Chapter 391 Quirinus and Goddess Luna

Because the Athenians did not attack Apulia, Metius did not summon the Sabines in Apulia and Abruzzo.

But Metius's tribe had been preparing for a possible war.

Upon learning that the Athenians had invaded Apulia, Metius immediately summoned 3,000 soldiers from his own tribe and called for reinforcements from the surrounding Sabine tribes.

When Roy and Caesar came to the Bari tribe with 5,000 troops, Bari already had a coalition of 6,000 Sabines.

And unlike the exhausted Athenian soldiers after the forced march, the Sabine coalition was completely in a state of rest and waiting for the fatigue.

After the Athenian soldiers entered the Bari Plain, Metius took the initiative to attack with the Sabine coalition.

The war broke out hastily, and although the exhausted Athenian soldiers had the advantage of weapons, they did not unilaterally crush the Sabine coalition.

Because Metius knew that the Athenians had powerful black iron weapons, he formulated a strategy of defense.

As long as the Sabine coalition forces exhausted the exhausted Athenian soldiers, victory would belong to the Sabines who used wooden and stone spears.

Roy was now a bystander in this war, and the task of fighting Metius, the commander of the Sabine coalition forces, fell on Caesar.

Caesar wielded an iron spear and fought with Metius, who was holding a bronze spear, and then he realized that he had underestimated Metius's strength and overestimated his own strength.

When fighting with Roy, Caesar could always see Roy easily defeat the enemy leader.

Now that Caesar was fighting with the enemy leader himself, he realized that there was an essential gap between him and Metius.

As the favorite of Quirinus, the patron saint of the Sabines, Metius was a great hero [Enemy of a Thousand] who was blessed and blessed by Quirinus.

Even though Metius was a middle-aged man over 40 years old, his strength had begun to decline from a great hero [Enemy of a Thousand] to a hero-level [Enemy of a Hundred], and the young Caesar still had a huge gap in strength with him.

Just when Caesar was about to be defeated by Metius's precise and skillful fierce attack, the goddess Hera took the initiative to descend on the battlefield and used her divine power to eliminate fatigue and boost morale for the Athenian soldiers.

Under the suppression of the goddess Hera's divine power, Metius's strength declined to the heroic level [100 enemies], so Caesar was not immediately defeated by Metius.

"Foreign gods, leave my territory immediately."

Accompanied by an angry warning, the Sabines' patron saint Quirinus also descended on the battlefield.

The two gods confronted each other with their huge bodies that were a thousand meters tall. The goddess Hera summoned the black divine spear as a weapon, and Quirinus' weapon was a huge wooden stick.

"You should leave!"

The goddess Hera looked at Quirinus, who looked like a barbarian, with pride and confidence and sneered.

"I have set my eyes on the fertile and rich Apulian Plain and want to make it my territory. If you don't want to be seriously injured or even destroyed by me, leave here and find a new home."

"You robber goddess, do you really think you can defeat me?"

Quirinus waved his stick angrily and attacked Hera.

Hera dodged Quirinus's attack with ease and looked for Quirinus's flaws.

In another world, the god of war Quirinus is not only the patron saint of the Sabines, but also one of the three main gods of the Apennine Peninsula.

When Romulus, the first king of Rome, was deified, he was also deified as Romulus Quirinus, not Romulus Mars.

This is because Quirinus is the real god of war in the Apennine Peninsula.

Until the Latins surpassed the Sabines in strength, Mars, the god of agriculture who protected the Latins, replaced Quirinus as the god of war.

In addition to the Latin patron saint Mars being confused with Quirinus and eventually replacing Quirinus as the god of war, even the door god Janus was confused with Quirinus and became Janus Quirinus.

When the Etruscans dominated the Apennine Peninsula, the Etruscan sun god Jupiter, the moon goddess Minerva, and Jupiter's spouse Juno became the new three main gods, and Quirinus and Mars were squeezed out of the list of the three main gods.

However, the Latin patron saint Mars can still stay in the list of the twelve main gods as the son of Jupiter, symbolizing that the Latins, as conquered, are like the sons of the Etruscans.

Quirinus, however, was unable to squeeze into the list of the twelve main gods because the Sabines completely declined.

At this time on the battlefield, the war between humans was in a stalemate.

In the war between gods, Hera quickly seized the opportunity to launch a swift counterattack.

Under the attack of the black spear blade, Quirinus could only keep retreating to avoid the attack.

Hera kept wielding the black lance and chasing after Quirinus, not giving Quirinus any chance to breathe.

Because Quirinus's divine power was very strong.

Although Hera had the advantage in weapons, if she fought a war of attrition with Quirinus, the result would definitely be that Hera would lose to Quirinus.

Quirinus also knew that a war of attrition would be more beneficial to him. Facing Hera's fierce attack, Quirinus was not in a hurry to fight with Hera.

"Quirinus, are you still the god of war of the Sabines? Only warriors who fight bravely can be considered gods of war. I think you should be a god of agriculture like Mars."

Facing Hera's provocation, Quirinus smiled and said indifferently.

"You want me to be a reckless man? An alien god! The God of War is not only about fighting bravely and fearlessly, but also relying on wisdom to use tactics and strategies. Only the God of War who ensures victory will always be worshiped by humans. He can only initiate The god of war who cannot guarantee victory in battle will eventually be abandoned by mankind."

"It's so smart that it's annoying!"

"It seems you already know that you can't defeat me in this war."

At this moment, a beautiful silver-haired goddess descended on the battlefield with a figure of a hundred meters tall.

"Luna!"

Seeing the silver-haired goddess, Quirinus took the initiative and said.

"Are you here to help me? If you help me drive away the foreign gods, I will let the Sabines worship you and make you my subordinate god."

Moon goddess Luna——

Although she is the oldest and most orthodox moon goddess in the Apennine Peninsula, she is not even included in the list of the twelve main gods.

After all, there is no worship of the sun god in the Apennine Peninsula, and certainly no worship of the moon god.

Although the Caucasus nomads brought the worship of the sun god Jupiter to the Apennines after they conquered the Etruscans, they also brought the worship of the moon goddess Minerva.

In the history of another world, the moon goddess Luna could only be reduced to becoming brother and sister gods with the sun god Thor from Syria.

In this era, although the Caucasus nomads brought the worship of the sun god and the moon god to the Apennine Peninsula, the moon goddess Luna, like Vesta, Neptune, Janus, Diana, and Venus, relied on A small number of wandering gods whose faith barely survives.

Neither the Latins nor the Sicurs, Sabines, or Etruscans regarded them as patron saints or subordinate gods of patron saints.

After hearing Quirinus' promise, the moon goddess Luna immediately summoned a wooden spear with her right hand.

Seeing Luna trying to attack Hera with a wooden spear, Roy just hesitated for a moment and prepared to stop Luna's attack.