Chapter 102 Tyndareus, King of Sparta

Sparta.

After their sister Helen was kidnapped, their two brothers Polydeuces and Castor led their fleet to Athens, and even their fiancé Royin rode a horse to rescue their fiancée's sister.

Now the royal family of Sparta is left with only Clytemnestra and her father Tyndareus, so she has to stay on the walls of Sparta every day, waiting for these important family members to return.

In the evening when night fell.

After waiting on the walls for a day, there was still no sign of the family returning to Sparta.

Just as Clytemnestra was about to return to the palace, a rapid sound of horse hooves approached Sparta.

Clytemnestra looked in the direction of the horse hooves and was surprised to see her sister Helen and her fiancé Royin sitting on the horse.

"Is this my illusion? Did Tantalus really save Helen?"

Without time to think about it, Clytemnestra hurried down from the wall.

When the horses ridden by Luo Yin and Helen stopped galloping in front of the gate of Sparta, Clytemnestra ran out through the gate.

"Helen!"

"Sister!"

After the two sisters cried excitedly, Luo Yin picked up Helen from the horse and put her on the ground, letting the two sisters hug each other.

Clytemnestra hugged Helen tightly in her arms and asked with concern.

"Helen, have you been hurt during this period?"

Helen shook her head and said.

"Because I am still a little girl, Theseus did not do anything to hurt me, and his mother Aethra raised me as a granddaughter."

"You must remember the lesson this time, and you must bring a hundred soldiers to protect your safety wherever you go in the future."

At this time, Luo Yin had jumped off the horse.

After Clytemnestra carefully instructed Helen, she looked at Luo Yin with a grateful look and said.

"Dear Tantalus, thank you for saving my sister."

Luo Yin said with a smile.

"Since you are my fiancée, Helen is not only your sister, but also my sister. It is only natural for me to save my sister. Now your father Tyndareus doesn't know the good news of Helen's return. Let's go to the palace to see him together!"

"Yes!"

Clytemnestra nodded and agreed, and then the three of them walked to the palace.

Sparta Palace.

The hall.

The elderly Spartan King Tyndareus was sitting on the throne, having a dinner with a group of equally elderly Spartan elders.

Lo Yin, Clytemnestra, and Helen entered the hall. Tyndareus on the throne immediately widened his eyes and looked at Helen's figure in a daze.

"My eyes are blurry... Did I mistake another girl for my Helen, or is my lovely daughter really back?"

"Father, you are not mistaken, I am really back."

Helen immediately ran to Tyndareus and sat on the throne with his father and said coquettishly.

"Did father miss me during the time we were apart?"

"I miss my lovely Helen every day, and I even lost my appetite for food."

Tyndareus said while touching Helen's beautiful golden hair.

"Polydeuces and Castor rescued you so quickly, I really should thank them."

"Father, the one who saved me was not my brother Polydeuces and Castor, but my sister's fiancé Tantalus."

"You said it was Tantalus who saved you--"

Tyndareus turned his head in surprise and stared at Luo Yin's figure with deep eyes.

Seeing Tyndareus look at his fiancé with this look for the first time, Clytemnestra said immediately.

"Dear father! Tantalus rescued Helen and proved that he is a real young hero with his bravery. As a reward for him, I hope you can hold a wedding for us as soon as possible and let me become his real wife."

Tyndareus seemed not to hear what Clytemnestra said.

After looking at Luo Yin for a while, he waved his hand and said.

"All of you go out. I want to talk to Tantalus alone."

After Clytemnestra and Helen left the hall with the elders who attended the dinner with doubts in their hearts, Tyndareus looked at Luo Yin with a solemn look and said.

"Tantalus! Others say that you are a cowardly coward and a waste who can only rely on women for protection, but I have never cancelled your engagement with Clytemnestra - do you know why?"

Luo Yin nodded and said.

"You want to leave the throne of Sparta to Helen and her future husband! If Clytemnestra marries a powerful husband, you are worried that Clytemnestra will compete with Helen for the right to inherit the throne in the future. So for Helen, you are willing to sacrifice Clytemnestra's happiness and marry her to a weak and incompetent husband."

"This is indeed the real reason why I agreed to marry Clytemnestra to you. But now you have exceeded my expectations and are no longer a threat to Helen."

"So you want to cancel my engagement with Clytemnestra now?"

Seeing that Tyndareus answered with silence, Luo Yin sneered and teased.

"They are all your daughters. You are really a good father to Clytemnestra. According to the rules of this era, an unmarried daughter belongs to her father. You have the power to dissolve my engagement with Clytemnestra, so you don't have to worry about my revenge."

After saying that, Luo Yin turned and left the hall.

When he reached the door of the hall, Luo Yin suddenly stopped and said.

"King Tyndareus! You are over 60 years old now, which means you were over 50 before Helen was born. Is Helen really your daughter?"

"Helen is not my daughter. Is she the daughter of Zeus as the ignorant people have said?"

Although in the myths made up by humans hundreds of years later, Tyndareus was a big wronged man who helped Zeus raise children. His two sons Polydeuces and Castor and his two daughters Clytemnestra and Helen were all children of Zeus.

But in the original myth, Tyndareus' children had nothing to do with Zeus.

To be precise, they were not worthy of being Zeus' children at all.

Perseus, Hercules and other heroes who were deified as sons of Zeus all had one common feature, that is, they made great contributions to the prosperity of the Mycenaean Kingdom and the spread of Zeus beliefs.

Polydeuces and Castor were Spartans. The city-state they defended was Sparta, and the god they defended was Hera.

Hundreds of years later, humans deified Polydeuces and Castor as sons of Zeus because they went on an expedition to Athens, causing the Athenian King Theseus to lose his throne and also captured the city of Avdena where Helen was hiding.

The Mycenaeans launched wars of conquest against the Kingdom of Athens several times, but not only did they fail to win, they also captured a king.

For the Mycenaeans, Polydeuces and Castor could make Athens surrender. They must be the sons of Zeus, and their strength must also come from Zeus.

Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world, and her beauty must also come from Zeus.

Although it was normal for Tyndareus to give birth to Helen at the age of fifty, Luo Yin deliberately said it in order to avenge his former father-in-law.

"Maybe Helen is the incarnation of the goddess Hera!"

After saying that, Luo Yin walked out of the hall directly.