Mythology: Spiritual Ruler

In the deep trench, Pontos finally accepted this statement.

However, what really made the original sea god firm in his thoughts could not be because of Zeus's previous behavior of tampering with history and reversing the truth, nor could it be the ridiculous reason of believing that the big snake from the abyss must be honest.

This thing is just for fun, if you really want to make a judgment, it is obviously still necessary to have more practical evidence.

For Pontos, the direct reason for him to make such a judgment is undoubtedly Zeus's own character and his yearning for power.

Needless to say, the latter, the struggle between the sea gods throughout the Second Age is nothing more than to unify the sea and break the upper limit of the power of the true god.

His so-called retreat from the world is actually because he was frightened by the sun bathing in the sea, and felt that the possibility of him defeating the ocean god was really low, rather than really seeing through the world.

As for the former... this is a problem of Zeus's consistent style.

Although there is no word "politics" in Chaos today, words with similar meanings still exist. At least in Pontos's opinion, Zeus is undoubtedly a person whose thinking is more inclined to political thinking than divine thinking. He is also a rare outlier among the innate gods.

Just as he judged Zeus before, if the original sea god is willing to obey the God Court, then the God King will definitely forgive them.

But on the other hand, if he chooses to abandon Zeus and completely break away from the God Court to establish his own lineage, what kind of reaction will Zeus give?

"A wise choice, Pontos. Zeus is such a person. Even if you set up your own house, he will definitely make the most "appropriate" choice after weighing it on that day."

Nodding slightly, seeing that Pontos finally gave in, Erebus felt more at ease.

Don't look at him holding the card of Uranus, but if Pontos is determined to give up everything and refuses to cooperate with him even if he falls into eternal sleep, then Erebus really has no way to think about it.

After all, he is not the god of the sea. In the world of the innate gods, violence cannot solve all problems. Fortunately, the other party has figured out the key points, so the rest of the things will be much easier.

"Now, let's talk about what will happen next. Zeus should not stay in the underworld for too long. When he comes back, I should leave."

"Let's get back to the point. If you want to gain more powerful power, you are probably destined to put aside your past grudges with your old friend and get together."

"...Okay."

Nodding in agreement, Pontos had no objection to this.

Unifying the sea is the most direct way for the sea god to increase his power, but before, he and the ocean god wanted to complete the unification by themselves.

But now they are afraid that they will have to take a step back. After all, facing the upcoming threat, if they don't want to pin all their hopes on Zeus, they must start a new business.

Although Zeus is a person who will give in for his goal, the premise is that he must have the capital to make him give in.

For him, the wheat in the field can only bring him benefits but not threats. After harvesting one year, there is still the next year. Just like the goddess of agriculture, Zeus never considers what she thinks.

Those who can bring him threats but can't bring him any benefits are demon kings like Typhon, who are the existence that destroys the stability of the world. Zeus will only try to destroy you with all the gods in the temple. If he can't beat you, he will exclude you. There will be no other options.

Only the third kind of gods will really make him make great efforts to win over, that is, those who can bring benefits and give Zeus enough threats.

When the father of heaven wakes up, he and Zeus automatically have common interests, so as long as he makes himself threatening enough, the crisis from Zeus will be self-defeating.

If it were Poseidon, he might be angry and lose both with the traitor, but Zeus is not such a person.

"You convinced me, His Highness Erebus... But before that, I still hope you can understand."

Looking at the arm of the Lord of Darkness holding the warm light ball, Pontos said in a deep voice.

"I don't know what others are like, but at least I will never accept a result where Oceanus gets the most benefit. Otherwise, what was the purpose of my struggle for the past era?"

"... Oh, of course, I will."

The Lord of Darkness spoke calmly, not caring about Pontos' words.

Let them make trouble if they want to, and it would be better if they continue to make trouble after the war that he expected to end the Third Era is over.

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The Underworld.

At the old site of the Garden of Truth, Zeus's divine body finally recovered after leaving the battle.

But compared with the repair of his physical injuries, his spiritual trauma is far from recovered.

The giant shadow in the sky disappeared at some point, but the traces left by Him still remain.

The edge of the underworld seemed to have an invisible wall, and the breath left by the powerful life made any external objects instinctively unwilling to approach.

But this was not the reason why Zeus was in a bad mood. In fact, the one who really made him smile was not someone else, but his own brother.

"Hades, you're here. I didn't seem to see you much just now... As the King of Hell, is your palace usually empty?"

He forced a smile, but Zeus couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark in the end.

However, Hades, who hurried back to the old temple site, was expressionless, looking cold and indifferent, no different from the stereotype of him by the gods in the past.

"Zeus, there are usually people in the Temple of Hades, but after the gatekeeper of the underworld reported your whereabouts to me, there is no one here."

"After all, you are here to track the enemy, and my confidence in you is not very high."

Speaking calmly, Hades' words were straightforward and unsparing.

"...Ahem, Hades, my brother, you didn't believe that monster's lies too, did you?"

"As you can see, it didn't dare to attack me again. The initial miss was just an accident..."

"So Your Majesty the God King, I don't care which of you is telling the truth, but what are you going to do about you destroying my palace?"

"..."

Momentarily speechless, Zeus's cheeks twitched.

If he could, he naturally wanted to say something like, 'Then I'll build another one for you.' But just as he was about to say it, he suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have the ability.

Well, that's it. After all, Hades was so crazy that he actually used divine materials to build such a large temple.

You know, for this amount of materials, even Hades, who has the corresponding authority, probably spent at least hundreds of years collecting the materials, and it was replaced by Zeus... So this is not a question of whether it is rare or not at all, but It's because Shenting simply doesn't have that many reserves.

After all, for normal use, which god would need so many materials? If there is no demand, there will be no storage.

And thinking of this, Zeus's face couldn't help but turn a little dark. Waves of phantom pain shot through his body, and he still couldn't figure out why Hades would do this.

"... Putting aside the matter about your palace, my brother, can you answer a question of mine first." Taking a deep breath, Zeus asked as calmly as possible: "Why on earth do you want to build such a palace - I mean, it's not necessary at all."

"No, this is still necessary. It has collapsed three times before, and twice it was related to you. Now it is the fourth time."

"So it turns out that not only was it necessary for me to do this, but I didn't do enough. After all, no one would have thought that this time it would be destroyed by you yourself."

Speaking calmly, Hades looked at Zeus, and then continued to ask the soul question.

"So His Majesty the God King of Olympus, regarding the fact that you entered the underworld without prior notice and then privately destroyed my property, how do you plan to compensate me for the loss? Since you did not do it on purpose, my request is also It’s not high, just build it for me as it is.”

"..."

Once again speechless, Zeus instantly remembered what the 'previous two' destructions were, and they were indeed related to him.

At this moment, Zeus felt that he should not have chased him to the underworld. All that greeted him here was trouble... But fortunately, although the scene was a bit stiff for a while, he immediately came up with a temporary solution to the problem.

"Ahem, Hades, listen to me. I deeply sympathize with your experience, but you have also seen that every previous disaster was not caused by me, but by someone who wanted to challenge my authority. ”

"Well, the banquet on the ground is still being held. Before I left, the gods had already started to tit for tat - I need to go back to stabilize the situation first. As for your palace..."

After pondering for a moment, Zeus made a promise.

"When the new palace is built, I will bless it with the authority of the God King and give it the power not to be destroyed. And just like the seal that once imprisoned the giant in the abyss, this blessing will be with the power of the God King. It will never be destroyed, and even if it is damaged by a force that exceeds the limit, it can be restored to its original state."

"What do you think of this approach?"

Hearing this, Hades was slightly startled. In fact, Hades did not expect Zeus to build a new one for him. After all, most of the minerals in the world were under his jurisdiction, and he knew very well whether the other party had this ability.

But the new compensation plan proposed by Zeus now seems pretty good to him.

Indeed, he had not thought enough before. If the palace and the power of the underworld were simply linked together, it might not necessarily be immortal, but if an insurance from the authority of the God King could be added, then it should be foolproof.

After all, there is no shortage of crazy gods in this world, and Gaia is a typical example. Even Tianzhu dares to collide with him, and she doesn't care about the underworld. But Hades has never heard of someone who can eliminate the authority of the God King in the past.

The position of the God King lives with the world. Just like the gods will never die, there will never be any problem with the authority of the god-king.

"Okay, I agree, but you remember to send the Cyclops and Hephaestus. I will send you a message when the new palace is built."

The tone softened a lot, and Hades still accepted the compensation.

Double layer plus, multi-layer protection.

This time, there will definitely be no more problems with his fifth-generation temple.

…

Things in the underworld finally came to an end, and Zeus tried to unify his caliber with Hades about his failure.

But unfortunately, Hades said that there are not many gods in the underworld, there are infinite mortal things, and there are also the primitive gods and the goddess of the moon watching, and it is not as easy to operate as things on the ground.

And like the Typhon incident, Zeus won in the end anyway, and if you win, it's easy to explain. But Zeus obviously didn't win in the short fight not long ago, so any explanation would only have the opposite effect.

"Then exaggerate its evil, let the gods know that no matter how strong this monster is, it must be evil enough to coexist with the gods."

Making a decision silently, this is the only way Zeus can think of.

Crossing the Styx Acheron, the king of gods decided to return to the human world. But at this moment, he suddenly looked back.

In the underworld... no, in the abyss, some intuition told him that there seemed to be something closely related to him happening there.

What is that? Zeus was a little confused. This special feeling about the abyss was not once or twice.

However, at this moment, he was already well aware of the danger there. No matter what, he would not go there before he was absolutely sure.

"...It seems I have to think of other ways."

"This kind of intuition of fate... No, I still need to understand it."

I can't get in, and the gods may not be able to come back after entering. So what kind of existence can go in, have the ability to not be killed by ordinary native creatures, and will not be targeted by the two hell beings?

"Humans, like Perseus in the past, holding the artifacts of the gods, helping the gods solve their problems."

"I remember that I seemed to have left such a child in the human world a few years ago?"

It seems that this is the case, Zeus remembered, and the child accidentally had some relationship with Hera.

It is said that before recognizing the true identity of the child, Hera gave him a name... It seems to be called 'Hera's Glory'?