Chapter 144 Returning to Athens with Pandora

As a qualified ruler, Minos must have a suspicious character.

If Loy had not left the city of Knossos, Minos would have been suspicious of Loy's reasons for deceiving him.

Roy left the city of Knossos on the second day of the Spring Plowing Festival. As long as Minos was a smart man, he would have understood that Roy had lied to him, so Roy could not wait to leave.

Although it is possible that Minos was a dull fool, Roy would not bet on the possibility of Minos being a dull fool with his own life and Procne's life.

Roy's reaction was obviously what Pandora expected, she said with a faint smile.

"Procne! Returning to the city of Knossos now is dangerous for you and me."

Procne said in a panic.

"Then do you really want to come back to Athens with us?"

Although it is not a wise choice to send Pandora back to the city of Knossos, it is also not a wise choice to bring Pandora back to the city of Athens.

Pandora turned to look at Roy and said.

"Procne, the person who can make the decision now is neither you nor me."

Roy and Pandora looked at each other, and then asked with dissatisfied expressions.

"Pandora, what is your purpose?"

"I'm in love with you."

Pandora calmly said something shocking.

"If you don't take me back to Athens, no matter who you leave me in care of, I will say that I have fallen in love with you, and I will elope with you from Knossos."

Pandora was not only the princess of Donia in western Crete, but also the fiancée of Deucalion, the heir to the throne of Knossos, and the future queen of Knossos.

If there is news that Pandora and Roy are eloping——

There will definitely be a Trojan War in this era.

In ancient legends, there were two main reasons for the outbreak of the Trojan War. The false reason fabricated in the myth was that the Trojan prince Paris abducted Queen Helen of Sparta.

King Menelaus of Sparta was just his son-in-law, and Helen, the princess of Sparta, was the real queen of Sparta.

If Menelaus did not take back Helen, he would no longer be qualified to be king of Sparta.

Without the support of the city of Sparta ruled by his brother Menelaus, the Mycenaean king Agamemnon did not have enough strength to become the king of the Greek kings.

So Menelaus, in order to take the throne, and Agamemnon, in order to maintain the hegemony of the King of Kings, the two brothers must fight to regain Helen.

The real historical reason for the outbreak of the Trojan War was that the Greeks wanted to compete with the Trojans for control of the shipping lanes in the Aegean and Black Seas.

It was precisely because of the defeat of the Trojans and their control of the Black Sea trade routes that the Black Sea coast became the most important source of food for the Greeks.

Now the appearance of salt has allowed the city of Knossos to regard the city of Athens as a threat to its hegemony.

Plus Pandora eloped with Roy——

There are both false and real reasons for the outbreak of the Trojan War.

Roy didn't want to send Pandora back to the city of Knossos. One of the reasons was that the two of them had been on the same boat for too long. Now the relationship between the two was so bad that Roy couldn't clean it up even if he jumped into the Aegean Sea.

Hearing Pandora say that she fell in love with him and eloped with him, Roy sneered and teased.

"Pandora, are you really crazy? Although everyone can see that you don't love Deucalion, your engagement with Deucalion affects the relationship between Donia and Knossos. If you In order not to ruin your reputation by marrying Deucalion, don’t you worry about Knossos launching a war against your hometown of Donia?”

"It is to prevent the city of Knossos from launching a war against our city of Donia, so I want to return to the city of Athens with you."

Pandora said with a smile as if she had succeeded in her mischief.

"If you don't want the city of Knossos to wage war against the city of Athens, then do your best to hide me! As long as the city of Knossos does not discover that I am in the city of Athens, they have no reason to wage war against the city of Athens."

"You crazy person!"

Facing Pandora's threat, Roy angrily pulled Pandora up from the board and said with a fierce expression.

"Don't think that because you are a noble princess with a beauty that rivals that of a goddess, I won't be willing to hurt you. As long as I throw you into the sea now, even if your body is discovered in the future, who can prove you? His death is related to the city of Athens."

Pandora squinted her left eye without fear and said with a playful smile.

“The secret of how I turned back into a god—don’t you want to know?”

Upon hearing this, Roy immediately put away his fierce expression and spoke in a gentle manner.

"If you tell me your secret, I can take you back to Athens and hide it."

"Brother Roy——"

Procne said with her eyes widened in surprise.

"Are we really going to take her back?"

"Procne, if we don't take Pandora back, we can only throw her into the sea and drown her. Because only if Pandora is dead, she will not bring war to our city of Athens."

Although Procne felt that Pandora should not be brought back to the city of Athens, she did not want Pandora to die because of her.

"It would be too cruel to throw her into the sea and drown her, so let's take her back to Athens first."

Seeing that Procne agreed to take Pandora back to Athens, Roy immediately said to Pandora.

"Now that Procne and I have agreed to take you back to the city of Athens, you can tell me the secret!"

"no!"

Pandora shook her head without hesitation.

"I'm telling you a secret now. You, a cruel man, will definitely throw me into the sea and drown me."

"Just now you said you loved me and eloped for me at the cost of your reputation. Is this your love for me?"

"Hehehehe——Do you really think I fell in love with you at first sight? If you believe that I am the incarnation of the goddess' reincarnation, do you think the goddess will fall in love with a human man?"

Looking at Roy's dissatisfied expression, Pandora continued to comfort him.

"Although I didn't really fall in love with you, your willingness to bring me back to Athens has made me feel good about you——this is enough to make you proud."

City of Knossos.

At this time, under the night, the city did not fall into darkness.

Because there were thousands of soldiers scattered on the streets, holding torches and searching for Pandora, Deucalion's fiancée, from house to house.

The center of the street in Knossos.

Deucalion waited expressionlessly for the news brought back by the soldiers.

Every news that a soldier brought back from a fruitless search would make Deucalion's face even colder.

After an unknown amount of time, a soldier came to Deucalion with a trembling body and said.

"Prince Deucalion, we have searched the last street, but still can't find Princess Pandora."

"It seems that Pandora has left Knossos."

Deucalion closed his eyes and sneered.

"My dear fiancée suddenly disappeared. It is impossible for her to return to Donia. If I am not mistaken, Pandora must have left Crete. Because only by leaving Crete can I not find her, the bride who ran away from marriage. Go to the port now to check which ships left Knossos today, and let all the people in the port recall whether there were any suspicious women last night and during the day."