Chapter 39: The Birth of the Ocean Goddess, the Three Sea Gods Struggle for Sea Power 1
However, Tartarus temporarily abandoned the idea of being the first to seize the Sea Power.
The plan hadn't begun yet; he needed to wait.
Fate had destined the Sea Power to belong to a fixed number of gods, and he wasn't sure if he could seize it.
Initially, the Sky God had attempted to forcibly seize the Sea Power, but was utterly unable to do so.
If he acted rashly and failed to seize it, his original plan would be shattered, resulting in even greater losses.
Waiting was necessary.
In the ocean.
Boom!
The power of the Ocean God, Pontus, erupted, forming a massive water hand that grabbed the flying, invisible sphere of Sea Power.
Perhaps this was the original controller of the ocean.
Intercepted by Pontus, the invisible sphere of Sea Power, which had been floating toward Oceanus, the River God of the Ocean, stopped mid-flight.
Then, the sphere flew toward Pontus, the god of the sea.
At this moment, Oceanus, the god of the oceanic rivers, had taken shape.
He was a slender male deity with dark blue curly hair and a blue robe.
Tartarus could clearly sense that the newly born Oceanus was at the early stages of a powerful divine power.
At his birth, Oceanus, the god of the oceanic rivers, was not yet fully conscious.
But Chaos had already passed on some of his memories to him.
The power of the oceanic gods belonged to him.
"My power of the oceanic gods!"
He channeled his divine power.
A similarly massive ocean hand grasped the distant sphere of the power of the oceanic gods.
The sphere, originally flying toward Pontus, stopped mid-flight.
However, Pontus was at the middle stage of a powerful divine power, far more powerful than Oceanus.
The two sides held each other for a brief moment, before the ocean god slowly continued its flight towards Pontus.
"Is my ocean godship being taken away from me, fresh from birth?" Anxiety shone in Oceanus's eyes.
The sudden, tragic news of his ocean godship being taken from him, fresh from birth, filled him with anxiety.
But even with all his might, he still couldn't defeat the distant deity.
Pontus, the ocean god, thanked Tartarus a thousand times in his heart.
It was Tartarus who had approached him, explaining that the ocean godship might be divided, and then helped him remove the source of chaos that was hindering his growth, allowing him to grow rapidly.
He had only consumed some harmless ocean water. Without the source of chaos, his growth had accelerated, leading to his recent breakthrough in strength.
Because he was stronger than before, at this crucial moment, he used even greater strength to suppress the newly born deity.
The power of the sea god was about to be reclaimed!
He could sense that this was the child born from the union of Mother Goddess Gaia and her brother, Sky God Uranus.
But he had to reclaim the power of the sea god.
He no longer wanted to be despised and insulted by the sky!
The sudden clash of the two gods' powers bewildered the others.
Except for Tartarus, the other gods were completely unaware of the existence of the sea god.
They only sensed that the newly born Oceanus, god of the great ocean river, and Pontus, god of the sea, whose aura had become strange, were both mobilizing their powers, leading to a stalemate between the two powers.
"What's going on? Why are the new gods fighting Pontus?" Nyx, goddess of the night, wondered.
"Pontus! What do you want? Are you bullying my child?"
Suddenly, a roar echoed from the sky, and the mighty power of Sky God Uranus descended from the vast heavens.
It passed through the sea's surface, plummeting into the water, enveloping Pontos, the god of the sea.
The divine might was intangible, but the might unleashed by the Sky Divine Authority exerted immense pressure on Pontos's soul.
Pontos, who had originally relied on his superior divine power to rapidly move the Ocean Divine Authority toward him, suddenly found his divine power sluggish.
The two powers entered a brief stalemate, with the Ocean Divine Authority's sphere halted mid-flight.
"Mother Goddess, help me! I didn't attack your child, but Uranus attacked me!" At this moment, Pontos, the god of the sea, uttered a mighty voice, echoing through the earth.
"I... Uranus, please don't harm Pontos. Prevent others. I have a child to be born." Gaia's voice echoed from the earth.
Tartarus naturally heard Gaia's voice, for he sensed it was addressed to him.
The only one Uranus, the god of the sky, needed to guard against was him, the abyss.
"If they really come to blows, can you defend yourself?" Tartarus smiled calmly.
Everything was still under control.
After what had just happened, he had feared that Pontus, the god of the sea, would completely crush Oceanus, the god of the great oceans and rivers, making this a done deal.
Then the plan he had previously discussed with Pontus would be impossible to carry out.
But now, Gaia, the Earth Mother, was about to give birth to another god.
Then he no longer needed to guide this plan.
As soon as Gaia finished speaking, the essence and divine power of the earth poured into the ocean, surging towards the vast ocean vortex.
Simultaneously, the essence and divine power continuously flowing into the ocean from the heavens also poured into the vast ocean vortex.
In the immense ocean vortex, a new god quickly took shape beside Oceanus, the god of the great oceans and rivers.
"I am Thesis, the goddess of the ocean!" a huge girl's voice echoed across the world.
The newly born Tethys was a young goddess, beautiful and graceful, with long dark blue hair and a long blue robe.
Tartarus sensed that Tethys, the Ocean Goddess, was also at the early stages of powerful divine power, just like Oceanus, the River God.
"That's mine!" Newly born, having also received the memories bestowed by Chaos, Tethys rapidly mobilized her divine power.
Another massive ocean hand took shape, seizing the sphere of oceanic divine power.
Although Gaia, the Earth Goddess, warned Uranus not to harm Pontus, Uranus did not retract his divine might.
He continued to suppress Pontus, the Ocean Goddess, with his mighty Sky Power.
Two gods at the early stages of powerful divine power were still inferior to one at the middle stages of powerful divine power.
However, with the interference of Uranus, the Sky God, and the sudden entry of Tethys, the previous tie between the two sea gods was broken.
The sphere of the ocean god's power flew toward the vast ocean vortex, rapidly approaching the two new gods.
"Damn you, Sky! You've been trying to steal my ocean godship since I was born, and now your children are doing the same. Damn it!"
The anger and hatred within Pontus, the god of the sea, grew ever stronger.
"Thank goodness Tartarus has a new plan for me, and thank goodness I chose the side of the Abyss. Otherwise, I might not have any of my ocean godship left."
If possible, Pontus, the god of the sea, would not have pursued this plan.
Although he suffered no loss, he didn't believe the Abyss was acting out of kindness.
This plan always gave him a vague sense of foreboding.
But for now, this was the only way.
"Sky, it's all your fault!"
Pontus, the god of the sea, controlled the earth and rocks beneath the sea surrounding the earth.
Boom!
Suddenly...