The moment he entered this place, a powerful will surged up from deep within his mind!
No—this body itself had no soul!The soul that now inhabited it was his own, one that had descended into this vessel.
In truth, the Kent family's child should have been stillborn—Only such an empty vessel could carry the purest soul.
The strange sensation faded just as suddenly as it came.
"Aaron…"
A voice echoed in his consciousness, and then—Fragments of a long-buried memory began to surface.
A boy wearing the Pegasus Cloth.A girl in a flowing white gown.
Yes—this was from the moment he first awakened in this body, many years ago.
Why would that memory return now?
The vision shifted again.
That day…The Sagittarius boy threw a punch straight at him, trying to force his spirit out of the mortal shell.At the same time, the girl beside him raised her scepter and struck at him!
"No!!!"
Aaron jolted awake from the nightmare, standing before the great Waterfall of Blood, his gaze calm yet distant.
That memory… it was so ancient.
It must have been from the last Holy War, more than twelve hundred years ago—When the mortal body he once possessed had also been named Aaron.
Yes… the same boy from then.And the girl—she must have been Athena.
As the vision faded, only the roaring crimson cascade remained before him.
"I am a god… who dares tamper with my memories?"
Could it be Mnemosyne, the Titaness of Memory—That unfaithful wife of Zeus, that cursed woman?
No. Impossible.
She had been sealed away in that age, and even as a traitor to the Titans,no one could undo Zeus's seal—Unless there existed a being greater than Zeus himself.
Aaron raised his hand, and the waterfall split apart, revealing a vast passage.
Something was calling to him from beyond.He could not tell what it was.
This was the Underworld—A realm created by his own divine will.
It was not tied to any of the old gods.It was his world, separate from Olympus itself.
No god of that pantheon could manifest here.
Yet, as Aaron stepped deeper into this world—He felt heaven and earth split asunder before him.
The ancient scenes returned—Traces of the divine war, and the last descent of Athena during that final Holy War.
The sensation grew stronger—A presence, hauntingly familiar, closing in.
He had sensed it only once before, upon Mount Olympus.Even then, it vanished almost immediately…But the memory of it never left him.
That presence—It transcended all divine seals, surpassing even the Titans' crests of power.A being beyond the might of the primordial gods themselves.
Aaron's body radiated dark cosmic energy, the force shattering the very fabric of space around him.
A tremendous will appeared before his eyes—As though he had stepped into the origin of the Chaotic Universe itself.
And there, suspended in the void, emerged a vast hourglass.
"What is this…?"
The Hourglass of Time—Its sheer presence eclipsed all powers known to gods or men.
Even Aaron, in his divine form as Hades' vessel—though his true body had not yet fully awakened—felt a deep solitude beneath that boundless force.
"Where… is this place?"
All before him was chaos.There was no time, no space—Only that colossal hourglass standing in the middle of a cosmic gulf.
At Aaron's level, he could discern the truth—Each grain of sand within the hourglass represented a world!
And this Underworld—the one of blood and silence—was not the same as the realm he once ruled.It was unbound by law or divine order—a world within the void, existing both beyond and within the endless multiverse.
Here, time did not flow.Even the Infinity Stones would lose all effect.
The energy contained here could suppress even himself,and the cosmic origin of his old world.
Whoever ruled this domain was, without doubt, a Multiversal Deity.
"Multiverse…" he murmured.That power could only be wielded by his true body.
But his true form still slept, healing in the eternal dark.
Even so, he extended his right hand.
Time and space…For gods, such concepts were but fragile illusions.
Then—
Tick… Tock…
A pair of enormous hands descended from above.
Boom!
Aaron's divine energy erupted,his dark cosmos igniting in full.The Hades Cloth spread over his body like a living shadow.
"Who dares—!"
Those massive hands shimmered with the aura of Eternal Calamity.He had felt this power once before—in the very place where Zeus had vanished.
"Hades…"
A cold voice echoed within his mind.Then, two frost-lit eyes opened in the darkness,and time itself stopped.
Aaron's heart trembled.He remembered.
A being that existed outside all time and space,yet ruled over every time and space.
His very presence froze Aaron's small universe completely.
The Hourglass of Time… the Star Chronometer…
Now he remembered.
That great and unknowable being—the one who transcended Chaos,older than the Primordial Gods,the eternal power beyond even the Titans.
"I see now… it's you!" Aaron roared."Those enormous hands—the hands that could crush even the gods themselves!"
The name caught in his throat.He could not speak it aloud.
But he knew.His brother once served beneath that being's will—another God of Time.
Yes… the true Father of Pegasus, the Saint who bore that destiny—Chronos Iros, the God of Time!
And once, he had walked among his Underworld Judges,as Chama, Mephistopheles of Heavenly Star!
"The Hand of Eternal Calamity—it's you!"
"Zeus's brother, Hades, King of the Underworld,"the cold voice answered,"so you finally remember who I am."
"This is the Realm of Eternity—a place without past, present, or future.Without time, without space, without form."
Aaron grew silent.
"…Then tell me, O Great Overgod—for what purpose have you summoned me here?"
(End of Chapter)
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