"What exactly has happened recently?"
Hera, who was sitting in her temple at this moment, felt that her faith was decreasing recently, and she hadn't found what she was looking for.
Her mood was quite bad, and she asked with a not-so-pleasant tone.
Her gloomy expression scared her divine servants around her to their knees.
"My Lady, there have been many rumors about you recently, and!"
A divine servant knelt before Hera and began to stammer.
She didn't want to be the one to speak up, but she was in charge of collecting intelligence.
At the end of her report, she hesitated again, wondering if she would be beaten to death or severely punished for speaking out like this.
This thought involuntarily popped into her mind, and she couldn't help but shiver when she thought of those who had been punished by Hera.
"And what? Speak quickly."
Hearing the divine servant's words, Hera's brows visibly furrowed.
She hadn't been wandering around recently, so how could there be rumors about her?
And this fellow only spoke half-truths, which made her feel a little annoyed.
"They are all... not-so-good rumors."
Under Hera's interrogation, the divine servant finally had no choice but to speak, even if she concealed it now, when her superior, Lady Hera, eventually found out, the punishment would probably be light.
She was still young and didn't want to die; being punished now was much better than being held accountable later.
"Which ones? Tell me."
Hearing the divine servant's words, Hera's interest was clearly piqued.
How bad could bad rumors be? This made her very curious.
But hearing this, the divine servant had a 'motherfucker' in her heart that she didn't know whether to say or not.
Why would anyone like to hear negative information about themselves? And why was her mouth so 'cheap' that she piqued her interest?
Well! She probably would take her anger out on herself in the end.
"How could I be so unlucky?"
"It's... it's nothing major, just turning young maidens into cows!"
"Turning people into bees out of anger!"
"Liking to steal other people's children."
"A lolicon."
The inwardly active divine servant began to recount the rumors she had heard.
As the servant's words fell on her ears, Hera's face twisted with rage.
"Who the hell did this? How can someone slander me like this? Can't we play nicely anymore? This is going to ruin my reputation!"
Suppressing her furious emotions, Hera carefully listened to the divine servant's report, then took a deep breath, first cursing the person who slandered her (Athena: 'Achoo!').
Then she tried to recall if she had offended anyone recently.
But after thinking for a long time, she still couldn't figure out who had such a deep hatred for her.
"You all may leave now!"
Waving her hand to dismiss all the attending divine servants, this action made the divine servant kneeling before Hera breathe a sigh of relief.
She had thought she would be implicated, but it seemed her main god was still reasonable.
"You over there, go fetch me the Divine Crystals from the treasury."
The fellow, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, was immediately called to work. This made her retract her good impression of Hera; their Lord God still liked to exploit labor so much.
The divine servant, not daring to talk back, could only obediently go to the treasury. One had to know that the door to that treasury was pressed down by a giant boulder. Of course, the Lord God could move the boulder with a wave of her hand, but she could only use brute force. This baby is really working hard.
"Excluding my eldest sister Hades, Poseidon couldn't possibly do such a thing, as it would be a bit difficult for her brain. Could it be Demeter? That's somewhat possible, but there's no reason! And then there's Hestia, which is even less likely. I haven't had much contact with her, let alone offended her."
"As for Gaia, she would rather beat herself to death than waste brainpower to scheme against me. Could it be… Athena? No reason!"
"I'm not familiar with her, and her feud with Hades is quite significant. I haven't even met her once, so I can't have offended her, right!"
"This is truly a perplexing problem."
While Hera was troubled, wondering who was scheming against her, Athena was overjoyed on the other side.
"Thank you so much for teaching me this transformation spell; it's truly identical."
In Athena's temple, 'Hera' happily said to Demeter, who was beside her. If Gaia or Hades were present, they would be able to see through the flaw in this spell, because they had already reached the tenth sense. But only those with the ninth sense, or even the eighth sense demigods, could only watch 'Lord Hera' wreak havoc everywhere.
"It's a small matter. This can also be considered a lesson for Hera. But don't forget our main objective."
Demeter smiled and said to the 'Hera' in front of her. She and Athena had cooperated this time to thoroughly trick Hera, and they had handled their tracks so cleanly that unless a great power was present, it would be impossible to see through it. All of this was merely a performance by the two of them.
"How could I forget? Thanks to this, we successfully created a villain. Now people yearn for heroes and gods to appear and help them defeat the 'villain.' Their faith is now twice as strong as before, and with us secretly winning over Hera's followers, my followers have increased by almost a thousand."
With a swipe of her hands across her face, the image of 'Hera' instantly twisted and vanished, finally revealing Athena's true appearance.
"Thanks to this operation, I can create six constellations."
Athena held out her hand, looking at the bright and dazzling golden light within it. Compared to the previous pale gold, this was clearly golden and looked very substantial.
"Like this, slowly, your power to guard the earth will grow stronger. But be careful, that 'one-eyed man' from the North is getting a bit restless."
When speaking of this matter, Demeter put away her smile and spoke to Athena with a serious expression.
"I've long been prepared for this. I've already defeated four giant beasts and crafted their souls and magic cores into crystal-like Saint Cloths. When the time comes, I'll select suitable warriors to resist Odin's small moves."
Athena, with an expression that said 'I already anticipated this,' spoke to Demeter.
"Since you're prepared, I won't say more. Once you complete your plan, we'll start searching for Zeus together!"
"Hmm! Don't worry, that's a certainty."
Receiving Athena's reply, Demeter did not linger. She still needed to continue calculating Zeus's location. Even if there was only a glimmer of hope, she did not want to give up.
"Mother God, I will definitely find you."
Watching Demeter's retreating back, Athena sat on her divine throne, looking at the sky and saying with firm resolve.
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