Chapter 112: Finale
But facing such a great opportunity for the universe to be destroyed, Tartarus didn’t dare to take advantage of the situation at all.
Tartarus was extremely calm under the extreme instinctual fear.
He didn’t even dare to approach the world that had already become Zeus’s domain of thunder.
That had already become an absolute forbidden zone that even chaos and void could not invade.
The gods trembled and cowered in fear, their divinity wailed in trembling, all living beings in the universe cried blood and wailed, mourning the doomsday of the universe.
All the gods in the universe, whether they participated in the battle or not, trembled rigidly under the all-encompassing Great Thunder, and the fear from the depths of their divinity even made many gods scream uncontrollably.
The battlefield of the divine war instantly stopped due to the sudden appearance of thunder.
Countless great gods stared blankly at this terrifying sight that truly destroyed everything, their divine minds frozen.
The moment the thunder appeared, Zeus’s divine body instantly transformed into the supreme divine and majestic thunder divine body.
His entire divine form turned into the most dazzling and scorching radiance, illuminating the entire world and becoming the only source of light between heaven and earth.
The God King’s divine pupils were instantly blinded by the intense light that appeared, leaving them blank and temporarily blind. The God King’s sharp gaze became completely ineffective in the face of absolute light.
Zeus raised his arm, and this simple action alone drove the rotation of the sky dome, gathering the violent storms and thunder that swept across the entire world!
As his great hand, carrying supreme authority, swept down, the first bolt of lightning shot out!
It was not an ordinary winding snake shape, but a dazzling, straight beam of pure white flawless light. It tore through the darkness, descending from the end of the sky, carrying heat capable of melting everything and an aura that could burn all things. It roared and struck!
It tore through the void, leaving an eternal golden crack in space. Wherever it passed, space was instantly torn apart like fragile thin paper, everything was completely burned to nothingness, and nothing could stop it!
God King Cronus had no time to react at all, not even to be shocked. In the blink of an eye, the first bolt of thunder had mercilessly struck his divine body!
Following closely behind were the second, third,
Countless bolts of lightning erupted one after another, no longer individual beams, but weaving into a golden, constantly expanding energy net that enveloped the God King, heavily wounding him, leaving him with nowhere to escape!
After the thunderclap fell, it was followed by the roar of endless thunder!
It was not a single roar, but a symphony of ten thousand thunders, deeper than the roar of a million lions, more shocking than a million volcanoes erupting simultaneously!
Every thunderclap was enough to shatter the fragile spirituality of ordinary living beings, tear apart the bones of the earth, collapse majestic mountains, cause seawater to surge and explode, and even reverberate in the endless darkness underground!
The sound of thunder roared throughout the universe, a terrifying deterrent to anyone who dared to defy the supreme laws!
The Lord of Thunder had seized Cronus’s divine body, and endless thunder transformed into the most indestructible chains, tightly encircling him. The power of thunder penetrated every particle of his divine body, never to dissipate.
The terrifying harm had made the God King lose all perception. His divine body and divinity were completely paralyzed by the scorching and violent thunder, his divine consciousness instantly chaotic, and he was temporarily in a state of complete stagnation.
The God King was too strong; mere void might not be able to trap him, but with the addition of Zeus’s thunder “cage,” he truly had no hope left.
Even if a god wanted to secretly release him, it would be impossible to disarm the thunder prison personally set by Zeus!
Even though the God King was in an extremely dangerous situation, the gods were still unable to recover from the shock of the thunder, and they could only stand there in a daze.
But Zeus was not only attacking the God King but also three other Titans at the same time!
Endless thunder swept over each of their divine bodies, causing their movements to freeze. Amidst the thunderous roar, the gods’ divine bodies were ruthlessly ravaged.
The first roar was also the signal for the action to begin.
The moment they heard the roar, the three Hundred-armed Giants, who had been ambushing in the darkness, suddenly leaped out from underground. They had been hidden under the authority of the Lady of Night and Hades.
Appearing instantly, their colossal figures, which almost touched the sky, terrified all the gods who had never seen them before.
The oppressive feeling brought by absolute colossal beings made even the gods breathless.
Even the Weaver of Death, the Thinker of Insight, and the bright Goddess of Intelligence were now filled with endless shock and even at a loss due to the continuous shocking changes!
Their wisdom and power seemed so pale and useless at this moment!
They were awakened from their stupor by the thunderclap and were heavily wounded in an instant.
And this was only a small part of the power; most of the power of the thunder filling the sky was directed at the God King.
If Rhea and the others had attacked now, they could have inflicted even more terrifying heavy damage on them instantly, and even temporarily incapacitated them!
But Rhea didn’t have time now.
The Great Goddess Queen, the goddess of the world’s vitality, operation, and movement, fully unleashed her authority. The heavily wounded God King and the three Titans instantly had their movements further restricted, and at this moment, they had almost completely lost all ability to resist.
The three Hundred-armed Giants, Briareus, clasped his palms together. The violent movement stirred up a storm, his giant palms becoming a cage. Enduring the terrifying damage of the thunder and the deep fear in his heart, he firmly held Cronus, who was jointly controlled by Zeus and Rhea, in his hands.
Cottus and Gyes each grabbed Coeus and Phoebe.
Only Iapetus, the Weaver of Death, the Cyclical Recycler, still managed to muster the courage to struggle desperately, struggling with immense difficulty, and attacking Zeus with all his might.
He had no time to think, only wanting to save the God King first!
Only by saving the God King would they have a sliver of hope!
But this was just delusion.
Poseidon and Hestia and the others easily blocked the now fragile him.
Zeus knew that only Iapetus would fight to the death for the God King and would never flee.
Therefore, the three Hundred-armed Giants were holding Cronus and the others!
Because Coeus and Phoebe, as soon as they reacted, would definitely flee at the first opportunity. Zeus would never give them any chance. This battle had to resolve everything!
The evil seeds that Cronus had sown in the past were finally bearing bitter fruit.
The God King feared the power of the giants, but ultimately fell victim to their power.
Even though Cronus and the others instinctively struggled desperately, it was all too late.
Hades, who was holding the rear, stirred up endless darkness. The thunder brought dark clouds all over the sky, and the Lady of Night had quietly arrived.
Darkness and night simultaneously enveloped Cronus and Coeus, husband and wife, who were tightly held by the Hundred-armed Giants, bringing them boundless despair.
Zeus did not delay for a moment. He resolutely threw down his thunderbolts, splitting the boundless earth without hesitation, revealing the endless darkness at the bottom of the world.
The three Hundred-armed Giants, holding the three Titans, jumped into the endless darkness together. Hades and the Lady of Night wrapped them with chains formed from darkness, dragging them, and unhesitatingly pulled them to the edge of the darkness.
Zeus continuously threw down thunderbolts, driving the giants and the three Titans into Tartarus together.
“No!!!”
Iapetus let out a tragic wail, his despair and unwillingness echoing through heaven and earth.
However, he didn’t have time to say anything else.
Zeus didn’t even have time to pull the giants back. With a flash of lightning and teleportation, he appeared before Iapetus. With a sneer at the corner of his mouth, endless thunder also enveloped the Weaver of Death.
In front of Zeus’s full power, Iapetus had no power to fight back. Even if he struggled desperately, in front of Zeus’s Thunder God body, everything was futile. His resistance was like a mayfly shaking a tree.
Bright thunder wove him a giant sphere of lightning, enveloping his entire divine body, rendering him completely immobile. In an instant, his divine consciousness had frozen.
Zeus dragged Iapetus and, without hesitation, cast him into Tartarus as well, giving him no chance to think, no room to resist at all.
Only now did Zeus reach out and grab the dark chains, pulling the three Hundred-armed Giants up once more.
Zeus gave Nyx a look, and Nyx instantly understood. Following the plan, she disappeared with four anchor points connected to the world.
The overall situation was decided.
Entering Tartarus for the third time, the Hundred-armed Giants were extremely nervous. The fear of Tartarus still loomed over them. They were truly afraid that Zeus would conveniently deal with them as well.
When Zeus was explaining the plan, they were terrified. They feared the damage brought by the thunder, but what they feared most was the endless torment in the void, which was truly a suffering worse than death.
However, in the end, having no other choice, they gritted their teeth and agreed to the plan.
They gambled that Cronus’s son was different from Cronus!
They won the gamble.
All these events happened in the blink of an eye, in reality, it was just an instant.
Atlas and Menoetius were heavily wounded by this series of blows. They couldn’t even react. By the time they did, the tide had already turned!
Everything was over.
The era of the second-generation God King Cronus had completely ended.
The war was about to end.
The future of the universe had been completely determined.
Knowing that they had no retreat, the two brothers launched a frenzied attack on the gods. They would rather fight to the death, even if it was just to vent their anger, than surrender and beg for mercy. They wanted to fight to the last moment with the dignity of Titans.
However, this final desperate struggle was easily blocked by several gods.
At this moment, Zeus, with six giants, arrived at Mount Othrys, which had completely become a ruin.
Once the center of order for the entire universe, it was now nothing but ruins.
The dark clouds and storms of thunder that enveloped the entire universe began to slowly dissipate. Although the entire universe was in disarray, its foundations broken, and the stars dimmed.
However, without the shroud of thunder, it no longer had the meaning of complete destruction. Instead, there was a silence of rebirth.
Looking at the two second-generation Titans who were desperately resisting, Zeus didn’t even have the interest to make a move himself.
Everything was over.
The new order was about to begin.
The master of the entire universe had changed.
Next, was the eternal era of Zeus!
All of it, your true master, has returned!
It was only now that the Mother Goddess Gaia, who had been silently watching, reacted as if waking from a dream.
After the great battle began, like Cronus, she had dismissed the battle as seemingly no different from past ones.
However, the sudden appearance of thunder completely shocked her!
Zeus’s thunder was so powerful that she had never seen it before, a might that even she could not imagine!
She didn’t even have time to recover from that terrifying thunder before she fell into the paralysis and pain brought by the thunder. Even she felt a wave of weakness throughout her body.
She had no idea what had happened, completely bewildered.
When she saw the Hundred-armed Giants leap out, she didn’t even have time to feel the joy of seeing her children freed, nor to do anything, when she witnessed with her own eyes her other four children, with the help of the three children who had just escaped, being mercilessly cast into the endless torment of Tartarus.
Everything that happened in the blink of an eye left her no time to react before it was all over.
She wanted to overthrow the God King, yes, but she only wanted the God King to abdicate; she did not want her own children to endure endless torment.
A significant reason she was determined to oppose Cronus was to liberate the six giants who were enduring endless torment in the void and allow them to regain their freedom.
But now, the giants were released, and her other four children were cast into Tartarus!
This was completely not the outcome she wanted!
It could even be said to be contrary to her original intention!
She couldn’t help but roar in her heart, “When you, Zeus, told me you would release six children, you didn’t say you would send my other children in!”
And the power Zeus now displayed made her feel a deep sense of alarm.
The bolt of lightning that split the earth made even her, the Mother of All, feel numb and powerless, truly feel pain, and even feel her origin shaken!
Both shocked and angry, the Great Mother Goddess, her colossal divine body flew furiously into the sky, tearing through the remaining dark clouds and arriving beside Zeus.
With uncontrollable rage, she questioned Zeus, “Zeus! What have you done?!”
“You actually! You actually cast Cronus and the others into Tartarus!”
“You have won the war! You have won! You are the master of the universe, release them!”
Zeus looked at Gaia with a bitter smile. In his ears, the tragic roars of Atlas and Menoetius echoed incessantly in the sky that had been baptized by thunder.
His tone was gentle and helpless, yet extremely firm and resolute: “Respected Mother Goddess, please believe me, this is not what I wanted to see either. The pain of helplessness and choice is also deeply buried in my heart.”
“But what else could I do?”
Zeus’s voice was slightly weary, and he sighed deeply: “You know the God King; with his cruel and stubborn personality, as long as he had the slightest ability to fight back, he would make the entire world restless.”
“He would continue to cause trouble endlessly, and even if it led to the destruction of the universe, he would not give up.”
“The God King is so powerful that no god can truly say they have defeated him. He is the personification of the world’s fundamental laws, and I have no choice but to use this method, which I least wanted to use.”
Zeus continued to persuade gently: “Dear Mother Goddess, the war is over now, and it’s time for it to end completely. The world should be restored to peace and tranquility.”
“We should now look towards a better future, a better order, and a world that will undoubtedly be more colorful and happy in the future. For all this, we must make some necessary sacrifices.”
The enraged Gaia absolutely did not want to hear these words, and they could not enter the heart of a mother who had lost a child.
Her anger burned like flames, and her resonant voice was filled with uncontrollable rage: “Enough! Zeus! How can you say such heartless words!”
“You have already won! An undeniable victory!”
“You also possess unparalleled power, your power is enough to suppress everything!”
“All the gods respect you, believe in you, and you will be the new God King. I will also support you. This is my promise as the Mother Goddess of All Things.”
“Now, release Cronus and the others. I will keep an eye on them. If they make any moves, I will personally intervene.”
“But, now, you must release them!”
Zeus’s expression slowly became indifferent, his handsome face imbued with an unyielding majesty. He slowly said, “Respected Mother Goddess, I have no intention of defying your will, nor do I intend to offend you. You are the Mother of All Things, and I hold you in respect.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a thunderclap resounded through the universe out of nowhere!
“However, if you could truly control them, then things would not have reached this point.”
“The facts have proven that you cannot control them. As long as they are released, the war will continue, and it will be more brutal than ever before, never-ending, until the entire universe is completely destroyed.”
Zeus’s tone softened slightly: “Dear Mother Goddess, you have already gained the six released children, so you will inevitably lose some temporarily.”
“However, I promise you, this is only temporary. I will release them when the opportunity arises in the future.”
“When the new order is stable, when their ambition and resentment are worn away by the void, when their extreme divinity is purified, I will release them.”
Facing these seemingly gentle but firm and unyielding words, and the clear threat of that thunderclap, Gaia’s shock and anger intensified, and she immediately wanted to turn hostile!
However, at this moment, the six giants stepped forward and embraced Mother Goddess Gaia. The intimacy and attachment of the children caused the Mother Goddess of All Things’ rage to momentarily pause.
The six majestic giants, despite their extremely large divine bodies, were now like children who had suffered immense grievances and had once again seen their beloved mother.
They wept and said with choked voices: “Dear Mother Goddess, you don’t know how much we missed you. In the endless torment, only you were our sole faith, our only pillar of perseverance.”
“Finally, we can see you again and feel your warm embrace. This is our greatest happiness. Mother Goddess, we miss you so much!”
