I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 386 A Crushing Victory
As the goddess of the orchard, Venus has the power to make the orchard harvest.

Orchard workers were also able to take time off to rest while celebrating the festival of Venus.

But the number of followers of Venus, the orchard workers, is probably not much more than the fishermen who worship Neptune, the sea god.

Later, Venus was confused with Aphrodite and became the goddess of love and beauty. Venus then became a powerful goddess with wide popularity.

Diana, goddess of the oak tree—

She is also a god of faith who can know how weak she is just by looking at her godhead.

Later, Diana was confused with Artemis, the goddess of hunting, and Selene, the goddess of the moon. Only then did Diana become a powerful goddess with wide popularity by relying on her identity as the goddess of the moon and hunting.

Although Neptune, Vesta, Venus, Janus, and Diana are not powerful patron saints now, but a group of gods of faith who rely on human beliefs to maintain their existence, there are five of them after all.

These five gods attacking Persephone together is enough to interfere with the battle of the gods between Persephone and Mars.

As the hearth goddess Vesta attacked Persephone with flames, the door god Janus also created a huge door panel and threw it at Persephone.

Neptune, the god of the sea, made a huge water snake rushing towards Persephone, and Venus, the goddess of the orchard, and Diana, the goddess of the oak, used their divine power to create green vines to wrap around Persephone's body.

Under the interference of these five gods, Persephone immediately lost the initiative to attack Mars.

Mars seized this opportunity and attacked Persephone violently with a stone spear.

Seeing that Persephone was in a panic under the siege of Mars and the five gods, Roy immediately summoned the other goddesses.

"Great Goddess Hera, please help us win this war."

Following Roy's call, the goddess Hera descended from the sky in a huge figure with a height of [-] meters.

After Hera came, she didn't immediately help Persephone.

"Dear Persephone, do you want my help?"

"Hera, just say what you want!"

Persephone said impatiently.

"As long as your request is not too excessive, I will definitely agree to you."

"Then I'll say it directly."

Hera said with a smile.

"I know that Roy promised you a territory of 20 square kilometers, but the area of ​​the Apennine Peninsula is 25 square kilometers. I think the Apennine Peninsula can be divided into two. You get the 20 square kilometers that Roy promised you. I Get the remaining [-] square kilometers. Our good sisters can continue to be neighbors in the Apennine Peninsula."

"You guy-"

Persephone originally regarded the entire Apennine Peninsula as her own territory.

Hearing Hera's request, Persephone could only say helplessly.

"Since you want to be my neighbor so much, I have no reason to object to your request."

Seeing that Persephone accepted her request, Hera immediately summoned a black sharp gun and swung the blade at Neptune, Venus, Vesta, Diana and Janus.

Because of the huge gap in strength between the two sides, Hera attacked these five gods of faith, just like adults attacking children.

Neptune, Venus, Vesta, Diana, and Janus could only keep backing away from the blade attack of the black gun.

Persephone and Mars turned back into a one-on-one fight, and Mars was once again pinned down by Persephone.

"Mars! If you, the damn guy, hadn't resisted tenaciously, Hera would have no chance to ask me. I can treat the entire Apennine Peninsula as my territory. Because of your resistance, I lost [-] square kilometers of territory. , you bear my wrath now!"

The war between the gods turned into Persephone and Hera beating Mars and Neptune, Venus, Vesta, Diana, Janus.

In the war between human beings, the Athenian soldiers also beat the Latin allied forces in a devastating manner.

When the Latins realized that it was difficult for their wooden and stone spears to break through the defenses of paper armor and wooden shields and stab the Athenian soldiers, and the iron spear blades of the Athenian soldiers could easily tear their bodies, the Latins' will to fight completely collapsed.

Because this is a completely asymmetrical war.

If the Latins fought desperately, the result would be that they sacrificed themselves in vain.

Since the sacrifice of a desperate battle is of no value, fleeing the battlefield has become a natural result.

After the Latin coalition fled, Roy led the Athenian soldiers into the Lazio area to hunt down the main force of the coalition led by Thulenus.

When night fell, three thousand Latin allied troops became prisoners, four thousand Latin allied troops fled in all directions, and two thousand Latin allied troops became corpses.

Thulenus, the commander of the Latin allied forces, fled back to the plains of Rome with only a thousand soldiers.

Roy won a great victory in the war of human beings, and Persephone and Hera also won a great victory in the war of gods.

the next day.

Loy left [-] soldiers to manage the captives, and then continued to hunt down Thurenus with [-] soldiers.

Under the continuous pursuit of Roy, Thurenus, who had fled back to the Roman plain, could only flee north to the territory of the Etruscans.

After confirming that Tylenus had entered the territory of the Etruscans, Roy did not enter the territory of the Etruscans to hunt down and kill Tylenus.

Because the Etruscans were the largest ethnic group in the Apennines, they probably numbered 50.

According to the ratio of ten to one conscription, the Etruscans can muster at least [-] troops.

Even if Roy had confidence in his soldiers, he didn't want to use [-] soldiers to fight against the [-] Etruscan army.

Roman plain.

Tribe of Thurenus.

Because of the rout of the Latin coalition forces, Roy took control of the Tulenus tribe almost without bloodshed, and captured the Tulenus family.

Stone houses of Thulenus.

Roy sat on the chief throne that belonged to Thurenus, and all the wives, sons, and daughters of Thurenus knelt in front of Roy.

Looking at the family members of Tulenus, Roy asked suspiciously.

"It's really strange! Turrenus obviously had enough time to escape with you, why did he want to keep his family behind?"

Wife of Thurenus, seems to be a very proud lady of the chief.

She looked up at Roy and said.

"I don't know what you foreigners are like. For the Latins, if my husband Turenus flees with his family, then Turenus will no longer be the leader of the Latins. Only his own family will stay Only then can it prove that even if Tulenus escapes, he still has the will to fight the enemy to the end."

"In other words, Tulenus left his family behind to prove that he will fight me to the end."

Roy said with a playful smile.

"Isn't Thurenus worried that I will kill you, or humiliate his wife and daughter? It seems that for Thurenus, the identity of the leader is more important than his own family. Thurenus's home People, I intend to gather all the members of the Turrenus tribe and let you take an oath to join the Athenian Empire in front of everyone. As long as you obey obediently, your safety will be protected by the laws of the Athenian Empire. If you refuse, Then I will degrade you into slaves."

(End of this chapter)