Chapter 156: Zeus, Blocked From Tying The Knot In Wedded Harmony
And because of this Master of Fire’s depression and low spirits, all the flames in the universe became dim and cold along with their master.
If not for Helios desperately inspiring divine power to maintain the stars’ radiance and blazing heat, who knows how many stars would have extinguished ahead of time.
As for the gentle and delicate Demeter, she locked herself away, gulping down divine wine, then all of it turned into tears and flowed out.
If not for the God King’s sacred thunder golden rain continuously sprinkling down, I’m afraid all the plants in this world would have long withered and died due to this Harvest Mother Goddess’s grief.
Eurynome enviously wailed loudly in the divine palace.
The Goddess of Order Themis of sacred justice merely silently raised her head, looking toward the endless clouds.
Golden radiance filled with wisdom occasionally shone from the clouds toward the universe’s six directions and eight corners.
The emotions in her heart were also so complex that they could hardly be described with any ink or brush.
Only that indescribable, unwilling-to-think sourness at the bottom of her heart was the strongest sensation she felt at this moment.
There was also a Goddess of Night unwilling to reveal her name, now in the netherworld, her teeth nearly grinding to pieces.
The entire underworld was thoroughly covered by the deepest and purest night, with not a single trace of radiance to be seen.
All the souls living in the underworld trembled in fear under this Goddess of Night’s uncontrollable anger and jealousy, not daring to move an inch.
The netherworld, originally booming with development, had now become a realm of utter dead silence.
Of course, there were goddesses even angrier.
The omniscient Civilization Memory Goddess, wise and all-knowing, was now nearly fuming to the point of passing out.
Other gods saw only clouds, rain, thunder, and lightning with radiance, but she saw everything clearly!
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It was clearly she who fell in love with Zeus first!
It was also she who first paid attention to everything about Zeus!
But now other goddesses had taken the lead, and you all knew I could see, yet you still did it!
Too much!!!
Bullying a god excessively!
And this wasn’t over; during this time, news of Dione also began to spread to the ears of the gods.
Except for Mnemosyne who knew the inside story, the other goddesses, already in poor moods, became even more hateful and furious!
When?!
And where did this cheap goddess pop out from!
Heavens! How did she even already have a child!
But several goddesses, upon learning this news of Dione, had their thoughts become even more active instead.
The God King being promiscuous is great; promiscuous is always better than devoted, otherwise how would I have an opportunity?
Seven days and nights later, the magnificent phenomenon of strength and wisdom’s union that enveloped the entire world finally dispersed with the clouds and rain.
The sun’s radiance once again pierced through the clouds, casting warm and sacred light anew upon this refreshed world.
Although they once again felt light and warmth, too many goddesses on Olympus still refused to leave their divine palaces.
Their hearts felt not a bit of warmth; what they could feel was only coldness like ice and the endless bitterness eroding their divinity.
However, the Goddess of Wisdom now felt only warmth.
She was half-asleep and half-awake, curled up like a lazy kitten in her beloved’s firm and majestic embrace.
Those bright golden eyes slightly closed, her damp purple beautiful hair reaching her entire body, like violet petals crumpled and then scattered open again, disheveled yet full of unique beauty, strewn across the divine bed condensed from clouds.
The Goddess of Wisdom’s entire divinity, even the deepest parts inside and out, had been thoroughly irrigated to utmost fullness by the most powerful Primal Law of Thunder belonging to the God King.
Now, she only wanted to forever nestle in her beloved’s majestic embrace, not even wanting to move a finger.
His Majesty the God King, having fully enjoyed the wondrous essence of wisdom, suddenly unleashed his long-suppressed joyful restraint and simply couldn’t control himself.
Even having obtained all of wisdom, he was still full of enthusiasm; after all, he was the Lord of Thunder with infinite energy.
The Thunder God Lord’s fingers flickered with faint electric light, sliding extremely gently and slowly over the most flawless beautiful jade condensed from Ocean Pure Water.
Tiny electric lights, amid the crystalline perspiration water droplets remaining on the white jade divine body, rippled with layers of colorful dazzling fluorescence.
This Wisdom Goddess, already limp and on the verge of reverting to her most primal pure water, this Daughter of the Ocean, under the continuous stimulation of this subtle thunder and lightning, couldn’t control herself again, letting out bursts of moving whimpers like a nightingale’s melodious mournful cry under the moonlight.
The terrifying thunder, over these ceaseless seven days and nights, had already made the wise Daughter of the Ocean suffer endlessly, yet the Master of Thunder refused to let up.
The bright-eyed goddess with divinity fulfilled struggled to open her eyes, long soaked in moisture.
She gave her insatiable beloved a powerless yet charming glare, yet couldn’t muster even a trace of strength to stop Him.
“Zeus~ no, no more, my love, please~”
Her coquettish words were like spring snow melting at the forest’s edge, dripping into the mountain stream’s clear spring.
The Daughter of the Ocean’s tenderness and compliance, along with her boundless love and infatuation, were all within.
Even a God Lord burning with blazing fire, afflicted with an illness hard to cure, with a stubborn mind, couldn’t help but feel his heart soften upon hearing such delicate and tremolo words from his beloved goddess.
However, though His heart softened, the other parts of His body were exactly the opposite.
That heartfelt pity instead made the already surging love flames burn even more fiercely.
He couldn’t help but lower his head, constantly rubbing and kissing the face of the goddess in his embrace.
The goddess’s originally snow-white delicate face, over these full seven days, had never lost that moving pink flush it had taken on.
And at this moment, this utmost crimson was especially soul-stirring.
“Zeus~~~” A voice drawn out in a long tremolo, making the divine heart and liver tremble, slipped from the Wisdom Goddess’s already lusciously red lips.
The Goddess of Wisdom, her eyes dazed and unfocused, said in a tone of bitter pleading: “My love, my master… please, let me rest properly. I feel my Primal Law has undergone a wondrous change; I need to understand it well.”
Zeus hesitated upon hearing this, but Metis clearly sensed something was wrong!
She was startled and hurriedly said: “My love, you still have many matters to handle.”
“Moreover”
She gave Zeus a glance, then with a jealous resentful tone, huffed: “There are many other goddesses who also need you to ‘handle’ them!”
“They must have huge opinions now; don’t you need to go soothe them a bit?”
Zeus wasn’t afraid of Metis saying such things at all; if Hera said it, He might worry about her making a fuss with Him.
But Metis wasn’t that kind of goddess.
The Daughter of the Ocean’s temperament wasn’t so impatient and resolute; they were always so gentle.
Especially Metis; she truly loved Zeus to death.
She would absolutely never do anything that might displease Zeus.
Zeus directly avoided the topic, becoming even more intimate with the fragrant soft beauty in his embrace: “My love, how can you resist me like this? Please feel it seriously; how much I love you, unwilling to part from you for even a moment.”
Metis could of course clearly feel it; her delicate face flushed even redder.
She “fiercely” glared at Zeus again.
Though in Zeus’s eyes, it was simply an intentional utmost charm.
The dazed and aroused God Lord was about to lean down again, but was firmly blocked by this Wisdom Goddess who had finally recovered a bit of strength.
Frightening the Wisdom Goddess, whose chest heaved and trembled, into hurriedly pleading in a tremolo voice: “My love! Sorry, I was wrong! My love, I will never resist you.”
“However, I really think you should go handle important matters right now. Lest… in the future, there be even more headaches for you.”
The Goddess of Wisdom strained to push Zeus’s firm chest, but couldn’t budge it at all.
Seeing Zeus unmoved, and that terrifying change about to sweep over again, which she felt ever more clearly within her body, the Wisdom Goddess was truly anxious.
She gently bit her lower lip with her teeth, pleading in a low coquettish tone that could melt anything: “My love, please don’t let too many gods come to resent me; just think of it as for my sake, okay?”
Then, she brought her lips close to Zeus’s ear, her warm breath brushing over it.
In a murmur low to almost inaudible yet full of endless temptation, she softly said: “My master, my father, please, wait for me to prepare a unique surprise for you, alright?”
Zeus pondered for a moment or two.
His beloved goddess had already pleaded so pitifully; if He didn’t let her go now, it really… seemed a bit inappropriate.
After all, He wasn’t some lustful god!
Of course, not for any surprise either!
Purely out of pity for his beloved goddess, simply doting on her.
Zeus finally nodded reluctantly, but then pursed his lips toward her.
The meaning was already very clear: He could let her off, but not so easily.
The soft and compliant Wisdom Goddess gave her beloved a coquettish glare.
But her gaze was equally full of doting.
She slowly raised her head, letting her smooth silk hair cling tightly to her curvaceous body, strands of deep purple lines making patches of utmost spring light appear if hidden if present.
Then, she offered her beloved God King nectar sweeter than divine wine.
This gentle goddess was always so doting, so obedient to her beloved God King.
No matter what, she would always let Him do as He pleases.
Because the Daughter of the Ocean would never use a forceful posture to control her lover.
They would only use that utmost gentleness inherited from the mother nurturing all streams, like primal pure water, to wrap their beloved God King tightly strand by strand.
Letting Him thoroughly drown in this ocean of gentleness, never wanting to leave.
Even if He briefly departs, He will ultimately return.
No one can leave water, not even gods.
Finally managing to let her beloved fully savor the fragrant nectar again, she forcefully pushed until this still reluctant beloved agreed to leave.
Zeus prepared to leave reluctantly, but this amorous and clever God King still had one most important thing undone.
Zeus gazed at her with utmost gentle eyes, saying in a honey-soft tender tone: “My love, I love you so much, forever loving you. To the point I don’t want to part from you for even a moment.”
The Goddess of Wisdom was stunned; she thought Zeus had changed his mind and didn’t want to leave.
Then she saw Zeus pluck a lock of his brilliant golden hair from his head.
This amorous God Lord gently placed this segment of golden hair atop Metis’s purple hair at her forehead.
A faint electric light flashed, and amid the Wisdom Goddess’s originally pure purple smooth long hair, an inextinguishable brilliant gold strand appeared.
Then, He clipped off a lock of Metis’s purple hair and merged it into His own golden hair.
Thus, amid His sun-like brilliant golden radiance, a mysterious purple of wisdom stood out strikingly.
After doing all this, this clever promiscuous God Lord finally smiled heartily: “My love, now we’re forever together. You and I, hair tied as one, hearts united, never to part.”
The pitiful Wisdom Goddess was in an instant thoroughly overwhelmed by this sudden utmost sweetness and happiness.
She no longer wanted to think of anything else.
She let out a love-filled and satisfied mournful whimper, and somehow mustered strength from nowhere, suddenly flipping over to embrace her beloved God King once more.
Her eyes, already brimming with spring water, were full of resolve; without hesitation, she kissed this male god she was willing to give everything for again.
Go where? He can’t go!
By the time Zeus left the Wisdom Goddess’s divine palace fully satisfied, another day had passed.
Though the Wisdom Goddess was extremely reluctant, her thoroughly nourished divinity and divine body truly could bear no more.
Under this all-loving God Lord’s supremely skilled means, the once wise and calm goddess nearly completely lost herself.
Willingly jumping into the love trap Zeus meticulously designed for her, savoring all its sweetness and bitterness.
Zeus thus left the divine palace in high spirits, savoring endless aftertaste.
Then he was intercepted halfway.
The Omniscient Goddess lying in wait had been waiting halfway with a frosty face, not even giving Him a chance to return to the divine palace.
As long as the Goddess of Memory wants to catch someone, no one can escape.
Facing Zeus, the usually charming, delicate, compliant, and doting Civilization Memory Goddess was extremely rarely giving him the cold shoulder for the first time.
The chill emanating from the goddess’s lotus-like beautiful face seemed to freeze the surrounding light, scraping frost from the air.
Zeus was slightly startled in his heart, immediately turning into a streamer and flying forward.
He spread his arms, on that handsome and resolute face revealing a sunny gentle smile able to melt all ice and snow, saying in an utterly tender tone: “My love~ my dearest Mnemosyne, my Omniscient Goddess, I really missed you so much.”
Mnemosyne, controlled by Zeus’s handsome man trick, had her anger greatly subside and was about to throw herself into Zeus’s embrace.
But she saw amid Zeus’s brilliant golden hair a strand not His own, an extremely dazzling purple.
That purple was like the sharpest poison needle, stabbing viciously into her eyes, making her just-subsided anger explode fiercer like oil poured on flames!
The Omniscient Goddess instantly grew even angrier!
She directly extended her jade-like smooth arms, firmly blocking Zeus’s incoming embrace.
Her pair of tender hands, slender jade fingers gripping Zeus’s collar tightly, gritted her teeth hatefully: “Zeus!”
“You should have come to me first!”
Zeus was about to use his usual sweet talk to cope, but saw Mnemosyne slowly raise her noble head.
The moment she looked at Him, crystalline tears like a string of broken pearls silently surged from her beautiful deep eyes.
The crystalline tears slid drop by drop down her delicate jade face, ultimately scattering across this entire mountain and wild, turning into fields of purple forget-me-nots.
This time, Zeus was truly a bit panicked; his prepared slick words instantly vanished without trace.
This elder sister goddess was always considerate, gentle, elegant, intellectual, a bit playfully lovely, and utterly doting on him; this was her first time crying.
He hurriedly stepped forward, tightly holding this silently weeping Omniscient Goddess in his embrace.
This time, Mnemosyne didn’t stop him, but she also gave Zeus no chance to speak.
The Goddess of Civilization and Memory let her tears flow ceaselessly, clinging tightly in Zeus’s embrace, sobbing sadly: “Zeus, my love, do you know how much I love you? How could you know how long I’ve loved you?”
“Yes… how would you know? The mark of your majestic figure imprinted in my heart, how profound it is?”
“How would you know that my entire deepest divinity bears only you.”
“My ruthless cruel love, how I long to be possessed by you. Ever since that Dione gestated and made you complete, I’ve been here every minute, every moment, anxiously and expectantly waiting for you to come find me.”
The Omniscient Goddess’s voice grew ever more mournful and resentful, her beautiful tears quickly soaking Zeus’s chest: “I know, I’ve always known, clearer than any goddess: I cannot possess you alone. I’ve never dared to hope for that which I most desire.”
“But my love, my sole one, my master, why be so cruel to me? You clearly know, you clearly know!”
“I see everything! Everything you do leaves an eternal brand in my divinity! But you, my love, why must you be so cruel to me?”
The Goddess of Civilization and Memory’s voice was so heartbroken, so despairing, enough to make listeners heartbroken and shed tears.
She let clear tears ravage her face, saying in an utterly mournful tone as if abandoned by the world: “Zeus, my beloved, my God Lord, my divinity, I’ve always awaited you to possess me.”
“Even knowing that after you fully possess me, you’ll gain all my authority. Yet I remain willing.”
“Even if after you obtain my authority, I can no longer see you anytime anywhere like now.”
“But even unable to see you, unable to silently accompany you, at least I can be possessed by you, thoroughly enveloped by your noble and majestic divinity. For this, I’m willing to offer you everything.”
“As long as possessed by you, as long as becoming your goddess, even knowing you’ll have other goddesses later. At least I won’t have to personally clearly see all that anymore.”
“My divinity won’t have to bear that most terrifying torment of watching my beloved intimate with others!”
“But… why must you make me see those scenes I least want to see? Why use that hottest, yet belonging to another’s love flames, to scorch my heart?”
This pitiful goddess finally let out a shrill, despair-filled low roar: “Zeus! Is falling in love with you my fault?! Just because I love you so much, because I can never leave you, must you be so cruel to me?!”
Even this heartless God Lord, seeing the heartbroken, tear-streaked Omniscient Goddess before him, felt his heart fill with indescribable guilt.
Mainly, He did love Metis a bit more.
And this God Lord briefly filled with guilt didn’t even notice anything off about all this.
The guilty God King tightly held this goddess He also loved, ceaselessly comforting in an utterly gentle voice: “My love, my dear Mnemosyne… please don’t think too much.”
“You are the goddess who knows all; you should know my love for you is utterly true. You too are predestined in my fate, indispensable love.”
“It’s just… you know me; sometimes my emotions really can’t be controlled by my own rationality, and I often impulsively do things.”
“My love, my love, it’s my fault; I beg you, please don’t cry anymore, okay? Feel my heart: seeing your tears, how heartbroken I am.”
Mnemosyne’s tears still wouldn’t stop; trembling, she reached out, cupping Zeus’s handsome cheeks.
Looking into His guilt-filled eyes, with heavy tremolo she said: “My love, I feel your pain, but the pain you feel now is not even a billionth of the torment my heart bears.”
Hearing this, Zeus felt even more guilt; He held the goddess in his embrace tighter, gently rubbing his cheek against her icy jade face.
With a voice gentle to the extreme, ceaselessly coaxing: “I know, I know, sorry my love, never again. I promise you, things like this will absolutely never happen again.”
Mnemosyne’s teardrops still rolled down. In a tone full of grief, infinitely humble, she pleaded: “Zeus, my love, light of my divinity… please, truly don’t be so cruel to me anymore; I really can’t bear such pain and torment.”
With that, this Omniscient Goddess powerlessly slumped against Zeus’s chest, her heart-wrenchingly suppressed sobbing echoing across the entire mountain and wild.
Those icy tears soaked Zeus’s clothes, making Him feel a heartbreaking chill.
This amorous Lord of All Gods could only ceaselessly kiss the goddess’s smooth dark beautiful hair, using His gentlest, softest voice to coax his beloved goddess: “Alright, alright, my love, I promise you, all of it. It’s my fault, shouldn’t have impulsively broken your heart; I guarantee, never again!”
However, this lord of heaven, heartbroken over his beloved goddess, didn’t see that the goddess buried in His embrace sobbing, had a sly triumphant smile quietly appear at her lips.
That was the smile of a successful calculation.
