Chapter 152: How Could I Have Such Stupid Children?
Hades directly handed them over to the Mother of All Streams Tethys. These two brothers now already knew everything that had happened in the universe during this time from Tethys’s mouth and were silently drinking their fill of fine wine.
Even these two rash and violent brothers could not say a single word in the face of the current impregnable cosmic order.
However, to make them truly accept this new order from the bottom of their hearts was absolutely impossible!
This universe had indeed become incomparably wonderful, but there was no longer any glory that belonged to their Iapetus Family in it. No matter how wonderful it was, what was the use?
The Great God King Cronus and their father god Iapetus were still enduring endless torment in the most terrifying Tartarus abyss.
No matter how prosperous this universe became, what meaning did it have for them?
They now had no honor and were still considered sinful gods in principle, confined in the ocean.
They could not even leave the ocean. No matter how wonderful the world was, what did it have to do with them?
But fortunately, they still had some sense and were not thinking of rebelling immediately.
They also knew that being supervised in the ocean instead of going to Tartarus with their father god was entirely due to the face of the Ocean God.
Regarding this, they felt a trace of gratitude in their hearts.
The charitable and gentle Tethys had prepared the richest fine wine and the most abundant ambrosia for them.
Of course, she did not hold any grand welcome banquet for them; that would be too irrational.
Now it was only her and a few children accompanying these two brothers who had just been released from the netherworld.
This kind of tender soothing was already extremely thoughtful care for these two brothers.
How could the wise Tethys fail to see the resentment and unwillingness in these two brothers’ hearts that they could not conceal?
During this time, she had been using both soft and hard tactics to constantly admonish and persuade them, demanding that they must accept reality and never have any unrealistic stupid illusions!
When Oceanus returned, what he saw was these two dejected starry sky great gods, once.
The Ocean God Oceanus was a great deity with a mild temperament and a merciful heart.
It was precisely because of this that he had never really liked these two grandsons of his.
These two brothers were rash, impulsive, irritable, and arrogant, completely incompatible with the peaceful and tolerant temperament of the ocean gods.
They were even far from the deep and wise temperament of their parents.
If not for their mother and wife being the Ocean God’s most beloved biological daughters, Oceanus really did not want to get involved in these messy matters.
At this moment, looking at these two brothers who were silently drinking their fill of fine wine with their resentment and unwillingness written plainly on their faces without any concealment, a trace of regret even surged in his heart.
With these two, it was doubtful they could really be kept in check!
They would probably cause trouble again in the future.
But seeing his two daughters, Clymene and Pleione, respectively holding their own children and husbands while consoling them, he could only sigh helplessly in his heart.
Oceanus told them about Zeus’s merciful arrangement for his several great-grandsons, that is, Atlas’s children.
After hearing this, the relatively silent Atlas fell into even deeper silence.
He was merely violent, not cruel, and certainly not stupid beyond salvation.
Zeus’s actions were already an extreme tolerance beyond his imagination.
To be fair, if the positions were reversed, he absolutely could not treat defeated enemies with such tolerance.
Not to mention granting honor to the children of sinful gods and keeping them as close attendants.
To forgive those children’s sins and allow them to live freely in the world under the sun was already the God King’s great compassion in his view.
But the arrogant and arrogant Menoetius did not think so.
In his eyes, all of this was what their Iapetus Family deserved in the first place!
It was just that because they had lost now, things they should have had originally turned into a ridiculous reward from the victor!
Oceanus was mild, but compared to his wife Tethys, he was always more majestic and serious.
Looking at these two grandsons who could never let him rest easy, Oceanus scolded in an indisputable and extremely serious tone: “You now know everything that happened. Your children now have an excellent future. The past sins caused by you have all been forgiven by His Majesty the God King.”
“His Majesty the God King’s tolerant magnanimity is unattainable by any deity in the world. From now on, you must never do anything stupid again!”
“You must unconditionally obey the sacred and just order established by the new God King! No violations allowed!”
“Otherwise, His Majesty the God King won’t need to act personally! I, Oceanus, will personally send you into that eternal Tartarus! You must not do anything stupid for me! And you must not step out of this ocean even one step!”
Seeing these two brothers only silently nodding but still not saying a word.
Oceanus continued in a earnest tone: “You should recognize your wrongdoings and must clearly realize the gap between you and His Majesty the Great God King, which is like an insurmountable chasm.”
“Whether power, wisdom, magnanimity, courage, or anything else, you are not even one ten-thousandth of His Majesty the God King. Not to mention you two; even Cronus is far inferior.”
“The Old God King has already been defeated and cast into that extremely terrifying Tartarus. That you two can still live in the ocean now is itself His Majesty the God King’s supreme tolerance!”
But Menoetius remained unconvinced, sticking out his neck and retorting: “Respected Ocean God! His Majesty God King Cronus was only defeated by that shameless sneak attack! If it were a direct confrontation, His Majesty the God King would never lose!”
Oceanus’s brows instantly furrowed tightly.
He sternly scolded: “Shut up!”
“His Majesty the God King would never lose! But that is His Majesty God King Zeus who would never lose!”
“Menoetius, use that stupid head of yours filled with arrogance and think carefully! The God King’s thunder, in the three realms and three domains, who among all things and all spirits can withstand it?!”
“Don’t let me hear such utterly foolish nonsense again!”
“You fool, I really regret speaking for you!”
“Also, remember this! In the current universe, until eternity, there is only one His Majesty the God King! That is God King Zeus!”
“Don’t mention Cronus to me again!”
The strong and wise Clymene remained silent while her father god educated her own children.
After hearing her son Menoetius’s foolish words, her fine brows had already furrowed tightly.
Only after her father god finished scolding did she finally couldn’t help but interject, scolding in a tone even sterner than Oceanus’s, full of frustration at their failure to live up to expectations: “Enough!”
“Menoetius! How could I have given birth to a fool like you back then!”
“How overconfident are you exactly?! And how utterly lacking in self-awareness?! You are not even my match!”
“How could His Majesty the God King’s greatness and sanctity be something you can casually comment on here?”
Clymene was extremely agitated; she was really almost infuriated to fainting.
She knew her two children were stupid, but stupid to this extent was unimaginable; even her most foolish child Epimetheus could not be this stupid.
She scolded even more seriously: “From today on, I forbid you from saying any words like that foolish talk just now!”
“Otherwise, no need for His Majesty the God King to deal with you! I will personally request His Majesty the God King to cast you into that endless abyss!”
“So as to spare me from being eventually angered to death by you two fools! And to spare you from implicating my father god in the future!”
Menoetius was thoroughly scolded by his mother goddess and for a moment did not dare to speak again.
The Ocean God looked at Atlas, who had been silent all along.
His gaze swept back and forth over these two brothers, then he said in a cold and serious tone: “Your characters are indeed a bit rash and manic, but you are not those filthy and despicable deities. Then you should know that if you lose, you must accept it!”
“Everything you have now no longer belongs to you yourselves but is granted to you by His Majesty the Great God King Zeus! By reason, you should repay His Majesty the God King!”
“His Majesty the God King does not need your repayment, but publicly and privately, you should and must obey His Majesty the God King’s sacred order!”
Oceanus paused slightly, then continued: “If not for your mother goddess and wife bitterly pleading before His Majesty the God King, you would have long entered Tartarus by now!”
“Even if not for yourselves, you must think for your mother goddess, for your wives and children!”
“Do you really want to implicate them and make them never see the light of day with you forever? Your children already have an extremely rare precious opportunity and honor. Do you want them to fall from the sky into the abyss of nothingness?!”
“Moreover, His Majesty the God King has promised the Mother Goddess of All Things that at the appropriate time, he will release Iapetus and them.”
“So, you absolutely must not do anything stupid again!”
“Do you understand?!”
Pleione, on the side, also gently consoled her husband: “Atlas, my husband, please think of our children. They are fortunate to follow at His Majesty the God King’s side; what a glorious bounty that is. Do not let our children suffer innocent calamity in vain again.”
