To be king [Greek mythology]

He smelled a unique breath of gods.For so many years in Netherland, Minos was always particularly sensitive to these gods, "Who have you seen?"

"Tartaros," replied Thurpus, "the reality is worse than what we see, Minos, is Hercules back?"

"No, but I received a letter from him." Minos was very happy with Thurpus's frankness. Trust is the best way to maintain a relationship, especially at this sensitive time.

Surpus nodded and didn't ask any more details. He had no doubts about Minos' ability, and he also knew that Minos actually cared about him getting too close to Hercules. "You came here , what about other things."

"It's been dealt with, I'm worried about you, Thurps." Minos' beautiful eyes were full of worry.

Thurps touched his nose, and promised somewhat uncomfortable: "It won't happen in the future."

Minos, who hadn't thought Thurpus would let go, was a little surprised, but soon he became happy.

Thurpus looked at Minos, who was being led by his emotions, and his heart was in a mess-but they didn't have more time to get close, and there were still many things waiting for them to deal with in the new Syreis , they also need to prepare for the coming darkness.

"When do you plan to return to Crete?" Thurpus asked. He hardly has any team to use now. Those warriors who came to know him well.

Minos was in a good mood. He nodded and said, "I told Payris to go back first. I'm afraid it's a bit embarrassing if you don't have it now."

So I'm here to help you.

Thurpus and Minos understood what they didn't say, they looked at each other and smiled tacitly, and they felt a lot more relaxed.

The workload of renovating the city-state is quite heavy, especially for a city-state as extensive as the original Athens, it is particularly troublesome, but it has to be done.

As the darkness falls longer and longer, more and more people will come to take refuge and return to Syreis, not to mention the people from the original Syreis, even those refugees, it is impossible for all of them to be in Syreis. Turn it out.

The Cretan warriors who stayed in Syreis were too busy to touch the ground, and the Athenians, who realized that the king who broke Athens did not use the Athenians as slaves, gradually let go and helped The warriors worked together to clear the ruins and rebuild the city-state.

Thurps is quite satisfied with this thriving scene, and in this somewhat stabilized situation, Athens' prosperous literary and artistic atmosphere has gradually emerged.

For example, what the Athenians are best at is writing poems praising gods and others, as well as some messy gossip-the spiritual world of the people of Athens is always so rich.

Thurps felt helpless that people talked about his topic with Minos, but Minos was quite happy to see it.

This kind of sense of accomplishment after listening to the gossip of his lover and others for several years, and finally breaking the game is really refreshing. Minos feels that he is really a very satisfying person.

"Thurpus." Minos looked at Thurpus, who was facing a huge pile of materials, and paused. "The next question... What are you going to do?"

Thurps froze.

He glanced at Minos' expression, and realized that his lover had wanted to ask this question for a long time.

But Thurps, who had never met Tartarus before, could answer this question calmly, but after seeing him, he had no choice.

Thurps was silent for a while, and finally shrugged pretending to be relaxed: "Let it be."

Minos' eyes suddenly dimmed.

Thurps opened his mouth, wanting to explain something, but was interrupted by the warrior trotting in.

The first group of Syreisians sent back from other city-states arrived.

Chapter 96

In normal times, those city-states would never be so decisive in releasing people.

Things were not as Surpus expected. The news that he asked Hercules to bring the past made the city-state owners sell him a lot of face. After all, strictly speaking, slaves are not the people of the city-state, but the property of the citizens of the city-state.But the principle of spending money to eliminate disasters is valid at any time, not to mention knowing what the situation is now, and only the Sparta who occupied the city-state of Athens—no, it should be changed to the king of Syreis.

Normally, they would have to wait and see when they encounter such a strong rising king, but it is obviously unnecessary now. Anyone who has a quick mind can know that the recent events may have something to do with the gods, after all, most of them The king is more or less connected with the gods in terms of blood.

Even if they don't have any contact with the gods who are their biological parents, they are still much more sensitive to the changes in the world than those pure human beings.

Constant sacrifices to change the status quo are useless. Many city-states are not as favored by gods as Athens and Sparta, and have long been wrapped in darkness and coldness. Compared with these two city-states that still have the strength to fight, other city-states have already It's almost hard to survive.

The rulers of the city-state knew that it was not what they did that angered the gods, but that the gods abandoned the city-state.

This fact is somewhat difficult to accept for many rulers who have painstakingly managed the city-state and are always respectful to the gods they enshrine. However, even so, they have no way to criticize the gods.

If there is no one to rely on, then they can only unite with other city-states to survive—especially when King Syreis extended an olive branch through Hercules, who has a false godhead, and he was helpless in this situation. None of the rulers minded joining the alliance.

Surpus walked towards the place where the returning Syleisians were temporarily housed, while thinking about how to explain it to Minos.

As a person who knows the inside story, Minos is not as easy to fool as other people, no, it should be said that Thurps does not want to fool Minos.In this way, he didn't know how to express his future plans.

Finding those things that can replace the gods to support mankind through the dark age is the most ideal state in Thurpus' vision. Unfortunately, after seeing Tartarus, this idea is probably going to fail.

Tartarus took those things to support the existence of the entire world, and it was impossible for him to grab such important things from Tartarus.

Of course, it is impossible for him to put all his hopes on this possibility, but if he can get those things, he will feel much better during the most difficult period of time, which is the way to minimize the loss of human beings as much as possible .

But since it doesn't work, it can only be the next best thing.

The so-called second is to rely on human beings themselves. Strong willpower and desire are the source of human power, and it is also the reason why previous human beings provided the power of faith to gods.

Thurps, who has experienced the era without gods, clearly knows how strong the strength and vitality of human beings are, just like tough weeds, even if they are cut off in the middle, they can grow thrivingly, as long as the spirits of these generations are attached to the gods And the living people figured it out—or the human beings who died and got used to the world without gods would grow up quickly.

It's just that without the support of those treasures that can be born independently of the gods, it is a bit firm for human beings to survive the initial period.

In addition to the coldness and darkness, there are also monsters that do not know when they will appear to resist.

Not every city-state can become a warrior like Sparta, men, women and children.

"Surpus." Minos' voice interrupted Thurpus's contemplation, his eyes became gentle when he looked at Surpus, and then quickly buried the tenderness in his eyes, "Here we are."

Surpus looked at the Syreis who stood outside the palace a little uneasy, who had not yet been exiled from slavery, squinted his eyes, and cast his gaze on the city-state envoy who was walking in the front.

"I want civilians." With a stern tone, he asked, "Bringing slaves, is your king dissatisfied with the alliance and Syreis?"

When those city-states return people, they should directly remove their slave status and let these people return as civilians.

"No, no, honorable king." Lai Shi smiled wryly, "It is because the temple can no longer eliminate the slaves, and some of the slaves' imprints have disappeared. After a while, all of them will disappear."

Surpus didn't expect this, he raised his eyebrows, and glanced at Minos.

Minos nodded to him, indicating that there was indeed such a thing.

Thurps relaxed his majesty for a while, but just nodded his head, waved to let the warriors around him lead them away, turned and entered the palace hall.

He believed that the envoys sent by those city-states would have many questions to ask.

And, any alliance needs a leader. As a new city-state, even if it is established on the basis of Athens, Syreis cannot serve as a leader to convince the crowd.

What's more, the former Spartan king who ascended the throne of Syreis is said to have torn his face with Ares, the god of war, so they have nothing to fear or more scruples. What other city-states want to know, It's just how to get through this situation now.

Sitting on the throne, Thurps frowned slightly when he heard the envoy introduce the recent situation of their city-state and what he had seen and heard along the way.

The situation is much worse than he imagined, probably because Ares has always protected Sparta, what happened to other city-states