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Chapter 4 God King Zeus and Queen Hera

The wedding of the sea nymph Amphitrine and the new sea god Poseidon went unnoticed.

Because at the same moment, another bigger wedding was taking place.

The host of the wedding was Zeus, the king of gods, and the hostess was Hera, the goddess of marriage and childbirth, a powerful god of divine power, and the biological mother of Hephaestus.

This is a belated wedding.

Zeus and Hera have been in love for at least 300 years. During this period, Zeus had six wives and countless lovers, but only Hera was always by his side.

No matter what difficulties they encountered, the two walked through it together.

Overthrow their father Cronus together, establish the Olympus pantheon together, and recruit the gods together.

So Zeus treated Hera differently from the first six wives, and he was very generous.

At the wedding, he swore an oath in front of the gods, promising to share his throne and theocracy with Hera.

He recognized the orthodox status of Hephaestus, the son conceived by Hera alone, and was conferred the title of chief god of the Olympian pantheon.

He also forced Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, who was newly added to the Olympus pantheon, to marry Hephaestus.

Not only made an oath, but Zeus also took practical actions.

Hera immediately gained the power of Zeus. Whenever she traveled, she was accompanied by thunder and lightning, and she could also gather and disperse dark clouds and call wind and rain.

Even the most precious thing of Zeus, the artifact representing his god-king power, the spear "Thunderbolt" made by the three brothers of the Cyclops, the son of the god Uranus, can be driven by Hera at will.

Now the gods understand.

Compared with Zeus's other wives and lovers, Hera is different. She is the queen of heaven, and her position in Zeus' heart even surpasses the status of the god king that Zeus is striving for.

The gods sent congratulatory gifts one after another.

Unusually, this wedding Zeus did not invite his supporter, the god Uranus who helped him ascend to the throne of God King.

What is even more abnormal is that Gaia, the goddess of the earth, who was a supporter of the previous god-king Cronus, came here uninvited and gave generous gifts.

What Gaia sent was a sacred tree that would bear golden apples, and generously gave her creation, a huge python named Pitong of medium divine power, to Hera to drive.

The weight of the gift made the gods look at it.

The wedding ended with laughter and the blessings of the gods.

But the meaning behind the wedding caused an uproar among the gods.

Hera, the goddess of marriage and childbirth, can no longer be called the seventh wife of Zeus, the god king, but should be called the Queen of Heaven.

She is as honorable as the god-king Zeus.

On the island of Lemnos, Hephaestus still sits on the highest point of the island, faithfully recording history with a history book in his hand.

He also asked someone to send a gift to the wedding of Zeus and Hera.

A pair of golden boots, a scepter, a crown, and a golden throne that veiled the power of Queen Hera.

The four congratulatory gifts are artifacts created by Hephaestus himself.

In the original history, the Golden Throne that symbolized the power of Queen Hera was indeed created by Hephaestus, but it should not be given away at this time.

He probably built this artifact out of revenge for Hera's abandonment of him. As long as Hera sat on it, he would be imprisoned by the rules and unable to move.

Zeus will personally mediate and marry Aphrodite, the most beautiful goddess among the gods, who is in charge of love and beauty, and the mother and child will be reconciled.

Hephaestus sighed: "It's self-defeating!"

By sending the Golden Throne ahead of time, his original intention was to expose the grievances with his mother Hera, and to avoid his future marriage with Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty.

Because Hephaestus never saw his biological mother Hera clearly, nor did he look down on Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, so he made this bad move.

Although Hera abandoned him, what happened later was too coincidental.

He just happened to be dropped on the island of Lemnos, and just happened to be adopted by the passing grandmother Tesis, who just happened to be neutral in the war with her husband Oceanus.

If there are multiple coincidences in one thing, Hephaestus believes that it is the inevitable result of a multi-party game.

and……

Tesis, the grandmother of the sea who adopted Hephaestus, she is also the adoptive mother of the queen Hera...

As for Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, Hephaestus has a headache whenever he thinks of marrying her.

Although this goddess is the most beautiful woman in the world, she has an open personality and her private life is extremely disorderly.

According to historical legends, Aphrodite not only has many faces among the gods, but also has countless lovers in the mortal world...

Hephaestus passed through the ugly appearance, touched the black cloak presented by his friend Clotho, the weaver of fate, and felt the soft touch of the silk thread of fate.

"Mother."

"I know you mean well, but I can't grasp it!"

He looked into the distance, and there were dark clouds gathering on Mount Olympus, and the sound of thunderbolts.

This is the signal for the trip of the god king Zeus and the queen Hera.

Maybe……

It was for his marriage...

After all, the king of the gods must do what he says, and what he promises must not only be done, but also done immediately.

Hephaestus put away the history books, stepped out, left the highest point of Lemnos Island, and returned to his temple to wait.
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Earlier Mount Olympus.

God King Zeus and Queen Hera are talking.

Hearing the female voice constantly coming from his mind, Zeus asked: "Is Metis really a girl?"

Hera sat on the golden throne sent by Hephaestus, and replied: "You have asked many times, and I have repeatedly confirmed it many times with reproductive rights. It is indeed a girl."

Zeus: "Uranus teased me with prophecy, why did he do that?"

Hera hesitated: "Maybe it's just his bad taste based on his own great power?"

Zeus was silent.His figure was bathed in the celestial brilliance of Mount Olympus, and his eyes were full of gloom.

Two of his least favorite prophecies in his life came from the same person, the sky god Ouranos.

It's more of a curse than a prophecy.

The first prophecy, half fulfilled, was spoken by Uranus to his son Cronus who overthrew him.

He said: "You will eventually be overthrown by your own son, just like me."

Now Zeus really overthrew his father Cronus.

But Cronus, who was missing, also passed the curse to Zeus.

The second prophecy was spoken by Uranus to Zeus.

At the highest point in the sky, he said to Zeus who was asking for advice: "You and Metis, the goddess of wisdom, will have a son, and his strength will surpass yours."

Metis was the first wife of Zeus, and the two joined together out of the common pursuit of power. She was Zeus' right-hand man and think tank.

Zeus was able to fight against his father Cronus when he was weak, except for the support from the god Uranus, it has nothing to do with the wisdom of Metis.

But with the prophecy of the god Uranus, the first thing he did when he returned to Olympus was to swallow the pregnant Metis alive.

Now it looks like he did something wrong.

He said to Hera in frustration: "Is it true that the ranks of great powers cannot be crossed?"

"I'm like a puppet now, pushed into the foreground."

"I began to understand my father a little bit. I knew the gap between powerful divine power and great divine power, and I knew that the end would come."

"But he still imprisoned our brothers and sisters in his stomach like grabbing a life-saving straw."

Hera took Zeus's hand and comforted her softly, as she had done all these years.

"Do not be discouraged."

"Sooner or later, you will become a god of the first level of great power."

"Uranus can do it as a latecomer, and you must be able to do it too."

Zeus: "I don't see it, I don't see hope at all."

"The authority or other methods that can promote great divine power."

"Where are they?"

Hera: "Have you forgotten?"

"You have inherited the wisdom of Metis."

"Integrate vertically and horizontally, fight and divide, you have been doing it all the time."

"Your goddess wives and wandering sons and daughters helped you a lot during the war."

"It can be seen that what you have done is not useless."

"We have eternal life, and there will always be a chance."

"The most urgent thing is to take out the daughter of Metis in your mind, she is innocent."

Zeus: "I can't trust anyone else, except you, I don't trust anyone now."

Hera replied: "Actually, there is another person you can trust."

"Who?"

"My son, Hephaestus."

Zeus wondered: "I remember him. I was making friends with Themis, the goddess of justice."

"As soon as you were jealous, you gave birth to him alone."

"Didn't you throw him to Tesis, the grandmother of the sea? You want him to avoid the war of gods."

"Can he understand?"

Hera: "He already understood that at our wedding, the four congratulatory gifts he gave were all divine artifacts."

"You may not believe it, but Hephaestus should have the ability to prophesy."

"The golden throne he sent perfectly fits the authority of my queen."

Zeus got up from the throne of the god king and summoned thunderclouds all over the sky.

"Then go find him."

"He is your child, so I naturally recognize him."

"Wait." Hera said, "Bring Aphrodite."

Zeus looked back at her, and immediately understood Hera's plan.

"You want to use the authority of marriage to testify for the two of them and become an inseparable couple forever?"

"Hephaestus will blame you later."

"Aphrodite is not a good person."

Hera replied calmly and proudly: "Aphrodite is the most beautiful woman in the world, so she is naturally the best."

"My Hera's son should be matched with the best woman."

(End of this chapter)