The two were moved by Davers's letter that "there will be a big and different sports day" and they came.

As a sign of respect, Davers invited them to the royal stand.

As soon as the two entered, they were attracted by the band that entered the arena.

"What's this music called? Sounds like a nice melody. Xenophon, like many of the Dionian allies, was moved by the light and powerful melody and asked curiously.

Before Davos could reply, Plato took over: "The March of the March, which must be played during the march of the Dionian army, was composed by King Davers. ”

Xenophon was surprised: "I didn't expect Davers to have talent in this area!" ”

Xenophon was still accustomed to using the usual name of his old days in Persia when he spoke to Davos in private, and Davos never cared, but he humbly said at the moment: "These are all a little inspiration from the great Hades, and it is the work of the palace musicians that they were finally accomplished." ”

"The tune is good! But how is it possible to bring so many different instruments, so many musicians together, to play such a harmonious and beautiful melody instead of creating a chaotic and noisy sound?! ”

It was not only Xenophon who was surprised, but almost all the Greeks in the audience were surprised, because traditional Greek music was mostly played by a single instrument, with occasional ensembles, and also between a few instruments and a few musicians. Let it emit a grand, heavy and layered melody?

"Do you know Ferosanus?" Plato asked Xenophon.

"Of course I know, I used to be a musical poet of Syracuse......" Xenophon hesitated for a moment and did not continue.

Ferosanus was famous in Greece for his innovative format and melody in musical poetry, and he also published poems at the Greek Games. After he joined Dionia, he made a greater breakthrough in musical poetry, but because his poems have some passages praising Hades and King Davers, he has been publicly condemned by several holy priests, and is not welcomed by the high-ranking of the Greek native city-states, but many Greek scholars have treasured his poems in private, and carefully experienced the improvement of his musical poetry format and rhyme.

"Philosanus is a teacher at the Faculty of Letters of the Dionian Academy, in addition to teaching his students how to write poetry, he is also studying how to make different instruments play harmonious melodies together, I have personally seen him organize students to play music, just like now, you see, the old man standing at the front of the band is Philosanus!"

The reason why Plato was so familiar with Ferosanus was because after he was expelled by the Athenian people in the Greek War, he ran to Turriyi with his students, accepted Davers's invitation, and served as a teacher in the Dionian Academy for a short time.

By this time, the band had circled the arena and entered the center of the arena near the royal stands, but the music continued.

"I see." Xenophon, although he also treasured the poems of Ferrosanus, he had never seen him, he stared at the old man in front of the band, who kept pointing with a wooden stick, and suddenly said: "In order for such a large band to play a harmonious melody, a commander, like the commander of an army, is needed to arrange the formation of the troops, and arrange who will attack first and who will attack later, so that the strength of the soldiers can be fully exerted and the victory can be achieved......"

Xenophon is worthy of being a scholar who wrote "On the Cavalry", using war as a metaphor. But orchestra conductor is not so easy to be able to do, and it took so many years of research for Ferrosanus to achieve a small success...... But Davers wasn't going to explain too much to dismiss Xenophon.

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Although Olympia did not send priests to participate in the training and selection of the referees of the Dionian Games, because Dionya promised that the Games would not be dedicated to Hades, Olympia accepted the invitation and sent a priest as a representative to watch the games.

The priest of Olympia, Pesias, sat in the VIP seat with a critical and prudent attitude, and while the other dignitaries were amazed by the magnificence and liveliness of the main arena of Hades and moved by the performance of the band, he scoffed at it: the games were the reverence of the gods and the love of sports by the Greeks, and these sensational things were useless!

At this time, he heard the host's shout: "Next, please invite the referee team of this sports meeting to enter!" ”

He immediately perked up.

The band's performance also changed from "March March" to "In Praise of Hades".

Accompanied by a calm and solemn melody, more than 200 priests in crisp white robes entered the arena in a loose column, and at the head of the line was a teenager from the Turriyi School, who solemnly held up a wooden plaque engraved with the words "Judges".

Behind the boy was an old priest with a smile on his face, and when he looked at the audience, the Dionian audience in the hall suddenly became excited: "It's Caldias!! ”

Caldias had been transferred back to Turiy as the chief priest 10 years ago because of his outstanding missionary performance in Rome, and in recent years, Plesinas had been in charge of the temple of Hades in the entire Turiy region due to his old age and lack of energy, and Plesinas also recommended him as his successor, and Davers agreed that he would be promoted to the priesthood of the scepter at the end of the year.

At this time, he, as the chief referee of the entire referee team, walked in front of the team.

As the referees marched forward, the Dionian crowd sang aloud hymns to the gods, as more and more of the temple priests were recognized by the crowd outside the arena.

The Greek audience, on the other hand, was amazed that there were many priests in the judging procession who were distinctly different in appearance from the Greeks, and through the chanting of the nearby Dionian audience, they learned that these aliens were partly from the temple of Hades and partly from other alien temples, such as the temple of Savoni in Samorae, the temple of Mahala in Bruti, the temple of Balhamun in Carthage, and the temple of Diana in Rome......

Although Olympia had also received a notice from Dioonia about the "Judges of the Priests of the Temples", at this moment, Pecias couldn't help but gasp in his heart when he saw so many priests of different gods and races walking in the same team so quietly and obediently on the field, and suddenly felt a trace of uneasiness in isolation: Is it only us Olympia and Delphi priests who did not participate?!

At this moment, he suddenly heard a Dionian senator next to him say in surprise: "That young man holding the sign seems to be Christopod, the grandson of His Majesty Davers?" ”

"No, he is! My youngest son, who was a classmate of him, was not selected for the opening ceremony of the sports day this time, and came home crying with me. ”

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The heated discussion of the Ionian officials in the VIP table naturally attracted the attention of the envoys of the Greek city-states, and after Dionya became the overlord of the Greek world, they would of course have a detailed understanding of the Dionian royal family: Hades. Davers. Christod, the grandson of King Davers of Dionya and the son of Crown Prince Cloto Kataz, is likely to be the next king according to the primogeniture of the Dionian royal family.

In the early days of Dionia, when the royal family of Cynthia and Crotocatacucks attended the Turiyi Inner City School (the school was in the easternmost part of the Klatty River Delta, next to the Dionian Academy), the population of Turii was not large at that time, and the children of the citizens of the inner and outer cities attended the Turiyi Inner City School, so most of the Turii people knew the royal family. By the time Christopher was studying, because of the expansion of the population of Turriy City and the complete establishment of royal prestige, not only was it difficult for children in the outer city of Turriy to enter the inner city schools, but Christopher was also protected by palace guards when he went to school, so it was normal for the vast majority of Dionian viewers not to know him when he first entered the theater today.

After his identity was revealed and the eyes of thousands of viewers were focused on him, the young Christopher would inevitably feel nervous, but fortunately, Calcides behind him had been comforting him gently: "Child, don't be afraid! The audience had no ill intentions, on the contrary, they were happy that there was a successor to the Hades royal family. Listen, they're cheering for you! You should give them a smile and show their appreciation! ”

Christopher's personality is more like his father, and he was carefully taught by his grandmother when he was very young, and he is very particular about dealing with people, so although he is still a little nervous, he still holds the wooden sign tightly, turns his head and tries to squeeze out a smile to the audience.

The crowd cheered even louder.

Soon, he walked to the front of the royal grandstand, and clearly saw that his family members were standing in front of the railing at the front of the stands: kind grandparents, gentle fathers, strict mothers, gentle aunts (Cynthia), more withdrawn second uncles (Apox), childish uncles, beautiful sisters-in-law...... They were all waving to him and smiling at him.