Chapter 298: Persephone, The Queen Of The Underworld. 2
Adonis… The first ti I saw him was when I was walking in the woods. I rember at the ti, I was a little sad because I was getting bored of being in The Underworld.
My husband, Hades, who was also my uncle, was a very possessive man, he didn't like leaving The Underworld.
And I can't bla him. After all, the Gods who didn't live in The Underworld had a huge prejudice against Hades, a prejudice that originated because of Zeus' paranoia.
Zeus didn't like The Underworld, he didn't like Hades. He was very paranoid about a possible betrayal by Hades. After all, he was the guardian of Tartarus. If Hades so desired, he could cause another giant war again.
A war that would dethrone Zeus. Because of that, Zeus isolated Hades, and used every available resource to do so.
This was not the first ti that Zeus acted irrationally. After all, he was the King of the pampered, he was the very definition of irrationality.
Zeus suffered from a curse he inherited from his father.
A curse passed from grandfather to father, and from father to son.
Like his father Kronos, Zeus beca obsessed with prophecies.
A prophecy that said soone related to him would dethrone him in the future.
Because of this prophecy made by Gaia, Zeus went crazy... Well, it was not like he was sane from the start.
He began to abuse his authority, and destroy any possible chance for what he considered 'rebellion' to form.
If Zeus couldn't control soone, he would eliminate them, if he sohow couldn't control that being, as in Hades' case, he would isolate them.
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He even asked to spy on Hades, sothing I gladly agreed to do after eting Adonis.
The most handso human male. It was a sha that that bitch Aphrodite got there first, but now that I saw this man, I wasn't going to let him go.
Adonis was everything I wanted in a man, handso, gentle, docile, and kind…but mostly handso.
He was the complete opposite of Hades, Adonis was a man I desired.
Ironically, the Goddess of Thots wanted him too, she went so far as to even bless the man with more beauty.
The once handso man beca irresistible with Aphrodite's blessing.
Looking at this man, I couldn't stand it, I wanted him for , just for .
'Am I betraying Hades?'
'So what?'
Betrayals and sches were common on Olympus.
And it's not like I like Hades. After all, I was kidnapped and forced to marry him. As I was naive at the ti, I thought I loved him, but when I looked at Adonis, I realized that I was just fooling myself all this ti.
Since we both didn't want to fight, Aphrodite and I made a deal.
We would share Adonis' ti.
In the morning it would be Aphrodite, and in the evening it would be .
Sotis the tis would be reversed, and I would have Adonis in the morning, and Aphrodite would have Adonis at night.
It was annoying having to share Adonis with that bitch, but it wasn't that bad...
Everything was going fine until a whore showed up and kidnapped him for herself.
Agnes Snow, heiress of the Snow Clan, a woman well known for being a hedonist who did whatever she liked.
It would be an understatent to say how irritated Aphrodite and I were at this woman's action.
But unfortunately, at the ti, we weren't able to get close to Adonis for a month.
... Well, at least that's what Aphrodite thinks.
From the mont I found Adonis, I cursed him to death. The mont his life would co to an end, his soul would forever be mine...
No matter how long it took, no matter if he ran away, he would co back to .
No one could escape the Goddess of The Underworld...
'Yes... No one can run away from ...'
But against all my expectations, Adonis achieved a feat no one could anticipate...
An ultimate move.
He sacrificed his soul to be absorbed by another being...
And in doing so, he was saved from the clutches of the Goddess of The Underworld.
Looking at the man in front of her, Persephone could feel her curse, this man was cursed.
But unlike Adonis, this kind of curse would not harm this man.
She understood imdiately when she saw that gigantic being behind him.
Alucard...
This man... He wasn't normal...
She felt like she was facing Hades himself, soone who had so many souls at his disposal to use. Wrong, not even Hades himself could keep so many souls inside his body without going mad.
The soul was a set of information that stored everything in the life of the being.
By having several souls within himself, this man was literally the amalgamation of the lives of thousands of beings.
He was alone... But he was accompanied by a legion...
'How did he not go crazy?' She would understand if this man were a God of Death like Thanatos, but… He wasn't.
And she finally understood sothing.
A killing curse would not work on soone who cannot die.
This man was literally courting death, he had made death his bitch.
A man who walked between life and death.
He enjoyed the benefits of life, and ignored the penalties of death, and in a way, he enjoyed the benefits of death as well.
'A curse of that level won't work...' She accepted the sad reality.
But even if she understood that, she couldn't help but feel sothing.
... Anger.
Her multi-millennium obsession just disappeared because of this man, how can she not be pissed off?
A miasma began to co out of the woman's body:
"You will pay for this..." Endless darkness and heavy killing intent began to leak from the woman's body.
"Adonis is mine... You are mine... No one can escape the Goddess-."
Slap.
She touched her face in shock, she looked at the man.
"I will pay for this?" Victor looked into the Goddess's black eyes.
Slap.
"I am yours?" He looked at the woman as if he were looking at garbage, it was a look of disdain, a look of hatred.
"You Greek Gods are always like that."
"Always demanding sothing from us, always treating us like their cattle."
"I don't belong to you, Persephone."
"...." She opened her eyes in shock, she was shocked that she couldn't react to the man's hand, she was shocked by the man's expression.
She could feel that this man in front of her was Adonis himself.
But she knew this was just a deception made by her curse, Adonis was gone.
He died... And his soul was in that man's body.
She needed to kill him and take Adonis' soul for herself.
Yes, she needed to do this...
But...
Why couldn't she exercise her authority in this place!?
This was to be the domain of his curse!
She should have supre authority here!
'Even though he's powerful, he was still a mortal, there was no way his soul could be so big as to influence-...'
She opened her eyes in shock once more.
'He contains hundreds of thousands of souls living inside his soul... It was obvious that his soul was no longer the soul of an ordinary mortal.'
She looked at the being behind the sun, and realized that that being was the representation of his soul.
'What is he... What is this being?'
He was not a God, she was 100% sure of that.
He wasn't a demon either.
'To whom did Adonis offer his soul!?'
"Are you surprised?" She heard a voice in her ear.
She quickly jumped back.
'When did he appear there?'
"I bet you're surprised." Victor cracked his neck a little.
"..."
"How can he influence this place?"
"Wasn't this supposed to be the domain of my curse?"
"What is this being?"
"To whom did Adonis offer his soul?" He flashed a small smile that showed off his sharp teeth.
"... Can you read my mind?
"..." Victor's smile only grew.
And that was enough of an answer for Persephone to understand that he could.
But could he actually read her mind?
The answer was no...
But he could predict her thoughts.
'Ah~, my dear Persephone, you are so predictable.' During all the humiliation that passed, Adonis did his best to understand the personalities of the two Goddesses.
Before, for Victor, Aphrodite was like a riddle he couldn't solve.
But by absorbing Adonis, he had completed this riddle called Aphrodite, and could understand her, and even to so extent predict the woman's actions.
The sa applied to Persephone.
The years that Adonis suffered at the hands of the Goddesses were not in vain.
Gulp.
'I need to get out of here, I need more information.'
What were the things the Gods feared most? Powerful beings who reign supre since the beginning of ti?
What did they fear most?
The unknown...
... Ironically, the answer to that question was the answer for all beings existing in this world.
Humans feared the unknown, angels feared the unknown, demons, Gods, Yōkai, vampires.
All beings shared this fear in common.
For Persephone, this being in front of her was sothing incomprehensible. After all, she never cared about the outside world, she was obsessed with Adonis , thus, completely forgot to socialize.
And that was sothing Victor wanted to keep, he wanted the Goddess to have a pre-established prejudice that he was 'strong'.
So that in the future, even if she found out his identity as a vampire count, she wouldn't ss with him until he was prepared enough.
He was still a long way from facing a God like Persephone, even if not a God related to battle, she was still a Goddess, her very energy extrely capable of harming Vampires.
And he knew he couldn't kill her even if he wanted to. How do you kill soone who lives in The Underworld which was basically 'hell'?
Gods don't die normally, he needed a special weapon to erase her 'existence'.
So the only answer he ca up with to buy ti was… Fear.
After all, fear was a good tool to keep soone in control.
Because of that, he put on this whole 'show'.
And to make the situation even better, Persephone was isolated. Few knew of her obsession with Adonis, the only one who should know about it is Aphrodite.
Even the biggest Simp in the world couldn't forgive a betrayal, right...? Well that only applied to normal people.
Unfortunately, Gods were not normal people, they have lived so long that their own brains had remained fried for a long ti.
Because of this, the conclusion that Victor ca to with the information that Adonis had was,l
Hades knew of his wife's betrayal, but even so, he ignored it.
But... Would Hades help his wife with her little problem? A problem related to her lover?
Even though he was the biggest Simp in the world, he was still the King of The Underworld, he needed to have so pride, right?
Victor was betting on it.
Just as Persephone was about to disappear, she felt soone holding her leg.
And she saw that the corpses scattered on the floor began to grab at her..
"Why the hurry?" He started walking slowly towards Persephone.
"You just arrived, let's get to know each other better." His smile slowly grew, a smile that showed all of his sharp teeth.
"!!!" Persephone's entire existence shook, she couldn't let him touch her, if that man touched her, sothing terrible would happen!
"Don't co near !"
Fushhhhhhhhhh.
An explosion of dark power took place, the corpses flew in pieces everywhere around, and the world around them began to shake.
'...As expected of a Goddess...'
Although not as big as my soul, the quality of her soul is far superior.
Victor won in 'quantity', but as a Goddess, she won in 'quality'.
If Victor's soul was like molded steel.
The soul of a God was like a cut diamond.
The difference in quality was quite visible at this point.
But even if he knew that, even if he was feeling the small effects of Persephone's power blast, he didn't show it.
When fighting an enemy stronger than you, you must not show weakness.
The teachings of a man who had to use his weak body to survive were very helpful.
And joining these teachings with the teachings of Scathach,
'Use everything around you so, when you are fighting a stronger enemy, the terrain is your greatest ally.'
Victor beca relentless.
"I'm going to get out of here, and it's not you who's going to stop ." She growled with visible hostility, her whole atmosphere changed, and she beca more dignified.
"... That's a sha." Victor's eyes slowly turned violet.
"I wanted to talk to you, I want to get to know more about the woman known as Persephone."
Persephone narrowed her eyes: "...You say that after clearly showing hostility towards ?"
"If I didn't do that, you wouldn't respect ."
"..."
"You Gods always think you're the center of the universe... It's irritating to talk to soone like that."
"...." Persephone continued to watch Victor suspiciously.
"In fact, it was because of that, that Adonis hated you." He flashed a small smile.
Victor knew the fear tactic wouldn't work forever, because of that, he was already planning to do other things.
If fear didn't work, use curiosity.
If curiosity didn't work, use respect.
There were several tools he could use.
He wanted Persephone's fear, and… Information.
Information about the Greek Gods, their strength, where they resided, anything that was useful.
And what was a better source of information than a Goddess from the sa Pantheon herself?
"...Stop your lies, Adonis could never hate , after all, I gave him everything."
'Oh...? She's more composed, I need to step back a little, and make her let her guard down.' A wicked little smile grew on Victor's face.
"You're right, Adonis could never hate you..."
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