Chapter Twenty-Four: Zeus, the God-King Returning to His Old Business

At the end of the war, Gaia, the Earth Mother, returned to her temple to study the remnants of Tartarus's thoughts, hoping to make some good discoveries.

Many of the gods of Olympus, the mighty gods of the Titans, are also leaving this place one after another. Only Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, remained with her daughter Persephone. Although Hades has returned, there are so many gods who have arrived from the abyss in the underworld, and she is still not worried about letting her daughter stay alone in the underworld.

Hades was undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary of this turmoil, although the process was complicated, but he got the result he wanted, and successfully obtained a group of subordinates from the abyss.

Although it is not known the purpose of leaving these abyssal gods behind when Tartarus was defeated. But Hades has absolute confidence that as long as Tartarus does not interfere, these abyssal gods will become his commanders in the underworld.

It's just that Hades didn't notice at all that his afterlife, Persephone's look at him, was extremely complicated. Maybe he noticed it, and he wouldn't care, as the lord of the underworld, if he was completely overshadowed by the light of his two younger brothers, this was something he would never allow.

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Outside the underworld, the two siblings, Artemis and Apollo, are stopped by their maternal grandparents, Koos, the god of the stars, and Forber, the goddess of radiance. The two of them also had great pleasure chatting with their maternal grandparents, the two mighty Titans.

For the sake of their daughter and granddaughter, the two Titans were desperate to kill Mount Olympus and settle accounts with Zeus and Hera.

Leto was carefree in Olympus, Asteria was the oracle of the ruler in the land of the polar night, Artemis and Apollo became the most important gods of Olympus, and even the untalented Adros is now a god of Olympus.

Knowing this news, both Fauber and Coos were satisfied, and what Thetis had promised them had been fully fulfilled.

Fauber pulled out a plain, worn-out piece of parchment, streaked with ink, but couldn't make out what was written on it.

"You all come and try it and see who has a relationship with it. ”

Artemis was the first to take the strange piece of parchment in his hand and played with it curiously: "What is this, it looks so strange." ”

"The prophetic oracle, which was originally owned by Gaia, the mother of the earth, was later passed on to my sister, Themis, the goddess of justice. She is going to pass it on to one of your three siblings, and you see, who wants to inherit it. ”

The prophetic oracle is an important deity of Gaia, the mother of the earth, because her most important temple in the world is in the Delphi region, so it is also known as the Delphi oracle.

This oracle is so powerful that it can predict almost all the great things in the world, and both Mother Earth and the Goddess of Justice have benefited greatly from it. It's just that for some reason, they passed the oracle one after another.

As for the reputation of the prophetic oracle, whether it was Artemis or Apollo, they had already heard of it, but they did not expect it to appear in front of them like this.

"Give it to Apollo, I don't want it. ”

"No, to Artemis, she is also a goddess, and she happens to inherit the gods of Gaia, the mother of the earth, and Themis, the goddess of justice. ”

The two siblings were in front of Fu Bai, and they excused each other, and they both wanted to push this divine object between the gods into each other's hands. If the other gods knew that their brother and sister treated the prophecy oracle like this, I am afraid they would all curse secretly.

But Coos and Faoper were very happy to see this scene, and in Artemis and Apollo, they seemed to see thousands of years ago, when their Titans were still very young, they were also so brothers, brothers, and brothers, and humble to each other. It's just that time has passed, and now the Titan God no longer has the original feelings.

"The gods have spirits, and you don't have to be humble, let the prophecy oracle choose for itself. ”

Coos gestured to Faoper, and then Fauber tossed the prophetic oracle in his hand, and the parchment slowly fell in mid-air, and finally swayed in front of Apollo.

Apollo glanced at his sister, saw her happy look, and was not pretentious, and easily took the prophetic oracle in his hand.

As soon as the oracle arrived in his hand, it immediately emitted a thousand golden rays of light, shooting to all corners of the heavens and the earth, and at this moment, all the gods got a message in their minds.

"Apollo became the new master of the prophetic oracle. ”

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The war in the underworld is over, there is no more major matter between heaven and earth, all the gods and spirits have returned to their places, and the practice that should be practiced should continue to be merry everywhere.

The days of the god-king Zeus returned to the end of the Typhon Rebellion, constantly messing with flowers and grass, and then taking his lover and children to fight guerrilla warfare with the god queen Hera.

Hera may have really learned to be obedient, not as radical as before, and although she had crystals that could observe heaven and earth, she no longer attacked the children of Zeus. Her target has now changed, and she has become those lovers of Zeus.

However, Zeus had already taken precautions against her, and for a while, Hera did not give Hera any opportunity to take advantage of.

This time Hera was in a particularly bad mood, and Zeus's new lover was called Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, the ruler of Thebais, and the niece of his lover Europa in previous years.

Cadmus was the son of King Azinoel of Phoenicia and the elder brother of Europa. After Zeus took Europa, King Agenor was so distressed that he hurriedly sent his three sons, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Killix, out to look for them, and told them that they were not allowed to return if they could not find their sister.

After Cadmus went out, he searched everywhere, but never heard of his sister Europa. He had no choice but to return to his hometown.

Luckily, Cadmus met Fauber, the goddess of radiance, who had just taken charge of the oracle, and Fauber told him, "You will meet a cow in a lonely pasture, which has not yet been yoked, and which will carry you all the way." While it is resting on the grass, you can build a city there and name it Thebai. ”

Cadmus was about to leave the sacred spring of Castella, where he had met Fauber, when he suddenly saw a cow munching on the green grass in front of him. He prayed to the goddess of radiance, thanked him, and then walked with the cow. It led him through the shallow stream of Kephissos, and stood on the shore without leaving. The cow raised her head and barked loudly. It turned back to look at Cadmus and his entourage as they followed, and then lay down in satisfaction in the soft green grass.

Cadmus fell to his knees with gratitude and kissed the strange land. Later, when he wanted to offer Zeus a sacrifice, he sent his servants and ordered them to go to the source of the living water to fetch water for the gods to drink. Nearby, there is an ancient forest that the woodcutter has never cut down with an axe, and a clear spring springs up from among the rocks in the forest, meandering through the layers of shrubs, and the spring is crystal clear and sweet.

In the forest, Cadmus defeated the dragon and gained the allegiance of some soldiers who survived the Typhon Rebellion, and finally founded Cadmoya Fort, which became one of the cornerstones of Thebais.

He did not find his sister Europa, but he did not know that Europa was taken by Zeus, who had been turned into a bull, and came to the distant island of Crete, where he gave birth to two brothers, Minos and Radamantis. These two brothers became the kings of Crete.

Zeus, the amorous god-king, who this time meets the beautiful daughter of Cadmus, falls in love once again.

Semele once had a dream in which she dreamed of a flourishing fruit tree in her garden, soaked in the dew of Zeus, overgrown with unripe fruit bunches. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky and fell from the sky, knocking down the fruit tree, but not touching the unripe fruit.

Just as the lightning-struck fruit tree was burning, a full-fledged bird flew in, picked up the unripe bunch, and brought it to Zeus. Zeus sewed the skewers into his thighs and continued to nourish and nourish them—and a baby with horns was formed and born.

Little did she know that this extremely prophetic dream predicted both her tragedy and the birth of a great deity.

When Zeus tried his best to win Semele's heart and impregnate her. The joy of Semele aroused the intense jealousy of Nemesis, the daughter of the Lord of the Night, Nix, the goddess of jealousy, and the psychopathic goddess was tormented and had a vicious thought.

She took the form of Ares, the god of war, and came to Hera and Athena, stirring up trouble in front of the two goddesses with demagogic rumors. She told Hera that the God-King had a crush on the earthly girl and that she would take Hera's place.

After listening to these provocative words, Hera's face changed sharply. The goddess of jealousy knew that these words had worked, so she leapt into the clouds and disappeared without a trace.

Enraged, Hera put on swift shoes and furiously traveled through the starry vault and through countless cities to Mount Decert in Crete in search of Deket, the goddess of deception, another daughter of the Lord of the Night, who had borrowed the famous Paphia belt.

The belt spread among the gods, earning the heart of Okeanos, the lord of the sea, and the goddess of the sea, Thetis, who had always been cold to his sister, and Gaia, the goddess of time, deceiving her husband, the god-king of the previous generation, Kronos, with a stone instead of the newborn Zeus.

After Hera's calculations and deception, the beautiful princess of Thebais became the second lover of Zeus to die after the goddess of wisdom, Metis. She asks Zeus for the power of thunder and lightning to verify Zeus's identity, and is finally split into ashes by thunder and lightning. Her son, who was less than a month old, was sewn into his thigh by Zeus.

Zeus didn't say a word, although he knew that Hera did it, but there was no evidence, he took his son in the thigh, and came with him to the Aegean Sea. Here, a beautiful city has just been built, and both gods want to be the protectors of the city.

He came here to bear witness to these two gods.