As the night got darker, an English soldier ran up to Ella.
"King of Sweden, Bjorn sent people to shout outside the city and wanted to arrange a place to negotiate with you."
"Negotiate with me?"
"The other side said they were negotiating with the King of Knights. But the King of Knights is ill now, so I think I have to find you now. They are still waiting outside the city. How should we respond?"
Ella waved the soldier back: "There's nothing to answer, so just leave him hanging outside the city. Negotiation requires capital, and he can't even protect himself. What can he do to negotiate with me?"
But the English soldier seemed a little embarrassed: "Well, King of Sweden, Bjorn captured several knights. They are all very important people..."
"I know they are important in England, and Bjorn also knows it. But Bjorn is not sure whether they are important to me, the King of Sweden." Ella explained to the soldier, "Alfred is critically ill and has entrusted him with important military tasks.
Give it to me. In order to negotiate a good deal and allow your knights to come back safely, you must first make them think that these knights are not that important, do you understand?"
The English knight was confused when he heard this: "Then we just leave them alone?"
"No - we must first let them know that I will take over the military affairs. Well, you reply to them like this first and say that the King of Sweden has gone to bed. If they have anything to say, they will talk about it tomorrow morning. If they ask why it is me and not
Alfred, just tell them a little bit about Alfred's condition. It's best to make the illness more serious, do you understand?"
The soldier nodded and retreated. Then Ella closed the door and took a few steps to Amy who was sitting upright behind the desk listening to the lecture.
"Continuing what I just said, with the earth where we are as the center, the gods move around the earth in their own orbits. The moon is closest to us because it takes the shortest time to make one revolution, which means that the circle it turns is the smallest. It is the closest to us.
The farthest one is the second-generation god-king Cronus, which takes the longest time to circle and makes the largest circle. Below the trajectory of Cronus is the current god-king Zeus, and then below are Ares and Ares.
Below him is the sun. There are different opinions on the heights of Hermes and Aphrodite. Plato believed that they were both above the sun, and Ptolemy believed that they were both below the sun. Some people also think that Aphrodite is above the sun.
Te is above the sun, Hermes is below the sun.”
"Indeed. Cronus is the father of Zeus, and Zeus is the king of gods, so he should be in such a high position." Amy nodded, "As for Hermes and Aphrodite, I want them to be ranked first."
I can't rank them in any ranking."
"It's not because of this status. Amy, have you seen a solar eclipse? That's because the moon is under the sun, so it sometimes blocks the sun. But for thousands of years, no one has ever observed an aphrodisiac.
Dieter and Hermes blocked the sun! According to Aristotle's theory, celestial bodies are composed of the fifth element ether, so this phenomenon should not occur."
"That's it." Amy continued to nod, "Then Hermes and Aphrodite should be above the sun."
"But there are problems with this. A thousand years ago, a man from the Seven Hills Empire named Aristarchus used parallax to measure the radius of the moon, and then took advantage of the quarter moon period when the sun, moon, and earth formed a right triangle.
The distance between the sun and the earth was measured. Later astronomers made more precise measurements. As far as I know, the distance of the moon from us is sixty-four and one-sixth of the radius of the earth, while the distance of the sun from us is
The distance is one thousand one hundred and sixty times the radius of the earth. In other words, there are more than a thousand radii of the earth between the sun and the moon! If Aphrodite and Hermes were not between the sun and the moon
In the middle, such a big distance would be too vast, wouldn’t it?”
"Hmm... I don't understand." Amy's head began to feel dizzy, "Will understanding these things help my magic?"
"Then let's get to the point." Ella puffed up her chest, "For thousands of years, no one has ever observed Aphrodite and Hermes blocking the sun, but I did. Just when we set out here
Before, I discovered that Hermes blocked the sun!"
"Eh?" Amy was surprised, "Is there a solar eclipse recently? I don't have any image."
"There will be no solar eclipse. The moon is only sixty earth radii away from us, so it will cover a large area when it crosses the sun. But there is more than a thousand earth radii between the sun and the moon. Hull
Helm is running in it, and its radius is much smaller than that of the sun. Even if it blocks the sun, it is only a small one. It is almost impossible to detect a small spot in the bright sunlight, so although Helm every once in a while
It blocks the sun once, but no one has ever observed it for thousands of years!"
"Then how did His Majesty find out? Did the blessing of you and Drague make your eyesight so good?"
"It's not about eyesight, but relying on the Eye of Hermes. Using the Eye of Hermes, I have observed many things that no one before me could observe. For example, here -"
Ella pressed Amy's head and asked her to look at a small dot on the star map.
"Unlike the planets, all stars are located in the stellar celestial sphere. Their position is higher than that of Cronus. Their movement is quite slow. If observed with the eyes, they are almost motionless. But using the Eye of Hermes
, but I discovered a moving star there, and I tentatively named it 34 Taurus, a brand-new... comet that has never been recorded."
"Discovered a new star?" Amy's eyes were full of surprise. He seemed to want to say something, but he hesitated.
"Have you noticed something?" Ella smiled meaningfully, "Amy, you said there are five gods in the sky, but in fact, even if you only count the main gods, there are at least twelve on Mount Olympus.
Where did the remaining gods go?”
Amy's mouth opened wider and wider: "Your Majesty, you mean that these gods are hidden in the sky and have not been noticed by us?"
"Cronos is only the second-generation god-king. So where is the first-generation god-king, the god of the sky, Uranus? It must be hidden higher than Cronus, right?"
Ella raised her head exaggeratedly and looked upward - although there was no sky there, only the ceiling.
"It has been exiled to the sky by his son Cronus for thousands of years. After these thousands of years of loneliness, if someone can find his traces, it will definitely be full of joy and protect the person who finds him.
?The protection of the Supreme God, and there is only one person who can be protected——"
Amy slammed the table: "If you discover it, maybe you can become a magician at the level of the Elf King?"
"Yes. But it's no use just having the Eye of Hermes. You also need to master basic astronomy knowledge. Amy, since you have made up your mind, you must study hard. You are not stupid, I believe
You will definitely be able to find Ouranos fixed at the highest point in the world!"
"Your Majesty, I have a question." Amy looked at Ella doubtfully, "Why are you so sure? Have you already discovered it?"
Ella hesitated for a while and finally shook her head:
"No, you misunderstood. I didn't."
"Then those epicycles and epicycles that Your Majesty showed me before..."
"That's another job. It's much less important than the great achievement of discovering Ouranos."
