Chapter 138 Give Me a Favor and Stop the War

The more you can't get something, the more you want it--

This is the mentality that Luo Yin also has.

Seeing that Yinsmene might be a scheming woman who is playing hard to get with him, Luo Yin could only suppress his restlessness and said to Yinsmene's back with cold eyes.

"Princess Yinsmene! Although saving the Kingdom of Thebes is what I must do, you Theban royal family are the biggest beneficiaries. After I save the Kingdom of Thebes, how will you Theban royal family repay me?"

"The Kingdom of Thebes will become your vassal, and will form a coalition with you to attack the city of Athens when you go to war with the Kingdom of Athens."

"Are you treating me like a fool again?"

Luo Yin sneered and teased.

"You are just a princess of the Kingdom of Thebes, not the queen of the Kingdom of Thebes. The real ruler of the Kingdom of Thebes is your nephew Laodamas. You are not qualified to surrender to me on behalf of the Kingdom of Thebes."

Hearing Luo Yin's words, Yinsmene sighed and said.

"You have already decided to get what you want with your own hands, so why ask me extra questions."

"We are strangers who met for the first time, but you seem to know my character very well."

"I have met a man with a similar character to yours."

Luo Yin walked behind Yinsmene and knelt on one knee, then whispered in her ear.

"Since you know my character, can you accept a future dominated by me?"

Luo Yin's breath blew on her cheek, and Yinsmene immediately blushed and said in a soft voice.

"Will you... give me the power to refuse?"

Looking at Yinsmene's shy reaction, Luo Yin was stunned for a moment.

Is she deliberately keeping a distance from herself? She is not playing hard to get, but just the shy reaction of an unmarried girl.

Oedipus, the king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother, gave birth to four natural humanoid demons with his wife Yin Ecaste, namely the twin brothers Eteocles and Polynices, and two daughters Antigone and Yinsmene.

After Oedipus's crime of killing his father and marrying his mother was exposed, Inecaste committed suicide immediately like Philopia, and Oedipus also chose to exile himself and handed the throne to Inecaste's younger brother, Creon, the former King of Thebes who ascended the throne before Oedipus, and he was also Oedipus' uncle.

Because Creon was not a descendant of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, Creon did not have the orthodox right to become the king of Thebes.

When Eteocles and Polynices grew up, they asked their uncle Creon to return the throne to them.

In order to keep the throne, Creon returned the throne to the two brothers on the surface, but actually asked the two brothers to take turns in power, so that the two brothers could not grasp the real kingship and could only become puppets under his control.

In order to eliminate the two brothers and regain the throne, Creon also provoked the relationship between the two brothers and asked Eteocles to expel Polynices.

The expelled Polynices wandered to the Argos region, and became the son-in-law of Adrastus, the king of Argos, with Tydeus, the Calydonian prince who was also expelled from his hometown. Adrastus then summoned a coalition of 7,000 soldiers led by seven heroes to launch the First Theban War in the name of regaining the throne for Polynices.

During the First Theban War, Insmene's father Oedipus, two brothers Eteocles and Polynices, and sister Antigone all died, and Insmene was the only human demon left in the Cadmus family.

Now Diomedes and his grandfather Adrastus launched the Second Theban War, and the name they used was to regain the throne for Polynices' son, Diomedes' cousin Thersantros.

The city of Thebes.

This city, guarded by seven gates and strong walls, has been a powerful city-state since the time of its founding.

The strong walls of Thebes were deified just like the walls of Troyon.

In the myths made up by humans hundreds of years later, the strong walls of Thebes were formed by the stones automatically gluing together under the guidance of the beautiful sound of the lyre given by the Muse when Amphion, the king of Thebes, played the lyre.

However, neither Thebes nor Troyon could defend the city-state with strong walls.

What can truly defend the city-state are powerful heroes and fearless soldiers.

At this time, outside Thebes, eight thousand soldiers led by eight heroes from the Argos region blocked the main gate of Thebes.

After the gate of Thebes was opened, eight thousand Theban soldiers came outside the city to confront the coalition forces.

Although the two armies had the same number of soldiers, the commander of the Theban soldiers was only the young king Laodamas.

In this era when heroes could fight one hundred or even one thousand, the coalition forces attacking Thebes had eight heroes, and Thebes had only one hero.

The battle had not even begun, but Thebes was doomed to fail.

Just as the battle between the two sides was about to break out, Loyin and Insmene rode two horses to the battlefield.

Thebes King Laodamas saw Insmene, and Diomedes saw Loyin. The two commanders immediately ordered their soldiers to stop.

Under the gaze of the two armies, Loyin and Insmene entered the center of the battlefield, smiled brightly and said loudly.

"Except Diomedes, no one here knows me. Now let me introduce myself to you. I am Tantalus, the king of Mycenae. I came here at the invitation of Princess Insimone to stop this war. Both of you give me a favor and reach a settlement under my witness!"

Give you a favor-

Hearing Luo Yin's request, the commanders of the two armies all rolled their eyes.

Now even if Mycenae and the vassal city-states are added together, they may not be able to gather 8,000 soldiers for the expedition.

The two armies have a total of 16,000 soldiers. Of course, they will not stop the impending war because of Luo Yin's words.

"Aunt Insimone! Please don't stay in the dangerous battlefield with this madman. You should return to Thebes immediately. I will defeat the enemy and protect you and the residents of the whole city."

Hearing the urging of her nephew Laodamas, Insimone looked at him with pity and said.

"Poor Laodamas, Persephone has opened the gates of the underworld for you, so you left the solid walls of Thebes and came outside the city to fight a powerful enemy. I brought this man here to save you and Thebes."

While Insimene was talking to Laodamas, Diomedes asked Luo Yin in confusion.

"King Tantalus! I heard that you led 3,000 soldiers south to conquer Arcadia and Pylos. Why are you here? Is the real Tantalus still in the Peloponnese, and you are just a person with a similar face pretending to be Tantalus?"

"Puff——"

Hearing Diomedes' words, Luo Yin couldn't help but sneer.

"Diomedes, are you teasing me on purpose? The reason I'm here is simple, because I have already conquered Arcadia and Pylos. If you doubt that I'm not the real Tantalus, then challenge me and verify my strength!"

"You said you have conquered Arcadia and Pylos--"

Diomedes stared blankly for a moment, then shook his head.

"That's impossible! We just arrived in Thebes, and you have already conquered Arcadia and Pylos. Did you enter Arcadia and Pylos, and the city-states there surrendered to you directly?"

Luo Yin nodded immediately.

"Diomedes, it seems that after you became the favorite of Pallas Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, your clumsy head has become smart."