Zeus Ex Machina 86

Chapter 86 – Sons of Zeus (1)

Two years is quite a long time.
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Extremely speaking, the army is about two years.
What? These days, it’s over in 1 year and 6 months?
When I…
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Anyway.
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Two years is enough time for something to be done.
Farming, which requires a lot of time for humans, is often called one-year farming. How much longer would two years be twice that?
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“It’s already been two years since Leto gave birth to twins.”
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It was very short.

Again, I was busy ruling Olympus and taking care of my children.
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After Leto’s escape.
Hera caressed Leto wholeheartedly.
Leto confided in Hera about all the fears he felt, and Hera wrung out how she could hate him when all were children of the same Zeus.
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-But you dared not give birth to Zeus’ child right away. This should be punished.
-Yes?
– Until the children’s bodies become adults, they will have to communicate with Zeus as ‘Zeus anywhere’.
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Hera punished Leto with ‘juji control’.
And after that, no goddess gave birth to my child and dared to run away.
Not satisfied with just giving birth to a child with me, the women who waited for the night with me quietly stayed in Olympus.
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So, I felt proud watching my children grow up one by one over the past two years.
Unlike the time when Themis gave birth to children, the children I played with diligently before were big enough to play with the babies, which eased my burden.
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Why did children help with difficult parenting?
Because the children are pretty?
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There was that, too, but each of them had their own plans.
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– Hurry up and do my job for me.

Children are the future
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Even the first born children knew instinctively.
Even if playing with the children is tiring at the moment, the burden on themselves gradually decreases as these children take over the work of the Olympus gods one by one.
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Oh, the power of the great division of labour!
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As expected, both titans and humans form a group and form a society, so everything works out well because each of them does their best in what they can do.
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Here, each individual field is a talent that each god has.
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My children, the newly reborn gods of Olympus, were each born with exceptional abilities or special abilities than other gods.

For example, Hephaestus is good at blacksmithing and Ares is good at war.
And the twins born next, Apollo and Artemis, are talented in medicine and hunting, respectively.
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Each of them honored their talents, and today finally became the ‘decisive day’.
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The day Olympus decides their specialties in order to become a system of 12 gods.
It is the day when Olympus decides who he will be responsible for resolving any problems in the future.
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So-called division of labor.
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Everything is overseen by the main god, Zeus.
This refers to what happens on land and in the sky, and Neptune is in charge of the sea.
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The Underworld is so large and complex that Hades has to work at the same level as me, so I set up Hades’ realm as an independent organization.
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Sky and earth.
Ocean.
Underworld.
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Because I can’t handle all the big and small things that happen in these three places, each god has to prioritize the work field.
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For example, if it was decided that he was the god of war, at least the god in charge of war – Ares would make the decision first.
Whether this is a necessary war or not, how much more beneficial it will be to Olympus if a war breaks out, and how Olympus will organize its forces his if it goes to war.
Ares will do those things now, not me.
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Because?
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One is because I want to rest a little now.
One is that Ares is still inexperienced in the field of war, but he has enough talent.

Each god has a special talent.
But that doesn’t mean that other gods don’t have that talent at all.
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Athena had a talent for war.
And in terms of military talent, Athena is superior to Ares.
Right now, Ares fights against Athena again and again, but Ares is often defeated by Athena.
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So, since Athena fights better than Ares, should Athena be the god of war as well?
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-Zeus-sama, I have time, so I don’t have to take charge of the war, right? Wouldn’t one god of wisdom suffice?
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– Of course. A war in bed is enough for you to take on.
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Our generation has worked hard enough, so shouldn’t we take a break!
In order to found Olympus, they ate dirt on the bare ground and went through hardships in caves, but now it’s time to enjoy and work!
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– No matter how young you are, you shouldn’t lie down and swallow the peace we gained with blood and sweat.
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Those who do not work, do not eat.
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I’m sorry for my children, but if you want to enjoy authority as the god of Olympus, you have to work that hard.
And the Olympus 12 god I am envisioning will have more authority and higher status than other gods, but he has to work for Olympus that much more.
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I invited them once in the order of their birth, but…
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– Dad, we will work hard where we can do well. Ho Ho.
– We’ve been working hard since the creation of Olympus, but now we can just do what we can do well, right?
-Ah, my back…! My back hurts from taking care of my younger siblings too much…!
– To be honest, wouldn’t our younger siblings work harder than us?
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There were children born even before mass pregnancies, such as Horai and Moirai.
They can be said to be higher in rank as they were born much earlier than Apollo and Artemis, but they gave up their authority and chose a comfortable life.
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‘Is this perhaps hitting my younger siblings?’
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I thought so, but even so, the younger siblings’ abilities were outstanding.
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Especially the four people I knew well.
Hephaestus, Ares, Apollo, and Artemis listed among the 12 gods of Olympus.
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These four were far more gifted than the other children.
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And above all else, each of their exceptional talents would be of great help in leading Olympus in the future.
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Manufacturing, warfare, medicine, hunting.
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All of them are an indispensable force for living in ancient times, and they were also the key to preparing for the future we will experience in the future.
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War with Gaia.
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I stopped remembering.
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That Titanomachy is not the end.

That it is not enough just to lie down and watch the Trojan War that will happen someday.
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‘Gigantomachia.’
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Olympus and Gaia go to war.
I don’t know what the cause of the war originally was, but now I made up the cause of the war.
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As for how I came to remember this, I realized it while constructing the seat of the 12 Gods of Olympus.
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1. Zeus
2. Neptune (Poseidon)
3. Hades
4. Hera
5.Demeter
6. Hestia
7. Athena
8. Hephaestus
9. Ares
10. Apollon
11. Artemis.
12. …
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I thought something was strange.
Now, there is only one seat left, and only three candidates have appeared.
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One is the goddess of beauty, Aphrodite.
I heard that this goddess, also called Venus, was born from the change of the genitals of Uranus, cut off by Cronus a long time ago.
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I’ve never heard of Aphrodite and Zeus doing it, but I’ll take a look and judge.
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One is Dionysus, the god of wine.
The man who seemed to say that he must take responsibility if the excitement was broken, took the place of the Lord of Olympus with a single stroke of his achievement in his inventing wine.
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And the other one.
The owner of shoes that seem to reduce the duration of various status ailments and increase resistance to magic.
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‘Hermes.’
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As I recalled and thought about his anecdote, I remembered seeing a very horrific story.
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Hermes, he said, uses winged shoes and quick movements to recover Zeus’ sinews.
After recovering the tendon, Zeus said that with the help of Hermes, he would defeat the monster and win.
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That’s gigantomachia.
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Except for Zeus, all other gods turned into animals and fled from Olympus, and only Zeus remained to fight and was defeated by the monster, and his tendons were pulled out.
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‘I can’t do that.’
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Such a future is a specification.
If that is the fate that Gaia has set for me, I will overcome that fate gracefully.
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String?
I don’t know what kind of monster will come, but I’ll pull out the monster’s sinews before I can get help from Hermes.
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‘Hercules.’
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The birth of famous children yet to be born.
Division of work that is still concentrated in a very small number of people.
And the greatest Greek hero feared even by the gods.
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It is never a bad thing for me to impregnate many children until he is born.
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Okay.
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I have to impregnate many women even for the sake of peace in Olympus.
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Even if it’s not just a titan goddess, but also a nymph or a human.
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To do that, first of all, humans had to prosper, and even for that, it was necessary to establish a place for the 12 gods of Olympus.
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So I will interview my children one by one.
Are they really determined enough to put their names in the place of the 12 Gods as they were in the original?
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If they pass this interview, they will sit at the ‘Round Table’ with Leah’s six siblings and discuss various problems in Olympus.
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“Shall we begin, Zeus?”
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“Yes, Athena. Ask them to come in.”
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Accompanied by Athena, I started a one-on-one interview with my children.
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Profit.
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The door opened and the woman who came in was a woman with freckles on her red hair.

Hephaestus.
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“Welcome, my daughter. What kind of god do you want to be?”
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“I…”
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Hephaestus, who had been hesitant for a while, raised his head with a determined face.
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“I want to become a blacksmith god.”
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According to Hephaestus, he ran into trouble from the start.
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“There…”
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“…Women are the god of blacksmiths.”
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Behind me.
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“Hehe. I’m sure…You should have said it yesterday.”
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Hera is smiling.