I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 38 The Trade Fleet Returns Successfully
After the fifty teenagers left with Roy's order, Roy came to the guard captain Pallas and said.

"Captain Pallas! Although you didn't participate in the battle to eliminate the pirate village, I killed the pirate leader with your help, so I plan to give you a spoil. I want the pirate leader's wife to be your maid, Are you willing to accept it?"

"The woman with the baby?"

Thinking of the young and beautiful face of the pirate leader's wife, Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, couldn't help being entangled.

As a powerful warrior with the strength of a captain-level [Ten Enemies], Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, naturally does not have to worry about not having a woman.

If it were another woman, Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, would definitely not want to accept a woman with a child.

But the wife of the pirate leader is indeed a rare beauty.

Normally, it would be very difficult for Captain Pallas to have such a beauty, let alone make such a beauty his maid.

Seeing the expression of the guard captain Pallas, Roy teased with a playful smile.

"If you don't want to help that woman raise her son, sell that child to someone else as a slave. I want you to accept that woman as a maid, not to make her your wife."

Hearing what Roy said, Captain Pallas said with a relaxed smile.

"It would be too cruel to kill such a small child. Then I will take that woman and sell her son to others as a slave."

"Captain Pallas, you really are a young and kind person."

While praising Captain Pallas, Roy couldn't help but think of the Trojan War.

After the destruction of the city of Troy, Andromache, the wife of Prince Hector of Troy, not only lost her husband, but even her son was thrown from the tower to his death.

Although Roy didn't have the wise idea of ​​cutting grass and roots, in order to prevent the children left by the pirates from becoming seeds of revenge, all of these children would become slaves in the future, and they would receive slave education and be trained to be loyal dogs of their masters.

While Roy and others were recuperating on Milos Island.

Under the same night.

Acropolis.

Pandion carried a lantern and brought a few guards to the temple square.

"Just stay here!"

After letting the guards stop at the outer edge of the temple square, Pandion walked to the center of the temple square alone, and stopped in front of the statue of the goddess Metis.

Looking up at the statue of the goddess Metis, Pandion called out reverently.

"Great Goddess Metis, I have something important to ask you."

If someone else called the goddess Metis, it would be impossible to get a response from the goddess.

But Pandion's identity was the leader of the Athenian tribe, and for Metis, Pandion was more important than Roy.

Because Pandion can regard Metis as the patron saint of the Athenian tribe as the leader, and he can also overthrow the patron saint of Metis.

As the statue of Metis bloomed with azure divine light invisible to human eyes, the statue of Metis suddenly became the goddess Metis herself.

The goddess Metis maintained a huge figure about ten meters tall, looked down at Pandion and said.

"My favorite person, what answer do you want to seek from the wise goddess?"

"Great goddess! I want to know if I will be punished by you for killing Priest Loi."

Metis shook his head without hesitation and said.

"I will not interfere with the struggle for kingship and theocratic power within the Athenian tribes, because the mother of the world has made rules to limit the gods."

Metis' answer was obviously within Pandion's expectation, so Pandion didn't show a surprised expression.

Seeing Pandion's hesitant expression, Metis continued.

"It seems that you can't make a decision whether to kill Roy or continue to endure Roy's existence."

Pandion nodded.

"Because I know that the new things Roy invented can improve the strength of the Athens tribe in the shortest possible time. If Roy is killed now, the Athens tribe may lose hope of rising. Most importantly, I am worried that without Roy With the help of the Athenians, the Athenian tribes could not resist the invasion of the Mycenaeans or other foreign enemies."

Metis laughed jokingly.

"So how do you want me to help you with this?"

Seeing what Metis was thinking, Pandion raised his head and met the goddess' eyes and said.

"Great goddess Metis! In order to weaken the theocratic power held by Roy, please allow me to deify my family and make my child your adopted son."

"can!"

Metis kept smiling and said.

"Although it's a little unpleasant, I can tolerate your child becoming my adopted son in name. But I am a pure virgin, if you want to tarnish my reputation, I will give you the cruelest punishment."

After saying these warning words, Metis' divine light disappeared, and her body turned into a statue again.

Pandion achieved his goal and said with a relaxed smile on his face.

"How dare I blaspheme the great goddess, claiming that I am the husband of the goddess, and claiming that my child is the god's son of the goddess. I am satisfied if I can deify my child as the adopted son of the goddess and obtain the theocracy enough to suppress Roy. This is the only way to weaken Roy's threat and let Roy continue to use his wisdom to strengthen the Athenian tribe."

At this time, Roy didn't know that Pandion took great pains to weaken his threat by deifying his child as the adopted son of the goddess Metis.

Milos Island.

Roy's fleet rested here for the night.

Early the next morning, Roy's fleet set sail and continued back to Athens.

After Roy's fleet left, the pirates who fled last night returned to the pirate village, crying in despair as they watched the pirate village burnt into ruins by the fire.

Without houses, food and tools, the surviving pirates simply could not continue to survive on Milos.

Now if they want to survive, they may only go to the east of Milos Island and become workers digging obsidian.

Although the days to come will be like slaves, it is better than staying here and waiting to die.

After leaving Milos, Roy's fleet drifted at sea for a day, and finally entered the waters of Athens the next morning.

In the afternoon, Roy's fleet encountered several fishing boats from the Athenian tribe in the waters of Athens.

After the two sides confirmed each other's identities, Roy excitedly ordered to the fishermen.

"Every fisherman! Your ships are faster than our cargo ships. Hurry back to the Athenian tribes and tell the good news of the food we brought back to the leader of Pandion and all the Athenians."

Hearing Roy's order, the fishermen immediately turned around and rushed towards the port of Piraeus.

When the sun started to fall in the sky.

When Roy's fleet sailed into the port of Piraeus, they saw thousands of people around the port witnessing the return of Roy and others.

Pandion and Erechtheus stood at the pier with dozens of personal guards, all of them showed expressions of excitement that could not be concealed.

As soon as Roy's flagship docked at the pier, Roy jumped onto the shore, walked up to Pandion and said.

"Captain Pandion! Not only did I return safely with the fleet, but I also exchanged olive oil for five times as much food—our long-sea trade was successful."

(End of this chapter)