Chapter 386 A Crushing Victory

As the goddess of orchards, Venus has the power to make orchards harvest well.

When celebrating Venus's festival, orchard workers can also take a holiday to rest.

However, the number of Venus's followers - orchard workers, is probably not much more than that of fishermen who worship Neptune, the god of the sea.

Later, Venus was confused with Aphrodite and became the goddess of love and beauty. Only then did Venus become a powerful goddess with wide popularity.

Diana, the goddess of oak -

is also a god of faith who can tell how weak she is just by looking at her godhood.

Later, Diana was confused with Artemis, the goddess of hunting, and Selene, the goddess of the moon. Only then did she become a powerful goddess with wide popularity by relying on the identities of the moon and hunting goddesses.

Although Neptune, Vesta, Venus, Janus, and Diana are not powerful patron gods now, but a group of gods of faith who rely on human faith to survive, there are five of them after all.

These five gods attack Persephone together, which is enough to interfere with the battle of gods between Persephone and Mars.

As Vesta, the goddess of the hearth, attacked Persephone with fire, Janus, the god of the door, also created a huge door panel to smash Persephone.

Neptune, the god of the sea, created a huge water snake to rush towards Persephone, and Venus, the goddess of the orchard, and Diana, the goddess of the oak, used their divine power to create green vines to entangle Persephone's body.

Under the interference of these five gods, Persephone immediately lost the initiative to attack Mars.

Mars seized this opportunity and wielded a stone spear to attack Persephone fiercely.

Seeing Persephone in a state of embarrassment under the siege of Mars and the five gods, Roy immediately summoned other goddesses.

"Great goddess Hera, please help us win this war."

With Roy's call, goddess Hera descended from the sky with a huge figure of a thousand meters in height.

After Hera came, she did not help Persephone immediately.

"Dear Persephone, do you want my help?"

"Hera, just tell me what you want!"

Persephone said impatiently.

"As long as your request is not too much, I will definitely agree to it."

"Then I will tell you directly."

Hera said with a smile.

"I know Roy promised to give you 200,000 square kilometers of territory, but the area of ​​the Apennine Peninsula is 250,000 square kilometers. I think the Apennine Peninsula can be divided into two. You get the 200,000 square kilometers that Roy promised to give you, and I get the remaining 50,000 square kilometers. We, a pair of good sisters, can continue to be neighbors on the Apennine Peninsula."

"You guy——"

Persephone originally regarded the entire Apennine Peninsula as her territory.

Hearing Hera's request, Persephone could only say helplessly.

"Since you want to be my neighbor so much, what reason do I have to oppose your request."

Seeing Persephone accept her request, Hera immediately summoned a black magic gun and swung the gun blade to sweep at Neptune, Venus, Vesta, Diana and Janus.

Because there was a huge gap in strength between the two sides, Hera attacked the five gods of faith like an adult attacking a child.

Neptune, Venus, Vesta, Diana, and Janus could only retreat and dodge in the face of the blade attack of the black divine spear.

Persephone and Mars returned to a one-on-one battle, and Mars was suppressed by Persephone again.

"Mars! If you, the damn guy, hadn't resisted stubbornly, Hera would have had no chance to make demands on me. I could have regarded the entire Apennine Peninsula as my territory. Because of your resistance, I lost 50,000 square kilometers of territory. Now you have to bear my anger!"

The war between the gods turned into Persephone and Hera beating Mars and Neptune, Venus, Vesta, Diana, and Janus.

The war between humans was also the Athenian soldiers beating the Latin coalition like a crushing blow.

When the Latins realized that their wooden and stone spears could hardly break through the defense of paper armor and wooden shields to stab the Athenian soldiers, and the iron spears of the Athenian soldiers could easily tear their bodies apart, the Latins' fighting spirit completely collapsed.

Because this was a completely asymmetric war.

If the Latins fought to the death, the result would only be that they sacrificed themselves in vain.

Since the sacrifice of fighting to the death would not have any value, fleeing the battlefield became a natural result.

After the Latin coalition fled, Roy led the Athenian soldiers into the Lazio region to hunt down the main force of the coalition led by Tullenus.

By nightfall, 3,000 Latin coalition soldiers were captured, 4,000 Latin coalition soldiers fled in all directions, and 2,000 Latin coalition soldiers became corpses.

Tullenus, the commander of the Latin coalition, fled back to the Roman Plain with only 1,000 soldiers.

Roy won a great victory in the war of humans, and Persephone and Hera also won a great victory in the war of gods.

The next day.

Roy left 1,000 soldiers to manage the prisoners, and then continued to hunt down Tullenus with 4,000 soldiers.

Under Roy's continuous pursuit, Tullenus, who had fled back to the Roman Campagna, could only flee north to the Etruscan territory.

After confirming that Tullenus had entered the Etruscan territory, Roy did not enter the Etruscan territory to hunt Tullenus.

Because the Etruscans were the largest ethnic group on the Apennine Peninsula, their number was likely to be 500,000.

According to the conscription ratio of 10 to 1, the Etruscans could at least muster 50,000 troops.

Even if Roy had confidence in his soldiers, he did not want to use 5,000 soldiers to fight against the 50,000 Etruscan army.

Roman plain.

Tulenus tribe.

Due to the defeat of the Latin coalition, Roy almost took control of the Tulenus tribe without any bloodshed, and captured Tulenus' family.

The Stone House of Tullenus.

Loy sat on the throne of the leader that originally belonged to Turenus. Turenus's wife, son, and daughter all knelt in front of Loy.

Looking at Turenus' family members, Roy asked with confusion.

"How strange! Tulenus obviously had enough time to escape with you, why did he want to keep his family behind?"

The wife of Turenus seemed to be a very proud wife of the chief.

She looked up and looked directly at Roy and said.

"I don't know what you foreigners are like, but to the Latins, if my husband Tulenus escapes with his family, then Tulenus will no longer be the leader of the Latins. He can only leave his family behind. , to prove that Turenus still has the will to fight the enemy to the end even if he escapes."

"In other words, Turenus left his family behind to prove that he would fight me to the end."

Roy said with a joking smile.

"Isn't Turrenus worried that I will kill you or humiliate his wife and daughter? It seems that for Turrenus, the identity of the leader is more important than his own family. Turrenus' home People, I intend to gather all the members of the Tulenus tribe and make you swear to join the Athenian Empire in front of everyone. As long as you obey, your safety will be protected by the laws of the Athenian Empire. If you refuse, Then I will demote you as slaves.”