Everything had been arranged perfectly, without any possibility of failure.
Now, it was time to reclaim the authority that rightfully belonged to him.
How could the sky exist without thunder and rain?!
My great thunder!
Here I come!
Zeus temporarily returned to Olympus, secretly informing only Mother Goddess Rhea and the five gods including Hestia, telling no other gods.
A gentleman is cautious with secrets.
If several matters are not kept secret, they will surely harm success.
The more crucial the matter, the fewer gods who should know, the better.
He asked Mother Goddess Rhea to carefully guard Mount Olympus with Hestia, Demeter, and Hera.
Then he led Hades, Poseidon, and Melius directly into the endless darkness underground.
Melius was Zeus's loyal companion who had cared for and raised Zeus since childhood—his loyalty and closeness to Zeus required no doubt.
Once, that endless primordial god of darkness—Erebus—dissatisfied with Sky Father Uranus's tyrannical oppression, had boldly raised a dark storm sweeping across the entire universe, attempting to reclaim everything he had lost.
Then, then he had no more "then."
No matter how powerful a concept, no matter how fundamental an essence—if it lacked even the most basic spirituality, even self-consciousness, what meaning did existence have?
The darkness whose divine nature had been completely erased by Uranus thereafter became merely a basic concept constituting the universe, no longer possessing independent divine will.
Moreover, it was creatively utilized by Sky Father Uranus, transformed into the first barrier against Tartarus.
Later, Uranus even more creatively used darkness to construct the most sunless and terrible dark prison beneath the world.
Current darkness retained only the weakest instincts, or rather, only concepts operating according to their own rules.
For this reason, control of darkness nominally fell into God King Kronos's hands, but in reality, sufficiently powerful deities could all wield part of darkness's might—only the God King was the strongest one.
Darkness had become a complete tool.
Lady Night, sharing the same origin as darkness, was naturally also one of the strongest gods in wielding darkness.
But ultimately, Nyx was night, not darkness.
Darkness's supremely great authority was, in the truest sense, ownerless!
This was also why God King Kronos so coveted darkness's power, directly acting to erode darkness's origin without considering Lady Night's feelings at all.
Even though darkness had completely fallen silent, it was ultimately the most fundamental, most powerful cosmic foundational law.
Only a God King as powerful as Kronos to the extreme could possibly succeed in eroding its origin and bringing darkness's power under his own control.
Even Lady Night found it very difficult to completely erode darkness.
Moreover, even if she could, she wouldn't dare!
As soon as she dared act against darkness's origin, the celestial lineage would immediately unite as one and directly settle accounts with her completely!
The celestial lineage would never allow darkness and night to be in one god's hands—that would be too terrifying.
All concepts of light were under the celestial lineage's control. If they truly settled accounts completely, Lady Night would also be completely excluded from the world, even from the universe.
Kronos had been very successful. He and flowing movement Mother Goddess Rhea had successfully conceived the extremely powerful god of gloom and shadow, controlling gloom, shade, dimness, murk, and shadows.
All of this ultimately benefited Zeus.
To rescue the six giants, Hades's power was indispensable.
The reason gods cast into Tartarus could avoid being completely devoured by Tartarus's terrible void and having their divine nature completely annihilated lay fundamentally in one key point—they still retained an "anchor point" within the world's existence.
This anchor point was a "chain" created using darkness, linked within the profound darkness underground and connected to the world's existence itself.
This was the most important lifeline for deities cast into the void.
Without this lifeline providing them the life of "existence," they could only be devoured by Tartarus.
To use a vivid metaphor, it was like a kite—this chain was the kite string. If the string remained unbroken, the kite could still return. If the string broke, it was completely finished.
Therefore, to release gods cast into Tartarus, the most important thing was finding this "anchor point" hidden in endless darkness.
But how easy was this to accomplish?
Darkness was infinite and endless. As long as it was deliberately hidden, truly no one could do anything about it.
Moreover, suspicious God King Kronos had added double insurance.
Darkness was already chaotic and bewildering. In the endless darkness, he had specially dispatched misty Campe to add another layer of concealment.
Campe's power could create mist in darkness, cutting off all perception and detection, making the search extremely difficult.
This caused even deities who could wield part of darkness's authority to still be unable to find hidden anchor points.
This added layer of insurance was specifically to guard against Lady Night and Mother Goddess Gaia.
Kronos also knew Mother Goddess Gaia and Lady Night had always gotten along well—at least they could easily share common hatred.
Although Lady Night wouldn't dare defy Kronos's will unless absolutely necessary, the God King still took precautions.
Facts proved he had done right. If not for this, Mother Goddess Gaia would have long ago released the giants.
This was also why even great Mother Goddess Gaia was helpless.
She couldn't find the anchor point, so no matter how powerful she was, she had strength with nowhere to apply it.
To stage a jailbreak, one had to be able to find where the jail was.
Now, only Hades who controlled part of darkness's authority and Poseidon who possessed part of sea and ocean authority could work together in detection to find the anchor points connecting the six giants to the world.
Even so, Zeus and his three gods expended much time and energy in the endless underground darkness before finally finding the hidden anchor point.
Campe was clearly not faithfully fulfilling her duties.
She was currently lying there sleeping soundly, her massive form faintly visible in the darkness.
This was understandable—this place was too lonely and boring.
Even the underworld didn't exist yet. The underground darkness was truly a realm of darkness and void, not much different from Tartarus. Without sleep, one might go mad.
She was a monster god with very powerful combat ability, an inner sea powerhouse born from Mother of All Things Gaia and profound sea Pontus.
With such distinguished origins, her combat power couldn't be too weak no matter what.
Moreover, her appearance was quite intimidating.
Her divine form was extremely massive under normal circumstances, approximately ten thousand li long from head to tail.
From the waist up, her upper body was a normal female torso and head, with an extremely beautiful and alluring face and smooth, jet-black long hair.
Looking only at the upper body, she was quite stunning—even among numerous divine maidens and fairies, this was very outstanding beauty.
Moreover, her divine form was truly enormous, especially that magnificent bosom inherited from the Mother of All Things—simply wickedly shocking!
Two literal thousand-li snow mountains that with any slight movement performed truly earth-shaking avalanches, with extremely stunning visual effects.
Perhaps in the infinite underground darkness, or possibly naturally uninhibited, or maybe not yet knowing the concept of clothing, she cared nothing for appearances.
She was now completely unclothed, her massive divine form fully displayed in the void darkness.
Campe lying in slumber at this moment truly dazzled and bewildered viewers at first glance.
But as soon as one's gaze shifted slightly downward, normal gods immediately became clear-headed, all romantic thoughts instantly vanishing.
Hmm...
Though for certain gods, this might not necessarily be the case.
From the waist down she had a dragon body, with a sinuous lower form and scale-covered skin. Strange patterns were inscribed on the scales, and dark hidden lights occasionally flickered beneath them.
Moreover, her tail had grown an additional fork—a fierce scorpion tail.
The scorpion tail swished from time to time, its sharp poisonous stinger gleaming with cold light. Anyone could tell at a glance it was deadly.
The originally slender, fair waist connected to that massive dragon body also had an instant dramatic change in style.
There were actually fifty beast heads encircling that area, each fierce and evil. Ordinary deities would be terrified at the sight, and even great gods found them thoroughly disgusting.
Now these fifty beast heads were also sleeping with their master, but even in slumber, these heads maintained fierce and evil postures.
Actually, if it were only this, it would be acceptable. Though strange, there was still an unusual beauty to it.
The main issue was below her dragon body—where feet should normally be, there were countless venomous snakes!
Innumerable poisonous serpents coiled together in a tangled mass, their fierce snake heads constantly opening and closing, scarlet forked tongues flicking incessantly, making hissing sounds.
These countless venomous snakes together formed her feet, countless various snake bodies winding and coiling together. Just one look was enough to drop one's sanity several dozen percentage points.
The dark chains binding the giants—that is, their anchor points connecting to the world—were currently wrapped around her tail.
Zeus and Hades glanced down once, and both handsome faces simultaneously frowned, thoroughly disgusted.
They looked up in unison, instantly feeling much better.
They really couldn't accept a goddess of such appearance—they preferred goddesses with normal divine forms.
Melius was even more directly frightened into hiding behind Zeus.
Poseidon was different!
When looking only at the upper portion, he had shown merely slight interest.
But upon seeing the lower part, he was instantly different.
His eyes immediately blazed with greatly increased interest, full of curiosity and excitement!
Before Zeus could speak, excited Poseidon had already stepped forward, directly and unceremoniously shouting Campe awake.
"Hey hey, you're Campe, right? Wake up quickly!"
The awakened Campe was drowsy, her charming pupils carrying traces of confusion, not yet fully alert.
Her massive upper body, originally prostrate, slowly straightened, the motion causing even Zeus, who had seen grand spectacles, to feel his eyes truly opened wide!
Moreover, completely unexpectedly, this goddess with a somewhat unusual divine form actually possessed a pair of very enchanting eyes.
Just from the seductive light flowing in her gaze, one could determine she definitely had some charm attributes.
(End of Chapter)
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