Chapter 117: The Sulking Mother Goddess Of All Things
The victorious feast lasted a full month. During this month, the gods indulged fully in endless fine wine and ambrosia, enjoying the absolutely beautiful dance poses and clear, melodious singing voices of the nymphs.
The entire Mount Olympus was immersed in an atmosphere of ecstasy and comfort.
All gods tacitly maintained a mutual understanding. No god discussed the division of future honors; everyone was waiting for the order establishment after the revelry.
Finally, this most important moment arrived.
Zeus once again walked onto the highest platform in the center of the divine palace, waving his hand to call a halt to this prolonged feast.
A faint smile played on His lips as He spoke words of spring’s jest: “My dear friends, great gods, let us pause this joyful banquet for a moment.”
He paused slightly, gazing at the gods, and chuckled lightly: “Although being with everyone, I do not want to stop this joyful time for even a moment.”
The gods understood upon hearing this, and instantly, relaxed and pleasant laughter echoed inside the hall.
Seeing this, Zeus slowly restrained the smile on his face, leaving only a warm smile on his lips, and powerful words came from His mouth:
“The time of joy, we will have eternity’s endless years to enjoy.”
“But the universe is now anxiously waiting for us, waiting for the arrival of the new order.”
“Let us set the universe in order, fulfill our great duties and missions, and then continue this eternal feast!”
The gods responded in unison, their voices resounding through the hall.
For a moment, the gods inside the hall showed all sorts of expressions: some confident, some anxious; faces joyful or worried, expectant or filled with worry, excited or guilty, each different.
Zeus led the gods into the main council hall.
This palace for all the great gods to discuss matters deciding everything in the universe was on the highest peak of Olympus. To accommodate the majestic divine bodies of the gods, this divine palace was incomparably magnificent and grand.
The palace was magnificent, with a lofty dome as high as the sky dome of Olympus. The gods could touch the stars just by raising their hands.
The radiance of countless stars shone through the transparent divine power barrier of the divine palace, sprinkling inside the hall and illuminating the extremely solemn faces of the gods.
Zeus raised his hand in a virtual gesture, signaling the gods to sit down, while he unhesitatingly took the central highest main seat.
On that divine throne of the god king, condensed from countless stars, emanating supreme authority, the most supreme and noble.
No god raised any objection to this.
He had not yet married his wife, so at that moment, only He sat alone on the central highest main seat, with no other seats on his left or right sides.
Even Mother Goddess Rhea was at His lower seat, only in the first position on the right side（ancient Greece honored the right side）.
To show supreme respect to the primal titans, all invited primal titans were arranged in sequence in the honorable seats on Zeus’s right side.
The other young, newborn gods sat in order on the seats to the left side.
Lady of Night was special; Zeus arranged her in the first position on his own left side, while Sea God Pontus was arranged in the last position on the right side.
As for the other gods, there was no need for Zeus to personally arrange seats. Everyone had a tacit understanding with each other, finding appropriate seats on their own; everything was unspoken, and order was well-maintained inside the hall.
Zeus’s profound gaze slowly swept over every god in the hall. He could clearly perceive the undercurrents hidden beneath the calm of each god.
An unprecedented heroic spirit immediately surged in His heart.
No matter what authority or pride they had possessed in the past, all gods would now revere Him.
The entire universe was already in His grasp!
But this was far from enough.
During this month’s feast, all gods tacitly avoided the sensitive topic of authority division.
But in the minds of all gods, there was nothing but this top priority concerning their future status.
Zeus was no exception.
He was deeply pondering the reasons why the previous and first-generation god kings failed disastrously.
Finally determining that their art of rule was still too poor.
One was arrogant beyond measure, extremely self-centered, even indifferent to the impending threat.
One had crude methods, tyrannical and cruel, successfully arousing the vigilance and resistance of all gods.
To be completely invincible, one must thoroughly possess everything.
But the methods could not be as crude as the previous two, or it would only repeat their mistakes.
In fact, compared to the previous two god kings, he had his own unique great advantage: the innate “rulership” authority.
As long as he steadily sat on the divine throne of the god king and established and promulgated the god king’s order, then all authorities held by gods complying with the god king’s order could be wielded by the god king.
With his own authority, there was no need to devour the gods; on the contrary, the stronger the gods, the more powerful the god king.
The premise was that the gods needed to pledge allegiance to him and comply with his sacred order.
The rest was merely to slowly assimilate all the laws.
And the current world was not yet powerful enough; it must continue to grow rapidly, evolving new laws until perfection, with endless laws.
At that time, he could gather all into one body, turning the endless into the sole.
And all this could not be without the collective effort of the gods.
Relying only on himself to evolve the world to perfection and flawlessness would be truly distant.
Although he was now invincible and could slaughter all, if the gods were determined to perish together with him, then.
They could not succeed either.
But this returned to the most crucial problem: relying only on himself to evolve the world was too unrealistic, thankless effort.
For the world to become stronger, it must be vibrant and full of vitality.
Only through infinite variations and benign guidance could the world truly move toward an infinitely bright future.
And this was absolutely not something one god alone could achieve.
Moreover, a world brimming with vitality, high-spirited, with gods actively motivated; versus a world dead and stagnant, gods slacking and resisting, passively idle—that was completely different.
Relying on the latter to achieve oneself was out of the question.
It was still necessary to arouse the gods’ subjective initiative, making them willingly contribute strength and wisdom to the world’s evolution!
Moreover, as eternal existences, what gods feared most forever was loneliness.
He was no exception.
Endless eternal life, without the company of sentient beings, if the universe was empty and silent, what difference was there from being imprisoned in Tartarus?
In eternal life, only if the speed of universe evolution exceeded the speed of boredom with the present everything, would one not be overtaken by loneliness and boredom.
All rule was not just for ruling sentient beings?
Rule without living beings, no matter how powerful the power, what meaning did it have?
Since that was the case, to make the horse run, feed the horse grass.
Give first before taking; this was the simplest reason.
Win-win was possible; no need for lose-lose.
He had long had a thorough plan.
Zeus looked around at the gods in the hall and smiled: “Since it is to decide the order of the universe, how can the Mother Goddess of All Things be absent?”
“Respected Ocean Current, majestic cornerstone of the universe, great Lord of Radiance, radiant Mother of Radiance, Holy Justice Order, source spring of civilization memory, Mother who nourishes the world, and my close friend, mighty Hecatoncheires and Cyclops.”
Zeus named them one by one, his voice carrying warmth and respect: “Could I trouble you to go invite the great loving-kindness Mother Goddess of All Things? Please have her witness the establishment of the universe’s new order.”
The primal titans naturally would not refuse. Oceanus smiled: “Of course, wise and thorough Zeus, thanks to your thorough consideration. Otherwise, we would almost have committed the grave error of neglecting the Mother Goddess.”
Mother Goddess Rhea, a faint smile appeared on her soft and beautiful face as she said softly: “Zeus, I will go too.”
Zeus pondered for a moment, nodded, and said mildly: “Very well, thank you, Mother Goddess.”
Everything happening on Mount Olympus naturally could not escape the Mother Goddess of All Things; in fact, Zeus had no intention of hiding it.
The feast lasted so long, but sulking Gaia simply did not come, even though Zeus had begun delineating the cosmic order; she still stubbornly chose to be absent.
Now Gaia was in her own Earth divine palace, sulking alone as a god.
This Mother Goddess of All Things, full of anger, now had no image at all.
She had dismissed all subordinate gods and nymphs; at this moment, she slumped wearily on the divine seat, her face full of unhappiness.
Although the Mother Goddess of All Things was the eldest in both generation and age, time held no meaning for gods.
Mother Goddess of All Things Gaia, her manifested appearance was that of a woman not yet thirty, mature yet carrying the charm of a maiden.
The Mother Goddess of All Things, this great mother goddess of the universe, her manifested appearance was naturally the most suitable for fertility.
Her head of emerald green long hair reaching her body flowed like a cascading emerald waterfall, but now it was messily scattered on the ground, accentuating her current lazy and limp posture.
Her slender and graceful body casually leaned on the divine seat, her pair of perfectly bare jade feet, dainty and exquisite, now resting on the armrest of the divine throne, swinging idly back and forth.
Gods basically had no habit of wearing shoes, as there was rarely a true opportunity to “stand firmly on the ground.”
Moreover, the divine bodies of gods were free of all dust, utterly pure and clean; shoes had always been of no practical necessity for gods.
The only use of shoes was for beauty, serving as decoration and embellishment to enhance aesthetics.
At this time, with the Mother Goddess of All Things alone in the hall, she was naturally even lazier about wearing shoes.
Even the gorgeous robe on her body, due to her current completely undignified posture, was disheveled and messy, with strands of earthly spring light flickering teasingly, leaking endlessly.
Her bare feet were truly perfect beyond compare, beautiful to the point of heart-stirring.
Although the divine body of the Mother Goddess of All Things was the condensation of ultimate perfection and beauty, the most perfect creation in the universe, this pair of jade feet was especially beautiful and moving.
Delicate and lovely, slender and exquisite, fairer than snow, smooth and glossy—these were undoubtedly one of the universe’s most perfect works of art.
Do you know what the most authentic Greek foot is!
The Mother Goddess of All Things herself was the symbol of ultimate soft beauty!
