Mecca Kiddes was a little moved by him, but he was still a little worried: "But... the officials in Crete probably wouldn't allow me to leave..."

"What's there to worry about!" Cilitios reminded disapprovingly: "With the military affairs department of Dionia to support you, even if those officials are dissatisfied, they will not dare to do anything to you!"

At the reminder of Cilitios, Mecca Kiddes finally made up his mind and said gratefully: "Thank you, Cilitios!"

"It's not okay to just thank you verbally." Cilitios said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "When you become a citizen of Dionia in the future and become an officer of Dionia, you must not drive me out when I have something to ask you for help."

"Don't worry, I will definitely help you when the time comes!" Mecca Kiddes said affirmatively.

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On the 7th day of the Dionian Games, most of the competition events have been presented to the audience. Under the redesign and arrangement of the Dionians, the schedule not only becomes more fair, but also becomes more exciting, such as racing and boxing.

Traditional boxing matches are played in a relatively large field, and the winner is not considered a victory until the opponent is knocked down or admits defeat. Players often suffer serious injuries or even deaths. In boxing matches at the Dionia Games, players on both sides must wear thick gloves and win by hitting the opponent within the specified time by hitting the opponent or knocking down the opponent. The contestants are safer and the game is no longer so bloody.

However, the competition must be held in a 5-meter square field circled by ropes and wooden stakes, which makes the contestants unable to avoid it at will. The competition becomes more intense and lasting, more confrontational, and has also won praise from many spectators. Because of the obvious decline in the mortality rate of the contestants, women and children are also allowed to watch the competition.

The same is true for wrestling competitions. While ensuring the safety of players and fair competitions, it has even added some interesting links, such as during the intervals of one quarter, allowing the beautiful Kingdom female slaves to roam in the venue with the license plates that start the next quarter, attracting the attention of male spectators...

Even the representatives of Olympia and Delphi fell into deep thought when they saw these novel arrangements and designs in the game.

Of course, traditional sports events like "Brave" are too chaotic and bloody, completely in line with Davers' aesthetics, and are completely excluded from the Dionia Sports Events.

The newly established competition event of the Dionia Games gave the audience great surprises, such as archery and swimming.

The Greeks are a navigator. Most Greeks have been playing in the sea since childhood. Playing and rowing has almost become an instinct. However, no Greek sports meet has ever used swimming as a competition event. It may be because it is difficult to compete. However, the Dionian Sports Meeting set standards for swimming competitions: the sports meeting preparation team set a zone on the banks of the Krati River in the west of Turiyi to build an open arena. A rectangular pit 50 meters long, 25 meters wide and 2 meters deep was dug in the center of the field, applied solid and dense Davers cement, and then pasted with smooth marble. In this way, when the waterway introduces the Krati River water into the pool, there will be no obvious leakage. Then a rope was pulled every three meters at both ends of the wide edge of the pool, forming 8 swimming tracks, so that the conditions for swimming competitions are fully met.

Although the first Dionia Games allowed contestants to use various swimming styles (people at that time did not have any standard swimming styles), and only used the swimming distance to set different swimming events, the audience in each swimming competition was still crowded with the entire venue, and the cheers echoed on the banks of the Krati River every day, which lasted forever.

Although the contestants participating in the swimming competition are not allowed to apply olive oil, under the sun and in the rippling water, the agile postures of the contestants waving their arms and legs also show strength and beauty, and can also inspire the audience's longing and love for the sea.

The same is true for rowing competitions. The Greeks had the conditions to set up rowing competitions, but the reason they had never been held was probably because most Greeks rely on the sea to make a living, sailing, fishing, and doing business is very common. It is because it is too ordinary that they have no interest in competitions. However, the boat competitions of the Dionian Games were designed with fun and competitive nature.

There are two types of rowing competitions in Dionia. One is paddling racing, which uses a wooden boat specially made by Turiyi Shipyard for the competition. It is narrow in width but very slender, and can ride 4 to 8 oarsmen. There are no sails and it depends entirely on paddling. The competition venue is set in Krati River. Like the racing competition on land, there are qualifiers and finals. It is divided into several events according to the schedule and the number of paddlers. The shortest schedule distance is one mile. At the beginning of the competition, the contestants row quickly, and the speed of the boat can reach more than ten knots, just like the charge of a three-layer oar warship during naval battles, which makes the audience on the shore excited.

Another type of rowing competition is sailing, or a competition ship transformed by the Turiyi Shipyard based on small cargo ships. It can only be ridden by one person, and cannot use oars, and can only control sails to allow the ship to move forward. Therefore, its competition venue is in the Gulf of Turiyi, and there are no qualifiers. All players participate together, starting from the port of Turiyi and reaching the port of Tarantum. The competition time is a whole day, and there are many observation ships along the way to prevent players from cheating. This competition is a test of the contestants' ability to control boats in the sea. Therefore, the contestants are all ship owners and fishermen with rich experience in sailing in various regions and city-states. At the same time, it also attracts a large number of ship owners and fishermen from the Kingdom of Dionia and city-states to watch and learn.

On the seventh day of the Dionia Games, a very traditional competition that the Dionian people are not very familiar with began, and that is racing.

Among all Greek sports games, racing competitions are the most popular. After all, humans are always passionate about the ultimate pursuit of speed. In speed events such as racing, rowing and racing, racing takes the longest, most tense, and can stimulate the passion of the audience. It is also the most popular among Greek nobles. Because according to the regulations of traditional sports games, the championship title of racing competition is not the driver of the carriage, but the person who provides and owns the carriage. This gives Greek nobles who have no time to train and cannot go to the competition in person to win the championship and glory of the sports games. Therefore, many famous Greek nobles have won the championship in this event, such as Athens, the King of Sparta, and Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse...

However, the Dionia Games changed the tradition of this competition. In an invitation letter to various city-states, it was emphasized that the championship glory of the racing competition is shared by the racing driver and the racing provider, and the prize money is also divided equally by these two people.

In traditional Greek sports car racing competitions, many players were slaves, allowing their masters and slaves to share the championship honors. This was simply a humiliation to the Greek nobles. But even so, many Greek city-state nobles still signed up for the competition, because in the era when Dionia is strong, dominating most of the Mediterranean and controlling the Greek world, this is a great opportunity for them to show their names to the King of Dionia, which will be of great benefit to their future political development.

Not only these Greek nobles were keen on racing competitions at the Dionian Games, but also for the Dionian people who liked the intense and exciting competitive sports, they were also flocking to the long-rumored racing competitions. Therefore, on the day of the competition, thousands of spectators flocked to the competition venues in the north of the Sobari Plain from all directions.

Since the venue was just completed, it did not even have an official name, but was simply called the Turiyi Racing Arena. After the sports meeting preparation team determined that racing was a competition event, the Turiyi City Hall, which had never held racing competitions, sent a special delegation to visit and study in Olympia, Delphi and other places, including officials and engineers from the Supervision and Construction Department.

But after they came back, the arena designed and built was very different from those in the local Greek racing arenas, just as the Greeks believed that any competitive competition could be watched for free, while the Dionians were used to paying for money to watch the competition, so this arena was closed. Due to the hasty construction time, it was not as magnificent as the main Hades Arena. Its height is only 20 meters and the auditorium was only two floors, but its length exceeded that of any arena in the kingdom, reaching more than 500 meters. Its appearance was a long oval shape, so it could accommodate more than 30,000 spectators.

It was still early, but the entire audience was almost full. Thunderous cheers suddenly erupted in the noisy arena. It turned out that King Davers and his family appeared in the royal stands.

Like Hades Main Arena, there is also a royal stand in the Racing Arena. However, unlike Hades Main Arena, it is not built in the auditorium, but on the two-story auditorium, becoming the highest point of the entire arena. This is the engineers' thoughtful consideration for the royal family: because the track of the venue is too long, and only by sitting at a higher place can you see the panoramic view of the entire arena.
Chapter completed!