Honey, Here's the [Heavenly Pillar] You Asked For

Hermes was genuinely panicking this time!

He'd discussed it with Hera. At the time, she'd said, "We have no bargaining chips left to trade. They're gods of order, and they care most about saving face. If we don't try, how will we know where their breaking point is?"

Basically, I don't care about saving face, so I should be invincible. And if you Chaos gods don't want to go down with us, then you should be our dogs.

If Lein dared to give an inch, the next step would be making him their dog. And being a dog didn't just mean bringing your own food—you also had to be ready to be skinned alive, not once, but over and over again!

It was nothing but a complete and utter bandit's mentality!

Don't think Hera was all that pure or noble. She and Zeus were both rotten to the core. The God King had no principles or bottom line, and the Queen of the Gods was vicious and ruthless, stopping at nothing to take revenge.

The upper beam was crooked, so the lower beams followed suit.

Even though ancient Greece under their rule was celebrated by countless people as the cradle of civilization, here's a little-known fact: Greece was a slave-owning society.

Who supported those lofty figures who spent all day waxing eloquent about Greek civilization?

Surely the people of other nations hadn't been so moved by the call of civilization that they willingly ran off to become slaves?

Strip away civilization's outer veneer, and there were hardly any decent gods anywhere in the Olympus God System, from top to bottom.

Even now, Hermes instinctively put on a brave face. "You'll regret this! You'll definitely regret this! Next time, it'll be the thunderous greeting of His Majesty, God King Zeus!"

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