Chapter 13: The New Order
After the gods redefined the cosmic order, they all condensed their physical forms.
The current universe is already colorful and diverse; having a physical form allows them to better enjoy this universe.
The Goddess of Night Nyx was once again accepted by the Celestial Pantheon. The gods allowed Nyx to integrate into the rules of the universe, and she has a share in the universe’s supreme honor.
Nominally, Aether and Hemera became her children again, though their root still belongs to the Celestial Pantheon.
Cronus and the gods reformulated the new cosmic rules, which all gods must obey. If violated, the gods will unite to crusade against the offender and jointly maintain the newborn order.
There was no method; Cronus could not possess absolute power like his father Uranus to control everything.
Even though he was extremely unwilling inwardly, at present, he could only compromise and carefully maintain the newborn and fragile cosmic order together with the gods.
But just like what all kings would do, after Cronus firmly sat on the divine throne of the God King, he unhesitatingly began to gradually centralize power.
He newly created numerous mortal and spiritual objects. As the God King of Creation, he fully exercised his authority within the world, making the world colorful and diverse, thus earning the unanimous respect of the gods.
Afterward, he invited the Mother Goddess Gaia to construct Mount Othrys together. This divine mountain, which grew alongside heaven and earth, serves as the common home of the Titans, the center of the cosmic order, and the location of the God King’s supreme divine throne.
His authority became increasingly stable, his power increasingly formidable, and similarly, his desire for centralization burned ever more fiercely.
Subsequently, he created numerous elemental beings on the Earth; these beings were like deities.
They do not age, have extremely long lifespans, and are free from pain, disease, and toil. The Earth naturally yields abundant harvests, providing ample food without the need for cultivation.
This was Cronus’s first large-scale creation of sentient beings, so he treated them exceptionally well, and there was also a scheme behind creating these sentient beings.
However, he was also very cautious; the intelligence of these elemental beings was not very high, and they were deprived of most love and desire.
They had no strife, were kind and gentle in temperament, and loyally worshiped the gods, making them the gods’ ideal subjects.
Their deaths were also filled with peace. The Titan Weaver of Death Iapetus treated them exceptionally well, weaving for them a death in beautiful sleep, without the slightest pain.
Moreover, after death, the souls condensed from their spirituality would be granted divine gifts by the Earth Mother Goddess and the gods, becoming earth spirits.
Or be taken by the gods to their abodes in the universe（ different constellations; at this time, the constellations were not yet named, they were clusters of celestial bodies formed by combinations of stars in the starry sky）.
The current universe was still too empty and desolate; advanced sentient beings distributed throughout the universe were truly pitifully few.
Creating life is simple, but creating higher sentient beings requires care; it is truly not an easy task.
The gods were too solitary; although these elemental beings were somewhat dim compared to the gods, they were also higher sentient beings.
Moreover, they were so gentle and loyally worshiped the gods, so the gods naturally favored them.
Therefore, death was eternal life for them; after a sleep, they could follow the gods to their divine kingdoms.
This era was later called the Golden Age by mortals, and these beings were called Golden Humans, but in reality, they were elemental beings.
These elemental beings were excellent in every way, except that they were always caught in the crossfire.
That was naturally due to the Hundred-armed Giants and Cyclopes, mainly the Hundred-armed Giants.
They were too enormous and too powerful. Even as heaven and earth continuously expanded, the Hundred-armed Giants were simply too large and too rowdy.
Their casual play was a terrifying disaster for the elemental beings, like a natural calamity descending.
Or rather, a disaster for all life.
Heaven collapsing and earth splitting, sky falling and ground caving in—that was the most realistic reality.
The cosmic starry sky beyond the world was vast enough, but only the laws within the world were the most complete, and the life within the world was the most colorful and diverse.
The universe was too barren and desolate, lacking beautiful vitality.
The countless celestial bodies outside the world were created by the Heavenly Father Uranus; their essence was merely to maintain the framework of the world, serving as a barrier against Tartarus.
Only the Earth was the place beloved by the Heavenly Father, the true cradle of life.
Only where both heaven and earth exist, and the laws of heaven and earth along with many other laws are complete, can it be called a true world.
Only within the world is the gods’ true home, the place the gods truly love.
The celestial bodies of the universe are merely the gods’ villas for enjoying quiet or resting well; a casual tending is enough, no need for meticulous construction.
With that effort, it would be better to further expand the world and make the homeland more beautiful.
The gods were busy constructing heaven and earth and had no time; who would idly bother to painstakingly build those “quicksands” that dissipate with a wave of the hand?
This also quickly led to the Hundred-armed Giants incurring the wrath of all; nurturing advanced sentient beings is not easy, but they could nearly destroy them with casual rowdy, which gave the gods headaches.
If it were just normal deaths, the gods would not care.
But the destruction they caused was not normal death; it was utter annihilation by their absolute power, the power capable of piercing matter, from which even souls could hardly escape.
This was deliberate by Cronus, a pure open scheme, and one with the tacit understanding of all Titans.
He feared and hated the formidable power of the Cyclopes and Hundred-armed Giants.
He was the god of creation, growth, and harvest, yet the authority of clouds and rain, crucial to him, was similarly held by other deities.
And there was the even more terrifying thunder and lightning thunderbolts, that incomparably fearsome might; every time he saw it, he recalled his father’s former anger, that suppressed terrifying memory.
Of course, he also knew that his other brothers and sisters felt the same.
That terrifying thunderbolt was the psychological shadow of all Titans.
Cronus could not tolerate their existence in the world, nor could the other Titans; no one wanted these giants in the world.
Moreover, the three Hundred-armed Giants occupied too much space, completely hindering the expansion and integration of his power within the world.
Thus, Cronus used the giants’ destruction of the elemental beings as a pretext, leading numerous Titan Gods to demand that these six giants leave the world and exile them to the vast, empty, desolate universe.
Even the Mother Goddess Gaia had nothing to say about this, as she could not refute that the Hundred-armed Giants indeed brought chaos to the world.
Faced with the resolution of all Titans, she could only comply.
After this incident, Cronus truly established his authority.
Not only the gods’ respect, but also their awe—he now possessed both.
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