"The Abyss..."
He muttered the name under his breath, hesitating for a moment. Although instinctively a bit repulsed, Zeus set out once again.
It wasn't that he decided to pursue the mastermind behind Keto because of something Poseidon said. Rather, he left on his own accord to give the gods some 'slack' and, incidentally, to avoid trouble. But that didn't mean Zeus lost interest in discovering who that entity was.
That familiar feeling, he had definitely encountered them before. Though he couldn't remember where he had seen them, he still wanted to find out.
Suddenly, his figure shifted, and as the surrounding environment gradually distorted, an existent, yet non-existent, winding portal appeared before Zeus.
Tartarus, a place he had entered before he became the Divine King. Back then, he was still striving to overthrow his own father.
Standing once again at its threshold today, Zeus keenly felt how things had changed.
"...Come, let me see who you really are."