I was a priest in the city-state era

While Athens was preparing for war, Knossos on Crete was also recruiting soldiers to requisition warships.

As the overlord of the Aegean Sea, Knossos claimed to rule a population of about 100,000.

But the claim was just a claim after all. The population actually ruled by Knossos was only 50,000 people in Knossos and the surrounding areas.

The population of the vassal city-states ostensibly belonged to Knossos. Once Knossos weakened, many vassal city-states would surely break away from Knossos's control.

In order to defeat Athens, Deucalion summoned 4,000 Knossos soldiers and another 2,000 soldiers from vassal city-states.

After the 6,000 troops boarded 200 warships, Deucalion led the army to leave the port of Knossos and sailed to Athens, thousands of miles away.

Outside Athens.

Three thousand soldiers were conducting combat training every day under Roy's personal command, making final preparations for the upcoming war.

While stepping up the training of soldiers, Roy sent people to patrol the Athenian waters in a speedboat and to patrol the southern coast of the Attica Peninsula on a fast horse.

This day.

Roy was training 3,000 soldiers outside the city of Athens, and Aries suddenly rushed to Roy on horseback with a panicked look on his face.

Without waiting for Aries' horse to stop, Roy took the initiative to ask.

"Aries, are the Knossos coming?"

"They are coming!"

Aries jumped off the horse and said tremblingly.

"The Knossos fleet has at least 200 ships, and they are now landing on a coast 20 miles away."

"The Knossos chose to land on the coast 20 miles away from Athens. It seems that they don't want to be attacked by us when they land. Since we can't stop the Knossos from landing, we should quickly prepare for battle, let all the soldiers wear paper armor and take bronze spears, and wait for our enemies to arrive."

After Aries ran to execute Roy's order, although Roy was confident on the surface, he was a little nervous in his heart.

Because judging from the number of Knossos warships, Deucalion's soldiers must have far more than Athens.

Two hours later.

Deucalion came to the outside of Athens with 3,000 Knossos soldiers and 2,000 soldiers from vassal cities, and another 1,000 Knossos soldiers stayed on the coast 20 miles away to guard their warships.

After Roy led 3,000 soldiers to confront Deucalion's 5,000 troops outside Athens, Deucalion was surprised to see that Athens had 3,000 troops.

Because according to Deucalion's expectations, Athens should have at most 2,000 troops.

Although the army of Athens unexpectedly had 1,000 more people, Deucalion was still confident of defeating Athens.

Before the war between the two sides began, Deucalion shouted to Roy.

"Roy, if you return Pandora to me now and become a vassal of Knossos, this war can be avoided. If you still insist on not changing your ways, your soldiers will die in vain, and my anger will destroy Athens."

"Deucalion, you are the one who insists on not changing your ways!"

Roy said without showing any weakness.

"If you really want to avoid this war, you should take your soldiers away from my territory."

"You stupid guy, it seems that I must kill you, and then you will confess your sins to the gods in the underworld."

After Deucalion finished speaking angrily, he led 5,000 troops to rush towards Roy's 3,000 troops like a tide.

After the two armies collided like two tides, the soldiers started a fierce fight, and Roy and Deucalion also rushed towards each other tacitly.

With a loud bang!

Roy and Deucalion's bronze spears collided fiercely.

Seeing that Roy's power was equal to his own, Deucalion first showed a surprised expression, and then prayed loudly.

"Great goddess Europa, please lend me your power so that I can defeat the enemy in front of me."

Along with Deucalion's prayer, a white divine light descended from the sky on the battlefield, turning into a goddess a thousand meters tall.

This is a beautiful goddess with a graceful figure that makes people think of the earth mother. She has porcelain white skin, a delicate and perfect face and a temperament full of maternal radiance. She wears a sleeveless green dress, a red belt around her waist, and uses two ornaments like garlands to tie her waist-length black hair into two ponytails, with a pair of small and cute ankles exposed.

Seeing this goddess with two ponytails that are like two bull horns, Roy immediately prayed to the goddess Metis for help.

"Great goddess Metis, please protect me and the Athenians and help us defeat the enemy."

As soon as Roy finished speaking, Metis appeared on the sea in the distance with a huge figure of a thousand meters in height, approaching the battlefield with huge steps.

After Metis arrived at the battlefield, Europa said expressionlessly.

"You are Metis, the patron saint of Athens--how dare a mere snake to be my enemy?"

"Europa, a snake may not be unable to defeat a bull."

Metis said without showing any weakness.

"As long as the snake continues to grow, let alone defeating a bull, it can even devour creatures larger than a bull."

"You are such an arrogant snake, then I will let you see the gap between us clearly."

Europa summoned a huge double-sided battle axe as a weapon, and then swung the battle axe to chop at Metis' body.

Metis moved his body flexibly like a snake to avoid Europa's attack, and then summoned a war spear to counterattack.

As Metis and Europa fought, the divine power emitted by the two goddesses gathered on Roy and Deucalion respectively.

Just as the strength of Knossos was stronger than that of Athens, Europa's divine power was also stronger than Metis.

Deucalion was blessed by Europa's divine power, and his strength immediately increased. Roy could only dodge Europa's attacks like Metis, and began to dodge Deucalion's attacks.

Just as the balance of victory began to tilt towards Deucalion, a thousand-meter-high black mountain suddenly fell from the sky and hit Europa who was fighting with Metis.

A muffled bang!

Europa raised her left hand to hold the black mountain, and then asked angrily.

"Who dares to be my enemy?"

"What can you do if I am your enemy?"

The voice of the goddess Mnemosyne suddenly sounded, and then her figure appeared to the north of Europa.

Although Mnemosyne did not attack Europa directly, the black mountain she transformed with her divine power pressed on Europa, preventing Europa from using all her divine power to attack Metis.

Metis began to attack Europa, and Europa changed from the attacker to the defender.

"You two abominable snakes actually teamed up to deal with me——"

Europa waved the double-sided giant axe with her right hand in a panic to fight Metis, while increasing her own divine power.

As Europa fell behind in the battle between the gods, the divine power of Metis and Mnemosyne was simultaneously bestowed on Roy, and Roy began to suppress Deucalion in the battle.

In the battle of ordinary soldiers, from the very beginning, Roy's 3,000 troops suppressed Deucalion's 5,000 troops.

This was not only because Roy's soldiers were wearing paper armor and using bronze spears, which had equipment advantages, but also because Roy's soldiers fought bravely to defend their homeland.

Deucalion's soldiers were mixed, not only were they inferior to Roy's soldiers in equipment, but they also lost to Roy's soldiers in fighting spirit, with only the advantage of numbers.

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