At the moment of Woban's fall, Hades reached out toward the direction where Woban was dissipating and grasped. Woban's soul appeared in his hand, and Hades also gripped Woban tightly by the neck.
"Hades... what on earth do you still want to do...?!" Woban grabbed Hades's arm with both hands and asked weakly as he looked at him.
Hades did not answer him. Instead, he forcefully thrust him into the icy plains until only his head was exposed. He clapped his hands, looked down at Woban, and said:
"I said this is the hell that God Slayers enter after Death. As the oldest God Slayer, you shall suffer the eternal torment of ice here."
After saying this, Hades turned and vanished from Cocytus.
Elysium
The Mariyu sisters sat on the flowery grass, looking at the sparkling river before them. Mariyama Hikari was the first to speak:
"It's so beautiful here, Sister."
"Yes," Mariyama Yuri nodded, looking at a farmer not far away who was leading a cow and greeting them.
When they first heard this was the underworld from mythology, they were terrified for a moment. In myths, the underworld was always a dark realm of Death. They hadn't expected there to be a paradise like a land of bliss within the underworld.
Freed from her restraints, Lilia sat on a small hill, looking at the sea of flowers in Elysium with a complicated feeling in her heart.
She hadn't expected that upon being transported here, her rival Erica would release her.
At this time, Hades's underworld armor had changed into everyday black clothes. He walked to Lilia's side and looked at the sea of flowers with her, saying:
"How is it, the Elysium I created?"
"H-Lord Hades!!" Seeing Hades, Lilia was momentarily flustered, but she still composed herself and knelt on one knee toward him.
'Sigh...' Seeing Lilia's serious demeanor, Hades sighed inwardly for some reason.
The hem of Hades's clothes swayed in the breeze as he said to Lilia, "Don't be so stiff. I'm just asking you, how is Elysium?"
Lilia looked up at Hades's profile—his green eyes as deep as the bottom of a lake and his handsome face like white jade. She couldn't help but let her imagination run wild, with scenes from romance novels about overbearing CEOs and cold Underworld Kings falling in love with shrine maidens popping into her head.
But Lilia quickly shook those thoughts away, stood up slowly, and said respectfully, "It is a beautiful paradise, just as its name suggests."
"By the way, what happened to Marquis Woban?" Lilia continued to ask Hades.
Hades closed his eyes and lowered his head slightly. "He has been destroyed by me. His soul is imprisoned in Cocytus, the icy hell where those like God Slayers, who raise the flag of rebellion against the gods, go after Death. He will suffer the torment of ice for all eternity."
"Is that so..." Lilia said, looking down. Although Woban was the one she served, she didn't have a good attitude toward him due to past events.
Hades's long black hair fluttered in the breeze. He looked at the Nymphs (elf handmaidens) laughing and playing in the sea of flowers and said:
"This is a paradise I prepared for those whose souls were pure and kind in life. The women who come here are transformed by me into demigod Nymphs. Would you like to become one of them?"
"Why? Why do you want to transform me into a Nymph?" Lilia's eyes widened as she asked Hades.
Hades pulled Lilia into his arms and tilted her chin up. "Because you are already qualified. With your pure and flawless soul, you have earned the right to come here and the status of a demigod."
"Whoosh—!!" Hearing Hades's words and seeing his actions, Lilia's eyes began to spin. Her entire face turned bright red, and steam continuously rose from her head.
Lilia instinctively pushed Hades away and said with a blush:
"Please give me some time to consider it!!"
After saying that, Lilia covered her blushing face and ran away.
Just then, Erica, wearing a white Nymph gown, and Athena, wearing a Chiton and a Laurel wreath, came to Hades's side. Seeing the situation between the two, Erica stepped forward and teased him:
"What's wrong, Allen? Did you win Lili over? Truly impressive."
In contrast to Erica's teasing, Athena stood with her hands on her hips, looking pouting. "As expected of Zeus's eldest brother, you really are first-rate at charming women."
'Athena, don't you feel like that sentence is also insulting you?' A drop of cold sweat trickled down Hades's head as he complained inwardly.
Hades turned to Erica and asked, "What about those Princess Shrine Maiden sisters?"
"Their emotions have calmed down for now. They are playing with Lord Thanatos's Nymphs," Erica said, hugging one of Hades's arms.
Hearing this, Hades couldn't help but feel curious. "To be able to get those Nymphs, who are usually afraid of the living, to approach them... it seems their souls are also very pure."
Speaking of the Nymphs, a slight smile appeared on Athena's face. "I didn't expect that you, Hades, the stern Lord of the Underworld, would actually set up such a beautiful paradise for humans."
Hades explained, "Although humans have had countless battles in the past, in the long river of history, there are always exceptionally kind humans like Martha and Joan of Arc whose souls are like sparkling gems. That is why I created Elysium."
"It is so that all living beings know to accumulate merit and perform good deeds."
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