Chapter 608: Do You Want to Be King?
The selection of the Order of the Greeks is either decided directly by the gods, or the gods perform miracles and are chosen by all the Greeks, and only if the number of people who support them exceeds seventy percent, they can be awarded.
Once you have this medal, whoever wants to move Su Ye in the future needs to think clearly.
However, these are not important, what is important is that all the recipients of the Greek Order are clearly professing their belief in the gods and are devout citizens.
Su Ye is a magician.
Magicians are not against the gods, and some are willing to worship them, but they can never be religious.
What does it mean to give a Greek medal to a person who may not believe in God?
This meant that the Greeks did not have to believe in gods!
One of the Sanctuary adjudicators whispered, "Indeed, his merit is sufficient, and if he can really defeat Persia, we should apply for the Greeks for him." However, the Greeks had a great deal to do, and they needed to be tested by the temples until he reached the age of 18 before he could be officially awarded. ”
Some of the adjudicators suddenly came to their senses and supported Su Ye's application for the Order of the Greek.
Aldis glanced at those people with a disgusted gaze, and then said, "Let's go to Thermopylae Pass, set up a temporary judgment office, and see who is the culprit of the murder of the Greek soldiers, who is the murderer of the defeat in the Tempe Valley, and who is the real, blasphemous person!" ”
The temple carriages in the sky turned and flew away from the small plain.
From the sky, the Persian army had completely captured the fortress of the Tempe Valley, and the whole army was resting.
On the road from the Tempe Valley to the small plain, part of the Persian army marched from north to south to Thermopylae.
However, they piled up not far from the small plain, so that the large army in the rear had to temporarily stop advancing and stay in place.
The Persian generals who stayed on the road were caught in endless meetings and squabbles, and no one knew how to deal with what they called the king of hell.
They summoned the fortress of Tempe Valley, but received no response, and it seemed that the hero king Gilgamesh had returned to sleep in the Hero's Palace, and no one dared to disturb him at this time.
And Xerxes didn't know when he suddenly disappeared, so hated that the Persian generals could only scold the coward.
In the early morning of the second day, when the sky was bright, Su Ye led everyone to retreat to Hot Spring Pass, leaving only four soldiers to guard.
They are the earth arrogant sky, the ice wind double queen and the lamp god.
By noon, the Persian battalion finally received an order to continue the pursuit.
As a result, the Persian army began to charge.
The earth arrogant heavenly people didn't say much, and they continued to release fire-based magic, and the flame impact burned a large string.
The Ice Wind Twin Queen used this place as a practice ground for fusion magic, constantly using the Ice Wind Twin Magic, the width of two hundred meters was simply not enough for two people, and large mountain slopes or mountain walls were often blown down.
The god of lights is much more comfortable, only using earth magic, all kinds of enlarged traps, quicksand, swamps, and collapse spells to disgust the Persian army, if the enemy destroys the trap closely, immediately use boulder impact, earth explosion, super gravity, trench technique, etc., the effect of blocking the enemy is extremely strong, and the destructive power is not weak.
With just four small soldiers, the Persians rushed all afternoon, losing more than 50,000 people, and still did not rush over.
In fact, the destructive power of the four people alone is not enough to threaten the Golden Warriors, especially not enough to threaten the powerful Hero Guard.
But the problem is that the Wind's Peel talent is simply the nemesis of all warrior mages, and once it encounters a wind attack, all the protection is as brittle as paper.
After another day of delay, the magicians finally relented, consumed extremely expensive magic materials, and made windproof cloaks for thirty heroic guards, directly insulating wind magic.
Subsequently, the golden warriors struck from the mountain wall and descended from the sky to kill the queen of the wind.
However, the death of the Wind Queen angered the Ice Queen, who immediately inspired the Heroic Spirit to call, and her body became larger, and the terrifying Freeze Ball exploded, instantly freezing all the Golden Warriors.
Gold is not legendary.
This time, the Wind Queen was resurrected because of the power of magical rebirth, and killed thirty golden warriors with the Ice Queen, the Lantern God, and the Earth Proud Sky.
When the Persians saw this scene, they were almost in despair, the Persian lamp god killed the Persian heroic guard, what could be more painful than this scene?
Since it was effective the first time, the Persian army repeated its old trick and once again sent thirty gold-rank heroic guards to put on the windproof cloak and kill the Wind Queen.
The Wind Queen failed to resurrect again.
Subsequently, the rest of the Golden Warriors and Golden Mages swarmed up and killed the Ice Queen and Earth Proud Heaven twice.
The god of the lamp is not angry, and once he dies, he is resurrected in the magic lamp, and he cannot be resurrected directly in the same place.
Even so, they paid a total of seventy-five gold.
The Persian army hit the road again and finally arrived at Thermopylae.
The Thermal Pass is one of the most precipitous checkpoints in Greece.
On one side is the tall and straight wall of Mount Romus, which cuts off the possibility of a detour for the army.
On one side is the reef-ridden Gulf of Maris, which affects the assistance of the Navy.
At this pass, there is a fortress that has been reinforced for more than half a year, and the interior of the mountain wall has even been hollowed out by magicians, enough to garrison a full army of 100,000.
And the narrowest part of the hot spring pass can only allow more than ten people to fight side by side.
100,000 people, enough to completely saturate the Hot Springs Pass Fortress.
So much so that the battalion of the Greek coalition army had to be placed more than ten miles behind the Thermosen Pass, to guard against the old methods of the Persians, and use the navy to transport troops to the rear of the Thermosen Pass, and then attack back and forth to conquer the Thermosen Pass.
On Mount Romus, there is a rugged path that leads to the rear of the Thermothermal Pass, but a strong fortress that is not inferior to the Thermothermal Pass has long been established there, and it is ten times more difficult to attack it than the Thermothermal Pass.
Between the gray stone walls and the blue sea, the hot springs are like a giant beast devouring people, quietly watching the Persians in front of them.
The Persian army was too numerous to appear in front of the Thermometries, and had to be stationed on a plain more than a dozen miles away.
Su Ye arrived at Hot Springs a day earlier than the Persians.
As soon as I arrived here, I received great news.
The Judgment of the Gods conducted a trial on a very large scale.
The head of a demigod family abdicated.
Three Hero Families were reduced to Legendary Families.
The five Legendary Families and the Seven Sanctuary Families were completely abolished, and their descendants were disqualified from being promoted to nobility for a hundred years.
After the people of these dozen families got the news, they cried so much that some even committed suicide.
Five Sanctuary generals were exiled, twelve golden generals had their military exploits cleared, and half of the generals of the coalition headquarters were punished to varying degrees.
The news shocked the whole of Greece and the whole world.
It is also the largest ruling in Greece in decades.
Su Ye immediately contacted Wang Da Hammer and asked Gorrow to acquire the medals, hero statues and related collectibles of these families.
The entire coalition headquarters still has command authority, but it does not include Hot Springs.
The command of Thermopylae had been delegated to Mitaides by the Temple, and Su Ye was the deputy commander, while still serving as the deputy commander and de facto commander of the Knights of the Protectorate.
The coalition headquarters was completely silent.
Meteorium and Suye became taboo in the headquarters of the coalition forces, and everyone understood that at least until the end of the Greco-Persian Wars, they were equivalent to the chief priests of the temples.
No more magic messengers flying around, no more complaining generals.
The generals of Hot Springs were smiling all day long, and they were happier than they were when Xerxes was repulsed.
In addition to this, Onsenseki also received a new piece of good news.
Admiral Themis has led a coalition of Greek navies to the Strait of the Hunter to stop the Persian navy. Avoid the landing of the Persian navy from behind the Thermopylae Pass.
Prior to this, there were also nobles in the naval alliance who made trouble, saying that they would never support Su Ye and Mitaudes, and then they were beaten by Themis and their faces were swollen, they stripped off their clothes and kicked out of the navy.
When the Persian horn sounded, Su Ye and other generals stood on the inner city wall, looking ahead.
The gray mountain wall rises on the left, the deep blue water ripples on the right, and on the narrow road ahead, a small group of Persians slowly approaches.
The castle wall of Onsen Pass has been transformed into a three-story white stone structure.
The outer layer is about eight meters high and twenty meters wide. It was full of soldiers, and a dense array of powerful crossbows were placed.
The outer layer was followed by the middle floor, twelve meters high and equally twenty meters wide, equally full of soldiers and crossbows.
Finally, there is the inner city wall, which is twenty meters high, and it is also where Su Ye and other generals are located.
On top of the white inner wall, the generals looked solemnly ahead.
If there is no royal flag, it means that Gilgamesh has not arrived.
This place can't put his hero's palace.
The team was not the right number, it was like a diplomatic mission.
"The old Persian tradition is up......" Medels said.
The crowd nodded slightly.
If Persia had great confidence, it would have swept the enemy directly, as Xerxes had done in his attack on Proguan.
However, once the Persians found that they had to pay a huge price, they would inevitably choose to surrender.
However, this trick worked very well for the Greek city-states.
Finally, the diplomatic corps came to a halt in a relatively wide clearing a hundred meters outside the city walls.
The Persian nobles, led by the Persians, wore ornate robes, and every part of the body from head to toe was inlaid with gold and silver, like a human-shaped luxury showcase.
The Persian looked up at all the people on the wall, and with a blank expression, he took out a parchment scroll and read it out as if no one was around.
"On behalf of the great King of kings, King of nations, Lord of the world, Emperor of Iron Blood, and First ...... Darius, the great Persian Emperor, as well as the King of Heroes, the Blood of the Demigods, the Godslayer, the Lord of Uruk, the King of Sumer...... The Great Hero King Gilgamesh ......"
Dozens of titles were slowly pronounced, Su Ye yawned, and then asked sleepily: "I just slept a little, and I haven't finished reading this yet?" ”
The generals laughed secretly.
“…… Lay down your spears and swords, surrender your water and earth, and submit to the Persian Empire, which will grant you equal Persian citizenship and grant you absolute protection. The first warrior of Hot Springs Pass to surrender will become a nobleman of the Sanctuary. The first general to surrender will become a legendary nobleman! If you surrender to the Holy Land, you will become a legend, and if you surrender, Persia will help you become a demigod! ”
"Finally, I read the blood of the king of heroes, the demigods...... The great hero King Gilgamesh's message: Su Ye, I have a heart of love, as long as you join Persia, I will abdicate, and the new king of Uruk will be inherited by you, and help you become a legend as soon as possible. ”