Europe (6) Dark Clouds
by Afuhfuihgs
The way to build a royal family is surprisingly simple.
In ancient times, there was no need to democratically vote to become king.
A powerful man becomes king, and with overwhelming power, he makes it so that no one dares to challenge the king’s authority.
And if I receive the support and loyalty of many people, I can reign as the true king of Crete.
So, how can I gain genuine loyalty from people?
When can people support and trust someone?
When they are protected from danger.
I have learned this method as a result of watching humans countless times.
Kkeueueueong!
A crazy bull rampages wildly.
It digs up farmhouses indiscriminately and charges at people.
It threatens and attacks men, women, and children alike, and even injures soldiers who come to catch the bull by headbutting them.
“No, where did that crazy bull come from?”
“Is that important? Where is the king and what is he doing that he can’t subdue a single rampaging bull?!”
“Euaaak! Electricity is spewing from the bull’s hooves! It’s a crazy monster!”
The bull plunged the island of Crete into terror.
Terrified people wanted a troubleshooter to resolve the crisis, and the king failed to resolve the crisis facing the country.
Now, it’s my turn to solve it.
“In the name of Zeus!!”
Peoeok.
I knocked down the bull.
Like bullfighting in Cheongdo, I strangled the bull’s neck with my strength and knocked it down.
“Ooh, the stranger has knocked down the crazy bull!”
“Stranger, you’re amazing!”
The residents of Crete praised my strength.
I knocked down the combat-type Cowsechs and was envied by everyone on the island of Crete.
“Let’s enthrone him as king!”
“Ooh, the stranger as our king!”
“No matter who comes, he will protect us!”
“He’s a hero sent by Zeus-shin!”
Without knowing that Zeus-shin was the one who sent the combat-type Cowsechs in the first place, the residents of Crete cheered.
Of course, I had some shills planted.
The human-Pleiades I had recruited in advance stirred up the atmosphere as if they were residents of Crete, and the residents of Crete, swept away by the atmosphere, tried to enthrone me, a stranger, as their leader.
“That’s out of the question!”
But of course, the existing leader expressed strong dissatisfaction with me, a stranger.
It was only natural for him to show anxiety, as his power was about to be transferred to me in an instant.
“Just because you killed one crazy bull, you’re going to be king! Since when has the position of king become so laughable?!”
“It’s laughable coming from a man who couldn’t even handle that bull.”
“What?!”
“You who cannot wield a sword for the sake of the people. You who are too cowardly to come forward. Your dick must be smaller than a finger joint. If you want to reign as king, protect the people!”
“Y-you! How dare you insult me, it’s a duel!”
Deonggeong.
I killed the king.
“A king who does not protect his people deserves to die.”
I killed the coward and took his place.
If he were a true king, he would have tried to kill the bull even at the risk of his life.
But he didn’t.
I couldn’t possibly let such a king rule over my beloved hometown filled with memories.
“From now on, I am the king of Crete! From now on, call me King Asterios.”
“””Waaaaa!!”””
People were ecstatic.
In fact, people were unknowingly led to raise their hands, following the frenzied cheers of the Pleiades I had planted as spies.
Rather than truly supporting me as king, they were simply clapping along due to their antipathy towards the existing king and their expectations for me.
The people’s reaction will change depending on how I act in the future.
But I am already a man who has successfully created a huge group before.
‘The first king of the Olympus Kingdom, Zeus-nim, has returned as an experienced new king, that’s what I’m saying.’
Someone who has done something before is good at it.
“This island, the island of Crete, will become the true Kingdom of Crete! Everyone, raise a toast!”
I bewitch the people of Crete with festivals and release game caught from afar to gain their favor.
“While I rule, there will be no floods!”
“Ooh, there really are no floods! King Asterios, you’re amazing!”
“Poseidon is watching over us!”
Zeus did it with Neptune.
“During my reign, there will be no famine!”
“Ooh, an amazing harvest! Amazing!”
“Thanks to the goddess Demeter!”
Zeus did it with Demeter.
“Enemies! Your Majesty, pirates are sailing to attack the island!”
“In honor of the great Zeus-shin, offer a prayer!”
Beonjjeok!
“Lightning struck from a clear sky!”
“The pirates’ ships have sunk!”
“King Asterios prayed to Zeus-nim! Zeus-nim heard him!”
“Zeus! Zeus! Zeus!”
Thus, I became a great man protected by Zeus-shin.
A being for whom all the gods care!
I became the true king of the island of Crete.
And I declared to create a royal family.
“Oh, beautiful you! I wish to take you as my wife!”
There was a beauty on the island of Crete more beautiful than anyone else.
The beauty had three children who had just started walking.
“…I am already a woman with three children.”
“Even better! I will treat your children as my own. Will you be my wife?”
I took the widowed woman as my wife.
The three handsome boys became my adopted sons, and I accepted the widowed woman as the queen of Crete.
“What is your real name?”
“…Don’t tell anyone outside. I am actually…”
Princess of Phoenicia, Europa!
An identity I never imagined.
Her background was truly shocking.
And even more shocking was the reality of the children she had.
“I gave birth to the children of Zeus-shin.”
“What?!”
“Three of them, no less.”
“All three of them!”
Shock.
I almost lost my mind, but I was so happy to become the stepfather of the children of the great Zeus-shin.
“It is only natural that I, who am protected by the great Zeus-shin, become the stepfather of the children! Zeus-shiyeo! Please allow me to become the stepfather, the godfather, of your children!”
Beonjjeok!
“Ah, Zeus-nim…!”
“Zeus-nim has allowed it! He has recognized King Asterios as the father of the children!”
Of course.
Because I have become the legitimate father of my children.
Even if Zeus cannot directly play the role of a father, wouldn’t it be enough to raise the children as Pleiades with Zeus’s soul dwelling within them!
Thus, the Cretan royal family was created.
The people were afraid of my strength, which was stronger than anyone else’s.
The children grew up well, and I led the Kingdom of Crete well with Europa, enjoying the happiness of raising my sons.
Thus, happiness seemed like it would last forever.
* * *
“You’ve come a long way indeed.”
A woman quietly entered a place that looked like a temple.
The blonde woman entered the temple with dignity, but no one guarding the temple noticed the woman’s movements.
Seureureu.
As the woman raised her hand, an eerie sound began to emanate from around the temple.
The soldiers guarding the temple screamed and blew their whistles.
“It’s a monster!!”
Seuseuseu.
Monsters that sprang from the ground devoured the soldiers guarding the temple in an instant.
The woman, satisfied that the monsters had cleared the area, opened the golden coffin in the center of the temple.
“This is it.”
The woman stroked the face of the woman buried in the coffin.
“Although you were born as a human but received the essence of a god, you were eventually revered as a god in this distant southern land. Yes, you are Io…no, Isisryeotda.”
The woman stroked the body of the woman, Isis.
“The soul has escaped. It must have been reborn as a goddess in Olympus after receiving the child’s recognition. But the body remains in this land, and this body is the body that carried the child of God. Ah, faint but still traces of that child remain.”
The woman took out a glass bottle.
“This is his essence that I personally obtained by traveling far to the land called Europe… Although it was obtained in a state where it was transformed into a human body, this must also be a product of God. Also, it has gained divinity from the beings of this land.”
Seureureu.
The woman poured the white liquid in the glass bottle onto Isis’s body.
Isis’s emaciated body gradually began to regain vitality as if flesh was growing, and the woman bit her lower lip to draw blood.
“For revenge. To correct the flow of the world. You will be reborn as my subordinate.”
Seureureu.
The woman smiled, spreading her arms towards Isis, who was regaining her vitality.
“I will take the last bit of life force in your body.”
The woman took out a horn from her bosom.
The horn, which resembled a goat’s horn, began to emit an ominous black aura.
Puhwaaaak!
The woman plunged the goat’s horn into Isis’s heart.
Isis’s body began to wither again in an instant.
All the life force remaining in Isis’s body was absorbed into the goat’s horn, and the woman pulled out the horn and stroked it lovingly.
“This is enough. Hehe, wait. Zeus.”
The woman rubbed the horn against her cheek and smiled ecstatically.
“I will send a strong adversary for you.”
Saeljjuk.
The woman lowered the horn close to her lower abdomen and smiled.
“I will give birth to them myself.”
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