I was a priest in the city-state era

"The power I lent you is limited!"

Just as Roy was about to leave, Metis suddenly said.

"The power I gave you can only allow you to use the power of [Salting] to salt a person's body. If the other person has divine power like you, he can use his divine power to offset the divine power of [Salting]."

Seeing Roy's panic, Metis continued.

"Human! If you cherish your life, then act carefully and don't fail."

After speaking, Metis's body began to rise backwards.

She didn't look like she was standing up, but more like she was held up by something.

When Metis's body rose to about ten meters, she turned and entered the sea--

Roy only then saw that under Metis's blue dress were not legs like humans, but a snake body with blue scales.

"Snake..."

Watching Metis's body slowly sinking under the sea, Roy finally understood at this time that Metis's true form was the huge sea snake he had seen before.

"The snake goddess whose body is a snake... This is the goddess Metis..."

Although as a man, he was moved by the incredible beauty of Metis, Roy now completely abandoned the wrong thoughts and calmed his mind.

Leaving the beach and coming to a small hill 20 meters high, Roy looked around and saw many human houses on a huge hill in the distance. Roy immediately confirmed that it was where the people of the Athens tribe lived.

When Roy walked down the hill and was about to walk towards the hill where the Athens tribe lived, the group of locals Roy had met before appeared in front of Roy again.

This group of people was like a group of lions patrolling the territory.

When Roy first met them, they were patrolling the territory from north to south.

This time Roy met them, they were patrolling the territory from south to north.

Seeing Roy, who should have been drowned in the sea, the group of locals immediately rushed towards Roy under the leadership of the leader.

Roy knew that in order to shock these people, he must show miracles to make them believe that he represented the gods.

So Roy's eyes were fixed on the leader and the other two people who were rushing in the front, and he shouted the word [Salting].

The divine power in Roy's body immediately burst out from his eyes, turning into blue divine light to cover the three people including the leader.

The divine power that can salt one person's body was dispersed to three people, and the legs of the three people were all salted in an instant, forcing them to stop running.

"Leader——"

"Brother——"

"Big Brother——"

The legs of the three people including the leader were salted, and the others immediately surrounded them and checked their bodies worriedly.

Seeing that the remaining people did not rush to attack him regardless, Roy breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked towards them and said.

"Don't worry, I will immediately take back the divine power that salted their bodies and let them return to normal."

Hearing Roy's words, several people immediately rushed over to surround Roy and threatened him.

"Hurry up and restore our leader's legs to normal, otherwise we will definitely kill you."

Although they said threatening words, the group of people did not behave rudely to Roy. They were obviously afraid of Roy's salting ability and were afraid that Roy would also salt their bodies.

Although the leader's body was salted, he did not glare at Roy, but calmly ordered his companions.

"Don't be rude to a favorite of a god. I will negotiate with him personally."

Roy walked up to the leader and looked at him with sincere eyes.

"Leader! I am a priest serving the great goddess of wisdom, and I have the power lent to me by the gods. I could have used the power of the goddess to turn you into a salt statue, but I didn't do it. Now are you willing to believe that I have no hostility towards you and that I am not your enemy?"

The leader nodded and said.

"If you had revealed your identity at the beginning, our Athens tribe would never be rude to a priest of a god, but would have treated you as the most noble guest. Now I believe you are not our enemy, please help my body recover to normal."

After hearing the leader's words, Roy whispered.

"Salting off!"

The leader and the other two people's legs immediately recovered to normal.

Because Roy dispersed the divine power of salting one person to three people, in fact, even if Roy did not help them to remove the salting, their legs would recover the next day.

Seeing the leader's legs recover to normal, his companions immediately pointed more than a dozen wooden spears at Roy's body.

"Put down your weapons!"

The leader immediately said in a cold voice.

"Didn't you hear what I said just now? This priest of the god is not our enemy, but a distinguished guest we should entertain."

After the companions obeyed the order and put down their weapons, the leader said to Roy.

"Respected priest! I am Pandion, the leader of the Athenian tribe. Please forgive my companions for their rudeness. Now I formally invite you and hope you can come to our Athenian tribe."

"Pandion--"

Hearing the name of the leader, Roy muttered softly.

"I seem to have heard of this name. It seems to be the name of a... great king of Athens."

Recovering from his senses, Roy said to Pandion.

"Chief Pandion! I am Roy, the priest who serves the goddess of wisdom Metis. I am very happy to be a guest of the Athenian tribe."

After saying that, Roy extended his right hand to Pandion.

Pandion was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding the meaning of Roy extending his right hand to him.

But he was also a smart man, guessing that this might be a gesture of goodwill, and he also extended his right hand to Roy.

Seeing that Pandion extended his right hand but did not shake hands with him, Roy could only take the initiative to shake Pandion's right hand.

After the two shook hands tightly, Pandion and others surrounded Roy and walked towards the Athenian tribe together.

Along the way, Pandion and his companions looked at Roy's clothes and shoes from top to bottom with curious eyes.

"Priest Roy! I'm really sorry, my companions and I shouldn't have regarded you as a barbaric Dorian. Although you wear pants like the Dorians, the clothes and shoes on you are not something that the Dorians can make. And you are different from the blond and blue-eyed Dorians. Your black hair and black eyes are more like us and the people of Asia Minor."

Feeling Pandion's sincere apology, Roy asked curiously.

"You attacked me at first because you regarded me as a Dorian wearing pants?"

Pandion nodded and said.

"You are a foreigner, so you don't know how barbaric the Dorians are. Their ancestors were nomads who migrated from the distant east hundreds of years ago. After settling in the Thessaly region to our north, the Dorians did not change their nomadic lifestyle. Although the mountains to the north of the Thebes region prevented them from moving south on a large scale, they would still disperse and move south to plunder food and women from our land. These Dorians who ride horses and wear trousers are more brutal and hateful robbers than the pirates on the sea. If we catch a pirate on the sea, we can give him a chance to live, but if we catch a Dorians, we must kill them."