Chapter 102: Gathering the Stars
As soon as Paris boarded the ship, the Olympian gods were smiling, and the game was about to begin. As the head of the gods who would stand on the side of the alliance of the Confederacy in the future, Hera, the queen of heaven, sent the messenger Aerys to Crete to find Helen's husband Menelaos and tell him the news that broke his heart.
When Menelaos heard the news, he immediately returned to Sparta, and when he saw that the treasure had been robbed and that Helen had left him, his heart was desolate and angry, and he raised his head and shouted: "Paris, I must make you cramp and bone, and the country will be destroyed, and you will go to the underworld to regret what you have done." ”
Menelaos then went to Mycenae to find his brother Agamemnon. As the current king of Mycenae, the hero of the expedition to the Golden Fleece, Agamemnon was also furious when he knew that his brother had been insulted by this.
But Agamemnon did not lose his mind, and he advised his brother to gather the heroes who had proposed to Helen and sworn to attack Troy together, so that the shameless prince of Troy would be punished by the heroes.
Menelaos took the advice and went to Pylos to find the older king Nestor and tell him everything. Nestor was furious and decided to go on his own expedition, taking with him his two sons, Trathymedes and Antilochus.
Others who were called to come with him included Diomedes, the son of Titius, king of Argos, Palamedes, the son of King Oboa, and Idomenius, the grandson of King Miros of Crete. There was even Hercules' friend Philoctetes, who possessed Hercules' bow and arrows, without which the prophet predicted that Troy would not be able to attack.
The prophet here is Calcas, and his teacher is Teresias, the disciple that Adros once accepted in the world. Teresias is now completely in Olympus and has a godly throne. I don't know what means he used to give his disciple Calcas the opportunity to obtain a god position and participate in the Battle of Troy.
In order to achieve victory for the coalition against Troy, Zeus sent the most famous prophet in the world to help the coalition army.
Although it is said that the victory or defeat in the world does not affect the overall situation, the demigods and monsters under the command of Olympus are basically gathered on the side of the coalition. If they were defeated, it was not known how many of these heroes would die.
Even the king of Athens, Theseus, who had broken into the underworld to kidnap Persephone, and was then rescued by his friend Hercules, came to the land of the alliance.
You must know that he kidnapped Helen and asked her to be his wife, but because of the delay in going to the underworld, Helen became Menelaos's wife.
It didn't matter if he didn't get Helen, but the prince of Troy followed his example. The most important thing is that the most beautiful pearl in the world really let him get it through this method, which made him angry.
In addition, King Theramon of Salamis and his son Ajax the Great, and the hero of Rocles, Oileus and his son Ajax the Younger, also came, as well as a host of heroes who had sailed with them.
All the heroes, along with their armies, converged on the shores of Mycenae, but the last two were still missing. Karcas, the prophet, told the heroes that without these two heroes, the expedition could fail.
These two heroes, one is Odysseus, who is known as the wise man of the world, and the other is Achilles, who is known as the strongest hero after Hercules. This was instructed by Zeus, Odysseus was a disciple of Sisyphus, Achilles was a disciple of the centaur Caron, Zeus thought that in the list of the Lord of the Stars, there must be these two heroes, or it was better to pull them into his own camp and wait for the opportunity to kill them.
Odysseus, the son of King Ithaca Raertes, was known for his wit, and when he was young, he met Sisyphus, who taught him how to become a human god, and was already an extremely powerful demigod hero.
Odysseus had just married his wife, Penelope, and had given birth to a son, Telemachus, so he was reluctant to go with him. Although he had courted Helen at the time, when he stumbled upon Helen's teacher, he dismissed his thoughts and sat back and watched Helen marry someone else.
When he learned that Menelaos, Agamemnon, Nestor, and Palamedes had come to Ithaca, he pretended to be mad and put oxen on the plough to plough the fields, and sprinkled salt into the fields, and went into the fields to plow the fields frantically, ignoring them.
Seeing his disguise, Palamedes put his son on the field, and sure enough, Odysseus stopped in front of the child, and Odysseus had to admit that he was pretending to be a fake, and had to fulfill his promise, and from then on Odysseus hated Palamedes and was determined to take revenge.
On the eve of leaving, when Odysseus said goodbye to his wife, he suddenly felt something strange outside the house. He hurriedly went out to check, only to see his teacher, Sisyphus, who had always looked like a teenager, smiling at him.
"Teacher, why are you here?"
Odysseus was pleasantly surprised, his teacher had never come to see him since he had taught him the method of becoming a god.
Sisyphus looked at the disciple in front of him, and he was also proud, he was not like Charon, there were disciples almost everywhere, but he only had this one disciple. This disciple may not be as strong as Hercules and the all-round talent of Iason, but his heart and wisdom are in the same vein as himself.
"This expedition to Troy, the water is very deep, and with the plan of the gods, more than half of the heroes will die. When you go this time, you must pay attention to safety, many times, danger comes from your side. ”
Sisyphus looked at his disciple with a look full of meaning, and did not make the words clear, but he believed that his disciple could understand. And he believed that as long as the gods didn't make a move, his disciples would definitely be able to deal with it.
After hearing this, Odysseus remembered a scene that happened during the day, his child was almost in danger, and his eyes sank: "Thank you for the teacher's reminder, Odysseus knows." ”
Sisyphus waved his hand and said, "It's good that you know, I have a treasure here, which I asked for from the teacher, and it may be able to save your life in the future." ”
After saying that, he took out an ordinary star stone and solemnly handed it into the hands of Odysseus.
"Your teacher, His Excellency Evangelist Iathion, is not already ······"
The next words, Odysseus did not say, he believed that Sisyphus could understand what he wanted to say.
Sisyphus smiled slightly: "What kind of existence is the teacher, how can he be easily killed, everything before is just a play." ”
After speaking, he instructed Sisyphus: "The matter of Teacher Iathion is our most important secret, you know it, and you can't pass it on." ”
Odysseus nodded repeatedly, his eyes full of conviction, it turned out that His Excellency the Preacher was not dead.
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Another unarrived hero was Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thetis, who was destined by fate to be a tragic figure of great heroes.
Thetis, the goddess of the sea, had prophesied that Achilles would die, and when Achilles was a baby, she dipped her son in Styx with his heel, making him invulnerable. His father, Peleus, gave him over to his teacher, the centaur Caron, to teach, so that he could use all kinds of weapons.
Knowing the dangers of this war, Thetis hid Achilles in the palace of Lycomedes on the island of Schyros to prevent him from appearing in the eyes of the public. As for the divine position, she had already made up her mind to ask for a Cancer constellation from Adros for Achilles to use.
But fate always does not go according to people's wishes, and the prophet Teresias leaks Achilles's whereabouts and informs the visitors that Achilles is wearing women's clothes and is not easy to identify.
Odysseus and Diomedes came to the palace pretending to be merchants, and put the goods in front of the palace, and the princesses loved to look at jewelry, only Achilles was looking at weapons, and at this time there was a sound of sword strikes, in fact, this was sent by Diomedes outside the palace, and Achilles, who was dressed in women's clothes, thought that there was an enemy, and immediately prepared to kill the enemy with weapons, so he was recognized.
Upon receiving the news of the conquest of Troy, Achilles was glad to be part of the war, and he also brought his two friends, Fortnik the Wise and Patroclus, to the battlefield. Peleus knew that this was his fate, so he gave Achilles the armor given by the gods when he got married, the horse given by Poseidon, the god of the sea, and the spear of Charon.
Thetis looked worriedly at her beloved son in the distance, and suddenly the voice of the prophet Prometheus came from behind her: "You don't have to worry, Achilles' strength, as long as Hercules doesn't make a move, I'm afraid that none of the demigods in the world can compare with him." ”
The beautiful goddess of the sea sighed: "Although the demigods of the world are not defeated by Achilles, but what about those gods? ”
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Just as the coalition forces gathered heroes from all sides, the city of Troy also got the news. The first king of Troy, Tros, who had been Adros's test subjects, and his son Iros, the two demigod heroes, appeared.
They were followed by a host of other demigod heroes. Over the years, Troth's father, the old river god Scamandros, has made friends everywhere, and between heaven and earth, he has many of his friends. This time, I heard that the city of Troy was under attack, and many gods sent their own heirs or gods to help in the war.
These gods may not be great gods, but they are numerous, and the people sent to stand together can form a small army.
In contrast to the Greek Alliance, there were also many kings of states who came to Troy to help, including the famous cities of Tenedos,, Pedas, and Rurnais, and even the cities of Thebais, which were on the same level as Athens, also sided with Troy.
Among the people who came to Troy to help, the most striking was undoubtedly Iason. The prince, who led many heroes to capture the Golden Fleece, took the throne from his uncle, and then, under the arrangement of Caron, led his army to Troy to help.
He was joined by most of the remaining human heroes on the Argos, and the rest were already on their side, under the command of Agamemnon, to meet them.
Similarly, the two heroines, Medea and Atalante, also stood on the walls of Troy, waiting for the arrival of the coalition army.
The two sides that are about to fight can already be said to have gathered all the forces of the entire human world. Not only that, but some mysterious and powerful monsters have also reappeared in the human world to fight side by side with human heroes.