"Help us seize the Divine Seats left by the Mother Goddess; they rightfully belong to us!"
Tykhe’s mind suddenly cleared. Rhea and Kronos’s Divine Seats should also be counted. How could she have forgotten this!
Currently, there were only ten Divine Seats among the twelve main gods. This was a huge hidden danger! If the remaining two Divine Seats were to welcome new owners before the position of God King was settled, then the opinions of these two main gods would be decisive!
Sensing great peril, Tykhe gripped the armrests of her throne and quickly realized what she needed to do.
The goddess smiled and agreed with Poseidon’s words. The sea god, filled with righteous indignation, became even happier when Tykhe nodded. What surprised him even more were the goddess’s subsequent words.
"The Divine Seats of the God King and Queen should indeed be inherited by their children. My son and I both received our Divine Seats from our elders, and we should uphold this system."
The two deities clearly did not expect Tykhe to be so accommodating. The composed Hades suppressed his emotions, preventing them from showing on his face, and asked in a deep voice, "Then, Your Highness Tykhe, what must we pay for this?"
"Support Zeus to become the God King!" The goddess did not beat around the bush, directly stating the benefit exchange she required.
The two brothers exchanged glances and agreed to Tykhe’s terms without hesitation. What was already in their stomachs was theirs; they understood this logic.
After seeing Hades and Poseidon off, Tykhe leaned back in her seat, contemplating how to fulfill their conditions. As long as she could help the two deities advance to demigod status before they came of age, one of the two vacant Divine Seats would surely be theirs. As for the other…
Gaia would likely support Rhea’s daughters to obtain the other Divine Seat. Tapping her golden goblet rhythmically, Tykhe quickly set her sights on Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and harvest.
The power of the earth had a high affinity with this goddess. Demeter would undoubtedly be the first of the three sisters to advance, making her succession to a Divine Seat only natural. Even if, as Eurynome had said, the God of Growth and the Goddess of Agriculture became husband and wife, Zeus’s side would still hold the advantage, wouldn't it?
Iapetus, the God of Souls, had sworn by the River Styx that he would not break his promise at the cost of losing his divinity! With herself and Zeus, plus the prophetic goddess couple and the Goddess of Memory, they already had six votes. Even if Themis, the Goddess of Justice, trusted her brothers more, the God of Growth would still only manage to balance things out by winning over two new main gods.
Could Krios be pinning his hopes on a draw and then proposing to resolve the matter by force?
If that were the case, Zeus would not fear the challenge from the God of Growth. Perhaps the God of Growth wanted to defeat the God of Thunder by relying on his longer experience. After all, Zeus was a newly promoted Great God, and his experience and divine power reserves were weaker than Krios’.
After much deliberation, Tykhe, who could only arrive at this conclusion, felt certain. The goddess believed her son would defeat Krios, and the God of Thunder would get his wish!
Tykhe instructed Iris to go to the divine mountain to deliver this news to Zeus. She was still puzzled as to why she had overlooked these two Divine Seats. This was truly too strange; it seemed all the main gods had forgotten about the two vacant positions.
If it weren’t for Hades and Poseidon, with their calculated moves against the unprepared, Zeus might have been caught off guard.
An invisible force suddenly withdrew voluntarily. Tykhe immediately understood the mastermind behind this.
In a temple on the divine mountain, the Goddess of Memory paid a visit to Tykhe.
Mnemosyne actually wanted to defect? Tykhe gazed at the goddess, "Mnemosyne, do you intend to go back on your promise?"
The Goddess of Memory’s expression was very calm, "I will not invite the backlash of fate upon myself. I will uphold my promise to support Zeus as God King. This is the second time!"
"Then why did you conceal the Divine Seats of Rhea and Kronos?" Tykhe was confused. Since the Goddess of Memory still supported Zeus, what was the purpose of all these painstaking efforts?
The Goddess of Memory remained silent, uttered a warning, and turned to leave, "Tykhe, hurry and help Rhea’s sons obtain a Divine Seat."
Tykhe looked at the disappearing back of the Goddess of Memory with surprise. Thinking back, the secret of the Divine Seats seemed to have been revealed to her by Mnemosyne herself.
What was going on? The goddess felt her mind in utter disarray. If the Goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne, had sided with her brother, the God of Growth, Krios, then she would not have revealed the fallback of the vacant Divine Seats to her.
But if the Goddess of Memory was still on her side, why would she go to such lengths? Was it out of coercion from Gaia?
Tykhe pondered repeatedly in her heart and still leaned towards Mnemosyne supporting Zeus, just as she did.
This inclination, though without a clear reason, made the goddess subconsciously believe that the Goddess of Memory harbored no ill intentions. Then Mnemosyne’s actions became highly questionable.
Recalling the Goddess of Memory’s reminder before she left, Tykhe refocused her attention on Hades and Poseidon. "Is the key to understanding all of this indeed them?"
Often, what one deliberately seeks cannot be found. The comings and goings of all things in the world have their specific times. Tykhe could only wait anxiously for Hades and Poseidon to grow. Both the Underworld and the Sea Realm were within Tykhe’s domain. At Tykhe’s signal, the gods of the underground and the sea welcomed the arrival of the two deities.
After all, the Underworld was still in its nascent stages. Providing Hades with a position was a simple matter. This God of Wealth did not disappoint Tykhe’s expectations, quickly establishing a foothold in the Underworld.
On a plain between the two Styx rivers and Purgatory, the God of Wealth planted a field of golden ears of corn. The flowers shimmered with a fine golden hue under the dim moonlight, attracting the wandering souls in the Underworld.
The souls, seeing the shining golden-yellow, mistook it for an entrance back to the mortal realm. Thus, the souls by the River of Obsession and the River of Oblivion grew in number.
Hades was thus rewarded by the Goddess of Night and shared the power of tranquility with the gods. Along with the divine duty of peace after death, the divine duty of funerals was also born. With the power of these two divine duties, the God of Wealth was steadily advancing towards demigod status.
Poseidon on the other hand, was not so fortunate. The children of Oceanus, the God of the Ocean, and Tethys, the Sea Goddess, were already too numerous to count. Many of Tykhe’s sisters were still sharing Tethys’s divine duty of the sea. Where would there be any vacant divine duties to bestow upon this stranger god whom she had never met?
Although they did not deliberately target Poseidon out of respect for Tykhe, this God of Tsunamis inevitably found himself in an awkward predicament.