"I promised the big men to send you safely to Delos. I, Stolus, have always been good at talking, but don't trouble me, or I'll annoy me, and I'll send you to the sea to feed the fish!" The owner of the boat said viciously as he paddled.

"I don't like people pointing fingers at me!" The man suddenly snapped, "Tell you, I'm not going to lie in that stinking canopy again!" If you're not happy, you can push me into the sea now. ”

There was a majesty in the man's speech, and the owner of the boat did not dare to make contact with his sharp gaze, muttered a few words in his mouth, and then buried his head in paddling hard.

After a while, he saw that the man was staring at the shore motionless, and he couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked, "Hey, who are you?" Why Callistratus, Iphiclates ...... All these generals came to the docks to see you off?! ”

"Because...... I am their creditor! The man said angrily, and then meaningfully: "And because I am the sworn enemy of Dionia!" ”

This is true, because this man is Iason. After he fled into the city of Athens, the Athenian generals treated him with great courtesy, called in the best doctors to treat him, and freed up a luxurious mansion for him to nurse his wounds, but hoped that he would temporarily hand over the command of the mercenaries to the Generals' Executive Committee.

Under the low eaves, he had to bow his head, and Iason, like a lost dog, could only agree, and as a result, these nearly 8,000 mercenaries became the main force to resist the attack of the Dionian army, and suffered heavy losses. It was an elite army that had spent years of hard work and countless money to cultivate, and they were very loyal to Iasong.

But after Iason learned of this result, he did not show half of his complaints, which made the Athenian high-level a little embarrassed, so when Athens decided to surrender to Dionia, Calistratust talked to Iason, and made it clear that he was willing to take the risk and help Iason escape from Athens, because once Athens surrendered to Dionia, the Dioonians were likely to ask for this Thessalitagus.

Whether the Athenians wanted to cause trouble for the Dionians, out of guilt or reluctance, Iason knew he had no more choice.

At this moment, Yi Azon looked at the shore that was constantly lapped by the waves, thinking that his life's work had been ruined, and he was even forced to stay away from his homeland, and his heart was extremely annoyed and remorseful, and he couldn't help but want to go crazy. He suddenly knelt down, grabbed the side of the boat with both hands, and stuck his head directly into the water......

The owner of the boat was startled, hurriedly threw down the oars, ran over to pull him up, and shouted: "Get up quickly, don't be stupid, don't jump into the sea!" ”

With his hands propped up, Iason stood up suddenly, the cold water temporarily extinguished the anxiety in his heart, he wiped his head and face with his hands, and then threw the sea water in his hands towards the shipowner.

Seeing the owner of the boat dodging in embarrassment, he laughed, then looked up at the slowly rising sun, and said viciously: "Hurry up and row the boat, I want to rush to the east!" ”

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The surrender of Athens was like a domino topple, leaving all the Greek city-states who were still waiting to be left to chance. The city-states of Ellis, Phokis, Locris, Arcadia, and the Ionian city-states that were originally part of the Athenian Maritime League...... Emissaries were sent to the Dionian camp in Attica to express their goodwill to Klotocatax, and to offer to join the New Greek Alliance.

Under such a tendency, the city-states of Achaia, Eboeas, and even Crete, which had been neutral since the beginning of the war (Crete was forced by the 2nd Fleet of Theoria, and under the orders of the Ministry of War, Midorades led the 2nd Fleet and sailed around Crete every day...... They also made a gesture of willingness to serve Dionya as the leader of the alliance.

In this way, Delphi, which has not been moving, is particularly eye-catching. Many people speculate that Delphi, the holy land of the entire Greek world, may have to fight the heretical Dionysas to the end.

In fact, however, the priests of Delphi were already panicking, as there were rumors that Dionya was preparing to send an army to destroy Delphi and take all the gold and silver from the treasury.

So when they received the definite news that the Dionian prince Klotocatax was coming to Delphi under the escort of the army, all the priests and populaces of Delphi felt that a catastrophe was imminent, some of them packed up and prepared to flee the country, and some of them had already made up their minds to sacrifice their lives to protect the temple of Apollo......

All the eyes of the native Greek city-states were focused on Klotocatax, and they were all worried.

After the noble Prince of Dionya entered Delphi, although he violated the tradition of Delphi because of security problems, he led the palace guards up the mountain and into the temple, but he did not meet the priests, on the contrary, he was always pleasant, not only solemnly sacrificed to Apollo, but also offered to build a holy treasury in Delphi to store the gold and silver donated by Dionys.

The priests of Delphi let their guard down for a moment and began to negotiate with Klotocatax.

Crotocatacuses made a promise to the priests that Delphi's position among the native Greek people would not change after Dioonia became the leader of the new Greek League! And the Holy Kingdom of Dionya will not only guarantee Delphi's status as the "holiest oracle" in the Greek world, but also make it the greatest oracle of the entire Dionian Holy Kingdom, and the regions conquered and controlled by Dionya will also carry out this promise in the future!

This big pie suddenly fell from the sky made the Delphi priests ecstatic, you must know that since the rise of the Kingdom of Dionya, there are fewer and fewer city-states and people who come to Delphi to worship and ask for oracles, and now Delphi's sacred status among the Greek people is not as good as before, and this promise made by Dionya can not only restore Delphi to its former glory, but also rely on the strong strength of Dionya to make Delphi's influence beyond the Greek world and expand to the vast Mediterranean.

While the priests were overjoyed with joy, Crotocatacs made a request: but Delphi had to recognize the contents of the Hades issued by the main temple of Hades in Dionia, recognize Hades as the head of the Greek gods, and nominally accept the jurisdiction of the main temple of Hades.

The priests were stunned, but with the Dionian army sharpening their knives on the one hand, and a brighter and better future on the other, Delphi had no more choice.

The priests accepted Crotocartacs' request and soon began to act, performing a grand sacrificial ceremony in which all the Delphi were asked to participate, and then Clotocatacs asked the temple of Apollo for an oracle in front of everyone.

The old Pythia danced for a long time in the brimstone-scented oracle and almost fainted, and when she came out, she declared that she had seen the great Apollo leaping out of the mountains to the west in a golden chariot with a black-haired Hades with a double fork, and he was talking cordially with another young man wearing a crown on his head, and when the golden chariot rose into the air, it turned into a dazzling white light, illuminating the whole earth and the sea......

Everyone present immediately made their own interpretations of this oracle, and it was not long before a version of the oracle that everyone agreed on gradually spread in Greece itself: "The mountains to the west" refers to the Italian peninsula and the kingdom of Dionia, because Italy to the west of the Adriatic Sea is indeed a peninsula straddled by the majestic Apennine Mountains to the north and south, and the native Greek people often ridiculed the Dioonians as barbarians, and barbarians are often mountain races; "The golden chariot jumped out of Italy" means that Apollo identified with the Kingdom of Dionia, not to mention that he also drove for Hades, which already implies that Apollo has changed his flag and serves Hades as the main one; As for the other young man in the car, there is no doubt that it was King Dionia, for it had long been widely rumored in the Western Mediterranean that King Davers was a descendant of Hades, and Delphi had publicly acknowledged this claim on behalf of Greece proper; The last scene is a metaphor for the unprecedented glory of the kingdom of Dionia, and the glory of Hades and Apollo......

It can be said that the oracle made by the Pythias was very well thought out, but this oracle set off a storm in the minds of the native people of Greece. In contrast, what Delphi announced next was more acceptable to the populace: Delphi recognized the sacred name of the Kingdom of Dionys, the undisputed Greek kingdom, which would become an important member of the Holy League and fully qualified to participate in the Pythian Games.

Either way, Delphi survived, and it was a happy ending, and the Greeks were relieved. Of course, some city-states will be disappointed and frustrated, but to no avail.

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After a successful result at Delphi, Klotocátáz, who did not rest for long, went on to publicly announce that he would visit Olympia.

It was the turn of the Olympians to get nervous.

Unlike Delphi, Olympia was never a separate shrine, and for centuries it went back and forth between Ellis and Pisa, and Argos, Sparta, and Athens often pointed fingers at it; It also did not have the enormous influence of Delphi among the populace, perhaps because Zeus, the god-king, was not liked by the Greek people with his temperamental, lustful and lustful personality.