Chapter 21: The Quest for Hades
"You have miraculously come back to life after swallowing the blissful poison 'Rarenia...... It's all up to Demos...... Pull you back on the Yellow Springs Road!"
Hades, the king of Hades, said to Kareta Masashi, and then put his two eyes away, looking at the vast and vast space on the other side.
Kareta was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized:
"Could it be...... On Huangquan Road, he suddenly rushed out and told me to turn back...... It's all ...... What really happened...... The facts?"
"Yes, if you don't do this, do you think that the Yuan Spirit you have made a contract with me can really break the contract and return to the yang?"
“......”
Kareta was stunned, speechless for a while. If it weren't for the constant tears streaming from her eyes, she would have looked like a beautiful but sad statue.
"Please tell me...... All things ......"
After trying to suppress her ups and downs, her voice trembled and pleaded with the Immortal.
Hades released a sullen breath from his nostrils and began the narrative:
"That night, you swallowed the ...... of 'Larenia' at the mansion of Aquaman Poseidon"
......
A few days ago, the human world, No. 28 West Cliff Apartment——
"King! Karete's aura of divine power is gone—"
After the underworld, Betherphone rushed in from outside, screaming and screaming straight to Hades, who was enjoying evening tea in the dining room of the villa. As she spoke, her eyes filled with a flood.
"But...... But why can you still feel the breath of Aquaman......? Did the operation fail?"
Hades put down the teacup in his hand and looked calm.
"Success or failure is a certainty. The gods also intervene on their own power, and they can't necessarily change anything. Only this time, my hope, the seal that locked the Athena Jewel, finally came true. That's enough. ”
"But...... We, we sacrificed Karete ......"
Besephone looked at Hades, whose expression was almost cold, and shed tears on her face as she spoke.
"No way ......"
Hades pinched the curved handle of the bone china teacup with the thumb and middle finger of one hand, stared at Bessephone's crying baby face with sharp eyes, and said calmly:
"There is a price to pay for wanting to change. The sacrifice of one person in exchange for the peace of the world is still meaningful......"
"Wang ......"
An attendant suddenly ran in in a panic, and had just stood up at the table, and before he could speak, the Hades King sneered first, and said confidently:
"No need to report it, I know that the creditor has already come to visit!"
Before Hades' words could be fully spoken, a clear black shadow appeared behind the guard. In the blink of an eye, he had pushed away his requiescent attendant and strode across a few meteors directly to the opposite side of the table.
"Hades!"
It was none other than Demos, the god of darkness, who slammed his hands on the table, and with a "bell", all the utensils on the table jumped up and trembled several times on the snow-white tasseled tablecloth.
"What the hell did you do to Kareta!Answer me—"
Demos doesn't talk nonsense, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he cuts straight to the point. He stared intently at the Hades who was sitting on the dining chair, his angry black eyes lit red with indescribable anger.
"You know everything?"
Hades provoked his green eyes, returned to Demos with a sharp gaze like an eagle, and then asked with a calm expression.
"Why did you give Kareta poison, why did you have to murder her, what the hell do you want—"
Demos ignored the coldness of the Hades, and yelled at him directly in front of the Queen of Hades, Betherphone, and a group of subordinates.
Hades got up from the dining chair leisurely, moved his short figure and paced in front of Demos, and replied to Demos word by word with a child's face:
"That's Kareta Messenger's own choice! She wants to destroy the evil spirit of the Sea King with her own hands, so she and I have made a soul contract in exchange for the magic weapon 'Broken Mind Pot'. And I'm just using the price of the contract as a means to completely lock up the Athena Gem. ”
"Do you think that if you are the king of Hades, you can trample on innocent lives willfully and decide whose life and death are at will!?"
"Innocent? Who is innocent? You mean Carreta is innocent?"
Hades squinted at Demos with disdain, and a "hehe" sneer was released between his lips and teeth:
"She's a little innocent. It was only because of the hypocrisy of the Olympus gods that they irresponsibly shirked the responsibility they should have both, and they were cursed, and they did the key to breaking the seal, and they were about to lose their lives!"
"Shut up! It's not like you want her to die—"
"At the moment when the world is chaotic and the catastrophe is imminent, I am the god Titan, and I only do what a god should do!
"You! Your so-called maintenance of the status quo is simply based on the sacrifice of a weak woman. I ask you, Hades, aren't you hypocritical? Murder, and yet you have to give a high-sounding reason for your shameful methods? Aren't you indulging your own sins while punishing others!?"
"You're enough—"
Hades, the king of Hades, was finally annoyed and angry by a series of forced questions from Demos, and while roaring, he stretched out his hand and pointed directly at Demos's nose:
"I tell you, you are not in a position to accuse me of anything! After the position was uncertain, he was attracted to her, everything seemed self-defeating, but he didn't know that every step was under the control of others. Speaking of which, the real murderer of her is not me, but you-"
The sound of the fierce quarrel came to an abrupt end, and the silent air seemed to freeze for an instant, and everywhere you could raise your nose and smell the strong smell of sparks.
Demos stared at Hades in amazement, not knowing what to say for a long time. After calming down for a while, he faded the color of anger on his face and nodded heavily to Hades:
"Okay, you're right! I'm really the real culprit! I should really take full responsibility for making this unbearable situation today, you can take action, kill me, and exchange my life for her to come back to life!"
"You're insane!" Hades pouted dissatisfiedly:
"She made a contract with me first, the contract is not child's play, how can it be easily abolished once it is generated?Besides, the messenger of Kareta has already swallowed 'Larenia', and the spirit has long since left the body, and now it is walking on the Yellow Springs Road......"
"I don't care! I want you to do it!
Before Hades finished speaking, Demos became impulsive, reached out five steel claws, stepped forward and grabbed Hades by the collar, lifting his immature little body out of thin air.
Admittedly, it was Hades' last words that spurred Demos on. When he heard him say that Kareta's primordial spirit had embarked on the road of no return to the Yellow Springs, Demos went completely insane.
Time was running out, and he knew he couldn't afford to delay any longer, and he had to find a way to bring Kareta back to life as soon as possible.
"King—"
"Hades—"
Seeing that Hades was being attacked, the queen of the underworld Bethany and her attendants immediately panicked and shouted around, but they easily did not dare to approach the dark god who was in high spirits. They fear that the slightest external stimulus will disturb the dark gods and cause them to do something harmful to their leader of the underworld.
Hades's body was dangling, but the height above his head was the same as that of Demos. Thus, he no longer had to look up at Demos, and he could finally level his gaze and look directly at Demos's somewhat stupid madness.
"Hades, no matter what means you use, you must help Kareta's Yuan Spirit return to Yang!"
"It can't be done!" Hades replied categorically: "I won't make such a joke with you at the cost of the lives of all living beings in the world!"
"It's not a joke! For me, she's there, the world is there! Without her, everything is empty......
"God of Darkness, I think you're crazy!"
Hades was finally enraged, and with a cold reprimand, his body became lighter, more and more transparent, and in an instant he passed under the clenched iron fist of Demos, and then reappeared on the ground beside the Queen of Death.
"Are you alright?"
When the queen saw Hades suddenly appearing on her side with a teleportation spell, her mood suddenly relaxed a lot, and she helped him to ask with concern.
Hades didn't answer her, his angry eyes lingering on Demos.
"Tell you!As long as Carreta is the key to unblocking, I won't let her go! What's more, Hades has never done anything to bring a corpse back to life! Miss that you are just affectionate to her, I don't care about you, leave quickly! Betsephone, send me off-"
The cold Hades had absolute pride and self-esteem, and it was clear that it was Demos's offensive behavior that had provoked him. His voice suddenly froze, and after he finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and turned away first, leaving Demos in place.
At this point, there was nothing more to be done about Demos. Hiding his grief, he staggered out of the apartment and walked to the pool of carved white stone in the middle of the courtyard.
“...... God of Darkness ......"
Betherphone followed closely behind Demos. At this time, she could feel his full sadness and helplessness from his lonely back.
She whispered to him, but didn't know what to do to comfort him.
Demos couldn't walk anymore, and the intense pain invaded him, putting an incomparable pressure on the nerves around him, making it as if the energy in his whole body had been drained in an instant, and he couldn't move easily.
He simply bent down and sat on the raised square bricks at the foot of the fountain, silently grimacing, and his mind kept thinking about whether there was any other way to impress Hades.
"That...... Please ...... Don't blame Hades......"
Besephone looked at Demos now, and felt very uncomfortable, and opened her mouth to comfort him, but halfway through her words, she also felt redundant. No words of comfort would be of any use to him today.
"Betherphone...... There's really no other way...... Can you save Carret?"
Demos stared blankly at a point on the ground before suddenly asking Betsephone.
She immediately shuddered slightly in fright, and she was speechless.
"That'...... That ......"
“...... Kareta, there's still salvation, isn't it!?"
As if he had found a life-saving straw, Demos suddenly turned his eyes on Bethany with great anticipation.