I was a priest in the city-state era

After hearing Roy's words, Harmonia forced a smile and said.

"Dear! Although I feel jealous that you broke out a war with the city of Knossos for Pandora, I am not a girl who doesn't care, so I am willing to help you win this war. The person you really need to convince is not I, but thousands of Thebans, let them accept the reasons for the war between you and the city of Knossos.”

The war broke out with the city of Knossos, the city of Athens of the Athenians, not the city of Thebes of the Thebans.

If there is no legitimate reason, the Thebans will definitely not support this war, and the Theban soldiers will not risk their lives to rush to the battlefield.

So Roy must convince the Thebans and Theban soldiers to let them fight with all their strength on the battlefield.

"Harmonia! I have already thought of a reason to convince the Thebans. When will you summon the Thebans?"

"tomorrow!"

Harmonia pulled Roy to stand up from the grass, and then said while pulling Roy towards her palace.

"Dear! I plan to summon the people of Thebes to crown you the King of Thebes in the name of the goddess Mnemosyne. Today I need to make a lot of preparations, such as having someone build a coronation altar in the square in the city. "

The two came to Harmonia's palace. Harmonia took Roy and sat beside a stone table, and then ordered the maids to bring food and wine.

While waiting for the food, Roy couldn't help but ask.

"Harmonia, the city of Thebes originally had a population of only 10,000, so why has it now increased to 20,000?"

"In order to strengthen the city of Thebes, I have been annexing the surrounding Theban tribes. However, the main reason why the population of Thebes city has increased so much is because the Dorians from the Thessaly region invaded southward, causing Thebes to Some Theban tribes from the northern part of the Bes region sought refuge southward.”

As long as there are no war areas, the population will definitely continue to increase, and the nomadic Dorians in Thessaly will be no exception.

But the land area and the food produced from the land do not increase as the population increases.

Once the Dorians could no longer feed their population, they invaded surrounding areas to plunder food.

In the myths and legends of another world, the Dorians in Thessaly were reduced to savage half-man, half-horse monsters. They would not only attack heroes who broke into their territory for no reason, but also often rob women.

The Dorians have this image in mythology. It is obviously not the people who made up the myths who deliberately discredited them, but the Dorians are indeed a barbaric people who like to rob.

In real history, after the Dorians conquered the Peloponnese Peninsula, they were so cruel that they made the conquered locals work as slaves to support the conquerors.

So Loy was not surprised at all when the Dorian invasions and plundering caused some Theban tribes to seek refuge southward.

If Loy had not appeared, the Dorians would have invaded the Peloponnese Peninsula four hundred years later and established an era of Dorian hegemony.

"Harmonia! The Dorians' invasion of the Thebes area gave me one more reason to convince the Thebes."

After coming back to his senses, Roy said with a smile.

"In order to thank the Dorians, after the war with the city of Knossos is over, I will enter the Thessaly region to attack the Dorian tribes as revenge for their invasion of the Thebes region."

"Honey--"

Harmonia immediately said with a solemn expression.

"It is not difficult for us to defeat the Dorians in the mountains north of Thebes, but Thessaly is a vast plain, and the Dorians can ride horses around. Even if the Dorians cannot defeat us head-on, they Even if we ride away, we won’t be able to catch up with them.”

In the age of cold weapons, using infantry to fight cavalry has been an unsolvable problem since ancient times.

Like the saying, magic beats magic.

The best way to defeat cavalry is to use cavalry against cavalry.

Roy said with a confident smile.

"Harmonia! Without my wisdom, the Thebans could only repel the Dorian invasion in the mountains and would not be able to enter the Great Plains of Thessaly to avenge the Dorian tribes. But I have a way. The infantry defeats the cavalry. By then I will not only seize the Dorians' cattle, sheep and horses, but also control a grassland in Thessaly and train our own cavalry. If we do not take the initiative in the war with the Dorians, the Dorians will be defeated. The threat to us will become greater and greater.”

After hearing Roy's words, Harmonia threw herself into Roy's arms and said excitedly.

"My dear, if you can truly love and care for the Thebans as your people, my choice is indeed correct."

After saying that, Harmonia raised her head and bit Roy with her cherry lips.

The next day came in a blink of an eye.

After Roy and Harmonia finished breakfast, they dressed up under the service of the palace maid.

The two walked hand in hand to the square outside the palace, and saw thousands of Theban men gathered around the square.

Under the gaze of thousands of people, Harmonia pulled Roy to the altar and spoke loudly.

"Dear Thebans! I have summoned you to tell you that as the population of Thebes continues to increase, I intend to rule Thebes as a city-state. I will rule Thebes and all Thebans. The King of Thebes is my betrothed Loy.”

Normally, the Thebans would certainly not be able to accept an outsider becoming the king of Thebes.

But Roy's identity is not only an outsider, but also Harmonia's fiancé.

So the Thebans did not stand up against Loy.

For most Thebans, what they accepted was not an outsider becoming the king of Thebes, but Harmonia's husband becoming the king of Thebes.

Seeing that no one stood up to oppose Loy becoming king of Thebes, Harmonia climbed up the steps of the altar and prayed in the direction of Mount Helicon.

"The great goddess Mnemosyne, please grant Roy the authority to become the king of the Thebes and protect the Thebes on your behalf."

With Harmonia's authority, she could only make Roy the ruler of Thebes.

If Roy wants to become the king of all Thebans in the entire Thebes region, he must be recognized by the goddess Mnemosyne and become the king of the Thebes region who holds both royal and divine power.

"Eh……"

With a helpless sigh, Mnemosyne descended from the sky in the form of a hundred-meter-tall god and landed in the open space behind the altar.

Roy raised his head and met the eyes of Mnemosyne, who lowered his head.

Mnemosyne looked at Roy with complicated eyes and said.

"Do you think that as a foreigner and you have no respect for me in your heart, you are suitable to become the king of Thebes and hold the power that can threaten me?"

In real history, the Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt once used the power of the Pharaoh to depose the sun god Amun as the protector of the country, causing Amun to fall from the throne of the King of the Egyptian Gods.

Roy became the king of Thebes, and he could also use the power of the king of Thebes to depose Mnemosyne as the patron saint of Thebes.

Therefore, the king of Thebes did have the power to threaten Mnemosyne.