Reborn As Hades In Olympus

Ch. 177: One Thousand & One Chains & Torment

It was dark and cold, I could not breath, my lungs were closed to giving up, I guessed. I could feel a strong pressure crushing me as I fell deeper into the abyss of the ocean. Experience tales at empire

"Shit!" I cursed in my thoughts.

Surprisingly I had returned back to the moment I left off, sinking to the depths of the ocean. Good as it was this was not to my liking.

"Move!" I gurgled and cursed myself for it.

More air left my lungs leaving me completely out of air. Every cell screamed at me to panic but I chose not to. I steeled my resolve and focused on what really was in front of me.

"I have to live!" I screamed in my head as I sank further to the depths of the ocean. "Move!"

But my body would not comply with me. For some reason it felt unusually heavy, I don't know if it was due to the fact that I was dying or that I was currently nearing the bottom of the ocean.

"Mmmm."

I could hear a faint voice at the back of my ear, if I listened well enough it would sound more pressing.

"It's a shame you became whole at deaths doors. It's rather a shame, rather poetic if I say so myself."

I recognized that to be the voice of my teacher and friend, Charon the ferryman. Hearing his voice must have confirmed that I was truly on deaths doors. I closed my eyes and called out to him.

"Charon?"

But there was no response.

"Hehe, Poseidon really did a number on you." He said after a while. "Too bad you cannot die yet."

What nonsense was he blabbering, if he wanted to offer some consolation he should at least pretend to act the part.

"Charon?"

After a short moment of silence he finally said. "Do you not remember the curse placed on you by Thanatos when you chose to claim his power?"

At first his words had me perplexed but a moment later they struck a chord in me. The memory was coming into mind more clearly, when Thanatos had tricked Hades and merged with his soul he also passed on his curse to him.

Pandora also mentioned something about me being cursed. Could it be that even after Thanatos left this body that the curse was still in me.

But what was the curse again?

I tried hard to remember which was quite a tasking thing to do when you were dropping deeper into the icy waters.

"Remember Hades, if you can overcome death...."

His words became drowned out by my own death. I had expected my wounds to have healed when I returned but it appeared I was just being too optimistic about this. If I died I was positive this time, it was final.

Badum!

My eyes sprang open from the appearance of a strange light, my body was glowing and my heart still fighting. Consciously I was unable to focus any of my thoughts on anything but unconsciously I was fighting against death and startling— I think it was working.

Why?

I doubted Hades had the power to overcome death.

"So you finally awakened my curse chaos incarnate!" I heard a voice again, but this was different. It was much more deeper and carried more depth.

Another set of memories came rushing into my head and a single thought filled my head. "Thanatos? He was...."

His curse, I suddenly reminded it or in clearer terms he reminded me of it.

"Your curse is that you cannot die!" I repeated to myself.

Knowing that I focused my mind consciously and fought against death consciously with everything I had left in my cranium and screamed out.

"I'm not dying yet, I still have a fight to win!" To be honest the words did not come out as expected. The remarkable thing was how the feeling of choking felt, it was like your lungs moving rapidly as if sucking in without any control.

I took in water, my body was panicking, even knowing I had to keep myself level headed did not do me much good at this moment. But I tried to focus just a little bit more and I could feel my body healing.

There was only one word repeating over and over with no stop. Even I was oblivious to this fact till the last moment. "Live... Live... Live....!"

Then everything went black again but I knew this was only the beginning of something truly horrendous. All the cells in my body started to jump up like living needles, my eyes was closed so I could not see this but I could feel it.

My body was changing becoming more chaotic I could feel the shackles at the depth of my soul snapping. The one thousand and one shackles held something caged, I could feel it. It was a white prism with curved edges, there were marks on the chains that spelled the word.

"Seal!" It was too repetitive and written in gods tongue making.

Just what was sealed within here.

I stretched out my hand and willed it with one simple word.

"Unseal!"

A loud rumbling followed, the chains trembled at first as they fought against my command then they stopped and stayed as they were.

Devastated I screamed again.

"Unseal!"

The chains shook again but nothing happened.

I could feel my body recovering so this had to do with something else, something that had been within me since I had been born. It had been locked away within the body of Hades, I could not help but think that this was his true power seaked here. If Rhea has sealed this here then it was extremely dangerous and powerful.

"Unseal!"

This time one of the chains broke off with a violent tug causing me to feel something from the prism. It was very little but I could feel it, power raw and untapped. Raging in chaos constantly.

I immediately knew what it was, I had felt the same pressure from Prometheus when he was chained to the rock, this was the primordial core that only titans had. Could it be possible I inherited my father's trait as well as a gods trait.

This would mean I would become the very first god to wield both a divine core and a primordial core, this was the next stage of my evolution.

Since primordial energy was unstable that would explain why it was chained in here.

This time I changed my phrase and said in a slow easy tone that commanded power. "Release."

There was a hollow sound like that of wind blowing through a canyon then all of a sudden the chains trembled and started to snap one at a time. The process was extremely violent and loud. In a moment all the chains were broken.

The prism roared to life, white smoke hissing out of it threatening to consume me. I willed my divine core to appeared and a while later a sphere of gold coloured light appeared next to it. The two energies clashes with shockwaves of energy but I was their master.

"Merge!" What I was doing was sure to destroy my body but... If I could not die then this would most certainly be a success.

The energies collided and combined into one. I could feel my soul tearing apart causing me to endure an unexplainable amount of pain. But that was just the beginning, my souls repaired itself as fast as it broke apart leaving me in a world of endless torture.

The power struggle within me reached a climax and I waited for an end but it never came. Time passed by, the only thing keeping me from going mad was the thought of living then all of a sudden after a series of endless bone writhing torture the explosion of power stopped.

I could not help but sigh in relief as I looked forward to seeing a huge sphere with the top and bottom heads of a prism sticking out the energy coming from it looked dual and the size of it five times as big.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

It was like the two energies had stabilized themselves just like I had planned it would. With this new power and an undying body I was sure to win.

I summoned all the power at once and felt my body change drastically, as I opened my eyes a well of power exploded from me. It was time for round two.