Chapter 201: Selene Hemera
All of this that occurred in the Underworld, was predestined to be known by the many great gods of the Universe.
After all, the movement of the Universe heading toward perfection was simply too great.
The birth of two brand-new goddesses who wielded the supreme laws of the Universe caused all the good and just gods to feel sincere joy.
The descent of “Karma and Retribution” and “Random Change” brought to the gods a signal from their Great God King that could not be more obvious.
The Great God King would not incorporate everything into inevitable plans; the generous and compassionate God King was willing to grant all possibilities to all beings.
Spiritual freedom, destiny’s randomness, just order, restraint of authority, and correction of all “excessive” behaviors.
This was the God King’s supreme bounty!
This was the God King’s deepest and most profound love for all beings in this Universe!
God King Zeus would never become a dictatorial and paranoid tyrant like Uranus; nor would he ever be a cruel and unjust lord of destruction like Cronus.
God King Zeus, He would only be, and forever be, the most merciful Great Father God of all things and all spirits!
Destiny is free!
And all of this that occurred in the Underworld also caused an extra intense shock to the two goddesses.
When Aetheron was connected to the Underworld by Zeus to serve as the underworld moon, Mistress of Radiance, that bright and cold Selene goddess, instantly felt that her innate authority over pure radiance unbelievably extended to the Underworld Realm, a place she had never set foot in!
She still did not know exactly what had happened, but this sudden massive expansion of authority still made her, who was always aloof and cold, feel a rare heartfelt joy.
She happened to have nothing to do, and without any delay, this goddess who rarely showed enthusiasm for anything immediately set off with great interest.
She happily headed to the Underworld, wanting to thoroughly familiarize herself with the authority over this vast new territory she had obtained.
But she was happy too soon.
Midway there, she casually sent a divine thought message to Goddess of Order Themis, inquiring what exactly had happened in the Underworld.
However, as soon as her message was sent, she was shocked to discover that the brand-new power she had just obtained, which was almost comparable to her original authority, had vanished into thin air!
This brand-new power, which should have been within her authority’s grasp, dissipated without a trace in an instant.
Because on the Underworld side, Zeus soon granted the honor of the underworld moon to Hecate.
The cold smile of moonlight froze on the stunningly beautiful face of Mistress of Radiance.
Her originally light and swift steps also came to an abrupt halt in mid-air of the high heavens.
At this moment, even the whistling sky dome winds seemed so piercingly cold.
Immediately after, she received Themis’s reply, and Themis concisely explained everything to Selene.
After understanding the entire sequence of events, the Mistress of Radiance immediately crushed into pieces the ice gossamer flower made of condensed moonlight that she had been unconsciously toying with in her hand!
If she had never possessed it, she would not regret it.
But just now, just now, she had truly obtained it!
She had even clearly felt that vast authority almost no weaker than her own core!
That was enough for her to exclusively enjoy the eternal radiance over the entire Underworld!
However, before she could even carefully savor this majestic authority, it… it was gone!
A feeling of loss instantly enveloped Mistress of Radiance, along with an indescribable grievance.
God King, oh God King!
You ignore all us beautiful and noble goddesses of Olympus, how could you be charmed and lose your mind to that shameless Goddess of Night!
Even our Celestial Gods’ authority was so easily given to the Night God?
This elegant and otherworldly cold moon incarnation stood dazed in place for a long time, finally turning her head and silently returning to her divine palace.
However, upon reaching the front of her own palace, she stopped once again.
On the elegant and otherworldly cold face of Moon Incarnation, there was full contemplation, and in her eyes flashed an unprecedented resolve.
She abruptly turned around and flew straight toward the supreme divine palace of the God King!
This matter today is not settled with Your Majesty!
（ Eternal Mistress of Radiance, Ruler of the Moon, Moon Incarnation——Selene divine body manifestation reference image）
And the other one, the goddess more profoundly impacted by this event, was the Goddess of Daylight——Hemera, who was the daughter of Night yet symbolized eternal endless light.
She was not impacted by the appearance of the underworld moon.
Her situation was even more serious.
It was because her Mother Goddess Night had fully merged into the material Universe; because Night’s origin had the most primal and deepest entanglement and union with the master of the sky!
At the moment when those supreme laws intermingled and interconnected, she, as the daylight incarnation born from and countering Night, naturally and inevitably received the greatest, most direct, and deepest shock and influence!
Light and daylight were born from darkness and night.
They were innately mutually generative and countering, yet shared the same indivisible essence.
Light corresponds to darkness, daylight to night.
However, in the old days, the Master of Spirituality, with his supreme authority, forcibly severed the origin of light and daylight from Night’s system and transferred them to the material pantheon, making them children of Lord of Celestial Bodies Hyperion.
Since then, all light and daylight had arisen from the radiance of stars.
This had remained unchanged even through the era of Cronus and into the era of Zeus.
Faced with the dominant Celestial Pantheon, even Nyx could only swallow her anger, let alone Aether and Hemera, who could only accept the unchangeable reality.
However, although the origin had been forcibly altered, as the foundational laws of existence, their core essence could never be changed.
Before the union of Zeus and Nyx, matter, antimatter, dark matter, and dark energy in the Universe had always been distinctly separated, with essential massive barriers between them.
Only now had these four foundational components finally achieved true and complete harmonious perfection for the first time.
Aether was fine.
His light authority, though severely diminished, had completely become subordinate to Lord of Stars Helios.
But Zeus generously granted him authority over high-altitude pure atmosphere and aether; in the fusion of Zeus and Night, he was not greatly affected, as his essence corresponded to darkness after all.
However, as the inseparable opposing transformation embodiment of Night, when Hemera goddess’s mother Night’s origin and essence underwent the deepest union and infusion from Lord of Thunder.
She fully empathized and experienced the exact same feelings as her true Mother Goddess, the profound Night!
At this moment, she was limp and powerless in her pure white light divine palace.
Fragrant perspiration had already thoroughly soaked her bright pure white divine robe; she could not even move a finger.
Hemera breathed heavily and powerlessly; during those past few days when thunder impacted Night, she too had endured the thunder’s might, and had even rolled from her high divine seat onto the mirror-smooth white jade floor.
She clearly felt an unprecedented, deeper connection between herself and the entire Universe.
She clearly felt the daylight authority that had become more solid and powerful.
And her original divinity that had become thoroughly entangled with the Great God King she had secretly admired!
For a moment, she truly did not know whether she should cry or laugh.
Although, an irrepressible smile of immense joy had quietly appeared on her stunningly beautiful face drenched in fragrant perspiration.
After entering this new era opened by Zeus, Aether and Hemera, these two former outer gods, had finally truly integrated into the Universe’s new order and lived stable and secure days.
The two gods, no longer needing to worry about their survival, finally had the mood to properly enjoy this increasingly beautiful Universe.
To respond to the Divine Twelve Laws proclaimed by the God King regarding encouraging gods to unite and reproduce offspring, Aether also wanted to find a wife of his own.
He surveyed the entire Universe and found that only Mistress of Radiance, moon incarnation Selene, and his younger sister daylight incarnation Hemera were the most suitable.
But that Mistress of Radiance was truly aloof and surpassingly cold, overly indifferent, never showing favor to any god.
Even the pursuit from her closest brother, Lord of Stars Helios who shone with boundless radiance, had been decisively rejected by her.
Aether, long accustomed to being a cautious god, naturally did not dare to court rejection.
Thus, he began his pursuit of his younger sister Hemera.
Hemera did not decisively refuse, but also never accepted.
The Goddess of Daylight’s heart had always been hesitating.
If it were still in the past days when the siblings needed to huddle together for warmth and depend on each other for survival, Hemera might have half-heartedly agreed.
But now, the entire Universe was at peace, everything thriving; Hemera truly felt no attraction toward her brother Aether.
She had truly had enough of those past days of being a cautious, anxious god.
She too wanted to live in this Universe carefree and boldly like the other goddesses.
She knew very well that her brother from a similarly humble origin had no ability to shelter her and give her a sufficiently stable and secure life.
Having been harshly taught by cruel reality, Aether had become cautious, humble, and low-key, completely not the type she liked.
For the one she truly liked in her heart, deep down she had always harbored a small, unspoken extravagant hope.
（ Bright Goddess of Daylight Hemera divine body manifestation reference image）
