Chapter 230 Conquest and Domination Are Two Different Things

Kythira Island.

This is a dry land island across the sea from Sparta in the southern Peloponnese Peninsula. The island is hilly and lacks a natural port.

Although the island covers an area of ​​about 280 square kilometers, it only produces a small amount of wheat, barley, grapes, olives and olive oil, so the island's permanent population is only a few thousand people.

The island of Cythera is very close to the Spartan region, but the patron saint here is not Hera.

Because the Phoenicians turned Kythera into a colony during the Age of Discovery, the goddess Astarte [Aphrodite] brought by the Phoenicians was the real owner of the island.

In the long historical evolution, the Spartan goddess Hera broke away from the snake goddess worship of the Greek indigenous people and became a sky god, animal husbandry god, and navigation protector similar to Astarte [Aphrodite]. It is the result of long-term influence from Aphrodite.

At this time, in a port on the island of Cythera, the coalition fleets of Sparta and Thenaron were anchored.

When the morning sun rising in the east illuminated the world with infinite light, the Spartan King Pererieus walked out of the cabin and saw that the storm covering the entire sea of ​​Scylla had disappeared, and his heart immediately rekindled the will to fight.

At this moment, Hera's voice sounded in Perierius's ears.

"Perieres, stop the war with the Donians. Now that the city of Donia has become part of the Kingdom of Athens, it is not a powerful enemy you can defeat."

"Goddess Hera——"

After hearing Hera's request, Perierius said with a complicated expression.

"Even if I am willing to stop the war, will the Donians - King Loy of Athens be willing to end the war?"

"King Loy of Athens has agreed to end the war."

Hera has accumulated authority in the Spartan region for hundreds of years, and is the only patron saint of the Spartan region. As the highest priest serving Hera, the Spartan king Perieres naturally did not dare to question Hera's words. .

After conveying the oracle to Perieres, Hera was about to return to Sparta from the island of Cythera when a familiar voice suddenly said.

"Dear sister, when you come to my territory, why don't you say hello to me?"

Hera stopped vibrating her wings high in the air, turned her head and looked at the Temple of Aphrodite on the island of Kythira, and saw Aphrodite appearing above the Temple of Aphrodite with a height of 100 meters. .

"Aphrodite, do you want to start a war with me?"

Hera flew to Aphrodite and said coldly.

"How dare you call yourself my sister? Do you think I dare not let the Spartans conquer the island of Cythera and prevent you from establishing a foothold on the island?"

"What a heartless guy. You don't even think about whose credit it is for you to become what you are now."

Aphrodite teased with a playful look.

"The current Greek natives belonged to the same ethnic group 1,500 years ago. So from the Pylos region in the southern part of the Peloponnese Peninsula to the Thebes region in the north, these Greek natives all worshiped Mo Snake goddesses like Nemosyne, Metis, Amphitrite, and Persephone. Because Artemis has lived in the mountains and forests for a long time, her form evolved into the most powerful beasts in the mountains and forests. You will become a winged dragon that is different from your sisters. This is all due to me!"

After listening to Aphrodite's words, Hera sneered and said.

"Aphrodite, I don't deny that I have absorbed and reproduced your godhead, but aren't the many godheads you possess also absorbed from Ishtar in the Mesopotamia and the lion goddess in Egypt? Will you take the initiative to come to Ishtar and those lion goddesses and regard them as your dear sisters? If you can't do this, don't provoke me in front of me. I’m not interested in being your sister either.”

After saying that, Hera flapped her wings and turned into a white stream of light and flew towards the Sparta area.

Looking at Hera's retreating figure, Aphrodite said with a complicated expression.

"Although I have no interest in being someone else's sister, I really want to be your sister."

Donia City.

Pandora's Temple in the Royal Palace.

Roy and Pandora entered the temple and saw that the throne in the depths of the temple was empty. Pandora's human body was lying next to the throne and was being taken care of by three female priests who served the goddess Pandora.

When Pandora walked to the throne and was about to let her soul return to the human body, Roy couldn't help but say.

"Pandora, why do you want to return to a human body?"

Pandora said to Roy with a smile.

"Dear, have you forgotten that gods cannot directly interfere with humans? If I don't use this human body, but use the god's body to disguise myself as a human, every minute and every second I spend pretending to be human will consume my divine power."

After the explanation, Pandora's soul separated from the divine body and returned to the human body. Pandora's divine body turned into a statue on the throne.

Roy and Pandora, who had turned back into humans, left the temple and came to the hall, where they saw Navy Commander Gortis reporting the news to Radamandis.

After seeing Roy and Pandora, Gortis said in panic.

"Your Majesty Roy, are you really still alive? If this is your undead appearing in front of me, please forgive me for abandoning you in order to save more soldiers."

"Gortis, you thought I died in the storm?"

Seeing Gortis's reaction, Roy said jokingly.

"The people in front of you are not undead. I did not die in yesterday's storm, and I will not blame you for abandoning me and running for my life. After all, if you encounter a storm in the sea, if you don't escape in time, not only may the entire army be annihilated, but you will not be able to save me. I."

Then, Roy looked at Radamandis and said.

"Radamandis, our war with the Spartans is over, you are ready to leave the city of Donia with me."

"Are we leaving like this?"

Radamandis said with a dissatisfied expression.

"You asked Pandora to stay and rule the city of Donia. Shouldn't you first deal with the biggest threat to the city of Donia - the city of Knossos?"

Roy rolled his eyes and said after hearing Radamandis's request.

"Radamandis, with my ability, not to mention conquering the city of Knossos and unifying Crete, I can even turn the Mediterranean Sea into my inner lake in five to ten years. But Conquest and rule are two different things. Conquering the city of Knossos is very simple. How do I manage and establish rule? Now I haven't even solved the food problem in Athens. Come and provide me with food and let me feed the people. Vankenosos, make them my subjects?"

Roy knew very clearly that the status of the Aegean Sea trade hub was transferred from the city of Knossos to the city of Athens. The overly large population of Knossos would become a huge burden.

Now Roy is not going to conquer the city of Knossos. The food problem of the city of Knossos is solved by Minos.

If Loy conquered the city of Knossos, the city would become part of the Kingdom of Athens, and the pressure to provide food for the Knossos people would fall on Loy.

The rulers of this era may be able to ignore the life and death of civilians, and even solve the problem by selling civilians without food as slaves.

But Roy is a person who has received a civilized education and will naturally not use these methods to solve problems.