I was a priest in the city-state era

For several days at sea, neither Roy nor Procne could get a good sleep.

Inside the guest room at this time.

Roy and Procne lay hugging each other on the stone bed, and they soon fell asleep.

I don’t know how much time passed——

Deucalion's voice suddenly sounded outside the room and said.

"Roy! Can I come into your room?"

Roy immediately woke up from his light sleep and made sure that Procne's clothes were not unintentionally opened by him. Roy then looked at the door and said.

"Deucalion, you may come in."

Deucalion opened the door and saw Roy and Procne lying on the bed, and immediately said with an awkward smile.

"Did I interrupt your good business?"

Roy said while gently pushing Procne awake in his arms.

"We were just taking a regular nap."

"Hey...brother Roy, let me sleep a little longer..."

Procne woke up in a daze, opened her eyes and saw Deucalion at the door of the room. Procne immediately covered her blushing face.

"It seems that my princess was asleep and thought she was at home."

After Loy teased Procne, Deucalion walked into the room and said with a smile.

"Our guest room can make you feel like you are at home. This is what we want. Dear Roy! I have told my father about you. Unfortunately, my father does not pay attention to you and the city of Athens, so my father asked me to After the Spring Plowing Ceremony, we will arrange for you to meet your father alone."

Roy was not disappointed when he heard Deucalion's words.

After all, to King Minos of Knossos, the city of Athens was just a new city-state that had suddenly risen in recent times.

It is abnormal for Minos to attach great importance to the city of Athens without seeing the power of the city of Athens with his own eyes like Deucalion.

"As guests, we must abide by the host's arrangements. We have no dissatisfaction with meeting King Minos after the Spring Plowing Ceremony."

Roy finished speaking with a sincere expression, and Deucalion said with a serious expression.

"Loy! When my father understands the strength of the city of Athens, he will definitely pay attention to the city of Athens. Now I have prepared a banquet to welcome you. Please go to my palace with Princess Procne!"

Roy and Procne followed Deucalion out of the room and saw Pandora already standing in the corridor waiting.

"Dear Pandora, I've kept you waiting for so long."

Deucalion walked up to Pandora and stretched out his left hand to hold Pandora in his arms.

Pandora turned around deftly to avoid Deucalion, then walked to Roy and hugged Procne's waist and said.

"Deucalion, you promised not to offend me rudely."

"I just want to have a further relationship with you as my fiancé."

Deucalion said with a wry smile.

"As an unmarried couple, Roy and Princess Procne can sleep on the same bed, but you don't even want me to touch them."

"I'm different from human girls, you know that."

Looking at Pandora's beautiful expressionless face, Deucalion could only helplessly say to Roy.

"Roy, now I will take you to the banquet."

Roy walked up to Deucalion and asked curiously after walking alongside him.

"Deucalion, you and Princess Pandora want to entertain us together?"

Deucalion shook his head and said.

"Pandora is also a guest I entertain. The guests I want to welcome at my banquet are not just you and Princess Procne, but also princes and princesses from other city-states."

As the prince of the city of Knossos, and also the heir to the throne - the next Minos [Minotaur], Deucalion certainly had a palace dedicated to him in the palace.

Roy, Procne, and Pandora followed Deucalion to his palace, and saw a dozen princes and a dozen princesses sitting on the left and right sides of the palace hall lit by bronze oil lamps. both sides.

Pandora took Procne to the blanket where the princesses were kneeling, and Deucalion also took Loy to join a dozen princes.

"Friends, I have brought my last two guests."

Hearing Deucalion's voice, the dozen or so princes who were sitting together chatting and laughing immediately focused their attention on Roy.

"Perseus——"

Seeing that there was Perseus among the dozen princes, Roy immediately called out his name in surprise.

"Loy——"

Perseus frowned immediately when he saw Roy, and anger flashed in his eyes.

A prince said with a smile as he saw Roy and Perseus calling each other's names.

"Perseus, do you know this new friend?"

"Of course I know him."

Perseus said with a sneer.

"He is not a prince like us, he is just a priest serving the temple."

After hearing Perseus' words, the princes all looked at Roy with contempt or disdain.

Because they are all real princes, they also think that only princes with the same status can sit with them.

"Perseus, why don't you finish what you have to say!"

Roy said with a teasing smile.

"I am an enemy who killed your father and uncle and gave your mother and sisters to other men. Have you forgotten the shame I left you?"

Hearing what Roy said loudly, not only the princes, but also the princesses next to them couldn't help but scream.

Although these princes and princesses did not know Roy and Procne, they knew Perseus.

Perseus' parents were only the king and queen who ruled the island of Seriphos, but Perseus' grandfather was the powerful Mycenean king Acrisius.

How powerful was Roy to dare to kill Perseus' father and uncle and give Perseus' mother, the daughter of the powerful Mycenean king, as a trophy.

Perseus said angrily when Roy exposed his unwilling shame in public.

"Roy! You won't be proud for too long."

"If you want revenge, you have to act quickly. We will soon have 1,700 soldiers in Athens for the expedition. If you delay too long, I will have to gather 3,000 soldiers to attack Mycenae."

1,700 soldiers -

3,000 soldiers -

Hearing the astonishing number Roy said, the princes and princesses looked in awe and never dared to underestimate Roy and Procne again.

Because they were vassal forces of Knossos, their own city-state could only provide a thousand soldiers at most.

Deucalion and Perseus, who had been to Athens in person, looked at Roy with doubtful eyes, not understanding how Athens could provide 1,700 or even 3,000 soldiers.

Procne also looked at Roy with doubt.

Roy's brother said he would recruit 3,000 soldiers. Was he trying to intimidate Perseus?

Procne didn't know that Harmonia, the priestess of the Theban tribe, was also Roy's fiancée.

As long as 1,700 soldiers were recruited from all the population controlled by Athens, plus Harmonia's soldiers, the 3,000 troops Roy mentioned could be gathered.