Chapter 36: Chapter 36: How to rule

Throne room

Things had calmed down a lot after the initial resistance of the members of Zeus factions, Even if they didn’t like her they couldn’t make anything against the fact that she was indeed the leader by default of Olympus in the absence of Zeus, They couldn’t deny her arguments the fact that the throne had allowed her to seat on it and allow her to rule the realm.

The latest demonstration of power was the best proof of it, power is always very convincing, and with the subtle moves of the members of the council that she had on her side things were quickly pacified.

Now, they needed to be convinced that she was a good ruler, and with Maeron standing beside her, they began to propose a solution to the dire situation they were facing, even if they were responsible for it.

“As I was saying before we have a lot of problems on our plate right now, you can’t just wait and count on Zeus to resolve things before agreeing on something, so I have thought of various solutions,”

“And what are they?!” some inquire Heracles with an annoyed tone

“First and foremost, we must find Zeus and Ares,” she said

“Humph, I thought we shouldn’t count on Zeus to resolve things for us?!” retorque Dionysus the god of wine 

“Is it too much to ask that some of you use their head before talking, they are not there just to serve as decoration, you know…” she replied angering the young god before continuing

 “…Zeus is the best deterrence that we have against the invaders and Ares is one of our best commanders, Olympus is the biggest the most well equip, the most beautiful, brief the capital of all the realm, and this is where the king of the god lives if they can take it will be a huge blow to us all, and the king of this important place not only is not here to defend it, for now, we are just facing some probing we don’t know when they will really launch their attacks…”

At her long description of the situation, they all became silent analyzing what she just said, and could not find fault in her theory

“…to be fully prepared for the attacks we need Zeus, and this is why I want Heracles, Hermes, and Artemis to find him!” she declares with a smile

“What?!” Exclaims the mothers of the gods still living

“You want to send them out in the human realm who is actually infested with monsters of all kinds!”

“Exactly!”

Hearing this calm confirmation, they couldn’t help but explode at her

“You just want to use that opportunity to kill them, right!” said Themis, Zeus’ second wife interrogating Hera, the place became silent with everyone waiting for her response

“Well, I won’t cry for them if they died…” she admit stunning all room

“Unfortunately I know that they will not give me that pleasure, I tried to have them kill enough time to know how strong those parasites are, plus I am sending together, one is among the strongest, another is among the fastest and the last is the best tracker of Olympus,” Hearing all of them made a strange expression, it was not a secret that Hera tried to have them all killed but she was admitting that fact just like that in front of everyone plus they didn’t know if they had to take it as praise or just insulted

“Ah yes, I also need that you met with Persephone while she is still with her mother,” she added

“Persephone, what for?” asked Artemis

“To ask her to free either Athena, he can keep your brother,”

“Hey! How can you say that?”

“What, I am providing solutions for our current predicaments, Everyone can agree that in this situation the one that we need right now is Athena, right!” she explains

““Yes, Yeah…”” the gods around agree

“And why would he agree, after we have to admit that it’s because of Zeus that we are all in that situation,” said one of the gods in the crowd loud enough for anyone to ear

“Who said that!” asked another clearly angry

“Why, it’s the truth!”

“Yes, he may be our king but we have to admit that this whole war is his fault, he kept that monster alive until it escapes, and ravage the underworld, why would to free Athena,”

 “It’s true that she is a more valuable hostage than Apollo…” asked another, in the midst of that discussion the voice of Hera shut them up

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“He..may agree, if Persephone asks him, he will not free them both but one maybe, another reason why I am sending you, Do what you have to do, but convince her to talk to him understood?” she ordered the three of them, seeing that no one objected she smile everything was going fine, more that in fact, they were all accepting her directive without resistance, it was going even more smoothly than when Zeus was giving orders

“Good, now onto the next issue,”

“The deplorable state of the human realm, we have lost about half of the all the kingdom that was in our control since the beginning of this battle, who has begun not so long ago, does anyone has some idea, if you do voice it now,” she said giving them the opportunity to talks, to make it seems like their opinion matters to her

After that she just stayed silent as she was listening to them debate and give their ideas, some were good, but most were stupid.

Some proposed to launch an attack on the kingdoms that betrayed them but were shut down almost immediately when someone pointed out that it will take too much godpower. (Manpower/Godpower!)

And they already had too much to do here to waste warriors protecting the humans from the invasions, there were also good ideas that were going in the direction that she wanted.

When someone proposed that the gods who were still free could go down to resolve the issue some rebutted that with the situation actual it will not be long before the humans tried to hunt them for their powers too, and this is where Hera interjected by saying

“But if, like this Maeron guy and give them powers it may work!”

“You propose to we augment the numbers of our apostles?” Asked Perseus

(Zeus has so many children of Zeus that I am losing myself in that mess, did you know that Heracles and Perseus are related, Heracles is Perseus great-grandson or it’s great-great grandson in plus of being his brother if I remember correctly! Anyway I decided to include him too.)

“It may be a good idea but we can’t share too much of our power it will just weaken us more,”

“Particularly with this hunt of half-gods and apostles happening down there,”

“Another shameful act that must be stopped, can we let that continue,” added another one

“Why don’t we just share our burden then,” added Hera

“Share our burden?!”

She stayed silent for a few seconds before giving her orders, calling all the ten members of the council of minors gods one by one she asked

“Do you have any desire to be worshiped”

“What?! O-of course that question stimulated the crowd and the ten gods also show expressions of surprise and bewilderment even if some of them were not so successful in the attempt but it didn’t matter

“I have decided to expand the right of being worshiped to all the gods who will be judged worthy of the honor including among the gods considered as minors…” hearing her talk the hearts of the gods presents began to beat faster, it was for them an incredible opportunity

“We will create temples in the human realm, each temple will be ruled by one god and each of those gods will rule over many others, you will share your power with the humans, and using them you will make the fight against the forces of this new god name Maeron,”

“Yes, my queen!!” the screamed in response

“What are you doing Hera, you can’t just make such a big decision as this one on your own without consulting anyone,” said Artemis,

“That’s true, you are not the king, just his replacement until the real king comes back,” said Heracles, he didn’t really think anything bad about his comment to be anything offensive, he has always had a bad relationship with Hera but in that situation but he didn’t realize that for the lower or minors gods who weren’t a child of the gods of the upper, an opportunity like that had never appeared and the simple fact of talking against Hera at this moment was like trying to steal that opportunity away,

Without even realizing it Artemis and Heracles’ popularity began to fall while Hera’s one who was always low began to grow

“You are right I am the replacement king, but I am also the queen who is responsible for the intern affair of Olympus at the same time, this is why I can take this kind of decision without consulting anyone, if you are so dissatisfied with me, find Ares and Zeus faster, otherwise I don’t want to hear you,” when she was done talking a feeble voice appears in the crowd

“My queen is this opportunity available only for the members of the council,”

“Oh, excuse me I was a little distracted, we will hold a tournament in two days, the ten most powerful will be given their own temple to rule, and for those who fail this time if you show us some outstanding ability during the war, who knows I may allow you the same right, so do not disappoint me.”

“Yeahhh…” Once her speech was over all the gods present began to scream with joy and excitement, in one day some gods began to consider Hera a better ruler than their protectors and king Zeus himself.

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