Pericles followed the plan and easily eliminated Eubia, greatly alleviating the Teneinian League's national power disadvantage.

As a result, King Leonidas of Sparta, who had originally planned to march to the sacred city of Delphi to seek the oracle, was forced to postpone his expedition and continue to accumulate national strength.

Pericles was very satisfied with this and trusted Seleucus even more.

Athens, in the Archon's Palace.

Pericles was discussing the world situation with Seleucus.

"Your Excellency, Archon. I believe that reinforcing the long wall in the southwest and temporarily adopting a defensive stance is the right thing for our Tinian Alliance!" said Seleucus.

"But in this way, Sparta will still have more land and can train more troops! In the long run, we will only decline slowly. It is better to take advantage of the opportunity of destroying Eubia and greatly boosting national strength and morale, and go south to attack Corinth and give it a try!" Pericles replied.

"Attacking Corinth? Not appropriate! Corinth is also a powerful country, and it guards the famous isthmus. If we attack Corinth by force, even if our army wins, we will suffer heavy losses! Not weakening Sparta head-on, but fighting a war of attrition with its little brothers will be greatly disadvantageous to Athens!" Seleucus shook his head.

"Of course I know that Athens is at a disadvantage! But there's nothing we can do about it! If we don't take Corinth, we won't be able to border Sparta at all! And relying on the navy to transport insufficient troops to land on the coast of Sparta is simply delivering food to Sparta! You should know that the Spartan heavy infantry is the strongest army in all of Greece! One can fight ten or even one hundred, no problem at all!" Pericles retorted.