Chapter 209: The Three Daughters Of The Moon
The dazed God King said very frankly, “My dear Selene, your beauty truly exceeds my imagination.”
“I think that from now on, if one wants to describe the beauty of all living beings in the world, simply saying ‘as beautiful as the Moon Goddess’ would be enough to establish an unmatched charm for any living being.”
“I truly cannot imagine that in this world, I could witness such a beautiful dance. Selene, thank you for giving me an eternally unforgettable and most precious memory.”
Although the God King had already been hooked into a daze by this pristine Moon Goddess, after He slightly recovered, His instinct as the “lover saint” still made Him speak the most moving words.
“However, my dear Selene, you are truly too cruel.”
“You let me see the most beautiful sight in the world, a beauty that exhausts all language yet cannot describe.”
“But if I cannot see this supreme beauty again in the future, how painful that would be.”
“My dear Selene, how can you be so cruel?”
The God King, accustomed to sweet words, finally made this aloof and proud Goddess of the Moon unable to resist with this all-out praise; the corners of her lips, thin as frost flowers, lifted slightly by half a fraction.
To be so lavishly praised and favored by this supreme God King was, no matter what, something worth pride and joy.
Moreover, this God King was the one she had silently admired all along, making this joy even harder to suppress.
But after hearing the God King’s words, the aloof Moon Goddess gently withdrew her slender jade hand, which the God King had been toying with instinctively.
The Mistress of Radiance slightly turned her head, looking toward the serene flower sea beside her, leaving Zeus only a side profile with a perfect curve, utterly flawless.
Cool words, like dewdrops condensed from moonlight, gently drifted out from between her silver-white thin lips: “Great God King Your Majesty, among all existences in this universe, who would dare to be cruel to You?”
“If You do not disdain the clumsy dance I just offered You, then in the future, whenever You wish to see it—without delaying the sacred duties You have granted me—I would be very happy to offer it to You again.”
The God King felt quite regretful at not being able to touch the Goddess’s jade hand, but upon hearing her words, He happily rubbed His hands and beamed with joy: “Really? That is wonderful! My dear Selene, I knew that gentle you would never be so cruel to me.”
Upon hearing this, Selene rarely revealed a smile that deeply stunned even Zeus.
At this moment, it was as if the hazy thin clouds always veiling the crescent moon had been quietly blown away by the night wind, suddenly revealing infinite holy clear radiance to the entire universe.
However, the words spoken next by the Ruler of the Moon were truly not quite matching this smile: “Respected Your Majesty, I wonder, between the Moon of Olympus and the Moon of the Underworld, which one can obtain Your ‘not so cruel’ treatment?”
Zeus blinked twice, and a sense of danger instantly brought His intelligence back to its peak.
But Zeus was Zeus after all.
With an unquestionable tone filled with supreme deep affection, He resolutely said, “My dear Selene, you must know that in this universe, there will only be one Mistress of Radiance; in this world, there will only be one Ruler of the Moon. That is the most beautiful, most pristine you!”
“My sky is bright because of your existence; my Night is brilliant because of your illumination. You are the most indispensable eternal clear radiant splendor in my sky!”
“My Selene, with me by your side, who would dare to overstep your great authority that is purest and most pristine? I will forever defend your honor and always guard before you!”
The silver-tongued God King spoke beautifully, flowery and watertight, but completely missed the point.
However, how could the wise and pristine Mistress of Radiance argue further with the God King?
The corners of Selene’s delicate lips merely lifted slightly, like a newly risen crescent moon, hook-like, blade-like.
She said softly, “Thank you for Your Majesty’s favor.”
Before her words finished, she had already turned gracefully, intending to leave without another word.
Seeing this, Zeus hurriedly caught up, walking side by side with this icily jade-like cool Moon Goddess.
He quickly explained, “My dear Selene, the world and the Underworld are different after all. That Underworld is ultimately a place of darkness and deathly silence; those dead living beings live long-term in the dark, sunless Underworld, which is truly too tragic.”
“For this, I believe compassionate you would also feel deep pity, just like me.”
“Your brother Helios, His blazing radiance is truly too enthusiastic; the souls of the Underworld cannot endure it at all. I also once thought of troubling you to bring brightness to the Underworld.”
“But… that Underworld is full of cold and filth; I-I truly cannot bear to let you suffer such grievance.”
“Moreover, you already toil daily with the operation of moonlight across the entire world, which is overly laborious. If I added such a heavy burden, how could I bear it in my heart?”
As He spoke, Zeus had already gently tugged this elegant and flowing Moon Goddess, once again grasping her hand cool as jade.
The Moon Goddess’s steps slowly came to a halt.
Only Zeus, with an incomparably gentle voice, said, “My holy and pristine moon, how could I bear to let you tarnish your pure holiness all over your body because of that monotonous labor, dark and filthy Underworld?”
Selene halted her displeased steps; she raised her eyes, looking at the God King’s handsome and sincere face, finally nodded in acknowledgment, and said softly, “Your Majesty is right.”
“The universe today is indeed increasingly prosperous. Fortunately, with Your Majesty establishing this new Heavenly Dao Order, the gods are spared endless busyness. Even so, there are truly too many matters related to my authority.”
This Dominator of Clear Radiance paused slightly, her beautiful brows gently furrowing again; she slowly said, “Speaking of which, it is indeed somewhat laborious, and I do need some helpers. Now, relying only on those few nymphs in my divine palace is far from enough. Many things are beyond their ability.”
Hearing this, Zeus nodded repeatedly, smiling as he inclined his head: “My dear, your understanding is truly wonderful; I really do not want you to add even the slightest labor. Rest assured, I will always stand by your side; the Nether Moon will only be the Moon of the Underworld, never overstepping or disrespecting you in the slightest.”
Selene’s eyes, silver-white and bright like her own clear radiance, quietly gazed at Zeus.
Suddenly, she smiled faintly.
With just this gentle smile from this cold moon goddess, the incorrigible God King was once again moved to heart-pounding.
Selene, with an utmost tender tone that made even Zeus feel favored beyond measure, said softly, “Your Majesty, You… truly willing to relieve some of my labor, to add a few helpers to assist me?”
The God King had not the slightest hesitation and immediately replied resolutely, “Of course!”
Selene gently nodded, and in the next moment, she proactively embraced Zeus!
And gently yet irresistibly pushed this supreme God King down onto this Moon Domain, this vast sea of soft fragrant flowers!
The Mistress of Radiance had already pinned the God King beneath her.
Her cold and fragrant silver-white thin lips were already pressed to the God King’s ear.
That cool touch was distinctly felt even by Zeus.
“My beloved, majestic Your Majesty… then what are You still waiting for?”
“The child we conceive together would not be my… best helper?”
The clear moon’s murmuring words immediately shattered the God King’s every rationality.
Unknowingly when, a coolness had crashed into the God King’s embrace.
This cold and glamorous Moon Goddess had already given herself fully into His arms.
Tonight, the moonlight is truly beautiful.
Looking across the entire universe, sights more beautiful than this moonlight are truly few and far between.
In the world, beauties are all described as “beauty like the moon.”
Even one or two tenths of this moonlight would already be a rare supreme beauty in the world.
Then, this Mistress of Radiance, this eternal bright moon’s incarnation—how peerlessly unmatched is she herself?
The supreme, vast Lord of the Sky is innately the sole master of this clear radiant bright moon.
No matter how pristine, flawless, radiant, pure, or bright the moon is.
She can only depend on this sky.
Only in the embrace of that sky can she fully display all her beauty and radiance.
And only in the embrace of this sky can that lonely bright moon possess the most fulfilling, eternal sense of security.
Bright moon in the sky is the true homecoming.
And the sky, only by possessing the bright moon, can fully display its endless radiance and clarity.
In this sacred, flawless, pristine and peerlessly beautiful Moon Domain, for the first time, dark clouds no longer appear, thunder no longer roars.
There is only the brightest, purest sky, gently enveloping that cool and bright, eternal bright moon.
And the clear radiant pure moonlight also, for the first time in the sky, bloomed with incomparably dazzling radiance, in the most flamboyant and proud posture, illuminating the entire world—this dazzling light no less than the blazing sun of daylight.
How could the Lord of the Sky, facing this peerlessly beautiful clear radiant bright moon, bear to block even a bit of her light?
For a time, the entire world had sun and moon shining together.
New moon like a hook or a bow, crescent like a sash covering the courtyard, full moon round and bright piercing the sky.
The supreme Lord of the Sky, for the first time, tasted the strange feeling of being dominated from the start by the other.
This aloof moon’s clear radiance, though utterly inexperienced, was extremely determined to strive for control of the dominant position.
Though soon dominated in turn.
How could the greedy Lord of Thunder possibly allow this bright moon to keep taking the initiative against Him?
After all, the moon should be in the sky’s embrace!
Moreover, though the bright moon is pristine and full, this proactively attacking novice, facing this experienced and invincible God King in combat power, naturally inflicted eight hundred enemy losses at the cost of three thousand self-damage.
The gap was too great.
Their own side was already routed, yet the enemy had not even used true strength.
However, all the efforts of this bright and radiant Mistress of Radiance still won from the Lord of Thunder His most generous and grand doting.
After the Lord of Thunder seized absolute dominance, He unsparingly bestowed upon His beloved bright moon the most perfect supreme sacred honor!
Eternal Mistress of Radiance—Selene; from now on, she shall represent the “full moon” of Night’s perfection!
Under the generous bestowal of the Lord of the Sky, Light of Hope, Great Father God of sacred spirituality and destiny rhythm, three goddesses as pristine and beautiful as their mother, presiding over lunar phases, were born from the hazy clear radiance enveloping the entire world!
The first goddess, dual-natured, her figure constantly shifting between light and dark.
Sometimes a pure maiden; sometimes an aged crone.
When radiance shines, the purest and most beautiful maiden manifests; when radiance fades, the white-haired crone transforms from the maiden’s form.
She symbolizes youthful purity and also represents age and experience.
This is the supreme manifestation of “new moon” and “waning moon”!
Rebirth and rebirth, beginning and fading, end and transformation.
The God King generously bestowed upon His beloved this pristine moon’s eldest daughter a portion of the “cycle of recurrence” authority obtained from Iapetus.
Her sacred name is—Ioskia（Greek, meaning “dawn” or “rebirth”）.
The second goddess is a vibrant, pristine goddess in the form of a young wife.
She is beautiful and bright, delicate and tender, filled with endless hope.
She is the perfect incarnation of “waxing crescent” and “waning crescent”!
She is the potential of growth, new hope, independent responsibility, and nourishing vitality!
The God King bestowed upon her the authority symbolizing “purity.”
Her sacred name is—Kallenthe（Greek Kallnθh, meaning “beautiful blooming”）.
The third goddess is the youngest yet most mature.
She is a bountiful and mature goddess filled with maternal radiance.
She is the Mother Goddess of fertility, rich in mature wisdom, generous and abundant.
The God King gave her the authority symbolizing “brightness.”
Her sacred name is—Telesphra（Greek Telesfra, meaning “bringer of completion” or “maturer”）.
And their great Mother Goddess, under the personal nourishment of the Lord of the Sky, the supreme Great Father God, was formally elevated from “Mistress of Radiance” to the great Great Mother of the Moon presiding over “fullness” and “abundance”!
From then on, seasonal alternations of natural rhythms, growth and decline of all living beings, cyclic changes of tide rise and fall, abundant growth nourishing all things—all henceforth under the eternal moon’s illumination!
Accompanying the sacred union, the supreme authority of the Ruler of the Moon, from this moment, spread like silent tides, slowly covering every aspect of the entire world.
At the same time, a slight fine rain carrying moonlight’s clear radiance was pattering down upon the Earth.
The Mother Goddess of All Things Gaia, who had just composed herself, saw the entire Earth once again drenched by this rain imbued with special divine charm, and immediately felt a nameless urge to curse inwardly.
The words were quite harsh.
The God King, immersed in the Moon Goddess’s tenderness, was utterly unaware that the gentlest moonlight, under His silent acquiescence, had at this moment deliberately displayed the grandest spectacle.
The moonlight’s clear radiance flamboyantly and holy illuminated the entire world, its brilliance in no way inferior to the blazing sun’s radiant splendor in daylight!
The entire Mount Olympus seemed transformed into a silver-white realm of moonlight, with gentle yet cool silver radiance everywhere, thoroughly enveloping everything.
The several goddesses in Zeus’s divine palace preparing to block Him all stopped their conversations at this moment.
They simultaneously raised their beautiful heads, gazing at that unprecedentedly bright full moon, their faces gradually turning as icy as the cool moonlight.
For a time, in various divine palaces of Mount Olympus, not a few goddesses could not resist smashing their beloved vessels.
Their inner curses were similarly harsh.
And the Goddess of Daylight Hemera, who had only just recovered somewhat from the exhaustion of her divinity’s reshaping, upon seeing the hazy and holy moonlight wantonly roaming freely in the sky, had eyes pure white and clear filled with unconcealable deep envy.
She immediately hesitated no longer and hurried quietly to the Underworld Realm at her fastest speed!
An incomparably warm, incomparably pure light thus intruded into that Underworld, which had only recently gained faint clear radiance, instantly alarming the Goddess of Night.
The Goddess of Night, who had awakened not long ago, was now gathered joyfully with her newborn children.
The family was in full celebration; even the movement from Olympus she had just sensed, she had no mood to fuss over, merely pursing her lips in disdain and cold-snorting before continuing the feast with her children.
All her children were by her side at the moment; she was introducing to them their two sisters who had just been born, presiding over supreme laws.
All the children once gestated by the Goddess of Night, including Hecate who had just gained the honor of “Moon of the Underworld,” showed the deepest envy in their eyes upon seeing these two new sisters.
These two sisters were jointly conceived by the supreme Father God and their supreme and precious Mother Goddess through the deepest origin union!
They are the gods of the destiny network controlling everything in the Heavenly Dao Order, with honors that can be called supremely great and powerful!
Not to mention the unlucky children birthed by the Goddess of Night herself—even Hecate, presiding over a complete world and as Moon of the Underworld, her status and authority were still far inferior.
In the new Holy Justice Order, aside from the Primordial Great Gods, Primal Titans, and God King His Majesty’s brothers and sisters, authorities related to “destiny” are undoubtedly the strongest!
However, these children birthed by Night, though their laws’ essence is not very positive, are still quite harmonious in family unity.
After all, in past bitter days, they could only huddle together for warmth.
At this moment, facing these two newborn sisters, aside from undisguisable envy, they harbored no bad thoughts.
The Nyx goddess looked at these children before her, feeling an unprecedentedly perfect happiness in her heart.
She felt she had harvested everything she wanted.
What she possessed now was something the former her dared not even dream of.
The only slight regret was that her eldest son Aether and eldest daughter Hemera still could not truly reunite with her.
And just as Nyx felt touched by the scene and thought of her eldest son and daughter, she joyfully sensed that her eldest daughter had returned!
The origin symbolizing “light,” after being forcibly taken by the old God King Uranus, returned to Night’s embrace for the first time!
Only today did Hemera dare return to Night; she dared not in Uranus’s era, and even less in Cronus’s era.
Even though Zeus now allowed her and her brother to have two mothers simultaneously, she still could not directly enter the Underworld.
Normally, her reunions with Mother Goddess Nyx were on Mount Olympus.
It was also because the matter she wanted to discuss today was not suitable to speak of on Olympus that she boldly returned.
The Goddess of Night, the instant she sensed Hemera entering the Underworld domain, had already unfolded for her beloved daughter the gentlest veil of night.
She used the brightest starlight to guide Hemera’s path forward, leading her to her Night divine palace to reunite with the family.
The moment Hemera saw Nyx, she saw her Mother Goddess radiant and bright from utmost nourishment, incomparably glamorous.
Her already fair and glowing delicate face inexplicably flushed with a faint blush.
Facing her Mother Goddess’s already open embrace, she unhesitatingly threw herself into it, her coquettish voice filled with endless longing resounding by the Lady of Night’s ear: “Respected Mother Goddess, I miss you so much.”
Nyx was greatly delighted; now the whole family was complete except for Aether.
She gently stroked her beloved daughter’s pure white hair shining with radiance, warmly saying, “Hemera, my beloved child, how do you have time to come from Olympus today?”
The radiant Goddess of Daylight’s delicate face could not help but blush slightly.
Though the blush was fleeting, Nyx saw it clearly.
Hemera said softly, “Dear Mother Goddess, I… I missed You too much. And, and, I sensed that the family has added a few, a few more sisters, so I hurried back to meet them.”
