Chapter 224: It Can’t Be Your Majesty, Right?!
Seeing his daughter in such a heartbroken and devastated state, even the great Ocean God was truly at a loss for a moment.
He paced back and forth quickly inside the magnificent Divine Palace, emitting heavy sighs from his throat, his fists clenched tight enough to shake mountains, and azure divine blood vessels bulging on his arms.
Tethys simply held her poor child tightly, silent tears falling like a string of broken pearls along her warm and loving-kind face.
The Ocean God paced anxiously back and forth. He truly could not figure out, with his daughter’s noble status, powerful strength, and extraordinary wisdom, in this orderly universe ruled by the new God King, who exactly could have wronged her so greatly, even causing her to collapse directly like this!
He thought and thought, and suddenly his heart chilled, a bone-deep coldness instantly sweeping through his entire divine body, as if the whole god was thoroughly frozen by the endless deep sea ice abyss.
All his pent-up rage turned, in this moment, into cold frost and snow.
His figure instantly stopped in place, and even his breathing had already halted.
No, it couldn’t be… His Majesty?!
The Ocean God’s heart was filled with inexpressible apprehension.
But this thought, the more he considered it, the more likely it seemed.
With his daughter’s noble status and powerful strength and wisdom, aside from His Supreme Majesty the God King, who else in this world could wrong her?
Moreover, His Majesty was not without motive.
That fool Menoetius committed such a heinous act, and for His Majesty the God King to take it out on his Mother Goddess was understandable…
The Ocean God hurriedly shook his head fiercely, trying to shake this terrifying thought out of his mind: No! Impossible! His Majesty is not that kind of god! His Majesty absolutely is not that kind of god!
But it’s not impossible…
After all, His Majesty the God King…
The Ocean God slapped his palm heavily, truly anxious beyond measure.
He hurried to Clymene’s side and asked urgently: “My child, stop crying first. No matter what it is, tell Father God first!”
The Ocean God gritted his teeth: “Argh! No matter what it is, Father God will certainly not let you suffer any harm! Tell me quickly!”
Clymene finally managed, under her Mother Goddess’s soothing, to barely stop her tears.
Sobbing, she told her parents the whole story from beginning to end.
Once the Ocean God couple understood, they both finally relaxed.
Good, good, they had thought something terrible happened.
As long as she hadn’t suffered real humiliation, it was fine.
Tethys finally stopped her own tears, holding her beloved daughter even more tenderly, and comforted her with an infinitely gentle voice: “My beloved treasure, everything is in the past now, those things are not important. My child, this is not your fault, you really did your best.”
“You’ve been wronged all these years. From now on, as long as you can be happy, that’s enough. Don’t think too much, just let things take their natural course.”
“As for Iapetus… his matters, let the venerable Mother Goddess worry about them. You don’t think about him anymore.”
“Atlas has been very low-key lately, with no unusual movements, and Pleione has been properly advising him all along.”
“As for that child Menoetius… sigh, just let it take its natural course as well.”
“If he refuses to learn his lesson and remains as stubborn as his father god, then even if forgiven by His Majesty the God King, he will still only harm all the gods.”
Tethys gently stroked her daughter’s long hair, her gaze deep as the sea: “Child, you must know that the universe’s tides are always in flux.”
“Some stubborn reefs will ultimately be submerged by the great tides of the era; while some resilient shells, after washing away the mud and sand, will ultimately reveal their innermost radiant pearls to the new master.”
“My child, do not be that stubborn reef, be the beautiful pearl. His Majesty the God King has established the new Holy Justice Order. A small setback now will pass, the future—the beautiful future—is more important.”
“My beloved treasure, you are so radiant and beautiful, please do not let trivial matters obscure your beauty anymore.”
Oceanus remained silent on the side, his heart filled with extreme guilt.
He shouldn’t have let his child marry that Iapetus back then!
He should have fought Cronus to the end back then!
He had thought back then to ease relations with Cronus, but in the end, it harmed his beloved children!
Damnable Cronus! It was all his fault!
He also felt a bit embarrassed in his heart, as he had nearly misunderstood His Majesty the God King again just now.
His Majesty the God King had repeatedly bestowed great favors, yet he had still suspected His Majesty’s divine quality.
This was truly a great sin, a great sin.
After Tethys comforted her daughter for a good while, Clymene’s heart, which had collapsed for a moment, was slowly recovering.
Her emotions were already much better than before.
No matter how strong or resilient a living being is, there will be times when they cannot bear it and completely collapse.
Perhaps just an inadvertent moment, or perhaps just a trivial little thing.
But that is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
But as long as there is a place to vent, as long as the battered and pressure-ridden heart has a place to rest and settle.
Then, it will not completely step into that endless abyss.
A mother’s loving embrace is the best and warmest harbor in this world.
Clymene having such a husband and such children may be unfortunate.
But having such parents as the Ocean God couple is extremely fortunate.
In her mother’s warm embrace and under her father’s gaze full of care, Clymene finally let go of all her disguises, thoroughly releasing all the grievances and pain from her heart.
After calming her mind, she truly felt the long-lost relief.
After venting, it always feels better.
A mother’s warm embrace and a father’s solid home can always heal all pain.
In her own home, Clymene felt only warmth.
She had returned to the primal ocean of her birth, here was the origin water that could soothe all wounds and wash away all dust, her parents’ love gently enveloping her battered heart.
This place was not just a harbor, but the source and ultimate home of her life.
Clymene wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and her beautiful face finally cleared like clouds after rain, revealing a smile once more.
Full of guilt, she said: “My dear Mother Goddess,” then she looked at the Ocean God: “My revered Father God, I’m sorry for worrying you. Your daughter is fine now.”
“It was all daughter’s fault. Please rest assured, Father God and Mother Goddess, daughter will live every day well from now on.”
“I still have three children; for them, and for myself, I will.”
The Ocean God nodded repeatedly, no longer mentioning those troublesome matters, afraid of causing his daughter to collapse again.
Finally, the Ocean God quite tactfully asked how it felt to serve at His Majesty the God King’s side.
After getting his daughter’s affirmative reply, he finally completely relaxed.
Tethys immediately skillfully changed the topic, starting to chat with Clymene about some happy and light family affairs.
After fully confirming that his daughter’s emotions had completely eased, the Ocean God had his children all enter the hall and instructed them to quickly hold a joyful family feast.
Parents’ care, family’s warmth, the feast’s atmosphere, and the sweet divine wine and ambrosia that could dispel all fatigue…
These were the true treasures that could thoroughly eliminate the lingering aftereffects of heartbreak and sorrow.
At the moment Zeus on Mount Olympus formally announced Demeter as the Earth Mother Goddess.
At the same time, Prometheus and his “younger brother” Epimetheus had already traveled for quite a long time across the vast earth.
During this time, the “two brothers” shared only one common feeling in their hearts—confusion, great confusion, not ordinary confusion at all.
The current world was truly vast beyond imagination, and this boundless expanse brought an unimaginable, suffocating emptiness even for gods.
Wind blew from one end of the horizon to the other, with only its own howl, almost no echo of any sentient beings.
The current world’s so-called “prosperity” was relative to Uranus’s chaotic void era and Cronus’s crude barbaric era.
Compared to the glorious era that God King Zeus was destined to usher in, with all things harmonizing and living beings flourishing, the current world was pathetically empty.
The figures of the gods were distributed across this vast universe, their numbers almost negligible.
Especially since many gods still resided on the radiant Mount Olympus.
Apart from the lofty gods, only divine lives possessed higher wisdom.
Only those numerous Nymphs, various Elemental Deities, demigods with divine bloodlines, and divine creations personally made by the gods.
These slightly lower-status Nymph gods were indeed more numerous than the gods.
But scattered across the boundless universe, they were still like lost pearls in the vast sea, scarcely findable.
Fundamentally unable to fill this overly enormous world, or rather, compared to the vast universe, utterly insignificant.
The mortals at this time were also far from plentiful; animals, plants, and other lives with faint spirituality were all rare in kind.
Moreover, they were basically still in the low stages of life’s evolution, only following the most primal instincts.
