Road to Hell (4)
Hair completely red, without a single part of another color, a previously white and flawless skin, was now stained all over with blood. The clothes were falling apart, showing the bulging muscles and every wound mark on him. Percy didn't know how long he had spent in this place. But, the only thing he did besides resting from time to time and eating a little, was just entering the lake of boiling blood and descending.
If there were any people near him, they would immediately move away. The stench of blood emanated from his body and light trails of hot mist came out from him due to the heat.
When Percy reached the thousandth step, he simply stopped counting. He already knew that 999 meters was more than two thousand steps, but he lost count when he reached the halfway point. The difficulty of this test was much more than he thought. When he actually reached the halfway point, the protective layer surrounding him no longer had the same effect. The enormous heat made his skin turn red and pain invaded him to the bone.
But, even so, after all the effort he had made, he had not the slightest intention of giving up. Every time he felt the urge to rest for more than a day or just stop, images of Tartarus came to his mind along with the desire for revenge exploding in his heart.
Screams of frustration, pain and anger were heard throughout the path of hell for many days.
And in the God Realm, two people were watching; one of them with obvious curiosity and interest, and the other with sadness and even cheering slightly, even if their words could not be heard.
"Little Zi, he makes me feel too sorry... can't you do something?", a beautiful woman possessing a pair of bright green eyes and long brown hair, a green flower decorating on the side. She was wearing a long light green dress, full of life, she wore a slight smile on her face, she was an outstanding beauty with a gentle appearance, absolutely stunning. A faint golden halo, full of vitality, covered her face. Her appearance was unforgettable, and anyone who saw her would feel the urge to get closer.
This woman was Sheng Ming, the goddess of life, also called Little Green by her husband, or Auntie Green by other people.
The man beside her looked to be in his thirties. He had short, white hair that stood up like steel needles. His appearance was extremely dazzling. He just looked a little paler. The red light in his eyes flickered. However, there were countless waves of light fluctuating within and he was still in his dark purple cloak.
He was the god of destruction, Hui Mie, also called Little Purple by his wife, Master by his subordinates, he was also called Uncle Purple.
Hui Mie furrowed his eyebrows when he heard his wife. Truth be told, he liked Percy. He had been through a lot according to what he heard from the old man. And despite everything, he hasn't given up. He himself before becoming a god, was extremely lonely. After all, he was born with a power to destroy most things. Whenever he visited a place, the flowers would wither and everything seemed to turn grey. It was only when he met his wife, that he saw all the colours of the world.
"What a pity…", Hui Mie shook his head: "Even his martial spirit possesses an annihilation attribute, it would be much better if he were my heir, tch"
"Can we really not help him?", Sheng Ming asked once more. She, among all the gods of this god realm, was one of the kindest, most understanding and peaceful ones. She knew how much suffering Percy was going through, she could see how his heart, even if it had begun to beat with lost feelings again, was still filled with wounds.
Looking at the halo in front of him, which showed what Percy was doing, Hui Mie tilted his head slightly.
"How exactly do you want to help him?", she asked curiously. While he wanted to hand over his position as a god to Percy, it seemed too impossible. One must know that the position of a god is something special. That's why gods are eternal, their existences are fundamentally linked to the realm. And within divine existences, a God King must have a god position. If that wasn't the case, the universe itself would destroy them. And this was no longer simply because of the laws of the universe being a greedy and stubborn piece of shit, but because gods were not third-dimensional beings, but fourth-dimensional beings. A God King was even above that, they were five-dimensional existences.
A God cannot have more than one God Position because the two concepts they embody will start to clash with each other. It usually leads to the God exploding from the two clashing positions. But it is possible to make a certain position through the combination of multiple concepts, such as the God of Emotions position, which fused the Seven Emotions to make the God of Emotions.
This was one more reason why Elder Chaos wanted to form a god realm near the earth. The gods were too disorderly compared to others throughout the universe.
The Olympian gods, for example, were fourth-dimensional beings, with Poseidon, Hades, and Zeus being five-dimensional. The reason why they killed anyone who saw their divine form unintentionally was not only because they were beings from a higher dimension that third-dimensional mortals could not resist. It was also because they embodied too many concepts. If it weren't for those divine forms supported by the power of heaven and earth, the planet's core, and other circumstances, then they would have already completely disappeared.
The god realms are not only to manage the myriad planes of the universe, but also to contain these extremely powerful beings without interfering with the expansion of the universe. And it's also one of the reasons why the earth didn't enter an era of spirituality; the large number of gods made it impossible for the laws to be grasped by mortals and the power of heaven and earth was so little.
The very core of the planet was supporting the life of such beings... something like that was dangerous. If it were just the primordials, it wouldn't be a problem because they were born from the universe and thus could completely rely on the laws to be immortal and powerful, but it wasn't the case for the gods.
Sheng Ming put a finger on his chin as he thought carefully. Even though he felt sorry for Percy's circumstances, he knew that he couldn't interfere too much either; those were the laws of the god realm. After a few minutes, she smiled as she raised her hand, and on it, a small seed the size of a fingernail appeared. This seed gave off a large amount of life energy in a glowing green light.
"I see…" Hui Mie nodded as she saw the seed and nodded. While the seed could be considered something powerful in the mortal realm, and even miraculous, it was nothing to write home about. If this was used by a mortal, it could help in the creation of a soul core, nourish the spirit, and empower the body. In the realm of gods, however, it barely had any effects on gods and beasts; at most, it could help grow herbs and trees.
"Then I will give him something too," Hui Mie waved her hand, taking the seed before it disappeared from the spot along with something else. Sheng Ming, who saw what her husband sent, immediately cried out in fear.
"Hui Mie, no!"
"AAAAHHHHHH!!!" A smelly scream that would have made many cover their ears and run away in fear immediately rang out. Sheng Ming trembled as he looked at the halo that showed Percy's situation. He had been kicked out of the lake of blood and was rolling on the ground as he screamed. His hands were scratching at his face, specifically, his eyes.
For the first time since he left Tartarus, Percy was crying, screaming, and trying to pry his eyes out. Sadly, no matter what she tried, his eyelids wouldn't open. Sheng Ming watched in fear as tears of blood fell from Percy's eyes as he screamed in horror and pain.
"Hui Mie… you…"
The God of Destruction shrugged, a little scared and shy by his wife's gaze. He knew that sending him to help Percy would cause such pain, but the benefits would not be any less. Indeed, such pain was worth enduring in his opinion.
Furthermore, that could help camouflage the two's help in Asura's eyes.
Sheng Ming sent out a wave of her hand, causing a green aura to surround Percy as she made the seed take effect and herself guided the healing and transformation of the body while aiding the creation of a second soul core. At this point, she did not care to interfere any further.
The power her husband sent out was not destruction, but ruin. With the state of Percy's heart and mind, it was not strange that he would go mad, or that his mind would break. In fact, dying was a good thing that could happen unlike being completely wiped out with no chance to reincarnate.
The worst part of it all was that time in the god realm was different than that of the mortal plane. It was so much of a difference that twenty years was equivalent to ten thousand years in a mortal plane.
That meant that in what was only a few minutes for the two of them, Percy had been resisting the power of ruin for longer. Under the power of the goddess of life/creation, a soul core was forming in Percy's head, where his spiritual sea was. He had actually already formed one in the center of his chest, next to his heart. Thanks to the seed's aura of life, the wounds he was suffering from began to heal, but the aura of ruin began to fight against the aura of life.
Percy began to sweat even more as he felt both auras clashing in his head, causing immense pain. It was as if someone was driving an axe into his head and then forcibly cracking his skull open.
Percy dug his fingers into the platform as he tried to control this power. In his spiritual sea, two swirling streams of power were fighting and spreading throughout the spiritual sea, wreaking havoc.
The swirl of two different powers mixed together from time to time, but then spread throughout the spiritual sea. One side seemed to turn grey as if it withered the entire mind, and the other side was full of life and a beautiful green color.
Bang!
Slamming his forehead into the ground, Percy groaned as he used everything he had to try and control this. His body spasmed from time to time as his now open eyes changed color over and over again. For a moment, his right eye turned grey, sometimes it was black and even deep purple; His right eye, on the other hand, was changing from green to gold and then black and once again back to green.
Percy didn't understand why this was happening. But if he didn't persist, even his martial spirit could be destroyed. Anaklusmos could only use his annihilation aura to not be surrounded by the other two auras.
Percy couldn't even scream, his mouth was open, but not a single sound came out of it.
BANG!
BOOM!
Thunderous sounds were heard in Percy's spiritual sea. It was as if a world was being destroyed and then reborn. At that moment, blood began to flow out of Percy's nose, then his ears bled. His mouth now looked like a tiny waterfall of blood.
No matter how he tried, the two energies couldn't be controlled and were destroying his mental sea.
Suddenly, in its worst state.
"No...", a single word came out of Percy's mouth. It was a low and really hoarse voice, but it contained a spirit full of determination. His almost transparent figure in his mind sea due to the power struggle, became clearer as he gritted his teeth.
"No... I will die in a place like this..."
"I have to... kill Zeus, tear Ares apart... I have to... apologize to my mother... I have to...", Percy muttered over and over again as he remembered all his grudges and hatreds. He remembered his mother's figure, he remembered that he had to meet his little sister. He remembered his promise with Liu Erlong...
"AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!!", a furious scream came out of his mouth as he raised his back and screamed upwards with his eyes wide open. At that moment, his left eye flashed with a gray color and his right eye flashed with a green color.
BOOOM!!
His mind sea trembled as if an earthquake was occurring as the two energies began to circulate in different directions. The grey energy and the green energy slowly mixed together as a sphere slowly appeared in the center. Percy gritted his teeth as he continued to move the two energies in opposite directions and slowly mix them together carefully.
In an unknown amount of time, it was observed that the green whirlpool now had a grey part and the grey whirlpool had some green. And as the two whirlpools began to form a single two-colored one, the sphere in the middle exploded with a dazzling light, hiding the entire mental sea with its two-colored light.
Under the sight of three gods: Life/Creation, Destruction, and Asura, Percy had managed to mix two opposing energies to form a soul core. At that moment, with all of the spiritual power concentrated, Percy's spiritual realm grew from the spiritual abyss realm to the spiritual domain realm, and from there, almost to the divine origin realm. And if he weren't a mortal, it would continue to increase. At the same time, the level 71 soul power he possessed increased to level 74.
But not only that, his body had transformed, as had his eyes. And while his right eye had no power in itself, its green color showed that it had absorbed the power of life. And his left eye, gray in color, showing and giving a feeling of ruin and death, now had the power to invade people's spiritual sea and wither them into oblivion.
This was the gift of the god of destruction, the eye of ruin.
However, at that moment, an enormous pressure descended upon the palace of destruction. At the same time, a cold and powerful voice resounded from all around.
"Hui Mie!
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