Reversing Greek Mythology

The less you can get something, the more you want it——

This is the mentality that Luo Yin also has.

Seeing that Yin Simene might be a scheming woman trying to get at him, Luo Yin could only suppress the restlessness in his heart, looked at Yin Simene's back with cold eyes and said.

"Princess Insmene! Although saving the Kingdom of Thebes is what I must do, you Thebes Royal Family are the biggest beneficiaries. After I save the Kingdom of Thebes, how will you Thebes Royal Family repay you? I?"

"The Kingdom of Thebes will become your vassal, and when a war breaks out between you and the Kingdom of Athens, it will form a coalition with you to attack the city of Athens."

"Are you taking me for a fool again?"

Luo Yin teased with a sneer.

"You are just a princess of the Kingdom of Thebes, not the queen of the Kingdom of Thebes. The real ruler of the Kingdom of Thebes is your nephew Laodamas, and you are not qualified to surrender to me on behalf of the Kingdom of Thebes. "

Hearing Luo Yin's words, Yin Simene sighed and said.

"You have long decided to use your own hands to get what you want, so why ask me unnecessary questions."

"We are obviously strangers meeting for the first time, but you seem to know my personality very well."

"I once met a man with a similar personality to yours."

Luo Yin walked behind Yin Simene and knelt down on one knee, then whispered into her ear.

"Now that you understand my character, can you accept a future led by me?"

Luo Yin's breath blew on his cheek, and Yin Simene immediately blushed and said softly.

"You...will give me the right to refuse?"

Seeing Yin Simene's shy reaction, Luo Yin couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Could it be that she deliberately kept a distance from him, not playing hard to get, but just a shy reaction of an unmarried girl.

King Oedipus of Thebes, who killed his father and married his mother, gave birth to four natural humanoid monsters with his wife Inecastus, namely the twin brothers Eteocles, Polynices, and Has two daughters, Antigone and Insmene.

After Oedipus' crime of killing his father and marrying his mother was revealed, Inocaste committed suicide immediately like Philopia. Oedipus also chose to self-exile and handed the throne to Inocaste's younger brother. ——Creon, the previous king of Thebes who ascended the throne before Oedipus, was also Oedipus’s uncle.

Because Creon is not a descendant of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, Creon does not have the orthodox right to become the king of Thebes.

When Eteocles and Polynices grew up, they asked their uncle Creon to return the throne to them.

In order to keep the throne, Creon ostensibly returned the throne to the two brothers. In fact, he asked the two brothers to take turns in power, so that the two brothers could not grasp the real royal power and could only become puppets that he emptied out.

In order to eliminate the two brothers and regain the throne, Creon also instigated the relationship between the two brothers and asked Eteocles to expel Polynices.

Polynices, who was expelled, wandered to the Argos region, and became the son-in-law of Adrastus, the king of Argos, with Tydeus, the Calydon prince who was also expelled from his hometown. In the name of regaining the throne for Polynices, Stos summoned a coalition of 7,000 troops led by seven heroes to launch the First Theban War.

During the First Theban War, Insmene's father Oedipus, two brothers Eteocles and Polynices, and sister Antigone all died, and the Cadmus family Of the humanoid demons, only Insmene remained.

Now Diomedes and his grandfather Adrastus launched the Second Theban War, and the name they used was for the son of Polynices, the cousin of Diomedes. Thersanteros regains the throne.

The city of Thebes.

This city, protected by seven gates and solid walls, has been a powerful city-state since the time of its founder.

The strong walls of Thebes were as deified as those of Troy.

In the myths fabricated by humans hundreds of years later, the solid walls of Thebes were formed when King Amphion of Thebes played the lyre given by the Muses, and the stones were automatically bonded together under the guidance of the beautiful sound of the lyre. .

However, neither Thebes nor Troy could protect their city-states with strong walls.

Those who can truly protect a city-state are powerful heroes and fearless soldiers.

At this time, outside the city of Thebes, eight thousand soldiers led by eight heroes from the Argos region blocked the main gate of Thebes.

After the city gates of Thebes were opened, eight thousand Theban soldiers came outside the city to confront the coalition forces.

Although both armies had the same number of soldiers, the Theban soldiers were led only by the young king Laodamas.

In this era when heroes can fight one against a hundred or even one against a thousand, there were eight heroes in the coalition attacking Thebes, and there was only one hero in the city of Thebes.

Before the war even started, the city of Thebes was doomed to fail.

Just when the war between the two sides was about to break out, Luo Yin and Yinsmene rode two horses to the battlefield.

King Laodamas of Thebes saw Insmene, and Diomedes saw Luo Yin. The two commanders immediately ordered their soldiers to stop where they were.

Under the gazes of the two armies, Luo Yin and Yin Simene entered the center of the battlefield, showed bright smiles and said loudly.

"Except for Diomedes, no one here knows me. Now let me introduce to you, I am Tantalus, king of Mycenae, and I came to stop this war at the invitation of Princess Insmene. Both of you give me Let’s save face and reach a settlement under my witness!”

Give you a face——

Upon hearing Luo Yin's request, the commanders of both armies rolled their eyes.

Now even the city of Mycenae and its vassal city-states combined may not be able to gather 8,000 soldiers for the expedition.

The two armies totaled 16,000 soldiers. Of course, they would not stop the war that was about to break out just because of Luo Yin's words.

"Aunt Insmene! Please don't stay in the dangerous battlefield with this madman. You should return to the city of Thebes immediately. I will defeat the enemy and protect you and the residents of the city."

Hearing the urging of her nephew Laodamas, Insmene looked at him with pity and said.

"Poor Laodamas, Persephone has opened the door to the underworld for you, so you left the strong walls of Thebes and came outside the city to fight a powerful enemy. I am just here to save you. and the city of Thebes will bring this man here.”

While Insmene and Laodamas were talking, Diomedes asked Luo Yin doubtfully.

"King Tantalus! I heard that you are going south with three thousand soldiers to conquer the Arcadia and Pylos regions. Why do you appear here? Is the real Tantalus still in the Peloponnese? Peninsula, are you just a lookalike pretending to be Tantalus?”

"puff--"

Hearing Diomedes' words, Luo Yin couldn't help but sneer.

"Diomedes, are you deliberately teasing me? The reason why I appear here is simple, because I have completed my goal of conquering the Arcadia region and the Pylos region. If you suspect that I am not real Tantalus, come and challenge me and test my strength!”

"You said you had conquered Arcadia and Pylos—"

Diomedes' eyes widened and he was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said.

"This is impossible! We have just arrived in Thebes, and you have already conquered the Arcadia and Pylos regions. Could it be that when you entered the Arcadia and Pylos regions, the city-states there surrendered directly to you?"

Luo Yin nodded immediately.

"Diomedes, it seems that after you became the favorite of Pallas Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, your clumsy head became smarter."