King of Underworld - Chapter 76



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A slightly different story of Thebes – (2)

“A spy consumed by madness! Kill him!”

“Eww! Whoa!”

Kakang! Chaeng!

This place has soon turned into a battlefield with swords and spears flying around.

Because the man, who ran towards the soldiers with his eyes reddened, used his muscles to the fullest and cut down one of the soldiers.

Choaaaak-

Red blood splatters throughout the peaceful room, and furniture scattered around breaks into pieces.

Pilatos couldn’t figure out exactly what was going on.

The only thing that is certain is that there is something strange about the man’s condition, and the soldiers seem accustomed to this situation.

“Eww!”

“Ugh. Strength!”

“Priest! That bastard…”

He quickly moved to help the soldiers.

Pilatos quickly turned around behind the madman, drew the sword from his waist and raised it high.

He roughly strikes the shoulder of the man who has gone mad with the swordsmanship he has trained in.

The sharp blade, sharpened on a whetstone, flashes and emits a cold light.

“Ugh!”

Phew-

Even in Sparta, his brute strength was so great that he severed the arm of a muscular man, causing a fountain of blood.

However, those who are mad do not give in to this, but rather rush forward.

He tries to retrieve his sword and swing it again, but the madman is too close.

Pilatos was amazed by the strangely strong power of the monster.

“Ugh!”

I barely managed to block the madman’s attack with a sword, but that was it.

Can a guy with one arm cut off be this strong?

He was wondering if he should meet Thanatos like this…

“Whoa! Ah…”

dump.

Suddenly, the madman’s movements stopped and he fell down helplessly.

And then, from a distance, the mouth of a priest who had been extending his hand opened.

“You can’t withstand the power of the god Hypnos forever.”

He was a priest of Hypnos, the god of sleep.

The madman was dragged away by soldiers on the spot, but he was still under guard.

“Tsk. You haven’t come for a while… Well, I guess it’s about time you came.”

A middle-aged priest held out a mysterious stone to him.

“Are you the last one? Put your hand on the stone. If you are fine, nothing will happen.”

“Hmm… I understand. I’m of sound mind…”

Paaaaat-

A white light, like those who passed before. Not the red light that is evidence of a madman.

Pilatos is relieved and the soldiers let their guard down.

“I will guide them from now on. You go ahead and do your business.”

“Yes, Father.”

“Then let’s also step back.”

Only three people passed this strange test.

They pushed away all the soldiers and followed the middle-aged priest who guided the three alone.

What on earth was this strange test, and what was the madman?

Why did the gods make those who wanted to become heroes go through this test?

* * *

The place they arrived was a room in the innermost part of the temple.

The complexions of the three who had gone through strict security to get here were not very good.

“Now, everyone, look at this parchment.”

“What is this?”

“This is the third test. You must read the parchment carefully and swear on the River Styx that you will keep everything written on it.”

“What… what did you say?! The River Styx?!”

“No, is this really necessary?”

The oath on the River Styx is an immutable law that can never be broken.

But the restrictions written on this parchment were too many.

“From now on, you are prohibited from revealing anything you see or hear, and you are also prohibited from indirectly informing others through writing or pictures…”

“Once you sign, you have to follow the rules until you step out as a hero? And…”

“I, I can’t do this! What do you want me to do?”

One of the three who passed the test waved his hand and indicated his refusal.

And others also turned pale as they looked at the numerous prohibitions.

“Yes, you two have refused. Then you can leave after swearing not to tell anyone about the trials you have undergone in Thebes so far.”

“…I understand. I swear to the River Styx that I will not tell anyone anything I see or hear in this ‘test’…”

“Me too…”

The two went back the way they came, but Pilatos did not give up.

I had come all the way from Sparta to become a hero, so I couldn’t give up.

“I swear on the River Styx that I will keep the words written on this parchment.”

“Oh… At least there was one hero. Of course, not yet…”

“But now that you’ve taken the oath, can you tell me about the process so far?”

The middle-aged male priest nodded in response to his question.

“I can’t tell you everything, but… the stone you saw earlier is a stone imbued with the power of the god Dionysus.”

“The power of the god of madness…?”

“Of course, it’s not something that drives a sane person into madness, but something that makes it unbearable for those who are already consumed by madness.”

“That’s why you used the expression ‘spy.’ What, another god…”

“You know about the snake monsters that used to appear all over Greece? Think of them as spies sent from that side.”

He also knew about the snake monster, Gigas.

Because it was impossible not to know about powerful monsters that destroyed temples and killed heroes and demigods throughout Greece.

But monsters drive humans mad and use them as spies?

It must have been a complex fight between the gods.

“Damn it… I shouldn’t be interfering with the work of the gods… I can’t help it. It’s come to this…”

“Heh heh. That’s a good thought. After almost a month, one person finally comes out.”

A middle-aged priest opened the inner door of the room.

A downward stone staircase appeared before them, and torches hung at regular intervals on both walls.

“Follow me here.”

“It looks like a place where some kind of ritual is taking place.”

“Once you follow me, you’ll know, hehe.”

Thump, thump.

And so, in Pilatos’ eyes, who had reached somewhere underground…!

Gooooo-

At first glance, a space with an ominous current of air, or rather a crack, appeared.

A crack that was emitting black light as if the entire space had been torn apart and leading somewhere had opened up large enough for several people to pass through.

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“What… is this?! This is the first time in my life I’ve seen anything like this…! Is this the power of the Olympian gods?”

“This is the gate to the afterlife. If you go inside, you can receive training to become a hero.”

“I… I… the afterlife?!”

The afterlife. Or the netherworld.

Wasn’t that the realm of the god Pluto a place only the dead could go to?

Raising heroes here. The reason why this was created in the basement of the Pluto Temple…

The priest’s advice reached him as he hesitated.

“I will not force you, for you have sworn by the River Styx, which is a treaty that prohibits speaking out.”

“Hmm!”

“If you have the makings of a hero, you’ll get through this. If not, you’ll give up.”

Pilatos, who cannot easily turn away from words that touch his pride.

How can a living person go to the afterlife?

“But if you eat food from the afterlife, doesn’t that mean you can never return to this world?”

“Of course, the food you eat is provided to you periodically in this world.”

“There must be a pile of food brought from this world over there.”

If you want to walk the path of a hero, do you have to train in the afterlife?

Trying another way…

“…Did everyone else go through this process too?”

“Of course. Some people who come this far have given up, and some are training inside.”

“What is this, that the god Pluto himself is training heroes in his own domain…”

The priest, with a calm expression, opened his mouth again to face the shocked man.

“Doesn’t that mean the gods are interested? The choice is yours.”

“To the afterlife… ummm…”

There is absolutely no possibility that this priest could have deceived him.

What Pluto’s followers fear most is judgment in the afterlife.

Pluto’s followers, who believed that sins in this world would be paid fairly in the afterlife, rarely committed crimes.

After thinking about it for a while, he slowly walks forward.

One step towards becoming a hero.

“…I will go to the afterlife. I will definitely become a hero and kill that Gigas!”

“Oh. Good luck.”

The gap in the strange space gradually got closer, and he gritted his teeth and stepped forward.

* * *

Saaaah-

Pilatos, who passed through the crack, could not help but be greatly surprised by the scenery of the underworld.

“Is this… the afterlife?!”

It felt different from the afterlife he had imagined.

I stepped into the dark and gloomy space of death, prepared to go there,

All around were rocky valleys and vast plains, even providing some light.

A space where green grass grows like a meadow on the ground, and there are even trees.

He opened his mouth as if possessed by a feeling that was so unlike the other world.

“Did I die and come to Elysion…?!”

“Of course not! Haha! The real Elysion is incomparable to this place.”

I suddenly heard a voice from the side and turned my head to see a translucent centaur.

He was clearly a dead man, and he was looking down at Pilatos with a hearty laugh.

“Huh?! You…?”

“I am Chiron. I am the centaur who will be your teacher from now on.”

“Wise Chiron?!”

Chiron’s fame continued even after his death.

Pilatos now realizes why he trains heroes in the afterlife.

“But is this really the afterlife? Why does the scenery here resemble the living world…”

“That’s because the Goddess of Spring and other gods, worried that the living would not be able to adapt to the afterlife, put in their efforts. Just don’t go beyond the end of the barrier you see over there.”

“The goddess Persephone… I see.”

Indeed, from the space beyond that, the scenery of the afterlife was seen, filled with black space.

He could sense instinctively that crossing that line would mean death.

The only space allowed to aspiring heroes from this world was around this valley.

But this amount of space is enough.

It was a good decision to come to Thebes, since the wise Chiron himself will teach you!

But… that feeling was shattered in an instant.

Swish- KWANG!

“Ugh!”

Because a person flying from far away crashed into a rock, spraying blood.

The one who had just flown in looked like an aspiring hero like him.

What Pilatos sees as he hurriedly turns his head is…

“Kuaaaaak!”

“No, I heard that you were weakened after dying, but how can you be this strong!”

“Think about it! Are we the god Apollo?”

“Eww! Die!”

Kyaaaaaaaaaa!!!

“Try using your strength! You’re a demigod!”

“I’ve been giving it my all since a while ago… kekeke!”

“Damn it! The Protoss got hit!”

Kwajik- Kwaaaaang!

It is incredibly huge and exudes an indescribable force of energy…

A translucent snake monster was roughly swatting away the aspiring heroes who were rushing at it from all directions with its tail.

It was chaos, with people flying and shields breaking even with just a tap.

Kakang! Ting!

“For fuck’s sake! Shoot the arrow and hit its eye!”

“Shut up, damn it!”

Despite this, the heroes grit their teeth and charge forward.

But the attack did not appear to have any effect on the monster.

“Ah. That is the king serpent Python. Hades lent it to train heroes.”

“No, is that Python that was killed by the god Apollo himself?”

“Are there any other pythons besides that one?”

He was dumbfounded by the idea of ​​having to deal with a monster that would kill him, and asked,

Rather, Chiron asks again.

“Do we have to deal with such a monster?”

“…? Didn’t you come to the afterlife because you wanted to become a hero?”

“but…”

It is true that he took his first steps into the afterlife with full courage.

But… but…

“Oh, by the way, you won’t die easily in the afterlife thanks to the grace of Pluto, so don’t worry.”

“…You can’t even die?”

He wanted to return to this world again.

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