I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 206 Thunder Flame Hestia
Roy and Pallas were galloping on the concrete road leading from the Eleusis tribe to the city of Athens.

Rumble - boom - boom

Thunderbolts fell from the sky one after another, striking the road that Roy had just passed.

Pallas, who was riding behind Roy, couldn't help but whispered.

"Thunder's target is not me, why should I run with him? I am too close to His Majesty, and I am more likely to be struck by Thunder."

Roy, who was concentrating on running away, didn't hear Pallas' complaints.

Seeing that Thunder fell on the hard concrete road and was able to cut a hole half a meter deep in the concrete floor, Roy didn't care about other things at all, he just wanted to escape from Thunder's attack range as soon as possible.

"This is definitely an attack from the gods."

Looking up at the red fireball thousands of meters high in the sky, Roy had already guessed her identity at this moment, which was Hestia, the patron saint of Argos worshiped by the Argives.

As the goddess of fire, Hestia uses thunder to show her power, which is related to the source of the flame.

There are usually only two sources of flames in nature.

The first source of flame is the sun, so among the gods worshiped by the Thracians, the sun god Helios is also the original fire.

The second source of flame is thunder. In hot summer, it is not uncommon for lightning strike fires to burn in forests or grasslands where lightning strikes are the source of fire. Therefore, thunder is the second primary fire after the sun. .

In fact, in nature, there is a third source of flames that is rarely observed by humans-undersea volcanic eruptions.

In the ancient mythology of another world, Helios, the sun god, is regarded as the undisputed original flame. The flame in Egypt and Hephaestus, the god of fire derived from Ptah, the god of craftsmen, symbolizes the eruption of submarine volcanoes. Hestia, the goddess of fire, symbolizes neither the fire of the sun nor the flame of a submarine volcano.

Because Zeus is the sole master of thunder in mythology, Hestia was deprived of her status as the goddess of thunder and turned into a pure goddess of fire. There is no description of the source of the flame she symbolizes.

Hestia, goddess of thunder and fire—

Thinking that the goddess Hestia had been robbed of her territory by Zeus, Roy finally understood why she attacked herself like this.

It is precisely because Hestia has been robbed of the territory by Zeus and is no longer the patron saint, so Hestia is no longer restricted by the rules of the patron saint.

Now that Roy was attacked by Hestia, it was like an unlucky person being attacked by a tiger or something.

Roy can degrade Hestia who attacked him into an evil god or even a demon, but he cannot accuse Hestia of violating the rules of the gods, because Hestia is no longer a patron saint who needs to obey the rules of the gods.

Rumbling--

Another thunder struck beside him, and the aftermath of the thunder made Roy's body paralyzed for a while.

Hestia sent down dozens of thunderbolts, but none of them hit Roy's body, which is obviously unreasonable.

"Could it be that Goddess Hestia is warning me, not trying to kill me?"

Thinking of the reason why he might anger Hestia, Roy raised his head and shouted at Hestia who was thousands of meters above the sky.

"Goddess Hestia, I promise not to drive out the Argives."

Rumbling--

There was a muffled thunder in the sky, but no thunder fell.

After a few minutes, there was still no thunder, and Roy immediately stopped the galloping horse.

Pallas came to Roy, stopped the horse and asked Roy.

"Your Majesty, are we not running away?"

"The goddess has stopped attacking us, why are we running?"

Roy turned his horse around and said to Pallas.

"Pallas, let's go back and negotiate with the Argos."

After speaking, Roy let the horse run to the camp of the Eleusis tribe, and Pallas could only follow Roy.

The seat of the Eleusis tribe.

Roy and Pallas came back here, and Io and Argolid took a dozen Argos soldiers to welcome Roy and extend an invitation to Roy.

"Your Majesty the King of Athens! We didn't treat you well just now, and now I implore you to be our guest."

"I accept your invitation."

Loy and Pallas followed Io and others into the settlement of the Eleusis tribe, and observed that there were about [-] Argos here.

The crowd came to the stone house on the top of the hill. Loy and Pallas followed Io and Algolid into the hall of the stone house, and then the four of them sat down around a wooden table in the hall.

After two young and beautiful maids brought white bread and wine, Io said while holding the wine glass in front of her.

"Your Majesty the King of Athens! The goddess Hestia is a great goddess who is gentle and loving like a mother. She attacked you just now to protect us. Even if we Argos have lost their foothold now, let Hestia How could we betray Goddess Hestia if Goddess Asia lost her seat of patron saint and Goddess Hestia still hasn't abandoned us?"

"Now I understand why you are unwilling to abandon Goddess Hestia."

Roy said expressionlessly.

"Although I understand you, it doesn't mean I can accept it."

Io and Algolid looked at each other, then Io looked at Roy unwillingly and said.

"Your Majesty! The Kingdom of Athens does not only have the goddess Metis. Since you can accept the goddess Mnemosyne from the Thebes region and the goddess Amphitrite from the Corinth region, why can't you accept the goddess Hestia?"

Roy said with a bright smile.

"Although I am not a priest serving the goddess Mnemosyne and the goddess Amphitrite, both goddesses have given me great favor and bestowed their blessings and divine power on me. If you want me to accept Hess Goddess Tia, then let Goddess Hestia grant me blessings and divine power."

Hearing Roy's request, Io said with a joyful smile.

"As long as Your Majesty is willing to support Goddess Hestia and help Goddess Hestia regain the throne of the patron saint, even if Your Majesty is not the priest of Goddess Hestia, Goddess Hestia will give you blessings and divine power .”

Roy shook his head and said.

"As a priest serving the goddess Metis, it is impossible for me to assign a territory belonging to the goddess Metis to the goddess Hestia, and help the goddess Hestia to regain the patron saint seat. My request is, Hess Goddess Tia will now grant me blessings and divine power."

Io explained with a troubled expression.

"Your Majesty the King of Athens, Goddess Hestia is no longer the patron saint. That is to say, Goddess Hestia can only bestow blessings and divine power on one person. Goddess Hestia has bestowed blessings and divine power on Her only priest—that is, me. If I want to fulfill His Majesty's request, I will lose the blessing and power of Goddess Hestia, and I will no longer be able to communicate with Goddess Hestia."

Roy said with a smile.

"If you lose the blessing and divine power of Goddess Hestia and can no longer perform the duties of a priestess, I can serve as a bridge for you to communicate with Goddess Hestia."

(End of this chapter)