As I stepped into the acidic pond, its scorching touch welcomed me like an old enemy.
At first, I feel nothing, my divine energy protects me from the acid. But as I go deeper, the intensity of the acid increases now, and I feel a burning pain, as if it were burning across my skin.
But as I descended more deeply, the agony intensified.
My flesh burned, even with divine protection.
My wings, usually a symbol of pride and strength, felt like they were being torn apart, one feather at a time.
The deeper I went, the more it felt like the acid was trying not just to injure me
but to dissolve into nothing.
Finally, I reach the bottom, and I step on the slippery flesh floor. Here, there is no light, no sound, only a strange and immense pressure.
Even my divine energy was suppressed to nothing. I barely maintain myself, I feel like if I let my guard down for even a moment… if I allowed fatigue or pain to overwhelm me…this place would erase me forever.
I sat cross-legged while enduring the pain. I grit my teeth and fully channel my divine energy and divinity. I try to push back the corrosion and the unknown restraining effect.
A game of tag of war between me and acid. Sometimes I push back against it, sometimes its corrosion overpowers me and burns my flesh, blood and bones.
Sometimes I even lose hope, but when I remember my sibling's face and my father's cruel action.
I steel my will, even when I am cornered by corrosion and acid corrodes me, I still remain there and use whatever I have.
I began my training regimen with Push-ups against the acidic floor, each movement tearing muscle and rebuilding it stronger.
Meditation amidst the burning, forcing my mind to stabilise my divine core while it was constantly under assault.
I have no time to rest, eat food, I don't even show mercy to myself.
The cycle of endless pain, discipline, a flicker of growth, followed by more pain. I lost all sense of time.
Is it a year? A decade? I don't know? The only constant is the burn and pain.
Even now, as my skin burned and my aura cracked under pressure, I whispered inwardly.
"I'll endure this hell… so I can rule the hell next."
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An unknown time has passed.
Finally, after endless cycles of suffering, training, and honing my will in that acid abyss I broke through.
My divine energy surged like a rising tide breaking through a dam.
The crushing suppression that once threatened to erase me now bent beneath my presence.
I had ascended to the rank of a High-Level God.
My power skyrocketed. My divine presence deepened, not just in intensity but in authority. I could now command the very essence of my domains with ease. The darkness around me no longer burned it but obeyed me.
I understood something critical this is not the end of the path. It was a new beginning.
From this point forward, it wasn't just about raw power, but about profound comprehension.
Advancement would now require a deep, layered understanding of each godhood I held.
And I had many.
During this long, gruelling time in isolation, the divine thread I left with Hestia kept me tethered to the world above. Through it, I sensed subtle changes in new arrivals in Cronus's prison.
Another presence is Hera, my second sister, who had been swallowed. She is quite arrogant and bossy.
Soon after, a younger divine presence, fierce like a storm Poseidon, my little brother.
Both had arrived… and yet, I did not return to greet them.
Not out of neglect but purpose.
In the burning silence of the abyss, I had caught a glimpse of a faint pull in the deepest layer of my soul. A resonance of new godhood, one I hadn't yet touched but one that felt almost as if it had been watching me all along.
The domain of Imprisonment.
Not just confinement of body, but of will, of freedom, of divine law and chains.
The very force that now bound my siblings… was calling to me. And strangely, it was compatible with my other divinities like Death, Secrets, Darkness and even with the Underworld itself.
So I stayed, observed and studied this new divinity. I immersed myself in the essence of confinement.
And finally after years of inner struggle and contemplation
I conquered it.
The godhood of Imprisonment became mine.
But with it came a price
It didn't just add another orb to my collection but it added weight.
The more godhoods I held, the more paths I had to understand them and the more time and effort it took.
To ascend beyond this rank to reach the domain of Chief God, God-King, or even beyond I would have to bring each of these godhoods to their peak understanding.
Each one was now both a power and a test.