Greek Mythology: Master of the Abyss
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Chapter 88 The Wise Tartarus? The Shock of the Goddess of Justice ①
When gods are born, most of them transform into long cloth robes with divine power.
Female deities mostly wear long skirts.
The goddess of justice, Themis, was born covered with a divine armor similar to the one Gaia wore when she faced Tartarus.
Now she came to see Tartarus in the same attire she had always worn.
Themis wore silver armor, a silver helmet, and had long golden hair draped over her shoulders.
On her left side hung an unsheathed sword, on her right a fascist staff, and in her left hand she held a scale.
These three items were the divine artifacts that accompanied her when she was born, and all of them exuded a solemn and powerful aura.
Most female gods are gentle and pretty, such as the goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, who is beautiful and gentle.
The appearance of Themis, the goddess of justice, is a different kind of beauty.
Her eyebrows are like sharp swords, her eyes are firm, her nose is high, her face is as sharp as a knife, and her contours are clear, making her look heroic, dignified and elegant.
She was nearly as tall as Tartarus, with a straight figure. Her exposed arms were not thick, but had the voluptuous and toned figure of a woman, full of strength.
As he walked, his legs, straight and slender, were visible beneath his battle robe, without a trace of excess fat. His thighs were plump and toned, full of explosive power.
Although the goddess of justice Themis was born more than a thousand years ago, only gods were born in Tartarus, and they never appeared even when people looked at them occasionally.
This was the first time the two sides met after a thousand years.
Tartarus looked at this goddess, who was very different from the other gods, with some curiosity. He said, "Welcome, Themis, the goddess of justice. What can I do for you in the underworld?"
Themis, the goddess of justice, raised her head, looked towards Tartarus on the throne above, and said, "Ancient God of Hell and the Abyss, I have come to ask you a few questions."
"You can first tell me what you need. If I can do it, in exchange, you can choose to answer my questions."
Tartarus looked down and felt that this goddess was very interesting.
When all the gods came to him and asked for something, they would directly state their goal, and only after they got it would they think of giving back.
But this goddess of justice, Themis, asked me to propose the conditions first?
Tartarus thought to himself, "It's fitting for her title: the Goddess of Justice, dedicated to justice and order. So, she made sure I could offer her what I wanted before getting my answer. What an interesting new god."
He smiled and said, "Don't worry. You can state your needs first and then respond later. Because, right now, I don't think I need anything in return."
"Okay then," said Themis, the goddess of justice. "I'll ask my question first. If you think my question is not good, you can choose not to answer it."
After a pause, she continued, "I don't sense any disorder or conflict from the day goddess Hemera, the Big Dipper, or other night gods. They all maintain their own order."
"I believe the world needs order, and so do the gods. Everything should be regular and orderly."
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"My first question is, how did you manage to ensure the orderly growth of all the Midnight Gods?"
Tartarus smiled and said: "What you mean by the gods being out of order is the gods fighting each other, right? Where there are interests, there will naturally be disputes. When there is no conflict between the interests of each other, there will naturally be no disputes, and the gods will naturally enter an orderly state.
"It shouldn't be like this." Themis, the goddess of justice, frowned slightly and said, "I've observed that the later gods are born, the less likely they are to have their own true bodies."
"Then, controlling a larger domain will allow us to grow faster and naturally become stronger. In order to grow faster, the earth gods all want to seize more domains."
"For their own growth, they will seize territory and fight for it, which will inevitably lead to chaos among the gods."
"Like the Earth Spirits, they have all entered this state of disorder. Similarly, the Midnight Spirits, in order to grow, will likely fight for their own domains and enter this state of disorder."
"But, I've asked your child, none of the Midnight Gods have actively fought for territory, nor have they fallen into disorder. Don't they want more territory and faster growth?"
Tartarus originally left part of the underworld and space to his future children.
But unfortunately, the goddess of night, Nyx, gave birth to several new gods. They never took the initiative to ask Tartarus about obtaining the domain, and they even had almost no need for the domain.
Aether, the god of skylight, was the air and light of space. Giving him the space domain would be of the greatest help to him, and Aether obviously wanted it, so Tartarus gave it to him.
But for other children, Tartarus cannot force them to control the domain when they don't want to, as this will only restrict their development.
However, Tartarus would naturally not say that.
The gods are in contact and communicating with each other. The Dark Night God took the initiative to give up his domain. Many gods should know this.
Since the goddess of justice Themis asked this, she naturally wanted to know the root cause.
Tartarus smiled and said, "Curious Lady of Justice, let me answer your first question first. I did not force my children to enter the Order."
"From the moment they were born, they had their own choices. I just let them choose the path they want to take."
"There's no scramble for territorial interests, no hatred. They're following their own path. Whether intentional or unintentional, they've entered into this orderly growth."
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Themis, the goddess of justice, muttered to herself, "As you said, without interests and disputes, order naturally follows. There are indeed no conflicts of interest among the Midnight Gods at the moment. I really like their orderly lives."
Tartarus said, "These children have relieved the Father and Mother Gods of their worries, and have relieved me of many troubles. Now, let me answer your second question, about the growth and strength of the gods."
"Some gods may have fallen into some kind of misjudgment. There are many ways for gods to grow and become stronger, but there are two most prominent ones."
"First, if a deity possesses more domains, its growth rate will accelerate. However, this growth rate depends on the divine authority it controls, and different divine authorities will have different growth rates."
"Like mountain gods and sea gods, the mountain god Uriyado controls the rivers, lakes, and seas of an area, which will increase his growth rate, but not too much."
"Because he is the God of Mountains, he controls the authority of the God of Mountains. The more mountains he controls, the greater his increase will be. The increase in his control over the water area will not be too obvious."
"If the rivers, lakes, and seas in the same area were controlled by a sea god, the increase in power he would receive would naturally be far greater than that of a mountain god."
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Themis, the goddess of justice, nodded slightly and said, "I understand a little, but if the domain of control is inconsistent with divine authority, the increase will not be significant. However, if the domain is large enough, the increase can be increased."
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"So, it is the right choice for the gods to fight for more territory."
Tartarus smiled and said, "You're right. That's why some gods are always thinking of ways to seize more territory. But there are gains and losses."
"What do you mean?" Themis, the goddess of justice, frowned and asked.
Tartarus said, "My true form is the abyss, the underworld, and space. Nyx's true form is night, Erebus's true form is darkness, Gaia's true form is the earth, and Uranus's true form is the sky."
"Uria is the mountain, Pontus is the bottom of the sea, Oceanus and Tethys are the ocean, Hyperion is the sun, and Aether is the light and space of space.
"We are all gods with our own bodies. We can also be called regional gods or domain gods."
"As you said, the gods of later times no longer have a true body. Like Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, and you, the goddess of justice."
"I call these gods without a true body, but who control certain concepts, concept gods."
"For Domain Gods, more domains, even if they are incompatible, will weaken the increase, but it won't be too weak."
"For conceptual gods, the increase in their domain will be even lower. For example, I will give you control over all the waters of the underworld."
"The increase you can get is not even as great as the increase Pontus can get by controlling only the eastern waters."
"So, the growth of a god is not only achieved through domain amplification, but also through the first and most important method. That is, understanding divine authority."
Themis, the goddess of justice, said, "Just as I have been perceiving the order of the world and the gods, I can also be said to be comprehending the divine authority of order, right?"
Tartarus smiled and said, "Yes, you have a strong understanding."
"A Domain God with a true body can sense the fundamental power within it and comprehend the various laws that already belong to him, which will accelerate his growth."
"Similarly, a concept god who controls a certain concept's divine power can, by perceiving the divine power they control, comprehend the laws that originally belonged to them, and thus accelerate their growth."
"If a deity's mind is focused enough, their understanding is strong enough, and their understanding of divine authority is enhanced, the speed of growth can surpass that of the domain they control."
"Like my child, Hypnos, the god of sleep. After his birth, he controlled no domain and continued to walk the earth. He gained a sense of the power of sleep through observing the sleep of plants and the sleep of the gods."
"So, now he has also reached the middle stage of powerful divine power. Similarly, the God of Death, Danados, has been walking in the abyss since his birth, comprehending death, and has now grown to the middle stage of powerful divine power."
"For a Concept God, if the perception of the divine power they control is fast enough, the increase in their growth rate can exceed the increase in the growth rate of the domain they control."
Themis, the goddess of justice, said, "Thank you for your answer. I understand. The world is limited, and the area under your control is not large enough."
"Even if the Concept Gods possess this domain, the increase they gain is not as good as if they could comprehend the divine power they control themselves."
"And several Midnight Gods chose to spend most of their time comprehending their own divine authority, rather than wasting time on seizing domains. Their growth rate is also very fast."
"If they comprehend divine authority and refrain from engaging in domain disputes, they will naturally maintain their own order. If the gods of the earth also choose to comprehend the divine authority they control, order will naturally follow."
Tartarus smiled and said, "Perhaps some of the gods already know both methods. Therefore, some may choose to proceed with both simultaneously. The ambitions of some gods cannot be curbed."
"Yes, when I am not strong enough, I cannot eliminate the disorder among the gods." Themis, the goddess of justice, looked determined.
"But I will work hard to become stronger. I will make the world more orderly and bring order to the gods."
Tartarus said nothing.
In his opinion, there is no absolute fairness and justice in this world, nor is there absolute order.
Themis, the goddess of justice, controls order and justice and will establish laws in the future. However, because this world is in disorder, there is order.
Even if there is order, there is still disorder.
Themis, the perfectionist goddess of justice, is destined to fail to achieve the absolute order she desires.
At this time, the goddess of justice, Themis, looked at Tartarus and said, "I have another question for you."
"You say." Tartarus said.
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Themis, the goddess of justice, said, "It's about the three Cyclops."
"When they were on Earth, they gave me the impression of possessing disordered power, divine strength, and divine consciousness, and were on the verge of exploding and destroying everything at any time."
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"I admit that they are the children of the Mother Goddess and my younger brothers. I want to help them, but my strength is far inferior to theirs, and I cannot use divine authority to bring them into an orderly and controllable stability."
"After hundreds of years, I couldn't figure out how to bring them into order, but since they came to the underworld, their disorder has disappeared."
"Their strength, divine power, and divine consciousness have all entered into order, and their emotions have become stable. Before coming here, I went to the east of the underworld, and my divine consciousness sensed that they no longer had any sense of danger around them.
"So, I want to ask, how did you manage to get the three Cyclops into order?"
Tartarus looked down and said, "Themis, have you ever considered that it's not they themselves who are causing their disorder, but you?"
"We? I don't understand. Please teach me." Themis, the goddess of justice, was puzzled.
Tartarus said, "Cyclops, born with a strange appearance, lacked divine authority. From the beginning, most earth gods did not regard them as fellow gods."
"It's possible to view them as alien monsters, but they possess powerful strength and divine power that surpasses even those of gods below the primitive gods."
"When these aliens still possessed the power to harm them, the gods of the earth began to feel fear in their hearts."
"Fear made the gods of the earth instinctively afraid to approach them, or even rejected them. And the gods' actions directly caused the three Cyclops to have a grudge against them."
"When a spirit constantly expresses dislike for you, or even displays clear hostility towards you, will you be kind or hostile towards it?"
"What if these hostile spirits are not one, but several, or even dozens?"
Themis, the goddess of justice, lowered her head and fell silent.
She thought about helping the three Cyclops, but she was not strong enough and ended up doing nothing.
It is undeniable that the powerful Cyclops made her feel afraid.
Gods will not die, but they will be seriously injured and need a lot of time to recover, which will naturally affect their growth and strength.
Because of her fear of danger, she never came into contact with the three Cyclops in the end.
She thought of the Twelve Titans, herself included.
Some of them were not disgusted, but just afraid, and some of them were obviously disgusted with the Cyclops.
But no matter which one, they chose to exclude the three Cyclops.
In the end, the Mother Goddess even chose to let the three Cyclops leave Mount Othrus.
This is also a kind of rejection and hostility.
After a moment's silence, the goddess of justice, Themis, said, "I understand. You are right. I remember that when they were first created, they had no violent thoughts, no violent emotions, and no hostility."
"But later, their divine thoughts became dangerous, their divine power became violent, and their outward appearance became hostile."
"The disorder of their divine power, strength, and divine thoughts did not begin like this, but became disordered later. The root cause lies with us, who caused their disorder."1
Tartarus smiled and said, "It's very simple to keep them in order. Just treat them normally and fairly."
"They possess great strength. I have granted them the authority of the guardians of the underworld. They are skilled in forging weapons, so I let them do what they like."
"They like to communicate with my child Charon, and Charon likes them, so I gave them the management of the eastern region."
"Every god has its strengths and weaknesses. The three Cyclops understood their own value, and the underworld became safer and more orderly because of them."
"So, they are already orderly. Just treat them normally and they will be orderly."
Themis, the goddess of justice, looked at Tartarus, and her original calmness was replaced by a hint of admiration.
She bowed deeply to Tartarus, then stood up straight and said seriously, "I understand. Thank you for your teachings."
"Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, said that you are a being with profound knowledge and know everything. I didn't believe it at first, but now I do."
"I always thought that the disorder of the world and the disorder of the gods needed to be eliminated and controlled with great power. I was wrong."
"Some disorder requires great power to eliminate, while the root of some disorder is not the disorder itself, but perhaps lies around us."
"And the cause of this disorder doesn't necessarily require immense power to eliminate. Perhaps a change in behavior can easily eliminate it."
"You are not only a powerful god, you are also a wise one. That is what Mnemosyne called you, and I now believe she was absolutely right."
"I'm not really a wise man, I just have lived longer and seen more, so I understand more." Tartarus smiled.
At this time, the goddess of justice, Themis, said again: "I have one last request."
"I heard from the goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, that you were born after the mother goddess Gaia, making you the second born in the Chaos world and the oldest primordial deity."
"You were originally the God of the Abyss, the very essence of the Abyss. But now, no gods mention the Abyss. They all call you the God of Space or the Lord of the Underworld."
"As space expands, the abyss moves further away from the center of the world. Even the three sea gods and mountain gods who have seen the abyss are unsure whether it still exists."
"I heard from the Mother Goddess that the Abyss is the source of all disorder in this world. It is the most dangerous and terrifying. She told me to stay away from the abyss."
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"I control justice and order, so I want to see the abyss formed by the aggregation of all the sources of disorder in this world. Is that okay?"
After saying the last sentence, the goddess of justice Themis looked towards Tartarus with uncertainty in her eyes.
The abyss is far away from the center of the world. After the birth of the Midnight Gods, they were all taken to the abyss by Tartarus.
His children were certain of the existence of the Abyss, but they had never mentioned it to the Earth Spirits.
As a result, thousands of years later, the gods of the earth, who could no longer sense the abyss, were no longer sure whether the abyss still existed.
Some gods among them speculated that the abyss had merged into the underworld and no longer existed.
Themis is now unsure whether the abyss still exists.
If it exists, as Tartarus himself, would he let himself see it?
However, Themis overthought.
After she finished speaking, Tartarus smiled and said, "Okay, now?"
Tartarus naturally has no fear of any god who wants to go to the abyss.
Even if Gaia, the Earth Mother, wanted to go to the abyss, he fully agreed.
He is the original body of the abyss. Now that Gaia has entered the abyss, Tartarus wants to try whether he can seal it with the amplification of his original body.
Unfortunately, the sky god Uranus has returned to his original form, and Gaia is now probably afraid to approach the abyss again.
Tartarus naturally would not object to any god who wanted to go to the abyss.
"If it's possible now, that would be best." The goddess of justice, Themis, showed unconcealable excitement on her face.
There are various climate disasters on the earth, and sometimes the source of eternal chaos causes the destruction of an area.
Various disasters such as tsunamis and storms can be seen everywhere in the ocean.
The land and the sea already had a lot of disorder and chaos, which she had witnessed.
And how terrifying and magical must the abyss, which the Mother Goddess called the source of all disorder in the world, be?
She had fear in her heart, but more of it was anticipation.
"Okay, let's go." Tartarus smiled.
His divine power spread, enveloping the body of the goddess of justice, Themis, and instantly disappeared with her.
In the blink of an eye, they had reached the edge of the underworld and then entered space.
The space between the underworld and the abyss is controlled by Aether, the god of celestial light.
Normally he blocks his divine sense from this area.
Even if it were not blocked, very few gods have entered this space to explore.
In the sky and the space above it, four aerial gods are fighting each other.
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Tartarus did not give any god the control over the three space areas under this space, namely the ocean, the dark night under the ocean, and the underworld. This space area is completely shielded by divine thoughts.
The four aerial gods may get lost if they enter this area.
Other non-aerial gods who enter this space area are more likely to get lost and be in danger of never being able to fly out.
Only occasionally would gods pass through the edge of the underworld and fly into the space between the underworld and the abyss, but they would not dare to go deep.
Therefore, as time passed, the space under the ocean and Aether, the god of skylight, became more and more mysterious among the gods.
Aether's current level of mystery is almost approaching that of Erebus, the god of darkness who has not appeared in the world for thousands of years.
The divine power of space was activated, and Tartarus and the goddess of justice Themis traveled through space and fell rapidly into the abyss.
"Is this the powerful strength of His Majesty Tartarus?" At this time, the goddess of justice Themis was uneasy.
Although the underworld is not as large as the earth, it is also very large.
It took her nearly a day to fly from the edge of the underworld to the center of the underworld.
And Tartarus was just a thought, and in an instant they arrived.
Now in space, her spiritual consciousness spread out, trying to sense her surroundings.
But it couldn't disperse at all, as it was bound by some force.
And this vast space is all controlled by Tartarus.
How big is the difference in strength between them?
Themis, the goddess of justice, looked around with the eyes of the gods.
Countless meteorites moved in various trajectories. In her opinion, some were orderly, while others were completely disordered.
The space alone is already filled with all kinds of disorder.
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