A Great Threat (1)

Peaceful Crete Island.

Under the reign of King Asterios, the Cretan kingdom began to grow at lightning speed.

It has only been 20 years since he ruled the kingdom, but the Cretan kingdom has grown to the point where it can expand its territory to the surrounding islands.

Of course, the King didn’t want that.

He made the kingdom of Crete so powerful that no one could invade it, but he made sure not to invade foreign countries recklessly.

He possessed great power, but he didn’t wield it carelessly.

However, he thoroughly dealt with any existence that endangered the kingdom.

King Asterios became more popular day by day.

He had to be.

“King Asterios-isiyeo, I have come to dare to make an accusation to the King.”

“Us too.”

“We have also come to make an accusation.”

The people knelt before King Asterios with angry faces.

They knew he had done nothing wrong, but they couldn’t suppress the resentment rising in their hearts.

“What brings you here?”

King Asterios asked with a tired face.

He already had a good idea of why they had come, but he was hoping against hope.

However, the sad premonition always comes true.

“The princes.”

“I’m sorry.”

The King apologized first.

It was quite unusual, no, impossible, for the King to apologize to his people, but he did.

“I am just sorry.”

“No, it’s all because the princes inherited the blood of Zeus-sin.”

“…You have come to accuse my adopted sons, the princes?”

The accusers nodded heavily.

The King nodded with a heavy face and gave instructions to the servants.

“Bring the princes!”

A moment later.

The princes stood awkwardly and knelt before the King.

All of them had flowing golden hair and bronze skin, and they were more full of life than anyone else.

“My children. Do you know what you have done?”

“I’m sorry, Father.”

“Is ‘I’m sorry’ enough?”

“Ah, no.”

“Then, what did you do wrong?”

“We got drunk and….”

*Kwang!*

The King slammed the throne with his fist and stood up.

“Drunk and what!!!”

“…I’m sorry, Father!”

“It’s not me you should be apologizing to! You should be apologizing to the women you have dishonored!”

“We’re sorry.”

The princes bowed 90 degrees.

Despite the princes’ sincere apology, the people’s faces turned red, but they soon huffed and lowered their fists.

“If you’re sorry…. Haa. I’ll let it go for King Asterios’s sake.”

“But if this happens again, I will fight to the death.”

“We can only rely on the solemnity of the laws established by His Majesty!”

The people huffed and left the royal castle.

The King leaned back on the throne with a troubled face.

“You bastards, what possessed you to do such a terrible thing?”

“Well, that’s….”

“It wasn’t one-sided! We were drinking together, and we caught each other’s eyes, and then it naturally….”

“Honestly, it’s unfair! It’s not like we forced them….”

*Kwang!*

The King slammed the throne again with his hand.

The reverberation was enough to make even the three princes, who were recognized as ‘heroes’, tremble with fear.

“When did I say anything about you having consensual sex! When did I say anything about men and women catching each other’s eyes for a moment!”

“Then, what…?”

“Is it even possible to get two or three people pregnant per person!!”

At the King’s scream-like roar, the three princes smiled sheepishly. The King clutched his chest at the sight.

“One of you is messing with a widow and her daughter, one is messing with twin sisters, and one is messing with three women who are studying together!”

“It’s a misunderstanding! I didn’t know she was a widow! That’s because she just said she was the older sister!”

“I’m also wronged! The two were so identical that you couldn’t even compare them! I only knew they were different when I put it in!”

“I’m really wronged. What am I supposed to do when all three of them are rushing at me saying they like me? If I hadn’t embraced all three of them, someone would have definitely been stabbed!”

At the words of the three princes, the King grabbed the back of his neck and slumped down.

“Keuheok, heoeook….”

“Father!!”

“Th, th…. Haa. No. Well, I’m glad it turned out this way. Listen carefully. You will have to take responsibility for the pleasure you have enjoyed.”

The King shook his head with a weary face.

“Later, when I decide on the next King, I will focus on judging whether you have become good husbands and fathers.”

“Yes? Does that mean….”

“You will take responsibility for the women you have impregnated and act as their husbands!”

The eldest son who impregnated a mother and daughter.

The second son who impregnated twin sisters.

The third son who simultaneously impregnated three seniors, classmates, and juniors who were studying together.

They are all princes of Crete, muscular men with golden hair, blue eyes, and bronze skin, and all of them inherited the blood of Zeus-sin.

“…Haa.”

The King’s sigh deepened.

The reason why the angry crowd couldn’t directly confront the King, and couldn’t recklessly treat the princes, was because the princes were not sons that the King had directly given birth to, but sons of Zeus.

However.

“My sons.”

The King truly treated the princes as his sons. The princes also truly treated the King as their father.

“I raised you with my heart.”

“Father…!”

The princes’ eyes turned red.

The King slowly rose from the throne and turned towards the cliff behind the throne, where the panorama of Crete Island could be seen.

“Zeus-sin entrusted me with destiny to take responsibility for the woman he held, your mother. The great one dared to make you and me stand together as your father with his position. He gave me strength and helped me a lot to protect the kingdom. So I wanted to repay Zeus-sin by becoming your godfather, but….”

*Swaaaa.*

The waves crashed against the cliff.

“As I raised you, I truly thought of you as my sons. But I think I raised you wrong. Getting drunk? That’s not a problem at all. A man can only be truly called a man if he takes responsibility for what he has done. But look, are you trying to take responsibility for your actions?”

“That’s….”

“I raised you to be playboys who flirt with any woman, so how can I offer prayers to Zeus-sin and offer faith to him? Ah, it’s my fault. It’s my fault for not teaching you responsibility as a human being.”

“That’s not true!!”

“I’m sorry, Father! We were wrong!”

“We will definitely take responsibility! So please, don’t blame yourself!”

The princes bowed their heads and wept.

The King knelt on both knees at the edge of the cliff and offered a prayer to the dry sky.

“Ah, great being-isiyeo! King of the gods in the high heavens-isiyeo. I, Asterios, beseech you. Please forgive the mistakes committed by your bloodline. Please have mercy…!”

“Father! We were wrong!”

“Zeus-sin-isiyeo! It’s our fault! Father is not guilty!”

“Punish us!”

While the King and princes were arguing with each other, lightning struck King Asterios.

“Father!!”

“……My sons, listen.”

Despite being struck by lightning from the sky, King Asterios calmly got up and turned around.

*Saaaa.*

King Asterios’s hair began to shine with a brilliant golden light. Golden currents of electricity began to sparkle around his body, and blue lightning flowed from his blue eyes.

“Minos. Rhadamanthus. Sarpedon.”

The voice of King Asterios, calling the names of the three princes, was filled with a dignity more solemn and majestic than that of a king.

“Those who have inherited my blood.”

The princes realized.

Who had possessed King Asterios.

“God-isiyeo…!”

“Asterios is the one who raised you with his heart. He can be said to be more of your father than I am. How dare you hurt the heart of such a person?”

“Ah, aah…!”

Even the great Zeus rebuked the princes.

“If you truly fear and follow me, you must serve your father even more. Think of Asterios as me. I am watching closely with Asterios’s eyes that rebellious heart you harbor.”

*Kwagwagwang!!*

Lightning struck the dry sky.

The three princes all prostrated themselves with their foreheads touching the ground at the lightning that fell behind King Asterios.

“……..”

*Passeuses.*

The electric current flowing around King Asterios disappeared.

He stood still with his eyes closed, and the princes carefully approached the King.

“He fainted while standing…!”

Was it the price for accepting a god even for a moment?

King Asterios fainted while standing on two feet.

Did his efforts reach them?

Zeus’s three sons steeled their hearts to take clear responsibility for the actions they had committed with their lower bodies.

“Raising sons is hard.”

“I wonder who they take after.”

“I know, right? Is it because they resemble the goddess Hera?”

“Isn’t it because they resemble Zeus-sin in getting someone pregnant as soon as they catch their eye?”

King Asterios and Queen Europa sighed deeply at the princes’ actions, along with blasphemy, in the bedroom.

“Who do they take after.”

“Of course, they take after you, oppa.”

“What are you talking about? I don’t do that to just anyone.”

“That’s your story.”

The argument between the chief god of Olympus and his wife did not end.