Chapter 53: No Investment Loses Forever, Right?
Beautiful Clymene sighed, full of helplessness and worry, and said slowly: “My child, you are the God of Foresight, so you should be able to see clearly that the corrupt order of the God King will inevitably be overthrown. This is an irreversible certainty.”
“No matter who, if they still support an order that is destined to be overthrown, they will inevitably be destroyed along with it.”
Prometheus also sighed. Did he not understand this principle?
He replied, “Mother Goddess, I naturally understand this.”
“But Father God and my brothers firmly defend the order of the God King. Our honor is tied to the God King. We cannot change their will, so we can only try to find a way to achieve victory.”
Clymene frowned her beautiful blue eyebrows, her expression becoming extremely heavy. She said in a deep voice, “My child, you are the God of Foresight. I know you have always been proud of your extraordinary wisdom.”
“However, I must tell you some unfortunate news: the Son of Cronus already has an existence superior to yours in wisdom.”
“My younger sister, the Oceanid Goddess Metis, is the Incarnation of Wisdom, the wisest Goddess of Wisdom. Her wisdom is not something you can overcome.”
“The Son of Cronus already possesses power not inferior to the God King, and now with the assistance of the resourceful Goddess of Wisdom, victory is already predestined.”
“Now, you should no longer think of confronting Zeus with Cronus, but rather find a way to escape this doomed war!”
The news revealed by Clymene made Prometheus dizzy and filled him with extreme fear.
Metis had always been well protected by Oceanus. Few knew she was a Goddess of Wisdom; at least Prometheus did not.
This news was like a bolt from the blue, completely sinking his last shred of hope.
If it had not reached a point of life and death, Clymene would not have told him this secret, and Prometheus would still be unrealistically thinking of a comeback.
Prometheus was silent for a long time, his chaotic thoughts surging like a tide, his mind in disarray.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him.
A smile gradually appeared on his face, his eyes filled with determination and resolve. He said, “Mother Goddess, I have always believed that as long as I persist and do my best, then no matter what it is, I can try, and I will always find a glimmer of hope.”
“The war between Father God and my brothers and the Son of Cronus is already inevitable. They have chosen that path. It is their choice based on honor, and we cannot stop it.”
“For the honor of our family, and even more so for Father God’s safety, I must do something and cannot stand idly by.”
Clymene was greatly alarmed at his words and hurriedly asked, “My child, what do you intend to do?”
Prometheus replied, “Mother Goddess, I will not do anything foolish. I think I have found a helper. If we still cannot win, then, Mother Goddess, please help me defect to the Son of Cronus.”
Clymene’s long blue eyebrows almost stood on end, knitted tightly together. After a long while, she nodded.
She could only offer a final warning: “My child, do not do anything irreversible.”
Prometheus no longer hesitated. He turned and resolutely ran towards Mount Othrys.
Some things must be done, but to leave a way out for himself and his family, he could not do them himself; he only needed to devise the plan.
Just as Prometheus was rushing around for his disappointing Father God and brothers, Olympus also welcomed an extremely honored guest.
The Ruler of Night, Nyx, after leaving Mount Othrys, did not return to her dark and deep domain but quietly went directly to Mount Olympus.
The situation having come to this, she was going to go all in for Zeus!
She’s revealed her hand, no more pretending!
Nyx, as one of the most primordial of primordial deities in the universe, her authority was so immense that it was far beyond what ordinary gods could compare to.
Except for the God King, any of the Primal Titans would not be her match in power.
However, despite possessing an extremely noble status and incomparably formidable power, she was still wretched.
Not only was the authority of the Material Mother Goddess Gaia constantly being subdivided and stripped away with the evolution of the universe, but Nyx was almost no different from Mother Goddess Gaia, or even more wretched.
In the beginning, the universe only had Darkness and Night. She and Erebus shared supreme primordial authority.
Then, Darkness and Night gave birth to Light and Daylight. With the birth of these two offspring, her authority was instantly halved.
However, at this point, it was still not a major problem, because Light and Daylight were still within Darkness and Night.
Afterwards, Light and Daylight were seized by the Ruler of Spirituality, Uranus, and even their origins were changed.
Her own children became someone else’s!
This was not just losing children, but her authority was directly halved and completely suppressed.
Later, under Uranus’s rule, the structure of the universe became increasingly perfect.
The continuous emergence of the firmament, the vast universe, brilliant celestial bodies, pervasive light, and various radiant laws caused the primordial authority of Darkness and Night to be continuously compressed and completely suppressed by the Celestial Pantheon.
Even more terrifying was Uranus, that terrifying Ruler of Spirituality.
Erebus, the personification of Darkness, was, with just a single glance from the supreme Ruler of Spirituality, completely stripped of his spirituality. Darkness would never again give birth to spirituality.
Furthermore, Uranus turned Darkness into a defensive line against Tartarus, completely transforming it into a tool.
That was the first time the Lady of Night felt the trembling fear of divinity.
Her first gamble was to go all in with all the gods who could no longer endure it, and they overthrew Uranus.
It was a great campaign that decided the new destiny of the universe. The power of Night played an indispensable role, serving as a necessary aid in overthrowing the old order.
However, the reward she received was pitifully little, so little it chilled the gods.
Apart from no longer living under the oppressive environment where her spiritual consciousness could be annihilated by Uranus at any moment, she received no honors or actual power that she deserved.
The Material Mother Goddess Gaia and the Divine Family tightly controlled every corner of the universe. Although they outwardly accepted her sharing the universe, her actual power was minimal.
Apart from an empty honorary title, it could be said she gained nothing.
Even the primordial children, taken by Uranus and transformed into laws that restrained her, were not truly returned to her; they were only nominally still her children.
She was not even allowed to enter the world.
In the present world, not only is there no symbol of time, but there is no cycle of the sun and moon, and not even the flow of light and darkness.
Within the cosmic order established by Cronus, even the descendants of Titans were treated harshly, let alone pure outer gods.
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