A pitch-black small universe began to slowly bloom around Aaron's body.
This was the first time since arriving in this world that Aaron had fully unleashed and expanded his own small universe.
In the dark, endless starry sky…
Darkness itself was the only ornament.
This darkness was so absolute that even the sparkling starlight could not compare—an extreme void that could swallow all surrounding energy.
This was Earth, yet at the same time… it was not Earth.
The underworld Aaron intended to create would not simply be another dimension.It needed to be unlike any other, yet still connected in some way to this reality.
Then—
The breath of a god descended!
From the heavens, a torrent of dark energy plunged toward the Earth, instantly tearing open a massive abyss beside Hades City.
With Aaron's power, Hades City itself sank directly toward this enormous chasm.
"From this day forward, Hades City shall be the entrance to the Underworld!"
This world would soon be connected to three realms: the plane of Earth, the plane of Hell…
…and Helheim, the underworld of Hela.
It was still far from possible to seize complete control of the cosmic Law of Death.
Death was one of the Five Creation Laws of the universe.
For an outsider god, it was no easy task to wrest away such authority.
As the dark passage opened, a spiraling staircase of stone slowly extended downward into the abyss.
Next came the true creation—the opening of Hell's Gate!
Descending these steps would lead one to Hell itself.
But this Hell was not the same as Mephisto's domain. This was the universal Hell where all souls of the dead naturally arrived.
Aaron made a light wave of his hand, and a murky, sluggish river manifested before him.
Upon its waters drifted a boat, steered by Tian Jianxing—the Underworld Warrior who had once ferried a group of Hand ninjas into the afterlife.
Slowly, the vessel approached.
"Lord Hades…"
Aaron gave a simple nod and stepped forward.
Within his envisioned underworld, there would be a Gate of Hell… and eight great Prisons.
The First Prison: A hall of judgment where no soul may lie—those who attempt to deceive are cast into an eternal, freezing cold from which they can never return.
The Second Prison: All who are greedy or corrupt are baptized in icy rain, then fed to the hounds of Hell, Cerberus.
The Third Prison: A place where both misers and the wasteful face punishment.
The entire underworld was structured into Eight Prisons and Four Circles.
First Circle – Cain's Ring: A vast palace ruled by Radamanthys, crowned with a statue of the demonic dragon.
Second Circle – Antenor's Ring: A colossal temple ruled by Aiakos, topped with the figure of a golden-winged roc.
Third Circle – Dolion's Ring.
Fourth Circle – Judas' Ring.
Aaron poured divine power into his small universe, expanding the borders of Hell to their utmost limit.
Yet his small universe had not fully recovered to its peak.
If, at this moment, he could merge his divine essence into his true body, he would become a god in the truest sense.
But after shaping the Eight Prisons and Four Circles, he had no remaining strength to also open the Divine Passage to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
The pitch-black Hell was now utterly empty of souls.
This was because the authority of Death still did not belong to the Pantheon of Pluto.
Thanatos, god of death, had yet to return.
The gods of sleep and dreams had never returned either.
For now… the underworld was incomplete.
From his high vantage point, Aaron gazed across all that had been created from the River Acheron to this present moment.
This—this was the true world.
The space-time barriers had been joined to both Hell and Helheim, but without the full power of divine authority, the foundation could not yet be established.
A complete underworld would not merely govern one planet—it would encompass the entirety of the universe.
In a perfect underworld, all life in existence would pass here after death, no matter the world of origin.
From the River Acheron onward, the view was an endless, unfathomable expanse of darkness—limitless and deep.
And in this world, save for Hades, no god could exert their will.
Only those recognized by Pluto himself could enter this realm.
Pandora and the Underworld Specters were among the few permitted.
"No… it's still incomplete…"
The underworld as it stood was limited—it could reach only as far as the Milky Way galaxy where Earth resided.
And even that galaxy was just the outermost edge of the entire Andromeda Nebula.
For Aaron—Pluto himself—such a tiny dominion was far from enough to reclaim the full Throne of the Underworld.
"Brother Aaron…"
A shadow appeared behind him—it was Vera.
Through his blessing and the enchanted necklace he had given her, Vera could freely enter or exit any corner of the underworld.
"Vera, what do you think of the world before you?"
Still dazed from being summoned, she shook her head. She had watched in awe as Aaron personally forged this world.
"It's… small. It doesn't feel that grand…"
Meanwhile, in Asgard of the Nine Realms—
The All-Father Odin suddenly opened his eyes! The dull haze within them vanished, replaced by a sharp, focused light.
"This aura… it's him! The one who sealed me!"
Beneath Asgard's grandeur, many gods appeared—figures who had once fought alongside Odin to conquer the Celestial Host.
"You mean… the one who calls himself Hades?"
Aaron's unleashed small universe had already pierced the barriers of the Nine Realms, spilling into every major dimension.
Aside from Asgard, the Earth's gods dwelled in realms suspended near the planet—keeping their distance, no longer interfering in mortal affairs.
"Hmph! With such a dark and vile aura, he cannot be a good man!"
From among them, a figure with radiant wings stood, his body blazing with holy light.
"Gabriel, sit down first!"
"This isn't simple. Such a force… it may be the work of that dimensional demon once more."
"Then should we strike first?"
"Do you truly think that power is something we can simply conquer? Foolishness!"
Few knew that the gods who had long vanished from Earth had gathered here in Asgard for one reason—
Hades. The god who was even now forging the underworld.
Back in the underworld—
Seeing Vera's unease, Aaron smiled faintly.
"Don't worry. It won't be long before this becomes the sacred domain that governs life and death across the entire universe."
(End of Chapter)
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