I was a priest in the city-state era

In the Athenian Kingdom ruled by Roy, soldiers were one of the highest-paid professions, and even after death in battle, they would receive tens of thousands of kilograms of food as compensation.

Therefore, Roy's blind date event in Athens was very successful, and most of the single soldiers were favored by unmarried women and had a wife of their own.

After the Theban soldiers returned to the Theban area and the Eubiad soldiers returned to Eubia Island, Roy personally led the Corinthian soldiers back to Corinth.

Port of Piraeus.

After Roy left with 500 Corinthian soldiers on 20 warships, a merchant fleet consisting of three cargo ships and two escort ships entered the Port of Piraeus.

The merchant fleet was anchored at the port pier. After the owner of the fleet asked the soldiers at the port how to buy salt, Chione personally came to the port to preside over the transaction, exchanging 600 kilograms of salt for 30,000 kilograms of food on the three cargo ships.

At noon, Roy brought the Corinthian fleet to the port in the south of Corinth.

After handing over the warship to the Corinthian soldiers at the port, Roy walked to Corinth with 500 Corinthian soldiers and the bride from Athens.

When the team of more than 700 people arrived outside the city of Corinth, Sisyphus, who had received the news, came to the city to greet Roy in person.

Outside the south gate of Corinth.

Sisyphus came to Roy with a group of palace soldiers and said with a very enthusiastic smile.

"Dear Roy, I have heard that you defeated Prince Deucalion and gave my soldiers generous rewards. Now I want to invite you to my palace to entertain the most distinguished guests with the most grand banquet."

"Sisyphus..."

Looking at the enthusiastic Sisyphus, Roy couldn't help but hesitate whether to launch his plan.

Finally, driven by reason, Roy said to Sisyphus expressionlessly.

"I have to tell you a sad news. This is the last time we two meet."

Without waiting for Sisyphus to react, Roy waved his spear and stabbed Sisyphus.

The next moment!

Sisyphus, who was unprepared, opened his eyes wide and was pierced in the neck by Roy's spear.

After Sisyphus' body turned into a corpse and fell, the Corinthians who saw this scene were all in a panic, unable to accept the reality they saw with their own eyes for a while.

After all, Roy's identity was not an enemy, but an ally of the city of Corinth.

Retrieving the spear from Sisyphus, Roy shouted to everyone around him in a loud voice.

"When the city of Athens and the city of Knossos went to war, the city of Corinth did not strictly fulfill its obligations as an ally. As the leader of the Three Goddesses Alliance, I eliminated the incompetent King Sisyphus of Corinth, and now I will take over the city of Corinth myself."

Then Roy turned and said to the 500 Corinthian soldiers he brought with him.

"Now you follow me to take over the city of Corinth, and each of you will have a reward of 1,000 kilograms of food."

If Sisyphus was still alive, Roy's words would not be able to inspire the Corinthian soldiers at all.

Unfortunately, Sisyphus is dead.

The five hundred Corinthian soldiers thought of the paper armor Roy had given them, the bronze spears Roy had given them, the generous rewards Roy had given them, and the wives Roy had helped single soldiers marry -

Most of them chose to obey Roy's orders.

After all, Roy had given too much.

Because the Corinthian soldiers guarding the city gate had lost Sisyphus as their backbone, Roy led five hundred Corinthian soldiers to occupy the city gate without a single blow, leaving two hundred soldiers and more than two hundred Athenian brides at the south gate, and Roy led three hundred Corinthian soldiers to the palace.

The Corinthian civilians and soldiers he met along the way did not stop Roy from advancing.

Roy's occupation of Corinth did not encounter resistance, firstly because there was no royal family as their backbone, and secondly because the Corinthians did not regard Roy's occupation of Corinth as an invasion by foreign enemies.

If this was an invasion by foreign enemies, even without the royal family as the backbone, the Corinthians would spontaneously fight against the invaders, prevent the enemy from occupying their city, and take away their food and wives and daughters.

But Roy was not only an ally of the city of Corinth, but all of Roy's soldiers were Corinthian soldiers.

So for most Corinthians, Roy's occupation of the city of Corinth was more like a coup that would not harm their interests.

Acropolis of Corinth.

When Roy came here with 300 Corinthian soldiers, Glaucus, who learned that his father had been killed, had summoned 600 soldiers to defend the gate of the Acropolis.

Just as Roy was about to kill Glaucus with his own force and force the soldiers of the Acropolis of Corinth to surrender, the goddess Amphitrite descended to the Acropolis of Corinth with a huge figure of 100 meters in height.

Seeing Amphitrite stretching out her left hand towards Glaucus' body, wanting Glaucus to receive her divine power, Roy immediately spoke to Amphitrite anxiously.

"Great goddess Amphitrite, please don't let Glaucus become an obstacle to me. I promised you that you will still be the patron saint of Corinth when I conquer it."

After hearing Roy's words, Amphitrite stopped blessing Glaucus with divine power and questioned Roy with a dissatisfied expression.

"Can I really trust you? You are Sisyphus' ally, but you killed Sisyphus to seize Corinth. Maybe you are not worthy of trust at all."

"When did I become Sisyphus' ally?"

Roy said with an innocent look.

"The Three Goddesses Alliance I formed is an alliance between Athens, Corinth, and Thebes. It can also be regarded as an alliance between you and the goddess Metis and Mnemosyne, but there is no alliance between Sisyphus and Harmonia. Great goddess Amphitrite, Harmonia is my woman. Do you think I need to form an alliance with Harmonia?"

Roy's words left Amphitrite speechless.

On the surface, Sisyphus is indeed not Roy's ally, so Roy did not betray his allies.

"Even if you did not betray Sisyphus, what reason do I have to let you occupy Corinth? You are a priest serving Metis, not my priest. I cannot let an untrustworthy person hold the highest power in Corinth, because this power is a huge threat to me."

"Goddess Amphitrite, don't you want Corinth to develop stronger and the people of Corinth to live a better life than now?"

Roy said with a smile.

"I took over the city of Corinth as the leader of the Three Goddesses Alliance. My goal is to make Corinth grow and prosper, and let the Corinthians live a better life. The first thing I will do for Corinth is to use two thousand captives to dig the Corinth Canal. Great goddess Amphitrite, you must understand how much benefit the opening of the Corinth Canal can bring to the Corinthians."

As a wise goddess, Amphitrite certainly knows that the opening of the Corinth Canal will become an important trade route, and Corinth will have the potential to develop into a trade hub.

If the ruler of Corinth was not Roy, I am afraid that in another three thousand years, no one would spend manpower and material resources to dig this canal.