Chapter 353: Tartarus (3)

3rd person view

"How are you enjoying it at my palace?" Nyx asked Hygeia who is definitely not happy to be there "Did you think that my palace would be dark and scary? Is that why you're disappointed?"

For context, Nyx's palace looks like your stereotypical palace, flags, extremely lavish, and is incredibly patrolled, it's one of the only bright places in the dark and desolate abyss known as Tartarus.

"I can't believe you kidnapped me against my will, you have violated many laws by doing so. And what makes you think that I will marry him? Not that he's a bad person, of course." Hygeia responded

"I'm sure you have seen his blue sun...he's getting stronger every time he fights, that's one of the traits of his ability 'protagonist', no matter how weak or strong his opponent is, whether he wins or lose, every time he fights, he improves." Nyx lightly chuckled "If he impress me during his trip down here, I will actually respect his wishes."

"Does my father know of this?"

"Oh he does, he made a complain with the council, but currently they are in a bit of a dilemma, Ares has gone missing and Eros took credit for it, Eros has begun. They will not waste their efforts on me or you for a while."

"Then release me, I have a job to do." Hygeia demanded

"Like what? You work for your father, but most of the time, you have other minor gods to do your work for you as you watch reincarnates for fun." Nyx replied with a slight mocking tone.

"Not like you do that much either."

"I never said I did." Nyx shrugged "Cain knows all the location of Kronos' essence, it'll be fun to see them try to get it from me. Adam, Eve, Andrius, and Cain combine will only match 70% of my powers at most."

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1st person view

"Um, I think I might have overdone it." I mumbled as I saw the scene which I unleashed my spell on earlier, I destroyed a huge portion of Tartarus with debris and flames everywhere.

-We're going to attract so many monsters.-

-You think?- Dabria repeated -You did a spell equivalent to one that can destroy several kingdoms!-

I can then felt my magic stage evolving, I used my eyes to see all the mana running wildly in my body switching from dark blue to light gray. The monsters here are tougher, so it's easier to level up, which is good news since it's inevitable that we will have to face problems like this again.

"That was cool, you should teach me a spell like that sometime." Urie said as he approached me

"Well I don't think I can pull something like that off for a while even if I have the mana for it, anyway, let's just head northeast till we meet a human who despite not being a celestial, is travelling through one of the worst hell there is."

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After a while of fighting, trudging through the rocky and terrible terrain of Tartarus, we found the most depressing thing in Tartarus so far, my reader's lives.

| Wait, that isn't in the script, stop going off script! |

-Oh wow, our lives are just a 'script' for you. Wow.- Diana responded

-Yeah, this is why we don't like you.- Damon agreed

| You fuckers make my life hell. |

Well as depressing as your lives are at the moment, the most depressing thing I see is Cain's face, and that's saying a lot since, the only sound I can hear down here is the slushing of Phlegethon as it flows throughout Tartarus and the screaming souls that are condemned to be punished by burning in it.

"Ok, you're Cain, right?"

"Yes, and you're my father's supposed host. but I will need to meet him for proof or else I will have to make a run for it, you could be faking his presence on you." Cain threatened

"Alright. Adam! Eve! Don't take over us yet, but please do not do anything stupid like using us to kiss each other again. I will take off my ring and my jacket so that you don't die in my body, but listen to my instructions or you will never get to use our bodies again."

After taking off my plotinum equipments and storing them, I can then feel my own soul getting kicked out of my body and Eve descending in Eve's body. Cain's face have a face of slight surprised but it then changed back to his usual sad expression.

I can see Dabria's soul in front of me crossing her arm, her expression indicates that she's definitely not happy about this but she's going to tolerate it since we have no choice.

"Mother, Father, why are you here? Why do you seek me?" Cain asked

"Even his voice is depressing."

"Well he lived for a very long time." Dabria replied "He want to rest but he can't as he is cursed to live for eternity thinking about his guilt about his murder. Why are you touching my arm?"

"Alright, I can touch you, but my body goes through everyone else as they can't even realize that we just did. I hugged mom fine though."

"I would give you an explanation, but in my script, the author said that he's too lazy to write several paragraphs explaining it." Dabria explained "He said, different type of souls, and just go along with it, the readers will understand, this novel is just mostly a joke anyway."

"I'm surprised that you didn't try to swat my hand away, you really did warm up to me."

"Don't remind me." she sighs "Where did I go wrong?"

"I'm still surprised that you actually like me in that way, you know."

"I'm surprised by you too." she shrugged "I really thought you were joking most of the time."

"Remember our bet?"

"That I would do anything you request if I ever to happen to fall for you? The answer is yes." Dabria answered

"I thought you'll pretend to not remember."

"I'm a goddess of my word." Dabria reassured "But you know that already, do you need something from me?"

"Not yet, I'm keeping it till later."