Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 791 Familiar Eyes

Humans have their personas, and gods have their divine personas.

Unlike humans who like to expose the disguises of their own kind, if a god is willing to keep pretending, then other gods will take his disguise as his true nature... After all, the laws cannot lie.

Gods who can go to such lengths have basically deceived themselves as well.

Unless you're unlucky enough to encounter this god who suddenly wants to completely sever ties with the past, you can just communicate with him according to his disguised appearance.

Even in a godforsaken place like Toril, the gods still act according to their own laws and logic... Of course, tool gods and the like are excluded.

But it's not entirely impossible to figure out, after all, he would never do something his master couldn't accept.

Just like Bane and his ilk, just like Shirek.

They may be described as insane and cruel, greedy and shameless, but they are certainly not incompatible with their religious duties.

The God of Time and Space is, after all, a relatively new god who has only recently emerged.

Generally, such people will not break the doctrines and precepts established when they ascended to the throne within a million years.

Those who felt they could continue living were much more at ease.

Persephone also quickly returned to the depths of her soul, entrusting everything to the more ambitious Pearl... She now truly liked her fearless ignorance.

She still knows too much.

Almes, indeed, is quite the troublemaker.

These past two days have left her physically and mentally exhausted, and she longs to return to the Heart of the Underworld and fall asleep.
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The God of Time and Space stared blankly at the giant white owl.

Although he had never read any fairy tales before... well, I guess they could be considered fairy tales?

The story of villains courting their own demise and good people being rewarded, and those who die heroically rather than being regarded as cannon fodder or stepping stones, truly only exists in fairy tales.

In the adult world, there are only varying degrees of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin.

The fantasies are nothing more than Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods... In the end, ordinary people struggle and all they can do is reduce the constraints on themselves. There is nothing else but heaven and earth.

Although we still have to live within the rules, we are only following the real rules, not the will of others.

That would already be a perfect life.

What makes one feel able to break free from that constraint is... no longer treating people as human beings, neither others nor oneself.

Of course, the God of Time and Space was slightly distracted because there was also a rambling voice in his mind.

He felt like punching someone.

But... I also feel a certain happiness in that carefree attitude.

The God of Time and Space once had the greatest wish that his country and people could at least fulfill their past fantasies.

Society is inherently composed of rules and regulations.

But if people only had these two constraints, how happy they would be!
His lifelong struggle and unwavering commitment to his goals have shaped another version of himself into who he is today.

Even those hearts frozen before becoming gods will feel a slight warmth upon seeing that lively and passionate spirit.

The God of Time and Space knew very well that he was still capable of being moved, unlike the supreme god Toril who had become a mere set of rules, because he still felt passionate about these things.

However, as his connection with the river of time and space becomes closer, the pulling force on his other soul may not be enough... After all, part of his soul was added later, and even if it looks perfect, there are always some subtle disharmony.

Therefore, he had to resolve those lingering issues.

I cannot allow my last shred of humanity to be completely lost because of that slight incompatibility in our souls.

The God of Time and Space certainly understood the problem he was facing.

The Greek god Uranus, who gave him all of this, did not necessarily need his body or his soul... Even though his soul was able to be reincarnated and possess such talents, it was all thanks to that fragment of Uranus's soul.

Uranus didn't care about any of that.

This Greek god was indeed a born god of light. Even if a part of his soul was corrupted by the power of hell, Uranus knew when to stop... He wouldn't attribute everything to the current power of the god of time and space.

Even though he deeply hated Cranus and Gaia because of his unexpected demise, Uranus did not blame fate or others for the shattering of his soul.

An enemy is an enemy.

Experience is experience.

Yes, that god felt that this was because he had violated his original duty and chosen to take a shortcut, and was being punished by the multiverse.

He himself also bears some responsibility for the collapse of the Greek world.

If he hadn't cared about so much back then, and had simply fulfilled his divine duty by giving birth to the gods, earth gods, and giants with Gaia, and then gone back to being the Lord of the Sky, many things might not have happened.

However, Uranus still couldn't suppress his desires when faced with Gaia relinquishing sovereignty.

It's quite normal for offspring born from boiling desires to ultimately be destroyed by those same desires.

He didn't even feel any intolerance towards that Cupid with his special status. After all, that was indeed the root of all evil.

It's normal for the Greek gods to be unable to control their love for her... Uranus was the purest of the gods.

Those male gods on Mount Olympus, whose bloodlines were impure and who had been stripped of many rights by him, would surely be deeply attracted to Aphrodite's bloodline.

Everyone wants to complete their genes.

Uranus had known all along... Cranus was not his first child; he only inherited a fraction of his power and bloodline. Cranus's descendants would be even fewer.

Unless he transforms himself into a goddess and goes to have children with his brothers.

If Aphrodite had been in male form, some things would be harder to say.

Cranus couldn't do it, but Zeus... well, maybe not.

Uranus never imagined that one of his descendants would be so reckless.

However, given the vast difference in bloodlines, Zeus's children inherited more of Gaia's bloodline... so it's normal that they mutated.

Perhaps, at that time, what he longed for was to completely overturn the Greek world, which is why Aphrodite was born from the sea!

According to the rules he originally set, the divine authority that could only be passed down through the father line could not be passed down through Aphrodite, the mother figure.

That was indeed a complete severing of the Greek pantheon's path to obtaining the bloodline of the gods.

Therefore, for Uranus, his feud with Mount Olympus ended the moment Greece disintegrated and the gods died, and he had no intention of pursuing them further.

This deity possesses a completely divine mindset, seemingly believing that once cause and effect are cleared, everything is settled.

However, his cause and effect are not on the same line as the cause and effect of the God of Time and Space.

Uranus was satisfied with the current outcome and planned to seek out his other self, no longer entangled with the God of Time and Space. But in reality, he was letting the God of Time and Space go.

It's not that the two of them have actually finished settling accounts.

If one day Uranus feels he needs the help of the god of time and space... it seems the god of time and space can't directly refuse him.

The soul is the cause, and so is the graceful departure we are experiencing now.

But... who knows what kind of consequences Uranus will bring him?
Moreover, he left the God of Time and Space with a major problem... the name Cranos.

For deities, sharing the same name is the greatest threat.

Especially the gods who have already left their own world.

The only saving grace was that Cranus of Greece eventually became Asmodeus's meal, and was utterly destroyed.

The God of Time and Space, who had always kept himself locked in his divine kingdom and was unwilling to step out of Trashir, finally had the interest to go out.

Otherwise, after being so tricked by Uranus, he was really worried that he would run into the disfigured goddess Gaia and have a bunch of rotten flesh stuffed into his body as soon as he went out.

However, the God of Time and Space also knew that once he acquired the name Cranos due to Uranus's influence, some things were beyond his control.

For example, Mount Olympia.

He pondered and searched through countless methods throughout time, only to discover that Hermes was the key to solving the problem.

The god of time and space didn't understand at first why his choice to help Hermes would also lead to the elimination of Uranus.

Once the name became entirely his own, wouldn't Uranus, who named him, become an even more serious cause?
Until today, when he appeared before Hermes.

I saw it, that night owl in the sky.

The God of Time and Space, who could easily traverse the barriers of time and space, saw a pair of eyes that seemed somewhat familiar to him behind the eyes of the strange bird that could transform into an angelic creature.

He almost reached out to touch his eyes before realizing that he no longer presented himself to outsiders the way he had when he ascended to the throne.

Even though he existed for a longer period in the multiverse, everything about him was still condensed from his past self.

This belief allowed him to break free from various constraints, but it also made him somewhat unaccustomed to his silver hair and silver eyes.

Perhaps it's because he didn't get to see his future self grow old?

Deep down, there's bound to be some regret.

The God of Time and Space felt that he could now indulge in this little bit of whims.

He glanced down at the large owl that was unusually wary of him, and smiled inwardly... But if he stood here looking like that, he probably would have his feathers standing on end in those eyes too.
It really does look alike.

Those eyes, as vast as the sky.

Color and shape lose all meaning in the face of this feeling.

The God of Time and Space was somewhat dazed as he thought... It seems that the world Hermes inhabits is also at the edge of the universe.

In other words, the larger pieces of Uranus's soul were basically scattered to the farthest places, right?
(End of this chapter)