Cleomenes II had a surprised expression on his face. As a Spartan, especially a Spartan king, he had never heard such arrogant words, which made him feel Did he hear wrongly? Then when he saw the same surprised expressions of the people around him, he already knew that it was not that he heard wrongly, but that was what Hercules said.
"Do you consider yourself a god?"
Cleomenes II had a mocking expression on his face. He had privileges that belonged to the gods in Greece. Maybe they were not necessarily the privileges of the Greek gods. For example, in distant city-states such as Thebes next door, there were even sacrifices. Temple of the sun god Ra.
However, Greek heroes, even semi-divine heroes, such as Achilles in Homer's epic poem, are also human beings. Only gods are eligible to receive sacrifices from city-states and humans. If there must be exceptions, they are promoted to constellations after death. Human hero.
"Go away! I can now pretend that I didn't hear what you said. If you were not the king of Thrace, I could kill you at any time now in the name of blasphemy."
Cleomenes II came to Hercules and said almost face to face that according to tradition, every Spartan king was a soldier who was born in the army. He was also the commander-in-chief of the army and the god Urano. Priests of Zeus and Zeus.
"Kill me, kill an immortal god?" Hercules didn't care at all about Cleomenes II's threat. He just smiled heartily and pointed at his chest, "You can kill me, You can have a try."
This arrogant attitude simply made Cleomenes II angry. He followed the example of King Leonidas during the Greco-Persian War and exclaimed, "This is Sparta."
"I'm fighting Sparta!"
Soon after speaking, Heracles punched Cleomenes directly after saying this. The King of Sparta who was standing in front of him suddenly floated into the distance with a broken kite and finally landed on it. On the steps of the palace gate, the Spartan Guards soldiers guarding the king reacted and surrounded Hercules and his party with spears. At the same time, there were soldiers calling, and the originally peaceful city suddenly came to life. Come over, the soldiers begin to surround you.
Arius looked at all this with fear, but Iolaus had a kind of excitement on his face. Sparta dominated the Peloponnese and suppressed the city-state of Athens with less than 10,000 troops.
All the city-states in Greece united to form the Panhellenic League to fight the Persian army. Although Athens and Sparta led all Greece, the actual leader was Sparta.
The Sparta of this era were the American emperors of later generations, and Sparta was most famous for its Spartan warriors under the military system.
Hercules actually wanted to challenge Sparta and the Spartan warriors in the royal city of Sparta. If you think about it, this is simply crazy.
"Soldiers, do you want to come with us?"
Heracles said to the Spartan warriors with his hands. He signaled to his friends who were following him to pay attention to the two children, picked up the shield and sword handed over by Autolycus, and rushed in with a fierce force.
The Spartan warriors held a shield in one hand and a weapon in the other to form a battle formation, advancing slowly with great momentum. Although there were only a hundred people, they had the momentum of thousands of troops. The Spartan army was the best in this era. The army does not take anything lightly even when dealing with one person.
Hercules dropped the sword in his hand, picked up his shield, and rushed forward. The Bull Talisman shone brightly, and Heracles rushed towards the battle formation like an angry bull. There was a loud bang, as if the whole city was shaking. The ground shook and the mountains shook.
boom!
The Spartan warriors who had originally formed a battle formation were all thrown into the sky. The soldiers guarding the royal city seemed to want to support them. At this time, Hercules' eyes flashed with thunder and lightning, and he landed directly on the ground of the palace. On the ground, the warriors who had been charging stopped one after another, and then saw Hercules walking in the air as if strolling in a garden.
This is flying.
In Greek mythology, except for creatures with wings, flying is a privilege belonging to the gods, no matter which half of the mythology they are.
God, any hero, no matter how powerful he is, cannot fly.
"Throw!"
Although the Spartan warriors were shocked and even suspected that Hercules was a god, under the inertia of the army's order, when the commander shouted the instruction to attack, everyone picked up their spears and threw them.
The Spartan warriors threw their spears, and the spears fell to Heracles like rain in an instant, stabbing his body. It would be absolutely impossible for an ordinary human to survive such an attack. But how could Heracles, who could fly in mid-air as if he were strolling in a garden, be an ordinary person. .
The magic power of the dragon talisman and the pig talisman were activated at the same time, and Hercules floating in mid-air was like a cannon moving in the air.
The spears exploded in the air, and the Spartan warriors looked at the disappearing spears, and then at the laser cannons falling from the sky, and ran away one after another.
At the Spartan Palace, King Archidamus III of Sparta was meeting with his ministers at the palace at this time, thinking about the Third Holy War to compete for the Temple of Delphi. He had already decided that if there was If necessary, he would persuade the Council of Elders to personally go to Italy to lead the battle.
Although Sparta was the most powerful city-state in Greece, the king of Sparta was the least powerful monarch in Greece.
Sparta's unique political system, the Dual King System, caused the royal power of the Spartan king to be divided into two halves. The two kings came from two family lineages, which meant that the two kings could suppress the Council of Elders if they had the same views. Otherwise, the two kings can only contain each other and hold each other back. This is also the original intention of the design of the two-king system.
Sparta used checks and balances between the two royal families to maintain political stability.
The throne of the king of Sparta was more of an official position than a title. The name of the king of Sparta in Greece was "Bacyrus", which means consul, and later became the name of the Eastern Roman emperor.
The king of Sparta had the privilege of being the highest seat in banquets, ceremonies, and dinners during peacetime, and the privilege of having double portions of grain and food every month. He had the general command of the military during war, but he had no dictatorship over city-state affairs. There is no diplomatic power.
The king of Sparta removed the privileges of priests during peacetime and the privileges of military commander during war. In fact, he was an empty king. Even so, the king's power was divided into two parts.
If the King of Sparta wanted to intervene in the politics of Sparta, he could only go through the Council of Elders, because according to convention, the Council of Elders has a total of 30 seats, of which 28 are elders, and the remaining two are the two kings, so The main way for a king to gain power in Sparta was to establish influence through war, thereby overpowering another king.
"What happened?" The Spartan king suddenly heard the noise outside, and then looked at the Spartan warriors swarming outside for a moment, and then saw the Spartan warriors carrying another king. Just as he was about to say something, he saw a burly man walking into the palace.
Every time the man took a step forward, the Spartans couldn't help but take a step back until there was no way back.
"Who are you?" asked the Spartan king.
"Heracles, the son of Zeus, is the fiancé of Hebe, the goddess of youth." The man introduced himself briefly, then looked at him and said, "I received the oracle from Hera. Only I can complete the twelve deeds. Ra will not continue to persecute me. Only by completing the twelve feats and unifying the whole of Greece will I be able to marry Hebe, the daughter of Hera."
"Are you sure you want to stop me?"
