I was a priest in the city-state era

Roy's side has 102 people, and the pirates have 100 people.

On the surface, the number of people on both sides is about the same, which is why the pirate leader wants to win without fighting.

But more than half of Roy's sailors are teenagers under the age of 20, with a childish face, obviously have not experienced fighting on the battlefield, let alone killing people.

The pirates' sailors are not only men over 20 years old, but also have experienced fighting.

The most important thing is that the weapons used by Roy's sailors are all wooden spears, and 30 sailors on the pirate side use bronze spears.

Hearing Roy's refusal to surrender, the pirate leader shouted with a ferocious grin.

"You have made the stupidest choice. Next, the most unfortunate of you will be buried in the sea, and the rest will become slaves and be sold to the Phoenicians in exchange for food."

After saying this, the pirate leader ordered the pirate sailors to row the boat towards Roy's cargo ship.

Looking at the approaching pirate ship, Roy tensed his whole body and shouted with his hands holding the bronze spear.

"My companions! Don't panic. These pirates are also flesh and blood. We will not lose to them. If you don't want to be killed by pirates or become slaves, do your best to kill these pirates."

Finally-

Ten pirate ships collided with Roy's ten cargo ships.

Roy's sailors and pirate sailors immediately started a fierce fight. The pirate sailors held wooden shields in their left hands and waved spears in their right hands to attack.

The fifty guards of Captain Pallas used the same tactics to fight the pirate sailors.

Roy's fifty teenagers completely abandoned defense and waved wooden spears with both hands to attack with all their strength.

The pirates' wooden spears or bronze spears pierced the paper armor on the teenagers' bodies. Because they used one hand to exert force, they could not only break the defense of the paper armor and hurt the teenagers' bodies, but they could not even push the teenagers' bodies down.

The teenagers waved wooden spears with both hands, launching fast and fierce attacks to pierce the pirates' bodies, immediately stabbing the pirates and causing them to scream in pain. Some pirates were even pushed down and fell directly from the pirate ship into the water.

The battle between the two sides was one-sided from the beginning, and it was not the confident pirates who had the upper hand, but the sailors on Roy's side.

The pirate leader saw the one-sided battle and asked in shock.

"What are you wearing? Can it withstand the attack of wooden spears and bronze spear blades? Is it a kind of armor?"

Roy said with a sneer of contempt.

"If you run away now, you can save some lives."

Roy's words seemed to anger the pirate leader, and he said while waving his battle axe.

"I won't lose to a group of stinky boys like you."

After saying that, the pirate leader swung the battle axe and chopped at Roy.

Roy retreated to avoid the attack, then waved the bronze battle spear with both hands to stab the pirate leader.

Bang!

The pirate leader raised the wooden shield with his left hand to block Roy's attack, and then waved the battle axe to fight back.

As soon as the fight between the two began, Roy confirmed that the pirate leader not only had powerful fighting skills, but also had strength far superior to that of ordinary people. No wonder he could become the leader of hundreds of pirates.

If Roy fought the pirate leader head-on, he would definitely lose in the end.

But Roy wanted to use the power of [Salting] to kill the pirate leader, and it would take some time to activate the power.

In the process of activating the power, Roy would be defenseless. I am afraid that before [Salting] is activated, the pirate leader's battle axe will chop off Roy's head.

Just when Roy was in a difficult battle, the captain of the personal guard Pallas rushed over and attacked the pirate leader with a wooden spear.

A muffled bang!

The pirate leader used a wooden shield to block the attack of the captain of the personal guard Pallas. Feeling that the captain of the personal guard Pallas had strength far superior to that of ordinary people, he immediately took the captain of the personal guard Pallas as the target of attack, as if he wanted to kill the captain of the personal guard Pallas first.

After Roy retreated to a safe distance, he saw the pirate leader waving a battle axe at the captain of the personal guard Pallas.

The captain of the guard Pallas raised his wooden shield to block, but his wooden shield was split in half by the battle axe.

After dodging the attack of the battle axe in panic, the captain of the guard Pallas shouted to Roy.

"Priest! Although this guy is not a hero-level [100-man enemy], his strength is far better than the captain-level [10-man enemy]. You should join hands with me to deal with him."

"Captain Pallas, hold him for a while."

After responding to the captain of the guard Pallas, Roy urged his divine power to activate [Saltification], staring at the pirate leader and whispering in a low voice.

"Great Goddess Metis, please let me use your power again - Saltification!"

As [Saltification] was activated, azure divine light burst out from Roy's eyes and enveloped the body of the pirate leader.

The pirate leader, who was fighting with the captain of the guard Pallas, immediately found that his body was rapidly salted, and turned to look at Roy in shock and said.

"You are actually a priest of a god with divine power--"

Before he finished speaking, the pirate leader's body turned into a salt statue from top to bottom.

Having successfully salted the pirate leader, Roy breathed a sigh of relief, then waved his bronze spear and stabbed the salt statue of the pirate leader.

With a crisp bang!

Roy's bronze spear stabbed the salt statue of the pirate leader, and the salt statue of the pirate leader immediately shattered into a pile of salt blocks.

Roy's sailors suppressed the pirates in the battle, and the pirates were able to fight tenaciously because the pirate leader gave them the confidence to win.

Now that the pirate leader was killed by Roy, the pirates immediately gave up the fight and rowed their oars frantically to keep their pirate ships away from Roy's cargo ship.

Seeing that there were only more than 70 people left on the fleeing pirate ship, Roy said in surprise.

"In the battle just now, did we kill more than 20 pirates?"

Then, Roy turned around to check his sailors.

Because Roy's fifty teenagers were wearing paper armor to protect their bodies, none of them were injured in the battle just now.

On the contrary, among the fifty guards, more than a dozen were injured and bleeding, and among those who were not injured and bleeding, some showed very painful expressions, as if they had internal injuries.

Fortunately, Roy's sailors did not suffer any casualties.

Seeing this situation, the captain of the guards, Pallas, said with a complicated expression.

"Our guards have received more training, but their performance in this battle was inferior to that of a group of teenagers. When I return to Athens, I will tell the leader about this and ask the leader to let all the guards wear paper armor."

After confirming the location with the nautical chart, Roy said to the captain of the guards, Pallas.

"Captain Pallas! Now we have more than 20 injured. In order to let the injured recuperate, I decided to go to the nearby Milos Island."

The injured were all guards, and Captain Pallas of the Guards would certainly not object to Roy's proposal.

"Priest, thank you for your consideration of my companions."

After confirming that no new pirates appeared, Roy and others put the paper armor and spears back into the cabin.

Then the uninjured people sat in the sailors' seats and rowed the oars, allowing the ten cargo ships to quickly sail to Milos Island.