"Camillus is finally here!" After entering Rome City, after a night of rest, the pressure given to Davers by the history of his previous life had been gone. At this moment, he looked calm and gave Thormid orders: "Notify the commanders of the legion to be prepared for defense." After saying this, he continued to eat breakfast quietly.

Just after breakfast, another guard came to report: "Prince Caldias asked for a visit."

"Caldias... let him in." Davers said, touching his jaw. He was quite interested in the Hades priest who came to Rome with the army, which he strongly recommended by Presinas, because his experience was quite legendary.

According to Greek tradition, the identity of temple priests is usually born, either born in a priestly family or a dying priestly designated, and other people do not expect to take on this sacred profession at all. Of course, in the Kingdom of Dionys, the situation is different. Since Davers wanted to vigorously promote the development of the Hades Temple in the territory, many attendants who were willing to serve the temple were selected among the ordinary people. But in the end, they had to become priests, and eventually they had to go through a sacred ceremony presided over by Davers himself. Not only because Davers also served as the high priest of the kingdom, but also because he was a descendant of Hades, who was personally given to him, naturally, Hades' priests had the spirituality to communicate with God.

Kaldias was from the Silitini family, but not from a traditional Greek sacrificial family, but an ordinary citizen. However, because of the favor of the Temple of Hades, he decided to come to Turiyi to serve as a temple attendant. Later, the Syracuses of the massacre of Silitini made him study in the temple more frequently. After a few years, because of his proficiency in divine scriptures and good communication, he was highly trusted by believers, and was eventually promoted to a priest.

Later, he took the initiative to apply to preside over the Hades Temple in Katanai. During his tenure, the Hades believers in Katanai increased greatly, and even spread the Hades faith to Syracuse. Of course, he was also criticized, saying that he used the money donated by the believers to ask someone to buy slaves from Silitun in the city of Syracuse and then give them freedom. So a few years later, he was transferred back to Turiyi, but was still promoted to supervisory priest because of his outstanding performance.

Before the army set off this time, Presinus selected the Hades priest who came to Latin to establish the temple. Although there were risks, many applicants were enrolled, because those who could be promoted to the priests were all believers with firm beliefs and wanted to preach for the temple. The reason why Cardios was selected was because more than a year ago, Davers presided over the annual routine Hades priest assembly as a high priest. He intentionally or unintentionally talked about the Latin region and Rome in central Italy that might be the next target of expansion of the Kingdom of Dionia. After that, Cardios actually went through many troubles to buy a Latin slave. The main job of giving this slave was to teach him Latin language, so he became the only person among the Hades priests who were proficient in Latin and was eventually selected. After all, relying on translation to develop Hades believers among aliens will undoubtedly make it more difficult.

After Kaldias came to Rome, he did not listen to others' dissuasion and insisted on going deep into the Roman people to communicate. Davers had also worried about his safety, but he did not expect that he would come to him so soon.

Davers, contrary to his previous treatment of officials and generals, immediately stood up and strode out.

Cardios, who was nearly 50 years old, hurriedly walked into the Roman Senate, bent down and bowed, raised his hands flat, and looked up to the palms, and respectfully performed a priestly ceremony to Davers: "Good morning, high priest! (Since the founding of the Kingdom, the priest of the Temple of Hades was called Davers, not by the title of administrative position "His Majesty the King", but by the highest status of his religious sacrifice in the Kingdom. At first, it was just the strict regulations of the Temple of Hades, and later other temples in the Kingdom began to implement this practice).

"Good morning, Priest Cardiois." Davers also solemnly responded with a priest's ritual and said with a smile: "You have come to see me so early, have you discovered anything?"

"High Priest, I'm here to make suggestions to you." Kaldias said directly.

"What suggestions?" Davers asked curiously.

"You gave a speech on the square yesterday, "Wishing Roman civilians to be citizens of Dionia," but I found in my conversation with them yesterday that they were upset that we might destroy their temples and sacrifices."

"Oh?!" Cardias reminded Davers that yesterday he did only announce some benefits for Roman civilians after becoming citizens of Dionys. He was originally planning to tell them about the religious tolerance of the Kingdom of Dionys after they became citizens. Because this was done in the conquest of Mesapi, Puchetti and Donis in the Apulia region, so this practice was still continued in Rome. However, it was obvious that the situation in Rome was much more tense and dangerous than that in Apulia back then, which made the uneasiness of Roman civilians worse.

So Davers asked hurriedly, "Caldias, what is your proposal?"

"High priest, I found in my contact with the Roman civilians that they believed in the Roman hunting goddess Diana, the goddess of stove Vista, and the gods Keres, Liber and Libera who were exclusive to the Roman civilians—"

"The Roman civilians and their own gods?" Davers was a little surprised. This was the first time he heard about this.

"Yes, although the Romans also believed in polytheisms, they believed in more gods than we in Greece. Moreover, the Roman nobles and civilians each had their own exclusive gods, and these gods were only the ones they respected the most." Cardiois said seriously: "And Diana, Vista, Keres, Liber and Libera, the five Roman gods, have temples on Aventing Mountain in the city, especially the Temple of Diana. I heard that they were worshipped by civilians in the entire Latinum region..."

Aventing... It was the main residential area of ​​Roman civilians... Daphes fell into thinking: For Rome, in the past, he valued more the collection of political, economic, military and other information, and did not value religion. It was also because there were too many and complicated Roman gods. Every river, every road, every forest, every intersection, every door, and every house had its own god. Even the Roman priests couldn't figure out how many gods there were in Rome. Moreover, the Roman worshipped Gods much less pious than the Greeks. They were more practical and utilitarian, so he ignored the in-depth study of this area and did not know that the Roman civilians had their own exclusive gods!

But this seemed like a good thing! As the ruler of the kingdom, Davers immediately understood the importance of this matter and asked, "You mean to let me worship these gods to show Diony's respect for the Roman civilians themselves?"

"Yes, high priest." Cardios replied affirmatively. As Hades's chief priest, he actually wanted his high priest to go to sacrifice to the gods of aliens, which seemed a bit ridiculous.

But in fact, in the Kingdom of Diony, King Davers was not just the high priest of Hades, but was in charge of the sacrifices of all the temples of the kingdom. In the Law of Diony, Davers established the dominance of the temple of Hades in the Kingdom, giving them the power to supervise other temples of the Kingdom. Every year, a gathering of kingdom priests was held in the main temple of Hades in Turiyi, presided over by the high priest Davers, and the priests of the scepter of the temples across the country attended to discuss and resolve some problems encountered.

If Rome is conquered, these Roman gods may be included in the popular belief of the kingdom. As the priest of Hades, the leader of the religion of the kingdom, Cardiois must of course understand them clearly, and in the future, develop Hades believers here, and try to ensure that the supervision and harmony of these temples are relatively harmonious.

"Then I will go to the temples of the Roman gods worshipped by the Roman civilians on Mount Awenting to worship the temples of these Roman gods, and go today!" Davers made a decisive decision and asked, "Do you know all the sacrificial rituals of these temples?"

"I've understood it clearly." Kaldias replied.

The preparation was very sufficient! Davers looked at him with approval and turned around and said, "Hene, immediately send someone to Mount Awenting to inform the priests of these temples, and arrange for people to preach to the whole city the matter of 'I want to worship Roman gods'."

"Yes, your Majesty." Henipolis stood up knowingly.

Davers remembered something again and continued, "And... go and call Amy Lius to me immediately."

Davers suddenly realized that this time he went deep into the city of Rome to sacrifice might be a good opportunity to lead a snake out of the hole.

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The Roman civilians who had just joined Dionia and became inspectors held shields and walked along the streets and alleys of the Roman city under the leadership of the legion soldiers, while shouting loudly.

On the gentle slopes of Mount Cilio, in a residence that looks larger than the surrounding buildings and more gorgeously decorated with exterior walls, a Roman young man was lying in the bedroom of the main building, his young wife was replacing him with a bandage of wounds, and there was a very long, freshly healed scar on his left thigh.

He vaguely heard a shout outside, and listened with his ears, but he couldn't hear clearly, so he said, "Konya, go and see what happened outside?"

His wife immediately left the bedroom and soon returned, with a strange expression on her face, saying, "The untouchables who defected to the enemy said, 'That damn King Dionia is going to sacrifice to their gods'."
Chapter completed!