Christopod's second brother, Kremedes, clutched the railing with both hands and shouted excitedly.

His lively second aunt (Eunice) even waved her fists and kept shouting, "Chris, well done!" What a brave boy you are! ……”

Christopher smiled, this time from the heart, and this smile also took away the tension in his heart, and he held his wooden card high, led the referee around the court, and then entered the center of the arena to stand.

All the spectators were wondering why there was a wooden cart pushed behind the referee's team, and on the wooden cart was placed a half-human-high bronze basin supported by a golden copper pillar, and the answer was revealed: the priests of the cart pushed the wooden cart to the center of the arena, quickly dismantled it, and reassembled it into a small wooden platform, which was placed on the wooden platform, which looked like a simple altar.

At this time, the red flag was raised on the host stage again, and the audience gradually returned to quiet.

"Delegations of athletes from all regions of the Kingdom and participating city-states are invited to enter the !!"

In the passionate shouts of the host, the band immediately played the "March of Victory", and the cheerful and joyful melody sounded on the field, and the audience was in high spirits and looked forward to the entrance of the venue.

The athletes, who had been waiting outside the main arena for a long time, finally entered one after another under the command of the Dionian soldiers.

With the entry of the band and the jury before, the audience has begun to adjust to the novel opening ceremony of the Dionian Games, and they have begun to excitedly guess who the first athletes' delegation will be, and some have even made bets on it. The answer in the minds of many people is the Turriy region of the Sacred Kingdom of Dionia, because it is the center of this powerful kingdom in the western Mediterranean and the host of this Games, and it deserves to be the leader.

But when the young man Turii walked into the venue first with a wooden sign, and the audience could see the words on the wooden card, they were all surprised: Arcadia Alliance?! Why the Arcadian Alliance?!

Only some of the VIPs close to the royal stands could barely hear the host's voice from the cacophony: "...... In order to demonstrate the principle of 'equality and justice' advocated by the great god Hades in this Games, His Majesty the Wise Davers proposed to the Games Preparatory Committee that the order of admission of the sports delegations be arranged according to the order of the Greek letters of the names of the participating regions and city-states......"

The representatives of the Greek city-states were somewhat moved by the fact that Dionya had fulfilled the promise they had made in their invitation letter that "all participating city-states should be treated equally, regardless of size".

Lycomedes, who was whispering to Peropidas, learned that it was the Acadia League athletes' delegation that was entering the stadium, and immediately jumped to his feet, completely ignoring his precious status in the Arcadia League, and waved his arms at the athletes like other spectators from the Arcadian League, shouting loudly and cheering for them.

The city-states of the Acadia League are small in population and not very strong, but they are all historic Greek city-states, and they are close to the traditional four sports venues, and their traditional competitive level has always been not weak, coupled with the close relationship between Mandynia and Dionia, under the strong promotion of Lycomedes, the Arcadian League sent more than 50 athletes to participate in other sports except swimming, horse racing, racing and archery.

As soon as the athletes of the Arcadia League entered the arena, they were immediately enveloped in deafening cheers, which really startled them, these athletes had participated in the Games at least once, but they had never seen such a large number of spectators and such a glorious arena, and the cheers were like muffled thunder, rolling and reverberating in this circular space, which not only shocked them, but also ignited the blood in their hearts.

The frustration of waiting outside the arena was quickly put behind, and they also waved warmly to the audience, forming a good interaction inside and outside the arena, making the atmosphere even more enthusiastic.

As the Acadia delegation approached the royal stand, Davers and his family did not return to their seats, and one more person was added to the railing: the late Adoris' wife, Adoi. They smiled and waved at the boy holding the wooden sign, and shouted encouragement.

The boy kept walking and kept going, but his eyes were a little moist. The boy, who looked to be two years older than Christopher, was named Enon, and was the only son of Adoris. After the death of Adoris, both Crotocatacs and Davers felt guilty and took great care of Adoi and his son.

After the Arcadia delegation walked past the royal stands, the second delegation of athletes entered the arena, and the word "Argos" was clearly engraved on the wooden plaque, so that the distinguished guests of the allied countries completely believed what the host said: Dionia was indeed impartial and arranged the entry of the sports delegation in alphabetical order, without impartiality.

Argos is in a bad situation right now.

In the past, it had been trying to bring the fertile Agos Triangle in the northeastern corner of the Peloponnese under its control to counter the mighty Sparta, but several city-states in this area, such as Mycenaean and Tirinth, had always had conflicts of interest with Sparta's covert support, and even Cleone, which was under its control, (the site of the Nemenian Games), wanted independence from time to time.

Although after the Greek War, because of the timely surrender and the siege of Athens made some contributions, after many requests, he finally got the support of Dionia, and generally completed the unification of the Argos Plain region, and declared the "Argos Plains Alliance" to the outside world. However, Argos is an oligarchy, somewhat similar to Sparta, and lacks excellent political leaders like Peropidas and Lycomedes, and the simple and crude means implemented in the integration of the entire plain region in recent years have caused dissatisfaction among other city-states in the region, and conflicts have broken out, so this time Argos actively responded to the invitation of Dioonia and sent a team of more than 40 athletes, It was hoped that Dionysa would once again be supported by Dionysa when the issue of conflict in the Peloponnese Argos Triangle was discussed at the next meeting of the Greek League.

Although there were few Argos spectators in the arena, the enthusiastic Dionian crowd gave the Argos League players a friendly cheer as they did with the Arcadia delegation.

However, the formation of the Argos athletes' delegation is a little strange, the large number of Argos players gathered together and walked in front, and the small number of Argos allied players gathered together and dragged behind, there is a lot of distance between the two, and anyone who cares knows what is going on in their eyes.

Plato, who knew the inside story, asked directly: "What is Dionya going to do with the conflict on the plain of Argos?" ”

"This will be an important topic at the meeting of the Greek Union early next month. When the time comes, we will convene the main councilors of all the city-states of the Argos Plain to come and negotiate, and we will listen not only to the opinions of Argos, but also to the reasonable demands of the other city-states......" Davers looked serious and said implicitly: "Strive to come up with a plan acceptable to all parties and settle this dispute peacefully." ”

"The Argos and the Spartans are somewhat similar, conservative and stubborn, and have a long-standing and deep-rooted tradition of dominating the Argos Plains, and I am afraid that they will not compromise easily." Plato reminded.

"Originally, Argos's strength was insufficient, although there were some small battles with other city-states in the Argos Plain from time to time in the past, but basically it was able to maintain peace, and now Argos has strong support from Dionia, but it has intensified the contradictions in the region, resulting in today's tense situation, Dionya should bear a lot of responsibility!" Xenophon criticized unceremoniously.

"It's just that there were some conflicts, and no war broke out, and the situation was much better than before when there were battles at every turn, how can it be said that the contradictions were exacerbated—" Plato defended in place of Dionia.

"That's just because the Greek League has decreed that the city-states that cause war will be severely punished, so they are all exercising restraint—" Xenophon retorted.

"Isn't that the credit of Dionia? It was because of Dionia's establishment and leadership of the Greek League that there was a long-term peace in Greece itself-"

"I don't deny what Dionia has done in this regard, I just feel that Dionia has been somewhat inappropriate in dealing with the problems of Argos and the other city-states of the Plains of Argos—"

"You must know that in the process of Dionya pacifying Greece proper, Argos did provide some help, since Dionya could help Mandinian and Thebes integrate their respective regions, it is understandable to support Argos, after all, Mycenae and other city-states did not give Theoria any help throughout the Greek war."

"But it turns out that Dioonia made the wrong choice in the first place!"

"You can't let the wrong result negate the reasonableness of the decision in the first place! And it's not a bad thing to make mistakes, and Dionia can make improvements based on them. But I think that in the current situation, Argos still adopts the same oligarchy as the old Sparta, and it is almost impossible to lead the other city-states on the plains of Argos-"

"The former Sparta was not an oligarchy at all, but rather a mixture of kingship and democracy with more classical traditional virtues than the other native Greek city-states—"

This is the first time I've heard that, but I don't agree with it. First of all, let's see, is Sparta a kingship? ——”