I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 391 Quirinus and Goddess Luna

Because the Athenians did not take action to attack Puglia, Metius did not call the Sabines in Puglia and Abruzzo.

But Metius' tribe has been preparing for a possible war.

Hearing the news that the Athenians had invaded the Puglia region, Metius immediately summoned [-] soldiers from his own tribe and reinforcements from the surrounding Sabine tribes.

When Roy and Caesar came to the Bari tribe with an army of [-], Bari already had a coalition army of [-] Sabines.

And unlike the Athenian soldiers who were exhausted after a quick march, the Sabine coalition forces were completely in a state of leisure and waiting for work.

After the Athenian soldiers entered the Bari Plain, Metius took the initiative to attack with the Sabine allied forces.

The war broke out in a hurry. Although the exhausted Athenian soldiers had the advantage of weapons, they did not unilaterally crush the Sabine coalition forces.

Because Metius knew that the Athenians possessed powerful black iron weapons, so he formulated a strategy based on defense.

As long as the allied forces of the Sabines let the exhausted Athenian soldiers wear out their last strength, the victory will belong to the Sabines with wooden and stone spears.

Roy is now a bystander of this war, and the task of fighting Metius, the commander of the Sabine coalition forces, falls on Caesar.

Caesar wielded an iron spear and fought with Metius, who was holding a bronze spear, only to realize that he had underestimated Metius' strength and at the same time overestimated his own strength.

When fighting with Roy, Caesar could always see that Roy easily defeated the enemy leader.

Now that Caesar was fighting the enemy leader himself, he realized that there was an essential gap between himself and Metius.

As the darling of Quirinus, the patron saint of the Sabines, Metius is a great hero who was bestowed with blessings and divine power by Quirinus.

Even if Metius is a middle-aged man over 40 years old, his strength has begun to decline from a great hero [A Thousand Enemy] to a heroic [Hundred Enemy], and the young Caesar still has a huge gap in strength with him.

Just when Caesar was about to be defeated by Metius' precise and skillful attack, the goddess Hera came to the battlefield on her own initiative, using her divine power to relieve the exhaustion and boost the morale of the Athenian soldiers.

Under the divine power of Goddess Hera, Metius' strength declined to the hero level [enemies of a hundred men], Caesar was not immediately defeated by Metius.

"Foreign God, leave my territory immediately."

With an angry warning, Quirinus, the patron saint of the Sabines, also descended on the battlefield.

The two gods confronted each other in a huge figure with a height of one thousand meters. The goddess Hera summoned a black gun as a weapon, and Quirinus' weapon was a huge wooden club.

"It's you who should leave!"

Goddess Hera sneered at Quirinus, who looked like a barbarian, proudly and confidently.

"I have already set my sights on the fertile and rich Puglia Plain, and I want to make this my territory. If you don't want to be seriously injured or even wiped out by me, leave here and find a new home."

"You robber goddess, do you really think you can defeat me?"

Quirinus swung his club angrily at Hera.

Hera avoided Quirinus' attack with ease, while looking for Quirinus' flaws.

In another world, Quirinus, the god of war, is not only the patron saint of the Sabines, but also one of the three main gods of the Apennine Peninsula.

When Romulus, the first king of Rome, was deified, he was also deified as Romulus Quirinus, not as Romulus Mars.

This is because Quirinus is the real god of war in the Apennines.

It was not until the strength of the Latins surpassed the Sabines that Mars, the god of agriculture who guarded the Latins, replaced Quirinus as the god of war.

In addition to Mars, the patron saint of the Latins, who was confused with Quirinus and eventually replaced Quirinus as the god of war, even Janus, the door god, was confused with Quirinus and became Janus Quirinus.

When the Etruscans dominated the Apennine Peninsula, the Etruscan sun god Jupiter, the moon goddess Minerva, and Jupiter's consort Juno became the new three main gods, Quirinus and Mars was squeezed out of the list of the three main gods.

But Mars, the patron saint of the Latins, can still remain in the list of the twelve gods as the son of Jupiter, symbolizing the Latins as conquered, just like the sons of the Etruscans.

Quirinus, however, was unable to make it into the list of the twelve main gods because of the complete decline of the Sabines.

On the battlefield at this time, the war between humans has fallen into a stalemate.

In the war between the gods, Hera quickly seized the opportunity to launch a swift counterattack.

Under the attack of the blade of the black gun, Quirinus could only keep retreating to avoid the attack.

Hera has been waving the black sharp gun in hot pursuit, not giving Quirinus a chance to breathe.

Because Quirinus is very powerful.

Although Hera has an advantage in weapons, if there is a war of attrition with Quirinus, the result will definitely be that Hera loses to Quirinus.

Quirinus also knew that a war of attrition was more beneficial to him. Facing Hera's onslaught, Quirinus was not in a hurry to fight Hera.

"Quirinus, do you count as the God of War of the Sabines like this? Only warriors who fight bravely are considered God of War. I think you should be the same God of Saturn as Mars."

Facing Hera's aggressive general, Quirinus said with a smile indifferently.

"Do you want me to be a reckless man? Alien God! The God of War is not only about fighting bravely and fearlessly, but also relying on wisdom to use tactics and strategies. Only the God of War who ensures victory will be worshiped by humans all the time. Only initiate Fighting, the god of war who cannot guarantee victory will definitely be abandoned by humans in the end."

"It's so clever that it's annoying!"

"It seems that you already know that you cannot defeat me in this war."

At this moment, a beautiful silver-haired goddess descended on the battlefield with a height of [-] meters.

"Luna!"

Seeing this silver-haired goddess, Quirinus said proactively.

"Are you here to help me? If you help me drive away the foreign gods, I will let the Sabines worship you and make you my subordinate god."

Luna, goddess of the moon——

Although she is the oldest and most orthodox goddess of the moon in the Apennine Peninsula, she did not even enter the list of the twelve main gods.

After all, the Apennine Peninsula does not even have the worship of the sun god, and of course there will be no worship of the moon god.

Although the Caucasus nomads brought the worship of the sun god Jupiter to the Apennines after they conquered the Etruscans, they also brought the worship of the moon goddess Minerva.

In the history of another world, Luna, the goddess of the moon, could only be reduced to become a brother and sister god with Sol, the sun god from Syria.

In this era, although the Caucasus nomads brought the worship of the sun god and the moon god to the Apennine Peninsula, the moon goddess Luna, like Vesta, Neptune, Janus, Diana, and Venus, relied on A wandering deity whose faith barely survives.

Neither the Latins nor the Sicurs, the Sabines, or the Etruscans regarded them as patron saints or subordinate gods of the patron saints.

Upon hearing Quirinus' promise, Luna, the goddess of the moon, immediately summoned a wooden spear with her right hand.

Seeing that Luna wanted to attack Hera with a wooden spear, Roy hesitated for a moment before preparing to stop Luna's attack.

(End of this chapter)