Chapter 186: Paying Respects To His Majesty The Eternal Supreme God King Zeus!
The current world, after Zeus’s repeated personal expansions, plus the cosmic evolution triggered by his unions with several Great Goddesses, even without counting the boundless starry sky beyond the world.
Nowadays, the distance from the highest point of the sky to the ground, if an ordinary god uses divine power to throw a bronze anvil, would still take a full twelve days and nights to hear the echo of its landing.
The depth and breadth of the Netherworld are completely equal to those of the sky and earth.
The current world has developed to an extremely, extremely vast size, so vast that it exceeds the imagination of most gods.
Moreover, this world is still rapidly expanding as the laws continue to perfect and as the God King’s authority over all things continues to strengthen.
And it is predestined to expand endlessly, unless the God King wills it to stop.
Olympus, this sacred domain representing the center of cosmic order, is deeply rooted in the Earth, with its mountaintop completely level with the sky dome.
To climb to its peak, even with the generous blessing given by God King Zeus, is absolutely not something that can be done in a short time.
It took another full year or more before all the gods, nymphs, spirits, elemental deities, and others finally arrived at this sacred Highest Divine Palace.
Inside the hall, the Great Gods of Olympus have all unfolded their extremely majestic divine bodies, symbolizing the Primal Laws.
The vast and boundless divine power, if not deliberately restrained by Them, would be enough to cause the divine bodies of many attending gods and nymphs to collapse directly and their divine souls to completely perish, just from facing the divine power emanating from so many Great Gods at once.
Most of the gods and nymphs who came to pay homage, as well as those spirits and elemental deities, are creations of the gods, belonging to the category of “material gods,” with very few possessing authority over laws.
If Their divine bodies are destroyed, they will truly die.
At this moment, facing dozens of Supreme Great Gods whose auras are as deep and immeasurable as abysses, all these gods are silent as cicadas in winter, each standing carefully and extremely respectfully below in the divine palace, not daring to make the slightest impropriety.
However, there are some exceptions among them.
That is the Gigantes, these giant spirits （Giants）.
They are the divine blood of the Ruler of Spirituality Uranus, which dripped into the embrace of the Mother Goddess of All Things Gaia, thereby giving birth to these special gods.
They are the symbols of “violence” and “rage” from the endless negative emotions of Uranus.
Although They possess no authority over laws, Their origins are too illustrious, and Their power is extremely formidable.
When Cronus performed Heaven and Earth Separation, Uranus was separated from “love” and “desire,” and thus His sacred blood was mixed with immense amounts of the most primal spiritual seeds, tainted with too many traits of “love” and “desire.”
This makes the divinity and divine power of the Gigantes far exceed that of ordinary gods.
Apart from lacking laws, Their vast divinity and divine power intensity are in no way inferior to ordinary Great Gods.
Especially Their numbers, a full one hundred and fifty, truly a case of strength in numbers!
Among Them, the weakest are still Subordinate God Second Level powerhouses, while Their leaders, Alcyoneus and Porphyrion, and the outstanding one among them Enceladus, are solidly Chief Main God Level, not much inferior to some Olympian Main Gods who are not skilled in martial prowess.
And it’s not just that; after the three Cyclopes and three Hundred-armed Giants were imprisoned in Tartarus by Cronus, it was these children of His who stayed by Mother Goddess Gaia’s side, serving beneath her knee and listening to her teachings.
Therefore, Gaia bestowed all her endless motherly love upon Them, granting Them the deepest Earth blessing—as long as Their feet still stand upon the Earth, They will possess inexhaustible, never-depleting power!
And Alcyoneus, as her most obedient and most powerful child, was specially granted by Gaia a piece of exclusive land, and personally blessed: as long as Alcyoneus stands upon his own land, he is “immortal and indestructible”!
This group of giant spirits, though following the rules and climbing Olympus honestly, were the first wave to ascend with their super strength.
However, after arriving at this supreme and most noble sacred divine palace symbolizing cosmic order, They were anything but well-behaved.
Each one boldly, with gazes full of primal wildness, brazenly stared at the Great Gods seated upon the divine seats, their eyes showing no knowledge of etiquette or awe.
They even made the most presumptuous move in the order of worship.
They first collectively prostrated and knelt toward Mother Goddess Gaia, seated in the foremost position to the right of Zeus, and only afterward lazily turned to Zeus, performing a perfunctory single-knee kneel.
As for the other Great Gods, except for the sacred Mother Goddess Rhea, to whom They at least properly prostrated in worship, for all the rest, regardless of status or seniority, They merely gave a perfunctory bow and that was it.
The gods inside the hall, for the sake of Mother Goddess Gaia, were too lazy to bother with this group of crude mortal giants, but clear dissatisfaction had already appeared in the eyes of many gods.
Mother Goddess of All Things Gaia, this mother who overly spoils her children, has always been unable to teach them well.
The saying “spoiled children from indulgent mothers” always fits her perfectly.
However, this group of giant spirits is indeed hard to discipline.
They are tainted with too many traits of “love” and “desire,” making Their emotions and desires overly intense, resulting in extremely volatile tempers.
Combined with being symbols of “violence” from Uranus’s negative emotions, and possessing incomparable power and supremely illustrious origins, They have always been arrogant and unrestrained, lawless.
Even in this sacred place symbolizing the highest cosmic order, They still dare to be so rude.
One can imagine how rampant They are upon the Earth.
At this moment, even Gaia felt waves of embarrassment.
She, the dignified Mother Goddess of All Things, supreme Primordial Great God, seated in the foremost position to the right of the God King, the most revered Great Mother Goddess, also cares about face!
With her children being so rude, even though the gods say nothing for her sake, she can clearly feel that she has lost a great deal of face.
In her heart, she secretly regretted not educating Them properly and resolved that after this grand ceremony ends, she must teach Them a proper lesson!
Under Mother Goddess Gaia’s gaze that had become sharp and stern, this group of unruly giant spirits finally stood obediently behind Gaia, not daring to move recklessly anymore.
However, Their gazes still occasionally swept toward the Great Gods with undisguised rudeness, especially toward those several radiant, incomparably beautiful goddesses.
This forced the Great Gods to make their sacred radiance shine even more brilliantly to shield against these brazen gazes.
Zeus’s face remained impassive, but in truth he was already quite displeased.
Finally, after the long wait, all the gods were assembled.
The nine Muses, with golden crowns on their heads and clad in nine-colored gauze robes, gracefully rose from their seats, stepping lightly to the center of the boundless divine palace.
After bowing in respect to their beloved Father God, they joyfully danced the most beautiful sacred sacrificial dance, enough to make the world rejoice.
At the same time, they parted their cherry lips, capable of singing the universe’s most wondrous songs, and began to chant the ode specially created for their great Father God—the King of the Gods Zeus.
The Four Winds, with the start of their dance, vigorously stirred up storms sweeping the universe, sounding the most magnificent prelude for the music.
The four Gods of Glory—Victory, Glory, Courage, Power—struck their knives, swords, spears, and shields, with the crisp clash of metal resounding to manifest the God King’s supreme glory!
In an instant, the many Great Gods of Olympus also fully unleashed their great authorities, filling the entire universe, the Three Realms and Three Domains, with myriad wondrous lights and endless sacred phenomena rising and falling ceaselessly, showering immeasurable blessings upon all things and spirits in the world!
《Ode to the Supreme Master Zeus》
（Harmoniously chanted in unison by the nine Muses with sacred tones）
Oh, listen!
Whether the immortal deities atop Mount Olympus, freely drinking honey wine and nectar,
Or the mortal spirits upon the vast and fertile Earth, reproducing in the dust,
All at this moment, to your eternal, sole, supreme Master,
Offer the most devout worship!
——
We sing of the King of the Gods, the eternal omnipotent Master!
Ah, Zeus, center of the universe, supreme judge of all beings!
You are the Master of the universe, king of the highest heaven!
You are the generous and merciful Father God, eternal glorious sovereign!
Ah, great Zeus, we make you the immortal poem, compose sacred music for you,
We, here offer you the highest praise!——
When endless darkness shrouded the old world,
When the tyrannical God King Cronus ruled all with boundless fear.
You, upon the sacred Crete, like the first ray of dawn,
Your birth was the hope of the universe, the beginning of a new era!——
You donned matchless courage as armor, wise intellect as scepter,
Leading the gods of Olympus, igniting sacred resistance!
Cyclopes contributed invincible weapons for you,
Hundred-armed Giants offered you earth-shaking power.
You hurled the spear of thunder at the chaotic decaying barrier,
Golden lightning in your hand became the trumpet of order.
The old merciless throne disintegrated under your blazing thunder,
Completely burying the twisted decaying rules in the abyss.
——
You are the defender of victory, founder of order,
With thunderous light, equally illuminating every corner of the world.
With sacred words, you established eternal laws of justice,
You are the controller of destiny, weaving the future of beings among the stars.
You are the founder of civilization, sole Master of sacred justice,
Your sacred will is the never-extinguishing fire of laws across the universe!——
You grant the world warmth, and bring nourishing winds and rains,
You are the giver of civilization, source of the spring of life.
You are the master of the sky, great shepherd of the stars,
Your bounty makes the Three Realms fertile, your anger makes the Three Domains roar.
Supreme Zeus, with your sacred love,
You brought prosperity to the world, hope to all beings.
——
Ah, great Zeus, your love and glory reach everywhere,
Your union with Mother Goddess Mnemosyne gave birth to us.
You are we, the nine Muses, source of wisdom and inspiration,
You sowed the fire seed of civilization upon the sacred Earth.
We take your supreme majesty as the song, your eternal light as the music,
We, here sing for you, beneath your supreme throne!
——
Glory shall forever belong to you, supreme Heavenly Father!
Radiance shall forever belong to you, eternal omnipotent King!
Your ascension is not the end, but the rebirth of all things!
Your rule transcends space-time, destined to be eternal and immortal!
May your thunderous light forever shine upon Olympus!
May your glorious scepter forever control cosmic order!
——
We praise you, great Zeus, King of the Gods!
Your will is the sole pivot of all things’ operation!
We write this poem here, only to warn all things and spirits,
All beings must know: only Zeus is the god among gods and all, the eternal immortal King!——
As the Muses’ peerlessly beautiful dance poses slowly came to a stop, this magnificent ode finally ended its chanting.
The various auspicious phenomena spread across the universe also slowly dissipated.
The Muses concluded their dance with an extremely beautiful action symbolizing “submission.”
And, most naturally, they single-kneeled before their great Father God, and with crisp and resounding divine voices, chanted in unison: “We pay respects to His Majesty the Eternal Supreme God King—Zeus!”
The Four Winds and the four accompanying Gods of Glory also prostrated together, loudly praising.
Immediately after, the many Great Gods originally seated upon the divine seats all rose at once.
In an instant, stars spun and stars shook inside the hall, divine light surging!
Except for Mother Goddess of All Things Gaia and sacred Mother Goddess Rhea, who rose to bow in respect to the God King.
All the other gods, regardless of identity or status, single-kneeled!
The gods’ unified shout resounding through the universe, like the roar of creation, thundered:
“We pay respects to His Majesty the Eternal Supreme God King—Zeus!”
At this moment, even the operation of the entire universe must pause, sun and moon halt, stars cease turning, even the intangible air and radiance must stop flowing, to submit and worship for the great God King’s ascension.
At this moment, whether ancient Primal Titans or powerful Second Generation Titans Great Gods; whether noble third-generation illustrious gods or the many pantheons like the Inner Sea pantheon, Night Pantheon, etc.
And the countless mortal gods, myriad spirits nymphs, elemental deities, divine bloodlines, gods’ creations, elf spirits, etc., etc., regardless of how illustrious their origins, how unruly their temperaments.
All beings in this universe submit to this eternal Master of all existence, Lord of the Universe, King of the Gods, God Above Gods—Zeus!
Offering their highest submission and praise!
The majestic immortal God Lord, holding the Thunder Scepter symbolizing the universe’s highest authority, sits serenely at the world’s pinnacle, upon the most supreme, most noble and precious God King throne.
He gazes quietly with his deep eyes containing the entire universe at all that bows before him, and in a calm yet majestic voice without the slightest emotional fluctuation, faintly says: “Gods, rise.”
The gods again shouted in unison: “Thanks to His Majesty the God King!”
And after the gods rose, surging multicolored auspicious clouds appeared in the sky, golden divine rain containing immeasurable divine power and blessings scattered down upon the gods who came to pay homage.
The divinity and power of all gods rapidly strengthened under the bathing of this golden rain.
Whether hidden injuries from past cultivation and battles, or various hidden dangers from taking wrong paths of growth, all melted away and vanished completely under this merciful golden rain benefiting all beings.
This sacred golden rain not only bestowed upon the gods in the divine palace, but descended upon the entire world, a golden nectar reaching everywhere, covering every corner of the Three Realms and Three Domains.
The entire world at this moment was filled with unprecedented, purest vitality; all turbidity, baleful energy, and filth were thoroughly dissolved and purified in this sacred light rain.
All beings in the world, whether possessing higher wisdom or not, all received endless blessings under this golden rain.
The God King’s generous bounties will become sacred seeds, deeply planted in their spirituality, bringing them infinite life and inconceivable precious opportunities in the long times they will experience later.
Nowadays, sentient beings in the universe are still extremely scarce.
Next, the gods will follow the God King’s will and vigorously create life.
And these first-generation beings fortunate to enjoy the God King’s ascension blessings are destined in the upcoming magnificent new era to stand ahead at the finish line of all later ones.
Even if it is now just a humble blade of grass or a silent speck of dust, after receiving the God King’s creation-like grace, in the incredibly prosperous era to come, as long as it seizes an opportunity, as long as it strives forward courageously, it can leap up to become a revered god in a small world!
After the gods rose and returned to their positions, the great Goddess of sacred Justice Order—Themis, solemn and flawless, standing at the God King’s right hand, granted the position of Vice-Regent of Heaven, slowly rose and came to Zeus’s right side.
She wore a purest white divine robe woven from laws, with the sword of justice quietly hanging at her waist, holding in her left hand the scales symbolizing absolute justice.
Upon her flawless and pure face was utmost solemnity and majesty, her eyes that pierce all gazing majestically over all the gods in the hall.
After deeply bowing in respect to the God King, she turned to the gods, her dignified words clearly spoken from her mouth:
“Gods assembled in the sacred hall, together witnessing the immortal grand event, to congratulate the eternal immortal, sacred great Supreme God King—His Majesty Zeus, on ascending the throne of Lord of the Universe!”
“His Majesty is supremely benevolent and kind, supremely just and righteous, supremely strong and courageous, supremely compassionate and wise! It was His Majesty who personally ended that corrupt and lawless old order; and it was His Majesty who, with supreme compassion and mercy for all things and spirits, established for the universe’s beings this new, sacred, just, charitable order!”
“Now, I, by the name of the eternal Supreme God King, supreme Master, God Among Gods, King of the Gods Zeus, granted me the right seat of the god, sacred Justice Order—Themis, hereby announce to the entire universe His Majesty the God King’s sacred Justice Order—the Divine Twelve Laws, and the eternal immortal Sacred Heavenly Dao Order!”
“All beings in the universe must take these 《Divine Twelve Laws》 as the highest guideline, the 《Sacred Heavenly Dao Order》 as the highest standard! All shall obey His Majesty the God King’s supreme divine laws; any who violate shall be punished without mercy!”
After the Goddess of Justice Order spoke, she began in the most sacred and majestic tone to detail the contents of these sacred laws, and the gods’ new duties within the Heavenly Dao Order.
The entire universe at this moment fell into absolute silence, with only these sacred words clearly echoing in every corner of the Three Realms and Three Domains.
Endless, law-constituted, sacred and vast runes of myriad colors emerged from the void with the Vice-Regent of Heaven’s narration, drifting like silent snowflakes across the entire universe.
And ultimately deeply, indelibly inscribed into the origins and spirituality of all existences such as all things and spirits.
After a long time, when the Goddess of Justice finished speaking, she once again deeply bowed in respect to God King Zeus before returning to her divine seat and sitting impeccably.
Only then did Zeus turn his gaze to the gods below the hall, his relaxed yet supremely majestic words slowly spoken from his mouth:
“Gods, the former order was brutal and corrupt. That erroneous order has now been thoroughly ended, and the new order has been established.”
“From this day forth, gods shall take compassion and kindness as the standard for actions, strictly obeying the sacred Justice Order I have decreed. Any who violate shall face my Great Thunder punishment!”
As his words fell, a muffled roar shaking the universe instantly resounded!
Endless golden lightning capable of blinding divine eyes flashed one after another in the celebratory auspicious clouds, its light once again illuminating the entire universe.
All the gods in the hall, regardless of their thoughts, at this moment shouted in unison: “We obey His Majesty’s decree!”
Zeus continued slowly: “However, any being that obeys my sacred Justice Order and brings welfare to the universe, regardless of the size of their contribution, shall receive my bounty.”
“This vast universe, this endless glory, this infinite prosperity and beauty, I shall share with all spirits.”
“From this day forth, the supreme sky and atmosphere above shall be the sacred abode of the gods, named—’Heaven’!”
“The peaks of Olympus shall be the abode of the Great Gods of cosmic laws, also my God King’s sacred domain, named—’Paradise’!”
“From this day forth, my sacred sky territory is named ‘Divine Realm’; while upon the Earth, between cosmic stars, and the places inhabited by mortal spirits, is ‘Mortal Realm’!”
