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Chapter 277 Overthrow Athens, Destroy Mycenae, and Make Rome Great Again!

Athens—

In the previous era, even among many heroes, there were only a few who shone brightest. Even in the era of Hercules, there was still the legendary hero Theseus, whose story is still talked about with great interest.

Although he is now old, he is more imposing as a king than he was when he was a prince adventuring in the world.

When the declaration of war from Crete appeared in the palace in Athens.

Theseus didn't take it too seriously.

How could any Tom, Dick, or Harry dare to mess with a powerful Athens?

The era when humans had to offer tribute to Crete every year is long gone.

Athens is now the more powerful one; they are the ones who plunder others, and they are never the ones who get bullied.

As for the overconfident Crete.

Even though the other party was the hometown of Phaedra, one of his deceased wives, they were also the mortal enemies of Athens.

Theseus, of course, was not going to tolerate them. He immediately ordered his men to guard the harbor and prepare to defeat these barbaric Cretans on the high seas, without even letting them set foot on the shore.

However, defeats soon followed one after another from the front lines.

Soon, the territories belonging to Athens were successively colored black on the map, marking their complete loss.

The enemy was not a god; the legendary demon who had replaced Dionysus as ruler of Crete did not intervene, but his Cretan warriors alone routed the Athenian elite.

This filled Theseus with shame and anger, while simultaneously giving him a huge '???' above his head.

When did the Cretans become so ferocious?

If that were all, he wouldn't be too terrified or lose his composure.

But what happened next made him feel both ashamed and uneasy.

After successfully seizing large tracts of land along the coast of Athens, these crazy Cretans did not choose to immediately expand their offensive and send more men. Instead, they launched an attack on the western coast of Greece.

Crossing the Cretan and Ionian Seas, a lightning strike on Pylos!

Pyrrhus, who was on the other side of the Greek world, had heard about the great battle in Athens but remained indifferent. He was completely bewildered to find himself suddenly attacked.

The enemy's warships had all landed, but Pylos was still locked in a fierce battle with his arch-rival, the weakling Arcadia.

Clearly, given the level of animosity between these two countries, even without the calamities following the death of the God of War, they would have fought each other to the death, just like England and France, let alone now.

Originally, with the end of the Trojan War and the return of King Nestor the Wise of Pylos, this old man, whose last sons had been killed by Night, had his hatred released after the death of Griffith, who admired Griffith's righteousness.

But he never dreamed that he was being targeted again.

No, to be precise—this entire land is under surveillance, and Crete, which is adopting a strategy of encirclement from the outside and then from the countryside to the cities, well…

no--

The plan was to first capture Pyrrhus, Arcadia, Athens, Thebes, and Delphi, then advance along the Gulf of Corinth and the Cretan and Ionian Seas, gradually encroaching on Sparta, Argos, and Corinth, and finally heading straight for the capital of Mycenae.

There are countless other small countries in between, which I won't go into detail about. Crete itself is located south of the Greek mainland, belonging to a separate small circle that is close to Greek civilization but not entirely part of it.

Although its land area is very large, even several times the size of Athens.

At this point, compared to the vastness of Greece, it was clearly insignificant.

To wage war on multiple fronts and spread the flames of war to the whole world is an unprecedented and insane act.

But here comes the biggest problem.

...Despite this situation, they still managed to win against the other side, achieving victory after victory.

This is what makes the kings of the attacked countries feel most ashamed.

You can humiliate me personally, but you can't humiliate the whole world while simultaneously rubbing me into the ground until I scream.

What has strengthened the world's behavior?

Faced with the enemy's most primal violence, they were powerless to fight back.

It's shameful, so shameful. As the ones who were eliminated, they felt incredibly ashamed. It was their weakness and incompetence that created a myth.

Those Cretans possessed incredible strength for some reason, and their armor was so tough that it was difficult to cut through...

Even heroes would find it difficult to kill these metal monsters.

Under the powerful indoctrination of victory in the war and the night, these Cretans did not care about a little 'sacrifice'. Instead, they became more and more frenzied in the fight, each one fearless of death.

They were about to follow the Supreme Being and have hope of unifying all of Greece.

With their ambitions growing ever larger with each victory, how could they possibly resist?

This also prevented the Cretans from realizing that their numbers were dwindling with each defeat, and that Night had not yet used the trump card he had obtained from the abyss god Tartarus—the Titan legions.

This is to be kept as a precaution, in case the main gods personally intervene.

With the rise of his military might, Arcadia and Pylos, two long-time enemies, joined forces.

It was no less powerful than the combined forces of Britain and France. The King of Britain and the King of France fought side by side and shook hands in reconciliation.

Faced with life and death, even sworn enemies can temporarily put aside their differences.

This scene further convinced Ye that—indeed—only under strong pressure and intimidation could these people understand the hard-won peace.

As a result, the night's behavior became even more extreme.

Let's set a small goal. Continue to accelerate the invasion and take Athens within three days.

I heard that Athens has assembled an army of tens of thousands of men to deal with his legions; it is the same powerful elite force that once repelled the Amazonian warriors.

Great, he just recently came up with some fun gadgets after studying the power of Dionysus to make spiritual energy go berserk.

Arrange the rampaging true ether in a specific sequence, then create magic crystals to install on the armor of your soldiers.

Once attacked by an external object, it is very easy to cause imbalance and explosion. Even if no one attacks, it will explode because the user's continuous combat and the armor absorbs the burning life force (Mana) to increase combat power, and the magic power is infused for too long, causing the crystal magic power engraved on the armor grooves to become unstable.

When Ye was installing this thing on the soldiers, he had already explained its dangers.

but--

This also explains that this thing can enhance their armor, bringing at least ten times the strength.

That's right—such a violent true ether, which is also used as part of the energy supply for the armor in battle, how could it not be powerful?

And when these armors explode, they can produce an explosive amount equivalent to about 4 tons of TNT. What does that mean?

A typical anti-tank missile, with a yield of about four kilograms of TNT, is enough to destroy a tank's armor.

Explosives with a yield equivalent to 1 ton of TNT are typically carried by strategic bombers. These bombs can create craters hundreds of meters in diameter when they fall from the sky, affecting areas within a radius of several kilometers. This is enough to bomb the streets of Fuyuki City countless times.

The Cretans, who did not have a clear concept (in their minds) of such power, only understood that it was a terrifying lethal dose that they would absolutely not be able to survive if it exploded.

But tempted by the promise of ten times the power, almost all Cretans chose to wear this new type of armor.

Moreover, just imagining the moment I could unleash that terrifying power upon charging into the Athenian army, transforming into a small sun on the horizon, and how many lives that life-giving light could instantly claim, is enough to give me a mental orgasm.

Cretan: ?!

You ask me if I'm afraid of dying? I'm more afraid of being too weak and not being able to kill the opponent!

Holy crap! The armor was already strong enough, and now it's ten times stronger? What trash Greeks? And if it accidentally explodes, I can take a bunch of Greeks down with me, not a bad deal!

Pyrrhus and Arcadia were nothing compared to Athens; they were mere underlings.

If I kill fast enough, I can successfully stop the attack before I self-destruct.

How can they recreate the glorious world domination of the Minoan civilization without going crazy?! Oh, right—the Supreme Being has now renamed their country Rome.

It should be said that we should "make Rome great again"!

Although they didn't understand why the word 'again' was added.

In any case, it's all for the glory of the new empire, for their imagined future of world hegemony, and for the life of their ambitious aspirations.

The Cretans chanted fervently: Rome!

I've made the bet!

Defeat Athens, annihilate Mycenae! The world belongs to Rome!

Chapter 278 Your existence is meaningless; the new empire has no place for you, you are inferior people.

The soldiers went crazy.

They were more inflated than pufferfish at this moment, each one eager to transform into their motherland—no, their ancestors—wanting to ride on the heads of other countries and act arrogantly.

Although Crete has been greatly weakened in recent years due to that unexpected natural disaster and has become much more peaceful on the surface, it has only been a few years since that barbaric era.

They still possess a wildness and brutality in their bones. They had only temporarily gone into hiding because of their lack of strength, but now they have erupted again, even more arrogantly.

Talos is their soul and courage!

As long as the One who bestowed this great power upon them remains standing, they have nothing to fear.

As a group of suicide knights landed in Athens, they encountered resistance from the Athenian army on their way to the capital.

Even though the enemy's soldiers outnumber ours by several times.

The Cretans, however, showed no fear.

"My strength is ten times greater than before. Before, when I wore this armor, I could easily tear apart four or five Athenian soldiers with my bare hands. Now, I can tear apart at least forty or fifty!" That's the Cretan's thought process.

What's there to be afraid of? Charge!

Let alone tens of thousands, even millions, they dare to charge forward recklessly; that's the confidence that comes with expanded power.

"For Rome!!" shouted one of the generals most deeply brainwashed by the Night.

The next moment, countless soldiers cheered wildly...—We are Rome!

The feeling can only be described as 'we-are-Rome!'

Countless unified shouts, carrying the same will, were so powerful that even the clouds in the sky seemed to give way, and the fervent emotions shocked the enemy.

(The Athenians: At that time, those Cretans charged towards us menacingly, shouting the name of Rome! God knows how scared we were!)

(Future Romans: We are descendants of Troy and the hero Gryffindor, and also inheritors of the new empire following the great Roman Empire of the Age of Gods. Ancient Rome may be gone, but the Roman spirit lives on! We are Rome!!; A fervent cry!!)

Bang~! !

As the two sides fought fiercely, their eyes blazing with rage, neither noticed the fleeting moment when a violent explosion erupted from the ground. The shockwave from the explosion then affected the crystals on their teammates, causing them to explode as well…