"How do I know..."
"You haven't woken up yet? You won't wake up forever, will you?"
"No, not really."
Hilde looked at Tomyris's peaceful sleeping face.
She was also trying to recall how much strength she had used in the final attack, but after thinking it over, it seemed that she had not used much strength. After all, Tomyris was still alive and her vital signs were stable.
Again.
Tomyris is an oracle.
How can it be so fragile?
Thinking of this, Hilde breathed a sigh of relief.
Anyway, let her rest first.
After letting Tomyris lie down, Xerxes and Hilde sat on the other side, leaning against each other.
"It's over."
"Yes."
The speed at which the war ended made the two of them a little dazed.
At the beginning, Hilde had always believed that the battle with the Scythians would probably be a long-lasting war, which would take much longer than the battle with the Thracians. But now... a duel that lasted less than half an hour ended the war between the two nations and the two countries, and resolved the "hatred" between the two countries.
"call……"
Xerxes exhaled.
"It's time for me to go back again."
"Yeah, you told me that."
Hilde knew that Xerxes had said that he would return to Persia once the war with the Scythians was over. This time, Xerxes had spent too much time with Hilde. As a Persian monarch, it was really unreasonable for him to spend most of his time with Hilde.
"Then, when we go back, will you give me another task?"
"right."
Xerxes smiled and nodded.
"You want to hear it now?"
"correct."
"If you want to hear it, I can tell you."
Xerxes reached out his hand, gently put it around Hilde's neck, and then moved closer to Hilde.
"You have already conquered the Scythians. The tens of thousands of Scythian cavalry will provide strong support for your Byzantine Kingdom. At the same time, you also have the powerful oracle Tomyris. At this time, you already have a strength that no other Greek regime can possess, which is to unite all the Greeks."
"…Are you kidding me?"
Hilde couldn't help laughing.
"You want me to unify Greece?"
"correct."
"This is no small matter."
Hilde knew it.
As for unifying Greece, the current Byzantine Empire does have the ability to do so.
However, this matter is not that simple. The current Byzantine Empire has a population of over one million, while the total population of the entire Greek world is several times that of the Byzantine Empire. At the same time, Greece is also a very broad concept. If we only talk about the core areas, then, by occupying Ionia, Hildesheim has actually occupied half of the Greek world. Hildesheim only needs to take over the Greek city-states centered on Athens and Sparta, and he will have completed the task of unifying Greece.
But if we expand the scope to the Hellenistic world.
That's too big.
The western part of the Byzantine Empire bordered the Macedonians.
The 10th verse of the eighth key escapes into crazy thoughts
If we go further south, in addition to the Greek city-states, there are also people like Epirus. If we go further west, there are also powerful Athenian colonists in Italy. Those people form the so-called Greater Greece. Among them, the famous city-state Syracuse is even more powerful than Athens. If we go all the way south, across the Mediterranean, the Athenian colonies are also spread all over the coast of North Africa, and even in Egypt, there are many traces of Athenian life.
If Greece is unified.
Then these areas were conquered.
I'm afraid Hilde will need to spend his entire life to figure this out.
Only then can we achieve the goal.
but……
Hilde remembered a person's name.
That was Alexander the Great.
Back then, it actually didn't take Alexander too long to complete the conquest of a large area of territory.
This is not impossible to do.
But Hilde was curious why Xerxes would ask for this.
"Why do you want me to conquer Greece?"
"Because you have the ability."
"But you have it too, why don't you do it?"
"No... I have no interest in conquest, Sissi." Xerxes gently held Hilde's cheek and said with a smile, "Just like you conquered me, I am only suitable to be conquered by a strong person like you, but not suitable to be a conqueror and conquer other nations and countries. Besides, I asked you to conquer Greece for another important task."
"……what?"
Hilde seemed to understand something.
It's just that she didn't dare to imagine.
"What else do you want from me?"
"It's very simple. After conquering Greece, you will become the emperor of Greece, the emperor of the Greeks. Then, you will integrate the western army, cross the Mediterranean, cross the Hellespont, and come to the territory of Persia. By then, Sissi, I hope you can conquer the Persian Empire, completely defeat me, and become the most powerful overlord in this world."
"You must be kidding."
Hilde couldn't help but frown.
In his opinion, Xerxes' words were a bit crazy.
"I conquered Greece and Persia. Do you think I am a conqueror?"
"Don't worry."
Xerxes smiled and patted Hilde's head.
"If you don't try, how will you know if you can do it?"
"I always feel like you're setting a trap for me."
"Indeed."
Xerxes simply admitted it.
"I did set a trap, but it doesn't matter. In fact, after all these years, you should know that I didn't do anything to harm you, and you know my true feelings. Sissi, I really love you, but as the empress of the Persian Empire, I also have many things to worry about. This may be my personal selfishness, but I really don't want to be the emperor of Persia. I am like being trapped in Persia. On the surface, I am the emperor of Persia, but to some extent, I am a slave of all Persians."
"Well, then what?"
"I need someone to rescue me."
"But, you know what? If I really occupied all of Greece and took all the Greek troops to attack the Persian Empire, then both the Greeks and Persians would suffer casualties. A large number of people would die in a war, and similarly, the civilizations of Persia and Greece might also be threatened by such a war."
Hilde wasn't sure if Xerxes was really joking.
But, since Xerxes said so solemnly.
Hilde couldn't pretend she didn't hear it.
"In short, no. We have tried our best to avoid unnecessary sacrifices in our war with the Scythians."
"...Yeah, that's fine."
Xerxes smiled and nodded.
"But you will definitely do this in the future."
"Are you so sure?"
"Yes, you will know when the time comes."
Xerxes always liked to say half of what he said and reveal the other half.
Although Hilde knew that Xerxes must have his reasons for making such a decision, she could not let Hilde and Xerxes fight each other and let the two largest civilizations in the Western world collide. The Persians and the Greeks did not necessarily have to use a war to decide who would be the overlord, at least not now.
It is not clear whether the war will be lost.
But once the war breaks out.
Hundreds of thousands of lives will be destroyed.
What you get in return is probably not a stable and peaceful life.
Xerxes knew that Hilde would not agree to this, so she did not continue to mention this matter and chose to remain silent for the time being.
For a while, neither of them said anything.
I don’t know how long it took.
Tomyris, lying on the ground, gradually woke up.
"Forehead……"
Tomyris held her head and tried to sit up.
When Hilde saw this, he quickly stood up and came to Tomyris's side.
"What's wrong? Are you okay?"
"Head hurts……"
Ah, that's for sure.
Hilde thought helplessly that being hit on the head by his own spear would indeed be a headache.
"You should lie down first."
"Is it... that the battle is over and no one was involved in it?"
Tomyris asked worriedly.
Her eyes, shaken by fear, stared straight at Hilde.
Hilde nodded firmly.
"Yes, no one was injured. After you were knocked unconscious, the Scythians laid down their weapons, and our army will capture them. However, we will not do anything bad to them, so please rest assured." Hilde gently stroked Tomyris's hair. "I may have hit you too hard. I think you can't bear it."
"You..."
Tomyris looked at Hilde helplessly.
"Are you showing mercy?"
"you caught me?"
"Of course I know. At the last moment, all your lightning bypassed me, and then you hit me on the head with your spear. In fact, you knew very well from the beginning that it would be easy to deal with me. So, during the battle, you kept pretending to be in a tough fight with me in order to create a situation of equal strength."
"You discovered all this..."
Hilde smiled bitterly and sighed.
"Am I being a little too sentimental?"
"It doesn't count."
Tomyris sighed.
"I know you did this out of consideration for my feelings, but... knowing that you were waterproofing made me feel even worse."
"sorry!"
Hilde saw that Tomyris looked a little unhappy.
