Zeus does not want to be the king of gods in Greece

Could it be that, have you encountered any trouble?

Zeus thought about all kinds of possibilities, and Augus was obviously shocked by him, so there should be no reason to endanger civilians, and Medusa didn't need to spend too much time on taking in refugees.

Zeus was worried, and as soon as he went out, he saw Augus besieging the temple with a group of street thieves, and he finally gave him a wink to let him come to the alley.

"Tell me, what stupidity have you committed?"

If Zeus hadn't been afraid of killing Augus and another Riggs, he would really want to slap his opponent's head in pieces.

"My lord, I have been peacefully requesting to do it."

"Then you mean, I let you overthrow the temple of Athena?"

"No... But, if we want to promote our military merit system, then we must let the priests of the temple come to build the temple and reshape the belief here, otherwise the policy will not be implemented at all."

"Then how long have you considered how long it will take?"

It is really easy to overthrow a temple, but to rebuild a temple and make the local people believe in Ares, the time it takes cannot be quantified at all.

Only then did Augus realize that it was too hasty to push it to Athena's temple.

He was dazzled by the hostile relationship between the two gods, but he didn't expect the god himself to see it very clearly. It was rumored by outsiders that Ares, the god of war, had a muscle in his head, but he was a fool.

But now, in the eyes of Augus, Lord Ares has made Athena and the City-State Alliance exhausted with just a small trick, and those before were just hiding their clumsiness.

Now is the time to show your fangs and give Athena a fatal blow. The closer you are to the fruit of victory, the more careful you must be.

At this moment, Augus understood that he had lost to the person in front of him no matter whether he was a superior or an ordinary fighter.

The insight of the gods is really extraordinary.

"Just now you didn't see that Athena's priests were obviously unwilling to go to war, why can't you make a big fuss about it?"

"You mean to let the priests of Athena help us appease the people? But this belief..."

Augus was a little surprised that the Lord God of War could tolerate a temple of Athena in his city for the sake of victory.

What a shame that the temple of an enemy god appeared in the first city on his own land.

This is tantamount to planting a red flag in the city of Berlin and writing "正" on the thigh.

"Your key question now is how to gain a foothold in Laconia, isn't it?"

"Yes, please forgive me."

It was only at this time that Augus realized the big mistake he had made. The core of the series of suggestions he had received before was to allow the Spartans to gain a foothold on the Greek land and gain a piece of land to grow and develop.

This is the core purpose of Lord God of War, and the rest are just side effects.

Just now he himself was looking far away. If he lost this city because of overthrowing Athena's temple, then he would die.

"Listen well, with the preservation of the temple as the main bargaining chip, you can ask that priest to help you appease the people. Do you think you have prestige as an invader or a venerable priest?"

Zeus set the general direction and tried his best to ensure that the Spartans took over the power here as peacefully as possible.

As for the issue between the Spartans and the city-state alliance in the future, it is an inevitable war, and it even involves the dispute between Athena and Ares.

Today's Zeus still hides his identity, and it is almost impossible to mediate the conflict between the two gods.

"This time, Augus must fulfill your order."

Augustus promised repeatedly that he would complete Zeus's instructions. After all, he had made two mistakes in a row, and he would never dare to make a third mistake.

......

"The Spartans allowed our temple to be kept?"

Athena, who was far away in Olympus, was very surprised when she heard the news. She heard the news from Medusa, which was obviously not an order from Ares.

Losing control of Laconia was not unacceptable to Athena.

After all, the news of this era is very lagging, and it is normal for the Spartans to come to the city when she receives the news.

The strength of the Spartans is not enough to defend the city. Even if they hold a city, it will take a long time for the change of faith.

During this period of time, Athena can completely retake Laconia.

Now the Spartans don't destroy her temples, but ask to give up several Athena's temples as the Temple of War, and help the Spartans appease the people, the price is almost unimaginably small.

Is this really the character of Ares?

Is Hera planning behind the scenes? No, although Hera loves Ares, she seldom shows up during the dispute. Most of all, she comes forward to wipe her ass when Ares' mess is difficult to clean up.

Even Athena, who has a prejudice against Hera, must admit that Hera is absolutely qualified as a mother.

She will never pave the way for Ares but give enough experience, but when Ares fails, she will also come forward to save him.

"Medusa, what are the Spartans going to do besides these demands, or what strange things are they still doing?"

Athena began to question the actions of the Spartans. She believed that even if Ares was enlightened, it would be impossible to make such a big concession on such core interests.

If Ares was brother and friend, why would the relationship with her be so deadlocked?

"There are no other requirements, but they just negotiated with us and began to promote their teachings in our temple. Since the city is currently under their management, it is inconvenient for me to drive them away."

Propagating the teachings of Ares in the temple of Athena is no longer something that the tauren can generalize.

But Athena also understands Medusa's situation, she can't bear this kind of humiliation.

"It's still the theory of the Temple of War, which promotes war and violence, and uses killing as a target for promotion. Now it is even going to be implemented in the army..."

"Wait, you said that what they used in the Temple of War is going to be used in the army?"

Before Medusa finished speaking, Athena keenly sensed that something was wrong, without any reason, just a warning brought by that powerful intuition.

"That's right, they regard murder as glory, and the ears of the enemy as military merit, and finally exchange bloody military merits for wealth and positions."

Medusa, as the kindness of the earth mother, really can't bear to listen to these things, just kill the enemy, after all, each has a different position, and there is nothing wrong with fighting on the battlefield of life and death.

But after the enemy dies, he still destroys the corpse, it is really...

"Quantitating glory and credit by the number of enemies killed, this is definitely not a strategy that Ares can come up with, damn it."

At this point, if Athena still can't think of the threat, then the wisdom and theocracy can only be directly deducted and thrown into the trash can.

"They want to break down the stereotypes."

"class?"

Medusa didn't know anything about this, she was directly airborne to become Athena's priest, and she didn't experience a series of intrigues.

And she herself feels that there is nothing wrong with this. After all, regardless of her status or strength, becoming a priest of Athena is considered inferior. She has never experienced struggles and cannot understand what human beings can do for class leaps.

"That's right, just like the reason why I am a god is because I have a god-king father, which made me stand at the top of the world just after I was born, and if I have a child, he will also be a god. That's called class."

When a creature is social, once there is a division of labor in society, there will naturally be people who ride and pull carts, which is understandable.

But the problem is that the people who pull the carts don't have the opportunity to ride in the carts, and those who ride the carts hope that their children and grandchildren can ride in the carts, so they have to close the doors.

Because there are limited seats in the car.

Today's Spartan policy is basically to let the person pulling the car break the door, and pull the passengers in the car to the road to directly kill them.

When the person in the car dies, the seat will be vacated naturally. The more people die, the more seats will be vacated, and the better seat will be available.

"A carpenter's child will be a carpenter in the future, and his grandson will still be a carpenter in the future. Medusa, how many years do you think this has passed?"

More than 60 years.

Athena naturally knows that Medusa, who doesn't care about worldly affairs, doesn't know these things, and she originally thought that she was better than a mother goddess like Medusa.

Relying on the analytical ability of wisdom theocracy, she thinks she has insight into everything in time, but now, with Zeus's "pressing step by step", Athena is more and more aware of the disadvantages of wisdom theocracy.

The divine power of wisdom is not all-knowing and omnipotent, it needs enough information to analyze and reason, and finally restore the true colors of the event, so as to maximize the benefits.

As long as Athena is given enough and correct information, then the divine power of wisdom will give the answer directly like the wind, spirit and moon shadow.

But now for unknown intelligence, hidden enemies, the power of wisdom theocracy has been greatly restricted.

"No one wants to be trampled underfoot for a lifetime, even if he himself wants to be his heir, the Spartans gave them a chance."

After Athena's reminder, Medusa remembered that when those Spartans were preaching, many familiar faces appeared among them.

Those people are staunch believers. At first Medusa thought they were forced to attend the lectures, but now that I think about it, they might not have the flame of greed and hope in their eyes.

In Greece, where there are many gods, it is fundamental to pretend to change your faith and repent in the future. After all, all the gods are related, so whoever you believe in is not a believer.

"Then I now..."

"No, there is no need to do anything. If we force believers not to join the Spartan army, then we will lose the faith of a large number of civilians."

How could Athena not understand the cruelty of this move.

The bait of the Spartans has been cast. Although dissuading believers is effective for a while, when the first commoner gains power and wealth through military exploits, this trend will not be stopped.

At that time, if Athena continues to resist, then the belief of the common people will be lost. If the teaching is denied in the early stage and the teaching is revised in the later stage, it will make people feel that the order is changing day by day.

"Then how about we follow their example? Although it is cruel, at least it can destroy the Spartan conspiracy."

Although Medusa couldn't bear it, she also understood that the disputes between city-states and gods are cold and ruthless, and there is no shame in joining if you can't win.

"This is where they are ruthless. We cannot copy the Spartan policy."

At this time, Athena finally understood the disadvantages of the theocracy of wisdom, the humiliation of having to follow the wrong path when she knew it was wrong, and the lingering sense of helplessness that all correct paths were blocked.

"Who is the group that builds temples for us, helps us preach doctrines, and even considers us orthodox?"

"It's the nobles."

Medusa sighed, she also understood Athena's concerns.

The nobles, those who obtained the greatest benefits at the beginning of the establishment of the city-state alliance, are the main supporters of Athena.

If Athena and Ares are converted into two anchors, then the believers of Ares are the kind of fans who can’t afford to get on the ship, but spend a little money every day, but they are very sticky and live a good life over time go down.

And Athena is the kind of anchor with thousands of ships, there are oil guys paving the way every now and then, but these oil guys don't have much loyalty to Athena.

As the gold masters, the oil guys can reward the anchors at will. Now supporting Athena is just Athena's combination of their tastes. If Athena's live broadcast style changes, then the donors will leave one after another to find the next anchor. support.

What's more, they will lose fans and step back.

Athena has the current position in the city-state alliance, and Syracuse has contributed a lot, but now the ashes of Syracuse are gone, and the city-state alliance still believes in Athena just because of the convention.

In addition, Athena has blessed the correctness of the city-state's rule in the promotion of some teachings. The two have flirted with each other for so many years, and they have already regarded Athena as civilization and Ares as barbarism.

So people who believe in Athena are naturally higher than Spartans who believe in Ares.

Legitimacy and a sense of superiority, these Athenas can satisfy the nobles, so the support of the nobles has not been cut off for a hundred years, but one day Athena will also start to support the so-called military merit system.

Then this means that the nobles gave up their own interests and broke the current solidified class.

The ascending channel that the nobles have spent decades to block will be destroyed in one day, and each of them may fall out of the noble class.

This is what they are most afraid of, and it is the bottom line that they absolutely cannot back down.

The price of being too tied to the noble class is exposed at this moment. The nobles will never allow the military merit system to be implemented in the army, completely cutting off the possibility of Athena and Ares competing on the same stage.

No, I will lose if this goes on.

Athena understands that the uncomfortable part of this round is that Yaya can only watch Ares' power grow stronger and stronger, but she can't lose her tail because of her deep bond with the nobles.

"Athena, is there anything I can help you with?"

"No, it's business as usual. You try to maintain the belief in Laconia as much as possible. To change the situation at this time, it is no longer something we can solve."

It is impossible for Athena to draw a clear line with the nobles, which will hurt the root, let alone give up the popularity of passers-by, which will push all the common people to the side of Ares.

If so, seek help from a third party.

"All the temples neither agree nor deny the military merit system promoted by the Spartans, and we should not express our position at any time."

Not saying anything is the safest decision.

Athena gave her wishes to the priests in the city-state, and asked them to implement them properly, while she herself left her temple, and this time she was going to pay a visit to her ambitious uncle.

After leaving her own temple, Athena continued to walk towards Mount Olympus.

Since Zeus ascended the throne, the temple of Cronus at the highest point of Olympus was used as a place of discussion, followed by palaces built in order of respect.

They are the Temple of Heavenly King, the Hall of Neptune and the Hall of Hades. Among the three brothers, Hades is the longest among the three, but he is not angry at all. Anyway, when he returns to the Underworld, he will be the Grass Head King. Olympus only A clone was placed for discussion.

And Poseidon has always wanted to surpass Zeus, Zeus is fashionable and has some patience, but Zeus has not been in Olympus for a hundred years, this guy actually moves his temple a little bit every day, getting closer to Zeus' temple.

But this distance is not too far for the gods. Athena came to Poseidon's temple, and Poseidon seemed to sense someone coming, and the gate of the temple slowly opened.

Inside the dim temple, flames shone one after another, illuminating the entire temple along a bright red carpet, and a middle-aged man with blue hair sat on his throne.

"Long time no see, uncle."