Greece: I am Zeus!

Chapter 15 The Son Is Too Similar to His Father
Cronus, in the name of his god-king and lord of all gods, and given that his authority was inherently intertwined with the earth, could reasonably and seemingly without fault the newly conceived laws concerning procreation.

Cronus eroded the divine authority of the mother goddess Gaia and directly devoured the laws, which greatly displeased Gaia, but she ultimately endured it.

After all, we can't overthrow another god-king over something like this, can we? The price would be too high.

As for Rhea, the poor mother, the poor queen of the gods.

She was a gentle Titan who was not good at fighting. Faced with the God-King's atrocity of devouring his own children, she was powerless to resist Cronus.

No matter how much she pleaded or begged, it was all in vain. She could only watch helplessly as it all happened, tears streaming down her face, her heart filled with indescribable pain.

However, Gaia's compromise only emboldened Cronus, making him even more brazen and demanding.

Over the long years, the six giants, banished to the empty starry sky of the universe, could no longer bear the loneliness.

The vast, desolate starry sky is better than Tartarus.

But it could only be a tiny bit.

That boundless loneliness also drove God to despair.

They longed for the embrace of their mother goddess, so they wreaked havoc in the starry sky, both to vent their pent-up energy and to hope that this would allow them to return to the earth and attract the attention of the gods.

Then, using this as a pretext, Cronus, together with the Titans, once again stormed Tartarus! This time, it was a complete imprisonment.

Now, Cronus felt completely at ease, with no more worries.

Cronus's actions thoroughly angered the mother goddess Gaia. The giants had been banished to the stars because they had made a mistake, and although the mother goddess was dissatisfied, she had nothing to say.

But now, all they've done is destroy some toys, and they're being punished so cruelly—that's outrageous!
You've been secretly eroding my authority, and I haven't said anything. But what are you doing now?
I didn't say anything about what you did to your child, but you treated my child the same way!
The mother goddess Gaia negotiated with him several times, but Cronus always brushed her off and gave her the runaround.

In the end, the only concession Cronus made was to have Campe (literally meaning "bent"), a sea nymph born of the earth and the inner sea, "take care of" (actually watch over) the giants—a further humiliation.

Pontus's child, would she dare to say no to any command from the King of Gods?

Cronus's actions have completely trampled on the Mother Goddess's bottom line, and that ancient tolerance and patience are being worn away.

The Mother Goddess has completely lost faith in Cronus.

This child is becoming more and more like His Father, with the same cruelty and greed.

However, Cronus is now far too powerful.

He now possesses authority over creation, agriculture, growth, harvest, abundance, reaping, courage, procreation, reproduction, and fire.

Furthermore, Cronus had many supporters, and his rule became increasingly stable.

Now that Gaia's authority has been fragmented, she really can't do anything to Cronus.

When Cronus realized that no one could do anything about him, he naturally didn't restrain himself and only became more unrestrained.

It can only be said that He and the Father are indeed of the same lineage, and the greedy god-king Cronus still felt it wasn't enough.

Within the current cosmic order, He cannot directly take action against Titans with aligned interests, so He looks to others.

The basic elements that make up the universe—earth, water, fire, and air—are the foundations that Cronus must master on his path to centralized power.

He has already mastered fire; the next step is to master water.

However, it is not the right time yet. The relationship with Oceanus is sensitive, and we cannot take action now to avoid causing major turmoil.

As for Pontos, this inland sea is insignificant in the grand scheme of things; there's no need to rush it, it can be dealt with later. He has more desired and better goals.

Everything in the universe has only two concepts that can no longer give rise to spirituality; they can only exist as the fundamental laws of the universe, controlled by the gods.

These two are naturally Erebus, the Lord of Darkness and the incarnation of the Void; and Uriah, the Lord of the Mountains and the incarnation of the Mountains.

The power of the mountains is closely related to the earth and is currently completely under the control of the mother goddess Gaia, so Cronus does not dare to make any moves on it for the time being.

Moreover, the law of mountains is not that important. The law of mountains is completely under the control of the Earth Mother Goddess and cannot provide core control.

Cronus, of course, still preferred darkness.

One of the most fundamental, primal, and powerful laws in the universe.

Anyway, the Night God faction is currently outnumbered and weak, and Night God Nyx is easy to bully.

So He began to erode the authority of darkness without any hesitation.

As for the Lady of the Night's past assistance.
What help? That's all in the past.

This time, He was even more greedy, showing no regard for the friendship they had formed while fighting side by side.

After an unimaginable period of time, He and Rhea created the God of Darkness, who wielded the laws of darkness, gloom, twilight, obscurity, and shadow.

The primordial goddess Nyx, the Lady of the Night, was furious about this, but she was powerless to do anything about it.

After all, compared to the Celestial System, she was ultimately an outsider.

The isolated and outnumbered Night Gods could not possibly be a match for the powerful Celestials; the disparity in strength was simply too great.

Even Gaia, the mother of all things, can't do anything to the second-generation god-king. What can she, a night goddess who has never entered the core of power, do?
She could only endure it.

However, her anger intensified, and her heart felt as if it were being burned by a raging fire.

Back then, God Uranus bullied me! I finally overthrew Him, and now you, son of Uranus, are bullying me again!

Wouldn't that have been a pointless overthrow?
This made her feel extremely resentful, as well as extremely ironic and humiliating.

After giving birth to darkness, Kronos still devoured this newborn law without any mercy, completely absorbing its power.

No matter how much the mother goddess Rhea tried to dissuade him, the god-king remained obstinate; his will was unbreakable and ruthless.

After Nyx, the Lady of the Night, put up with her anger, Cronus became even more reckless.

Even the primordial gods couldn't do anything to me, so what can the other gods do to me?

In His view, there is no god in the known universe who dares to disobey Him.

The second-generation God-King is becoming more and more like His father, not only in terms of greed and cruelty, but also, as He grows stronger, even in terms of arrogance.

Thus, the second-generation God-King became even more greedy, and His ambition became boundless.

Under the deliberate direction of the god-king Cronus, He and the goddess Rhea gave birth to (contested) a new "sea and ocean".

There was even an “earthquake”—the deepest tremor of the earth.

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