Lord Shadow

Chapter 1853: Testing Fate



Hades does not like his grandmother at all. It is not enough that she is one of Olympus greatest enemy, she is also very capable, cunning and at times straight up evil.

Probably right now, she is laughing in her hideout or something, looking at the chaos that is happening in Olympus.

"How similar it is today" Hades thought to himself.

"Let's go in" Hades just nods and the giants opens up the door of Tartarus. The creaking sound of the door seems to shake all the land

In the surface world, the realms under the control of the Olympians all shakes.

But now with war being waged between the gods, none of them could sense this subtle energy of the dead

Of bloodlust.

Of destruction that is seeping out from Tartarus and begins influencing the reality of this Universe

Even Osiris and Ra did not notice it

The door was opened

Poseidon see the door but as the door opens, he did not see it. And then he was already inside.

Because Poseidon was blind for a moment and when he opens his eyes, he is inside Tartarus already

"What did you do to me?"

Hades only smiles

"It is better for you to not see too much about Tartarus. It robs the mind of its sanity. Even you brother could be affected"

"And you do not?"

"Tartarus and I have an agreement. A deal. Hence, its magic would not harm me. But Tartarus did not make that deal with you or Zeus. So, suck it up"

Poseidon was about to get angry but the moment he tries to exert energy, he could feel powerful pressure gathering around him, like pressuring him.

The moment he forgets the idea to use his power, the pressure goes away

"There is so many things in the Underworld that if it is brought to the surface would make Zeus always on guard with me"

Poseidon savours this words and he could not help but look at his older brother with more apprehension.

Most people who hide things from Zeus always get revealed. After all, he also has the backing of the Fates

But the fact that Hades has managed to survive all of these years and manage to hide all of these shows that the Lord of the Underworld is not inferior at all to the Lord of the Sky. There is even a hint that the Lord of the Underworld has surpassed the Lord of the Sky

"It seems you did not lost that ballot after all" Poseidon mutters

Poseidon thinks back of that moment, the ballot to determine their realm. Was Hades really unaware of Zeus machinations? Or did the ballot happen exactly like he wanted it?

Hades....was he always aiming to be the Lord of the Dead since the beginning? When he was in the belly of their father, what did Hades master?

Hades heard what Poseidon said but he is pretending not to hear it

Instead, he ask a question to Poseidon

"What do you see now?"

"Hmm?"

"What do you mean?" Then Poseidon begins looking around him and his eye widen for a second before he regains back his calm.

He is seeing something that should not appear in Tartarus

He sees beautiful gardens with beautiful flowers and all kinds of birds and flying creature of brightly coloured species flying around in this vast garden

But the garden look exactly like the one in Atlantis.

"This....my garden" then he look at the ground, and look at the road. A stone trail that he is very familiar with

"My garden trail" Hades eyebrows is raised and he chuckles.

"Ah, you see a garden"

Poseidon look around him and he even touches the flowers and touches the leaves of trees. He could smell the scent of the flowers and everything is alive and real,

He tries to see through it but everything around him indicate that the scenery he saw is real and not an illusion.

"Is this Tartarus?"

Hades only smiles

"A garden, huh. Just follow me" Hades then began leading the way

And as they walk they began talking. Poseidon did not forget about the Hecatoncheires guarding the gates of Tartarus.

"The Hecatoncheires is still guarding the gates huh? I thought you send them to the mortal world before"

"I did. They have finished what they wanted to do and they ask for a job. Zeus would not give them one and they would not come to you. So, they come to me and I give them their old job

back"

"If they come to me I would surely give them a post"

"Maybe they think it is better the devil they know"

Hades quite pitied the giants.

Their grandfather Uranus drew the enmity of Gaia when he imprisoned six of her children, the three Hecatoncheires, and the Three Cyclopes within her womb

At that time, Gaia had been planning.

From some of the pieces of the story Hades had gathered, Gaia went to Asgard and the

Wilderness of the Jade Empire to seek some resources.

That is the hearsay. The truth however was that she goes to Eternal Horizon and did

something there.

Hades knows it because he had some giants in Tartarus who would do anything not to get

tortured everyday

Hades believed that her grandmother was at that time, gathering resources to create the Giant

Slaying Sickle.

She then hid it in one of the planets in the Othrys star system.

She waited for the right moment when Uranus no longer feel the need to keep his guard and only then Gaia try to convince twelve of her other children from Uranus who is the Titans to

castrate Uranus

And out of his twelve children only Cronus was willing and brave enough to do it.

So, Gaia gave him the sickle and he waited for Uranus to come.

Uranus came and Cronus ambushed Uranus. That battle lasted weeks but in the end the winner

is Cronus.

Then, their father Cronus freed the imprisoned Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes by slicing open

Gaia womb

They should have been released at that time. Yet, their father, quickly imprisoned them in

Tartarus.

That surely would not be good for public relations. And no one was more angry and more incensed about this matter than their grandmother.

And at the same time, Cronus imprisoned their grandfather, deep below Tartarus.

In a way it is like those royal family drama. Cronus won and became the ruler of the Titans

which at that time, is the ruler of this galaxy.

However, their grandfather is not someone that would go down without a fight.

Uranus has magic.

Dark magic. And so, instead of calmly accepting his defeat, he cursed his own son. At that

time, Chronos did not yet know that he was cursed by his father.

But that curse is the precursor of the downfall of Cronus.

Cronus took his father's title of ruler of land, sky, and sea. He then secured his power by

forcing his siblings to bow down to his will.

Cronus then married the Titaness Rhea.

And of a few thousand years the world of Cronus was a good one. Then Rhea get pregnant

And Cronus seek the sage advice of the Three Fates. Rhea had warned him at that time, that the Fates are always misleading and never give a straight answer.

It is not like all in the stories where their father suddenly become paranoid and started eating

them

Everything has its cause and effect.

Their father never believe their grandfather words.

It is a curse, true, but for beings like them, curses like that could only work.....if they believe in

it

Their mother, Rhea persuaded their father many times, many times, to just forget it. Leave the Three Fates alone to weave whatever threads they wanted to weave

You have won and there is no need to flaunt it or bring the Three Fates under the dominion of

Othrys

Cronus however has been in power for so long that he believe that the Three Fates would give him a good reading of his progeny fate.

The Three Fates are not beings that likes to be under others, manipulated or being look down

on.

They are fickle that way.

And they said, that among the child, would come upon a sky favoured Son. To sit on the

throne that he would be sitting

There was never any mention of this son overthrowing him

But, the words of his father now rings ever deeper. Uranus words were not so much as a curse,

but a seed.

And while that seed took time to germinate, all it takes for it to germinate was simply a

morsel of doubt

And the thing about doubt is this......when you entertain it, and entertain it long enough, that

doubt could consume you

The Three Fates did not submit. And Cronus fight them. But the Three Fates holds the power

of past, present and future

And that is terrifying power to have

Cronus is powerful but he is not omnipotent

And so, he was defeated, thrown out of the Temple of the Three Fates. Well, the Three Fates

also got injured in that battle and it wasn't until Zeus taken the throne that they regain back

their power when they migrate to Belthana

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