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[Congratulations Commander, you just destroyed the Peloponnesian League of the Kosmosis Cult, Glory +100 points, Merit +3000 points]

After Qin Rongshuai rushed into the temple, he looked around, but found neither the secret room nor the Garden of Eden fragments, only a few boxes of Persian gold coins piled on the side, which made him feel very lost.

How could there not be?

After careful planning, it is a joy to try to defeat a powerful enemy, and it is another joy to clean up the battlefield and collect loot after victory, and the two things are obviously double the happiness when they are combined.

But why is it like this?!

The area where the Peloponnesian League was located was an agricultural area, and the main city-state was Sparta, a region with underdeveloped commerce and iron coins, which was not as rich as the Athenian city-state, and did not have so much gold and silver treasures for the temple to collect money.

Even the gold coins found were sent by Councilor Theron to the Persians.

However, something is better than nothing, and Qin Rongshuai, who was in a state of interest, asked his subordinates to pack these gold coins and carry them back to his residence.

At this time, Leonidas walked over, directly ignored Qin Ruishi, who was carrying the gold coins, and asked seriously, "Qin, have you solved it here?" ”

As soon as the Sage of the Order God Cult who collapsed to the ground saw Leonidas, he immediately came to his senses and shouted: "Leonidas, this despicable and shameless bastard, you dare to be the enemy of the Temple of Delphi, you are blasphemy, blasphemy, blasphemy, you will pay for it!" ”

Leonidas looked puzzled, "What does this have to do with me, I didn't bring anyone to besiege the temple." ”

This made sense, and the people of the Kosmos Cult were speechless for a while.

After a long time, a wise man cursed in impotence and rage: "Leonidas, you are bringing about your own destruction, Xerxes will set foot on Sparta, and everything you have, your family, and your city-state subjects will be destroyed." ”

Leonidas looked at them coldly, "Then I'll wait for Xerxes to come." ”

"You madman!"

"Maniac?!" Leonidas smiled contemptuously, "This is Sparta!" ”

"Whoa!" , the Spartan guards raised their arms and let out a murderous howl.

Qin Rongshuai stepped forward, kicked the wise man who spoke to the ground, stretched out his hand to unmask the other party, and sneered twice, "Desecrate the temple? Then first of all, you have to be the priests of the temple, let me see who you are. ”

"Come, let them see the light of righteousness!"

When the Qin Rui soldiers next to him heard the order, they immediately rushed up, took off the masks of the people of the God of Order Sect one by one, and pulled their faces to the torch for Leonidas to identify.

"Councilor Dios?"

"Registrar Demos?"

"Councillor Asides?"

The Cult of Kosmos was quickly recognized, and only three of them were priests of the Temple of Delphi, and the others were prominent figures in the city-state.

The members of the Kosmos Cult include the priests of the Temple of Delphi, but most of them are not, they have other identities, some are merchants and some are officials, and they usually use their glamorous status as a disguise, and they have extremely high social status and power.

They usually exchange messages and sometimes help each other, and members who join it can get a lot of benefits, which is why the Cult of Kosmos is so powerful.

Now that these people are recognized, things are awkward. Not only were they not members of the clergy of the Temple of Delphi, then there was no way to talk about blasphemy of the Temple.

But as an official of the Spartan city-state, joining a secret organization, conspiring to subvert the city-state, colluding with foreign countries, colluding with the Persians, every crime can be crucified to them.

Now the Spartan guards will not be polite, and they will rush up to serve with fists and kicks, beat them half to death and then drag them away.

As for the remaining three priests of the Temple of Delphi?

The Spartans would not offend the people of the temple, they politely ignored the three men, and let Qin Rongshuai's men drag them aside and torture them.

Qin Rongshuai's subordinates only had Amazonian female warriors who knew Greek, but they couldn't write, and Qin Ruishi couldn't understand it at all, so Qin Rongshuai had to make his own records.

At this time, he missed his clerk immensely, and he did not know what happened to Krossus in Athens.

When he first came to Sparta, he left Krossus in Athens, considering that many things in Athens were still unsettled, and this clerk not only had to deal with the affairs of the Kosmos, but also took over the inventory of the 10,000 slaves, and also had to follow up the delivery of weapons.

This clerk is estimated to be in a hurry, after all, he is in charge of the affairs of 10,000 people, which is enough for him to vomit blood.

After interrogating for a while, the news he got was of great value, it should be said that Qin Rongshuai was not interested, there was neither hidden treasure nor the whereabouts of the fragments of the Garden of Eden, so after asking a few casual questions, he sent his subordinates to temporarily imprison several members of the Kosmos Cult, and waited until his clerk came to deal with it.

The next day, the whole city of Sparta was in a stir, and the news that King Leonidas had cracked a secret rebel group spread throughout the streets of the city-state at night, and the citizens of Sparta rushed to the council hall to listen to the news.

All those who were captured, except for the three priests of the Temple of Delphi, were tied to pillars and displayed to the public, and their indictments were read aloud on the spot, and the evidence of the guilt was revealed.

The people of the entire city-state were immediately enraged, shouting in unison to burn the traitors, and throwing a lot of rotten vegetable leaves to express their indignation and contempt for the traitors.

The incident was so big that it alarmed another Spartan king, Riotizides, who had been out on patrol until before, and hurried back to the city-state after hearing about it.

After returning to the city, Riotizides and Leonidas discussed it behind closed doors for half an hour, and the two men reached an agreement to announce to the people that the traitor would be sentenced to death, and at the same time began to prepare for the invasion of the Persian army.

The two kings had already reached an agreement on the matter of war against Persia, and now they were just looking for an opportunity to announce it to the citizens of the city-state, but the two kings were helpless when it came to the choice of time for the war.

Xerxes was cunning, he deliberately stopped after the capture of Northern Greece, and refused to continue his march, so that a discerning person could see what he was thinking.

Xerxes was to wait until July and August to start the attack, because it was the time when the Greeks celebrated the festival of Cania, and according to Spartan law, no military operations were allowed during the festival, and this legal restriction made it impossible for the two Spartan kings to do anything.

Suddenly, soldiers came to report that Themistocles, the consul of Athens, had come and had an important matter to discuss with the two kings.