Chapter 367 Hermes Wants to Be a Son

In the myth of another world, the great hero Hercules of the Mycenaeans completed twelve tasks.

Hercules' first task was to destroy the Nemean Lion, a monster in the Argos region, and the second task was to destroy the nine-headed Hydra in the Argos region.

The real prototype of these two stories is the Mycenaeans' conquest of the Argos region.

Hercules' third task was to capture Artemis' doe, and the fourth task was to capture Artemis' boar.

The real prototype of these two stories is the Mycenaeans' conquest of Arcadia.

Hercules' fifth task was to kill the King of Elis. The real prototype of this story was that after the Mycenaeans conquered the Argos and Arcadia regions, they began to conquer the Elis region.

But Hercules' sixth task was to destroy the strange bird in the Arcadia region.

From the timeline, after the Mycenaeans conquered the Elis region, the Pelasgians in the Arcadia region launched a war against the Mycenaeans, and were then successfully suppressed by the Mycenaeans.

Roy led Callisto and 4,000 troops into the Arcadia region, and the Pelasgian tribe, which had originally surrendered to the Mycenaeans, immediately launched a large-scale rebellion.

The 2,000 Mycenae soldiers who stayed in the Arcadia region neither chose to fight Roy's 4,000 troops nor to suppress the rebellion.

After 1,000 Pelasgian soldiers in this team fled, the remaining 1,000 Mycenae soldiers fled directly from the Illyrian territory to the Elis region.

Arcadia City.

This is the city ruled by Lycaon, the king of Arcadia.

But a few months ago, the Mycenaeans occupied this city.

Not only did they kill Lycaon and his sons, they also destroyed the temple of Artemis, pushed the statue of Artemis off the throne, and made Artemis lose her status as the patron saint of Arcadia.

Now the ruler of Arcadia City has become the Illyrians supported by the Mycenaeans.

When Roy arrived here with 4,000 troops and Callisto, 2,000 Pelasgian rebels also arrived here at the same time.

Before ordering his soldiers to attack Arcadia, Roy asked Callisto.

"Callisto, I'll give you 1,000 soldiers. Can you rule Arcadia?"

"I can!"

Finally getting the same opportunity as Io, Callisto said excitedly.

"After the cruel exploitation and oppression of the Mycenaeans, my people must miss the rule of my father Lycaon very much, so they will take the initiative to resist the rule of the Mycenaeans. I am the Princess of Arcadia and the priestess of the goddess Artemis. My people will definitely be willing to obey my orders. As long as your majesty can give them a better life, Arcadia will become part of the Kingdom of Athens and support your majesty's rule."

Roy nodded with satisfaction.

"Don't let me down."

Just as Roy's 4,000 troops rushed to Arcadia, the Illyrians in the city took the initiative to open the city gate and sent an envoy to negotiate with Roy.

"You said you are willing to submit to us like you submitted to the Mycenaeans, and let your god Hermes become the son of our Athenian goddess Metis?"

The Illyrians' voluntary surrender was completely within Roy's expectations.

Since the Illyrians were so soft-hearted that they could submit to the Mycenaeans, they had no reason to defend the Mycenaeans' rule over them.

Anyway, they were all kneeling down to be sons, and kneeling to the more powerful Athenian Kingdom might get better treatment.

What Roy didn't expect was that the Illyrians would take the initiative to propose to imitate the father-son relationship between Hermes and Zeus and make Hermes the cheap son of Metis.

"You ignorant Illyrians, don't you know that the goddess Metis is an unmarried virgin goddess?"

Roy said angrily to the Illyrian messenger.

"Only I can make Metis lose her status as an unmarried goddess. Hermes wants to be Metis' son. Does he want his father Zeus to be Metis' husband? Originally, I didn't intend to turn you Illyrians into slaves. Since you are hopelessly stupid, there are only two endings for you - living as slaves or becoming corpses."

After driving the Illyrian envoys back to Arcadia, Roy personally led 4,000 troops to attack Arcadia.

In Arcadia, the ruler of the Illyrians is Myrtilus.

Now he is not only the high priest of Hermes, but also the king who rules Arcadia.

After the envoy brought Roy's reply, in order not to become corpses or slaves, Myrtilus could only guard Arcadia with a thousand soldiers to buy time for his people to escape.

"Great Hermes, please protect us from this disaster."

Accompanied by Myrtilos's prayer, Pan [Hermes], the shepherd god with goat legs, horns and ears, descended over Arcadia City with a height of 100 meters.

"Damn human!"

Hermes looked down at Roy's figure and said angrily.

"I have already put down my dignity and offered to be the son of Metis. Why don't you give me this opportunity?"

Hearing Hermes' words, Roy looked up and responded.

"Stupid Hermes, do you think I will let you become the first male god of the Kingdom of Athens? Even if you want to be my son, I will drive you out of the territory of the Kingdom of Athens."

"Can you see me-"

Hermes first widened his eyes in surprise, then sneered.

"How stupid! You dare to directly humiliate the gods. I already have reason to attack you."

After saying that, Hermes waved the huge reed flute in his hand and hit Roy.

A loud bang!

Just when Hermes' reed pipe was about to hit Roy, an arrow suddenly flew out and collided with Hermes' reed pipe.

Hermes was forced to stop attacking Roy, and then the figure of Artemis fell from the sky to confront Hermes.

"Hermes! The throne of the patron saint of Arcadia that was taken away by you must be returned to me now."

"Artemis——"

Hermes looked at Artemis with a fearful look and said with lack of confidence.

"I have been suppressed by you for hundreds of years. Now I finally ascend the throne of the patron saint. I will not let you take it away——"

Before Hermes could finish speaking, Artemis threw away her bow and arrows and transformed into a black female bear with red eyes.

"Hermes——"

Artemis, who transformed into a black female bear, roared angrily and said.

"With Zeus as your father and backer, do you forget that you are a sheep and I am a bear? You are not qualified to challenge me at all?"

After saying that, Artemis brandished a pair of bear claws to attack Hermes.

The half-goat, half-human Hermes could only dodge in embarrassment when attacked by the sharp claws of the female bear Artemis.

Because Artemis restrained Hermes just like a bear restrained a sheep.

This is also the reason why Hermes has been unable to replace Artemis as the patron saint of Arcadia for thousands of years.

"Father God save me——"

Recalling his fear of her under Artemis' attack, Hermes let out a lamblike cry for help.