Hades stood motionless, unable to accept it.
Become the new Moebius? Become the guardian of this eternal cycle?
Let the world, everything he had built, become part of a cycle of repetition, wear, and utter meaninglessness?
No.
This was by no means the path he had chosen to break free from being devoured and to establish Hades.
"End it."
Hades's voice sounded, breaking the deathly silence.
There was no earth-shattering impact, only an unshakable resolve, as if condensed from the silence of hundreds of millions of souls.
He raised his hand, and the 'Chains of Resolve' binding Nyx hummed deeply, and the runes signifying 'the end' on the chain shone brighter than ever.
"Since this is a mistake, end it. End this cycle."
The eternal sorrow in Nyx's eyes was almost overflowing.
"End it? How? Reincarnation itself has become the new 'constant' because of my intervention! Forcibly breaking it will cause the delayed 'end of Chaos' to arrive instantly! It would be a more complete nothingness than reincarnation! All existence, including you and me, including the Underworld, Olympus, and all of Chaos, will return to complete and eternal disappearance! The reset cannot be stopped!"
Her voice was hoarse with despair: "I made a mistake once; I cannot bear to watch you, because of a moment of courage, bring about an irreparable and true end!"
"Then find a new path!" Metis sharply stepped forward, the light of wisdom once again flashing in her eyes, complementing Hades's resolve.
"If 'opportunity' can be used to create reincarnation, why can't it be used to find a third path beyond reincarnation and avoid the end?!"
"There is no third path!" Nyx roared, pain and struggle appearing on her triple-aspect face.
"I have looked into countless branches of fate! Breaking the cycle of reincarnation leads only to the end! Maintaining reincarnation, you can still survive! This is... the cost!"
She was in a state of turmoil and began to invoke the power of Erebus.
The 'Chains of Resolve', which were under the control of Hades's will and suppressing Nyx, suddenly let out a piercing cry, as if being torn from the root!
Boom——!!!
Not a sound, but an explosion of ideas!
A will far older, purer, and more deathly than the power Nyx had previously displayed, like a giant beast sleeping for hundreds of millions of years, suddenly awakened and erupted from the depths of Nyx's divine domain!
This was darkness! The most primordial and original darkness!
To protect Nyx, the dark god who had borne the backlash of the distorted constant and fallen silent, at this moment, his almost selfless primordial power was moved by Nyx!
The power of Erebus and the power of Nyx, tightly intertwined in resisting the backlash,
at this moment, broke free and easily manifested an effect greater than the sum of its parts,
the chains shook violently, the dark gray light flickered on and off, and the runes signifying 'silence' and 'isolation' on them exploded one after another!
"I must stop you!" Nyx's triple-aspect face distorted in the boiling darkness, her voice full of resolve that wept blood.
"I will not let you repeat my mistakes and lead to irreparable consequences!"
Nyx's words were like the final death knell, sounding in the hearts of the gods of Hades.
The power of primordial darkness mixed with night, like an irresistible tide, constantly eroding the 'Chains of Resolve'.
The chains trembled violently, the dark gray light flickered on and off, as if they could shatter completely at any moment.
However, Hades's eyes grew colder and calmer.
Instead of looking at the struggling chains, he turned his gaze to Metis, to Catia (himself), to Hecate and Perses.
"The Underworld is my kingdom." Hades's voice was not loud, but with the weight of the law of the Underworld itself, it clearly drowned out the dark roar.
He raised his other hand, pointing not at Nyx, but at the Void.
In an instant, the entire Underworld seemed to come alive!
The four rivers of the Styx roared, the Hall of the Dead resonated solemnly, the whispers of Tartarus were forcibly suppressed, and even the eternal dark sky seemed to hang an invisible barrier.
Every inch of land in the Underworld, every breath, responded to the call of their sole master!
The immense power of the Underworld's origin, like hundreds of millions of invisible tentacles, penetrated the void and frantically poured into Hades's body, and through him, blessed the violently trembling 'Chains of Resolve'!
Buzz——!
The chain emitted a dull but incomparably stable vibration, and the dark gray light, on the verge of tearing, suddenly solidified. The runes that had exploded on it began to slowly recover, which was the understanding of the absolute sovereignty of [Hades] itself, temporarily strengthening and redefining this artifact!
"Imprisonment! Silence! Return to silence!" With each word Hades spat out, the light of the chains grew brighter, and the influence of the primordial darkness was suppressed by one point.
With his own power, combined with the authority of the entire Underworld, he forcibly withstood the combined power of two primordial ancient gods!
"It's useless, Hades!" Nyx's voice was distorted within the chains, but still filled with resolve.
"You cannot imprison my essence! Erebus!"
With her call, the boiling dark power no longer tried to tear the chains directly, but suddenly coalesced and compressed inward!
Within the core of the chain's entanglement, the extreme darkness began to differentiate and take shape! Not to break free, but to... separate!
Two blurred figures, radiating completely different auras but possessing the same supreme presence, slowly condensed from the side of Nyx's sealed body.
The one on the left, in a shimmering robe seemingly woven from countless star trajectories and positions of natural law, had a blurred face, but with a sense of absolute order that could not be questioned or violated.
She was Adrasteia, the inevitable goddess of natural law! In her eyes, there were no emotions, only the cold, precise operation of rules, like the bite of gears.
The one on the right, shrouded in the mist of the thread of cause and effect and the phantom shadow of the spindle of fate, held a shuttle that constantly rotated and reflected the threads of fate of all beings.
She was Heimarmene, the goddess of cause and effect and destiny! Her gaze pierced the present world, as if she saw the consequences of all actions, the end of all choices.
These were precisely the two aspects of Nyx as the triple-aspect goddess!
At the cost of her main body being temporarily sealed by the 'Chains of Resolve', she forcibly separated these two embodiments with independent wills and most of her power!
Faced with the clones of these two primordial gods, the gods of the Underworld felt unprecedented pressure.
This was not a pure gap in power, but the result of suppression at the level of rules, as if all their efforts were written into a script of defeat from the very beginning.
Hades's face was serious. He had to maintain the seal on Nyx while dealing with Heimarmene.
Fire burned in his violet eyes, and the will of the entire Underworld was with him, fighting against the forces trying to drag him into the trajectory of fate.
"Hades is not under the jurisdiction of fate!" Hades roared, and the power of [Secrecy] was mobilized to its fullest, trying to 'hide' and conceal himself from Heimarmene's observation of fate, while the power of [Soul] vibrated, affecting the seemingly unbreakable chain of cause and effect.
However, Heimarmene only gently pulled the spindle, and the thick thread of fate connecting Hades to the end of 'becoming Moebius' shone with dazzling light. No matter how Hades hid or struck, the thread still existed stubbornly, as if mocking his efforts.