[Greek mythology] Born to be arrogant

Ephesus is the territory under the name of Diana.

Because of Diana's advocacy of violence, even the territory under her name is also martial arts. Sparta, which has always been known as one of the "Greek Three Giants", is simply a militarized country.Because Ephesus is adjacent to Miletus, the academic atmosphere is slightly stronger, but it still likes to speak with its fists.

Only this time, the fist hit an iron plate.

Even though the main force of the Hittites has been disabled by the Egyptians, these remnants can still easily crush a Greek city-state.After all, the Hittites have learned to use iron, but the Greeks have been using thin bronze armor. Once the two armies confront each other, the Greeks will undoubtedly be defeated like a knife cutting thatch.

Diana was troubled.

Ever since she was brought to Ephesus by Apollo, she always felt like a thorn in her back.The chaotic battle situation in Ephesus is one of them, and the green eyes of many "passing" goddesses are the most disturbing place for her to sleep and eat.

The reason for all this is that Apollo suddenly became sunny and cheerful.

He was born tall and handsome, and he is also a high-ranking main god. These two points alone are enough to make many goddesses admire him.In addition, in the past two days, Apollo finally put away that cold expression of ignoring anyone, and smiled like a spring breeze, and it is inevitable that some goddesses will rush forward with green eyes, like a starving she wolf .

Diana couldn't help but asked Apollo: "Your Highness seems to be in a good mood recently?"

Apollo gave a soft "hmm", with a deep smile in his throat.Those bright golden eyes were no longer empty and cold as before, but a little bit warmer, making everyone around them feel crisp from body to heart.

What really made Diana feel at ease was the occasional faint blue in his eyes.It was extremely faint, but it showed that he had gradually calmed down from that crazy state.In recent days, Apollo even stayed in Ephesus for several nights in a row, except for the occasional passing by for sky surveys, and never returned to Olympus.

She even thought that if she could go on like this, it would be good.

Apollo's mood seemed to be at its peak today. Not only did he smile at her, but he also said gently, "Koronis, if you feel uncomfortable recently, you can come to me instead of going to the doctor."

She looked at Apollo in astonishment.

"You should take good care of your body." Apollo said vaguely, his eyes swept over the map spread out on the table, "As for the front line, if you can't go, try not to go. Even if I I am looking after you all the time, and it is inevitable that there will be omissions for a while."

She became more and more startled.

"Anyway, don't let yourself get hurt, understand?" Apollo exhorted softly, his eyes fixed on her, but he didn't seem to be looking at her, but looking at another person through her body.

Diana understood.

He regarded this body as a container for the soul of the Moon God...

"If one day, you have to leave this world." Apollo's eyes became more and more lax, but there was a hint of madness, "Then I will allow you to make a request. As long as I can do it, I will Satisfy you unconditionally."

Diana blurted out subconsciously: "Even if I want to be a god, is it okay?"

Apollo thought for a moment, and then said, "If it's a demigod, it's fine." He can use his own blood, mixed with human-made clay, to reshape her body, and return as the moon god, "Princess Koronis." "Compensation for having to go.

Diana closed her eyes and muttered to herself: "You are crazy..."

How could she have thought that Apollo had returned to normal?

Still a lunatic!

"It's not bad to be crazy once or twice once in a while." Apollo was in such a good mood today that he didn't even notice her obviously presumptuous wording.

Diana was silent.

The Hittites launched a frantic offensive at Miletus and Ephesus.It seems to be unwilling to be reconciled to the fiasco in the Red Sea, and wants to find a place on the Greeks.The thick city walls were already stained with dark brown blood, and the broken arrow clusters were piled up under the corners and rusted.I don't know how many corpses were scattered on the battlefield and no one was buried, and they gradually rotted away.

Diana ordered the bodies to be gathered and burned.

Summer is approaching, if these corpses are allowed to rot and a few torrential rains are added, a great plague will definitely follow.

Since Apollo was standing behind her, this order was carried out stumblingly.However, the criticism she suffered gradually increased.The citizen assemblies of the two city-states even proposed to revoke her war command because her actions were too cruel.

Apollo was noncommittal.

The Citizens' Assembly even referred the proposal to the House of Elders, which is dominated by nobles, but the House of Elders was also helpless.Ephesus was better, and the martial arts people didn't mind at all that their bodies would be burned. At most, they would only mind that they had a few more heads chopped off on the battlefield.However, Miletus has always been a place where scholars gather, so it is inevitable that there will be some... public dissatisfaction.

Diana was quite helpless.

The only thing she can do is to keep winning battles and maintain her prestige with crushing victories one after another.

She was sure that if she was really kicked out by the Citizens' Assembly and the House of Elders, Apollo would not care about her, at most, he would take her to a place where no one was around to raise her well until the day when the Moon God really returned.

Finally one day, the sky was covered with lead clouds, and Apollo, who was rarely free, stood with her on the city wall and watched the increasingly fierce fighting. ..."

Diana acted as if she hadn't heard of it, watching the Greek soldiers fall one after another, her heart dripping with blood.

"Your Highness." She turned her head and said seriously to Apollo, "We need iron."

Apollo didn't answer, just looked at her quietly.

"Even if the use of iron will escalate the war, we must use iron." She emphasized again, "Not only iron, but also gunpowder, chariots, trebuchets..." In this kind of primitive war , What they lack is too much.

Apollo was slightly moved: "What is iron?" He paused, and continued, "Is it a substance that is sharper than copper? But Koronis, you must know that copper is already the sharpest in the human world." things; there is nothing sharper than copper than artifacts."

"That's because the artisans don't know how to temper!" Diana blurted out.

"Quenching?" Apollo repeated the unfamiliar word, a slight surprise flashed in his eyes.

"Yes, quenching." Diana nodded in frustration.The reason why the Hittite ironware is so powerful is that it has been quenched countless times.Dip the boiling iron into cold water, let it cool down instantly, and then redden it, beat it, shape it, and then cool it again... Only by repeating this process thousands of times can a sharp sword be cast.

She has tried countless times, but she has never been able to grasp the essence of the tempering technique, and she has never been able to forge sharp iron tools.

"What do you want me to do?" Apollo asked her.

Diana said softly: "I heard that in the far east, in a country where even gods are hard to reach, a group of very smart people created this quenching technique." She searched in the few remaining memories, Trying to portray it more realistically, "It is from there that the Hittites learned the tempering technique, and they created this powerful empire."

Apollo still looked at her quietly: "But the Egyptians are also not quenched."

"But the Egyptians have trained soldiers for at least 30 years!" She took a deep breath, looked into Apollo's eyes, and slowly, little by little, knelt down, "Please send a sea ship to the East."

Those pale glass-colored pupils just looked at him quietly, with some expectation.

Apollo looked away slightly, and said a word softly: "Okay."

Diana was overjoyed, but suddenly saw Apollo leaning over, touching her eyes lightly with his fingers, the golden pupils were faintly tainted with a smile, which was so warm that it almost melted her whole body.

He said: "Tell me, Colonis, did Diana say something to you again?"

Diana was stunned, not knowing where he deduced this from.

The smile in Apollo's eyes deepened, he gently stroked the corners of her eyes, and said in a low voice: "It seems that I guessed it right; Koronis, you don't know the existence of the Iron Age, the world except me With her, no one knows the existence of the Iron Age. I am the God of Prophecy in charge of the future, and Diana... has been to the future."

He gently touched her forehead, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Remember? You told me that it was in the Tempe Valley."

Diana was too shocked to speak: "You still..."

"I still remember." Apollo laughed lowly, the corners of his mouth curved into a beautiful arc, "I remember every word you said. When I feel uncomfortable, I think about it over and over again, Then, it won't hurt."

How many nights without her, he has deceived himself and paralyzed himself in this way.

The dull clay puppets in the Temple of the Sun, the stone sculptures carved by hand on Delos Island...

Pretending she was still around, pretending she never left him.

Like, now, like this.

Apollo closed his eyes, hugged her quietly for a while, and then stood up, the warmth in his eyes had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a slightly pale complexion.

He said, "You did a good job with Hittite intelligence, Colonis."

The two inexplicable and irrelevant words made Diana's heart ache again.

She gritted her teeth, put on her helmet, and carried a longbow and quiver on her back. She jumped down from the high city wall, and just landed on the back of a war horse that was rushing out of the city, and galloped towards the battlefield.

"Kill me—"

Apollo stood on the high city wall, gently closed his eyes, his long golden curly hair fluttered in the wind, faintly gloomy.

On the night when the moonlight was at its fullest, he exhausted all his strength to barely recall Diana for a moment.

Now lead clouds are densely covered, and the sky is not dark at all...

How could she come back?

It's just that Koronis' intelligence work is so good that he actually found out the source of the quenching technique used by the Hittites, that's all.

A few muffled thunders sounded in the sky, and big raindrops fell on the battlefield with a crackling sound.

This was the worst war, with countless casualties.

All the gods kept their promises and did not interfere.

The Hittites were finally frightened by the desperate female general in Greece. After filling her with the last arrow, the Hittites slowly withdrew from the border between the two countries and began to build cities and station troops on the border. The meaning of threat Very strong.

Diana was carried back from the battlefield by Apollo in embarrassment. The rain mixed with sweat and blood dripped from her body, and she was so painful that she lost consciousness.Fortunately, Apollo is the god of medicine, and after mixing several magic medicines, he pulled her back from the death line again.

Ephesus and Miletus also began to raise troops to confront the Hittites.

When the war seemed to have come to an end, Miletus, facing the sea to the south, received even more frightening news.

A new war broke out on the sea.

This time the protagonists are Atlantis and Athens.

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