webnovelfull Chapter 20: Two Gods
Chapter 20: Two Gods
"Well, I haven't slept so comfortably in a long time. Could it be that gods can live so comfortably after death? If you had told me earlier, I wouldn't have resisted."
When Zagreus woke up from his coma, his memory was still of being eaten by Typhon.
But then he felt himself enveloped by infinite divine power. The warm environment made him feel extremely comfortable, and he immediately knew that he had survived.
As for what happened after his death, he knew nothing. He just felt weak all over. He tried hard to open his eyes, but with his eyesight, he found that he could only see nothingness.
Then he felt a familiar feeling everywhere around him. Perhaps it was because the breath was too strong. He thought for a long time before realizing that this place was full of Zeus' breath. This feeling was somewhat strange.
As he gradually recovered from his numbness, he tried to wave his arms, but his body seemed not to be his own and he always felt a sense of discomfort.
"My child, you finally woke up!"
Just as Zagros was groping around in this warm space, the voice of Zeus suddenly sounded, and then a piece of information was directly instilled into his mind. The communication between gods was so rough. It was Zeus who packed everything with his divine power and passed it to him.
Now that everything has been completed as planned and everyone is happy, Zeus naturally does not need to keep it secret any longer and tells him the whole story directly to avoid any trouble in the future.
Zagreus did not seem angry that he was being plotted against. Although his origin was intentional, he did gain far more than other gods.
Now that she knew she had survived the danger and was being reborn in Zeus' body, she suddenly realized what was going on.
With the idea of making the best of what he has, he was even more unscrupulous in absorbing Zeus's power to nourish himself. After all, it would be a waste not to take the things from his own father.
The essence of gods is actually the embodiment of the laws of the world. Although they are all in human form, their bodies are actually composed of the corresponding laws and divine powers. As for why two gods can combine to reproduce offspring, it is basically the chemical reaction produced by the collision of two different laws.
Now Zeus represents the entire Olympian pantheon, and Zagreus's growth in his body is like being nourished in the purest place in the most divine realm, so his recovery speed is also extremely fast.
While he was recuperating, he also checked his body. He had suffered heavy losses in the battle with Typhon.
The largest godhead of joy in his body was dim due to overdraft, and the other accompanying godheads were even on the verge of breaking due to the consumption of a large amount of divine power. But fortunately, he could sense that there was a large group of pure power of faith in his body that was maintaining and repairing the godhead. After checking the information from Zeus, he realized that it was the effect of the Golden Fleece.
Among them, his biggest loss was the river of wealth. The wealth that he had worked hard for over the years had turned into a two-meter-wide river, but now all that was left was a dry riverbed. Although the volume had not shrunk, the countless cracks in it represented that the laws of this river were severely broken.
The originally cracked riverbed only became slightly supported by divine power after he woke up. The riverbed turned from dry mud into somewhat moist. Fortunately, it can still be saved. When he uses his wealth to gather water again, it will slowly be repaired.
As for the other divine attributes, it is similar. As long as they have not disappeared, they can always be restored.
But the only strange thing is that his godhead of wine is now the brightest. He originally thought that with his death, this godhead would be the first to be destroyed, but he did not expect that it is now brighter than his godhead of joy.
Zagreus rubbed his swollen head. It had been almost a hundred years since he woke up. Zeus packaged all the events that had happened in the past hundred years and sent them to him at once. It would take him a long time to digest this memory. Now he could only search according to his needs.
Zagreus then flipped through the memory.
It turned out that after his death, Zeus knew that he would need to recuperate for a long time, so he used the authority of the King of Gods to temporarily copy his Dionysus godhood, and then took care of the temple on earth for him for a hundred years. Although it did not expand, it was good enough to maintain its original state. Therefore, relying on the original belief, the Dionysus godhood was the first to recover.
This can be regarded as the biggest source of faith preserved for Zagreus.
But then Zagreus suddenly discovered that his status as the Son of Hades had changed. After all, the body born in the underworld had been swallowed by Typhon, and the divinity of the Son of Hades had also changed accordingly.
In fact, the appearance of Zagreus completely broke the laws of the underworld, but it also completed the laws of the underworld. He was born for the first time from an impossible place, brought the first life to the underworld, and also obtained the honorable position of the son of Hades.
The second time he was swallowed by Typhon and born in Semele's body, the third time he was killed by Zeus' thunder in her belly, but was conceived again from Zeus' body.
All of this completely broke the boundary between life and death. This cycle of life and death successfully promoted the original son of Hades to the son of the underworld. He can even be called Little Hades, and can be regarded as one of the main gods of the underworld. (The underworld and the human world are two different worlds. Hades and Poseidon are equal to Zeus in terms of god status, but their strength is not as good as Zeus, so the underworld has its own main god system)
At this point he can no longer be considered the son of Hades, but has become the true heir to the underworld. Once Hades dies, or voluntarily gives up his identity as the King of the Underworld, Zagreus can directly become the new King of the Underworld.
Of course, this will only happen if Hades disappears or voluntarily, otherwise it can only be imagined. Everything in the underworld is dominated by Hades, but it also means that he is no longer dependent on Hades and attached to the underworld, but he is a part of the underworld.
Moreover, as the little Pluto, he also enjoys some of the treatment of Hades in the underworld. Hades' identity is actually similar to the priesthood of Mother Earth. Their strength does not require them to gain power by showing themselves in front of people. Instead, as long as there are living creatures dying, they will have endless power.
As the son of the underworld, Zagreus had his head taken by Hades, so naturally he could gain a small part of the power from death.
Moreover, he is different. He has become the first dual-position god. He is both the god of the underworld and the god of the human world. Therefore, any death and birth of any living being will provide him with energy. Although these energy comes in small amounts, they are inexhaustible and can be regarded as one of the benefits of the main god.
As for his own divinity, he found that his newfound ability could be combined with the dramatic divinity in his body. Once there were people who were on the verge of death and suddenly came back to life, or there were creatures who had various rich experiences and died, they could provide him with a lot of divine power. However, such people were generally called protagonists and were not often seen.
Then Zagreus seemed to have discovered something interesting. After being cursed, he actually gave birth to a cursed godhead. This godhead with negative attributes surrounded the godhead of the Son of the Underworld. After all, the power of the underworld can better activate these abilities of the dark side.
These are just the changes in the godhood, and then there is the change in Zagreus's status. He can now be said to be completely conceived by the flesh and blood of Zeus, so it is destined that his status will change once he is born. You must know that the last person born from Zeus' body was Athena, the goddess of wisdom and one of the main gods.
He could sense that his status was constantly improving. Thanks to his cheap father Zeus, he could be sure that he would obtain the position of the main god when he was born, and he was also the only god who was completely conceived by Zeus alone. (Athena was not conceived by Zeus because she was swallowed by Zeus after she was born.)
Zagreus felt satisfied when he thought about this. He had reached the pinnacle of his godly life by being able to obtain the throne of the Lord God. Going further would mean replacing the King of Gods. He did not have such big ambitions. His godhood of joy made him not like to do those tedious things. He was happier to just eat and wait for death every day to increase his strength.