How should I put it? Today, Locked Wisdom seemed to have unlocked the lock, but the door to the treasure vault of wisdom behind it still had not opened.
So it was open, but not completely open.
Indeed, Su Ming had initially planned to transform and sit on the throne, talk some trash, cause some damage, and provoke Zeus into showing himself for a final battle.
But the key was that he could not transform into Zeus himself.
That old lecher might have plenty of bad habits and weaknesses, but one of those weaknesses had a positive effect—he was extremely suspicious.
Though not as suspicious as Batman—Batman was just incurably sick—Zeus's paranoia was only marginally better by comparison.
Never mind all the things he did to prevent his sons from usurping his throne. Let's talk about another little story from mythology.
In Ancient Greece, people worshipped the Olympian Gods during large festivals. Besides fruit, wine, plays, and music, they would offer foods such as roast suckling pigs and roasted cattle.
After all, it was meat. Everyone knew it looked better when the whole animal was roasted and presented intact—like whole roast lamb, whole roast cattle, whole roast camel, and so on. Serving the entire thing gave a completely different visual effect.
When making offerings to other Olympian deities, these roasted animals could be placed whole upon the altar. But when offering food to Zeus, it had to be chopped into tiny pieces.
The reason was that Zeus worried weapons or assassins might be hidden inside a roasted animal's belly. He suspected humans of trying to assassinate him.
Thus, presenting him with an intact roasted animal would anger him rather than earn any blessing.
Forget roast chicken or roast fish. Even if the offering was a roasted grasshopper, it had to