Greece: Zeus made me the queen of heaven?

Chapter 805: Become an idol for your father
"My dear daughter, have you been happy during this period?"

On a peaceful and tranquil afternoon, Eros, contrary to his usual behavior, did not wreak havoc on Pharaoh's harem.

Instead, he came to his daughter, Dionysus, who was handling government affairs, and expressed his condolences.

Facing the concern from his father, Dionysus placed his hands flat, and the Crown of Ten on his head emitted a faint starlight.

"Father, I have never been unhappy. Being able to have life is the greatest joy."

There was no joy in her flat tone, but Eros knew that his daughter was indeed happy in her heart all the time.

Dionysus' heart is filled with the joy of life, because only with life can he continue to experience everything in this world.

She was sincerely happy about it, and felt joyful that she could walk in this world and do all kinds of things.

But seeing this, Eros scratched his head in distress.

"That's not the question I'm asking. I want to ask you, how does it feel to be a king?"

"Your words and actions determine the fate of all living beings. People look up to and rely on your orders and decisions. How does it feel?"

Yes, Eros did not choose to delegate power to Dionysus because he wanted to be lazy, but because he wanted to let Dionysus experience more life and different identities.

How could Eros be the kind of unscrupulous father who left all the work to his young children while indulging himself in a life of debauchery?
"Is this the experience of being a king?"

Dionysus thought for a moment before answering the question.

"It's a job that carries a lot of responsibility. Any decision you make could have unimaginable consequences, so you have to be careful with whatever decision you make."

"It is indeed a very fresh experience, but the pressure is also quite great, and there is no room for carelessness."

It was a very accurate assessment, but very much in Dionysus’s own style.

After all, for most people, the position of Pharaoh is not stressful at all.

If I get promoted, I will be a tyrant, and I will spend every day driving horses in Kuku's harem. Whoever wants to take care of the government affairs can do it. I will only take care of the selection and driving horses.

Humans pursue the privilege of power, but often ignore the responsibility behind power.

Only someone like Dionysus would probably feel truly stressed by the responsibilities that come with the position of Pharaoh.

"Ha, maybe you should try to be a little more willful, put aside your considerations about these things, and just do what you like."

Eros glanced at the documents piled up on the table. They were all trivial and troublesome tasks. If it were him, he probably wouldn't even look at them and would just leave them to others to deal with.

"Sometimes you have to enjoy the good things that privilege brings, do some bad things appropriately, and satisfy yourself."

Faced with Eros's temptation to do whatever he wanted, Dionysus just shook his head.

"What I'm doing now is exactly what satisfies me, right? I want to make people's lives better and happier."

Dionysus, who was born from the love between God and man, has the most compassionate and gentle love for everything in this world.

When she saw the poor and suffering people, she would reach out a helping hand. The Holy Grail that Eros gave her as a birth gift produced mostly potions to cure diseases and rice porridge to fill people's stomachs.

He is a benevolent god who helps everyone, regardless of good or evil, old or young, and treats them equally, saving them without distinction.

To be honest, this is quite different from the God of Wine in Eros's mind. Shouldn't he be a corrupt God of Wine who drinks and revels every day? However, it is obvious that Eros will have to bear the blame for this God of Revelry.

"As expected of my daughter, in this case, it seems that the King's Game is not suitable for you."

Eros kissed Dionysus on the forehead affectionately. Although it was just normal father-daughter intimacy, Dionysus felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

Maybe it was because he saw his newborn sister, Anubis, that day.

But Eros did not notice Dionysus's discomfort and continued.

"Rather than being a king who has to shoulder more responsibilities and make more difficult decisions, you should be more of a traveler passing by, an ordinary person."

As a ruler, there is no such thing as everyone being happy.

No matter what decision is made, someone has to execute it and pay the price, and someone will inevitably be hurt.

It was just one or two city-states, but in Pharaoh's heart, there were tens of thousands of nations along the Nile River.

From this macro perspective, as a thorough good person, you will naturally feel tremendous pressure and will constantly hesitate and struggle with making choices.

Of course, another reason is that Eros forbade Dionysus to abuse the power of the god of fertility excessively to solve most of the disasters in the land.

In this regard, Eros even has his own mature theory to convince Dionysus.

"My daughter, human desire is like a rolling stone on a mountain. Once it starts, it can never be stopped."

"To stop them, the rocks must have been at the bottom of the valley."

"Now you can rely on abundance to ensure that everyone can be well fed and clothed without pressure, but when they are well fed and clothed, they will want more."

“When they are freed from the most basic desire for food and drink and no longer need to work hard for survival, what comes to them is not happiness, but greater dissatisfaction and disaster.”

Although this does include some fallacies and heresies, such as what is inherently wrong with feeding people?

But Eros is not a good god, so he doesn't care whether this is a good thing or not.

Naturally, he would not approve of something that could be easily achieved without human effort but only by relying on God's blessing.

Dionysus, convinced by Eros's fallacies, could only agree to this condition and would not use the power of God to directly change everything.

"You must give God's grace in moderation and appropriately. If you satisfy all desires and satisfy them unconditionally, people's desires will become stronger and stronger."

"Now they are just thirsty for food, and you can satisfy that with the power of abundance, but what next?"

"They crave power and status, and they crave to oppress others in exchange for their own status. Can you satisfy them all?"

This parent-child education really made Dionysus think deeply and he had a deeper understanding of God's responsibilities.

And what Eros said, that she was more suitable to be an ordinary person, a traveler, was naturally not a joke.

"Dionysus, my daughter, become a man-god idol for your father and mother!"

(End of this chapter)