Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

At this moment, Ye finally remembered the origin of Chryseis's name.

Apollo's candidate priestess was originally destined to be abducted by Achilles along with her sister.

Agamemnon was immediately captivated by Chryseis's beauty upon their first meeting, and was willing to abandon his own wife and daughters to marry her.

The Chrysei sisters were thus separated, and were abducted by Agamemnon and Achilles respectively.

Their father, the High Priest Apollo, strongly condemned and denounced the Greek heroes' act of aggression.

They went to her door several times, trying to redeem their daughter, but to no avail.

During this process, Chrysaeus, the elder sister, did not submit to Agamemnon, while the younger sister married Achilles directly.

Finally, their father prayed to his god for help, and Apollo ordered Agamemnon to release them. Agamemnon refused, which caused the god of light to reveal the power of the other side of the sun, and the world that lost its sunlight became plagued.

The plague swept through the Greek coalition, causing numerous deaths. Ultimately, under immense pressure, Agamemnon reluctantly abandoned Chryseis.

But Chryseis's sister, Brises, had already gone with Achilles and could not return.

Considering that the two sisters were captured in the Battle of Thebes, it was an accident that he rescued them.

That night, Chrysei looked at the back of his hand, his face flushed slightly, and he naturally withdrew his hand.

Then, without Ye speaking, he began to recount his own story and what happened after Ye fell into a coma.

Chryseis was the sorceress who led countless people of Thebes in praying for Night. She had met Night once before, but during the war, Night had no time to pay attention to whether she was a beautiful woman or not.

Only then did he remember... that he had indeed saved the other person with his own hands.

So she was Apollo's candidate priestess. No wonder—he was wondering why Apollo was giving him such face by casting his gaze upon her.

In Greece, while ordinary people could freely pray to the gods, whether the gods would respond was uncertain. Even if they did respond, if their requests weren't interesting enough to satisfy or please the gods, then they should pray.

The gods won't suddenly attack you.

After all, the Lord God is extremely busy. After responding to you, it's just such a trivial matter. How can He not turn you into a sheep or a stone to demonstrate His majesty? God is not someone you can summon for every little thing.

Because Night saved him in the war, Chryseis volunteered to take care of Night after he fell into a coma.

Incidentally, Chryseis and Hector are cousins, which is why she was able to recognize that Night was not the real Hector in Thebes.

Hector, who valued his family highly, chose to trust Chryseis and entrusted the night to him, while he continued to lead his soldiers to resist the Greek coalition.

Now it has been more than a month since Ye fell into a coma.

During this time, Troy and Greece fought fiercely, and the war escalated. Troy then enlisted the help of Penthesiea, the Amazon queen who harbored a deep-seated grudge against the Greeks.

When the wild and fierce Amazonian army joined the battlefield—

This caused the balance of the war to gradually shift, and the heroes of Troy began drinking and singing, celebrating their victory ahead of schedule.

Even the old king of Troy, who had long been absent from the public eye and had entrusted the war to his sons, stepped forward and declared: "I rely on the mountains and the sea, and with one man I can defend myself, ten thousand men cannot break through. Even if they can fight, they are not enough to destroy me."

With Troy in their possession, they were inherently invincible, and now they could wear down the Greeks.

When Chryseith reached this point, Night frowned instead—

The Trojan War was not going to end so easily.

Unexpectedly, Troy invited Queen Penthesilea ahead of time. According to the original historical trajectory, this would have happened after Hector's death in battle.

It is recorded in the Iliad—

In the face of the powerful Greek coalition, even the strongest hero and the eldest prince perished in battle.

Realizing they were outnumbered, Troy called upon Queen Penteslea and the troops of King Memnon of Ethiopia.

Both of them were descendants of gods. After arriving on the battlefield, they provided great assistance to Troy and helped Troy reverse its disadvantage, but they were not enough to fundamentally turn the tide of the war, which led to a stalemate once again.

But now, because reinforcements were called in in advance, Troy has taken the upper hand.

Soon, Night learned from Chryseis that this was actually due to his own actions.

After saving Thebes, Hector led his troops alone and rescued many people from the surrounding city-states, bringing them back to Troy.

Although the Greeks did try to stop and pursue Hector, Achilles was injured and did not appear on the battlefield, and the other heroes on the battlefield could not stop Hector at all.

During this process, both sides killed many people from the other side, which deepened the hatred.

However, I learned a lesson from the night: if I don't speak up for you today, no one will shout for me when crisis comes to me tomorrow!

If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold too!

Deeply aware of Greece's strength and the necessity for unity to defeat the powerful coalition, Hector did not become arrogant. After doing his best to save the people of some surrounding small city-states, he immediately persuaded his father and brothers—

They appealed to Queen Penthesilea of ​​Greece, who shared a common enemy, for help.

Chapter Three: The Haikou Benefits as Seen by Mortals, and the Pursuits as Seen by Gods Are Completely Different

All I can say is—well done!

He simply taught Hector a principle, and Hector even learned to apply it to other situations, actively using this principle to persuade others to help Troy.

Even Krysei said—

Troy initially sought help from many sources, but most of them expressed hesitation.

Unlike the situation several years later, when things were becoming clearer, the Trojan War had only just begun, and other countries were watching and hesitant to join the fray.

Queen Pentesea was the only one who was persuaded by the principle of "if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold" and led her troops to join the Trojan forces.

It was precisely because of Penthesilea's arrival that Troy truly gained the upper hand. As a result, those who initially opposed Hector's idea and thought that asking for help was too cowardly all changed their tune and began to praise the prince's wisdom.

Everyone began to think that it would have been better to start the rescue sooner; this was the right step.

But Ye knew that the gods would not allow either Greece or Troy to become dominant.

The earliest civilizations of ancient Greece can be traced back to the two massive powers that are now locked in a great war.

Mycenae and Troy—!

Agamemnon, who was the leader of the Greek coalition, was the king of Mycenae.

If we set aside the mythology and consider the geographical context, we can understand why the Trojan War came about.

First, there was Mycenae, which occupied the western and southern Aegean Sea, with its core located in the Peloponnese peninsula.

These powerful city-states, including the famous Athens, Sparta, and Crete, were all within Mycenae's sphere of influence.

Mycenae was like a suzerain state, belonging to the king of kings.

They were all situated on one vast land, while across the distant sea lay another vast land.

Beyond the long coastal city-state of Troy lay the mighty Persian Empire.

If Mycenae is like the powerful Zhou Dynasty, with the Zhou emperor enfeoffing various states, then Athens, Sparta, and others were like the major powerful vassal states, the main forces in the future Warring States period.

The present-day Mycenae corresponds to the most powerful period of the Zhou Dynasty.

Troy, on the other side of the sea, was like a remnant of the Shang Dynasty that had been driven out.

Although both believed in the same gods and had the same culture, they were essentially independent of each other and formed their own systems. Originally, Mycenae was not interested in Troy.

Mycenae, as the ruler of all under heaven, certainly looked down on the land of these foreign barbarians. Not only was it difficult to send troops to fight so far away, but it would also be difficult to govern even if they won. Not to mention that there was a powerful Persian Empire next to Troy. After conquering this land, they would have to be wary of whether the Persian Empire would take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

This geographical location is typically a tough nut to crack.

If there were no benefit to be gained, Mycenae wouldn't have bothered to travel all this way for no reason. As for the excuse of wanting to win back a woman like Helen, that's just a ridiculous excuse to be taken with a grain of salt.

The fundamental reason was that they saw that after Troy began to develop at the entrance to the Dardanelles Strait in the Aegean Sea, it belonged to the Aegean cultural sphere and also enjoyed the trade benefits between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea.

This made Mycenae, who had previously paid no attention to Troy, envious of Troy's ability to make money.

Mycenae wanted Troy to swear allegiance to them, like Athens and Sparta, and to open their ports so that their merchant ships could freely enter and exit the Turkish Straits to trade.

But Troy would certainly not agree—the emperor was far away, and who would want to acknowledge a superior? And this was the real reason that led to the outbreak of the famous Trojan War.

Essentially, the Trojan War was a war for control of key positions in maritime trade.

In the world of mythology, the factors of the gods must also be considered. Logically speaking, both Troy and Greece worshipped the Olympian gods.

If the gods disagreed, Agamemnon, no matter how much he coveted the Trojan spoils, wouldn't dare utter a single word.

The Trojan War broke out, and at first glance, the Trojans' impiety might have been one of the reasons. But were there no other reasons behind the destruction of Troy? If we're talking about impiety, there were plenty of impiety heroes in Greece as well.

Night suddenly thought of the founding of Rome—

The future Rome and the ancient Troy are so similar, both establishing their kingdoms far from home under the guidance of the gods.

After the fall of Troy, the gods did not think about how to help the hero Aeneas rebuild Troy, but instead sent him across the Mediterranean to a distant land to establish Rome, where he created a new mythological system—Roman mythology.

This inevitably raises suspicions that the gods have their eyes on that land and are consciously expanding the scope of their mythological system and their faith.

If that's the case, then the gods must have wanted Troy to perish from the very beginning, arranging its end long ago, and allowing Aeneas to miraculously survive and escape to the Mediterranean Sea amidst the pursuit of numerous enemy heroes.

Using this as an excuse to force Aeneas to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and establish a nation in the New World by himself, the Trojan royal family has truly become a bunch of old tools.

The current war between Greece and Troy is like a grand drama orchestrated and driven by the gods for mortals to watch.

Find a reason to send people to the Mediterranean to establish Rome—it concerns the beliefs of the gods, so even Apollo and Aphrodite, who openly helped Troy, are no longer credible.

But if the initial goal was to destroy Troy, why support both sides in the war and prolong the Trojan War for so long—it's as if they were deliberately wasting population and sending heroes to their deaths.

What is the source?

Night's mind raced, his expression grave.

There is no love or hatred without a reason in this world. Even if it is based on self-interest, there must be some factor that leads the gods to so cruelly fool mortals.

Is it just for entertainment?

Although the details are unknown, we now know that the gods wished for the destruction of Troy, but did not want it to be destroyed too quickly; they wanted both sides to be nearly wiped out before ending the battle.

In order to expand the scale of the battle—

In the later stages of this war, even deities personally intervened.

Now that Troy has received reinforcements, the Greek gods will surely try to increase Greece's strength as well.

If a single misstep leads to the intervention of the gods, then the battlefield will truly become a scene of demons and monsters...

Even with Ye's current strength, plus Helena who has disappeared somewhere, they are still no match for him.

Headache--

No, something's not right... Ye suddenly realized something was amiss.

Night: "Where's Achilles?!"