King of Underworld - Chapter 65



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The Banquet of the Underworld – (2)

“””Glory to the underworld!”””

All those who raised their golden goblets high followed Thanatos’ words and drank the nectar.

I too drank to my heart’s content the divine drink in my glass.

Gulp gulp- Gulp-

“Huh… This is what nectar tastes like… It’s so delicious…!”

“Hahaha! Mente, you’ve become a god, so you’ll get used to it in no time.”

“Huh. It reminds me of the first time I ate nectar and ambrosia, a long time ago.”

“Hypnos, stop teasing the young god.”

“This is nectar…”

“Try eating ambrosia, Medusa.”

A heavenly taste that no tea made with mint or wine of Dionysus can ever match.

Since it doesn’t have a set taste to begin with, no other drink can match nectar’s taste.

Nectar is not only delicious, it also gives spiritual satisfaction to the gods.

There is a reason why mortals do not age while eating nectar and ambrosia.

But… if you drink too much, this is what happens.

“Hades… It’s been a while since I’ve had a drink with you… Hehe…”

“You have had a lot to drink, Goddess Styx…”

Yes, like the goddess Styx, staggering towards me with her goblet in hand.

A captivating smile appears on the lips of the goddess as she walks towards us, flushed as if she had drunk a lot of nectar.

“Hade… Suuuu… Ehehe.”

In fact, it is a level of intoxication that can be quickly relieved by drawing out just a little bit of divine power.

It feels like the wine that humans drink, but the gods also drink it…

He. Somehow he did it on purpose..

“Oh my!”

Prison.

Ah. So this was your goal…

He tripped and fell in a very unnatural way, and gave me a pitiful look, so I grabbed him without realizing it.

I let go of her one arm and the hand on her waist and tried to help her up…

“oh…”

Goddess Styx sticks out her lips and closes her eyes.

The kind that wants something difficult for me…

“Eeeeek! Get off, Styx! It happened again while I wasn’t looking!”

“…Ahh! Really! Is this really going to happen? Lete?”

The goddess Lethe, who had come in an instant, grabbed the goddess of oath, who had closed her eyes, and woke her up.

And the goddess Styx, who had been so drunk that she had difficulty controlling her body until just a moment ago, immediately shakes off her drunkenness and argues with the goddess Lethe…

Let’s all share a glass of wine.

“Mente? There’s nectar flowing from your mouth?”

“….Yes? Yes…”

“Tsk tsk… That’s why we didn’t get married earlier…”

“It is said that Zeus and Poseidon have countless concubines, not to mention marriages…”

“Hades, you are very popular.”

Ahem… no, that… haa…

He took a step forward and walked towards where Medusa and the three Erinyes sisters were.

The three goddesses of vengeance have formidable appearances, with bronze wings, blood streaming from their eyes, and snake-like hair…

Now that I have finally decided to attend the banquet that I had been refusing to attend,

As the host of the banquet, I must approach first. This is an act that is shown to the lower gods and the officials of the underworld.

These are the people I, the master of the underworld, treat with such favor and look after.

…I have to clearly show that I am that way so that I won’t be looked down on.

“Medusa, are you enjoying the banquet?”

“Yes. Thank you for your concern for me.”

“Huh! The playboy god must be really foolish.”

Alecto, which means constant anger… why does it glare at me once and then turn its head away?

But why is the snake’s head, which acts as hair, this way…

Shh. Shh.

“Ugh… why are these like this again!”

“Hades, I tell you again and again, don’t do that…”

“Uhm…”

Alecto blushes and throws tantrums at his own hair,

Tisiphone speaks with a sigh, and Megaira nods with her mouth full of ambrosia.

“Umm… First of all, I will invite you to many banquets in the future. You will come, right?”

“…joy!”

“Well, it’s not bad, but…”

I feel like something similar happened to me last time… What is it?

But since we had some conversation,

In the future, they will not be treated with contempt at banquets.

* * *

Next, he approached Charon, the boatman of the Acheron River, who was sitting on one side, sipping wine.

For some reason, he was only drinking the wine and not the nectar.

“Lord Caron.”

“Oh, Hades. You too, have a glass of this wine.”

“Don’t you want nectar?”

“Sometimes wine doesn’t taste bad. Did you say the god who created it was Dionysus?”

Charon, who did not eat food from the ambrosia or cornucopia, but only drank wine.

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He spoke to me as if he had just remembered something.

“These days, many souls coming to the afterlife seem quite relieved.”

“Why is that so? What is the afterlife to mortals…”

“Yes, it is a symbol of unavoidable death and fear. But you know… as the number of believers in you increases, the number of those who worry about life after death also increases.”

Through the temples at Thebes and Argos, his influence on the world of the living grew.

Although it was still considered a fringe religion, it seems that there are quite a few believers based on what Caron can sense.

“Those who lived an upright life in this world and died sometimes appear very righteous.”

“That’s really good news.”

“Don’t you believe that your followers will receive a just judgment after death? I guess that kind of influence is spreading in this world…”

As the story of Medusa spread around Thebes,

Rumors gradually spread that my mercy reached even humans who had become monsters.

If you just listen to this world right now…

“Are you sure you’re okay with going back like this with a false accusation?”

“Don’t worry too much… Pluto is fair…”

“Ugh… Those scumbags will definitely be judged in the afterlife!”

“You say you are without sin, can you say the same thing in front of the god Pluto?”

“Of course! You can swear at the temple!”

“…Since you’re so confident, let’s investigate again.”

But still, there aren’t many people who call me Hades.

No matter how much I am called a god of mercy or wealth rather than a god of the underworld… this is truly inevitable.

To humans, death and the afterlife are as fearful as Zeus’ thunder and lightning… Hmm.

As evidence, most of those who pray to the statue of Thanatos in Thebes are old people.

The rumor about Medusa reached the ears of Perseus, who had become king.

At that time, he came to the temple in Argos and prayed to me.

“Lord of the Underworld… Is it true that the rumor that Medusa, whose head I decapitated, was originally human?”

Perseus’ face was a mixture of slight distrust, guilt, and worry.

I possessed the body of a priest and answered him…

“It is true that she was transformed into such a hideous appearance by a twist of fate.”

“Ugh…! This can’t be happening…”

“She, who has become a lower-level god of the underworld, wants to meet you. Would you like to talk to her?”

“…!! please!”

Medusa, who had just become a god, asked for it, so I changed it.

Medusa, possessed by a human body, appeared to show no particular emotion even when she met Perseus, who decapitated her.

“You were the one who cut off my neck, Perseus.”

“Are you… Medusa? What should I say to you…”

“…That’s okay. You were just swept away by fate in the end. I don’t hate you.”

“but…”

Perseus looks very embarrassed, but apologetic.

Those who have accomplished heroic feats also have good character.

I quietly left the room as their conversation dragged on.

Some time later, a small temple was built next to my temple in Argos…

The temple’s owner was Medusa, a lesser goddess of the underworld.

* * *

‘It was rumored that King Perseus himself would occasionally visit Medusa’s temple to offer prayers…’

As I was recalling the story of Medusa and Perseus, a loud noise brought me back to my senses.

Thanatos, the god of death with black wings, rushed into the banquet hall.

You went out of the banquet hall in a hurry earlier… Did you go out to find out what was going on?

Thanatos needs to take a vacation sometime…

“Ceres, Moros, Charon, we’re in trouble! There’s a war on earth!”

“What?! Again?”

“Oh, shit! Let’s go, Moros.”

“The humans started a war again?”

Charon, who had been gulping down wine, throws down his glass and gets up in a hurry.

The other gods of death, Moros and Ceres, also left the banquet hall.

“War in this world…? How many souls will come this time…”

“My lord Hades, I’m sorry, but I think I should go too.”

When they heard this news, more than half of the lower-ranking officials and officials fled.

The three Minos brothers also glanced at him and headed towards the court.

“No, what happened? Every time I tried to take a break, there was a great flood, a hero’s rampage, a war…”

“There’s nothing I can do, Hades… I have to go back to work.”

The goddess Lethe passed me by and said a word.

I was speechless at the sight of her beautiful eyes, their corners drooping helplessly.

“Lord Hades?! Is this what the banquets of the underworld are like?”

“…?”

Medusa and Mente were frozen in place as the gods and officials left the banquet hall in unison, seemingly resigned.

Yeah… This is the afterlife. You can’t rest easy.

Mente, whose eyes met mine, swallowed the ambrosia he was eating and spoke awkwardly.

“Lord Hades. Do I need to work too…”

“Mente, let’s work on developing the mint food that we couldn’t finish earlier. And how to spread it to the living world…”

Since it’s come to this, I should finish what I’m doing and rest.

Unfortunately, the banquet ends here.

I was about to return to my office with Mente, who was crying,

Medusa’s words reach my ears.

“The afterlife is truly… a unique place.”

I think so too.

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