Chapter 334: Catch and breed? (4.2k)
The female knight who had left the team controlled her horse with superb riding skills, easily crossed the obstacles on the battlefield, and came to the collapsed ruins.
"Are you the queen of the Amazons?"
King Admetus walked over with a big smile on his face, ready to exchange some feelings with the leader of the reinforcements.
The female knight glanced at the King of Thessaly and shook her head slightly.
"It was before, but not now..."
"?"
Admetus was confused when he heard this.
The female knight did not explain much, she just dismounted and looked at a figure behind the crowd.
"Well, my mission is accomplished. From now on, I am at your disposal."
"???"
Instantly, King Admetus and the surrounding city defenders who heard this were stunned. They turned their heads at the same time and looked strangely at the person who was trying to get into the shadows.
"I've already said it, it was a misunderstanding..."
Loen stopped and, under everyone's curious gaze, reluctantly spoke to clarify.
In the previous battle in the underground temple, he was blown to the ground by the divine power released by several divine emblems.
Just as he climbed out of the pit, he happened to run into the Amazons who were marching at a rapid speed.
Both sides were unaware of each other's identities and were all in a state of nervousness, so when several Amazon female warriors saw the sudden appearance of blockers, they instinctively shot arrows. Then the two groups who met on a narrow road inevitably fell into a melee.
Although the Amazons have strong individual combat capabilities, Loen still managed to clear this temporary copy alone with his superior skills.
However, compared to the Amazon warrior who possesses the blood of Ares and is easily overwhelmed, Loen is much calmer.
In order to find out the situation, he did not kill them directly, but beat the nine Amazon sisters who were giving orders to their knees in the army, and then captured Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, alive.
Finally, under the dual deterrence of hostages and force, the two sides engaged in peaceful and friendly exchanges.
After they figured out that they were both reinforcements from Thessaly, the misunderstanding was finally over.
After that, it is the story of how Lorne led this group of Amazon female warriors and came from the sky to turn the tide.
"So what's going on now?"
Katniss scratched her head and looked at the two parties curiously.
"In the last life-and-death battle, he won and I lost. There is nothing to say. As the price for my sisters' lives and freedom, I, as the queen, am willing to take responsibility for it and let him do whatever he wants with me as a prisoner."
Hippolyta spoke calmly, although there was depression in her eyes, her face was open.
"Now that I have fulfilled Lady Artemis's oracle, I can officially step down from my duties as queen and fulfill my promise..."
"Ahem, we can say that we didn't know each other until we fought. There's no need to be so serious about the consequences of winning or losing, right?"
Lorne interrupted Hippolyta with a dry cough, trying to smooth things over.
However, the Amazon Queen frowned and her pretty face flushed slightly.
"Are you insulting me, man?"
Katniss, who also has some Ares bloodline, poked Lorne's shoulder and whispered a reminder.
"For the descendants of Ares, failure in battle is not a shame, but it is shameful to escape the consequences of failure."
When Luo En heard this, his face darkened.
This does seem like the creed that the reckless man Ares would set, and many times honor is more important to a hero than life.
Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, he had to ask Katniss quietly.
"So how do the Amazons deal with the defeated?"
"Females are sacrificed to the main gods they believe in, and males are captured and taken back as slaves for breeding..."
Katniss glanced at Hippolyta's pretty face, then raised her hands and put her arms around Ron's neck like a good brother, with a teasing smile in her eyes.
"How about you try it too? I heard that because of her belief in Artemis, the Amazon Queen must remain a virgin before leaving office..."
Try your ass!
Loen rolled his eyes at the most beautiful woman in Thessaly who had turned into a bad friend, and then tried to delay Hippolyta.
"How about you go back first and tell you when I think it through?"
"I have been defeated. I am no longer qualified to lead the Amazon tribe, let alone be their queen..."
Hippolyta spoke softly, looking at the winner in front of her with some depression.
The nine sisters joined forces, and with the help of thousands of troops, they fought in a battle formation, but they were still pinned to the ground and beaten by the enemy. She was even captured.
Faced with such a tragic defeat, she, as the queen who commanded the army at the time, naturally could not escape the blame, and the blood of the god of war in her body also forced her to abide by the iron rule that the winner is king.
In order not to bring shame to the entire tribe, it would be most appropriate for her to take on all responsibilities and step down as queen.
Loen looked at Hippolyta, who was waiting for his disposal, with a headache, and made the decision helplessly.
"Then you can stay with me and be my follower for a while."
The real battle with the giants has not yet fully broken out. Thessaly has now experienced the consumption of two consecutive battles, and the city’s defense capabilities have been greatly reduced.
It was logical and reasonable for them to keep Hippolyta and her Amazon warriors behind in case of any emergency.
For now, we will use this compromise as a transitional step, and then consider more prudent methods after the situation stabilizes.
Hippolyta nodded happily at the result, and looked at Loen with a hint of favor.
——He doesn’t humiliate the loser with the attitude of a winner and knows how to respect his opponent. This guy is a good person.
Just as everyone was calming down this small disturbance, the situation on the field had already settled down.
With the fresh force of the Amazon warriors, the few remaining monsters and giants were quickly divided and surrounded, and then eliminated one by one.
Soon after, the heroes of the divine blood who had been rescued from the underground temple by Loen, led by Hercules and the twin brothers, crossed the densely forested hills on the other side and rushed to the battlefield to provide support.
Obviously, they were also moved to an area far away from the battlefield under the influence of the power of the earth.
However, due to the persistence of the Thessaly defenders and the arrival of reinforcements, the carefully planned raid by the giants was completely thwarted.
Seeing their fellow tribesmen falling one by one and the gathered monsters being killed or injured, a few frightened giants dared not stay any longer. They turned around and drilled into the cracks in the ground, fleeing from the bloody battlefield.
With the lessons learned from the previous experience, the heroes did not dare to pursue further. They could only quickly clean up the battlefield and destroy the opened underground passages to prevent the giants from coming out again.
At this point, the turbulent battle of Thessaly finally came to an end.
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“He actually blocked it?”
On the distant mountains, Triton, wrapped in a water-blue halo, frowned deeply as he looked at the piles of monster wreckage and giant corpses on the battlefield, as well as the Royal City of Thessaly standing tall in the smoke.
He thought that under such an intense attack, this human city would surely fall.
When Admetus was at the end of his rope, the temple of Zeus was overthrown, and the sacred fire was extinguished, he led the mechas and mechas of the Temple of Poseidon to save him from danger.
At that time, he can take the opportunity to gain the greatest benefit for his father god Poseidon and establish the faith of the sea god on this ruin.
However, unexpectedly, in addition to the descendants of Zeus and Apollo, even Artemis sent people to intervene.
Even more, the card played by the goddess of hunting was the most elite Amazon warriors under her command.
Besides that, the man from Athens is very strong!
Triton thought of the dead branch spear that had divided the battlefield in two before, and a deep fear appeared in his eyes. He turned to look at the mecha god Ares behind him.
"What are your chances of winning against him?"
“Twenty percent…”
Mecha God Ares answered in a deep voice, then looked at the big hole left in the center of the battlefield, frowned, and added slowly.
"If this is all his strength..."
So low?
Triton frowned deeply upon hearing this.
It seems that both the Father God and he had seriously underestimated the difficulty of Thessaly.
Otherwise, should we ask Father God to send more people to ensure that the Temple of Poseidon can gain the advantage in this confrontation?
But soon, he shook his head and rejected his idea.
Everyone can fight a battle when the wind is in their favor, but if he can only use force to suppress others, then what is the difference between him, a prince, and those good-for-nothings who always fail in battle?
Triton narrowed his eyes and fell into deep thought, his gaze flickering.
He just wanted the people of Thessaly to convert to Poseidon, and he didn't necessarily have to fight to the death with the most dangerous person from Athens.
Since there is no need for hostility, why can't we turn enemies into friends?
Furthermore, the Athenian hero seemed to have a very obvious weakness...
Triton glanced up at the gender configuration around a top dangerous individual and couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips.
"Where's Aphrodite?"
"There were some unusual movements in the back hills, so she went to take a look."
"Let her come back. I have a more important task for her."
Ares, who was standing against the tree trunk, looked confused when he heard this.
"What do you want to do with her?"
"Of course, against the guy you're not even sure you can beat."
"Her? A useless auxiliary model!"
Ares was stunned and looked indignant.
Triton rolled his eyes at the reckless man beside him and snorted in annoyance.
"There is more than one way to win, and the outcome of a fight is not just limited to fists. Stop talking nonsense and find her right now!"
Just as the machine god Ares turned around reluctantly under the order, a graceful figure walked out from the shade of the trees.
"No need, I'm already here."
Then, the returning mechanized goddess Aphrodite came to the top of the gentle slope and looked from afar at a busy figure in the royal city, her beautiful eyes flickering.
"This mission is for him, right?"
Triton nodded subconsciously. He had just explained his plan when he seemed to hear a sound of swallowing saliva.
Behind the two Poseidon Temple high-ranking officials, the shadow cast by the machine goddess Aphrodite on the ground seemed to have faint red and black light patterns.
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"Bang!"
A thick fist smashed the dark blue stone wall into pieces. The giant Alcyoneus, the king of the Gigantes, stood at the entrance of the cave, looking at the ruined underground temple with a gloomy face.
"Where's that woman?"
"She, she's gone..."
The seven female giants named Alcyonides answered timidly and then lowered their heads, somewhat afraid to look directly into the anger in their father's eyes.
"You shouldn't have trusted that woman!"
The giant with snake feet standing nearby snorted sinisterly, his narrow vertical pupils filled with disdain.
They are giants, a race born for battle. They are so powerful that even the Olympian gods do not take them seriously. Whenever they deal with a group of weak humans, they are always timid and even resort to using tricks.
Alcyoneus, the king of the giants, looked at his seven trembling daughters, raised his hand to suppress the reproach of the snake-footed giant, and spoke lightly.
"Forget it, there's no chance this time, let's wait until next time, we have plenty of time."
Hearing that the giant king seemed to favor his daughter, the snake-footed giant expressed his dissatisfaction.
"We have the time, but Antaeus is dead. This was an ally I had so much trouble to win."
As the offspring of the divine fusion of Gaia, the mother earth, and Poseidon, the god of the sea, this giant originally intended to turn to Poseidon, the father god, and planned to build a temple for his father god in Libya using human heads.
However, after witnessing the power of the giants and the old gods, Antaeus was persuaded by him to join the Gigantes clan and work together to create a world dominated by the Titans.
But in the first battle, Antaeus died at the hands of the god-descendant named Hercules because of a foolish strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain.
This result really made the snake-footed giant a little indignant.
"We only told him to fake a defeat so as to lure the God-Blood Heroes on the ground into the sacrificial field. But he went on to fight to the death with the God-Blood Heroes outside in order to show off his bravery."
The giant king Alcyoneus became angrier and angrier as he spoke. He grabbed the snake-footed giant's neck and slammed him against the wall, snorting coldly with a gloomy face.
"I didn't hold him accountable for his reckless delay in the sacrifice, which resulted in the death and injury of so many of his fellow tribesmen. Instead, you come to complain for this idiot?"
"What about the sacrifice? Didn't your so-called plan also fail?"
The scales on the snake-footed giant's neck slid, and he broke free from the restraints of Alcyoneus, the king of the giants. He pointed at the devastated sacrificial site below and sneered in dissatisfaction.
Upon hearing this, Alcyoneus, the king of the giants, suddenly looked embarrassed and immediately waved his fist, ready to teach a lesson to this fellow who dared to challenge his authority.
The giants surrounding them were banging stones and bones and making a fuss.
As a brave and aggressive race, fighting and combat are their favorite shows to watch.
"That's enough! You're still fighting among yourselves, what a bunch of idiots!"
A gloomy roar came from the abyss, and the tall tower surrounded by eleven temples in the center was burning with blue-black flames, like an extremely angry face.
The surging divine power came upon them, pressing the giants in the cave so hard that they trembled and could hardly breathe.
Even the King of Giants and the Snake-Footed Giant could not help but restrain their flamboyant personalities, lowered their heads respectfully, and asked carefully.
"King, are you awake?"
"I just regained some consciousness, but this amount of power is not enough to regain the glory that belongs to Titan!"
The voice in the tower snorted coldly, sounding a little irritable.
"The sacrifice must continue!"
The two giants looked embarrassed when they heard this.
"Those humans on the ground seem to have found some very powerful helpers."
"Moreover, many of our tribesmen were killed or injured because of this."
The sound in the tower was silent for a moment, and gradually became deep and solemn.
"Helpers? Don't we have any? Prometheus is still tied to the cliffs of Mount Caucasus and suffering, and Atlas is still sentenced to carry the sky on his back. Go and free them, then take the thunderbolt from Zeus, drive Poseidon out of the sea, drive Apollo off the sun chariot, and let the world return to the Titans~!"
(End of this chapter)
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