The Key

"Let's do that."

After pondering for a long while, Hera finally made up her mind.

Zeus had gone too far. She could no longer tolerate Hebe being with this human.

Although as the guardian of marriage, deliberately destroying one did not fit her principles, this relationship had been built on deception and coercion from the very beginning.

Perhaps her understanding of "marriage" was still incomplete.

It was not a contract or an unchangeable oath, but a relationship that could be established and thus dissolved.

Especially marriages that had been flawed from the moment they were formed—they were even more so... As she thought about it, a flash of enlightenment crossed Hera's mind.

Vaguely, her intuition told her that this fleeting insight might aid the evolution of her authority, allowing her to delve more deeply into human culture and faith.

The gods were all quite interested in such matters.

But those were matters for later. What she had to do now was undoubtedly more important.

Whoosh...

She gently shook her robe, imbuing the Invisibility Helmet with the power of the Heavenly Queen.

An invisible force instantly spread out. With the aid of an authority of the same origin, even the warning Zeus's incarnation had casually set up produced no reaction at all.

Looking back toward Olympus, Hera's eyes flickered slightly.

The other party indeed had no defenses against the Heavenly Queen's power of the same origin... In that case, before Zeus's true body escaped, he probably wouldn't notice anything happening here.

Could this be considered betrayal?

"Of course not. I'm merely correcting the mistake you made by overstepping me and acting on your own, just like those lovers you found in the past."

Hera murmured softly, her expression resolute.

"The Heavenly Queen should have power of her own, too. You were