Reborn As Hades In Olympus Chapter 75 Temporal Rift Generator

Ch. 75: Temporal Rift Generator

"I'm willing," I said, my voice steady despite the fear gnawing at my insides. "Whatever it takes."

Hephaestus studied for a long mont, then turned to Talos. "You trust this one?"

Talos hesitated, then nodded. "I do."

The god of the forge let out a long sigh and rubbed the back of his neck. "Fine. I'll help. But know this—if I do, you'll owe . Big. And I don't deal in favors lightly."

"Was that a threat?" I asked.

"That's rich coming from a god that lost and arm to his own brother. You big gods giving yourself the title of the big three and your honorariums. In the end your are not all that different from us." He bood as he walked to a fridge and smashed it open. "When we're done I want you out of my sights." He said as he popped open the cover of the bottle of beer with his teeth.

Talos's face brightened with a mixture of relief and tension, but she nodded in agreent. "We understand."

"Good." Hephaestus gurgled down his beer and burped loudly. "So what brings you here my prodigal daughter? I thought you wanted nothing to do with ."

Talos looked a bit agitated, a bit out of her behavior. "Not the case father, I rely escaped my prison here. You sought to control like one of your hand tools and I failed to comply with your protocol, there was not much to be up for discussion on the matter."

"And here you are back in my life Talos, I guess you really are one sided." He sighed and turned to face . "Now why would the god of the underworld be here? Co for a weapon to help you take down Zeus, I hear he went mad because you left him. Let tell you sothing, Zeus is unbeatable when it cos to battle and his thunderbolt is second to none so keep dreaming.

And why is Hers alive, I'm sure you died though I didn't co to your funeral."

Hers wanted to speak but I shut him up with a simple hand gesture. No point in offending the only person that planned to help .

"No knew cos to see the deformity unless they need sothing from so what do you want?" He asked again.

I took a step forward and said. "You know of the Calamity so I guess you already know."

Hephestus finished the bottle of beer and tossed it into a section where it t with a number of other bottles there. "No, I don't. All I know is that the calamities are a ho call to the endti. It's funny how people disregard ssages on the end of the world. There are stories that a savior will co but I was never one for stories on hope."

What a tough guy. "I am in need of a ti machine and Talos said you might be able to help out. It's urgent."

"That sounds far fetched." Hephestus let out a crooked chuckle.

Talos gnashed her teeth at him. "Why else do you think we're here father? You're the only mad genius we have who had even thought about ti travel so are you going to help us or not."

Hephestus hesitated for a mont before saying. "A'ight, a'ight. Anything for my darling daughter." He lumbered over to a cluttered workbench and started rummaging through the debris of what I thought to be half-finished projects and tools. "There's sothing I've been working on... an old experint. Ti travel, or at least a crude version of it.

It didn't work the way I wanted it to, but if anyone's got a chance of using it, it'll be you. That is if you want to end up as cream paste."

He pulled out a strange device, about the size of a large backpack, covered in wires and gears that humd faintly with power. It looked ancient yet advanced at the sa ti, like sothing that shouldn't exist.

"This," he said, setting it down in front of us, "is the Temporal Rift Generator. It can open a door to the past— briefly. But it's unstable. You won't have long, and there's no guarantee you'll end up exactly where or when you need to be. I haven't had a live specin before so."

Hers practically danced in place with excitent, his eyes wide as he stared at the device. "Ti travel! I knew it! This is incredible!"

I, on the other hand, felt a knot form in my stomach. As much as I wanted to believe that this was the solution we'd been searching for, sothing about the way Hephaestus described it didn't sit right with . The risks were too high, the uncertainties too many.

Talos reached out and placed a hand on the device, her expression unreadable. "This is a bunch of horse crap," she said quietly. "Its a water proof backpack he made back in the day. Quit fooling around father."

Hephestus chuckled deeply. "Guess I can't play a prank on my daughter's guests." What a bundle of joy he turned out to be. "I have long since abandoned the project of ti travel but if you want to see my ol' baby co this way."

Hephaestus took us deeper into his workshop where we stopped before a huge tarp, he tugged at it to reveal a huge circular disk tal glowing in the light.

Hephaestus crossed his arms, his face grim. "Just rember what I said— if you go back and fail, you could end up making things worse. Ti is fragile, and one wrong move could unravel everything."

I glanced at Talos, then at Hers, who was still buzzing with excitent. My mind raced with the possibilities and the dangers. This was it. Our chance to stop Calamity Zero before it ever began. But if we failed, the consequences could be catastrophic.

Finally, I nodded. "We'll do it."

"Nuh-huh, ain't no we on this matter, just you." Talos scoffed at .

Why that betrayer!

"I'm in, I love ti and parallel universes theories." Hers was eager to join.

Hephaestus's eyes narrowed. "Then you'd better prepare yourselves. Once you step through that portal, there's no turning back."

With that, he turned back to his forge, the clanging of tal resuming as if our conversation had never happened. The weight of what we were about to do settled on like a heavy cloak. We were about to step into the unknown, with no guarantees of success and no way to predict what would happen on the other side.

But there was no choice.

We had to stop Calamity Zero.

Ti, fate, and the gods themselves were watching us now. And the clock was ticking.

"That old man...." Talos called my attention to the sign next to the huge machine reading: OUT OF COMMISSION!

My eyes twitched in rage, just what is that guy's damn problem.

Author's Note: I apologize for the errors in the latest chapters. My work had a lot of errors but has been resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please enjoy my work.