The two were moved by what Davers said in his letter that “a grand, distinctive sports meeting will be held” and came.

In order to show respect for them, Davers invited them to the royal stand.

The two of them were attracted by the band that entered the stadium as soon as they came in.

"What is this music called? It sounds very good." Xenophon asked curiously, just like many audiences of the Dionysian Allied States, who were moved by this light and powerful melody.

Before Davers could answer, Plato took over the conversation: "The March of the March, which is a must-play repertoire of the army of Dionys during the march, and was created by King Davers."

Xenophon was surprised: "I didn't expect that Davers, you still have talent in this area!"

When Xenophon talked to Davers in private, he was still accustomed to using the common titles he used to be in Persia, and Davers never cared about it. At this moment, he said modestly: "These are some enlightenment from the great Hades, and it is all the credit of the palace musicians who completed them in the end."

"The music is nice! But how can we do it by bringing so many different instruments and so many musicians together to play such harmonious and beautiful melody instead of creating chaotic and noisy sounds?!"

Not only Xenophon was surprised, but almost all the Greek people in the audience were surprised, because traditional Greek music was mostly played by a single instrument, occasionally with ensembles, and was also performed between a few instruments and a few musicians. Such a huge band in the venue, so many instruments (some of which come from other races, and the Greeks do not know them yet) performed a large ensemble together, which was completely beyond their understanding of music, and they were curious: how did the Dionians control such a huge band and make them produce a grand, heavy and layered melody?

"Do you know Ferrosanus?" Plato asked Xenophon.

"Of course I know that I used to be the musical poet of Syracuse..." Xenophon hesitated for a moment and did not continue.

Ferrosanus was quite creative in the format and melody of musical poetry, so he had a great reputation in Greece. He also published poems at the Greek sports meet. After joining Dionia, he made a greater breakthrough in musical poetry. However, because there were some chapters praising Hades and King Daphs in his poems, he was publicly condemned by several priests of the holy land and was not favored by the high-ranking officials of the Greek city-states. However, many Greek scholars have collected their poems in private and carefully experienced their improvements in the format and rhymes of musical poetry.

"Ferosanus is a teacher at the School of Arts at the Dionia College. In addition to teaching students how to write poetry, he is also studying how to make different instruments play harmonious melody together. I have seen him organize students to play music with his own eyes, just like now, you see, the old man standing in front of the band is Ferosanus!"

The reason why Plato was so familiar with Ferrosanus was that after he was expelled by the Athenian people during the Greek War, he took his students to Turie and accepted the invitation of Davers. He served as a teacher at the Dionys Academy in a short time. In addition to teaching, he also seriously visited other teachers and students to study the operating mechanism of the entire college, hoping to learn from it and improve the teaching of the Akkadmi Academy.

At this time, the band had already circled around the field and entered the center of the stadium near the royal stand, and stood in line, but the music continued.

"So that's it." Although Xenophon also treasures the poems of Ferrosanus, he has never seen himself. He stared at the old man in front of the band who kept pointing with wooden sticks, and said suddenly: "If such a huge band wants to play a harmonious melody, a commander needs to be responsible for placing troops and arranging the formation and arranging who attacks first and who attacks later, so that he can fully exert the strength of the soldiers to win..."

Xenophon is worthy of being a scholar who is both civil and military who wrote "On Cavalry", using war as a metaphor. But the band conductor is not so simple. Ferrosanus has achieved some success in his research for so many years... However, Davers is not going to explain more to sweep away Xenophon's passion.

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Although Olympia did not send priests to participate in the training and selection of the referee group of the Dionia Games, because Dionia promised that the Games would not be dedicated to Hades, Olympia accepted the invitation and sent a priest as a representative to watch the Games.

Olympian priest Percias sat in the VIP seat with a critical and cautious attitude. When the other VIPs were surprised by the spectacular and lively of Hades' main arena and moved by the band's performance, he scoffed at it: the sports meet is the Greeks' respect for gods and their love for sports, and these sensational things are useless!

At this time, he heard the host's shout: "Next, please invite the referee team of this sports meeting to enter!"

He immediately cheered up.

The band's performance also changed from "March March" to "Singing the Praise of Hades".

Accompanied by the quiet and solemn melody, more than 200 priests in white robes entered the field in a loose column. Walking in the front was a young man from Turiyi School. He held up a wooden sign engraved with the words "Referee Team".

Following the boy was an old priest with a smile. When he looked at the audience, the Dionian audience in the venue suddenly became excited: "It's the Priest of Cardiois!!!"

Kaldias was transferred back to the Turii region as the chief priest 10 years ago because of his outstanding missionary achievements in the Rome region. In recent years, because of his old age and lack of energy, he handed over the affairs of the Hades Temple in the entire Turii region to him. In addition, Prissinas also recommended him as his successor, and with the consent of Davers, he would be promoted to the priest of the scepter at the end of the year.

At this time, as the referee leader of the entire referee team, he walked in front of the team.

As the referee team moved forward, the Dionian audience sang the hymns of the gods loudly, as more and more temple priests were recognized by the people outside the venue.

Greek audiences were surprised that there were many priests in the referee team who looked different from Greeks. Through the singing of the audience near Dionia, they learned that these aliens were partly from the Temple of Hades and partly from other alien temples, such as the Savoni Temple in Samore, the Mahara Temple in Bruti, the Barhamon Temple in Carthage, and the Diana Temple in Rome...

Although Olympia also received a notice from Dionia about "the priests of each temple form a referee group", at this moment, when Percias saw so many different gods on the field and priests of different races walking in the same team so quietly and obediently, he couldn't help but breathe in his heart, and suddenly felt a hint of isolation: Is it just us Olympia and the priests Delphi that did not participate?!

At this moment, he suddenly heard a veteran of Dionia beside him say in surprise: "The young man holding the sign seems to be Christod, the grandson of His Majesty Davers?"

"It seems that he is! My youngest son is a classmate of him. This time he was not selected to participate in the opening ceremony of the sports meeting. He even cried with me when he got home."

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The hot discussions of the Dionian officials in the VIP seat naturally attracted the attention of Greek city-state envoys. After Dionia became the overlord of the Greek world, they would of course have a detailed understanding of the Dionian royal family: Hades Davers Cristodd, the grandson of King Dionian Davers, and the son of Crown Prince Crotokataks. According to the eldest son inheritance system of the Dionian royal family, he is likely to become the next king.

In the early days of the establishment of Dionysia, Cynthia and Clotokataks's generation of royal members were studying at Turien City School (the school is located at the easternmost part of the Krati River Delta, next to the Dionys School). At that time, Turien's population was not large. Children of inner and outer cities were all studying at Turien City School, so most Turien people knew royal members. When Christod was studying, because of the expansion of the population of Turien City and the complete establishment of royal prestige, it was not only difficult for children in Turien City to enter the inner city school, but also there were court guards when Christod went to school. So it was normal for most Dionysian audiences not to know him when they first entered the venue today.

After his identity was revealed and the eyes of thousands of viewers were focused on him, the young Christodd would inevitably feel nervous. Fortunately, Carsydis behind him kept comforting him with warm words: "Child, don't be afraid! The audience has no malice. On the contrary, they are happy for the successors of Hades' royal family. Listen, they are cheering for you! You should give them a smile and express your gratitude to them!"

Christod's personality is more like his father. In addition, he was taken by his grandmother by his side when he was very young and was very particular about dealing with people. Therefore, although he was still a little nervous, he still held the wooden sign tightly and turned his head to squeeze out a smile to the audience.

The audience cheered even louder.

Soon, he walked to the front of the royal stand and clearly saw that his family was standing in front of the railing at the front of the stand: kind grandparents, gentle father, strict mother, gentle aunt (Cynthia), relatively introverted second uncle (Apox), childish uncle, beautiful aunt... they were all waving to him and smiling at him.
Chapter completed!