Chapter 240: Hera! Only Hera!
Everything else will have to wait until humans can truly make their own voice heard in this world.
Only then might they truly attract the attention of the gods.
The road humans have to walk is still far too long, far too long.
After Metis returned to Olympus and went back to her divine palace built of clouds and starlight, filled with light and serene aura.
What she saw was only her silly younger sister, still immersed in boundless happiness, almost completely melting into a puddle of spring water.
The purely beautiful Eurynome was lying utterly ungracefully on the cloud bed that Zeus had personally created for Metis.
Her mouth kept emitting “hehe” silly laughs, her delicate body rolling back and forth on the soft cloud bed like a little kitten.
Her divinity was continuously immersed in immense happiness.
Even until Metis had already come to the side of the cloud bed, she only went “eh” and suddenly awoke from her sweet dream.
Eurynome suddenly noticed her good older sister had returned, filled with surprise and joy, and softly called out: “Sister, you’re back?”
Metis looked at her younger sister’s foolish appearance, feeling both exasperated and amused, but above all, genuinely happy for her.
The Goddess of Wisdom deeply knew how painful it was to love without reciprocation.
She also sat on the cloud bed, gently embracing her beloved younger sister in her arms, dotingly said: “I’m back.”
“Silly girl, you only just noticed.”
Eurynome hehe smiled, affectionately nestling into her sister’s ample embrace that was enviable to any goddess, coquettishly rubbing against it.
“Sister, I sensed a lot of movement outside. What exactly happened?”
Metis softly told her in detail everything that had happened on Earth.
Eurynome listened quietly, nodding gently from time to time.
After Metis had finished explaining everything, she softly said:
“Sister, it seems His Majesty truly values this newborn ‘human’ race.”
“Not only allowing them to have noble forms similar to the gods, but also generously permitting you to grant them the most precious ‘freedom growth wisdom.’ This can be called the greatest bounty in the universe.”
“Even, His Majesty personally descended the sacred Creation Thunder and asked Sister Dione to act, harmonizing the two, achieving yin yang balance, allowing them to reproduce healthily.”
Metis nodded in recognition, her tone carrying a trace of solemnity, softly saying: “Prometheus and Epimetheus are one body two forms. Their true complete form’s strength and greatness are truly shocking.”
“They also granted this newborn human race too many traits. This new race is predestined to have infinite potential. Even I cannot see how far they can ultimately go.”
Eurynome nodded repeatedly.
Metis’s fingertips gently combed her sister’s bright blue flowing beautiful hair, then continued: “But after all, they are mortal spirits, and newborns. Now everything has just started, still fragile and insignificant. If you have time, you can go take a look and help them.”
“You can also tell Father God and the others about this, asking the brothers and sisters to also pay attention and care for the humans. Even if not interested, it’s best not to casually harm this new race.”
“After all, in a sense, they can also be considered my children. Moreover, His Majesty has placed great hopes on them.”
Eurynome nodded repeatedly: “Sister, I understand.”
Metis had no doubt about her own younger sister’s intelligence, so she said no more.
She raised her eyes to look at her, suddenly curving her lips, leaning forward slightly in her sitting posture, teasing with a smile: “Alright, let’s not talk about this for now. Go see for yourself when you have time.”
“My good younger sister, are you fully satisfied now? Has our beloved God King taken responsibility for you?” The Goddess of Wisdom said teasingly with a mischievous smile.
Eurynome immediately blushed prettily, like a startled little deer, directly burrowing into her good older sister’s majestic yet soft embrace, silly laughing for a moment.
Metis dotingly shook her head. The moment she entered the palace, she had noticed something was a bit off.
Originally, she thought the cloud bed was so clean because her beloved God King had specially cleaned it up.
But now it seemed nothing had truly happened.
Her silly younger sister’s aura was far too pure, completely untainted by her beloved God King’s domineering special aura.
Hmm, not entirely absent, there was a little.
But that bit of aura was far less than what remained on her own body.
Metis looked at her silly laughing younger sister with a mix of amusement and exasperation, glaring at her exasperatedly.
At most just kisses and hugs, nothing substantial had happened, yet she was already this happy.
If good deeds had truly been achieved, wouldn’t she really go silly?
She didn’t know what her beloved bad guy had done to her silly younger sister.
Probably again using that irresistible sweet talk to coax her silly younger sister like this.
The Goddess of Wisdom shook her head inwardly; she was quite familiar with her beloved’s verbal skills.
Not to mention her own silly younger sister, even she herself couldn’t resist.
However, it was also strange. Her beloved God King surprisingly hadn’t fully devoured her good younger sister.
This was very strange, very unlike her beloved’s usual divine quality.
Metis knew there must be other matters involved; otherwise, it absolutely wouldn’t be like this.
If it was because of the birth of humans…
That would even more prove how much her beloved valued this newborn human race.
She stopped overthinking, instead hugging the Eurynome in her arms, gently pinching her delicate little face, truly helpless at her uncompetitive appearance.
“My silly younger sister, such a good opportunity, and you didn’t know to seize it?”
“When did His Majesty leave?”
Facing the Goddess of Wisdom’s helpless words, the still immersed in bliss Eurynome finally came back to her senses.
She hehe silly laughed, her smile extremely sweet, rubbing back and forth in her older sister’s embrace, softly coquettishly saying: “Good sister, thank you, really thank you!”
“I-I’m so happy! His Majesty, our beloved said, in a few days, He will summon the gods and announce me as His wife, hehe~”
Facing this irrelevant joyful response, Metis gave her an annoyed sideways glance: “Just that?”
Eurynome was stunned, bewilderedly asking: “Sister, this… isn’t that enough? I’m going to become His Majesty’s wife.”
The Goddess of Wisdom truly had no way with this purely beautiful little fool.
She used a bit of strength, gently pinching her younger sister’s dainty nose tip with her fingertips, tenderly reproaching: “You, you! The title of wife is certainly important, but the real substantial things are even more important!”
“Don’t you want your beloved Zeus to dote on you even more?”
The beautiful Eurynome, her bliss-clouded mind finally slowly cleared, intelligence reoccupying the high ground, though still a bit confused.
She softly said: “Sister, of-of course I want that.”
“I feel His Majesty still really likes me…”
Metis was truly exasperated, extending her slender jade finger to gently tap her silly younger sister’s smooth brow, the action gentle yet forceful.
She used a tone both doting and helpless, pretending sternness as she reproached: “My silly younger sister! Look at the Dominator of Clear Radiance Selene!”
“Has she ever demanded any title from His Majesty? With her status, beauty, ability, if she just spoke up, could our affectionate soft-hearted God King refuse?”
“But why doesn’t she want it?”
“Isn’t it because what she wants are those real substantial things?”
“What she wants is our God King’s actual doting, wants Him to forever harbor a share of guilt in His heart.”
“Wants that subtle feeling of forever lingering at the edge of His palm, yet always teasing and enticing Him, forever giving Him a bit of novelty.”
The Goddess of Wisdom slightly narrowed her golden eyes, a sharp light flashing that saw through everything: “Just watch, no matter when, as long as that Ruler of the Moon is willing, she can definitely hook away our family’s God King for a good long time.”
Eurynome listened thoughtfully, but her clear sea-blue eyes still held a trace of pure natural bewilderment.
She softly asked: “Sister, then… then what exactly should I do?”
“Whenever I’m by His Majesty’s side, I feel my whole divine self dizzy and confused, knowing nothing.”
Metis helplessly shook her head; she was truly helpless.
Her own silly younger sister was truly completely eaten up by their beloved God King.
Moreover, her personality was far too delicate and virtuous; she wouldn’t even fight for it.
With their God King’s promiscuous nature, it was foreseeable that in the future, more and more goddesses would surround Him.
Even if His love didn’t diminish, without taking initiative to exert subjective initiative, getting more companionship would be exceedingly difficult.
Too many wolves, not enough meat; truly not enough to go around!
Though gods are immortal and eternal, with eternal time, at the same time, there is only one God King to share!
If one goddess occupies Him, the others can only watch from the side.
Metis sighed deeply, then immediately rallied her spirits.
No!
With her silly younger sister like this, she must properly teach her!
“Eurynome, my most lovely younger sister. Earlier, sister only thought of creating opportunities for you; that was sister’s mistake.”
“Now, sister must properly teach you how to truly gain our beloved God King’s doting!”
Metis said extremely seriously: “Good younger sister, you must know, loving a god means bringing Him joy.”
“And to make Him unable to leave you, always thinking of you every moment, you must bring Him ‘ultimate’ joy.”
“If because of love, because of already having obtained, one slacks in the mutual emotions, even harming each other as a result.”
“Then, no matter how deep the love once was, it will ultimately be gradually worn away in the flow of time, in repeated disappointments.”
“Our beloved God King, His radiance is infinite; in the entire universe, there are too many goddesses clustering around Him.”
“Though He has never been an unfeeling god, His overly abundant emotions inevitably lead Him to favor some over others unwittingly.”
“And this requires us to properly maintain our love.”
“If you truly love Him, how can you not make Him joyful? How can you bear for His heart to lack that irreplaceable pleasure unique to you?”
“If you only silly wait quietly, then on what basis can you make Him keep His gaze on you long-term? On what basis demand He always take the initiative every time?”
The Goddess of Wisdom spoke earnestly, wholeheartedly teaching her dear younger sister: “Our beloved God King is generous and tender, bringing us absolute protection and safety, along with supreme honor and radiance.”
“Then, we must also give our all in return, with equally generous glorious love.”
“Love should be a mutual feast, not one-sided taking.”
“Just quietly waiting like you is completely not enough!”
“Next, sister will properly teach you how to make our beloved God King like you even more!”
“Whatever He likes, we satisfy Him.”
“You must know, if you can’t give Him satisfaction, He will have to find it elsewhere Himself.”
Eurynome’s purely beautiful eyes grew brighter and brighter as she listened.
Her little head nodded repeatedly, feeling she had truly learned a lot.
Her silly younger sister’s eager-to-learn attitude still greatly satisfied Metis, who nodded contentedly.
She then tightly hugged her younger sister in her embrace, and in the most private divine thought channel, using vivid illustrations and meticulous detail, began her most crucial teaching on “how to capture the God King.”
The clear and pure Eurynome’s exceedingly pretty face soon turned the color of red evening clouds, burning hot and red, almost dripping blood.
In fact, after Zeus had somewhat simply tasted the exquisitely wonderful flavor of this pure and sweet Daughter of the Ocean, he soon temporarily left.
Creating gods could wait a bit, but personally overseeing human creation was still necessary.
Anyway, the betrothal was already set; this extremely compliant and gentle goddess was obedient to the bone. He could devour her anytime, no rush.
In his supreme God King divine palace, seated high on the God King throne, the entire process of Prometheus creating humans was under His gaze.
And now that humans were born, He had even more important things to do.
Something more urgent.
At present, though humans had appeared, to be honest, these newborn humans were in for a lot of suffering.
After all, the universe’s various laws and concepts were far from perfect.
And the direct consequence of this was—”disorder.”
On the current Heavenly Dao Order foundation, many concepts and laws no longer required corresponding gods to appear before existing.
Like “death” and “sleep”; though the corresponding gods hadn’t appeared yet, they would still die when it was time.
However,
Current death was only by violent ends.
And very hard to die.
But this wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
Without corresponding gods appearing, the related laws and concepts were not yet perfect.
Equivalent to an unmanaged domain, still in a relatively disordered primal state.
And under this disordered state, all sorts of situations could happen.
Simply put, like forcibly running a program not yet fully woven.
No longer just bugs built on the program foundation; the entire program was built on bugs—strange if no big chaos ensued.
No order is the most terrifying thing for all existence.
All real existence’s own development is the process of “order” continuously triumphing over “disorder.”
Existence’s present world is ordered.
And continuously progressing toward better, more perfect, more stable order.
While chaotic void is absolute disorder and will forever remain disordered.
Thus, as long as order keeps progressing, it can forever triumph over chaos’s disorder.
This is the fundamental reason why the most terrifying Tartarus has always been getting beaten.
Because it is chaos, disorder, void, bewilderment; it represents the most thorough end.
Order is inevitably able to triumph over disorder.
Only when order completely collapses, everything returns to disorder, will all existence be thoroughly devoured and annihilated by Tartarus.
But as long as order exists, Tartarus can only belong to the “future” forever.
Current humans, due to their origin materials being extraordinarily exceptional.
Even relying only on their bodies, they can live quite, quite long, and are very resilient.
But this doesn’t mean they only have long-lived happiness.
They will still get injured, still die.
But only die from complete bodily decay and collapse.
And this is an extremely long and agonizing time.
They will still get sick, and possibly because not easy to die, endure more pain.
They will also age, but because their bodies are too tough, this aging period will be stretched extremely long.
Sick and old yet unable to easily die, without perfected death laws, this is unimaginably terrifying torment.
Their bodies will also undergo all sorts of mutations for various reasons.
But without “supernatural” order existing, they can only rely on themselves to sustain disordered chaotic changes, bearing unknown consequences.
If even “death” becomes extremely difficult, then “living” itself may be an extremely terrifying torment.
Though there are the Prometheus brothers and the nine Muses goddesses caring for these newborn humans.
But the number of humans is too great, and leading humans onto the path of civilization involves countless things to experience.
Eleven gods caring for millions of blank-slate newborn lives, wanting no problems at all is impossible.
Moreover, often, setbacks, experience, and lessons are indispensable steps on the road to civilization’s progress.
Only by knowing wrongdoing, tasting pain, can they avoid repeating in the future.
Humans, and all living beings, lack too many necessary concepts for healthy survival now.
Now, His Majesty the Great God King, for all living beings in the universe, has come to find His most beloved goddess.
The great Great Mother Goddess representing “fertility” and “reproduction”—Hera.
“Fertility” and “reproduction” themselves represent the two most important concepts.
Namely— all existence’s “rebirth” and “evolution.”
Only through continuous reproduction can there be continuous adaptation, thus continuous evolution.
Even this entire universe is continuously “reproducing,” continuously “evolving.”
It is this evolution that allows ever-stronger “existence” to triumph over unchanging “void.”
“Existence” is never a static state, but a continuous dynamic “generation” process.
For a group, a concept, or even the entire universe itself, if it stops producing “new” individuals or forms.
Then its “whole” loses the vitality to cope with all changes, and its very “existence” becomes endangered.
Therefore, “reproduction” is the first premise of “survival”!
And reproduction’s meaning goes beyond mere numerical continuation, lying in the birth of “new,” bringing new “possibilities” to the entire group.
Every rebirth is a new attempt and adaptation to the environment; a reorganization of the gene pool; an iteration of thought.
It is this endless, successive rebirth that constitutes evolution’s great ladder!
Existence is reproduction; reproduction is evolution!
Just like the great Mother Goddess of All Things gestating the first generation God King Uranus, this too is breeding.
All gods’ births are likewise breeding.
The Mother Goddess of All Things and Uranus gestated the gods, and mutual unions among the gods birthed new gods.
Every new god’s birth means new “law(s),” new “concept(s),” new “authority(ies)” born in this universe.
This is “divine status’s birth.”
And this is likewise the present world’s entire existence’s “reproduction” and “evolution.”
The entire present world existence, the entire universe itself, is a vast great mother body continuously “breeding.”
Formation of new star systems, emergence of new life, even manifestation of new physical laws.
Every new law’s birth is the most powerful proof of existence undergoing self-reproduction and evolution.
Only by continuously “reproducing,” continuously birthing new existence, can the universe keep advancing.
Existence is fertility; fertility is evolution!
When a system—be it a biological group, gods’ divine lineage, or this entire universe itself—stops reproducing, no new existence born, its evolutionary path ends.
This “no longer evolving” state is absolute, true “death.”
Because a rigidified system cannot face any challenges.
When all existence can only contend for existing stock, under time’s erosion, the ultimate outcome is collapse and annihilation.
If all existence begins rigidifying, no new existence born, it means everything will face final end.
Everything will be thoroughly devoured by the most terrifying Tartarus.
When “reproduction” slows or stagnates, it means order’s development has major problems; if not resolved, it will end.
The old God King Cronus’s order ending was largely because of this.
He disregarded the universe’s progress for his own profit, so the entire universe, to avoid being caught by Tartarus, would intentionally or unintentionally end Him.
Zeus, taking Cronus as lesson, chose another path: progress together with all existence!
Zeus chose to stand with all existence as a community.
He uses supreme mighty power to promote all existence’s healthy survival and evolution, while absorbing the brilliant civilizations existence creates to strengthen Himself, then in turn promoting continued evolution, forming a virtuous cycle.
Often, appropriate yielding can make everything better.
Universe’s progress equates to Zeus’s progress.
This is why Hera is the greatest and most great Great Mother Goddess!
And the goddess most fitting, most matching the great God King Zeus!
God King Zeus wants the universe to progress forever, so He must have this Great Mother Goddess representing all “reproduction,” “fertility,” “rebirth,” “evolution”!
Hera is the most matching “Great Mother Goddess” to Zeus as the greatest “Great Father God”!
None other!
Before Zeus ultimately becomes the omniscient omnipotent god, the one who can always accompany Him, never fall behind, always support Him, always remain loyal to Him, accompany Him to the end of eternal omniscience omnipotence, is solely Hera!
Because of Goddess Hera’s companionship, Zeus could outrun the forever pursuing Tartarus through endless years.
Until ultimately becoming the supremely perfect omniscient omnipotent god.
Because of Goddess Hera’s companionship, all existence in this universe could avoid being caught and thoroughly devoured by terrifying Tartarus.
Until the omniscient omnipotent god thoroughly triumphs over final void and chaos, “existence” can eternally “exist”!
Goddess Hera!
God Zeus’s eternal, supreme beloved!
God Zeus’s eternal, indispensable, supreme beloved!
None other!
The supreme great celestial god, Great Father God, sole god, Ruler of Heaven’s eternal side-by-side spouse!
The eternal supreme Queen of Heaven! Heaven’s supreme queen! Paradise’s sole female lead! The greatest Great Mother Goddess upon the golden throne!
Solely—Hera!
She is the universe’s final perfection reserved for Zeus, existence’s eternal promise for continuation!
