I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 511 The King of Athens Falling into the Underworld

While the flames from the three-headed dragon Zeus enveloped Roy——

"Good brother, here I come!"

The goddess Persephone appeared from the ground in the form of a human girl, blocking the flames that could burn Loi.

"Sister Persephone—"

Seeing Persephone use her divine power to block the surrounding flames, Roy was relieved first, and then looked at Perseus and Dyberg.

Under the burning of the flame of God ejected by the three-headed dragon Zeus, Perseus and Dyberg, who had not died yet, were being burned alive.

"What a pity!"

Roy looked at Perseus and Dyberg with pity, and then said to Persephone.

"Sister Persephone, it's up to you to end my life and start our plan!"

"Are you really prepared to die?"

"Ok!"

After Roy nodded with a firm expression, Persephone summoned a pitch-black scythe, and swung it at Roy.

Swish!
Persephone slashed at Roy from the air, and a jet-black blade slashed across Roy's body.

When Persephone's black knife light slashed across his body, Roy's eyes immediately went dark, and his consciousness lost all connection with his body.

When Roy's consciousness regained consciousness, Roy found himself standing lightly in front of Persephone, with an unharmed corpse lying under his feet - Roy.

"I am dead--"

Realizing this, Roy was surprised to find that he could neither move nor speak.

"Don't worry, let me take care of you next!"

As if hearing a voice that Roy could not make, Persephone released a black divine power with her left hand to cover Roy's soul consciousness and body.

"Next, you are no longer a human being on the ground, but a dead person returning to the earth."

After speaking, Persephone sank to the ground with Roy's soul consciousness and body.

The death of Dyberg, the king of East Slavs, and Perseus, the king of West Slavs, completely collapsed the fighting will of the Slavic coalition forces.

When the war ended, and one hundred thousand Slav soldiers fell captive to the Athenians, Erechtheus immediately came to the center of the battlefield where Loy fought Perseus and Dyberg.

At this time, the place has been scorched by the flames of the three-headed dragon Zeus.

Erechtheus personally went through every inch of the scorched earth, and found two bodies burned to ashes in the scorched earth.

Who is the third person who disappeared?
If Roy is still alive, Roy has no reason to hide.

The ashes of the two corpses, could one of them be the ashes of Roy's corpse?

Could the two piles of ashes that were regarded as two corpses be the ashes of three corpses mixed together?

"Roy—you bastard, aren't Procne and Philomela going to be widows before they're twenty?"

For Roy's death, Erechtheus obviously could not accept it.

Of course Erechtheus didn't care about Roy's life or death.

What he cared about was whether his two younger sisters, Procne and Philomela, would become widows.

1599 BC.

mid-August.

The messengers of Erechtheus rushed to Athens and told Procne and Philomela that Roy had died on the battlefield.

Athens city.

Throne Hall of the Royal Palace of Athens.

"Brother Roy is dead—"

Upon hearing the news brought back by the messenger, Procne and Philomela on the throne were struck by lightning.

Although they have known Roy's plan for a long time, they still cannot accept that Roy will end his life as a human.

After all, if Roy's plan fails, they will really become widows at a young age.

Tick-tick-tick-tick-

Tears of sorrow streamed from the corners of their eyes, and Procne and Philomela hugged each other and wept bitterly.

After crying until the tears ran dry, Procne wiped off the tears on his face and said.

"Philomela, the most important thing now is to complete the task entrusted to us by brother Roy. We can't keep being immersed in sadness."

Philomela complained dissatisfiedly while crying.

"How can brother Roy treat us like this? Could it be that we are really widows, and brother Roy doesn't care?"

"Brother Roy really cares about us, so why would he abandon us for the goal of becoming a god—"

Although he was also full of complaints about Roy's ruthless abandonment, Procne still insisted on fulfilling his responsibilities as a wife.

Under the orders of Procne, a large number of envoys left the city of Athens and traveled by land and sea to various parts of the Athenian Empire.

These messengers will bring the news of Roy's death to the queens who rule in various regions, and order them to build Roy's temples in various cities.

The first to receive the news was Harmonia in Thebes.

Because her city of Thebes is the closest to Athens.

Palace of Thebes.

Throne Hall.

After hearing the news brought by the envoy from Athens, Harmonia, who was sitting on the throne, frowned and said.

"You said an order? I can understand that I should build a temple for Roy, but what qualifications do Procne and Philomela have to order me?"

It is not only Harmonia who cannot accept orders.

Nafer in Egypt, Andromeda and Semiramis in Mesopotamia, Hatepna in Asia Minor, and Hippolyta in Thrace—all could not accept orders from the city of Athens. .

Only girls such as Chione, who were not very strong in character, accepted the order from the city of Athens.

The dark and lightless underground world——

Underworld!

Temple of the Underworld of Persephone.

For Roy's soul, the darkness of the underworld is like daylight, and Roy can see everything in the dark.

At this time, Roy was watching how Persephone used divine power to protect her body, keeping her body in the state of death.

After Persephone's black divine power wrapped Roy's body like a cocoon, Roy began to worry about the situation of the Athens Empire.

Roy knew very well that while he was alive, the Athenian Empire could maintain a whole with himself as the center.

The queens who did not maintain the Athenian Empire as the center and managed the various regions of the Athenian Empire on their own could tear the Athenian Empire apart at any time.

Roy, who is now in the underworld, can only pray that the queens will not betray her husband.

In this day and age, wives must be faithful to their husbands.

But widows can remarry.

In the mythology of another world, Odysseus was unable to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War, so he was regarded as a shipwreck and died on the way home.

Odysseus's young and beautiful wife was regarded as the queen with the throne, attracting hundreds of suitors to marry him.

If Roy's wives choose to remarry, not only will the Athenian empire be torn apart, but the fruits of Roy's efforts will also be stolen by other men.

Amidst the anxiety, Roy couldn't help but have the thought of regret.

Maybe I shouldn't be in such a hurry to start conferring gods——

After all, if Roy's plan does not succeed, Roy's wives will become young widowed queens, and there will be endless followers asking them to marry him.

"Is this how life feels like years? Before I become a hero god and return to the human world, you must not betray me!"

During Roy's silent prayer, bits of starlight passed through the darkness of the underworld and entered the Temple of Persephone, continuously gathering around Roy's soul.

(End of this chapter)