Chapter 204: Cronus! You’ve Got This Coming To You!
Zeus laughed heartily and said loudly: “My dear friends, how does your new divine body feel in the world?”
Among the Hundred-armed Giants, the most powerful Briareus grinned with his fifty large mouths and laughed at the same time: “Thank you, Your Majesty, for your supreme bounty!”
“You shared a portion of your divinity and consciousness with us, and the Mother Goddess created entirely new divine bodies for us. Everything is fine! Only now do we truly personally enjoy the beauty of the world! We brothers will never forget Your Majesty’s kindness!”
They were once far too huge and truly unable to experience the beauty of the world.
Moreover, at that time, the universe was relatively desolate.
Now, they who have suffered endless torment cherish their current lives more than the vast majority of gods, love this prosperous and beautiful world even more, and are truly immensely grateful for Zeus’s bounty.
The several giants excitedly shared with Zeus all sorts of feelings about their lives in the world, and Zeus nodded repeatedly, occasionally interjecting a few words, chatting very happily with them.
Being with these several relatively simple-minded and absolutely loyal staunch allies, Zeus didn’t need to think about so many things at all and felt relatively relaxed.
After chatting for a long time, Thunder Brontes asked in a gruff voice: “My most respected Your Majesty, you attend to countless affairs daily and are extremely busy with the important matters of the universe.”
“I wonder if there is anything that we brothers can do to contribute a little effort for you, to provide even a small relief with a raise of your hand? It is our shared heartfelt wish to have the honor of doing something for you!”
Zeus laughed heartily: “It’s nothing major; I just wanted to see the old God King and them.”
After these six giants arrived in the Netherworld, the important task of guarding the anchor points of the sinful gods thrown into Tartarus was entrusted to them.
With them watching here, whether in terms of loyalty or strength, Zeus was absolutely at ease.
Hearing this, the several giants nodded and shouted in unison: “We obey your will!”
The anchor points of the existence of God King Cronus and his several gods were at this moment bound on the arms of the Hundred-armed Giants; they unbound them and respectfully handed them to Zeus.
Zeus took the four extremely heavy anchor points and merely shook his arm lightly; the laws chains that bound the four Primal Titans and led straight to the abyss of Tartarus were pulled out by him.
The surrounding space, under what seemed a casual motion but actually contained endless immense power, was directly shattered, revealing the infinite and endless Sea of Nothingness of chaos and void.
Zeus dragged and stirred the chains casually in the Sea of Nothingness, thus forcibly pulling back those four Primal Titans!
The four Primal Titans who once again appeared in this world were in a state no different from those six giants when they had just been released from prison.
Each one was dazed and stupefied.
Their perception and reaction to everything were so sluggish that they were even inferior to a mortal living being.
And the six giants had been waiting precisely for this moment!
After seeing Cronus in this utterly miserable state, the large mouths on the one hundred fifty-three heads of the six giants grinned happily almost to their ears!
Serves you right! Cronus! You have this day too!
The six giants, in an extremely refreshed mood, quietly bowed deeply to Zeus and then silently withdrew.
The God King had come here alone; no matter what he was about to discuss, it was best for the other gods not to listen.
They hadn’t withdrawn at first just to see Cronus’s miserable state with their own eyes!
Objective achieved; they could withdraw.
Refreshing!
The miserable appearance of these four Primal Titans before his eyes once again proved to the world in the most powerful way just how terrifying the Endless Void of Tartarus truly was.
This terror was enough to torment even a lofty God King until his divinity collapsed and his will dispersed.
This was the ultimate punishment, the cruelest and most vicious, for all lives possessing “spirituality.”
There was no other!
In fact, it wasn’t just the old God King Cronus who was miserable at present.
Even the Death Weaver Harvester who ruled over death, this great Cyclical Recycler, had at this moment his divinity wilted to the extreme, with not one in a hundred of his divine vitality remaining.
As for that Primal Titan Coeus who symbolized intelligence, inquiry, insight, and thought, upon just departing from this void, the divine intellect he prided himself on, which could perceive all things, had basically lost the ability to think.
His incomparably beautiful, radiant, light-shining, pure and bright wife Phoebe was now even more dull and lusterless; her entire body no longer showed the former unparalleled splendor, like a dead star.
Zeus was not in a hurry; he simply gave each god two thunderbolts that were forceful and heavy enough for them to recover quickly, then stood with hands behind his back, quietly waiting for them to recover their rationality.
Under Zeus’s extremely effective “treatment,” the four Primal Titans began to recover one after another and rapidly.
However, the first to recover was not the strongest old God King Cronus, but that Intelligence Titan Coeus.
Right after him was his wife, Phoebe.
Zeus was slightly surprised, but then thought about it and felt relieved; their authorities were indeed ones that should recover rationality and thought earlier.
Although Cronus was stronger, he was too violent and manic, and in the endless void, he was even more prone and quicker to lose his rationality.
Moreover, within his divinity and divine body, there were still thunder chains he had personally set, restricting his power at all times to prevent him from escaping from Tartarus.
In this way, it was only natural that the Coeus couple recovered first.
And Coeus truly lived up to being that great god in charge of intelligence and insight.
Upon re-encountering “existence,” his first reaction was not to collapse or lose composure due to the immense ecstasy of regaining new life.
In just a few short breaths, he had already forcibly controlled his extremely agitated mood and firmly shifted his gaze to Zeus.
And the bright and pure Phoebe was ultimately not as strong as her husband.
After confirming that she had truly escaped the endless void, she collapsed powerlessly to the ground.
Her pair of beautiful jade hands tightly covered her serene and elegant face, unable to control herself any longer as silent cold tears fell.
In the endless Void Chaos, the beautiful Phoebe had truly been on the verge of collapse.
Or rather, she had already collapsed long ago.
But even after collapsing, she could not escape.
In that eternal endless torment, even after collapsing, she was forcibly made to recover.
She endured that eternal, endless, utmost painful and terrifying torment precisely in this infinite cycle of collapse and recovery.
The moment Coeus awoke, he quickly observed the situation around him; his first action was to probe whether he could return his divinity to the laws of the universe.
But in just an instant, he discovered that his divinity was firmly controlled by an invisible force.
This force bound his divinity tightly to this divine body, making it impossible for him to leave the divine body and return to the laws.
He sighed inwardly but felt no great disappointment.
Even though he had been tormented nearly to madness by that endless void, he could still clearly understand that if Zeus did not have absolute means to control them, he would never have released them.
Seeing that Cronus beside him was also about to recover, knowing time was pressing, he didn’t even have time to care for his weeping wife.
He urgently asked Zeus: “Illustrious Zeus, what is the state of the world now? What matter do you have for summoning us this time?”
Coeus still maintained the demeanor of a Primal Intelligence Titan; although his speech was quick, his tone was quite polite, and there was no disrespect or rudeness in his words.
Coeus’s words also awakened the silently weeping Phoebe; in an instant, she forcibly pulled herself together.
She slowly stood up and came to her husband’s side, standing shoulder to shoulder with him.
Her snow-white delicate face also turned solemn, and the tears in her eyes instantly vanished.
She reluctantly picked up her former grace; her pair of beautiful eyes stared straight at Zeus, likewise waiting for Zeus’s answer.
Zeus smiled faintly and said in a calm tone: “The entire universe is now very good; I have established a new Holy Justice Order, and the current universe is becoming ever more vast and prosperous.”
“As for your daughters, I have also pardoned them. They are now on Olympus, by the side of my beloved Hera. My merciful Hera treats them very well; you can rest assured.”
Hearing this, Coeus and Phoebe felt a pang of heartache; their own bright and gentle daughters were now under Hera, whom they had once harmed—this was for what reason, they knew full well.
For their daughters’ sacrifice and the grievances they endured, as parents, their heartache was indescribable.
But in their hearts, they also secretly breathed a sigh of relief; they didn’t think Zeus was deceiving them.
This was already the best outcome now.
Although the children no longer had the honor they once enjoyed and could no longer live carefree, for a loser’s family, this was already extremely tolerant.
Coeus reluctantly squeezed out a smile and sincerely said: “Illustrious Zeus, thank you for your tolerance. We believe that under your tolerant rule, the universe will surely become better and better.”
