Chapter 119 Troubles
Elpis had an innocent face but something in her words, Demeter's face immediately became a bit untenable, her face changed and her tone suddenly became even colder and harder, 'The Golden Staff of Wheat Dot is such a valuable artifact, you're a little goddess whose name is unknown, who would feel comfortable lending this artifact to you? The way I see it, you are clearly lying!"
'The divine artifact was lent to her by me, Goddess Demeter, do you have any comments?"
The blonde-haired goddess stepped into the air, shielding Elpis behind her, her violet eyes staring straight at the aggressive Nong God, surrounded by a faint pressure that surpassed the level of a Lord God.
'Your Highness Hebe?"
Demeter looked towards the blonde goddess who was blocking in front of Elpis, and her face changed slightly, partly because she didn't expect that Elpis, who had stolen her faith, had such a backer, but on the other hand, it was because of the faint mighty pressure carried by Hebe, which reminded Demeter of the goddess's fierce reputation amongst the divine mountains nowadays.
'Ahem, Your Highness Hebe, even if you possess the Golden Staff of Wheat Dots, I'm afraid it's not right to lend it to this goddess and overstep me to administer the authority of the Harvest, isn't it? You should know that the authority of the gods is not to be tainted!"
The golden scepter of wheat points was Hebe's artifact, Demeter naturally could only dispel the thought in her heart that this goddess was really lucky to be able to obtain Ceres's inheritance, clearly she was the most orthodox god of agriculture.
'Your Highness Demeter don't speak so harshly, Goddess Elpis is the goddess of prayer and hope, her duty is to listen to the suffering and prayers of all beings, and give them the hope and salvation to break through their predicament. How would humans go to her for refuge if they were not desperate? Why do crops on the earth that were growing happily suddenly wither overnight? Why do you ignore the sacrifices and prayers of mankind to you?"
'I ......" Hebe threw out a series of questions that left Demeter speechless, she subconsciously averted her gaze, not to look at the goddess's sharp and compelling violet eyes, and forcefully argued, "I just didn't control my emotions for a moment, and it affected me. control my emotions and affected the earth, I had already planned to restore the vitality of the earth, it was this goddess who arbitrarily interfered with my duties!"
'Goddess Demeter, if the embodiment of the earth, the glorious Mother of the Gods, knew that you, as her spokesperson on the earth, had wasted your duties because of your personal emotions, do you know what the consequences would be? What happened to the last god who blasphemed, your highness should know very well in your heart."
Hebe continued to increase his output, using the example of the once full moon goddess Selene to warn Demeter to give up her entanglement and let this matter pass, so that you and I will be good, really if we hold on to it, then we will have something to talk about, whether it's to Zeus, or to the Earth Mother.
'You!" Demeter was furious, she glanced at the Goddess of Hope hiding behind Hebe, her face was gloomy, 'This time let it go, if there is a next time, it will not be as good as today!"
This matter was indeed that she was not in the right, she had just fallen out with Zeus, and the other party would naturally not favor her. If it is to go to the mother of the earth, the consequences are even more serious, she this mother of the earth spokesperson's name sounds good, in fact, to put it bluntly is a to work for Gaia, to help her to maintain the earth, if that goddess knows that she is malfeasance because of her private emotions ...... Demeter couldn't help but shiver.
She then raised her eyes to look at Hebe, the legendary goddess, who had once been an unremarkable wine pouring officer of the gods, and she had even secretly mocked Hera because of it, the divine son that had been painstakingly birthed was only a third class god with low potential, she hadn't expected to be elevated all the way up to this point, and she felt that the other party had already become even more powerful than her own veteran second generation god.
'I didn't realize that Your Highness Hebe was also so comfortable with crop manipulation, you already hold the power of reincarnation, so why do you need to extend your hand so long?"
'When it comes to long hands, I can't compare to Your Highness." Hebe looked meaningfully at Demeter's stomach, 'Whether I have the ability or not is my own skill, Your Highness Demeter instead of worrying about me, why don't you clean up your own mood and fulfill your duties properly, once can still be said to be careless, twice or three times can be hard to say."
Said Hebe then took Elpis to leave this place, say more this goddess will be angry.
Demeter looked at the back of the two goddesses left, the heart of the anger more and more burning, suddenly, her stomach aches, the goddess's mood swings are too large, almost affecting their own abdomen of the god child.
The motherly love in her heart allowed Demeter to regain some sense, she hastily took a few deep breaths, calmed herself, and urged the divine power in her body to pacify Persephone, who was in the midst of conception.
...... Goddess of Prayer and Hope, just wait, this matter will not be easily let go!
The figure of the goddess of agriculture also followed and disappeared above the earth, after recognizing the true face of Zeus, this goddess had already given up her illusions of love, she poured all of her love and heart into the godchild in her womb, and she swore to protect her own daughter, to keep her away from the dirty and foul-smelling male gods, and to let her keep her pure and flawless body and mind forever.
And on this side of the divine mountain, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, was summoned by Zeus to his temple of the god-king, where Zeus, the manipulator of thunder, sat on the ornate throne of the god-king, his deep blue eyes staring down at the daughter who had been born from his own head.
'Athena, I hear you've been visiting Samos Island a lot lately?" Zeus spoke lightly, looking casual as if he was just discussing with her how the weather was today.
The cloaked, bright-eyed goddess was in awe in her heart, but her face was raised in a light smile as she replied, 'Yes, great king of the gods, the city-state that I manage has gradually prospered after this period of recuperation, with quite a number of humans forming families, and females giving birth to new lives. However, human knowledge in this area is still too weak, resulting in the survival rate of females and newborns being too low. In order for the Gods to have more humans to offer their faith, that's why I traveled to Samos Island to ask Hera, the protector of women and the one in charge of fertility, for knowledge in this area, in the hope of spreading it amongst humans."
If she hadn't expected Zeus to chastise her for this, she wouldn't have wanted the name of Goddess of Wisdom, and had already thought of a set of words to say waiting for him.
Zeus' eyes flickered when he heard Hera's name.
'...... How is she?"
Leave you this big slag, what else can be done ah? Of course the sky is high enough for birds to fly, and the sea is wide enough for fish to leap! Athena remembered Goddess Hera's cozy life on Samos Island, and couldn't help but silently light a wax for Zeus in her heart.
'Eh, Goddess Hera seems to be in pretty good shape." As expected, Zeus's face was grim for a split second, and Athena hurriedly added, 'But looking at her mood it seems like she's not in a very good mood, there seems to be something troubling her."
Actually, Hera was bothering about where all the magical beasts that had fled across the earth had gone, her addiction to being a beast tamer had given way again. But Hebe felt that the earth was still not safe, fearing that a certain God King would still not die and change into some bird or butterfly to abduct Hera, so Hebe would easily not let her mother goddess leave Samos Island before she herself was promoted to Primordial God.
Athena's words really made Zeus's face turn cloudy, the high king of the gods obviously misunderstood, he revealed a faint smile, 'Very well, Athena, your dedication to mankind, and your dedication to the gods is worthy of commendation, Nike."
The goddess with a pair of wings, a fit body, and flowing clothes arrived, Goddess of Victory Nike kneeled down on one knee and bowed to her main god, 'Great King of the Gods, Goddess of Victory Nike offers you the highest respect."
'Nike, from now on you will follow Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, and come and bring victory for her on the battlefield." Zeus bestowed this subordinate goddess of his upon Athena.
'Yes, Nike, Goddess of Victory, swears to my mother Styx that from now on I will follow the Goddess Athena and offer my loyalty." Nike looked calm and obediently swore that from now on, she would be Athena's vassal god to accompany her.
'Thank you for your generosity and favor, great king of the gods."
Athena's gaze flickered slightly, thanking Zeus for his reward with a face of joy, Goddess of Victory Nike, this goddess with a special priesthood was indeed very compatible with herself.
Since Zeus rewarded her, she is not afraid that this is the eye line that Zeus put on her side, she is not some dainty doddering flower, there is the strength and means to make Nike only loyal to one of her gods.
'Uh-huh." Zeus nodded, 'Since it's for the sake of human reproduction, when you have time, go to Samos Island more often to ask Hera for advice, and come back to me to report on the progress." With all the favors taken, something had to be done for him.