Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality

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However, the Divine King did not intend to personally bring Moanda to the Mount of the Gods. This task was better suited for the God of West Wind.

"Zephyrus, I want you to hold my scepter and go to the mountain of Panasus to welcome a messenger of the Ancient Gods on my behalf," he said.

As Zeus took out the Divine King's scepter, he noticed the gods' attention to the name 'Ancient Gods', but he pretended not to know and continued:

"Her name is Moanda. She is the True God who presides over life, the progenitor of all plants in the world. And starting from today, she will also become a new member of Olympus——"

His voice suddenly stopped.

Seeing this, Zephyrus lifted his head, puzzled. Under his and the gods' watchful eyes, the Divine King showed no other movement, simply sitting on the throne as if suddenly lost in thought.

After a short while, Zeus seemed to come back to his senses, and with a forced smile, handed the scepter to the Wind God.

"Take it, and go fulfill your task," he said.

"...As you command, Your Majesty."

The God of West Wind didn't understand the Divine King's meaning, but being the king's most loyal servant, he didn't ask questions and simply accepted the scepter. Accidentally, Zephyrus's peripheral vision seemed to catch something—that was the Divine King's wrist hidden under his sleeve.

There, a dark red light glimmered faintly, a bloody mark writhing as if something was about to emerge from it.

But it was only a moment of confusion, and then everything disappeared as if it had been an illusion. With an involuntary shiver, the God of West Wind, acting as if he had seen nothing, respectfully bowed again and then transformed into wind to leave the king's palace.

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On Mount Olympus, the meeting was still in progress.

Zeus's distraction was only a minor incident, and no one cared about such a trifle. Half a day later, when Zephyrus arrived with the Goddess of Life on Mount Olympus, the Divine King announced the start of the banquet.

This belated celebration was initially for Apollo and for establishing the Twelve Principal Gods, but now, it also served as a celebration for the birth of the Goddess of Wisdom and the arrival of the Goddess of Life. Perhaps due to exhaustion from the previous battle, the Divine King left his seat and retired early into the banquet.

The gods were understanding of this behavior as, after all, his opponent had been a Primordial Deity, and he had achieved the ultimate victory. Zeus's departure caused no ripples, and to relieve the earlier tension, the gods focused on their nectar.

In such circumstances, skirting the ruins scattered on the ground, in a secluded corner, the Divine King parted the spatial barrier to arrive at the belly of Mount Olympus.

"Huh—damn, what is this stuff?!"

"Come——"

Passing through the spatial barrier into an annexed space of the present world, with the Divine King's summoning, a certain power was bestowed upon Zeus.

His Divine Power, strangely weak in this mighty realm, suddenly surged, making his might appear balanced once more. It was only at this moment that the Divine King finally breathed a sigh of relief, pulling up his sleeve to look at the writhing flesh on his arm.

Just before, he had been puzzled that the rarely seen Primordial Deity had been so easy to talk to, sending a gift before even making a request, but in the blink of an eye, the other had brazenly attacked.

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However, despite Zeus's shock and anger at Erebus's actions, he didn't find it too hard to accept, and he didn't even put up much of a fight—after all, it was just an embodiment, and he certainly couldn't be a match for the opponent, so being annihilated didn't constitute much of a loss.

But now, the Divine King deeply regretted that he hadn't decisively destroyed that embodiment. Somehow, using some method, the Lord of Darkness had allowed this strange power to act directly upon his true form through some kind of connection.

Zeus wanted to expel it immediately, but the result was not as he wished; not only did he fail to do so, but this power was still continuously eroding and assimilating everything around it, as if it wanted to give birth to a new "pan-consciousness" from within Zeus's body. Perceiving this, the Divine King immediately chose to come here to suppress it with the help of Asgard's boundary force.

In hindsight, his choice was indeed correct. Having replenished his divine power deficit, the Divine King finally managed to resist this strange power. Had he been unable to deal with it even here, Zeus might even have had to abandon this divine body and nurture a new one.

But such a cost... In the last era, there had been a deity who did something similar, which was the ancient God of Sun, Hyperion. This Titan deity had taken a full thousand years to recover after burning his divine body, and Zeus did not want to follow in his footsteps.

After all, although losing a divine body, a deity could still freely move about the world, but whether in terms of enjoyment or actual power, there would inevitably be considerable impacts.

"What a terrifying power, but... hmph, I did indeed receive your 'warning.' However, I also received the secret you 'told' me."

"So it turns out that in this world, there exist unknown beings powerful enough to rival the Primordial Gods... It makes sense, since the Asgard I am in now was previously unknown to anyone."

With a cold laugh, although Zeus was unclear about the owner of this power, he could easily sense its essence, which was certainly not a power similar to Darkness. Rather than considering it a 'warning' from Erebus, it was more like he was dumping this troublesome thing onto the Divine King.

In fact, Zeus's guess was very accurate. After cutting off the contaminated flesh, the Lord of Darkness carried out many studies on this power from the Foreign Realm. In the process, he inevitably became tainted with more of this highly assimilative energy.

But unlike the portion that transformed from the branches and tendrils of Mother Goddess, this second infection, although still troublesome, could be eradicated.

Therefore, Erebus didn't separate his power again but gradually wore it down—and today, he simply packaged it up and sent it to this younger deity who dared demand an explanation from him.

Compared to his sudden increase in status, the Lord of Darkness immediately saw Zeus's still somewhat weak divine body and power, so he unceremoniously presented this 'weapon.' His purpose, of course, was not just to vent his anger.

Acting over a verbal triumph was something Gaia did. In fact, Erebus wanted Zeus to realize that his divine body might be corrupted and destroyed by this strange power, and the only solution lay with the distant Goddess of Life.

Thus, the originally agreed terms would remain unchanged, and there might even be further progress—just as Erebus had Moanda disperse the foreign power from the flesh using the Life Vase, Zeus would ultimately realize that only a deity that rules over Life could assist him in this matter.

In time, with Moanda's help, Erebus would also be able to delve deeper into the secrets of the Divine King's ascension. He didn't even care if Zeus saw through this point because the latter had no other choice.

He isn't Laine, the Lord of Darkness doesn't have an Athena to probe the secrets behind the scenes, but absence doesn't mean he won't find his way to the answers. Today's actions were just another probing attempt by him.

"But the arrogant Primordial Deity, you have miscalculated after all. You have your hidden secrets, and I have mine... Although it may take a longer time, it is hardly anything."

The deep voice echoed through space, and looking at this interface attached to the present world, Zeus secretly decided not to leave Olympus until he fully possessed a divine body and power comparable to his status.

Fortunately, the biggest trouble, Mother Earth Gaia, had already been resolved by him and everything had returned to the right track. What remained was a long period of accumulation.

"When humans spread across the land, I can probably resolve this trouble as well. Let the gods fight among themselves for faith for now, and when the time comes, I will emerge to tidy up the situation."

Once again creating an embodiment to handle the affairs on the Mount of the Gods, Zeus stayed here. This time, he might have to undergo the longest 'seclusion' since his birth.

The power of the boundary kept surging, reflecting the symbol of Kingship. At the site of the old Golden Palace of Asgard, Zeus entered a not-so-short period of slumber.

And so, with the Divine King and Mother Earth silent, the Chaos World returned to a peace that had been long absent. Time flew by, and several seasons passed.

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