Gaea, the Earth Mother, had five daughters present here: Theia, Titaness of sight and heavenly light; Rhea, former Queen of the Titans; Themis, Goddess of Justice and Divine Order; Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory; and Phoebe, Titaness associated with prophecy and bright intellect.
All five were daughters of Gaea and Ouranos.
Hera, former Queen of Olympus, had also brought three daughters: Hebe, Goddess of Youth; Enyo, Goddess of War and Destruction; and Eileithyia, Goddess of Childbirth.
Before long, Hera brought the three before Karl.
Hebe glared angrily at both Karl and her mother.
Enyo looked at Karl with open disdain.
Eileithyia remained much calmer, quietly observing him.
The three had long known what had happened between Karl and Hera, but none had expected their proud mother to genuinely fall in love with him afterward.
After bringing her daughters over, Hera immediately returned to Karl's side.
Karl examined the three goddesses dressed in light green, dark purple, and earth-toned divine garments.
All three resembled Hera to varying degrees.
Considering their relationship, that wasn't surprising.
Hebe was just about to speak when Gaea arrived with her five daughters.
Theia wore a shimmering golden gown.
Rhea wore dignified white-and-gold divine garments befitting a former Titan queen.
Themis wore an elegant black gown.
Mnemosyne wore a refined brown dress.
Phoebe wore white-and-gold robes decorated with prophetic symbols.
Compared with Hera's daughters, Gaea's daughters carried a much more mature and ancient aura.
All five were extraordinarily beautiful.
Karl's mental power briefly swept through them, examining their memories and conditions.
What he discovered surprised him slightly.
Several of them had never been intimate with anyone.
The goddesses, meanwhile, stared at him with varying degrees of hostility.
They couldn't understand how their once dignified, powerful, and noble mothers had become so attached to this man.
"They probably didn't tell you why they brought you here."
Karl looked at them calmly.
"So I'll explain it myself..."
The next moment, everyone disappeared from the garden.
Soon afterward, beautiful voices echoed throughout the castle.
The unusual "symphony" continued for ten days.
Karl had altered the flow of time inside the Shadow World.
Ten days passed there while only a single day passed in the outside universe.
By the eleventh day, eight more high-ranking goddesses had appeared beside Karl.
Hera herself had never imagined that one day she would find herself in such a complicated situation with members of her own family.
Every time she thought about it, her emotions became difficult to describe.
Karl, meanwhile, received another eight sign-in opportunities.
His accumulated total rose to thirteen.
However, their individual strength wasn't particularly high by Karl's current standards.
Most were only at the Sub-Skyfather level.
Rhea barely possessed Skyfather-level strength, while even Theia was only around the peak of the Sub-Skyfather level.
Therefore, Karl still didn't perform any sign-ins.
He intended to accumulate every available opportunity first and use them together.
Perhaps doing so would increase his chances of receiving higher-level rewards.
At this moment, Karl sat upon the throne surrounded by goddesses.
Phoebe and Gaea occupied his arms.
The two had managed to distinguish themselves during the past several days, even surpassing Aphrodite in gaining Karl's favor.
Karl looked toward the twelve goddesses gathered around him.
Every one of them now watched him with obvious affection.
A satisfied smile appeared on his face.
These were once distant and untouchable figures of mythology.
Now they were competing for his attention.
Karl casually reached out and pulled Hera into his arms as well.
Three beautiful goddesses from successive generations of the same divine bloodline now rested beside him.
Karl gently kissed each of their foreheads.
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Over the following days, Karl traveled almost daily between the physical universe and the Shadow World.
The sealed castle gradually expanded under his power until it became a magnificent palace.
Within three months, Karl had brought every remaining Olympian goddess under his control.
He had become the center of their lives.
Every goddess within the former Greek pantheon now carried Karl's mark near her collarbone.
Rather than rejecting it, they had gradually begun treating the mark as something to be proud of.
Karl ultimately accumulated sixty sign-in opportunities.
Fifty-nine came from the goddesses imprisoned here.
Whenever Karl entered the palace, they would dress in carefully designed divine garments, dance, and compete for his attention.
On one occasion, Hera became so overwhelmed by everything happening around her that she fainted.
Her former queenly aloofness had long since disappeared.
Afterward, however, her attachment to Karl only deepened.
Gaea gradually began behaving much the same way, which Karl naturally enjoyed.
Eventually, Karl restored the goddesses' divine powers.
However, he left the spiritual seeds within their minds.
He even reinforced them with the power of the Mind Stone and expanded the restrictions surrounding their palace.
By now, however, Hera, Gaea, and several of Gaea's daughters had already convinced most of the others that their goal should be to leave the Shadow World and gain legitimate positions beside Karl.
Gaea herself even openly declared that she wanted to be the first among them to bear his child...
Although Karl had gradually developed feelings for them, the most important places in his heart still belonged to Yan, Black Phoenix, Hela, and the others who had accompanied him for far longer.
Meanwhile, construction of the new warship had finally been completed.
All one thousand temporal crystals Karl had stolen from the TVA were integrated into its central systems.
Combined with the TVA technology Vastness had reverse-engineered, the new warship could now travel directly through timelines.
Unlike Infinity Stones, the temporal systems were technological constructs and didn't automatically become useless simply because the ship entered another universe or dimension.
During these three months, Ganata had also continued consuming the energy Karl provided.
Her strength had now reached the late stage of the Single-Universe level.
She had become the strongest member of Karl's entire group.
At present, even Karl wasn't her match.
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