Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"WedonotinherittheEarthfromourAncestors;weborrowitfromourChildren."

——American proverb

Although he had already read the news about the new city of Lamia in the "Bright Eyes Times", little Antigonus could not help but be shocked by the sight before him when he boarded the pier.

Starting from the water gate of the breakwater - they are building two large lighthouses - there are high scaffoldings everywhere, and there are construction workers wearing uniform coarse red clothes and rattan helmets everywhere.

There are more than a dozen trestles on the renovated wharf, all of which are full of ships. Some of the goods transported are grain, and more are stone and wood. Busy wharf workers operate wooden cranes to unload the goods and then transport them. Papers and books produced by Lamia are loaded on it; in addition, a stone platform is being built on the trestle, and it is said that a larger crane is to be built.

Facing the bay is a huge square on which workers are installing large mosaics.

Further back is the city wall that still only has a rough foundation, but a large city gate has begun to take shape.According to the newspaper, this gate is called the Triumphal Arch and was built specifically to commemorate the victory in the Thessaly War of Independence.The three huge door openings on the door lead to the three urban areas of Nancheng, Inner City and East City respectively.

Above the city gate, workers are fixing the half-human, half-snake bronze statue of Lamia, her never-closed eyes watching the Maris Bay with vigilance...

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Antigonus the Younger was the eldest son of Demetrius. In history, he was the future Antigonus II "Gonnat", the real founder of the Antigonus Dynasty - and the lifelong enemy of King Pi. However, He just doesn't know the original direction of history.

If he knew, he might turn around and leave right now!

He came here on his father's orders to repair relations with Pyrrhus, the ruthless man who single-handedly captured Thessaly.

When he received the mission, he felt a pain in his balls.

Although the engagement was broken off at the beginning, the father also obeyed the order of the father's father, but now if we want to repair the relationship, we can't transfer the son's responsibility to the son's son, right?

Put yourself in their shoes, you have been abdicated and have a family that you cannot return to. At this most difficult time, you were about to join your future brother-in-law. However, you were slapped in the face by breaking off the engagement, and then you were cheated on again during the war, intentionally or unintentionally. Now that you have made it through your own efforts, and people come to you to repair the relationship, what would you think?

Young Antigonus is 16 years old this year. I heard that Pyrrhus is one year younger than him, which is the age when he is in his prime. And he has just sent Cassander away with punches and kicks, which is the time when the limelight is at its peak.When you hear Dmitri's cub coming, will you chop him up out of anger?

This is definitely a possibility!

Can young people still be called young people if they are not energetic? !

As soon as Antigonus got off the ship, he was greeted by a middle-aged bald bearded man who called himself Zenas.

Zenas took him to meet Pyrrhus and walked south along the pier.

Little Antigonus prepared valuable gifts before coming, but along the way, he couldn't help but feel more and more uneasy:

How rich is Pyrrhus to be able to start so many large-scale projects at the same time?

I was thinking this, but just after taking a few steps, Zenas suddenly pointed at the crowd in front:

"That is King Pyrrhus."

Little Antigonus looked forward and saw a young man with exaggerated long red hair, who was definitely Pyrrhus.

So fast!I'm not mentally prepared yet!

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Pyrrhus did not have time to pay attention to him immediately, and after a few words with Desiachus and others, he smiled apologetically at Little Antigonus.

"We found that the Spezius River brought a large amount of sediment from the upper reaches and was gradually flooding Maris Bay; Stratton and the others judged from the shellfish on the breakwater that this process may be faster than we thought. "So we decided to build a canal and transform the Spezius River's outlet channel to separate the sediment so that shipping would not be affected."

Pyrrhus enthusiastically held the visitor's arm, "Let me formally meet you. I am Pyrrhus! Are you His Highness Antigonus?"

"Yes Yes……"

After answering subconsciously, Little Antigonus hurriedly added:

“Honorable King Pyrrhus, I am Antigonus the Younger, son of Demetrius.

"On my father's order, I came here specifically to congratulate you on defeating Cassander. Your victory in the Olympics is unparalleled, and your martial arts in the war have been something I have admired for a long time!"

"Thank you for your praise!" Pyrrhus smiled, "Little Antigonus, please just call me Pyrrhus. We are all of the same age, so please don't be too restrained."

"well……"

This is too easy to talk about!

Maybe this is the magnanimity that a true hero has?

In fact, he didn't know that Pyrrhus in front of him had also "admired him for a long time."

Not only because as a possible future uncle, he has shown good genetic inheritance.

In the eyes of Pyrrhus, this young Antigonus may be the only one among the Macedonian successors who can be called a hero.In history, he led a group of defeated soldiers to repel the southern invasion of Gauls, won the support of Macedonian and Greek city-states, and saved the declining Antigonid dynasty.

——It's just that his fighting skills are a bit bad, and he was chased away by King Pi.

In addition, Pyrrhus has also decided to accept the goodwill of the Antigonid dynasty and marry Stratoniko.

He had seen with his own eyes the carnage and destruction caused by war, and if possible, he was willing to assist the Antigonid dynasty in order to complete the unification of the Hellenistic world and end the war as soon as possible - as long as the family could survive the coming siege.

That’s why he was so enthusiastic about Antigonus Jr. in order to establish early influence on this possible third-generation leadership core...

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The two walked side by side, and Pyrrhus introduced the various projects under construction to Antigonus along the way.

Pyrrhus pointed to several large pedestals near the city wall in the port area and said:

"Here will be the temples of Zeus, Athena, Apollo, and Dagon."

you wait for me!

Antigonus the Younger asked: "I remember Dagon was the god of the Phoenicians, right? Why not build a temple to Poseidon instead of worshiping foreign gods?"

Pyrrhus replied sheepishly: "Although this part of the project is also in the city of Lamia, the ones who paid for it are the priests I invited from Elis, Athens, and Delphi. The priests of Poseidon are nothing." Money... In short, they will have all the property rights after the temple is completed."

After all, the Phoenicians were rich, right?

Little Antigonus felt sad for Poseidon for three seconds, and then heard Pyrrhus continue:

“The Phoenicians had a very bad custom of sacrificing children alive to their gods.

"I made an agreement with the priests of Dagon to ban human sacrifices in Lamia in exchange for allowing the Phoenicians to establish a community here. If Lamia could become a great and prosperous city, this temple of Dagon Their status will also rise accordingly, which will in turn affect the Phoenician religion..."

"I see!" Little Antigonus had long heard about Pyrrhus's initiative regarding Lamia Academy, and now that he heard about Pyrrhus's long-term plans, he admired his foresight even more.

At first, he thought that this man of his age was a born son of war, but he increasingly discovered that Pyrrhus's achievements in culture and governance were definitely as good as his martial arts.