"Lord Hades?"
Minos suddenly remembered that Lord Hades had left to rescue the sealed Aiacos. Now, Aiacos had suddenly appeared outside the walls of the Underworld City! This meant that Aiacos must have been resurrected after being killed in battle!
"Aiacos, what in the world happened?"
A sudden, ominous feeling washed over Rhadamanthys, and everything around him seemed frightening. Had Lord Hades encountered an opponent? Had Aiacos sacrificed himself to protect Lord Hades?
"Ah..."
Aiacos recalled the memory with a pained expression. Over a month ago, during the Underworld Army's expedition to the plane of hell, he had been revived. But unlike the Specters who revived on Earth, he was a Specter who had appeared suddenly alongside the Gate of Hell. His Specter star had always been in hell.
When he awoke, a space-time rift had suddenly opened above him, and a powerful force emerged from it. It found his newly revived self and tried to use its power to make him the new spokesperson for the Phoenix. But just as Aaron was casting his divine power in hell, Aiacos felt his own Cosmo revive. The sudden surge of Cosmo had allowed him to persist for over a month until Lord Hades arrived!
"You mean you sensed Lord Hades's Cosmo, but you were already back in the Underworld City when you woke up?" Rhadamanthys frowned. Who could possess such power? To be able to kill a friend with a single blow without leaving a trace?
"No! I attacked Lord Hades!"
At that moment, the final memories came rushing back to Aiacos. Under the control of that powerful energy, he had been attacking Lord Hades!
"What—!"
Rhadamanthys and Minos instantly erupted in anger, but a moment later, an unsettling sound slowly drifted from a nearby room.
"Ahhhhh!"
It was Pandora's magical harp, the same one that had been used to punish Rhadamanthys before!
"Alright!"
Just then, a familiar voice rang out. Aaron, wearing a black priest's robe with a five-pointed star and a wheat ear hanging on his chest, slowly walked out of the space-time rift.
"Verra, you're being naughty again. Why don't you stop playing your harp?"
As Aaron spoke, the furious music slowly faded. Aiacos collapsed to the ground, breathless and not daring to look up.
"Very good. Now that the three Underworld Judges have fully recovered, it is time for you to summon all the scattered Specter stars around the world."
"But I..." Aaron stared at the space around him, then smiled. "It's time to open up my own world."
This world was created after the initial universe's Big Bang. As a result, it contains a distinction between a single universe and a multiverse. "My current ability has only reached the level of a single universe and hasn't fully reached that level of power. However, not long ago, I captured a fragment of the Phoenix Force from the original universe! It contains the most primitive laws of the world! It should be entirely possible to create an Underworld and a Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss that can be fully contained within this world!"
In an instant, Aaron's figure vanished from the Underworld City.
As the former King of the Underworld, Aaron felt even more disdain after learning that a Hades also existed in this world. "The strength of these gods attached to each planet is not very strong. Every space attached to a planet, even one tied to the World Tree, will eventually face destruction when the World Tree and the planet are destroyed! But the world I want to create will be different."
The Underworld is the realm of the dead, managed by Specters. When a creature's lifespan ends, a Specter will retrieve its soul. After a verdict is pronounced, the soul will re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. Beyond the Underworld, there is a path for gods that leads directly to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, the domain of the gods. Only those with pure hearts and souls can enter. The gods of the Underworld all live in this area. This is the holy land that all warriors yearn for, where there is no sorrow, only endless happiness!
At this moment, Aaron's consciousness entered the fragment. Because this fragment was taken from the Phoenix itself, the consciousness of the Phoenix Force was no longer in it. However, anyone in possession of a shard could contact the Phoenix Force at any time. The reason Aaron wanted this fragment was to gain the power of the law that existed at the beginning of the universe.
The Phoenix Force possesses infinite energy, and its manipulation of matter has reached the subatomic level. It can decompose, transform, reorganize, and create anything from a small lifeform to a vast universe at will. This is similar to the power of the gods who possess divine will. Poseidon created the sea race, and Zeus, the all-knowing and all-powerful god, gave the earth to Athena.
"Is this the power of creation that appears in this universe?"
Inside the fragmented world, everything was forbidden. Time had no value in this fragment because it was a shard of the Phoenix. Aaron saw a strange force with the ability to destroy, distort, and modify reality at will. This was the original power of the Phoenix Force!
"It turns out that after these things are formed, they are the origin of this world's laws!"
At that moment, the entire pitch-black vacuum instantly became breathtakingly gorgeous! A massive Phoenix appeared before Aaron's eyes, its gaze full of questions.
"It's you... I didn't expect you to be able to find me..."
The appearance of the Phoenix did not surprise Aaron. Instead, he continued to use his divine will to observe the massive Phoenix. It was not a physical entity, but energy representing the embodiment of cosmic rules and laws!
"So this is the power of creation and destruction?"
Finally, Aaron opened his eyes. A new kind of aura filled them. His body was no longer in the Underworld City, but standing on Earth.
"Now, it's finally time to begin!"
(End of Chapter)
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