With the awakening of Fear, a cold silence settled around me. Yet I am not satisfied. I turned my focus inward once more, breathing slowly, my divine energy flowing with greater clarity and precision.
Before me now floated the fifth orb a soft light blue, almost deceptively gentle in colour, like the calm before a storm.
But as I extended my energy toward it, I felt no comfort.
Instead, I felt a stain like ink seeping into clean water.
This orb pulsed faintly, and the moment my divine essence touched it, I was struck by a flood of sensations shame, greed, rage, lust, envy, gluttony, pride… and something deeper like longing, regret, craving and grief
This was not just the domain of sin.
It was the domain of dark desires, of truths people bury deep, the part of every being they hide from others and even from themselves.
I saw flashes of memories that weren't mine. Kings betraying their brothers for power, lovers consumed by obsession, holy men defiled by hypocrisy. These were not just acts… they were essences.
This godhood did not simply reveal sin.
This reveals the deepest emotion that hides behind their mask.
And so, the Fifth Orb awakened. Hades, Bearer of Sin and Mirror of Desire, had taken another step toward the throne. And now… nothing would be truly hidden again.
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On the outside, Hestia stood frozen, her gaze locked on him.
"I had witnessed divine auras of joy, of war, of purity and chaos elements. But this… this was different."
As Hades awakened the light blue orb, his aura didn't just darken it grew sinister.
His aura is neither wild nor special. But, just near him feels like he is the most evil in the world. It felt uncomfortable around him as if he could see through you, see your weaknesses, your shame, your failures. It was the kind of presence that made even gods want to hide their eyes.
Hestia shivering with unknown cold, she more intense her sacred flare. And create a ring of fire around her.
"Why is he awakening all the evil divinities? He becomes more like an apocalypse as he awakens divinities."
She joined her hands, closed her eyes and earnestly prayed, "Please, lord Kaos, please don't make him what I fear that he could become. Please"
Hestia clenched her fists, watching shadows ripple behind Hades as if responding to unspoken confessions.
There was now something unnerving in his silence. A presence that felt like being judged… without a word spoken.
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With five divine orbs awakened, my soul had begun to shift into something far removed from the mortal shell I had once known.
Yet I pressed forward drawn toward the sixth orb, a blackish-red sphere, dark and pulsing like a restrained heartbeat in the void.
As I approached it, I felt a weight, heavier than any other. This wasn't subtle or quiet. It radiated a presence that demanded submission or defiance and I could feel it demand transformation.
The moment I began channelling divine energy into it, a chilling thought entered my mind.
"To awaken this godhood…You must abandon the remnants of your human nature."
A heavy sound, yet I unrecognisable echoing in my mind.
This was the domain of Demonic energy and demon lordship, the embodiment of wrathful authority, chaos-bound command, domination, and raw instinct.
To claim this domain was to cease being merely human, even in thought, and to accept something more primal, more brutal… more feared.
I hesitated. If I accept I can be powerful but lose something precious.
Again those voices whisper in my ears
"Why… you not abandoning your weak self? Do you not want to become strong and powerful among your peers?"
"Yes, but…"
"But? So you forget that when you are born, you have been eaten by your own father alive, and you just helplessly struggle. There are many divine beings present, but still, they didn't stop him. Do you know why? Because you're weak and nothing, whereas your father is the strongest, and compared to him, you're not even a strain of hair."
This bewitches my mind; I still hold firmly, but deep down, I agree with him. As I still resisted, suddenly faint memories of my mortal life, empathy, restraint, and kindness rose to the surface, my sister's kindness and my mother's warmth. But then, like a storm crashing down, I remembered my father's hands gripping me when I was just an infant. All the emotions rising up fear of death, feelings of loneliness and abandonment, and intense pain of acid burning my skin.
"Cruelty had no mercy for gentleness. World respects power."
I clenched my fists and whispered in my mind "If this is what I must become to rise… then so be it. I accept you."
The effect was instantaneous.
My soul surged with a violent blaze as the orb merged with me. My body convulsed, bones groaning as divine transformation overtook me.
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From across the chamber, Hestia gasped, her heart skipping as she instinctively took a step back.
Hades' aura suddenly glared up He screamed with intense pain.
"Aaaahhh!!!"
Before her eyes, Hades' form began to grow his once slim 12-year-old frame stretching into a tall, athletic 16-year-old body, lean yet muscular, radiating a terrifying maturity.
His nails elongated, slightly pointed and sharp, resembling predatory claws.
His canines lengthened, not grotesquely but enough to stand out when he opened his mouth.
Just above his ear, a pair of ominous, black, obsidian-like small horns emerged like a sprout emerging from the ground, at the root of the horn, golden ichor flowed out, but little by little, it became darker at the same time his horns grew, extending backwards in clean, sleek lines. Each one was about three-quarters the length of an adult hand, sharp at the tips, exuding a chilling elegance. At the end, his gold ichor blood fully changed into pure black blood.
His aura twisted into something wholly demonic violent, unyielding, a force that bore down like a storm of wrath and war.
Hestia hides his face but sometimes peeks from the gap between his fingers. Her body was shivering and sweating excessively.
"T-This… isn't…awakening a domain," her voice shattering.
"H-He's evolving into a new species…he is no more mortal, no more god, but has become something like…demonic god"
She looked at Hades's shadow and saw a shadow of a giant bird with purple eyes that glared at her.
She quickly shut her eyes and mustered to herself, 'It must be an illusion, yes, that's an illusion.'
She looked again and saw the normal shadow of Hades 'Phew. ' But still she feels an intense gaze around her. She looks around but finds nothing.