As soon as Paris boarded the ship, the gods of Olympus smiled, and the game was about to begin. As the head of the gods who would stand on the side of the federal coalition in the future, Queen Hera sent the messenger Iris to the island of Crete to find Helen's husband Menelaus and told him the news that was heartbreaking.
When Menelaus heard the news, he immediately returned to Sparta. When he saw that the treasure had been robbed and Helen left him, he felt sad and furious. He raised his head and shouted: "Paris, I will definitely take you away." Cramps and bones, the country is ruined, and you will go to the underworld to regret everything you have done.”
Menelaus then went to Mycenae to find his brother Agamemnon. As the current king of Mycenae and the hero of the expedition to the Golden Fleece, Agamemnon was equally furious knowing that his brother had been insulted.
But Agamemnon did not lose his mind. He suggested that his brother summon the heroes who proposed to Helen and swore an oath to attack Troy together, so that the shameless Trojan prince would be punished by the heroes.
Menelaos accepted the advice and first went to Pylos to find the elderly king Nestor and tell him everything. Nestor was very angry and decided to go to war in person, taking his two sons Thrasymides and Antilochus with him.
Others who were notified to join the expedition included Diomedes, son of King Tideus of Argos, Palamedes, son of King Euboea, and Idomeneus, grandson of King Milos of Crete. wait. There was even Philoctetes, a friend of Hercules who had Heracles' bow and arrows, without which the prophet predicted that Troy would be unbreakable.
The prophet Calchas here, his teacher is Teiresias, the disciple Adros once accepted in the world. Tiresias has now completely surrendered to Olympus and has a god status. I don’t know what means he used to give his disciple Calchas the opportunity to obtain a godly position and participate in the Battle of Troy.
In order to win the victory of the coalition forces attacking Troy, Zeus sent the most famous prophet in the world to help the coalition forces.
Although the victory or defeat in the human world does not affect the overall situation, the demigods and monsters under Olympus have basically gathered on the side of the coalition. If they were defeated, there was no telling how many of these heroes would die.
Even the King of Athens, Theseus, who once broke into the underworld to kidnap Persephone, the queen of the underworld, and was rescued by his friend Hercules, also came to the place of alliance.
You must know that he kidnapped Helen and wanted her to be his wife, but because he was delayed in going to the underworld, he made Helen the wife of Menelaos.
It didn't matter that he didn't get Helen, but the Trojan prince actually imitated his method. The most important thing is that he really got the most beautiful pearl in the world through this method, which made him extremely angry.
In addition, King Telamon of Salamis and his son Ajax the Great, the hero Oelius of Locris and his son Ajax the Younger, and a large number of heroes who had sailed with them also came. .
All the heroes and their armies gathered on the Mycenaean coast, but the arrival of the last two men was yet to come. The prophet Calchas told the heroes that without these two heroes, the expedition might fail.
These two heroes, one is Odysseus, who is known as the wise man on earth, and the other is Achilles, who is known as the strongest hero after Hercules. This was instructed by Zeus. Odysseus is a disciple of Sisyphus, and Achilles is a disciple of the centaur Chiron. Zeus believes that there must be these two heroes in the list of the Lord of the Stars, or does it? It is better to draw them into your camp and then wait for an opportunity to kill them.
Odysseus, the son of King Laertes of Ithaca, was famous for his wit. When he was young, he met Sisyphus and was taught by Sisyphus how to become a god. At this time, he was already an extremely powerful man. A demigod hero.
Odysseus had just married his wife Penelope and gave birth to their son Telemachus, so he did not want to go with him. Although he also pursued Helen at that time, when he accidentally saw Helen's teacher, he gave up his idea and just sat back and watched Helen marry someone else.
When he learned that Menelaus, Agamemnon, Nestor, and Palamedes were acquaintances who had arrived in Ithaca, he pretended to be crazy, hitched an ox to a plow, and plowed the fields. Sprinkle salt into the fields, go out there and plow the fields like crazy and ignore them.
Palamedes saw his disguise and put his son on the field. Sure enough, Odysseus stopped in front of the child. Odysseus had to admit that he was pretending and had to fulfill his promise. From this moment on Odysseus hated Palamedes and was determined to take revenge.
The night before leaving, when Odysseus was saying goodbye to his wife Yiyi, he suddenly felt something strange outside the house. He hurriedly went out to check, but saw his teacher, Sisyphus, who had always looked like a teenager, smiling at him.
"Teacher, why are you here?"
Odysseus looked surprised. His teacher had never visited him since he taught him how to become a god.
Sisyphus looked at the disciple in front of him with a proud look on his face. Unlike Chiron, he had disciples almost everywhere, but he only had this one disciple. This disciple may not be as powerful as Hercules or as versatile as Jason, but his character and wisdom are in the same vein as his own.
"In this expedition to Troy, the water is very deep, and there is a plan by the gods. More than half of the heroes will die. You must pay attention to safety when you go this time. Many times, danger comes from around you."
Sisyphus looked at his disciple with a profound look in his eyes, and did not clarify his words, but he believed that his disciple could understand. And he believed that as long as the gods did not take action, his disciples would be able to handle it.
After hearing this, Odysseus remembered the scene that happened during the day, when his child was almost in danger, and his eyes darkened: "Thank you teacher for reminding me, Odysseus knows."
Sisyphus waved his hand and said: "It's good for you to know. I have a treasure here. I asked it from the teacher. It may be able to save your life in the future."
After speaking, he took out an unusual star stone and solemnly handed it into Odysseus's hands.
"Your teacher, Lord Evangelist Iathion, isn't it already..."
Odysseus did not say the next words, believing that Sisyphus would understand what he wanted to say.
Sisyphus smiled slightly: "What kind of existence is the teacher? How could he be killed so easily? Everything before was just a play."
After saying that, he told Sisyphus: "Teacher Iacion's affairs are our most important secrets. You only need to know them, and they cannot be told outside."
Odysseus nodded repeatedly, his eyes full of faith. It turned out that the preacher was not dead yet.
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Another hero who has not yet arrived is Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thetis, a tragic figure destined to be a great hero by fate.
The sea goddess Thetis once predicted that Achilles would die a violent death. When Achilles was still a baby, she took her son's heels and dipped him in the River Styx, making him invulnerable. His father Peleus gave him to his teacher Chiron the Centaur to teach him, so that he could use various weapons.
Knowing the danger of this war, Thetis hid Achilles in the palace of Lycomedes on the island of Scyros to prevent him from appearing in public eyes. As for the divine position, she had long made up her mind to obtain a Cancer constellation from Adros for Achilles to use.
But fate does not always go according to people's wishes. The prophet Tiresias revealed the whereabouts of Achilles and informed the people who came to look for him that Achilles was wearing women's clothes and was difficult to identify.
Odysseus and Diomedes pretended to be merchants and came to the palace and placed the goods in front of the palace. The princesses all liked to look at jewelry, but Achilles was the only one looking at weapons. At this time, there was a sound of sword strikes. In fact, This was what Diomedes said outside the palace. Achilles, who was dressed as a woman, thought there was an enemy and immediately prepared to kill the enemy with weapons, so he was recognized.
After receiving the news of the campaign against Troy, Achilles was happy to participate in the war. He also brought two friends, the wise Phonix and Patroclus, to the battlefield. Knowing his fate, Peleus gave Achilles the armor given by the gods when he got married, the horse given by Poseidon, and Chiron's spear.
Thetis looked at her beloved son who was walking away worriedly, and suddenly the voice of the prophet Prometheus came from behind: "You don't have to worry about it. Achilles' strength, as long as Heracles doesn't take action, I'm afraid None of the demigods in the world today can compare to him.”
The beautiful ocean goddess sighed: "Although the demigods in the world are no match for Achilles, what about those gods? If they take action, Achilles may be in danger."
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Just as the coalition forces gathered heroes from all sides, the city of Troy also received news. The first king of Troy, Tros and his son Iros, who had been Adros's experimental subjects, appeared.
Behind them were a large number of other demigod heroes. Over the years, Tros's father, the old river god Scamandros, made friends everywhere, and he had many friends between heaven and earth. This time I heard that the city of Troy was being attacked by a group of people, and many gods sent their descendants or gods to help in the battle.
These gods may not be great gods, but they are so numerous that the people they send can form a small army if they stand together.
In contrast to the Greek Alliance, many kings of states came to Troy to help out, including famous cities such as Tenedos Island, Lesbos Island, Pedas City, Lurnais City, and even the city of Troy, which is as famous as Athens. Worshiping the cities also came to Troy's side.
Among the supporters who came to Troy, the most eye-catching one was undoubtedly Jason. The prince who led many heroes to seize the Golden Fleece seized the throne from his uncle, and then led his army to Troy under the arrangement of Chiron.
Coming with him were most of the remaining human heroes on the Argos, and the others were already standing opposite them, under the command of Agamemnon, and were about to fight with them.
Similarly, the two heroines Medea and Atalanta also stood on the walls of Troy, waiting for the arrival of the coalition forces.
The two sides about to fight can already be said to have gathered all the power of the entire human world. Not only that, some mysterious and powerful monsters have also reappeared in the world, wanting to fight side by side with human heroes.
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