Chapter 88 The Birth of the Little God of Love
On the contrary, Zeus gave Athena what textile, art, crafts, horticulture, are some good-sounding, in fact, with the muse nine goddesses no difference between the priesthood, donkey dung egg surface light, really start to fight, combat effectiveness is almost zero.
This god king, for Athena, seems to be more jealous than loving. If it wasn't for the fact that Athena had taken the virgin goddess oath as soon as she was born, Hebe even guessed that Zeus would not utilize the way of letting the other party give birth to a godchild to split her origin and suppress her strength.
'Huh." Athena let out a faint laugh and put down the golden wine glass in her hand, 'Our father god was ‘accidentally' shot by the golden arrow of the little goddess of love, and is now chasing true love above the earth, so he doesn't have time to worry about where I've been."
Hebe raised an eyebrow at his words, 'Your Highness is telling me these words straight away, aren't you afraid that I'll go straight to the Mother Goddess and tell on her?"
'Your Highness is joking, I'm afraid there's no one in this world who wants our Father God to betray us a few more times than you do, so that our Divine Queen Majesty can recognize reality and leave this unfaithful God King earlier."
Athena was worthy of being the Goddess of Wisdom, her observations were meticulous and subtle, as early as the banquet when she realized that Hephaestus was out of sorts, and when she was probing the other party's situation, she discovered that the marital ties between Hephaestus and Aphrodite had surprisingly been disconnected.
The marital ties were disconnected and this god was coming out of the Marriage Temple, what this represented, the clever goddess quickly surmised.
That Divine Queen on the Divine Mountain seemed to have developed a sublimated understanding of marriage and mastered some sort of power to sever it. If that was the case, as long as Hera separated from Zeus in time, the backlash she suffered from the Marriage Godhead would also stop.
That's why Athena said this to Hebe, Hera's favor towards Hebe was not without reason, at first it was because this youngest daughter was the weakest, fearing that she would be belittled by the other gods on the divine mountain, and later on, Hebe's respect for and defense of herself, the mother goddess, also told the gods that she was worthy of this favor from Hera.
'......"
Then indeed, she couldn't wait for Zeus to hurry up and finish those twelve cursed love affairs, and the divine power and essence fell so that she could kick this scummy father out of the way.
Reincarnation's divine power filled out, sealing off the temple from the sight and sound of others.
'Your Highness Athena, the divine temple has been blocked off by my divine power, no one will hear the conversation between you and I. If you have something to say, please just say it, I don't believe that you've come all the way to earth to find me, and you've come here just to get in touch with your feelings."
With the polite words out of the way, it was time to get down to business.
'Your Highness is indeed intelligent, I came to find Your Highness this time to seek cooperation. But before I open my mouth, I would also like to ask Your Highness to make an oath with me to never let today's conversation between you and I leak out."
Athena's bright eyes looked at Hebe with a solemn expression.
'...... I agree with your request."
The two goddesses simultaneously made a vow to Styx River, swearing that they would never let today's conversation leak out.
'Now Your Highness can speak?" Having sworn the oath, Hebe looked to Athena and put on an air of listening.
'Your Highness must have heard of what happened to my mother goddess and the prophecy that brought about a tragic fate for my mother goddess?" Athena asked first.
'This I have indeed heard of."
Regarding that prophecy of the first divine queen, Metis, legend had it that this divine queen was destined to give birth to several children of great intelligence in her life, the first of which was the bright-eyed maiden, Athena, who was rumored to be equal to her father in both wisdom and strength.
And after this, Metis would also give birth to a proud son who would possess power beyond his father's, becoming king of the gods and of mankind.
It was this prophecy that brought Metis to her death, and during the time she was still conceiving Athena, she was swallowed by this king of the gods, and merged with herself as a source of wisdom.
'Our dear Father God, the great King of the Gods, originally tried to strangle even me with him." As Athena spoke, her bright eyes uncontrollably showed mockery and hatred, 'But the Mother God spelled out all of her divine power and let herself be eroded by Zeus's divine power just to preserve me so that I could come out of the world. I did come out of the world, he couldn't bear the pain of me growing in his skull, and ordered the head to be chiseled open and released me, but ......"
Athena's complexion surfaced a trace of despondency: 'But this twisted experience also caused my origin to be damaged, the mother goddess's wisdom origin I couldn't inherit all of it, and the innate war priesthood was also divided up by Ares for a large part of it because I came out late, Her Majesty, the Queen of the Gods, was jealous of me for snatching the origin with her godson, not realizing that that was originally supposed to belong to me! "
Originally, she was supposed to be a terrifying, whistling and shouting, invincible queen who fought in wars, strategized, and exercised tactics, descending into the world under the divine name of Tritogenia, not some goddess Athena, the most valued daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom!
'I was still fortunate enough to be able to come forth, but my brother, the prophesied son of the god who was destined to overthrow the reign of Zeus, the mother goddess was no longer able to shelter him, and he truly died." Athena's eyes flashed with a trace of sorrow, but quickly rekindled with hope, 'But Poros, after all, had once coalesced into a godhead, and the godhead of chance and creation, though shattered, preserved his soul, and it turned out that he had always accompanied the Mother Goddess, and resided in Zeus's mind with the Wisdom Origin, and that the Mother Goddess had always been looking for the chance to bring my brother back to life in a new conception and birth! Until ......"
'Until that time, when, because of the curse of Prometheus, and under the penalty of the laws of wisdom, the Origin of Wisdom took that little opportunity to escape briefly from the head of that father-god of ours?" Hebe's eyes widened as she remembered the anomaly that occurred that time when Zeus judged Prometheus.
'That's right." Athena nodded, 'The Mother Goddess sent me a message in that moment, and the spirit of my brother Poros has taken advantage of the opportunity to escape, waiting for the chance to be re-incarnated."
After saying all this, Athena seemed to let out a sigh of relief as if she was relieved.
All along, she seemed to be in the midst of the divine mountain, but in reality, she was walking on thin ice, she carried too much on her own, unlike the other children of Zeus, who had a mother goddess to shelter them, and siblings to confide in, she was never, just alone.
Today, taking advantage of the constraints of the oath to vent the hidden secrets and resentments that had been hidden for years, Athena felt pretty good.
'So, you want me to provide shelter for your reincarnated brother?"
Poros? Hebe had vaguely heard of this god's name, and seemed to be an ill-fated god who died several times and suffered persecution from Hera, eventually becoming Dionysus, the god of wine and revelry, and one of the twelve main gods on Mount Olympus after Hestia voluntarily abdicated.
It seems that later generations remember him only for his bizarre life and his godly powers of indulgence and revelry.
As for how he overthrew Zeus, there is no record, and some people say that the one who overthrew Zeus was actually Heracles, who later became Hercules.
But who knows, there is no need to care, according to the original trajectory, he should not just be a third-class god with no status, from the moment she was reborn in this world, everything has quietly changed.
'That's right." Athena nodded, 'You and I both share the same purpose, whether it be for your mother god or mine, Zeus must be overthrown. Now that Poros has the opportunity to be re-birthed, the God King's sensitivity to the curse, and he is hogging the Mother Goddess's wisdom essence, I can't guarantee that he won't notice Poros's new identity, and I can't stop him with my power alone."
'Therefore, Your Highness Hebe, ally yourself with me, and as a reward, when Poros ascends to the throne of the God King, I promise that the Goddess Hera will continue to retain her transcendent status, and Poros will recognize her as his mother, while I ......" Athena clenched her teeth. 'And I, for my part, will voluntarily renounce the very essence of war, leaving your older brother Ares as the sole god of war."
Hiss! Hebe didn't expect Athena to even be willing to put down such blood, this goddess was ruthless to others and even more ruthless to herself.
It had to be said that the conditions she offered made Hebe's heart flutter.
The matter of fighting with Eros for the primordial god position, although there is the goddess Nyx as a guarantee, but whether it can be successful Hebe's heart is really no bottom.
Eros was once a primordial god, if his origin is slowly replenished in the future, and he awakens the memories of his past life, how hard would it be to walk the path that he has already walked again?
And the path she herself was going to take was not only the first time she had ever walked it, but it was also extremely dangerous, and if she was not careful, there would never be any trace of Hebe as a god in this world again.
So Hebe needed to have a guarantee, a guarantee that even if she failed herself, she would be able to ensure that the status of her mother goddess and her two older brothers would not be shaken.