Published at 26th of March 2019 2:27 am

Episode 58, Chapter 2: The Goddess of the moon (2)

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Translator: Tsubak

The primeval God of the earth, Gaia.

Rasgrid and the Valkyries put expressions like they vaguely knew. She wasn’t a strong God that ruled over Olympus like the current 12 Olympians but they had still heard her name.

In the other hand, Tae Ho could think of several stories.

‘But there’s no guarantee she would be the same here.’

Just like Tae Ho had already experienced it in Asgard, the mythology Tae Ho knew was quite different with the several worlds

Because of that Tae Ho first listened to Echidna’s explanation before he said anything.

“It’s obvious for you to not know much about her if you are from another world. The primeval Gods are the Gods before our generation.”

Echidna winked once again and then moved her right hand. The shapes of light that came in white and black started to spin and swell.

“Most of the primeval Gods didn’t show any activities even after the Titan Gods appeared. Gaia-nim was the one that was quite active even among those primeval Gods.”

Echidna moved her fingers delicately as if playing an instrument. The orb of light that swelled up to become the size of a watermelon shook in her fingers and then got compressed and changed shapes completely.

It was a land being covered completely by the sea. The sea water fell on the edge so it looked just like a waterfall.

“The sea of chaos. Chaos, that was the first of the Protogenoi and the beginning of everything, was a concept God. The several primeval Gods were born from him.”

Several things surged up from the sea. There were two at first but they became four and then started to form part of the world.

“The primeval God of the earth is Gaia. She became the first land and became the start of the world.”

Green land got formed on the grey sea. But the only thing that was formed wasn’t land.

There was a pink sphere floating in the land. Echidna touched the sphere softly and spoke with an odd voice.

“The primeval God of love Eros. The concept of sexual intercourse and birth got created because he was born. He’s a God I like a lot but unfortunately he’s a concept God.”

Echidna winked towards Tae Ho and rolled her fingers again.

Darkness covered the land but there wasn’t only one. A black and blue curtain got spread beyond the darkness. It was a curtain where countless stars were engraved in.

“The primeval Goddess of night Nyx, and the primeval God of darkness Erebos. Life could be born in the world because these two were born. It started with Gaia and ended with Nyx.”

The Goddess of the night Nyx was also the Goddess of death.

“At first all of them were concept Gods but at some point, some of the primeval Gods started to awaken consciousness.”

Part of the green land surged up and took the appearance of a woman. She was wearing shoes formed with rock and was wearing clothes made with plants and trees.

A part of the curtain of night also transformed into a woman. It was a beautiful Goddess that had black wings.

“Gaia and Nyx. They, that awoke as personified Gods, gathered their strength with the other concept Gods and gave birth to several Gods. They are the 3rd generation of primeval Gods.”

Gaia put her hand in the sea of chaos and slowly swirled it. Then, the grey sea started to get dyed in blue. It was because the primeval God of sea Pontus was born.

Gaia didn’t stop there. When she touched the land with her wet hand, the land rose up and gave birth to the primeval God of mountains, Ourea.

Gaia extended her hands to the curtain of darkness lastly and then the concept of the sky got born and became Uranus.

Nyx, that was observing Gaia, extended her hand to the empty darkness Erebos. Erebos didn’t reject Nyx and then she got pregnant with new Gods.

The first one that got born was the Goddess of day Hemera that shared some symmetry with the Goddess of night Nyx.

Next came the Aether, the primeval God of the upper atmosphere. Aether then had intercourse with Hemera and gave birth to several Gods.

Gaia also gave birth to some more Gods and some primeval Gods appeared from the sea of chaos.

The world that was only chaos started to get filled with several things. The grey sphere was soon filled with several colors.

“Most of them were concept Gods but Uranus awakened consciousness like Gaia and Nyx. Gaia took that Uranus as her husband and the next generation of Gods, the Titans, were born.”

Interest shone in Bracky’s and Siri’s eyes. Nidhogg embraced Hydra and gulped dry saliva and showed the same reaction as when Adenmaha read her a story book.

Echidna giggled as she had become a storyteller and then bantered the new Titans that appeared with her finger and continued speaking.

“But the Titans weren’t the only ones that got born between Gaia and Uranus.”

One eye giants and at the same time the Gods of thunder and lightning, the Cyclopes, surged up. Next to them appeared the monsters of 50 heads and 100 arms, the Hekatonkheires.

“Uranus despised the monsters that were born between him and Gaia. That’s why he treasured the beautiful Titans but drove in the monsters because he didn’t want to see them and discarded them.”

Uranus drove the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires under the ground. Gaia let out a really pained scream but Uranus didn’t stop.

“Fortunately, Tartarus awakened consciousness for a really short moment and contained the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires in him to end with Gaia’s pain but the rage of Gaia didn’t subside. She started to hold grudges against Uranus that had sealed the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires when they were also his children. That’s why she called the strongest and bravest one of the Titans, Chronos, and gave him an order.”

Six male Gods and six Goddesses were born between Gaia and Uranus and Chronos was the eldest of those Titans.

“Chronos received the God killer scyte from Gaia and then approached Uranus and cut down his penis while he was sleeping.”

Bracky trembled when the uselessly precise scene occurred inside the sphere. Rolo, that was watching uninterestedly, dripped cold sweat as if he had regained a trauma.

“Uaaaa.”

Nidhogg covered her eyes with her hands which was open between her fingers like a kid looking at a horror movie.

Chronos threw away the still imposing and hard cut down penis of Uranus into the sea.

“The Goddesses of revenge were born from his blood and she was also born like that.”

The Goddess of beauty Aphrodite.

She, that was born from Uranus, could be said to be the embodiment of all the fantasies men had. She was treated as the most beautiful being in Olympus and no one had any complaints on her ruling over beauty.

“Anyways, the important thing is that Chronos drove away Uranus and he climbed to the seat of the king of Gods. It was a bit misleading to say that Uranus was the king of Gods so Chronos was the first master of Olympus.”

Chronos sat on the throne he made himself and looked down at the world. He didn’t end there and took Rhea, the Titan Goddess that was the most beautiful and most similar to Gaia, as his wife.

“Gaia expected Chronos to free his brothers from Tartarus as he had defeated Uranus but he didn’t do that. His character was similar to his father. The reason he carried over Gaia’s order was because he wanted to defeat Uranus and become the king, not because he wanted to rescue his brothers.”

“How bad……”

Nidhogg mumbled in a low voice and Hydra nodded in her embrace.

The two of them had been trapped for a long time so they felt sympathy towards the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires.

“Gaia got angry and cursed out Chronos to become like his father. There were 2 reason on why she didn’t defeat Chronos by herself. The first one was that she couldn’t hit her own children and the second one was that she had spent too much strength on making the scythe to defeat Uranus.”

Chronos feared Gaia’s curse so ate down all the children he had with Rhea to prevent them from being born.

Rhea also got enraged at him for this and asked Gaia for advice to protect her last child and Gaia gave her a round boulder and told her to trick Chronos.

“The Goddess of the night Nyx helped Rhea. It seemed like Chronos also had some shame that he couldn’t eat down his child in broad daylight. He only ate them at night.”

Chronos couldn’t differentiate his child with the boulder at the night that was darker than usual.

“Thanks to that, Rhea could protect her last child and the youngest yet the oldest child of Chronos and Rhea is the king of Gods Zeus.”

Echidna spoke up to that point and then stopped her story and took a breath. Nidhogg gulped dry saliva for Echidna to continue speaking as she was deeply immersed in the story.

But unfortunately, Echidna didn’t continue telling the story.

“Well, you already know what happened after that, right? Zeus rescued his siblings from Chronos and then counterattacked to make the war between the Titans, Titanomachy and Zeus became the new king of Gods after he won that.”

Nidhogg pouted at the story that was summarized. Hydra also put a disappointed expression because the part she liked the most got skipped.

Adenmaha checked the reaction of those two and asked the question she thought Nidhogg would be the most curious of.

“What happened to the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires?”

“Yes yes, i’m curious.”

Nidhogg nodded immediately and looked at Echidna with earnest eyes. Her eyes were so pitiable that Echidna rather felt that she didn’t want to tell her but she then giggled and said.

“As soon as Titanomachy took place, Gaia assisted Zeus to give Chronos a lesson. She gave Zeus a really decisive advice and that was to rescue the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires that were trapped in Tartarus.”

Nidhogg’s face brightened. Everyone that was listening to the story couldn’t help but hide their smiles at the difference in temperature.

“The Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires got to escape thanks to Zeus and performed greatly in the Titanomachy. The three Cyclopes brothers especially made the strongest weapon of Olympus, the lightning bolt, and gave it to Zeus.”

But that wasn’t all. The armor of Hades and the Trident of Poseidon was also the work of the three cyclopes brothers.

“So what happened? Did they live happily after that?”

“They lived rather happily. After Zeus won in Titanomachy he recognized the merits of the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires and granted them heavy rewards. The Cyclopes got to live freely on an island called Sicily and the Hekatonkheires volunteered to oversee the Titans that were confined in Tartarus and got down.”

“I’m glad.”

Nidhogg let out a sigh of relief. She felt regret that the Titans that were defeated got trapped in Tartarus but Nidhogg felt more empathy with the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires.

‘She will start crying when we tell her the truth.’

The three Cyclopes brothers were said to be living freely but they were actually trapped in the island. After that, they got killed by the son of Zeus Apollo but the reason for that was really a spectacle.

When Zeus punished the son of Apollo, Asclepius, with his lightning bolt Apollo couldn’t rebel to Zeus and solved his grudge by killing the innocent Cyclopes brothers. The reason for that was that they had made Zeus’ lightning bolt.

The ironic thing was that the thing Apollo used to killed the three cyclopes was an arrow of the sun that was also their work.

‘The Cyclopes weren’t the only checkered ones.’

The Hekatonkheires, that raised great merits in the Titanomachy, were only the watchmen for the Titans decorated in good words. They had actually been confined in Tartarus.

Echidna got a black desire to make Nidhogg cry, as she was smiling brightly repeating the words that she was glad, but she forced herself to calm down.

She was sure that Tae Ho’s group would treat Apollo really uncomfortable based on what she experienced until now and the first reason was because Apollo was on their side.

‘Apollo can also hold grudges against me.’

You could say that it was quality for the Gods of Olympus to hold grudges on innocent people.

Echidna’s story was quite long but it felt like everyone wanted to hear more because it was quite interesting.

But they couldn’t keep talking about mythology forever. Tae Ho started to ask about the most important things.

“Who else is there among the primeval personified Gods besides Gaia and Nyx? I think we may be able to guess who was the one that seduced the 12 Olympians because they are few in numbers. Also, don’t we have a way to approach Gaia?”

“I will answer by order. First, among the personified Gods there are Gaia, Nyx, Hemera and Uranus. All the others are concept Gods. But there are times concept Gods awaken a consciousness like Tartarus for example.”

“Uh…so you mean that you don’t know?”

Echidna shook her head as Adenmaha asked carefully.

“I can’t be certain of it, I didn’t say that I don’t know. Looking at the situation, the primeval God of the night Nyx has the most probabilities to be the one.”

The primeval God of night and death.

The reason Echidna pointed out Nyx when there were a total of four personified Gods was simple.

“First, Nyx is a single existence with her daughter and the Goddess of day Hemera. She has two personalities in one body.”

“Like Idun-nim?”

Tae Ho and Adenmaha flinched as Nidhogg asked reflexively and the others just blinked because they didn’t know what she was talking about.

“Huh? What about Idun-nim?”

Bracky blinked and asked in representation of everyone. Only then did Nidhogg remember that Idun and Heda sharing one body was a secret and then glanced at Tae Ho and Adenmaha and shook her head hurriedly.

“Ah, it’s nothing. Nidhogg doesn’t know anything.”

And then covered her mouth with her hands.

Her actions were really suspicious so Bracky and even Siri opened their eyes sharply but Idun wasn’t the important one now.

The group looked at Tae Ho and Nidhogg with suspicious eyes but focused on Echidna again.

“Mm, I will continue speaking. Excluding Gaia-nim and Hemera-nim, there’s only Uranus right? But after he got his penis cut down he lost all his strength and gave up on thinking. He is a personified God but actually he’s no different from a concept God.”

“So based on the laws of elimination only Nyx remains.”

Adenmaha glanced at Nidhogg that was still covering her mouth and then spoke to Echidna. Echidna nodded lightly.

“Yes, and in addition Nyx’s residence is Tartarus. Didn’t Hades say that the voice was heard from below the underworld? Then only Nyx is left as Tartarus is below the underworld.”

“I have been curious about this, but is Tartarus a primeval God of hell and at the same time a particular location?”

Siri raised her hand and asked. Raising her hand to ask something everytime was as sincere as Ingrid.

Echidna nodded once again.

“Yes, just like the primeval God of sea Pontus is the sea itself.”

When Echidna placed her hand on the sphere, the sphere changed into three floors. The lowest one had a dark blue color, the floor above that was black and the floor at the top was dark but had several colors existing in it.

“There is Tartarus and Erebus is above that. The underworld is at the top.”

The territory of Hades was only limited to the underworld. Erebus and Tartarus was a territory where Hades’ strength and the rest of the 12 Olympians didn’t reach.

“Nyx is a really strong existence even among the primeval Gods. There was a time that even Zeus had to be aware of her. If the owner of the voice was really a primeval God and Nyx on top of that, we have to overturn the situation before she starts to act on earnest. She, that is a being wanting to destroy the world, can be said to be death itself.”

She was talking quite lightly but there was fear and awareness in her eyes which she couldn’t hide. It was because it wasn’t an exaggeration to say that the primeval God of night and death, Nyx, was the origin of fear.

“Where is Gaia-nim? Uh…she’s the earth itself so we just have to talk to the ground?”

Adenmaha gulped dry saliva and changed the subject. Echidna shook away her fear with a made up smile and shook her head in an exaggerated way.

“No, she’s a personified God. She may understand what you say just by talking to the ground like the smart lady said but……normally, we have to contact her directly.”

“Is there a way?”

“There is, but I don’t know of it.”

“Wait. Shat?”

Echidna giggled as Adenmaha asked back with her eyes round.

“I don’t know but I know of someone that does.”

“And who is that?”

“The Goddess of grain Demeter.”

One of the 12 Olympians that has received her seat of a Goddess of grain from Rhea. The one that can only have a deep relationship with the primeval God of earth Gaia.

“She should know where she is.”

Echidna spoke clearly and the group turned to look at each other. Bracky feigned a laugh and said.

“So this is connected like this again?”

“Why? Has Demeter also turned into a being wanting to destroy the world?”

Echidna asked with a bewildered face. It was because if that was really the case, there was no way to contact Gaia at all.

But fortunately Demeter was a being that wanted to maintain the world.

“Ares was holding her captive. We defeated Ares but we don’t know her location so Hermes is looking for her.”

Echidna frowned at Siri’s calm answer.

“She is also really checkered. There were many times that she went through such things.”

Echidna mumbled in a low voice and even clicked her tongue for a moment. She shrugged her shoulders and spoke to Tae Ho.

“ANyways, the story of the general situation is like this. It’s hard to have talked a lot. Why don’t we rest for today?”

The group had already battled once. Just like Echidna had said, the group wanted to rest because of their considerable exhaustion. But Tae Ho still had something to order.

“Echidna, there’s one last thing I want to request from you.”

“What is it?”

“Can I bring Athena-nim and Hestia-nim to this place?”

The smile in Echidna’s face disappeared. She faced Tae Ho with an expressionless face and Tae Ho didn’t dodge his eyes from her.

And after some time passed. The one that turned her eyes away was Echidna. She let out a sigh and then looked at Tae Ho’s eyes.

“Fine, can’t do anything about it. But instead promise me one thing.”

She wasn’t talking about having children with him. It was much more important than that.

“Promise me my safety and my children’s safety when everything ends. The 12 Olympians don’t know about this place. But now, they will get to know about it and after the war ends……it may be after we win but I don’t know what they may do to me and my children.”

Echidna didn’t trust in the 12 Olympians. In the first place, they had gotten rid of the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires as soon as the war ended.

Tae Ho nodded. He was planning to do that even if Echidna didn’t request that. If the 12 Olympians attacked Echidna, Tae Ho was planning to protect her even if he had to go against them.

It wasn’t because he had a complicated reason. The reason was a really simple one.

“I will promise you. Echidna, you aren’t only the dragon God of Olympus but also of Asgard and Erin.”

Tae Ho was the master of Asgard and the successor of Erin. It was really obvious to protect a God of his world.

Echidna smiled brightly at Tae Ho’s promise. The time they had met was short but they had shared a deep interaction through ‘the one that conquers dragons’ so she could know that Tae Ho’s words weren’t a lie.

“Fine then. You could have just brought them here but thank you for having asked.”

“That’s an obvious thing.”

Tae Ho respected Echidna just like he respected Adenmaha. She wasn’t Tae Ho’s slave at all.

But it was at that moment. Echidna, that was facing Tae Ho’s eyes, trembled suddenly. She licked her lower lip a few times and then closed her eyes tightly and said.

“Ah, I can’t do it. I really really want to have some children with you. If ten is too much can’t we go with five? Huh?”

Echidna spoke quickly as she got really excited. She had thrown herself over the table and approached her face close to Tae Ho’s.

But Tae Ho was also quick to react. He stood up hurriedly to fall back and then Echidna put on a pitiable face and raised some fingers.

“Then only three! No, two!”

Everyone turned to look at Tae Ho. Bracky put on a jealous face so he got hit by Siri but everyone concentrated on Tae Ho’s answer.

“No.”

Echidna asked with an earnest voice as Tae Ho answered with strength.

“Then, can’t we go with only one?”

It was an incredible attack that had her bewitching voice, movement and seductive eyes but Tae Ho’s guard was solid.

“Sorry.”

Tae Ho spoke shortly and Adenmaha looked at Echidna with a triumphant face. While Gandur giggled Echidna pouted her lips and Nidhogg blinked and mumbled.

“But how are children made?”

Everyone focused on Nidhogg and Adenmaha covered Echidna’s mouth and Ingrid covered Gandur’s. Siri hit the back of Bracky’s head and prevented him from speaking.

“Tae Ho master?”

“Uh…um, Scathach-nim will teach you later.”

Tae Ho laughed awkwardly and looked at Adenmaha and she also nodded with an awkward face.

The next morning Athena and Hestia arrived at the new Erin.

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