Simulating the Universe, Starting with Speedrunning Greece

Chryseis...right?"

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

Apollo's candidate priestess, her original fate was to be abducted by Achilles along with her sister.

Agamemnon was so struck by Chryseis's beauty when he first met her that he was willing to abandon his wife and daughter to marry her.

The two sisters Chryseis were separated and abducted by Agamemnon and Achilles respectively.

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

He went to the house several times, trying to redeem his daughter but to no avail.

During this process, the elder sister Chryseis did not obey Agamemnon, but the younger sister directly married Achilles.

Finally their father prayed to his gods for help. Apollo ordered Agamemnon to release the people, but Agamemnon refused. As a result, the god of light revealed the power of the back of the sun, and the world without sunlight was deprived of plague.

The plague swept through the Greek coalition forces, causing a large number of deaths. Finally, under tremendous pressure, Agamemnon reluctantly gave up Chryseis.

But Chryseis' sister, Briseis, would not come back because she had followed Achilles.

Considering that the two sisters were captured in the battle of Thebes, was it possible that they were rescued by me by accident?

Looking at the back of his hand that night, Chryseis blushed slightly and naturally withdrew his hand.

Then, without Ye saying anything, he began to tell his own story and what happened after Ye fell into a coma.

Chryseis was the witch who led countless people in Thebes to pray for Ye at that time. She had met Ye once at that time, but during the war, Ye had no time to pay attention to whether she was beautiful or not.

It was not until this moment that he remembered... that he had indeed saved the other person with his own hands.

It turned out that she was Apollo's candidate priestess. No wonder—he was wondering why Apollo was so considerate and looked at her.

In Greece, although mortals can pray to God at will, it is hard to say whether God will respond or not. Even after responding to you, if your request is not interesting enough and cannot satisfy or please the gods, then you should pray -

The gods won't suddenly attack you.

After all, the Lord God who is busy with all kinds of affairs, when he responds to you, it is just such a trivial matter. If he doesn't turn you into a sheep or a stone, how can he demonstrate and maintain the majesty of the Lord God? God is not someone who can be called upon by anyone for any trivial matter.

And because Ye saved himself in the war, Chryseis took the initiative to take care of Ye after Ye fell into a coma.

Speaking of which, Chryseis and Hector are cousins, which is why she was able to recognize that Ye was not the real Hector when she was in Thebes.

Hector, who valued his family very much, chose to trust Chryseis and handed Ye to him, while he continued to lead his soldiers to resist the Greek coalition forces.

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

During this period, both Troy and Greece were really fighting each other, and the war intensified. Troy invited Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazon who had a grudge against the Greeks, as its reinforcements.

When the wild and brave Amazon army joins the battlefield——

This made the balance of the war gradually show signs of tipping, and the heroes on the Trojan side began to drink and sing, celebrating the victory of the war in advance.

Even the old king of Troy, who had handed over the war to his sons and had not been heard for a long time, stood up and said, "I rely on the mountains and the sea. If I defend with one man, ten thousand men cannot break through. Even if they can fight, they are not strong enough to destroy me."

With the city of Troy around, they were inherently invincible, and now they could drag the Greeks to death.

When Chryseis said this, Ye frowned instead.

The Trojan War certainly would not end so easily.

Unexpectedly, Troy invited Queen Penthesilea in advance. According to the original historical trajectory, this would have happened after Hector died in battle.

The Iliad records:

In order to deal with the powerful Greek coalition, even the strongest hero and the eldest prince died in battle.

Troy, realizing they were outnumbered, called in the troops of Queen Penthesilea and King Memnon of Ethiopia.

These two were also descendants of gods. After arriving on the battlefield, they brought great assistance to Troy and helped Troy to recover from its disadvantage, but it was not enough to fundamentally turn the tide, which also brought the war into a stalemate again.

But now, because reinforcements were called in in advance, Troy began to gain the upper hand.

But soon, Ye found out from Chryseis that this was all because of himself.

After saving the city of Thebes, Hector led the team alone and rescued many people from the surrounding city-states and returned to Troy.

Although the Greek side did try to stop and pursue Hector, Achilles was injured before and did not appear on the battlefield, and the other heroes could not stop Hector on the battlefield.

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

But because I learned a lesson from Ye before, if I don’t speak for you today, when the crisis comes to me tomorrow, no one will speak for me anymore!

When the lips are gone, the teeth are cold——!

Hector was fully aware of the strength of Greece and that they had to unite to have hope of defeating the powerful coalition. Hector did not become arrogant, but after trying his best to save the people of some small city-states around him, he immediately persuaded his father and brothers and sisters.

Ask for help from Queen Penthesilea of ​​Greece, who has a common enemy.

Chapter 3: The Haikou bonus in the eyes of mortals is completely different from the pursuit in the eyes of gods

Ye can only say - well done!

He just told Hector a truth, and Hector even learned to draw inferences from it and took the initiative to use this truth to convince others to help Troy.

Even Chryseis said—

Troy initially sought help from many sources, but most of them were hesitant.

After all, unlike the situation that has gradually become clear a few years later, the Trojan War has just begun, and other countries are watching and dare not easily bet and join this fight.

Queen Penthesilea was the only one who was persuaded by the principle of "the lips and teeth are cold" and led her troops to join Troy.

It was precisely because of Penthesilea's arrival that Troy truly gained the upper hand. Therefore, those who initially opposed Hector's idea and believed that asking for help was too cowardly now all changed their tune and began to praise the wisdom of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Everyone began to think that earlier rescue would have been a good move.

But Ye understood that the gods would not allow either Greece or Troy to dominate.

The earliest civilization of ancient Greece can be traced back to the two huge forces that are now fighting each other.

Mycenae and Troy——!

Among them, Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition forces, was the king of Mycenae.

If we put aside the mythology, we can think about why the Trojan War happened from a geographical perspective.

The first was to occupy the western and southern Aegean Sea, with the core in Mycenae on the Peloponnese Peninsula.

Including the famous Athens, Sparta, and Crete, these powerful city-states were all within the Mycenaean sphere of influence.

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

They are all located on one huge piece of land, and far across the sea is another huge piece of land.

Across the long coastal city-state of Troy was the powerful Persian Empire.

If Mycenae is like the powerful Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou emperor divided the country into many states, and Athens, Sparta, etc. were the major and powerful vassal states, the main force in the future Warring States era.

The current Mycenae corresponds to the most powerful period of the Zhou Dynasty.

And Troy across the sea was like the remnants of the Shang Dynasty that were driven away.

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

As the common ruler of the world, Mycenae certainly looked down upon such overseas barbarian lands. Not only would it be difficult to send troops to fight so far away, but it would also be difficult to manage 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 was no benefit, Mycenae would certainly not have nothing to do and come all the way here. As for wanting to win back a woman like Helen, it was just a ridiculous excuse that you just heard.

The fundamental reason is that they saw that after Troy began to develop at the entrance of the Dardanelles in the Aegean Sea, it not only belonged to the Aegean cultural circle, but also enjoyed the trade dividends between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea.

This made Mycenae, which had originally not cared about Troy, an overseas barbarian, jealous after seeing Troy's ability to make money.

Mycenae wanted Troy to swear allegiance to it like Athens, Sparta and other city-states, and open its ports so that their merchant ships could freely enter and exit the Turkish Straits to do business.

But Troy certainly would not agree - the emperor was far away, who would be willing to recognize a superior for themselves? And this was the real reason that led to the outbreak of the famous Trojan War.

Essentially, the Trojan War was a war for key locations in maritime trade.

In the mythological world, we have to consider the factor of gods. Logically speaking, both Troy and Greece believe in the Olympian gods.

If the gods did not agree, no matter how much Agamemnon coveted the benefits of Troy, he would not dare to say a word.

At first glance, the reason for the outbreak of the Trojan War - the Trojans' disrespect for the gods may have played a role, but were there no other reasons behind the destruction of Troy? If we talk about disrespect for the gods, there were many ungodly heroes in Greece.

Ye suddenly thought of the founding of Rome——

The future Rome is very similar to the past Troy. Both countries established their countries far away 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 to let him cross the Mediterranean and establish Rome, where they established a new mythological system - Roman mythology.

This cannot help but make people suspect that the gods have set their sights on that piece of land and are consciously expanding the scope of their mythological system and beliefs.

If this is true, then the gods must have wanted Troy to perish from the very beginning, and had arranged its end long ago, allowing Aeneas to survive and escape to the Mediterranean Sea amid the pursuit of many enemy heroes as if with divine help.

Using this as an excuse, they forced Aeneas to follow the example of his ancestors and build a country in the New World alone. The Trojan royal family is really a tool.

The current Greek-Trojan War is like a drama arranged and promoted by the gods and performed for mortals.

Find a reason to send people to the Mediterranean to establish Rome - since it is related to the belief in gods, even Apollo and the goddess of love Aphrodite, who openly helped Troy, could no longer be trusted.

But since the intention was to destroy Troy from the beginning, why did they support both sides of the war and let the Trojan War last so long - as if they were deliberately consuming the population and sending the heroes to their deaths?

What is the source?

Ye's mind was racing as he thought, his face solemn.

There is no love or hatred in the world without reason. Even if it is based on interests, there must be some factors that cause the gods to fool mortals so cruelly.

Is it just for entertainment?

Although we don't know the details, we now know that the gods want Troy to perish, but they don't want it to perish too quickly. At least they want both sides to be almost dead before ending the battle.

In order to expand the scale of the battle——

In the later stages of this war, even gods themselves took part in the battle.

Now that Troy has received additional reinforcements, the gods behind Greece will certainly find ways to increase Greece's strength.

If a mistake is made, and the gods themselves are directly involved, then the battlefield will really be full of monsters and demons...

Even with Ye's current strength, coupled with Helena who disappeared to who knows where, he is still not enough.

Headache--

No, that's not right...Ye suddenly thought of something wrong.

Night: “Where’s Achilles—?!

Why didn't I hear any more about him in your story? Didn't he stand up and snipe Hector? "

Chapter 4: The heels can only be green hats, impotent and furious, this wave is hopeless

Although Achilles was injured, Ye knew very well that the other party's injuries were not as serious as his own and he should have recovered long ago.

With his strength, if he appeared on the battlefield, Hector would have no time to be distracted.

Let alone saving people and sending people for support—

Even if a few more Amazon queens and armies came, it would be impossible to suppress the army with Achilles on the front battlefield.

Achilles, the immortal body that is invulnerable to swords and spears, the great hero of steel. Because of his existence, even with a powerful hero like Hector, the Trojans did not dare to take the initiative to attack and could only hide in the city of Troy.

In front of a hero of this level, the number of mortals is like lambs to be slaughtered and poses no threat at all. With him around - how could the Greek coalition be at a disadvantage?

And when mentioning Achilles, Ye noticed——

The priestess in front of him - Chryseis's expression changed slightly, she looked a little sad and worried, as if she was recalling something bad.

"Achilles - did not appear on the battlefield. I heard that he had a conflict with Agamemnon and no longer participated in the Trojan War."

Ye: Huh? ! !

Ye was suddenly stunned.

Wait, Achilles is out?

This hero can be said to be the most difficult hero for the Greek side in the early stage. He was the strongest output of the enemy before the gods themselves came out and left the field early.