Chapter 239: Royal Power Can Also Overwhelm Divine Power

After Roy made his decision, he first went outside the hall and said to the Egyptian merchant standing in the courtyard.

"Egyptian! You can leave Athens now and go back to tell King Cepheus of Egypt that I will not be his mercenary for food."

Hearing Roy's words, the Egyptian merchant first bowed his head to Roy, and then quickly left Roy's palace.

When the Egyptian merchant walked out of the palace, Roy also left the palace and went to the Temple of Metis.

Temple Square.

Roy came to the statue of Metis in the center of the square, looked up at the face of the statue of Metis and said.

"Great goddess Metis, now I have something important to discuss with you."

After Roy finished speaking, the statue of Metis immediately burst into dazzling blue light.

When the blue light disappeared, the statue of Metis in front of Roy turned into the goddess Metis herself.

Metis lowered her head and looked at Roy, asking expressionlessly.

"What's the important thing you're talking about?"

"I'm not used to talking to you with my head up like this."

Roy said with a smile.

"Goddess Metis, can you become smaller?"

"How dare you make such an impolite request to me--"

Metis showed an angry expression on her face, and Roy said fearlessly.

"Are you unwilling to meet even this small request? You should know that you are not the only patron saint of the Kingdom of Athens. I can choose to let the more ancient and authoritative goddesses Mnemosyne and Amphitrite replace you. If I let Hestia, who has become a wandering god, replace you as the patron saint of Athens, even if I make more excessive requests, Hestia will be happy to meet me."

Metis took a deep breath to suppress the anger in her heart, and then her body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a human girl about seventeen years old in front of Roy.

"Are you satisfied with this?"

Roy looked at Metis with a level gaze, nodded and said.

"Metis, you should always meet me in this posture in the future! Now I will tell you something important. Athens needs to obtain food from other regions to feed the increased population during this period. This is something you also know. Recently, the Egyptian king Cepheus banned the export of Egyptian grain, and the food that Athens can buy has been reduced by more than half. In order to solve the food problem in Athens, I plan to go to Sais, a coastal city in Egypt, to rob food."

After a pause, seeing that Metis did not respond, Roy could not help but say.

"Dear Metis, you are really worthy of being a new goddess. Don't you find that your opportunity to become stronger has come? There is a patron goddess named Knight in Sais. When I lead the Athenian soldiers to conquer Sais and occupy the temple of goddess Knight, you can also take goddess Knight as a trophy and plunder her divinity!"

After being reminded by Roy, Metis's eyes immediately lit up, and a strong fighting spirit emerged in her beautiful blue eyes.

"You're right! Under normal circumstances, it would take me hundreds or even thousands of years to copy the godhood of other gods and have the same godhood and attributes as other gods. But by plundering the godhood of other gods through war, I can directly obtain the godhood and attributes of other gods. As long as we conquer Sais, not only you Athenians can take rich spoils from Sais, but I can also take spoils belonging to the gods from Knight."

Looking at Metis's reaction, Roy walked up to Metis boldly and looked into her eyes at close range.

"Now that you know I'm going to start a war that will give you more godhood and attributes, are you still angry at my rudeness?"

Metis said with a faint smile.

"In view of the contribution you are about to make for me, I am willing to forgive you and will consider meeting your request."

"Then can you consider accepting my love and becoming my wife?"

"Let's talk about it in our sleep!"

Metis said coldly.

"Roy, if you were an incompetent king and couldn't let me continue to improve my power as a patron saint, I would have turned you into a corpse long ago. I really don't understand why you keep pestering me to accept your love when I don't love you?"

"Perhaps it's because you keep rejecting me that my desire to get you becomes stronger and stronger."

Roy thought for a while and said.

"I wanted to pursue you in the beginning to share your immortality and divine power. Now there are many goddesses that I can target, but you are the goddess I want to pursue the most. Metis! Before my patience in pursuing you runs out, you should really consider accepting my pursuit. Some things will only be cherished after they are lost. Maybe when I don't want to pursue you anymore, you will chase your husband to the crematorium."

"How ridiculous! How could I fall in love with a human man?"

Metis said confidently.

"When your funeral is held, I will attend your funeral for your contribution. If you have the potential to become a heroic god at that time, I will help you become a god after death, but I will never have anything to do with the words [chasing husband]. Because I want to be a virgin goddess who is forever holy. I will neither degenerate nor let any man blaspheme me."

After listening to Metis' words, Roy couldn't help but think of a sentence - those who are pampered are fearless.

If Metis loses the throne of the patron saint and becomes a downtrodden wandering goddess who is beaten by the cruel reality for a few years, she will definitely let go of the pride of the goddess.

In this world where gods really exist, when the divine power is strong, the gods are of course the strong party.

But when the royal power is stronger, the royal power can also overwhelm the divine power.

For example, Roy's Kingdom of Athens includes the Attica Peninsula, the Thebes region, Eubia Island, the Corinth region, and the Crete Island. Metis is only the patron saint of the Attica Peninsula among these five regions, and she is a new god who has only been the patron saint for less than three months. In this case, Roy's royal power is of course stronger than Metis's divine power.

If Roy wants other goddesses to replace Metis as the patron saint of Athens, there will be almost no resistance.

Even if Metis wants to punish Roy with divine punishment, there will be other patron saints of the Kingdom of Athens to stop Metis.

The Mycenaeans conquered the Argos region and Arcadia region, and worshipped Zeus as the supreme god of the two regions. Other gods must become subordinate gods of Zeus, and Zeus has accumulated authority for thousands of years - in this case, of course, Zeus's divine power overwhelms the royal power.

If the King of Mycenae wanted to challenge the authority of Zeus, even if Zeus punished him, no other gods would protect him.

Because in the areas ruled by the Mycenaeans, other gods had become subordinate gods of Zeus.

Gods who did not want to submit to Zeus would be driven away by the Mycenaeans and become wandering gods.

"Metis..."

Roy did not want to do anything to hurt Metis, so he could only say helplessly.

"Tomorrow I will lead the fleet to the expedition, and you will go to the eastern Mediterranean with us. If you stay in the Athenian waters, you may not hear my call, and even if you hear it, you will not be able to get to the battlefield in time."