I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 80 Aphrodite's Curse
In the past few days, Roy has been boasting that the cement wall will have a hardness comparable to that of stone after it dries.

When the day came to verify the hardness of the concrete wall, not only Harmonia, but also 250 Phoenicians and thousands of Thebes who followed Roy gathered around the first concrete wall, wanting to see for themselves Witness the hardness of the cement walls.

Under the crowd's onlookers, Harmonia came to Roy with four tall and strong Thebes soldiers, and the four Thebes soldiers worked together to lift a square stone.

"Priest Roy!"

Harmonia looked at Roy with a smile and said.

"Since you said that the hardness of the cement wall is comparable to that of a stone, now I will hit the cement wall with a stone to verify the hardness of the cement wall. If you are not confident about the hardness of the cement wall, I can give you more time to make the cement wall Let it dry out a bit more."

Roy smiled and shook his head.

"I have great confidence in the concrete wall! Priestess of Harmonia, you can hit the concrete wall with stones now."

"Then you guys do it!"

Hearing Harmonia's order, four Thebes soldiers exerted their strength at the same time, smashing the square stones against the concrete wall.

bang!
The corners of the square stone hit the wall of the concrete wall.

Then the onlookers were shocked to see that after the corners of the square stones were broken, only a crack appeared on the surface of the cement wall.

"Goddess of the earth! The hardness of this cement wall is actually as hard as stone."

"A miracle! This is definitely a miracle!"

"It was incredible."

Harmonia, who witnessed this scene with her own eyes, stared at Roy with the same shock, with obsessive gazes in her eyes.

The reaction of the audience was completely within Roy's expectations.

In this era, even if tens of thousands of manpower are used to stack square stones into a city wall, it is enough to be called a miracle.

The legendary king of Thebes, Amphion, built a stone city wall with seven gates. In mythology, he was deified to use divine power to make the stones on the earth automatically glue together to form the city wall of Thebes.

The cement city wall built by Roy is taller and stronger than the stone city wall, and of course it will be regarded as a miracle.

After recovering from the shock, Harmonia took the initiative to grab Roy's right hand with her small hand and said.

"Priest Loi! As long as we build a 2000-meter-long concrete wall to protect the Thebes tribe, we Thebes will no longer have to worry about foreign invasion. Because we can rely on the concrete wall to fight against enemies five times or even ten times our size." Enemy. Priest Loi, will you teach us Thebes how to make cement and build cement walls?"

"Of course!"

Roy said without hesitation.

"As long as the priests of Harmonia meet my requirements, I will teach you to build a concrete city wall without reservation."

"What is your request?"

"I want a territory on the island of Eubia! Because I need territory to house my Phoenician followers and let them have fields and houses."

Hearing Roy's request, Harmonia, with a disappointed expression, said coquettishly.

"Priest Loi, don't you want to have me? As long as you get me, you can have everything you want in the Thebes area and Yubia Island."

"Priests of Harmony—"

Looking at the blushing Harmonia, Roy couldn't help but said.

"Have you been confused by [Aphrodite's Blessing] on me again?"

"no!"

Harmonia shook her head, then looked at Roy seriously and said.

"Priest Loy, I am very sober now. In fact, I have been thinking about a problem for the past few days. You are the first man I have a crush on, so I want you to stay and rule the Thebes tribe with me." Originally, as a girl, I shouldn’t shamelessly propose marriage to a man, but you made up my mind by building a concrete city wall—you are the person the Thebes tribe needs, even if it’s for the Thebes tribe, I I want to marry you too."

Seeing the unbelievable reaction of Roy's wide-eyed eyes, Harmonia took Roy into the woods where Dierke's ancient spring was located.

"Priest Loi! If you don't believe that I am sober, let the goddess Mnemosyne testify for me and prove that I really want to marry you now."

Dirce Fountain.

Roy and Harmonia came to the altar on the east side of the spring, and Harmonia knelt down devoutly and said.

"Great Goddess Mnemosyne, please accept my request and bear witness for me once again."

A stream of black light immediately descended from the sky.

With the disappearance of the black divine light, the figure of the goddess Mnemosyne appeared in front of Loy and Harmonia.

"It's for this man again!"

The goddess Mnemosyne sat on the altar in a huge figure, looked at Roy expressionlessly and said.

"I already know why you are here, and now I will tell you that Harmonia really wants to marry you."

Then, Mnemosyne looked at Harmonia again and said.

"You are my priestess, so I must give you a piece of advice, you should give up this man cursed by Aphrodite."

"Goddess Mnemosyne, why do you keep saying that I am cursed by Aphrodite?"

Roy frowned.

"The blessing of Goddess Aphrodite [charm enhancement], although it does not enhance my strength, it will not do me any harm. Even in my opinion, the priests of Harmonia will be in just a few days Falling in love with me during contact and sincerely wanting to marry me is because the blessing of goddess Aphrodite has enhanced my charm as a man."

"Harmonia's falling in love with you does have something to do with Aphrodite's blessing."

Mnemosyne teased with a playful smile.

"But you don't think that only Harmonia will fall in love with you because of Aphrodite's blessing! Aphrodite's blessing is not under your control, so any woman who has a crush on you will fall in love with you." There is a possibility of falling in love with you. Those unmarried girls falling in love with you may be a good thing for you, because this is an era when men can have many women. But those women who have husbands fall in love with you, you know there will be What are the consequences?"

Those women who have husbands love me—

Their husbands will definitely regard me as their sworn enemy!

After all, the hatred of taking one's wife and the hatred of killing one's father are two sworn hatreds.

Now Roy finally understood what a terrible curse Aphrodite's blessing was.

If women with husbands fell in love with Roy, their husbands would become Roy's enemies.

If the married woman who fell in love with Roy was a queen, Roy would be a king and an enemy of the country.

In this era, the king's tolerance for love rivals is completely zero.

The legendary King Theseus of Athens, because Queen Phaedra accused Theseus' eldest son of pursuing her, Theseus would not spare his own son, and issued a curse to let the gods kill his eldest son.

The queen of Acastus, king of Iolkas, accused Peleus of courting her, and Acastus promptly took action to murder Peleus.

In ancient legends, there are countless stories of kings murdering rivals in love.

(End of this chapter)