Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality

Yes, Zeus admitted, the affairs with Hera were hard to clarify, after all, how many deities on Olympus haven't done something secretly?

But he was sure that Hera had absolutely no connection with those wizards.

"Princess Liana, I've heard that the ancient Titans God, the righteous and lawful Themis has a deep relationship with the Spirit Realm... Surely you also believe in her justice."

"If you came for this reason, why not let her judge it?"

"I believe the Goddess of Law will make the fairest judg..."

"There's no need."

Interrupted again, Liana's gaze pierced through Zeus's avatar, looking towards that majestic mountain of the gods.

From a mortal's perspective, even from the perspectives of most deities, they could only see that one mountain.

Only a very few could see the hidden interface... as well as countless faiths and souls.

"The King of Olympus... the affairs of mortals should naturally be handled by mortals themselves."

"If they do well, they should be rewarded; if they do poorly, they should be punished."

"As for me, I only handle matters of the deities."

"Hera's affairs have nothing to do with me."

"But for the thievery you have maintained for a thousand years, it is time to pay the price."

Hera wasn't on the Mount of the Gods at all; she had long left due to her daughter's disappearance.

So Liana's true target was never an empty temple, but 'Asgard'.

Since the Divine King's hostility towards the Spirit Realm was obvious, a war was destined to unfold in the future.

Then why should she stand by and watch them steal, allowing millions of souls to become the source of divine power for the Olympian Pantheon?

"You—"

Crack—

Without giving Zeus's avatar time to react, as the other's astonishment froze on his face, behind Liana, a shadow of an ancient well with two alternating colors reflected in the sky of Chaos.

The three Fates exerted all their power, but what truly allowed the Well of Reincarnation to reveal its strength was the power given by Laine to the Goddess of the Nether Moon.

Only with great divine power could the complete strength of the Genesis Artifact be truly unleashed... However, in the past of Chaos, there was never a complete Genesis Artifact that truly displayed its might on the earth.

The white symbolizes life, the black symbolizes death.

In this moment, before words could be said, the Divine King's avatar exerted all his power to resist the pouring two-colored torrent.

"—How dare you!"

"These are the faithful of Olympus!"

Boom—!

The light purple dress fluttered, Liana remained indifferent to the Divine King's avatar's anger.

At this moment in Olympus, it was as if the sky had opened a crack.

Like the heavenly river pouring down, the water of the Well of Reincarnation rolled in.

Even though Zeus's avatar mobilized the interface power of Asgard, even though all the gods on the Mount of the Gods did their utmost to resist.

Yet in the rotation symbolizing the cycle, countless souls still returned to the embrace of reincarnation, back to the divine kingdom of their creator.

"Goddess of the Nether Moon!"

With a difficult expression, Zeus never expected that the target would be Asgard.

Watching those lost souls, though Zeus did not require faith, he still understood what this meant.

In the past, he and the gods' churches always told mortals—do not fear death, because after death you will gain eternal life in the realm of the deity you have faith in.

But if he couldn't stop the loss of the faith souls today, the god-human contract that lasted for thousands of years would end here.

Though this wouldn't cause severe damage to Zeus himself, from the perspective of sovereign authority, the loss of other gods would be his lost power!

"No, I still have my main body!"

Suddenly turning head, he gazed southeast of the earth.

Though the Well of Reincarnation and the power of the Spirit Realm naturally attracted souls, the existence of the Divine King's avatar and Asgard was not without meaning either.

Without enough time, the Spirit Realm could not take away all the souls, and his main body was about to arrive...

"Hmm?"

A subtle change in expression, a hint of confusion flashed in Zeus's avatar's eyes.

Where is my main body, where did he go?

Within the scope of sovereign's order, synchrony between avatar and main body should not be a problem—so if he could no longer sense the main body's location, was he still in the mortal realm?

"Hmm?"

Letting out a surprise, Erebus who had been silently watching the changes in the mortal realm since Ares moved east, expecting Laine's reaction, also found it startling.

Yeah, where did such a large Zeus go? Hadn't he just displayed power, forcibly tearing space, attempting to return directly to the Mount of the Gods, where did he run off to?

"..."

Silent without words, equally somewhat surprised.

Standing outside the mountain of Olympus in the sky, Liana also couldn't figure out why Zeus hadn't appeared here.

The Goddess of Autumn Erinys had already successfully destroyed Hera's temple, and even meanwhile, certain other temples that could sense evil power were also exposed to the sunlight by the three goddesses after they destroyed the cover.

Just what was confusing was that Zeus, who was expected to return long ago, was still absent, and it was unclear what had happened.

Until many of Asgard's souls were captured by the Well of Reincarnation, with a slight change in expression, Liana finally sensed a force forcibly tearing through space.

Evidently, Zeus had finally arrived.

However, compared to the beginning, he was still too late...

Click—

With a beckon of the hand, a brass-colored book fell into Liana's hands amidst the void.

In direct confrontation, she wasn't Zeus's match, that was beyond question.

But since she dared to come, she had naturally prepared.

The Codex of Creation, the highest of law and order.

It was once used by Laine to punish the Ancient Sun God who violated the solar operating rules, and today, Liana originally intended to use it to confront the Divine King who forcibly detained the Spirit Realm souls.

Using order against order, using the order of all spirits' cycle to confront the rule of rejecting external forces in the present world.

Everything was thought through, but what Liana hadn't expected was that Zeus would arrive late... the chains on the brass book naturally unraveled with a clinking sound, revealing the ancient artifact before the Goddess of the Nether Moon.

"The Spirit Realm is the origin of the world's souls, reincarnation is the transit of all souls."

"Spirituality has its regulations, the birth and death of all spirits have their order."

Gently pressing her palm on the pages of the Codex of Creation, Liana presented her final judgment.

"The violator is guilty."

"The guilty must be punished."

Buzz—

Invisibly, as yet another Genesis Artifact revealed its might, the power of the Spirit Realm grew more active and strong here.

What truly restricted Liana from exerting the power of the Spirit Realm was never how much she had, but how much she could use.

And with the Codex of Creation's support, using order as a fulcrum, the power she could manifest in the mortal realm instantly increased by more than several folds.

...

Simultaneously, on an unnamed hill thousands of miles from Cononia City.

With a somewhat curious expression, but clearly feeling that the backlash of fate on her was slightly lessened.

Playing with the beautiful mirror Laine had just obtained through a ritual, Clotho was in a very good mood.

"Amazing, so this really can repair the damage of fate!"

"Of course, there's an old saying among mortals, 'first calm the internal before pacifying the external.'"

"As a fate goddess, just thinking about finding the source of disruption in fate, what use does that have?"

"Even if you find it and eliminate it, if it no longer interferes with fate, will fate return to the right track?"

"No."

Shaking her head slightly, Clotho recalled what Atropos had said.

"Sister told me that even God-King Zeus couldn't accept his fate, just like during the Typhon chaos."

"He shouldn't have gambled his death either, although deities are undying, playing with fate doesn't have good results... but at least he is the God-King, so we should still stand by him..."

"That's not right."

Looking at the fate goddess who had just made a great contribution, Laine smiled and questioned:

"Think about it, since Zeus is the God-King, shouldn't he set a good example for the gods?"

"...It seems so."

After pondering for a moment, Clotho found no problem with that.

"Then consider again, if you were to solve a complex and long-standing problem, shouldn't you start from the easy parts, addressing the solvable issues first?"

"...That seems about right as well."

Nodding once again, Clotho agreed.

"Then ask yourself, compared to the mastermind who stirred up the fate of the whole world, is a God-King who must adhere to the order of the present world easier or harder to deal with?"