Chapter 344 Phyllis Becomes a Prisoner

If this was a one-on-one battle between Roy and Aeetes, Roy would definitely defeat Aeetes with his own strength and prove that he was stronger than Aeetes.

But this was not a duel between Roy and Aeetes, but a war between the Kingdom of Athens and the Sun Tribe.

The victory of this war was more important than Roy's victory alone.

Hippolyta was obviously not a pedantic fool. After hearing Roy's request, Hippolyta immediately attacked Aeetes with Roy one after the other.

"You two——"

Faced with the situation of being two-on-one by Roy and Hippolyta, although Aeetes' angry eyes seemed to be able to spit fire, he still rationally retreated to avoid the attacks of Roy and Hippolyta.

One step, two steps, three steps——

Under the attack of Roy and Hippolyta, Aeetes retreated more and more.

In the end, Aeetes decisively chose to flee the battlefield and escape from Roy and Hippolyta at the fastest speed.

Seeing Aeetes escape, Roy did not choose to chase Aeetes immediately.

Because Roy knew that after Aeetes was killed, the Amazon tribe would likely replace the Sun tribe and become the most powerful tribe in Thrace.

Hippolyta would become the Queen of Thrace from the Queen of Amazon, and the moon goddess Bendis would also replace the Sun God Helios and become the Queen of the Gods in Thrace.

When the Kingdom of Athens conquers Thrace in the future, the Amazon tribe may become a more powerful enemy than the Sun Tribe.

Roy hesitated for just a moment and decided to kill Aeetes.

Because Roy would rather let Hippolyta become the biggest enemy of the Kingdom of Athens in Thrace, and did not want to fight Aeetes again, who had more combat experience than himself.

"Queen Hippolyta, this is our best chance to kill Aeetes, don't miss this opportunity."

"I understand!"

Roy and Hippolyta began to chase Aeetes, and the distance between them and Aeetes was getting closer and closer.

Just when Roy was about to catch up with Aeetes, a beautiful blonde girl riding a white horse blocked Roy and said coldly.

"You have already won the war, do you still want to kill my father?"

"You——"

Blocked by the blonde girl, Roy could only watch Aeetes' figure getting farther and farther away.

Helplessly giving up the idea of ​​chasing Aeetes, Roy walked up to the blonde girl with a fierce expression and said.

"Are you the daughter of Aeetes? Since you are hindering us to protect your father, then you will become my prisoner!"

After saying that, Roy grabbed the blonde girl's arm with his left hand and pulled her off the horse.

"Oh——"

Amid the blonde girl's screams, Roy caught the blonde girl with his left shoulder and carried her on his shoulders.

"You are Phyllis!"

Hippolyta came to Roy at this time and said to Phyllis on Roy's shoulder.

"King of Athens, I know Phyllis. When we met in the past, she called me sister. This is our war with Aeetes, so please let Phyllis go!"

Hearing Hippolyta's request, Roy refused without hesitation.

"No! This girl is my captive, and I want her to be my only trophy."

"Hey--"

Hippolyta said with wide eyes in surprise.

"You don't want to propose to me, but you like Phyllis's beauty?"

Now the Kingdom of Athens and the Amazon tribe are allies.

Normally, Roy should not refuse Hippolyta's request for a captive.

The only reasonable explanation for Roy's rejection of Hippolyta's request for Phyllis is that Roy likes Phyllis's beauty.

"Hippolyta, you misunderstood."

Roy explained with a smile.

"I refuse to release Phyllis because according to the rules of war, I can use Phyllis to ask Aeetes for a ransom."

"How much ransom do you plan to ask for?"

"Ten thousand war horses!"

Hearing Roy's answer, Phyllis on Roy's shoulder immediately hit Roy's back with her little fist and said.

"Are you crazy? You actually want my father to redeem my freedom with ten thousand war horses. I don't think you want to return me to my father at all. Because my father can't destroy the foundation of the Sun Tribe and exchange ten thousand war horses for my freedom."

"You are really too much!"

Feeling that Phyllis's two little fists were like tickling him, Roy said innocently.

"I am very sincere. If your father can't take out ten thousand war horses as a ransom at once, he can pay it in installments over ten years. After ten years, I will return you to Aeetes."

"Ten years--"

Hippolyta said with a wry smile.

"Ten years later, when you return Phyllis to Aeetes, will she still be an unmarried girl? Even if you don't do anything to hurt Phyllis, how can you make up for the ten years of youth she lost? If Phyllis is held captive by your side for ten years, her life will be ruined."

"Hippolyta..."

Roy looked at Hippolyta in surprise and said.

"Do you sympathize with Phyllis so much because you share the same suffering, or because you regard her as a sister?"

Hippolyta looked at Phyllis and said.

"We are both girls. The tragic fate of Phyllis becoming a captive today may fall on me one day in the future."

As Hippolyta spoke, the horn of the Sun Tribe suddenly sounded on the battlefield.

This is the horn of retreat.

Hearing the horn, the knights of the Sun Tribe fled from the battlefield.

Apparently, as Aeetes fled the battlefield, the morale of the knights of the Sun Tribe had already collapsed.

After the war of mankind ended, the war between the gods of Athens and the goddess Bendis and the gods of Thracian also ended at the same time.

After all the knights of the Sun Tribe left the battlefield, more than 2,000 bodies were left on the battlefield.

Half of these bodies belonged to the Amazon tribe, and half belonged to the Sun Tribe.

Although more than 200 of Roy's iron spearmen were injured, no one was killed.

"The war is over!"

Roy glanced at the battlefield and said to Hippolyta.

"Queen Hippolyta, now I want to tell you my real purpose. I am not going to use Phyllis to ask Aeetes for 10,000 war horses as a ransom, but to use Phyllis to make Aeetes reach a truce agreement with us and accept our compensation request."

"You mean-"

After understanding Roy's intention, Hippolyta immediately put away her sympathy for Phyllis and looked at Phyllis with burning eyes.

"You are right. We can use Phyllis to make Aeetes accept our demands. If Aeetes cherishes his daughter, we can end the war with the Sun Tribe after this battle, and let the Sun Tribe cede the territory and five large tribes in the west of the Sea of ​​Marmara to our Amazon Tribe. I was really stupid to ask you to let Phyllis go."

"You want to use me to make my father accept your demands - I will never let you succeed even if I die."

"Phyllis, don't do stupid things."

Seeing that Phyllis had suicidal thoughts, Hippolyta persuaded her.

"You have seen that the Sun Tribe cannot defeat the coalition forces of our Amazon Tribe and the Kingdom of Athens. Ending this war now is also what your Sun Tribe needs."