"But you will definitely become a great king."
"Really? I guess some people have already regarded me as a tyrant."
Hilde sighed helplessly. Although he had indeed become the king, the real threat had not been completely eliminated. The main reason was the opposition from the nobles and commoners. It was a very radical thing to implement the monarchy in the city of Byzantium, which had a tradition of aristocratic republic for hundreds of years. Moreover, many people believed that the monarchy was actually a weak system. There were definitely many people who held this idea, and Hilde knew all of this.
Therefore, Hilde's road to becoming king will definitely not be smooth.
But at least, I already have a base.
Thinking of this, Hilde raised his head and suddenly met a pair of blue eyes.
"Ok?"
At this time, a blonde girl was looking at Hilde in panic. Anyway, Hilde really didn't realize who this guy was for a while, but Hilde knew this look very well... So, she couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "Wait... Isn't this child Dione?"
"Yes, I gave her a good bath."
Sophia said very proudly.
"This child is so dirty. After washing, he is really beautiful."
"yes……"
Hilde looked at the child in a daze.
But after a moment, Hilde exhaled and walked in front of Dione.
"Let me ask you, Dione."
"Um……"
"What are you going to do next?"
"I don't know..." Diony grabbed her arm in fear. "I, I don't have parents anymore, and I don't have a home anymore. The chief told me that if we fail, we will either die or be sold as slaves... So, the purpose of bathing me just now was to sell me for a good price, right?"
"If it were someone else, it would be true."
Hilde smiled and said:
“But then you met me.”
"What...what are you going to do..."
"Don't worry, I won't hurt your people. Not only that, I will give them a good life. To put it bluntly, our enemy is not you, but the King of Thrace. You killed the Byzantines and stole their things, and we defeated you, so we are even." Hilde said here and stretched out a finger, "But I also want to tell you one thing, your people have regained their freedom, but you can't."
Hearing this, Dione looked at Hilde with some horror.
"You... still want to suck my blood?"
"The truth is...if you don't smoke, you might not live long."
At this time, Hilde pulled Dione over and unzipped her collar.
There is a shining line on the collar. This is Hilde's mark, the symbol of a blood slave. This mark is also on Sophia. If she is not sucked blood for a long time, she will have a withdrawal reaction. Hilde once saw Sophia in pain because she could not be sucked blood, so Hilde rarely turned others into blood slaves... And Dione was an unexpected situation that occurred when Hilde could not control herself.
Therefore, Hilde still feels quite guilty.
"child……"
At this time, Sophia walked up to Dione.
"Don't be afraid."
Sixth key, eighth verse, everything is a beginning
At this time, Sophia gently hugged Dioni.
"You will live happily here."
"I……"
It was obvious that Dione couldn't completely believe what Sophia said.
Hilde knew that it would be difficult for the child to accept her completely. Hilde felt guilty about the child, but she was not going to lower her attitude. So, Hilde made up her mind and said to Sophia, "This child will be in your care for the time being. You should teach her the rules. Then, regarding the blood mark, her fear will naturally disappear after the time is up."
"Sissi, are you planning to..."
Sophia was stunned for a moment, then sighed helplessly.
"Yes, I understand."
"Then I'll leave it all to you."
Hilde looked at Sophia silently. In fact, he already had an idea of what would happen next.
For Dione, life now is just a beginning, and for Hilde, it is also just a starting point. There is no difference in essence. Becoming the king of Byzantium is just finding a place to settle down in this chaotic world. However, the threats ahead will become more and more, whether it is the King of Thrace not far away, or the Delian League with Athens as the core and the Peloponnesian League with Sparta as the core, or Persia in the east.
All of these may change everything Hilde has now.
All destroyed.
Now, Hilde and the city of Byzantium are the most vulnerable in the world.
So nothing can be taken lightly.
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When Hilde finally established his own base.
In a cloud on Mount Olympus.
This is a place that humans have never explored. It is hidden in thick clouds and is located at the top of the mountain. However, even if you climb to the top of the mountain, you cannot enter this divine realm. The reason is that the space above the Holy Mount Olympus is where the Greek gods live. An invisible boundary directly divides the area where the gods live from the area where humans live.
God has no way to completely descend to the human world, and people who have not obtained divine power cannot access the divine realm.
Hundreds of years ago, the humans living here could often contact the gods who came down to earth. Some of them were called oracles, which means they could communicate directly with the gods and get their oracles. Or they were the blood of the gods in the world, and they had the blood of the gods flowing in their blood. These people were called demigods, and most of them became heroes of mankind and gave everything for mankind.
But at the same time, many demons that harm others are also descendants of gods, such as the sirens. But since when, these demigods and demons have disappeared from people's eyes along with the disappearance of gods, leaving only those incredible existences recorded in the epics that have been passed down through the ages.
The Oracle of Delphi could no longer receive the will of God, and the demigods walking on the continent had disappeared. The whole world seemed to have lost the favor of God and became completely dim. However, 15 years ago, the ascetics living around the Holy Mountain of Olympus witnessed a violent explosion on the Holy Mountain.
The explosion was like the sun suddenly bursting out, and the dazzling light made it impossible to see the entire holy mountain clearly. The strong light seemed to burn people's eyes completely. All those who saw this scene did not want to recall the feeling at that time, but the strong shock brought by this explosion left a deep impression on everyone.
Now 15 years have passed.
On top of the holy mountain, the divine realm of Olympus.
"Father has locked himself in the temple for 15 years, and you still haven't found Athena's whereabouts!" At this time, a tall and mighty male god was accusing other gods. His words were very harsh, and every word was criticizing others, as if he was saying that the other gods were a group of incompetent gods.
"In my opinion, Athena probably escaped to another dimension."
At this time, another handsome blond man stood up and said with a smile.
"If we keep searching like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to solve the problem. Maybe Athena is already dead?" The blond man said this with a helpless smile on his face. "But I never thought he would betray us. The artifact he took away...will affect the future of our Olympian gods."
"Apollo."
The young man sighed helplessly.
This blond man is a famous god, representing light, prophecy, music and medicine. He is also the patron saint of human civilization and sailors. For humans, especially for the Greeks, Apollo's reputation is very loud, not less than Athena and his father Zeus.
Chapter 6, Section 9: The God Who Does Whatever He Wants
At this time, the strong man looked at Apollo.
"But I heard that you took advantage of the opportunity that the divine realm has been opened and deliberately released your divine power to the human world. I heard that the Thracian king who is endangering one side is your masterpiece."
“Because it’s fun.”
Apollo said nonchalantly.
"That guy is very loyal, so I gave him my divine power. And I'm not the only one who did this. Didn't my sister Artemis also choose an oracle to stop my toys?"
"You two siblings are really messing around!"
"Ares, don't you like it? Now that my father is locked in the temple, the connection between our realm of God and the human world has been reopened. The era of heroes and demigods will once again descend upon this world. Countless people will witness the coming of myths and the return of us gods to their world, and they will spare no effort to write epics and odes to praise us."
At this time, the famous god of war Ares angrily smashed the spear in his hand to the ground.
"Father has said that we can no longer interfere with the human world at will. Even Father himself will no longer descend to the human world!"
"Ares, I know your anger towards me is not because of this matter, because there are more than one person who does the same as me. The world above is very boring. Everyone tries every means to go down to the human world to find their believers and regain the happiness of the past. Aphrodite has gone to Milos Island, where she is worshipped by women. My sister also chose to go to the Scythians, and she leads the female hunters to hunt every day, and she also trained a hero named Sun-Swallowing Wolf. Even your wife, Enyo, is the same. Your wife appears in every place where war may occur."
Apollo's words left Ares speechless.
Just when the conversation between the two people reached a deadlock.
Suddenly, a black-haired woman appeared in front of the two.
She was slender, beautiful, with long black hair, and her purple eyes were vigilantly looking at the two people in front of her. Her beauty was hard to describe in words. If a human saw her, they would definitely think she was the goddess of beauty. If she wasn't wearing light armor representing a hunter, one would think she might be Aphrodite herself.
"What are you talking about?"
The goddess who came here is naturally the famous goddess of the moon and hunting, Artemis.
At this moment, she was carrying a beautiful wooden longbow on her back, and in the quiver on her back, there were also very exquisite bows and arrows. It seemed that she had just finished a hunt. So, Apollo looked at his sister and said with a smile: "I heard that today my toy was blocked by the 'Sun Devouring Wolf' when it attacked the Scythians. You are worthy of being my sister. Even the Thracian King whom I value could not resist your toy."
"She's not a toy."
Artemis' beautiful eyes could not help but glare at her brother.
“She’s my important partner.”
"Oh, yes, partner."
"Artemis, how can you go against your father's will and come down to earth at will?"
"I came down to earth not because of Apollo, but to find Athena." Artemis's cold gaze made Ares, the god of war, feel like something stuck in his throat. The feeling of oppression that his life could be taken away at any time was a bit similar to that of Artemis' best sister, Athena. Although Athena had betrayed the Greek gods and was no longer worthy of respect as a fellow god.
"Did you find the result?"
Apollo asked sarcastically.
"No, but I can't give up."
"Artemis, you don't still think that Athena is innocent?"
"...I don't believe that Athena would do such a thing! I know who she is much better than you do. If you don't plan to look for her, don't block my way." Having said that, Artemis shifted her gaze to Apollo next to her, "Apollo, take care of your Thracian king. If he continues to kill innocent people and repeatedly invades the territory of my daughter of hunting, then I will personally help you get rid of this bastard!"
"You'll make mistakes then."
Apollo's smile gave people an indescribable feeling of disgust.
"I have a temper too. If you kill my people..."
"Then just wait and see."
Artemis left this place after leaving.
She walked quickly in the divine realm, but her heart was very confused.
She didn't believe it was Athena's fault.
Fifteen years ago, Athena stole the most important treasure of Zeus, called the Book of Creation. It was said that it was a sacred artifact left by the Titans to create the world, and was sealed in a place by Zeus. However, Athena suddenly stole the artifact and disappeared here, which seemed a bit strange.
The sixth chapter, the tenth chapter, the coming of the mythical age
Especially since Artemis heard some noise at that time.
His father, Zeus.
Arguing with Athena.
It was rare for gods to quarrel with each other, and Athena, who was always upright, rarely showed such excitement. Artemis heard some of Zeus' words, but she didn't hear them clearly. She only heard something like "Don't stop me". After that, Athena took the original book of creation and fled from the gate of Zeus' temple. Then Zeus hit Athena with lightning, and in the chaos, Athena disappeared.
Afterwards, the divine realm that was originally closed.
It was also struck by Zeus's lightning.
Since then, times have changed.
In the earliest times, gods could come down to earth and wander around the world at will. Although the gods who came down to earth could not be as powerful as they were in the divine world, they still had abilities far beyond those of humans. They came to the human world and changed the world, such as Prometheus who gave fire to mankind and Epimetheus who opened Pandora's Box. Later, humans entered the civilized era and began to worship gods. And the gods also delegated their own interests to the human world.
Thus, there was a war of spokespersons.
Behind every war, there is always the presence of gods.
The heroes who were blessed by the gods, or who had the blood of the gods in their bodies, composed the greatest epics of Greece.
Later, Zeus suddenly closed the realm of the gods, cutting off the connection between the Greek world and the Greek gods, and the mythological era came to an end. After that, the heroes of the Greek world seemed to have suddenly evaporated, and humans began to guide themselves. The gods were still believed in, but they could no longer be seen.
And now, the divine realm has reopened.
