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Chapter 205 The Dionysian Royal Family at the Opening Ceremony

After sitting down, Lucomedes sighed: "It's really unique! On the first day of the start of the sports meeting held in our Greek land, athletes and spectators gathered in front of the temple and sacrificed to the gods with the priests. Then the athletes stood in front of the altar and sweared in the name of the gods under the guidance of the priests... But now we are sitting in the arena, waiting for the start of the sports meeting!"

"Yes, this is exactly what I'm confused about." Pero Pidas asked curiously: "Lucomedes, do you know what the Dionians will do next?"

"I just met Mesenia's chief general Tisias on the way here, and asked him the same question. He didn't know, so how could I know." Lucomedes smiled and said, "I don't know, so any moves of Dionia will be a surprise!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire arena suddenly boiled, and cheers and shouts sounded.

The two people who were talking didn't know what had happened yet. They had been silently observing Ipa Mironda around them and shouted in their ears: "King Davers is here!"

The royal stand is not far from their right. It is a 20-meter-long and 5-meter-high marble platform with gold-inlaid iron poles, with blue and white curtains above it, and a majestic palace guards around it.

At this moment, Davers took Christoya, Agenice and all the children to the stands.

The sharp-eyed Dionian people immediately discovered this situation, and cheered and paid tribute to their beloved king and princess.

Davers, wearing a golden crown and a gorgeous black beautton, smiled, raised his right hand and swung gently to pay tribute to the audience.

The cheers in the arena were even more intense.

Suddenly, the audience across from the royal stand stood up, raised their arms over their heads, and then sat down, and then the audience on their right hand also did the same moves...

"People waves! People waves! I want to play too!" Crotokataks' second son, 6-year-old Crimedes, ran forward excitedly, but was quickly pulled by Cristoya and said softly: "Kerry, don't be anxious, let's play together in a while."

Sure enough, when the people were rushing to the royal stand, Davers and his family raised their hands, stood up from the soft couch, and then sat down again.

Although the royal family participated in it personally, the waves of people became intermittent due to many non-Dionian audiences. The audience continued patiently, round 2, round 3... Finally, all the audience was driven, and the entire arena stands were circulating one after another, like rolling waves, which was spectacular.

When the waves ended, Pero Pidas was still unsatisfied and said repeatedly: "Not bad! This surprise is very good!!"

When the VIPs were discussing the people just now, Davers was already sitting on the couch and said to Cristoya with a smile: "From the situation of people just now, at least 2/5 of the audience were not Dionians. It seems that Turiyi City Hall has seriously implemented the resolution of the palace."

Cristoya gave him a blank look: "Not only the city hall, but our chamber of commerce has also put in a lot of effort!"

"Don't worry, I haven't finished speaking yet, I can't help but praise you." Davers salivated and stroked Cristoya's hand, but she patted her hard and warned: "This is a public place, don't do anything randomly, it's bad for the public to see!"

Davers said righteously: "What's wrong with this? Showing our love to the people is to remind them to respect their marriage and protect their wives! Agents, are you right?!" As he said that, he also took the opportunity to hold Agents' hand.

Agenus smiled slightly, but struggled back hard, but did not break free, so he had to let her husband touch her.

Eunice, who was sitting behind, grimacing while whispering to her siblings: "Father is such a shameless father."

"Eunice, what are you talking about?" Davers did not look back, but shouted as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

"Ah... nothing, I'm telling my sister-in-law that the people I was just swearing was fun." Eunice quickly blinked at Dido next to her: "Yes, sister-in-law?"

Dido held back his laughter: "Yes."

"When you open your eyes, your daughter is like you!" Cristoya cursed with a smile.

Davers coughed a few times: "My daughter is not like me, who else can she be like! Eunice, give you a task and tell you that the opening ceremony can begin, so don't let the audience wait for a long time."

"The elder brother should notify you of such an occasion." Eunice said hesitantly.

Crotokataks understood Davers' intention and said with a smile: "Eunice, you are the most popular royal family member in this arena. Who do you go? Besides, your appearance will greatly encourage those non-Dionian women who are sitting in the audience for the first time in the sports meet."

After hearing this, Unisse stood up and said mischievously: "Father, then I'll go. Don't be jealous of me being more popular than you!"

"Good or small, go quickly!" Davers looked impatient, but couldn't help but quip: "Arix, what's wrong with you? You didn't take care of your wife!"

Arex had not responded yet, and Eunice's eyes widened: "He dares?!"

Aviya finally couldn't help laughing out loud.

Eunice walked out of the curtain in an elegant manner and walked to the front of the royal stands. Sure enough, even more enthusiastic cheers rang around her.

In the main arena of Hades, Eunice is more popular with the audience than King Davers, which is not a false statement. Because Eunice, who loves sports among the royal family, will go to this arena to watch football and football games whenever she has time, and cheer for the players with the audience. The Cristoya Chamber of Commerce has also led the donation to the reconstruction of the main arena of Hades in her name. There have also been several times to give awards to the rugby and football teams that won the championship on behalf of Davers and Crotokataks. Therefore, many audiences and players call her "goddess of the arena".

Among the enthusiastic cheering audiences, there were indeed a very small number of women from the native Greek city-states. More than half of them were wives of ordinary civilians. Due to their family background, they had to show up in the market to buy and sell goods or plant farmland. Therefore, their status and power at home were much greater than those of the women in the noble family. However, even so, they could not go to the various sports meets to watch exciting games. The Dionian Games gave them this opportunity, so they came tremblingly. The Princess Dionian, who stood in the royal stands so eye-catchingly, undoubtedly gave them the greatest encouragement.

There were also a very small number of Greek girls in the audience. They were brought to watch the game by their fathers as merchants. The purpose was to catch a rich man and provide assistance to their future business development in the Kingdom of Dionia. When these girls first sat in the audience, they were very reserved, lowered their heads and did not dare to look around. As a result, they saw the nearby Dionian women shouting and shouting, free and relaxed, and gradually let go.

Next to the royal stand was a small shorter platform, sitting on it, with five arena hosts sitting. After receiving the order from Eunice, the leader immediately raised a red flag and kept shaking in the air. After seeing it, the audience of Dionia not only stopped the noise themselves, but also persuaded the audience next to them to remain quiet.

After the entire arena was quieter, the five hosts picked up the microphones wrapped in copper skin, used their loud voices and tacit understanding that they had been hosting the competition for many years, and said in unison: "Dear spectators, welcome to the main arena of Hades! With the order of the great King Davers, we announce that the Dionia Games officially began!"

"First of all, invite the band to enter!"

As the host's voice rang out, the door leading to the entrance of the arena opened, and nearly a hundred musicians holding various instruments lined up in neat columns to enter the field, advancing along the edge of the track, playing the "March March" while marching.

Their entrance immediately welcomed warm applause from the audience, and the Dionian citizens also clapped and hummed with the familiar melody, and the entire sports field became lively again.

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Just as the band entered the court, two VIP guests were also welcomed in the stands: Plato and Xenophon.

Since Athens surrendered and the end of the Greek War, Plato refused Davers's retention and returned to Athens to continue to manage his Akkadmi Academy. Not only did he no longer be criticized by the Athenian people, but the General Executive Committee also asked him about the Kingdom of Dionys from time to time. He occasionally wrote letters to Davers to exchange political issues and kept in touch with Davers.

After Sparta was conquered, Davers wrote letters several times to invite Xenophon to teach at the School of Literature at the Dionysian Academy, but he refused all of them on the grounds that he "was writing with all his might and did not want to be disturbed" and lived in seclusion in Peloponnese.
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