Mnemosyne had come back to pack up and move to Olympus for permanent residence!
What a joke—although distance creates beauty, you can't be that far away!
Olympus was already big enough! It's not like living in the same divine palace. Only a fool would continue living on this secluded island.
Being too far from the male god, the male god might fly away!
And now seeing this pair of pitiful sisters, Mnemosyne also felt quite helpless.
Her relationship with the Coeus couple was fairly good. She had also advised the Coeus couple to serve Zeus and not be enemies with Zeus, but at that time the Coeus couple had already reached the point of no return.
Mnemosyne also understood their inner concerns and helplessness, and could only watch helplessly as they walked down a dead end.
What she could do was to try her best to care for this pair of pitiful sisters when they begged her to look after these daughters.
Zeus was not a narrow-minded god and wouldn't necessarily make things difficult for these two minor goddesses. Of course, the prerequisite was that they didn't cause trouble.
She still had some face and affection with Zeus. If she spoke up to plead, she could always protect this pair of pitiful minor goddesses and let them live peacefully.
However, the request to fish out gods that this pair of sisters now proposed was something Mnemosyne would absolutely never agree to.
Protecting the two sisters from being implicated was already the upper limit of what she could do.
Having Mnemosyne plead for them and beg Zeus to forgive the Coeus couple was absolutely impossible.
The Goddess of Civilization and Memory was very clear about what could be done and what absolutely could not be done.
This kind of matter involving the God-King's authority and former prisoners couldn't even be mentioned. One could only look at Zeus's own intentions and judgment.
And there was also the issue of authority.
Anyway, the situation was complicated and one couldn't meddle blindly.
Mnemosyne would never be kind-hearted enough to harm her own relationship with Zeus for others' sake—not even a little!
She was clear that there were too many goddesses surrounding Zeus!
Every single one was a little slut!
It was too late to pull the male god into her arms—how could she push him away?
But Mnemosyne was ultimately a soft-hearted goddess.
Seeing Leto and Asteria, these two "children," crying their hearts out in front of her with such utterly grief-stricken appearances, she really couldn't bear it.
At this moment, Leto and Asteria knelt on either side at Mnemosyne's feet, each hugging one of her slender jade legs. Tears poured out like a bursting dam as they wept incessantly.
Sincere pleading words continuously came from their mouths. Their heartbroken and painful appearance would move even the most stone-hearted deity to pity.
The gentle and well-behaved Leto, whose character had always been the most mild and docile, quiet as water, was now crying the most sadly. Her bright and serene face was now completely shrouded in sorrow.
She wept and pleaded: "Dear aunt, merciful Mnemosyne, please, for the sake of being fellow children of Uranus, beseech the great Your Majesty the God-King to show mercy and release our parents. Please!"
"They were deceived by the former God-King and didn't intentionally want to be enemies with Your Majesty the God-King. Now that Your Majesty the God-King has become the cosmic sovereign, our father and mother could never resist Your Majesty the God-King again."
Leto's tear-blurred gaze was full of pleading as she tightly hugged Mnemosyne's calf: "Your Majesty the God-King is so tolerant and merciful, and you are so close to Your Majesty the God-King. Dear aunt, only you can save our father and mother."
Although Asteria was the younger sister, her character was completely different from her sister's. She was far stronger and more resilient than her sister.
However, even she, who had always been resolute and spirited, now wept incessantly, though she wasn't crying as uncontrollably as her sister.
She pleaded with a trembling voice: "My dear aunt, knowledgeable you who understands everything in the universe, you know how terrifying a place Tartarus is. In that endless void torture, survival is worse than complete destruction."
Asteria's voice, filled with despair, carried a humble request: "Please, go petition the tolerant Your Majesty the God-King. Even if the God-King is unwilling to release them, please ask Your Majesty the God-King to change the place of imprisonment. Anywhere but Tartarus would be fine."
Mnemosyne's intellectual face also showed worry. She sighed and said helplessly: "Child, in this world, besides Tartarus, where else can imprison us primordial Titans?"
"Your guarantees have no meaning because you have never been able to make decisions for your parents. If you could, things wouldn't have reached such an irreversible state in the first place."
Mnemosyne gently shook her head and said softly: "Stop crying, children. No matter how many tears you shed before me, they are useless and cannot change established facts."
"Things are not as simple as you think. You don't understand the God-King, but I understand everything about him. His decisions can only be changed by himself."
"You don't need to worry either. Things haven't completely reached an irreversible point. As long as they still exist, even if they suffer some torment, there is always hope."
"The God-King is a god of hope. He will not easily erase any living being's hope."
"But any turning point will not be now."
"The sacred new order has just been established, the universe has just gotten on track, and the God-King has too many things to do. Any god had better not disturb him with this matter."
"You must remember, only what the God-King grants you is yours. What the God-King is unwilling to give, never try to force. That will only be counterproductive and only bring more terrible consequences that you cannot bear."
Hearing this, Asteria's tear-streaked face gradually stopped crying. The weakness in her eyes quickly disappeared, replaced by determination and resolve.
She still knelt at Mnemosyne's feet, holding her warm jade hands with both hands, looking up at the all-knowing goddess and humbly pleading: "Dear aunt, you are so wise, you are the incarnation of civilization, you know all the mysteries of the world. Please point us to the right path. What should we do?"
Gentle Leto's crying couldn't be stopped even if she wanted to. She still lay prostrate on Mnemosyne's knee sobbing. Her tears had long soaked Mnemosyne's gauze dress, and the veil woven with stellar radiance was full of sorrowful marks.
As a fellow mother goddess, the tears that fell to the ground transformed into one sorrowful little sprite after another.
They were adorable fairies only finger-sized with gray semi-transparent wings, now lying on the ground crying along with her. Their sorrowful weeping echoed in the hall.
Hearing Asteria's words, she barely raised her tear-stained head. Her misty tearful eyes were full of pleading and hope as she looked expectantly at Mnemosyne.
Mnemosyne sighed again. Soft-hearted as she was, looking at these two extremely pitiful children, she really couldn't speak words of refusal.
She hesitated for a moment and slowly said: "One of the goddesses the God-King values most is the Goddess of Reproduction."
"Goddess Hera holds a very special and important position in the God-King's heart."
Speaking of this, even the most intellectual, learned, perceptive and wise Goddess of Civilization and Memory couldn't help feeling sour in her heart, unable to control her jealousy.
She who knew everything in the universe had begun paying attention to Zeus in the unimaginably distant past.
During incalculably long periods of time, in endless loneliness, she felt joy and anger with Zeus's emotions. She paid attention to everything about Zeus, growing as Zeus grew.
She had long tied all of herself to Zeus. If not for this, she couldn't possibly have kept everything about Zeus in her thoughts, following Zeus's intentions and obeying his every word.
Much less could she have so easily and willingly given everything of herself to Zeus without reservation.
Even though rational and elegant she was very clear that the goddess Zeus loved would never be only her alone.
The amorous God-King's heart was too big, capable of containing the entire universe, naturally including many goddesses as well.
But she was still willing and without regret.
However, she was still a goddess after all, and as long as one was female, one would definitely be jealous!
No matter how intellectual and rational, no matter how perceptive and wise, it was of no use!
Mnemosyne withdrew her brief inner thoughts, suppressed that trace of jealous emotion, and continued: "Actually, your parents are not taken seriously by the God-King. The main reason your parents angered the God-King was that during the war, they once injured the Goddess of Reproduction, for which the God-King was furious, and the Goddess of Reproduction also holds this grudge."
"There is also the authority your parents hold—the intellectual authority of insight and prophecy—which has natural conflict and overlap with the wisdom divine power of the God-King's other beloved, Ocean Goddess Metis."
"So, if Goddess Hera no longer pursues this matter and is willing to forgive your parents, and if your parents are willing to give up that insight intellectual authority that conflicts with Metis, then there would be nothing more to it."
"The God-King possesses supreme authority to divide powers. He controls everything. As long as Coeus and Phoebe voluntarily give up, the God-King can separate divinity and laws."
"Hera is the great mother goddess of reproduction and birth. Her temperament is most loving and gentle. If you sincerely plead with her and obtain her forgiveness, it's not a very difficult thing."
"As for Wisdom Goddess Metis, she is the daughter of the Ocean God. Her nature is also pure, kind and gentle. She has no intention of tormenting your parents."
"Plus, Ocean God Oceanus and his wife have always been gentle and merciful, and Coeus and Phoebe are our relatives like us. For this sake, Wisdom Goddess won't hold on stubbornly either. She will also consider this relationship."
"So, children, as long as you can plead for Goddess of Reproduction Hera's forgiveness, I can obtain an opportunity for you from the God-King—an opportunity to see your parents once more."
"As long as you can persuade them to voluntarily give up their authority and power, then receiving forgiveness and regaining freedom is not an impossible thing."
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