Chapter 355: Tartarus (5)

"Perseus, where should we go next? To go confront your grandmother or do you want us to find all the essence first?" Adam asked

"We kill the old hag."

"He said to go kill the old hag." Cain informed out group "I can guide you all there, but...are you sure you all want to fight a goddess of night? Just so you know, I will not be involved with the fighting, she may not be able to kill me, but that doesn't mean she can't grant me a worse fate than what I'm suffering now."

"Yeah, that's because you're a sad wuss, we get it. Guide us there and leave the fighting to us." Erix laughed "Perseus wants to stop his arranged marriage, but I just want to fight this goddess whether I die as a result or not."

"That's only if you can get past her guards." Cain pointed out "Perseus should've mentioned it before you come down here and about when you confront her. Many monsters, gods or creatures in general are her children. Negotiation would be a better option."

"She holds one of the essences anyway, we're going to have to confront her anyway for the last fragment." Eve reasoned "And we're also using their bodies to survive in the mortal realm and have them deliver our soul to Eden, we should respect their wishes."

"Well if you say so, but don't haunt me or complain to me if you all die." Cain shrugged "Let's go, if we all run or fly, it should take 2 days."

"I would love to experience Perseus' wings but I rather not accidently fly into certain doom."

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After the long run that took hours, we stopped for a short break and I finally got control of my body again, which I wore my ring and jacket back on.

-Now that you're back, what was all that liking each other Cain mentioned earlier about?- Diana asked

-Oh, I was talking about how hot Dabria was and how I'm going to request for a lap pillow when she falls for me.-

-He took advantage of me when we were souls.- Dabria said

-Woah, I touched you on the arm once and now this is how you react? I just need to test whether we can make contact with each other or not.-

-Oh so you guys aren't really into each other?- Damon asked -This isn't banter and fake love turned into a real one?-

-Call it one sided maybe, from her.-

-You wish.- Dabria replied

-I don't mind either way, just make sure I'm fed and have a good place to sleep and I'm good.- Siege chimed in

-If it happens, if the slightest chance that it does, pick me to be the maid of honor.- Diana requested

"Food really rot fast down here. Everything just taste worse." Urie said as he drink his veil of blood mixed with a bit of alcohol to freshen up "We have to eat fast or else it will rot in minutes. We definitely need a shower as soon as we leave here, the air is both toxic and smelly, like the worst smelling gasoline possible."

"Well if you drink Phlegethon, it will taste like Gasoline." Cain informed "Mix with the taste of the world's strongest and spiciest alcohol. If you need healing, just throw yourself into the river or use the flames to rub on yourself, it will be effective but very painful."

"Don't worry, I have stored a lake worth of it in my spatial storage, I can use it to gift to the royal forge in case the flames can improve weapons even further."

Don't worry readers, I'm not impacting the environment of Tartarus too much, the river of fire have an endless supply, so I can take up much more, but a lake worth should be enough for at least a couple years.

I have a good collection of water from different continents and worlds, I should get a Guinness world record by now for my collection of water, yeah, I know, strange hobby. But this world doesn't have video games, alright? I need something to cope since Rex hasn't been able to reverse engineer all of that yet.

We then stopped our short rest and ran all the way to Nyx's palace, we take rest stops every few hours or so, we can go very far without rest, but we rather not want to be tired by the time we arrive at Nyx's and we also want to check things out.

It could be some sort of tourist attraction for celestials at least, there are giant skeletal skulls with horns like from that one manga where the guy wants to be a magic king, flying pigs(Which I don't even know how they ended up down here, they're cute.), a Rambo convention(I don't know how it's here either.), Empousas flame breathing donkeys, 3 legged pillows and many more.

Tartarus should start hosting tours, instead of a bus, he can use dragons and have some of the monsters here be the guides, he can make loads of money. It took like a day and a half and we finally arrived at Nyx's palace.

"I would love to do a sneak attack, but she can already sensed us from far away approaching here. I can use 'Conqueror' to sneak in, but she would expect it. We should just attack it head on as I called that hag out."

"What's the most fun way, my son?" Urie asked as we all peeked at spy at the palace from far away.

"Just so you remember, I will not be joining in." Cain reminded

There are celestial guards everywhere, probably recruited from different worlds too since there are many different types of species as patrols ranging from cat girls to the terminator.

"Let's just rush through the front gates, it's the most direct and easiest way to break in anyway, I get first attack."

Since I can see it now, I warped right onto the front of the gates. There's spatial interruption preventing intruders from warping in.

"It's just one celestial." a guard shouted "A few guys can handle him, let's just do it as usual."

"Wait, do you not know who he is, you stupid idiot, white hair, purple eyes, light brown skin...That's Nyx's grandchild."

"Glad that my identity is now just leaked to everyone." I laughed as the guards alerted the others

-Siege, this is for you.-

"I will have order."