I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 374 Blessing of the Ocean Goddess Hera

Sparta is located in the southeastern Peloponnese.

This area not only has developed livestock husbandry, but also has fertile plains irrigated by the Evrotas River.

Most importantly, the Sparta region had iron mines.

In the history of another world, the Dorians who conquered the Peloponnese used the iron mines in Sparta to cooperate with the coal mines in Arcadia to establish a military city-state that enslaved the native Spartans for nearly a thousand years .

The coast of Sparta is rugged and lacks a good port. The city of Sparta, the center of the region, is located on the plain between the Taiyetos Mountains and the Evrotas River.

Roy came to Sparta with a thousand iron gunmen, three thousand Pylos soldiers, and two thousand Spartan soldiers. He implemented the same policy here as in the Pylos area, and asked the Spartan king Perieres to lead The nobles and nobles in the Sparta region migrated to various islands in the Ionian Sea.

With an army of [-] in hand, Roy was not worried at all that his policies would not be implemented.

If someone resisted, Roy would wipe out the rebel's family, and demote all the men of the rebel family to lifelong miners, and all the women of the rebel family to lifelong weaver slaves.

As long as Perieres and the nobles have normal heads, they will not choose to resist this dead end.

While Perieres and the nobles migrated to various islands in the Ionian Sea, Roy also let the Athenian soldiers take the Pylos soldiers and Spartan soldiers to disperse to various villages and towns in the Sparta area, promoting the policy of dividing land and recruit soldiers.

After Perieres left with the nobles and nobles in the Sparta area, Roy also completed the division of the Sparta area and recruited [-] recruits.

Leaving [-] iron spearmen and [-] Spartan soldiers in the Sparta area, Roy can still take away [-] Pylos soldiers and [-] Spartan soldiers.

Spartan city.

Temple of Hera in the palace.

Before leaving the Sparta region, the purpose of Roy's coming here was of course to ask the goddess Hera for her blessing and divine power.

Walking into the Temple of Hera, which is similar to the Temple of Persephone, Roy came to the statue of Hera, looked up at the statue of Hera on the throne and said.

"Goddess Hera! Now the Sparta region is already part of the Kingdom of Athens, and you have also become the patron saint of the Kingdom of Athens. You should bestow your blessing and divine power on me, the King of Athens."

Hearing Roy's request, the statue of Hera burst into golden light.

The next moment!

The goddess Hera appeared on her throne in the form of a human maiden.

Standing on the throne and looking down at Roy, Hera said expressionlessly.

"If you want to get my blessing and divine power, do you have the consciousness to serve me?"

There is no free lunch in the world.

Roy wanted to get Hera's blessing and divine power, but of course he had to pay a certain price.

"Goddess Hera, I have made up my mind."

Roy said with a smile.

"The more blessings you give me help me, the more I will reward you."

"I want to be the protector of the Kingdom of Athens—the queen of the gods above the gods of Athens. Can you satisfy my request?"

"can!"

Although Roy had already made the same promise to Persephone, Roy still said to Hera.

"As long as Goddess Hera's blessing to me is strong enough, I will enshrine you as the protector of the Kingdom of Athens. But I don't think your blessing is worthy of my enshrining you as the protector of the kingdom."

"you--"

Hera glared at Roy angrily and said.

"As the goddess worshiped by the Pilaski people, I am the goddess of the earth, the goddess of the sea, and the goddess of the sea. Because of the influence of the Phoenicians on the Spartan region for hundreds of years, I learned from the goddess of the Phoenicians. Frodite has absorbed the attributes of the sky god. I am the goddess of the sky, the earth, and the sea, and you must receive the blessing of a certain attribute from me."

"I have been blessed by the goddesses Metis, Mnemosyne, Amphitrite, Hestia, Pandora, Vadget, Net, and Persephone. Among them are the sky god, the earth mother, the sea goddess, and the goddess of the underworld, can you really give me the blessing I long for?"

Roy's words immediately made Hera speechless.

"Goddess Hera! Although I don't desire your blessings, I want to have more divine power. You give me blessings and divine power, and I promise you will have more territories."

"What blessing do you want from me?"

Roy thought about it seriously and said.

"I can't swim! Although I don't think I will fall into the water, it's always good to be prepared. I hope you can give me the blessing of the sea goddess so that I can move freely in the water."

Upon hearing Roy's request, Hera immediately said with a smile.

"Why don't you want my blessing? Don't you need my blessing? If you don't have my blessing, if you accidentally fall into the water, you will drown if you are unlucky. I can give you [Water Sneaking] ]’s blessing, so that you can move freely in the water, and you also have to meet my requirements.”

"[Sneaking in water]—"

Roy frowned.

"Although your blessing is what I need, it is not essential. I will not enshrine you as the protector of the Kingdom of Athens just because of this blessing. I can only promise to give you more territories."

"How much territory will you give me?"

"How about [-] square kilometers?"

Hera's eyes widened in shock, then she sneered.

"What you want to give me must be a backward area with poor land and few people!"

Lowe didn't deny it.

Hera walked up to Roy and pressed her left index finger on Roy's forehead.

While infusing a golden divine power into Roy, Hera asked suddenly.

"How much territory does Persephone ask of you?"

Roy said very honestly.

"My agreement with the goddess Persephone is to give her a territory of 20 square kilometers."

"20? If you give me 20 square kilometers and Persephone a territory of [-] square kilometers, won't Persephone be ten times stronger than me in the future?"

Hera immediately grabbed Roy's neck with both hands excitedly and said.

"Persephone and I are not only neighbors, but also twin sisters. Since you gave Persephone 20 square kilometers, I also want to have a territory of the same size."

"no!"

Luo Yi refused without hesitation.

"The price Goddess Persephone paid to me is worth her 20 square kilometers of territory and the corresponding population. If Goddess Hera wants to own a territory of the same size, you must pay the corresponding price."

"What price do I have to pay for you to give me 20 square kilometers of territory?"

Seeing that he had succeeded in inducing Hera, Roy said excitedly.

"Marry me! As long as Goddess Hera becomes my wife and shares your eternal life and divine power with me, I will give you a territory of 20 square kilometers, and I will regard you as the guardian god of the Kingdom of Athens."

"impossible!"

Hera gritted her teeth angrily.

"I am a proud goddess, and I am a completely different existence from you humans. Just like you cannot marry a female monkey, I will not marry a human man willingly."

(End of this chapter)