Before Achilles left his mother's temple, he took many spiritual objects from his mother's treasury and placed them in Sophia's house.
Among them, elixirs that replenish physical energy and life energy account for the majority, and each of them is extremely precious and difficult to find in the ordinary world.
Back then, Gaia, the mother of the earth, divided the four realms and gave the most essence of heaven and earth to the heaven realm, followed by the sea realm and the underworld, while the mortal realm received the least. []
Although the essence of heaven and earth obtained is much less than that of the other three realms, it is not impossible. Even the rarest essence of heaven and earth can give birth to various rare spiritual objects.
Therefore, in the mortal world, you can also find some rare spiritual objects, but most of these spiritual objects grow in some inaccessible and dangerous places, making it difficult for ordinary people to find them.
From ancient times to the present, in this world, there has never been a shortage of stories about mortal heroes searching for rare things under the world.
Because of the previous oath and Theseus's oath of allegiance, Achilles was completely relieved and took out the most precious elixir to help him recover.
He was imprisoned in hell for several years and endured many hardships, but he was able to survive. Although Theseus looks embarrassed now, it shows how strong he is.
"If we let others go, they would be imprisoned in hell for abducting the Queen of the Underworld and endure the torture of the ghosts of the underworld. Let alone years, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to hold on for even a few months.
Although he is old now and almost dead because of his lack of vitality, as long as he replenishes his depleted body and life energy, he can recover as before and once again become the Athenian demigod whose reputation has been passed down through the ages.
Among all the great heroes throughout Greek mythology, the wise and powerful Theseus can be ranked in the top six in terms of overall strength, second only to Hercules, Achilles, Jason, and Hector. , Odysseus.
Although Achilles now has a lot of military power, he has no one available except Funix.
He returned to Thessaly this time to take over the throne from his old father and revolutionize the entire kingdom. He was bound to encounter many obstacles when the time came.
Maybe you can use force to inherit the throne, but to revolutionize the kingdom, relying solely on force will not work. In addition to force, you also need money and reliable manpower.
Naturally, he has no shortage of force. In terms of money, he first obtained some of King Minos' treasures, and then found a large amount of gold from the ruins of the Sagrus people. Then there were thirty bags of gold given by the gods. All the gold added together amounted to more than 180 bags, which was equivalent to several years of income in Thessaly.
Both force and money are enough, and the rest is a matter of manpower. After all, he is young and has lived in his mother's temple for a long time. Although he has tried his best to build his own team, after all, his time is running out. Those young people, at least It still takes one or two years of training before you can barely grow up.
Even though Funix has reached the level of a hero in terms of military force and is considered prudent in his actions, he can only be a general who leads the army. As for business and politics, he cannot give any help at all.
But Theseus was different. He was once the king of Athens. A large part of the reason why Athens is prosperous today is due to him.
As long as the new knowledge about the politics and economy of slavery is poured into his head, with his wise mind and decades of experience in managing the country, he will surely be able to understand it quickly.
When the time comes, he will preside over the political and economic reform of the kingdom, and he will sit firmly on the throne, control the military power of the kingdom and use force to clear the way for him. Thessaly will go faster and smoother on this road of reform.
Achilles had many precious elixirs in his hands, but because Theseus' body and life energy were severely depleted, even if he took the elixirs, he would not be able to recover in a day or two.
Now he was still at sea, and it would take at least ten days and a half to return to Thessaly. Achilles simply left him in the cave to recuperate, and then brought him out after he recovered.
Lycomedes¡¯ palace is located next to a river not far from the peak. The entire palace is small in size and the internal buildings are also somewhat simple.
There were only twenty or thirty warriors in armor and holding spears and shields in the entire palace. Achilles sneaked in quietly without attracting anyone's attention.
After Achilles walked around the palace for a short time, he found the deep well Lycomedes mentioned in a secluded courtyard.
This deep well looks to be quite old. The water in the well dried up in an unknown year, so it has been abandoned for a long time. It can be considered a good place to hide wealth.
Achilles jumped into the well and fell for about twenty meters. He stepped on the soil again with his feet. Under the weak light, there was a corridor as high as a person on the wall of the well to his left.
Taking out the Sea God Pearl from the cave sky, a faint blue light overflowed, driving away the darkness in the corridor, allowing him to see clearly the scene inside.
After walking about ten meters, a portal appeared in front of the corridor. Two stone doors were tightly closed, with a bronze object similar to a lock hanging on them.
Pulling out the broken blade from his waist, he raised the knife and dropped it. The bronze object split into two halves and fell to the ground.
Achilles reached out and pushed on the two closed stone doors. After a soft clang, the stone doors opened. Inside the stone door is a closed storage room.
The light of the Sea God Pearl shone through the open door into this dusty storage room. As far as the eye could see, there were large wooden boxes.
Holding the Poseidon Pearl, Achilles slowly stepped into the storage room and opened a wooden box in front of him. This box was filled with various gems.
Then all his boxes were opened. Inside these boxes were either gems or precious materials for making spices. Only one box contained gold.
In this era, gems and spices are luxuries and are extremely expensive. Ordinary people cannot afford them. Only the nobles of various city-states can afford to buy them.
There are a total of eight large boxes in this storage room, seven of which are filled with gems and spice-making materials. If they are taken out and exchanged for gold, at least seven or eight bags of gold can be obtained.
The last box contained about three bags of gold. In other words, the wealth left by the late king of Athens was estimated to be worth ten bags of gold, which was equivalent to the total annual income of a small town.
Looking at the boxes filled with gems and spices in front of him, he reached out and grabbed a handful of gold, and asked carefully about the smell on it. Achilles' face was filled with a smile.
Achilles had already thought about what to do with this unexpected wealth before coming here. It was left by Aegeus. If he took it all by himself, even Theseus wouldn't say anything, but he would inevitably Have some bad thoughts.
"You can't be too greedy as a person. When he was very young, he already understood the truth that greed is insufficient and the snake swallows the elephant. Compared with this wealth, he cared more about Theseus.
Coming from later generations, he understands the importance of talents better. As the saying goes, a thousand pieces of gold are easy to get, but a general is hard to find. For a legendary demigod like Theseus, if it weren't for chance, it would be impossible for him to swear allegiance to him.
If you want a foal to run fast, you have to give it good fodder. In the same way, if you want Theseus to do things for you willingly, you have to win his heart.
¡°Anyway, I have already accumulated a large sum of gold on hand. With or without this wealth, it will not play a big role in the subsequent reform of the kingdom. On the contrary, it would be better to generously return the wealth that originally belonged to Theseus and let him work for himself with peace of mind, which can be regarded as a reasonable use of resources.
He summoned the Four Elephants Furnace and put all the boxes containing gems, spices and gold into the cave. After making sure nothing was left behind, he quickly left here without stopping.
After leaving this simple palace, Achilles went to the peak again, released Lycomedes who was bound by him, and then left Skyros.
Skyros is the southernmost island of the North Sporades Islands. It is almost the center of the Aegean Sea. To go to Thessaly, you have to turn northwest.
Because Thessaly is located in the interior of the continent, if you land from Lamia and take the land route, it will take at least half a month because there is no transportation.
Compared with taking the land route, taking the water route is easier, but it requires going all the way north along the long coastline, entering the Thermaic Gulf, going upstream through the Pinios River, and finally resisting Thessaly.
Although it seems that taking the water route will take a long detour, due to the convenient transportation, it actually saves time than taking the land route, so Achilles decided to take the land route and return to Thessaly through the Pinios River.
After leaving Skyros Island, the warship began its long journey again. Going north from the North Sporades Islands, there will no longer be any island in the sea area of ????thousands of feet.
Sailing on the sea is the most boring thing. In the first few days, the mermaid princess, who had just left the deep sea, often came out to play, but as time went by, she lost interest.
She simply went into the cave with Sophia. The cat spent the whole day in the small garden, or tidying up flowers and plants.?Or read some books to pass the time.
Achilles also entered the cave and stayed on the platform where the Tree of Earth took root, preparing to refine the clone.
Although he himself has the secret of refining the clone, and also obtained the secret of refining the projection of the god from Sophia, because he neither has the advanced cultivation of the Eastern Qi Practitioner, nor the monstrous power of the god, the refining Making a clone is still a bit reluctant.
Fortunately, with a woman like Sophia at her side, she came up with a brand new trick based on the identity-refining trick of the Four Symbols and the Greek gods' projection-refining trick.
Although this brand new trick that Sophia came up with is far less advanced than the tricks used by Eastern Qi practitioners to refine clones and the tricks used by Greek gods to refine projections, because it was tailor-made for Achilles, it only requires the law The power can be easily mastered, but it is the most suitable for him now.
Combining the remains of the quasi-god and the corpse of the dragon man into one is the first problem in the process of refining the clone. Fortunately, there are saplings of the Tree of the Earth. Otherwise, with the little power of law he currently has, it would be impossible to fuse the two together.
After continuously devouring the corpses of hundreds of powerful creatures, the Tree of Earth saplings regained their vitality and grew three new branches in a row. It was not difficult to fuse the remains of the quasi-god and the corpse of the dragon.
After everything was ready, Achilles began to refine the clone, and through his connection with this cave, he placed part of his mind on the sapling of the Tree of the Earth.
When his mind merged into the saplings of the Tree of Earth, he seemed to become one with the Tree of Earth. He could clearly feel the changes in the Tree of Earth every minute and every second.
At this time, he is the tree of the earth, and the tree of the earth is him. There is me among you, and you among me. As long as there is a fluctuation in the mind, the tree of the earth will move accordingly.
"let's start."
He took a sharp breath, and hundreds of cyan rays of light spilled out from the branches of the Tree of Earth, shrouding the remains of the quasi-god and the dragon man on the ground.
The cyan light slowly shrank, and the remains of the quasi-god and the dragon man flew off the ground. Wrapped in the cyan light, they slowly drifted towards the tree of the earth.
The two corpses, which were floating in a faint golden light, finally came to a standstill above the tree of the earth, suspended quietly in the air in the cyan light.
Then ten cyan light pillars were ejected from the branches of the Earth Tree, and one by one they penetrated into the limbs and heads of the quasi-god remains and dragon-man corpses.
There is some unknown factor brewing in the tree of the earth. Through these ten light pillars, it is instilled into the remains of the quasi-god and the corpse of the dragonman connected to it.
With the influx of these unknown factors, the quasi-god remains and dragon-man corpses began to expand continuously. When the expansion reached a limit, they began to shrink violently.
Expanding and contracting, contracting and expanding again, over and over again, after dozens of times, the tree of the earth stopped instilling the unknown factor into the two corpses, and the two corpses also became quiet.
After about tens of seconds, the ten light beams that penetrated into the limbs and heads of the two corpses split, and another ten new light beams appeared.
These new light pillars overlapped regularly in pairs, connecting the remains of the quasi-god and the limbs and head of the dragon man.
At this time, five beams of light penetrated the remains of the quasi-god and the corpse of the dragon. The head was connected to the head, the left hand was connected to the left hand, the right hand was connected to the right hand, the left foot was connected to the left foot, and the right foot was connected to the right foot.
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