Chapter 7 New found determination

Training was torture, I had grossly underestimated the complexity of the poses and breathing techniques. Nina was faring much better than me, it took 6 months to complete the first pose and 2 more to get it to perfection. Nina took 6 months to perfect hers but continued to practice the same pose while waiting for me, it really touched my heart and made me realize that since rebirth I haven't given her the pampering she deserves. I couldn't help but remember at the beginning when we could barely move after training and we would just hug each other's sweaty and often twitching bodies for hours just to avoid screaming from the burning pain.After every session then our skin is bright red and our body temperature is so high the sweat turns to steam. It was unbearable, we only got through it because we had each other's support and allowing us to grow so much closer. Nina is such a strong woman, I can't help but be proud of her . With this our routine changed to body training in the morning untill 12 , TLC time during the day untill 3pm,reading untill 6pm,visit mother and sister, this is free time for Nina though she often reads on electronics and robotics, finishes at 8pm, meditation, it is way easier that body training, untill 12 and sleep from 12 to 6am. We took continuous breaks to it, a disgusting amount of food was needed for training, we really kept Sarah busy with all the cooking she had to do. But I have to say training did wonders to our bodies, shadows of a muscular man and fit woman are already starting to show.

Like this peaceful life continued until a certain man whore came to our little island pretending to care. Zeus, his face personifies arrogance, platinum blond hair, green eyes and pointed nose, he looked like freaking Nazi! From my conversations with mother I heard he's really as bad as the stories, in fact Olympus as a whole is a fucked up place! Luto hates his guts but apparently he was the only Titan compatible with her divinity thus he was the only option she had for a child .

The pompous man flew in and the first the he bellow as she caused a small thunderstorm shaking the entire island as he said "Be honored for ZEUS THE GOD OF THE SKY AND THUNDER HAS COME!". Throughout the whole conversation all he could talk about how lucky Artemis is for being his child. As for me, the asshole tried to avoid acknowledging me being son. From what I could tell he sees it as a disgrace that I wasn't a God. No wonder he let hela kill Hercules' family! No wonder Apollo hated him so much going as far as colluding with Poseidon to dethrone Zeus. The man majestic golden brought bow for Artemis and acted as if he was now the father of the year, what's wrong with this guy's head? This is the first time he sees his children after Hela made Luto's life impossible out side this island and that's his attitude? He doesn't even mention adressing his wife's behavior! So this is why Artemis was so disgusted with men she ended up as virgin goddess! From her eyes I could already see burning hate in her eyes. But what can we do? We have do put a facade of friendliness, pamper his vanity and wait for him to leave - because the man could really go to extremes if we don't . Luto had already taken a vow to never be with a man after child birth thus he can't touch her so he will definitely be leaving soon.As much as I hate him he really deserves his tittle after appraisal :

Name : Zeus

Age : immeasurable

Race : Titan God

Str : 9999005

Agi: 8324000

End: 9999990

Int : 1789

Divinity : sky and thunder

Mana : Cannot be calculated (concealed by artifact)

Abilities : (concealed)

I hate to admit it but I was a bit scared. I finally found the limit to appraisal, if the difference in strength is too great and individual can conceal their status. We really under estimated this world with our earlier assumptions. Who knows what Zeus' full strength was? What artifact he possesses? What he hid after the defeat of the Titan? What are his trump cards? Is this why Apollo and Poseidon failed their attempts to dethrone Zeus? I couldn't help but sigh. We really have a lot of work to do.

The visit from Zeus was really an eye opener and left me with new found determination. We have to train harder.