Ch. 177: One Thousand & One Chains & Tornt
It was dark and cold, I could not breath, my lungs were closed to giving up, I guessed. I could feel a strong pressure crushing as I fell deeper into the abyss of the ocean. Experience tales at empire
"Shit!" I cursed in my thoughts.
Surprisingly I had returned back to the mont I left off, sinking to the depths of the ocean. Good as it was this was not to my liking.
"Move!" I gurgled and cursed myself for it.
More air left my lungs leaving completely out of air. Every cell scread at to panic but I chose not to. I steeled my resolve and focused on what really was in front of .
"I have to live!" I scread in my head as I sank further to the depths of the ocean. "Move!"
But my body would not comply with . For so reason it felt unusually heavy, I don't know if it was due to the fact that I was dying or that I was currently nearing the bottom of the ocean.
"Mmmm."
I could hear a faint voice at the back of my ear, if I listened well enough it would sound more pressing.
"It's a sha you beca whole at deaths doors. It's rather a sha, rather poetic if I say so myself."
I recognized that to be the voice of my teacher and friend, Charon the ferryman. Hearing his voice must have confird that I was truly on deaths doors. I closed my eyes and called out to him.
"Charon?"
But there was no response.
"Hehe, Poseidon really did a number on you." He said after a while. "Too bad you cannot die yet."
What nonsense was he blabbering, if he wanted to offer so consolation he should at least pretend to act the part.
"Charon?"
After a short mont of silence he finally said. "Do you not rember the curse placed on you by Thanatos when you chose to claim his power?"
At first his words had perplexed but a mont later they struck a chord in . The mory was coming into mind more clearly, when Thanatos had tricked Hades and rged with his soul he also passed on his curse to him.
Pandora also ntioned sothing about being cursed. Could it be that even after Thanatos left this body that the curse was still in .
But what was the curse again?
I tried hard to rember which was quite a tasking thing to do when you were dropping deeper into the icy waters.
"Rember Hades, if you can overco death...."
His words beca drowned out by my own death. I had expected my wounds to have healed when I returned but it appeared I was just being too optimistic about this. If I died I was positive this ti, it was final.
Badum!
My eyes sprang open from the appearance of a strange light, my body was glowing and my heart still fighting. Consciously I was unable to focus any of my thoughts on anything but unconsciously I was fighting against death and startling— I think it was working.
Why?
I doubted Hades had the power to overco death.
"So you finally awakened my curse chaos incarnate!" I heard a voice again, but this was different. It was much more deeper and carried more depth.
Another set of mories ca rushing into my head and a single thought filled my head. "Thanatos? He was...."
His curse, I suddenly reminded it or in clearer terms he reminded of it.
"Your curse is that you cannot die!" I repeated to myself.
Knowing that I focused my mind consciously and fought against death consciously with everything I had left in my cranium and scread out.
"I'm not dying yet, I still have a fight to win!" To be honest the words did not co out as expected. The remarkable thing was how the feeling of choking felt, it was like your lungs moving rapidly as if sucking in without any control.
I took in water, my body was panicking, even knowing I had to keep myself level headed did not do much good at this mont. But I tried to focus just a little bit more and I could feel my body healing.
There was only one word repeating over and over with no stop. Even I was oblivious to this fact till the last mont. "Live... Live... Live....!"
Then everything went black again but I knew this was only the beginning of sothing truly horrendous. All the cells in my body started to jump up like living needles, my eyes was closed so I could not see this but I could feel it.
My body was changing becoming more chaotic I could feel the shackles at the depth of my soul snapping. The one thousand and one shackles held sothing caged, I could feel it. It was a white prism with curved edges, there were marks on the chains that spelled the word.
"Seal!" It was too repetitive and written in gods tongue making.
Just what was sealed within here.
I stretched out my hand and willed it with one simple word.
"Unseal!"
A loud rumbling followed, the chains trembled at first as they fought against my command then they stopped and stayed as they were.
Devastated I scread again.
"Unseal!"
The chains shook again but nothing happened.
I could feel my body recovering so this had to do with sothing else, sothing that had been within since I had been born. It had been locked away within the body of Hades, I could not help but think that this was his true power seaked here. If Rhea has sealed this here then it was extrely dangerous and powerful.
"Unseal!"
This ti one of the chains broke off with a violent tug causing to feel sothing from the prism. It was very little but I could feel it, power raw and untapped. Raging in chaos constantly.
I imdiately knew what it was, I had felt the sa pressure from Protheus when he was chained to the rock, this was the primordial core that only titans had. Could it be possible I inherited my father's trait as well as a gods trait.
This would an I would beco the very first god to wield both a divine core and a primordial core, this was the next stage of my evolution.
Since primordial energy was unstable that would explain why it was chained in here.
This ti I changed my phrase and said in a slow easy tone that commanded power. "Release."
There was a hollow sound like that of wind blowing through a canyon then all of a sudden the chains trembled and started to snap one at a ti. The process was extrely violent and loud. In a mont all the chains were broken.
The prism roared to life, white smoke hissing out of it threatening to consu . I willed my divine core to appeared and a while later a sphere of gold coloured light appeared next to it. The two energies clashes with shockwaves of energy but I was their master.
"rge!" What I was doing was sure to destroy my body but... If I could not die then this would most certainly be a success.
The energies collided and combined into one. I could feel my soul tearing apart causing to endure an unexplainable amount of pain. But that was just the beginning, my souls repaired itself as fast as it broke apart leaving in a world of endless torture.
The power struggle within reached a climax and I waited for an end but it never ca. Ti passed by, the only thing keeping from going mad was the thought of living then all of a sudden after a series of endless bone writhing torture the explosion of power stopped.
I could not help but sigh in relief as I looked forward to seeing a huge sphere with the top and bottom heads of a prism sticking out the energy coming from it looked dual and the size of it five tis as big.
It was like the two energies had stabilized themselves just like I had planned it would. With this new power and an undying body I was sure to win.
I summoned all the power at once and felt my body change drastically, as I opened my eyes a well of power exploded from . It was ti for round two.
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