The Greece Antagonist

Chapter 469: Chapter 18 Helen, No! (4.7k)_3

Just as the little Spartan princess, crestfallen, was preparing to turn around and leave, the door creaked open, and a warm blanket was draped over her.

“It’s cold outside, don’t catch a cold; put this on,” someone said.

After this brief instruction, the door closed once more.

Helen snuggled into the cozy blanket, paused at the door, gazing for a moment, and a light of joy blossomed on her otherwise desolate face.

He still cares about me!

It’s just that I am too young to answer the questions he asked.

But what if I find the answers?

With that thought, Helen’s eyes lit up, and she wrapped the blanket around herself and hurried to her bedroom.

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At last, she had left…

Luo En stood at the window, watching Helen’s departing figure, and heaved a sigh of relief.

He had said what he needed to say, hoping that the young girl would take his words to heart and not follow the same disastrous path as her forebears.

In the original history, the twin brothers who adored Helen were supposed to inherit the throne of Sparta and ensure their sister a carefree life.

However, due to the twists of fate, one twin died young and the other ascended to the heavens, both transforming into stars that adorned the sky under Zeus’s divine authority, causing the throne of Sparta to remain vacant for a long time.

With no successor for the King of Sparta, kings and princes from various city-states flocked incessantly.

They coveted either Princess Helen’s beauty or the Spartan throne, collectively pressuring the aging King of Sparta.

Surrounded by demigods at his doorstep, the King of Sparta felt frightened, considering it unwise to offend any of the heroic contenders, so he followed the suitor Odysseus’s advice.

That was, “Decide who will marry Helen by tossing a ring, and make all suitors vow never to take up arms against Helen’s husband and to assist him with all their might when called upon.”

As a result, King Agamemnon’s brother Menelaus, who snatched the ring, successfully married Helen.

Due to the advantageous terms of the marriage, the Kingdom of Mycenae, where the brothers resided, suddenly rose to become the leader of all city-states in Greece.

Whoever possessed Helen not only had the strongest Spartan warriors but could also summon the heroes of all Greece with the marital oath.

This was the true reason Helen was hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Greece.”

— a title not based on her beauty, but on power.

Being a pawn in political games, Helen’s marriage was far from happy, which is why she eventually eloped with Prince Paris of Troy.

Taking this opportunity, King Agamemnon of Mycenae, who was planning to expand his territory, as leader, summoned the entire military force of the Greek city-states to attack the city of Troy.

Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax the Greater, and other demigod heroes, bound by their past vow, were compelled to obey Agamemnon’s call and joined the campaign, thus opening the long-lasting Trojan War.

At the onset of the conflict, Troy’s elder prince Hector, who understood the situation and knew that war was inevitable, offered Helen a chance to reconsider, allowing her to return to the Greek side.

Helen ultimately chose love, standing by Troy and her lover, Paris.

But as time passed and the situation worsened, the feeble nature of Paris, handsome yet ineffectual, was fully exposed.

He not only dared not duel with Helen’s former husband to resolve their personal grievances and thus spare the lives of innocents;

Moreover, according to the epic “Iliad,” after being wounded by a poisoned arrow, in his desperation to survive, he spoke to his former wife Oenone the classic words of a cheeser.

“Noble wife, I am in pain; please do not resent me. Merciless Fate brought Helen to me, leading me away from you. By the gods, by our past love, I plead with you to show mercy, treat my wounds with your remedies, and end my severe pain, for you once prophesied that only you could save my life.”

Indeed, like Helen, Paris had a legitimate wife, a nymph who had stood by him during his darkest times.

For the sake of beauty, he abandoned his true match.

And, in his dying moments, to gain aid from his lawful wife, he blamed all his adultery and troubles on Helen.

After paying a heavy price and bearing the infamy of being a fatal beauty, the so-called most beautiful woman in Greece never received the “love” she sought.

Thus, the questions Luo En posed were intended to urge Helen to return to reason, to truly contemplate what she really desired in love and marriage, lest she impulsively continue down her previous path.

However, speaking of the Golden Apple event— twins transforming into stars—Spartan oath— Trojan War…

These interlinked events seemed saturated with scheming.

It was as if an invisible pair of hands was manipulating the fates of mortals and heroes alike.

Thinking of the bloodline within Helen, Luo En looked up at Olympus among the stars, understanding in his heart.@@novelbin@@

Tsk, Zeus, it’s you again, old trickster!

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