Chapter 5 Athena, Persephone and Zagreus

Over the island of Lemnos, thunderclouds gathered in the sky and thunder exploded.

Across space, the God King Zeus, the Queen Hera, and the Beauty God Aphrodite descended on the Vulcan Temple in the center of the island.

Hephaestus had been waiting for a long time. Only when the three of them emerged from the space did he bow and salute.

"I have met the King of Gods and the Queen of Heaven."

Hera nodded in approval upon seeing this.

"It seems you are already prepared."

"My boy, you did a great job."

"I like your gift too."

Hephaestus smiled and said, "As long as you like it, mother."

Zeus said nothing and looked at Hephaestus carefully.

The cloak woven from the threads of fate can cover his appearance, but it cannot cover Hephaestus' powerful power.

This child is already a god of the same level as him!

Zeus was very satisfied. After all, Hephaestus's origin destined him to be the god of Olympus and not his enemy.

He had a kind face, but his tone could not refuse: "You are very good, Hephaestus."

"You must already know the vows I made on my wedding day."

"Now I officially designate you as one of the twelve main gods, the God of Fire!"

"Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, is your wife."

The goddess of beauty Aphrodite, who had always been expressionless, stood up after hearing this.

She only saw Hephaestus' ugly appearance once in the temple, and she didn't dare to look at him again.

This marriage was not satisfactory to her, but it was the joint will of God King Zeus and Queen Hera.

Unless she no longer wants to stay in Olympus Mountain and is willing to give up her position as the Goddess of Beauty, one of the twelve main gods of Olympus Mountain.

But it doesn't matter, marriage is just a process for her, not a shackles.

It's just a wife's status, don't give up.

Hephaestus was already prepared.

He looked at his mother Hera aside, the holder of the authority of marriage. Any marriage with her witness would become eternal and cannot be terminated even if one of the parties dies.

No matter how simple the marriage ceremony is.

As long as Hephaestus is willing to approve the words of God King Zeus, this marriage will be considered to have been witnessed by her.

Fortunately...

All my appearances are false!

The name is fake, the will is fake, and even the appearance is fake.

What you are marrying is my cloak. It has nothing to do with me, Hephaestus!

He replied firmly: "Thank God King for the gift."

As the words fell, an invisible connection was established. Queen Hera witnessed that the cloaks of the goddess Aphrodite and Hephaestus...were husband and wife from now on.

God King Zeus nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand, and Aphrodite, who had completed the witnessing ceremony, transformed into a rainbow and returned to Olympus.

"Hephaestus, I came here specially for one more thing."

"I want you to help me give birth to my daughter with Metis, the goddess of wisdom."

"She was already taking shape in my mind."

"Noisy to come out."

Hephaestus' eyes widened when he heard this: "Your Majesty the God King, I do not have the authority to control fertility!"

Hera took over the conversation and answered from the side.

"I'm not asking you to deliver the baby."

"Zeus's mind is like a cage, trapping the daughter of Metis."

"You are responsible for letting her out."

Hephaestus swallowed: "With an axe?"

"Just use an axe." Zeus affirmed.

"You often forge artifacts, so you must have experience in determining the strength."

Hephaestus: "This method will dilute the authority you hold."

"Have you really decided?"

Zeus: "I inherited the wisdom and authority of her mother Metis."

"Now I just give it back to her."

"It can be regarded as returning the property to its original owner."

Hephaestus stopped asking, he took a breath, and an ax appeared in his hand.

After getting Zeus's affirmative look, he swung an ax on his head with great force.

The force of the ax was just right, and a gash opened in Zeus's forehead.

Along with the rainbow, a beautiful goddess wearing armor turned into a ray of light and flew out.

She looked to be in her early twenties and had medium powers. As soon as she landed, she said confidently: "My name is Athena, the goddess of wisdom."

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Hephaestus accepted the position of Lord God, but refused to return to Olympus with the three men and continued to live on the island of Lemnos.

Zeus didn't force it. After losing his wisdom and authority, his head was always groggy and he needed time to adapt.

On the way back, he was separated from Hera and Athena.

"I'm going to the human world to see what's going on with the human beings on the earth now."

"Do you still have faith in Cronus?"

The history books record everything.

Zeus was patrolling the earth, and in a valley, he discovered a graceful girl who was also a goddess.

His fourth wife, Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of fertility.

There is no ethics among the gods. The residual divine power of wisdom and authority allowed Zeus to see that if he had sex with Persephone, he would have a son with powerful divine power in the future.

Of course, I also saw the little thoughts of Demeter, the goddess of fertility.

Some gods predicted that Persephone would have sex with Zeus and give birth to a powerful son. In order to prevent her daughter from being killed by Zeus, Demeter hid Persephone in this valley.

Without hesitation, Zeus transformed into a dragon and flew into the valley, forcing Persephone to marry him.

A year later, he got his wish and got a newborn baby with horns on his head.

Zeus named him Zagreus, which means the one with horns on his head.

He took Zagreus back to the Olympus Mountains and protected him with his divine power. The young Zagreus crawled around on Zeus's lap, waving the thunder and lightning, the artifact that represented the power of the God King Zeus, with his immature hands.

On the golden throne, Hera had been waiting for a long time.

"Where did you go to flirt with women again, and you brought back a son."

Zeus said excitedly: "He is not simple."

"I used the remaining divine power of wisdom and authority to see that he will be a powerful god in the future."

"But before that, he needs to go through a little hardship."

Hera: "What ordeal?"

Zeus narrowed his eyes and said sadly: "Aren't the six giant sons of the god Uranus at our disposal?"

"You find a reason to let them kill this child."

"I will keep his heart and conceive it myself."

"Create the foundation of a powerful divine god for him."

Hera frowned: "You want me to be a villain again?"

Zeus smiled: "It's not your first time anyway."

"Demeter will not doubt you, she will only anger the son of Uranus."

"With the same powerful divine power, she has no choice but to let it go."

Hera: "He is Demeter's child?"

Zeus: "No, he is the daughter of Demeter and the child of Persephone."

Hera nodded: "That's easy to handle, I know what to do."

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The god Uranus had six giant sons, three of whom had only one eye on their foreheads and were the three cyclops brothers. The other three had fifty heads and one hundred arms and were the three hundred-armed giant brothers.

The three Cyclops brothers are the incarnations of thunder, lightning, and thunderbolt respectively. They are good at forging. Zeus's artifact thunder and lightning were made by them.

The three hundred-armed giant brothers are the embodiment of the power of the earth and like to eat.

Six people are born with powerful powers.

Before they were born, the sky god Uranus ordered the earth goddess Gaia not to give birth to them until they became great gods in their mother's body.

The earth goddess Gaia was unwilling and instigated her youngest son Cronus to overthrow his father, thus starting an era of confrontation between the sky and the earth.

The six giants who were born prematurely have great strength, but their brains are not very smart and they don't like to think.

After being rescued from the bottomless abyss by the god Uranus, he was thrown into the custody of Zeus on Mount Olympus.

Today they received an order from Queen Hera to kill her love rival, Persephone's son Zagreus.

The six giants didn't think much and went straight to where Hera was pointing.

In order to avoid suspicion, Zeus had already left Olympus.

Therefore, the six of them traveled unimpeded and quickly found the temple where Zagreus was.

The young god in the cradle sensed danger and hid himself.

But with only weak divine power, he had no resistance at all against six powerful gods with first-level divine power. The eldest of the three Cyclops brothers, Strophes, who represented the incarnation of thunder, transformed into a mirror and easily reflected Zagreu.

Si's hiding place.

Three hundred-armed giants cruelly strangled his young throat.

At the last moment of his life, Zagreus seemed to be inspired by his desire for survival. He turned into a bull and charged the giant with his sharp horns, fighting for his life.

The hundred-armed giants strangled him to death, dismembered the bull-shaped Zagreus with their knives, and cooked him on the fire.

Athena, the goddess of wisdom who had been hiding aside for a long time, endured the discomfort and rescued Zagreus' heart in accordance with Zeus's order and placed it in a box.

After receiving the signal from Hera, Zeus returned to Olympus. He tore open his own thigh and placed the heart of Zagreus inside for conception.

Thousands of years later, he will be reborn with a new identity.
Chapter completed!