingdom of Athens, Perseus was willing to endure humiliation and become a relative with Roy, which is considered a man who can bend and stretch.

"Perseus! The reason why you came to the wedding is because you are afraid that I will interfere in the war between you Mycenaeans and Oenomanos, king of Elis!"

Roy said with a playful smile.

"Don't worry, I have rejected Hippodamia's request."

"That's a big thank you."

Perseus bowed his head respectfully to express his thanks.

"Dear brother-in-law, you can rest assured, I promise that the Mycenaeans will not be enemies of the Kingdom of Athens."

"You are only the prince of the Mycenaeans. What right do you have to represent the Mycenaeans? Could it be that your grandfather, Acrisios, is going to die soon? Even if Acrisios dies, his throne will not It's not your grandson's turn to inherit!"

"After all, my grandfather is old, and it is normal for accidents to happen. Since you can take away my stepfather's throne as a son-in-law, of course I can inherit my grandfather's throne as a grandson."

"You guy-"

Roy said with a displeased expression.

"Because you are an unexpected guest, the city of Athens has not prepared your guest room, so you can go to your stepfather's house to borrow!"

After Perseus left, three unexpected guests entered the hall.

"Goddess Artemis! Goddess Calypso! Princess Callisto!"

Looking at the three girls walking to the center of the hall, Roy recognized their identities at a glance even though they hid their faces with veils.

"Aren't you going to the Calydon region to spread the belief of the goddess Artemis, and let the goddess Artemis replace the goddess Altea there as the patron saint of Calydon?"

"Our operation failed."

Callisto took off his face and said.

"The Illyrians of Calydon are completely unwilling to accept the goddess Artemis."

In this era, god worship was somewhat similar to ancestor worship, and rulers usually claimed to be descendants of gods.

Artemis is the goddess of the Pilaski people.

To make the Illyrians in the Calydon region accept Artemis is like making the Illyrians believe that the ancestors of the Pilaski people will protect them, so the Illyrians should abandon their ancestors——Altai Asian Goddess.

The failure of Artemis to replace Althea was expected by Roy.

Roy said with a faint smile.

"The most feasible way for the goddess Artemis to replace the goddess Altea is to conquer the Calydon region by force. Even if the Calydon region cannot be conquered by force, the Acadians who worship the goddess Artemis must A large number of people immigrated to the Calydon region and assimilated the Illyrians in the Calydon region."

In the history of another world, the Dorians invaded the Peloponnese Peninsula, causing a large number of Acadians to migrate to the Calydon region-this is how Artemis assimilated with Altea, and even replaced Altea Base.

(End of this chapter)