I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 569
Apennine Peninsula.

This is the western frontier of the Athenian Empire.

After becoming the territory of the Athens Empire, after more than a year of development, the Apennine Peninsula has now passed the Bronze Age and directly entered the Iron Age.

The Po River Plain is located in the northern part of the Apennine Peninsula. As long as you bypass the Alps from here, you can enter the Germanic and Gaul regions.

1597 BC.

end of May.

Roy came to the Po River Plain in the northern part of the Apennine Peninsula.

Caesar, who was appointed by Roy as the governor of the Po River, has already trained a cavalry army of up to [-] people and well-equipped iron weapons here.

Barracks of the Army of the Po.

When Roy found Caesar, Caesar was leading a cavalry training.

Seeing Roy's figure appear in front of his eyes, Caesar first widened his eyes in disbelief, and then rushed to Roy on horseback with excitement on his face.

"My dear Emperor, are you finally going to wage war on the barbarians in the north?"

"It seems that you have been looking forward to this war for a long time!"

Roy joked with a smile.

"If I knew you were so eager to make achievements on the battlefield, I would definitely transfer you to the east. But it is not too late, the opportunity to make achievements you long for has come. I will take you and the Po River Army to conquer the northern Germanic area, and I will give you full command of the Army of the Po."

"You want me to command this war—"

Being endowed with such great authority and such great trust by Roy, Caesar's heart was filled with excitement and emotion.

"I will never betray your trust! If I lose this war, or if there are huge casualties among soldiers, I am willing to sacrifice myself and my whole family's life as an apology."

How could you lose——

The barbarians in the Germanic region have not even entered the Bronze Age.

Caesar brought an army of iron weapons to attack the backward barbarians who used wooden and stone spears, and there was no reason to lose this war.

Not to mention the talented Caesar, even if a pig is the commander of the Po River Army, there is no reason to lose this war.

Early June.

Roy and Caesar led the [-] cavalry of the Po Legion to bypass the Alps from the east and enter the southern part of the Sudeten Mountains.

The word Germania comes from Latin, and Julius Caesar referred to the tribes on the right bank of the Rhine as Germania.

In other words-until the Caesar era 500 years later, the Germanic people were still in a backward tribal civilization.

The Germanic people at this time were mainly composed of two ethnic groups.

The first ethnic group is the Germanic natives with black hair and black eyes.

The second ethnic group is the Aryans with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Beginning 3000 BC, the ancient Aryans began to migrate east, south and west.

The ancient Aryans migrated as far as the Iberian Peninsula [Spanish Peninsula], and of course there are a large number of Aryan branches in the Germanic region.

Entering the Sudeten region, the first thing the Athenian army encountered was not the Aryan branch of the Indo-European language, but the Germanic indigenous tribes who spoke the Germanic language.

Of course, the Athenians couldn't understand Germanic, so Roy could only negotiate with the Germanic natives in person.

Jiaode tribe.

This is a Germanic indigenous tribe who worshiped the goddess of the earth, Joander.

The name Jiaode means the earth.

In the Nordic mythology of another world, the goddess of the earth, Joan, was the name of the giantess who was against the Aryan gods, the Asa gods.

She is the mother of Thor, the God of Thunder, and Sif, the wife of Thor, the God of Thunder. She is also the giant snake Yermungandr who died with Thor, the God of Thunder, in Ragnarok.

Roy rode into the Jiaode tribe alone. The people of the Jiaode tribe felt like they were facing a formidable enemy. Dozens of people surrounded Roy with wooden spears.

"I am not your enemy."

Roy spoke to the surrounding Germanic natives in the language of the gods.

"Where is your tribal leader? I want to negotiate directly with your tribal leader."

"Let me negotiate with you!"

Accompanied by a gentle and sweet maiden's voice, the statue of Jode enshrined by the Joode tribe burst into divine light and turned into the Goddess Joode herself, and walked in front of Roy under the fanatical and awe-inspiring eyes of the Joode tribe's humans.

"you--"

Seeing the shadow of the ancient earth goddess on Jiao De's face, Roy said with wide eyes in surprise.

"It seems that you are not a real native god."

Now both the Germanic aborigines and the Aryans use nomadism, fishing and hunting to obtain food.

In other words, the Germanic region does not have the basis for the birth of the goddess of the earth.

As the goddess of the earth, Jiao De is obviously a foreign god.

Perhaps her Jode tribe is a branch of the Pilaski people who migrated to the continent of Europe 3000 BC.

"What nonsense!"

Hearing what Roy said, Jiao De said with a displeased expression.

"After thousands of years, my people have assimilated with the local Germanic people, and the local Germanic goddess has accepted me as a sister. Of course, I am an undoubted local god."

"I have no intention of arguing with you about this."

Roy said with a smile.

"If what I said just now made you feel angry, I would like to apologize to you. Dear Goddess Jode, I came to the Germanic region to incorporate the Germanic region into the territory of the Athens Empire. I hope that you and other Germanic goddesses can join voluntarily. The Athenian Empire. If you refuse my invitation, then I can only force you to join the Athenian Empire."

"It really is the same!"

Jiao De said with a sigh.

"You raiders on horseback only want to subdue us native peoples."

"Intruders on horseback—"

"Their names are Odin, Tyr, Thor, Baldr."

Jiao De turned to look to the north and said.

"Odin and Tire were the first to come here! Their tribe lost to the tribes who worshiped the sun god and the god of thunder in the hometown of the ancient Aryans, and they could only be forced to migrate westward. Then It was Thor and the tribe who worshiped the god of thunder who migrated here, and finally Baldr and the tribe who worshiped the sun god migrated here. These Aryan gods only wanted to conquer and enslave the local ethnic group, and did not assimilate with the local ethnic group at all The idea of ​​fusion."

"So you think I'm like these Aryan gods?"

Roy explained innocently.

"This is really a misunderstanding. I am different from these Aryan gods. The Aryans call themselves noble people and only want to conquer and enslave the local ethnic groups. But in my Athenian Empire, everyone's identity and status are Equal. If you don't believe it, you can go to the Athenian Empire to find out the situation."

"Even if what you said is true—"

Jiao De looked back at Roy and said.

"I have no reason to surrender to you."

"Then I can only use force to conquer you."

Roy urged the sun godhead to let his body release the blazing fire of the sun, and then said as he approached Jiaode.

"As the avatar of the ancient Earth Goddess, you are also a Trinity Goddess. You are the Earth Goddess Jode, the Harvest Goddess Sif, and the War Goddess Yermungandr who can kill enemies with her fangs. But this cannot make up for the difference between us. The gap in strength is the same as that of dimensionality reduction strikes, just like your Jiaode tribe will be vulnerable to the Athens army."

(End of this chapter)