Chapter 26: Horrifying
Tarun didn't know what was going on. He felt the divine power growing in his body. Looking at the God King in front of him with a smile on his face, who greeted him politely, he had a strange feeling.
He clearly hadn't had time to do anything, yet it seemed as if he had already done everything...
But since his goal has been achieved, he is too lazy to waste time here.
He went to see the Queen of Gods Rhea and the newly born Hestia, praised the beautiful girl earnestly, went through the formalities and left.
The king of gods, Kronos, did not see him off, because there were still many gods here that he needed to deal with.
At this moment, his face was full of smiles. He chatted and laughed with the gods, and generously accepted the gods' blessings for the newborn child, completely disregarding his previous gloom, as if he was not the one who was worried about fear before.
Seeing this, Rhea, who had been worried about Kronos acting strangely lately, finally relaxed.
The beautiful queen of the gods guessed in her heart that Kronos may have been in a bad mood before because the workload of the king of gods was too heavy, but now he was happy because of the birth of Hestia.
Because Hestia was so well-behaved and cute, Rhea felt that no parents in the world could refuse such a perfect child.
She began to like this angelic baby girl more and more.
This feast held for the purpose of celebration lasted for seven days. When the gods left, only Kronos, Rhea, and the newborn Hestia were left on the huge sacred mountain.
Kronos found a reason to get rid of Rhea. Because he did not show any abnormality, Rhea was unaware and was easily sent away.
When Kronos was alone facing Hestia lying on the bed, he took a deep breath and took out the sickle without hesitation.
That was the sickle he had used to castrate the God-King Uranus. It was also the divine weapon hammered out by the Cyclops in Gaia's body after a thousand years of rage.
At this moment, Kronos pointed the sickle at his daughter, Hestia, who was still a baby.
Hestia was lying on the bed, sleeping soundly. She was such an exquisite and lovely child. Her fair skin seemed as delicate as a baby's. Her long eyelashes cast a shadow under her eyes. Her rosy lips were slightly pouting, showing her naiveté.
Looking at such a child, Kronos' hand holding the sickle could not help but tremble slightly, and he fell into an unspeakable dilemma.
He tried to convince himself that the goddess had no inheritance rights and Hestia was so well-behaved that perhaps she would not become the rebel in the prophecy.
But there was always another voice in his heart, the voice of the god king Uranus, who used all his evil power to say, Kronos, I will curse you...
These two completely different voices seemed to be arguing in his mind. Finally, as a white figure emerged in his mind, the two voices disappeared at the same time, and the hesitation in his eyes was finally completely replaced by determination.
That figure was none other than Tarun who came to congratulate them a few days ago.
The god of fate, Taron, came to congratulate Hestia on her birth.
This was undoubtedly the last straw that broke the camel's back. Kronos finally stopped hesitating. He raised his sickle high and swung it down at the baby girl in front of him with all his strength.
He wanted to kill Hestia to eliminate the trouble forever.
But he failed.
Countless pure holy lights enveloped the sleeping baby girl, completely wrapping her young body and isolating her from all harm.
The sickle that was powerful enough to castrate a generation of God-King seemed to be chopping off a pile of cotton. Kronos felt that he could not exert any strength at all.
Kronos' eyes were filled with shock and anger. He swung his sickle again in despair, but still could not hurt the baby girl protected by the holy light.
The holy light that enveloped Hestia was the law and divine authority she symbolized, which protected her from destruction.
Gods cannot be killed because their birth symbolizes the addition of a law to this world, and once a law appears, it cannot be eliminated, not even by the King of Gods.
Kronos looked at Hestia, who was not affected at all, and didn't know what to do for a moment. Should he lock her up in Tartarus?
But imprisoning him in Tartarus would definitely offend Gaia, because the abyss is adjacent to the earth, and he might even be stuffed into Gaia's body through the abyss, just like the Hecatonchus and the Cyclops.
The last time he asked Gaia to take the child back, Gaia was already very angry. Kronos felt that if he really threw Hestia into the abyss Tartarus, Gaia would definitely cause trouble for him.
What's more, when he became the King of Gods, Gaia had asked him to release the Hecatonchus and the Cyclops imprisoned in the abyss, but Kronos was afraid of their terrifying power and refused Gaia's request.
At that time, he had a bad quarrel with Gaia, and the Mother Earth was no longer willing to go to the sacred mountain.
"No, we can't imprison Tartarus..." Kronos took a deep breath, put away the sickle, and forced himself to calm down.
When Rhea returned, she saw Kronos standing in front of the baby girl in a daze.
"Your Majesty, what are you thinking about? Why do you look so sad?" Rhea asked curiously, "Did Hestia cry just now?"
"No, she is very well-behaved and has been sleeping all the time." Kronos heard himself say this.
Rhea seemed to say something else next, but Kronos could no longer hear her. All he could think about was what to do and how to deal with Hestia.
He couldn't kill her or imprison her, but he couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't become a rebel when she grew up, which made Kronos deeply uneasy.
He felt a sense of panic that he could not stop the curse, and he thought of what Taren had said: fate cannot be stopped.
No, there must be another way, there must be another way, think about it again, think about it carefully...
Kronos kept comforting himself, and his eyes even involuntarily looked at Rhea.
He wanted to stuff the child back into Rhea's body. As long as the child was not born, the curse would be ended.
But what Gaia said before stopped him. The great god-king Uranus was overthrown for this reason.
If only it hadn't been born, it wouldn't be stuffed back into Rhea's body. If only it hadn't been born, it wouldn't be stuffed back into Rhea's body...
These two thoughts kept appearing over and over in Kronos' mind. Finally, his eyes lit up and he came up with a perfect idea.
If he couldn't stuff it back into Rhea's body, then he would stuff it back into his own body. He was the father of this child, and he could also accommodate the laws of this child. In this way, he not only absorbed the power, but the corresponding laws would still exist.
Thinking of this, he almost became ecstatic. He rushed forward and grabbed the young Hestia.
Under Rhea's horrified gaze, Kronos opened his huge mouth and swallowed the baby girl into his stomach.
The scene was so horrifying that when Rhea realized what was happening, she screamed in fear and anger.
But Kronos seemed to have never heard of it. He felt the divine power rising in his body and felt unprecedented peace of mind.
Kronos, who had been unable to close his eyes since Rhea became pregnant, finally slept peacefully that night amid Rhea's painful cries.