Chapter 32 Chapter 9 Metis

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Since Themis left the Mount of the Gods, in the blink of an eye, another five hundred years had passed.

In the Chaos World, time was so valueless that this remained the case even after the appearance of the first generation of humans. It was not until the era of Bronze Humanity that the gods grew accustomed to counting time in ‘years’ rather than ‘centuries’.

Three hundred years ago, on Mount Othrys, Cronus truly became the Divine King. Driven by his oath, he declared the new rules of the Sun and the Moon in the name of the Divine King, and the few remaining concepts associated with the Moon completely flowed into the Spirit Realm.

As expected, the future Goddess of the Moon, aside from having a glowing celestial body of her own, wouldn’t be able to control anything else.

Even the light emitted by the ‘Moon’, apart from being called ‘moonlight’, had no mystical significance whatsoever.

In regard to the second oath, Cronus also announced Laine’s sovereignty over the Elements and the qualification to weave the Net to control them.

The power of the elements thus flowed towards the Spirit Realm, but aside from the Fire Element, the influence of the other elements was mostly superficial.

Although there were no Wind Gods yet, Wind was subordinate to Meteorology. Water, earth, light, and darkness all had their respective deities; only Fire had not yet found one.

Therefore, it was not surprising that there would be a future Fire God who could not control the fire element. Moreover, as Laine fully embraced the Source Power of the Fire Element, he could further touch the true Fire, bringing this unclaimed natural godhood into his control.

In the future, even if a Fire God was born in Chaos, she would merely be a deity presiding over the burning of physical matter. Henceforth, the fire of the spirit could harm the material, but the material fire could not touch the spirit. In the realm of Spirituality, Laine defined Fire as the primal one.

Beyond that, during these five hundred years, Chaos witnessed many divine births and celestial events.

The most widely known among them was the birth of the original God of Sun, Helios, the eldest son of Hyperion.

On the day this new god was born, the entire world saw the great Sun shine a thousand times brighter. The original Sun godhood split in two, with the larger part reverting to the Titan Ancient God, and the lesser portion to his child.

Hyperion still represented the Sun, but his eldest son represented the trajectory of the Sun. There was no sunrise or sunset in the original Chaos World, but now, there were evening and dawn.

And with the division of godhood, Hyperion, who was already approaching Divine Power Level 18, suffered a great loss of Vital Essence, barely maintaining his strong divine power. Divine power could be sustained, godhood could be split, but the Sun could not be duplicated.

Thus, Helios, barely born, became a Sun God without a Sun. Since he lacked a celestial body corresponding to his godhood, Helios, though nearly a century old, still maintained the appearance of a child.

Possessing a Sun godhood of level 15, he was like the early Laine, merely a True God with feeble divine power. This Titan family drama certainly provided much amusement for the divinities of Chaos.

Apart from that, the second daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, the Goddess of Meteor Asteria, was born. Chaos’s sky now had an erratic celestial body. But to Coeus’s surprise, his daughter only represented the celestial body itself.

The light she emitted didn’t even contain a trace of energy, even though she was also a type of star.

Aside from these minor events in the sky, the ocean saw the birth of numerous deities. Oceanus, in particular, had a keen interest in procreating offspring.

With the birth of hundreds of Divine Children, numerous rivers, lakes, and Fountains sprung up on the earth, and the sovereign authority of the God of the Ocean began to expand.

Although, as the ‘Circumterrestrial River’, Oceanus technically presided over distant seas and ocean currents, friction began to arise between him and the Ancient Sea Gods as his offspring proliferated.

Their godhood couldn’t be stripped away, but that didn’t mean those with similar domains wouldn’t fight. Just as the land was ever-expanding, the ocean was actually growing as well. The newly grown ocean didn’t have innate ownership, and though it had been divided between the two Sea Gods, that didn’t mean it would always continue this way.

The two Sea Sovereigns didn’t clash directly, but conflicts among their children were not uncommon. Nonetheless, Oceanus, while prolific, was discontented: he had only two True God children — and Styx resided in the Underworld, scarcely heeding the commands of her own father.

There was little he could do about this but to continue procreating with the original Sea Goddess, Thaesis.

In such an environment, Metis, later renowned in mythology as ‘the Goddess of Wisdom and Strategy’, now the Goddess of Hydrology, was born.

“Congratulations, my brother, another True God has emerged, and your divine lineage grows ever stronger,” the God of Meteorology said to his long-unseen elder brother within a palace far out at sea.

Ever since Themis had built her temple on Mount Othrys, soon after, big and small palaces began to proliferate throughout Chaos.

At least in the matter of indulgence, the Chaotic Gods learned quite quickly.

“And you will be soon too, won’t you, Crius? I hear that you and Eurybia have come together,” he said.

“Judging by the days, your first child should also be born soon,” he added.

With a lukewarm smile, Oceanus seemed not too enthusiastic.

Beside him, Crius looked somewhat embarrassed. He was well aware that Oceanus was expressing his dissatisfaction.

After all, it was common knowledge now that the Ocean Deity Sovereign had a falling out with his uncle. Even though neither had come to blows, the two had ceased all communication for centuries.

At such a time, Crius’s choice of the ancient Sea God’s youngest daughter naturally upset him greatly.

“I know that you’ve had a conflict with Pontus,” Crius said with a hint of helplessness, “but there’s absolutely no need for hostilities.”

“So, on which side do you stand?” Disregarding the pleasantries of the God of Meteorology, Oceanus asked bluntly.

“…I will stay on Mount Othrys. I have no desire to come to blows with Eurybia’s kin, but neither will I against you,” Crius replied.

Though he said this, Crius was acutely aware that for him, who had not yet become a god of great divine power, taking sides was not a good thing.

“It’s better that way, my brother,” Oceanus said, casting a warning glance at Crius, then turned around and loudly announced to the gods who came to the celebration:

“To celebrate the birth of my daughter, the Goddess of Hydrology, Metis, let us begin the festivities.”

“Everyone present here is a friend of the Ocean divine lineage.”

At these words, the tense atmosphere due to the two Titans finally eased, and the gathering of gods began to enjoy the festivities, blessing the newborn as they indulged in the nectar of the banquet.

This beverage, originating from the Mount of the Gods, became the favorite of all deities the moment it appeared and no feast was complete without it. Rumor had it that it actually came from a deity in the Underworld, but no one cared about its provenance.

The gods only cared about one thing, that the ‘nectar’ was pleasurable, and that was enough for them.

Before the palace, while the deities celebrated, in a place unseen by them, in the Spirit Realm, a figure arrived silently behind the Ocean Temple.

When the Spirit Realm began spreading across the earth, Laine did not first choose the continents but opted instead for the more remote ocean.

Now, he stood in the first layer of the Spirit Realm, looking at the small infant on the outer bed, his expression hesitant.

She was Metis, who originally presided over “Strategy,” “Wisdom,” “Thought,” and “Hydrology,” the first wife of the third-generation Divine King Zeus, and the mother of the Goddess Athena.

But now, she was just a weak infant with control over “Hydrology.”