Chapter 211 The World Is Big and the Ambition Is Big

In the mythology of another world, the Mycenaeans seem to have had the custom of sacrificing their noblest maidens to heroes or gods after a war.

After the Trojan War, the unmarried Trojan princess Polyxena became a sacrifice to the demigod hero Achilles.

Princess Io of Argos and Princess Callisto of Arcadia will become the human wives of Zeus. Perhaps the prototype is Io after the Mycenaeans conquered the Argos and Arcadia regions. and Callisto became sacrifices to Zeus.

As a virgin who served Artemis and the human wife of the Mycenaean god-king Zeus, Callisto was also a deified goddess in mythology. She was originally a subordinate god of Artemis and was later adopted by Zeus. Arrange it into the night sky and become the star god of the Ursa Major constellation.

Hearing Pandaros saying that Callisto was going to marry Loy, Procne and Philomela nervously hugged Loy's arms, with uneasy expressions on their faces.

Although Harmonia is also a powerful love rival, she must be responsible for managing the Thebes region in the city of Thebes and cannot stick to Roy like Procne and Philomela.

Callisto is different from Harmonia. She can marry in the city of Athens and directly compete with Procne and Philomela for Loy's favor. Procne and Philomela certainly don't want to add such a love rival. .

Roy hugged Procne and Philomela's slender waists to comfort them, and then said to Pandaros.

"Prince Pandaros! I have no interest in getting involved in your war with the Mycenaeans for a woman. For me, competing with the cities of Donia and Knossos for the hegemony of the Aegean Sea is the most important."

"His Majesty the King of Athens..."

Seeing the determined expression on Roy's face, Pandaros knew that he could not convince Roy, so he turned around and said.

"Since the city of Athens is unwilling to help our city of Arcadia, then we will use our own strength to fight against the Mycenaeans. If we lose to the Mycenaeans, the Mycenaeans who rule the Argos and Arcadia regions will The Scythians will become a powerful enemy that the city of Athens must face. "

After saying that, Pandaros left directly.

After Pandaros walked out of the hall, Procne couldn't help but say.

"Brother Roy, I think what Prince Pandaros said makes sense. If we are now involved in the war between the Mycenaeans and the Acadians, we can easily break the Mycenaeans' ambition to annex the Acadian region. We If nothing is done now, the Mycenaeans will dominate the Argos and Arcadia regions and become more powerful against our Kingdom of Athens."

Roy shook his head and said.

"It is of no benefit to us to intervene in the war between the Mycenaeans and the Acadians! Even if we help the Acadians defeat the Mycenaeans now, I want to conquer the Peloponnese Peninsula in the future. At that time, the Acadians will still become my enemies. If all the men of the Acadian royal family die and only Princess Callisto is left to inherit the throne, I would be willing to intervene as Princess Callisto's husband. This war."

If Roy did not have the ambition to annex the Acadian region, Roy should indeed help the Acadians to prevent the Mycenaeans from growing in strength.

Since Roy has a firm goal of conquering the Peloponnese Peninsula, the Mycenaeans and Acadians will be Roy's enemies in the future, and Roy naturally has no reason to help the Acadians against the Mycenaeans.

The current war between the Acadians and the Mycenaeans, the more brutal the fighting between the two sides, will be easier for Roy to conquer the Mycenaeans and Acadians in the future.

"Brother Roy, why are you not satisfied with the current territory of the Kingdom of Athens?"

Philomela said doubtfully.

"The territory of the Kingdom of Athens is twice that of Crete, and it is an unprecedentedly powerful city-state in the Aegean Sea."

Seeing that Procne had the same doubts, Roy said with a smile.

"Procne! Philomela! The current territory of the Kingdom of Athens is about 16,000 square kilometers. Even if the Mycenaeans conquered the Peloponnese Peninsula, which is full of mountains, it would not be enough to compete with our Athens. The strength of the kingdom's confrontation, so the Kingdom of Athens is now undoubtedly the strongest city-state in the Aegean region. However, around the Eastern Mediterranean, the Egyptian Empire has a territory of more than one million square kilometers and a population of more than 2 million, and the Hittite Empire has a population of 30. The Kingdom of Babylon has a territory of 50,000 square kilometers and a population of one million. Compared with these kingdoms and empires, the Kingdom of Athens is really small. Big, maybe I will be satisfied with the current Kingdom of Athens, but since I know how big the world is, I will let the Kingdom of Athens develop into the greatest empire in the Mediterranean.”

After hearing Roy's words, Procne and Philomela's eyes widened in shock, unable to imagine how big the kingdoms and empires around the Eastern Mediterranean were.

After recovering from the shock, Procne said worriedly.

"Brother Roy, since our Kingdom of Athens is so small, how can we fight against these behemoth and powerful countries?"

"These kingdoms and empires appear to have vast territories and large populations, but in reality, they are just many city-states that jointly respect the most powerful city-state, and the most powerful city-state can nominally command other city-states. As long as we defeat the king who represents the strongest city-state, the other city-states will become a mess. So it is not difficult to defeat these behemoth kingdoms and empires. Now the rulers of the Egyptian Empire are tens of thousands of nomads from the Phoenician region. The Mycenaeans are one of the nomadic peoples that ruled the Egyptian Empire. Because the Pharaoh Kamose of the South Egyptians began to rebel against foreign rulers, Acrisius led the Mycenaeans to leave the Egyptian Empire, first to Crete, and finally to the Argos region of the Peloponnese."

Although Procne and Philomela were confused and seemed to understand Roy's words, they had blind admiration and trust in Roy.

So after Roy finished speaking, Philomela smiled brightly and said

"Since Brother Roy said yes, the Kingdom of Athens will definitely be able to defeat those kingdoms and empires. When the Kingdom of Athens becomes the greatest empire in the world, Brother Roy will be the greatest king in the world, and my sister and I will be the greatest queen in the world."

Just when Roy wanted to bite Procne and Philomela's lips to reward them for their trust, Pallas suddenly entered the hall and said.

"Your Majesty, I have good news for you."

Roy said with an unhappy expression after being interrupted by Pallas.

"You'd better bring good news, otherwise I will arrange a hard job for you."

Although he didn't know what he had done to make Roy unhappy, Pallas still said hurriedly.

"Princess Io sent someone to tell me that her communication with Goddess Hestia was very smooth, and you can go to receive Goddess Hestia's blessing and divine power at any time."