"Just you?!!"
Faced with Hermes's cold smile, Hera frowned, then immediately shook her head in disdain.
"Hermes!"
she said.
"Indeed, as the embodiment of speed, you could be fast or slow!
Just as you evaded my lightning—perhaps because you were faster than lightning, or perhaps because you made lightning slower than yourself...
In short, while our spacetime is monitored and stabilized by great gods like Cronus, and no one can surpass time, your speed truly has almost no weaknesses!
But don't think that makes you invincible!"
As soon as her words fell, Hera casually slapped her newly regrown right hand against her left palm!
With that clap, the entire world trembled violently, especially Hades's River Styx.
As the world shook, Aphrodite's soul drifted out of the River Styx in the blink of an eye and returned to the battlefield in Athens.
Beneath the light of the suns overhead, which had gradually multiplied into the tens of thousands, Aphrodite's soul swayed gently.
A moment later, flesh and bone formed out of thin air around her soul, reshaping her into the goddess she had been before.
Just as every man and god eagerly looked toward Aphrodite's newly reborn body, hoping to glimpse that peerless sight found nowhere else in the world.
Hestia, standing not far away, smiled faintly.
Hearthfire gathered in her gaze in an instant, then drifted onto Aphrodite's body and clothed the goddess in a flame-woven gown of indescribable, unparalleled beauty!
Wrapped in flames, Aphrodite stretched out her bare foot, lightly stepped on the air, and sighed.
"So this was what nearing death felt like. For the first time in my life, I tasted loneliness.
I should thank you too, Hermes. Surrounded by countless lives and pursued by countless men, I actually rather liked that feeling!"
When she finished speaking,