To be king [Greek mythology]

He directly stepped through the city gate with a degenerate momentum, killed those who did not want to surrender, and left those who surrendered. Ares would let them deeply understand how harshly the Spartan warriors were treated on weekdays.

After more than half a year, those warriors who surrendered became a member of the Spartan warrior team.

In the past six years, it was Hercules who had the most fun jumping.

He became famous because he directly poked a hole in the shoulder of Hades, the king of the underworld, and successfully brought out Cerberus from the underworld. The king who had been embarrassing him suddenly withered. Make things difficult for him.

This directly caused Hercules to like to run to Sparta when he had nothing to do.

And this Hercules, who can always anger the favorability of warriors, is in Sparta like a duck to water, and his reputation is close to Thurps.

This time, Argos was successfully captured, and Hercules contributed a lot to it.

Of course, Thurpus has been extracting benefits from Ares and Hercules, and Prometheus has been teaching Thurpus all these years.

What to teach?

Teaches divination.

Thurps never thought he could really learn this stuff.

Prophecy is not the same as imagined, it is not a divine art to predict the future as it literally means.

It's about "telling the future".

To be more precise, prophecy is a description of the future.

To describe it in terms that are more acceptable and familiar to people, divination is a kind of speech.

It was a kind of magical art of "what I say is the future".

Thurps completed the prophecy given to him by Professor Prometheus for the first time. Two years ago, he uttered the prophecy that "a well will be drilled in the west city in two days".

When Ares heard about it, he sent someone to dig a hole in any place in the west city.

Then Thurps fell seriously ill and lay weak in bed, unable to move. Two days later, a well was actually dug in West City.

In fact, Thurps did not see such a future.

He just said this future for the purpose of practicing the prophecy, and then the spell was successful, and this thing happened.

Of course, there is a price to pay.

He is not a divine body like Prometheus, his body is just an ordinary human being, and after successfully casting a prophecy once, he will not dare to try again easily.

Such weakness really made people feel insecure, Thurps even felt the breath of Thanadus in his drowsiness.

If it were not for the presence of Typhon's tooth, Surpus wondered if he would have died on the hospital bed.

And Prometheus is still teaching him a deeper level of prophecy.

Some prophecies made by Prometheus.

For example, human beings will eventually rule the world instead of gods. He said it with prophecy, not the future he saw as a prophet.

The price was that he was deprived of his godhood and locked up on the Caucasus Mountains to suffer for 3 years.

——Stealing fire for humans is far from making Zeus angry like this.

Everything in the world is destined to be balanced. Prometheus understands this very well, so he has no complaints about the 3 years of suffering, and he will not feel anything if there are no humans to visit him.

It is precisely because of a certain balance that most prophets do not know how to predict.

The first is that they cannot learn, and the second is that no one teaches them.

Prometheus said to Thurpus that usually only a very bad future is what the prophets really see with their own eyes.

Because in the face of a bright future, the prophets will not say much, they are worried that the mentality of others will change after speaking out, which will lead to changes in this beautiful future, but once they foresee bad things, they will speak out to tell People, hope to be able to redeem or avoid.

There are not a few cases where future disasters have been avoided because of the prophet's foresight, which is also the most important reason why prophets are highly sought after and valued among human beings.

Prometheus told Thurps many things, and frequently refreshed Thurps' understanding of the group of prophets.

While thinking, Hercules sat down next to him with a barbecue in his mouth and a glass of wine. While chewing on the barbecue, he mumbled, "You don't go out with them every time."

"The king must maintain the majesty of the king, and I am a prophet." Thurps said, moving aside, and replied.

"It's not good for you to be like this. As a leader, how can you not get along with your subordinates." Hercules said, "Soldiers have simple minds. I just heard from them that many people admire you."

Thurps raised his eyebrows, "I'm just the king who conquered himself, not the leader of the warriors, what do you admire me for?"

Hercules' answer was rather brusque: "You look good."

Thurps: "..."

He felt that he needed to have a good talk with the leader of the Warriors, whether there were any strange rumors in the Warriors recently.

When the number of Spartan warriors was too large to manage, Thurps finally persuaded Ares to toss the hierarchy of the warriors. Of course, there will not be only one supreme leader. Although centralization is good, it is too tired. Warriors are going to fight and conquer, so they shouldn't spend too much time on the management of the army.

And the warriors are most convinced, the first is nothing but Ares, the second is strength, fight in pairs, and fight again if you win, and finally select twenty of the best, and each manage a part of the people.

This simple and crude method is definitely not possible in other city-states, but in Sparta, it works extremely well.

The elected leader is not only unassuming, but also quite sturdy in combat, and the other warriors are also very obedient, not to mention that they can challenge the leader at any time, and if they win, they will be the new leader.

Of course, it would be best if this group of warrior leaders didn't always run up to him and do weird things.

Like... courtship or something.

The ethos of Sparta is really too tough, and the habit of snatching marriages seems to be a matter of course.

He was once dragged into a tent by a warrior, wagging his tail and courting him. At that time, Ares and Prometheus were also by his side. The two gods reacted quickly and fished him out of the tent, and made a solemn statement to the warrior. You can't treat the king like this, Thurps feels that he has probably suffered a lot.

Thanks to his high psychological quality, another little girl must be scared to cry.

"Why did you fight Argos?" Hercules asked, "Looking at what you did before, I thought you were just playing tricks."

Thurps decided to attack Argos without warning, and even Argos didn't react.

Although Sparta has a high sense of presence in the past few years, it has never left the ruling area of ​​Sparta's own city-state.

All the large city-states around thought that Sparta was sorting out the small and medium-sized city-states in the area under its rule, and reorganized the city-states that had started to bounce around because of Sparta's defeat to Athens over the years. They never thought about it Sparta, which had been stable for six years, suddenly took action against Argos.

The raid came without warning.

"How can I just play around, I said, I want to win Athens." Surps reiterated his goal, "I promised the warriors of Sparta, and I also promised Ares. "

Of course, the most important thing is for himself.

Hercules pouted, "Then go to Athens."

"Corinth is a city-state that believes in Aphrodite. Aphrodite can mediate from it to form the most stable alliance with Sparta. On the other side of the isthmus of Corinth, across a river is the Attica region. Argo Siheng is between Corinth and Sparta." Thurps paused, "I won't fight Argos."

What's more, after so many years, the Spartan warriors are also eager for a big victory.

It's not a crush against those small city-states, but a tit-for-tat fight with large city-states.

It's just that I didn't expect that Argos' combat power was so weak that it was shocking.

Although Hercules traveled a lot, he didn't have any research on the strategic significance. He just shook his head and looked at Surpus.

"Sometimes it feels like you're really boring." Hercules said sincerely, pointing to Thurps' face, "Your expression is getting less and less."

Because you have to hide your emotions.

Thurpus didn't want to say this to Hercules, he just held out his hand to Hercules, "Give it to me."

Hercules was taken aback for a moment, then reacted quickly, sneered and joked: "I thought you didn't want it."

As he spoke, he opened his animal skin pocket, turned out two leaf papers full of words, and handed them to Surpus.

Ever since Hermes cheated Hercules last time, the envoy has always felt guilty in his heart. When he was separated from Hercules, he patted his chest and said that if there is anything he can use in the future, he will Just call him directly.

Hercules originally thought that Hermes' polite words later, he didn't take it to heart, but after he went to Sparta five years ago to mention the incident to Surpus, Hermes became a The messenger of Minos and Thurps.

In the past few years, Thurps and Minos have exchanged letters frequently, but Hermes is not idle every day, sending two letters a month is already the limit.

"Not before because you can't affect your emotions before the battle." Thurps said and opened the letter.

The war with Argos didn't last long—it should be said that the speed with which this war ended was completely beyond Thurps' expectations.

In just three months, the Spartan warriors broke open the gate of Argos and captured the king and the leader of the warriors.

According to the custom, the king and the successor of the city-state were killed, and the warriors killed or stayed according to the situation, and then