Greece: Zeus made me the queen of heaven?

Chapter 123 The Goddess of Chance and the Inevitable Constant
"Please use."

Hecate dug out silver plates and cups containing some suspicious food and liquids.

Eros didn't dare to guess what ingredients the witch's food was made of.

Maybe there was some frog urine or snake skin or something like that, but he wouldn't dare eat it at all.

Taking his eyes off the suspicious food, Eros chose to get down to business first and change the subject.

"Goddess Hecate, I came here specially to visit you because I heard from Nyx that you need divinity?"

Only when Eros brought up business did Hecate withdrew her gaze that was expecting Eros to taste her.

"Yes, that is true."

Perhaps because she had adapted a little, Hecate's condition gradually stabilized, and she was no longer as flustered and nervous as at the beginning.

His hands were placed on his legs, still clenched tightly.

"I do need some divinity."

Hecate, in a sense, she was a refugee.

In the world of Asia Minor where she was born, the lofty Earth Mother Goddess Kubler controlled everything, and her behavior was so harsh and cruel that she could not tolerate it.

In the not-too-distant world of Esseniro, the giant snake Apophis is lurking, ready to swallow up the light at any time.

Going to the Far North, in Scandinavia, the living environment is too harsh, the Nine Realms are constantly being conquered, and the Wild Hunt follows closely.

In comparison, Greece can be said to be a pretty good place to live.

Even in the Titan War that determined the ownership of the God King, the scale of the fight was limited to the leading gods.

After Zeus came to power, as the lord of enlightenment and justice, the contrast with other worlds became even stronger.

So Hecate simply moved to Greece to avoid more disputes in other worlds.

As a non-Greek native god, Hecate likes the current peaceful and harmonious atmosphere in Greece, but she also knows the importance of strength.

Therefore, she would not be like Eurynome, who repeatedly lowered her divinity to the level of a mere ocean goddess.

She forcibly left behind many of her powers, and in order to maintain this power, she needed a lot of divine support.

She helped Demeter some time ago and got what she wanted.

Demeter gave her the birth of the daughter of the god of agriculture and the priesthood of Persephone, the patron saint of the underworld.

But for her, the three-phase goddess, the more divinity the better.

Hearing Hecate's words, Eros nodded and reached out to take out Perses' divinity.

"It just so happens that I have a piece of pure divinity here, Perses, the son of the Titan Crius."

Perses, the Titan god of destruction, but even Eros couldn't remember any legends about this guy.

As a loser, he doesn't even have the right to leave behind a story.

The reason why Knonos still has believers and worshippers is that after all, he is the second-generation king of gods and the father of Zeus.

People like Crius and his family were pure victims.

Pallas became a stepping stone for Athena and was even portrayed as the playmate that Athena accidentally killed in her childhood.

No legend was left about Perses, and even his wife, Asteria, the goddess of meteors, was taken away by Zeus.

The power of the stars of Astraeus will be dismantled and divided by Zeus into countless constellations and stars.

After a moment's thought, Eros couldn't help but feel that although the gods were immortal, in a sense, their ending would not be much better than that of humans.

Precisely because they will not die, later generations will constantly tamper with the stories of the former, and only the victors will have the right to write myths.

But this matter has nothing to do with Eros.

Zeus is now in the prime of his life. It will take who knows how many decades for Greece to fall.

Eros pushed Perses' divinity in front of Hecate and smiled.

"This thing is of no use to me, but you happen to need it. Consider it my thank you gift."

"Thank you for helping me suppress Hades' power before."

If you want to take it, you must first give it.

This move is Eros's usual routine and trick.

When dealing with this kind of goddess with a good personality, a little effort in the early stage will bring greater rewards.

Hypnos always said that Eros was too generous by giving away his divinity everywhere.

But in fact, Eros only serves people according to their needs. For example, Eros never mentioned giving Hypnos anything.

Because this little guy will really accept it without any psychological hesitation, and then make Eros lose all his investment.

But Styx, Athena, and Hecate in front of him are not.

Eros used things that he had no use for at all, and what he got in exchange was a sense of guilt from them, because they felt that they had taken advantage of him.

Even though they were smart enough to realize that this was a conspiracy of Eros, their personalities would not allow them to accept this gift with peace of mind.

Sure enough, as Eros expected, Hecate was stunned for a moment and then quickly declined.

"It was Goddess Nyx who helped you that day, not me."

"Besides, Demeter has already paid my reward, so I don't need you to pay me more."

It was a familiar scene, Eros had seen it twice before, and this was the third time.

But Eros's ideas actually have some fallacies.

For example, Hecate is actually different from Styx and Athena, and her temperament is not that good. She behaves like them just because Eros told her so.

Eros wanted to try to conquer her, but he didn't expect that Hecate would react in this way in order to conquer him.

“I really can’t accept this.”

"It's okay. It's my apology for my previous impoliteness."

The two people, each with their own hidden agenda, began to argue over Perses' divinity.

As time went by, Hecate's body was quietly changing.

After just a while of pushing and shoving each other, Hecate had quietly begun to mature from a young girl.

Eros gradually stopped talking because his attention was drawn to other things.

The hazy gauze skirt on Hecate's body was propped up. The originally loose style now became quite tight, outlining curvy lines.

This picture, where things grow from small to large and the lines change from green to round, is a very wonderful visual experience.

Eros forgot about his business for a moment and only paid attention to observing this rare scene.

Hecate noticed that Eros suddenly stopped talking, and curiously followed his gaze, and then his eyes fell on her.

"Sorry, I was unintentionally rude again."

A black robe fell on Hecate, covering up the slowly changing wonderful scene.

"My body is changing all the time and there is no fixed state, so I rarely show my real body when I go out."

Hecate explained, and Eros' eyes brightened even more.

Changing every moment? Eighty changes a day?

Wouldn't it be fully automatic?
Eros was excited by this novel experience.

"It's okay. I should have avoided it a bit."

Eros changed the subject and stopped arguing with Hecate.

"Since Hecate is unwilling to accept it as a gift, then consider it as a reward for a favor I have entrusted to you."

"Ok?"

Hecate made a puzzled sound, she didn't know what Eros wanted to entrust her with.

"Well, I heard that Goddess Hecate is the goddess of chance and randomness, and represents the unpredictability of fate, right?"

Hecate nodded in agreement with Eros' words.

She does have such a divinity, representing the two sides of luck and misfortune, the uncertainty and possibility of the development of things.

However, the true owner of this divinity should be Boros, the god of opportunity who could not be born and whose fate was cut off before he was born.

As the second child that Metis was supposed to have, Poros, the god of opportunity and creation.

He symbolizes that everything is possible, 1+1 is not necessarily = 2, and absolute things are not necessarily absolute.

It’s just ironic that the God of Opportunity had his possibility of being born cut off by fixed constants, and became a god that would never be born.

In front of Ananke, the Greek goddess of irreversible destiny and inevitability, all possible opportunities are wiped out.

Hecate simply took advantage of the opportunity as an outsider and took over this part of Poros' divinity.

"I need your blessing, goddess Hecate, on the contingency and randomness of fate."

Eros said slowly.

"I don't need the blessing of luck, nor do I wish for the curse of misfortune. What I wish for is a chaos where both exist and neither exists."

This is what Nyx told Eros about how to avoid Ananke, the goddess of destiny.

If Eros continued to do things that went against the destiny, he would be targeted by Ananke like an obstacle stuck in the gears of a machine.

Whatever Eros plans will fail due to various influences.

But with the help of Hecate, Eros's luck and misfortune would be neutralized into a chaotic state of nothingness.

In other words, no matter what Eros did, there would be a dice thrower named Ananke who would secretly influence the number of dice.

But if Hecate helps, Ananke will still be able to roll the dice, but she will no longer be able to see what the dice she rolled are.

It was a way of covering up to prevent Eros from being targeted by Ananke, the goddess of fate, after he left the underworld.

This is also one of the reasons why Eros must have a good relationship with Hecate. He doesn't want things to go wrong after leaving the underworld.

For this purpose, Hecate's blessing and protection are also necessary.

"this one?"

Hecate thought about it and although Eros' request was a bit strange, it was not impossible for her to do it.

"But don't you really need the blessing of luck?"

"That's not necessary, Goddess Hecate, you just need to do as I say."

Eros shook his head.

A certain one-eyed demon god once taught him that 100% failure is 100% success, all one has to do is reverse the starting point.

A blessing of luck will not necessarily lead to a good result under the influence of a constant. Only an unaffected chaotic state is suitable for Eros operations.

"alright, I got it."

　Sorry, I forgot the time.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)