Snap—!!
Hades raised his right arm and snapped his fingers. The surrounding scene shifted from a dark, European-style castle to the icy hell of the underworld, Cocytus.
"Where is this?" Woban asked, looking at the frozen plains and freezing winds of Cocytus.
Hades stepped forward and said, "This is the Eighth Circle of the underworld, the icy hell of Cocytus. It is the hell where those who raise the banner of rebellion against the gods are sent. In the past, many God Slayers have fallen here after Death."
"Oh? A hell where God Slayers fall upon Death?" Woban looked around with a hint of interest.
At that moment, Hades erupted with an aura of Death and darkness. He looked at Woban and said, "Now that you have arrived in the underworld, under its laws, any Authorities you possess related to the underworld cannot be used here."
"Tsk—!!" Woban clicked his tongue in annoyance upon hearing this, as his prized [Dead Servants' Cage] and [Black Dragon of the Underworld] were now unusable.
Hades looked toward Erica and asked, "Erica, have things been settled on your end and with your childhood friend?"
"It's already settled, Allen," Erica replied with a smile. Lying at her feet was Lilia, bound by steel ropes. Since becoming a demigod Nymph, Erica's strength had increased significantly.
In particular, Erica had become a swordsman Nymph who protected the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone.
"Damn it~!!" Lilia said, her heart full of indignation as she watched herself lose to the woman she hated most.
"Come back," Hades said, beckoning Erica with a finger.
"Yes! Your Highness Hades!!" Erica shouted to Hades, then brought Lilia behind him, where the Mariya sisters were also standing.
Thrum—!!
A light flashed in Hades's eyes, and he teleported the four girls—Erica, Lilia, and the Mariya sisters—to Elysium.
"Don't cast this old man aside! Hades!!" Woban became extremely enraged by Hades's disregard, and the sky over Cocytus became filled with thunder and lightning.
"I am Lyceus, born of the light within darkness, beautiful as brilliance itself. Grant me majestic power!" Woban chanted his Kotodama, and countless demonic wolves with dark grey fur appeared on the ice before him.
Awoooo—!!
Countless demonic wolves bared their fangs and claws at Hades, charging toward him at Woban's command.
Hades closed his eyes, not even glancing at the pack of wolves. He gave a gentle wave of his hand, and a bone-chilling wind swept through, freezing the pack of wolves into ice sculptures.
Boom—!!
The moment they froze, the ice sculptures of the demonic wolves instantly exploded, turning into countless ice particles that scattered into the air of Cocytus.
Hades opened his eyes and waved his hand, causing the cold wind to disperse immediately. He mocked Woban, "It is impossible to defeat me using the power of that brat Apollo."
The Authority Woban had just used was called [Greedy Pack of Wolves], usurped from the wolf sun god of greek mythology, 'Apollon Lykeios'.
The mythology of this world was truly interesting. The Apollo of this world was originally a wolf god who wandered like the night and hated humans, formerly known as Phoebus—a god whose name meant light. He was born from the earth and became the incarnation of light who killed his mother; the beast of darkness and earth became the god of light. A wolf with the connotation of a rat, a god who possessed light while also having the attributes of night—that was Apollo. The sun god born underground, sealing away the darkness.
"As expected of the world-renowned god, Hades! Give me more excitement!!" Woban said in an excited tone. As he spoke, his form transformed into a giant grey werewolf.
"I can call the wind, summon the rain, and gather the thunder. I know that the scorching wind and the freezing wind are both my subordinates. Bring the madness of the storm to this land—!"
[Storm and Stress]: An Authority usurped by Marquis Woban from the Korean trinity of wind gods: 'Fengbo, Yushi, and Leigong'.
Their full aspect was the power to call upon storms and manipulate wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. Due to the influence of this Authority, when his mood was high, violent storms would blow around him. The application of this Authority was extremely versatile: striking targets with lightning like a lightning rod; preventing clothes from getting soaked in intense snowstorms; manipulating the atmosphere to fly freely in the sky; and regulating the climate around himself to maintain an appropriate temperature.
Due to the past performance of this Authority, it even became the predecessor to 'The Three Little Pigs'.
Countless bolts of thunder and blasts of snow fell from the sky, their target obviously being Hades. However, not a single strand of thunder or snow touched him; they were all reflected by a protective shield of air currents emitted by Hades's single hand.
"Damn it!!" Woban, transformed into a demonic wolf, roared and attacked Hades with lightning-laced claws.
Unexpectedly, with a single thought, Hades used his will to fix him in place. His claws were just a short distance away from Hades.
"Roar!!" Woban roared, electricity constantly sparking from the corners of his mouth.
Hades waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Go play elsewhere, little doggy."
As he spoke, another burst of will was released, directly blasting Woban away. He smashed a large crater into the ice plains of Cocytus, sending up a thick mist of ice.
"Curse you..." When the ice mist cleared, Woban was in a wretched state inside the crater. He slowly stood up and looked at Hades with great fury.
Then, Woban's eerie green eyes glowed as he used the Authority [Eye of Sodom], looking toward the underworld armor on Hades's body.
This was an Authority Woban had usurped from the ancient Roman hero and one-eyed god of war, 'Horatius Cocles'.
Any living creature the God Slayer viewed with his eyes, regardless of number, would be turned into a pillar of salt. It was named after the divine punishment that destroyed Sodom in the 'Old Testament'.
Swish—!!
But to Woban's surprise, what was turned to salt was not Hades's underworld armor, but Woban's own black trench coat.
Hades saw through his plan and slowly walked forward, saying, "To think you could turn my underworld armor to salt with that half-baked evil eye of yours is simply wishful thinking."
Hearing Hades's words, Woban gnashed his teeth in rage and activated his currently strongest Authority:
"The wolf born in the forest of steel, the wolf that bites through all shackles. Your name, Fenrir, now belongs to me. The Wolf of Ragnarok covets the sun and the moon. I shall also destroy many stars..."
[Wolf of Ragnarok]: An Authority usurped by Woban from the demonic wolf of the end, 'Fenrir'. It allows him to transform into or summon the skull of a giant Fenrir exceeding 60 meters, which then devours the target. Fenrir swallowed the sun at the end of times, so it is very effective against the power of sun gods. If it strikes the ground from the sky, it possesses the terrifying destructive power to turn a sanctuary where a divine palace is built into a massive crater, but it is not flexible enough and cannot be controlled well, so it cannot be fired repeatedly.
A wolf skull as massive as a meteorite appeared above Cocytus, opening its mouth in an attempt to bite and crush the entirety of Cocytus in one go.
"When I strike with this sword, that which does not decay shall rot; that which does not shatter shall be crushed. Once the Gordian Knot is severed, destruction shall arrive simultaneously."
Woban then activated another of his Authorities, [Severing the Knot of Fate], usurped from the guardian of the oracle, 'Gordius (Gordium, Gordias)'. It can use divine power to destroy indestructible and unbreakable things, destroy undefeated nations, and kill gods or monsters with immortal bodies. It is a power that can cut through established fate. For example, the Authority can be used as a dagger to cut through bindings that should not be breakable, nullifying Authorities that manipulate causality and inflicting fatal damage.
It was truly a grand technique for severing causality, a final trump card.
"Roar—!!" Woban let out a roar and descended toward the Cocytus where Hades was, mouth wide open.
The Hades Sword appeared in Hades's hand. He slid two fingers of his left hand along the blade, and instantly the entire blade was enveloped in a dark red glow.
"Blood Moon of the Herald of Death," Hades said softly.
Then he swung his sword toward the sky. A massive crescent moon of blood flew out, directly slicing the giant wolf skull in the sky into countless fragments.
With that, the oldest God Slayer fell.
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