"I originally thought about concealing my identity to attend this dinner, but I never thought that I would be recognized by you Inas. It's so boring."
This unattractive young priest shook his hands, with a disappointed expression on his face, and said gloomily, but his voice had turned into a pleasant child's voice, and he was not the little God of Love, Eros. []
"Achilles, we meet again." Then he looked at Achilles aside and said happily with a bright smile.
Achilles murmured a few words in his heart. He stayed away from this god who liked to play pranks. Now that he's been targeted, I can only say hello.
"Your Highness Eros, Achilles is extremely touched and honored to see you again." He bowed slightly, put his right hand on his chest, and gave a symbolic salute to Eros.
After this conversation, other people also knew the identity of the unattractive young priest in front of them, and they all bowed to him and said some compliments and compliments.
Although the little God of Love, Eros, is thousands of years old, he always maintains a childlike innocence and does things based on his own preferences. He is indifferent to the compliments of those around him and just pulls the mermaid princess to ask questions.
The arrival of the high priest and the little cupid was just an episode in the entire dinner. Then everyone returned to their seats and the dinner started again.
"Mermaid Princess, how did you meet Achilles? How did you come to the human world?" King Milos and others accompanied him, and Eros sat at the table and curiously asked the mermaid princess.
The mermaid princess put down the fruit in her hand and did not immediately answer his words. She looked with her beautiful eyes at Achilles, who was drinking happily with the high priest and others.
Although Achilles and the high priest were drinking, his mind was always paying attention to Eros and the mermaid princess. Feeling the gaze of the mermaid princess, he turned his head.
"Your Highness Eros, Inas and I also met by chance at the sea. Inas has lived in the deep sea for a long time and wanted to come to the human world to relax. After obtaining the permission of the Poseidon, he took our ship and left the deep sea. You also Knowing that my mother and the Queen of the Sea are biological sisters, the God of the Sea can rest assured that I will take care of Inas.¡±
The Queen of the Sea, Amufrit, is the daughter of Nereus and Doris, the old men of the sea. She controls the entire ocean together with Poseidon, the god of the sea, and is Poseidon's first wife.
If we look at Chinese kinship relations, Achilles's mother is the sister-in-law of Poseidon, the god of the sea. Achilles would call Poseidon his uncle.
From this level of relationship, Poseidon entrusted the mermaid princess to Achilles, and he took the mermaid princess to the human world to relax, and others could not say anything.
The little cupid seemed to be thinking about something in his mind. His bright eyes sometimes looked at the mermaid princess and sometimes at Achilles.
Being looked at by him with that strange look, Achilles felt a tingle in his heart, fearing that this god with an eternal childlike innocence would create a tragic love like Apollo in him and the mermaid princess.
"Your Highness Eros, why do you look at me and Achilles with that look? Are you thinking about using your magical bow and arrow to shoot us two?" The mermaid princess and Eros had obviously already They had known each other for a long time, and she felt a little uncomfortable when he looked at him like that, so she asked bluntly.
Eros gave out a crisp smile, nodded, and said: "Yes, I was thinking about shooting you two with my arrow of love."
Hearing his answer, Achilles's heart suddenly rose, but the mermaid princess on the side was much calmer, and asked with a smile: "Then where will the arrow you shot at the two of us be?" What about the two? Are they the same golden arrows, or the same silver arrows?"
Eros tilted his head, thought for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "I really want you two to be together, but my love god's arrow refuses to shoot the same color of golden arrows at you. Arrows. Now I¡¯m thinking whether to shoot two Cupid¡¯s arrows of different colors or two silver Cupid¡¯s arrows when I fall to the ground.¡±
Hearing his words, Achilles was stunned for a moment, while Inas on the side seemed to be struck by lightning, and his slender body trembled slightly.
Although Achilles really wanted to know that as the god of love and marriage, Eros would be unable to control his own arrows, but in the end he gave up the idea and kept silent.
"Achilles, after you leave the island of Melos, will you return directly to the Kingdom of Thessaly, or will you go exploring elsewhere?" Idosius came over and asked Achilles.
Putting away the distracting thoughts in his heart, Achilles turned aroundTurning his head, he looked at the ancient demigod of the underworld. After pondering for a moment, he replied: "It has been almost a year since I left the Kingdom of Thessaly. I want to go back as soon as possible to help my father with the affairs of the kingdom."
As a demigod contemporary with legendary demigods such as Heracles and Jason, Peleus is now an old man who is over seventy years old.
Before Peleus married the sea goddess Thetis, he had two wives. These two beautiful mortal women gave birth to three sons and a daughter for him.
His eldest son, Achilles' eldest brother, is now a middle-aged man in his forties. According to Greek customs, he should have inherited the throne long ago.
Before Thetis married Peleus, she had made an agreement with the god Zeus. The son she gave birth to with Peleus would inherit the throne and become the new king of Thessaly.
Regarding this agreement, not only was it affirmed by Peleus, but most of the upper-class nobles in the Kingdom of Thessaly also nodded in support.
It is precisely for this reason that the elderly Peleus has not abdicated and passed his throne to his eldest son and second son.
Although Peleus was still in good health, some unexpected events might happen. Achilles decided to rush back to Thessaly as soon as possible to take over the throne from his father. Dispel the thoughts in some people's minds.
At this time, Pavaros also came up and told Achilles: "Achilles, when you return to Thessaly this time, you must continue to be the king. Even with the agreement you made back then, I'm afraid you won't be able to continue the throne." You will encounter some obstacles. After you return to Thessaly, you can go to the Temple of the God in Thessaly and look for the high priest Matheus, he will help you."
Achilles kept the old man's words in mind. Although he was confident that he would take over the royal power from his father after returning to Thessaly, he would be able to get the support of the high priest of Thessaly for subsequent innovations. It will be of great help.
This lively dinner ended in the second half of the night. Pavaros and the little cupid were the first to leave. Achilles took the worried mermaid princess and left with the three ancient demigods Idosius.
After a speechless night, when the sun had not yet jumped out of the horizon, Achilles took the mermaid princess and left Milos Island early. On the sea more than ten nautical miles away from Milos Island, his armored warship has been waiting for a long time.
In order not to arouse other people¡¯s thoughts, he quietly left his residence as early as the early morning and sent the armored battleship out of the cave.
"Achilles, is this your ship? It's even bigger than the previous ship." The mermaid princess was obviously stunned by the huge iron-clad warship in front of her, her big eyes could not blink. He blinked and looked at the armored battleships lying across the sea.
Achilles held her hand, commanding a wave of waves, quickly approached the armored battleship, jumped up slightly, and finally stepped on the deck of the battleship.
"Master" The young men waiting on the ship were brought forward by Foxness and bowed to Achilles.
Achilles waved his hand, and then looked towards the back of the crowd, where Sophia, dressed in a white dress, stood quietly, with the early morning sea breeze blowing her dress and long hair.
"Let's set sail"
Foxness agreed and returned to the cockpit with the teenagers on the deck. Soon after, the huge stationary warship moved, broke through the sea water, and sailed toward the northeast.
After crossing Milos, heading northeast is the Cyclades Islands. In this sea area, there are many islands, and some of the larger islands have famous city-states.
Because of the beautiful environment of this sea area and the fertile soil on the island, many gods from Mount Olympus chose to build their own temples here. Every few years, they would come here from Mount Olympus to stay.
Precisely because of the protection of gods, humans living on the Cyclades Islands have never worried about huge waves and other natural disasters.
Because there are no wars or natural disasters, the mortals here cultivate land, sow food, hunt in the mountains and forests, and live an extremely prosperous life.
After hundreds of thousands of years of development, many human city-states have appeared one after another on some large islands. Several of them are the most prosperous city-states. Although they are not as good as Mycenae, Athens, Troy and other famous city-states, they are still nationally powerful. Strong and well-stocked.
Every year, hundreds of ships from Mycenae, Troy, Athens and other city-states came across the sea carrying a wide variety of goods, bringing back large amounts of gold and food to their respective city-states.
For city-states with ocean navigation capabilities such as Mycenae, the Cyclades IslandsIt is a country full of gold. In order to compete for the trading rights here, there have been major naval battles between them, but to this day, no one can monopolize the trading rights here.