Chapter 370: The Athenian City-State
"I really want to thank Thrawn!"
Wearing a freshly acquired leather armor, the Duke touched his chin and said.
What is the first element of crossing the Atlas?
That's the language problem!
Even if you are proficient in all kinds of black technology, you can build rockets and rub chips at the bottom, you must be able to communicate with people to get room to play.
When he first traveled to the Marvel world, it was a soul fusion, and he had learned English anyway, so there was no communication problem.
And now, this world is obviously not dominated by English, if it weren't for the fact that Thrawn insisted that he master the reading and writing of Latin as a housekeeper back then, I am afraid that he would really be blackened by now!
After half a day of inquiry, Conrad had a rough idea of the time period he was in.
The place where he is located seems to be called Kasos, which is a small island country with a total population of only a few thousand people, and is under the rule of the king of Crete.
The official language is Greek, but Latin is also available.
Based on the historical memories in his mind, the Duke speculated that he must have traveled more than 2,000 years in one breath to the legendary Greek city-state era.
Ancient Greece is known as the cradle of Western civilization, and all kinds of popular myths and stories, such as Zeus and Athena, are all products of this era.
And the famous Spartan warriors are also representatives of this period.
But this was also his estimate, because there were no well-informed bards on this island, and the people he met were natives who had lived on the island since childhood, and no one knew anything about the other side of the Aegean Sea.
It is possible that the island owner knows a little more information, but at the moment he has not fully grasped the information of the whole world, so it is better not to be too alarmed.
You must know that slavery was still prevalent in the Greek city-states in those days, and the freedmen with citizenship held all the power, and those slaves were not treated as human beings outside of the freedmen.
At the beginning, two slave traders who were not long-sighted hit him with the idea, after all, the Duke's height of nearly two meters and his strong physique, if he could be sold to Athens or Sparta, he would definitely make a lot of money.
Strong gladiators are not only the king's favorite, even if they are used to please the gods, they are sure to make a profit!
Of course, those two slave traders with bad eyes, along with their elite slave hunting teams, have become the nourishment for Conrad to restore his magic.
However, after fighting, he found that the physical fitness of the people here was obviously much stronger than that of the earth in the twentieth century, and the combat captains of the two slave capture teams obviously had second-level combat ability.
This is just a small slave trader on a remote island, and he can have such strength under his command, so you can imagine what kind of strength Athens and Sparta, the most famous Greek city-states, should have.
And according to the gossip of passers-by, Conrad learned that there really seemed to be gods in this world, so before he knew how deep the water in this world was, he decided to find out before making a decision.
There is no decent temple on Kasos Island, after all, it is only a small island covering an area of only a few dozen miles, and naturally it cannot afford to build a magnificent temple.
It took a day to search the entire island, but I didn't find the figure of the woman in Wonder Woman, thinking that the other party should have been hit by the turbulence of time and space to other places.
Although slave traders are rampant in these years, with Wonder Woman's skills, she will not be caught by those slave traders, so she shouldn't have to worry about the other party.
I don't know if I'll be able to find a way back.
The Duke looked at the sun that was about to set and sighed softly, if he couldn't go back, wouldn't he have to live in this kind of place for the rest of his life?
The era of the Athenian city-state was not a good time, and probably for those who like to study the history of the ancient West, they will definitely boast that it was an era of individual democracy and freedom, where all citizens had their own legal rights and interests, and every citizen was sacred and inviolable.
But really in this era, Conrad just wants to say hehe to those brick beasts!
According to his observations, the total population of the entire island of Kasos is about 6,000, but it seems that only 400 people actually have citizenship.
The remaining 5,000 or so are all slaves!
Citizens themselves are the name of the ruling class, and naturally they have all kinds of privileges.
And slaves, in the eyes of all the citizens of the Athenian city-state, were non-human beings, consumables that could be disposed of at any time.
In these days, citizens did not need any reason to torture slaves, and the status of slaves was no different from that of domesticated animals.
But no matter how miserable the life of those slaves was, Conrad had nothing to do with it, and he didn't come to overthrow slavery.
Seriously, if he can't find a way back, he might soon become the biggest slave owner in the entire Athenian city-state!
Thanks to the two bad-eyed slave traders, Conrad retrieved a lot of currency from them, mostly bronze and silver, but it was a lot of money compared to the economy of Kasos.
According to the name of the Athenian city-state, the bronze currency should be called Estyrs, the silver currency should be called the dinar, and the top-of-the-line gold coin should be called Orray.
Conrad naturally didn't bother to remember those messy names, so he used the setting of the krypton gold online game and called it copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins.
Today has been a day of probing, and now it's time to digest it.
After adjusting the leather armor on his body, this dress is indeed a bit small, after all, his body is much stronger than ordinary people, and it is really uncomfortable to strangle his body.
The Duke strode towards the city in the middle of the island, he had been out looking for information during the day, and now that he had more or less of it, he felt that he should go to the city.
And on the other side!
"Damn, what the hell is going on with these people?"
Diana shouted sadly as she looked at the crowd chasing after her.
In her heyday, Wonder Woman can be regarded as a master even in the fourth level, otherwise she would not have chased Conrad in all directions just now.
But as we all know, the reason why Wonder Woman was able to exert such a strong combat power was that her god costume played a key role.
It's like Iron Man without the Iron Suit, it's completely a sports wastewood, and a random little elite monster can kill him.
Since landing in this strange place, Diana was surprised to find that all the divine power equipment on her body had lost her divinity.
While Vulcan's Sword and Divine Power Shield can still be used, without divinity, these pieces of equipment have no other purpose than being durable.