CHAPTER 301: CHAPTER 59

For Hades, he imagined that absorbing the heart of Egypt and Christian Pantheon would be as troublesome as when he absorbed the Greek and Norse.

But he found it surprisingly easy.

Well, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

The Egyptian Pantheon are basically an empty shell, devouring its heart isn’t as dangerous as devouring the Greek’s.

And the Christian Pantheon, Yahweh himself, as the Heart of Christian Pantheon, offered to be absorbed and didn’t resist.

So this assimilation was far smoother than he had expected.

As the essences of the Egyptian and Christian universes flowed into him, Hades felt his consciousness expand, stretching to encompass the totality of the newly enlarged Hyperverse.

He was now, without doubt, omnipotent within his own creation.

The boundless power of four colossal realities—Greek, Norse, Egyptian, and Christian—now resonated within his being, anchored by the flesh of an Outer One and the combined Hearts of four distinct cosmoi.

The fusion was complete, making him the undisputed, absolute sovereign, the conceptual core of existence itself.

Simultaneously, across the newly annexed realms, the Egyptian gods experienced a rush of power so profound it brought them to their knees.

It was a sensation entirely alien to their recent history—a deluge of pure, revitalizing energy far exceeding even their glorious zenith before their long decline.

Ra, Horus, Isis, and even the recently frantic Thoth, felt millennia of stagnation and decay burn away in an instant of hyper-charged divine aether.

Hades’ first act as the fully realized Anchor of Reality was not to crush the Christian rebellion, but to tend to the deepest, most systemic wounds of the Egyptian Pantheon.

Their universe had suffered a layered, agonizing collapse, and now that its Heart was safely fused with his own, Hades could perceive every broken mechanism, every fractured law.

He focused his immense, newly acquired will upon the Egyptian realm, intending to erase the scars of history and restore their function.

The deepest wound was the Cosmic Scar left by the ancient war against the fragment of the Outer One.

Though they had technically won, the battle had fractured the fundamental dimensional membranes surrounding their reality.

This breakage had created a perpetual, metaphysical leak, a slow but relentless drain of the universe’s vital energy into the surrounding void.

Hades channeled the Hyperverse’s infinite flow to the breach.

He didn’t merely want to seal the tear, instead he wove a new, protective layer around the entire Egyptian domain.

This barrier was forged from the combined, refined Divinity of the Greek and Aether of Norse, which had became the source of power of the new reality, stabilizing the dimensional borders and ensuring that no energy would ever bleed out again.

Next, he addressed the Spiritual Exhaustion of the Egyptian gods themselves.

Their beings were not just magically weak, but their very divine concepts had been suppressed.

The humiliation and total defeat by the Christian Angels had crushed their ontological confidence.

As it has been established since long ago, Pride is one of the main reason for a god’s strength, and losing that pride means losing their power.

In the Egyptian’s case, they have been so thoroughly beaten and humiliated that it affected their core of existence.

Not to mention the subsequent siphoning of their universe’s energy by Yahweh had left their forms hollow and their concepts attenuated.

Hades injected concentrated, targeted blasts of Hyperverse power directly into the conceptual roots of each deity.

Ra’s solar concept brightened, becoming a true stellar force.

Osiris’s life/death cycle became infinitely robust.

Thoth’s knowledge base expanded exponentially, now instantly comprehending the mechanics of the Norse runes and Greek geometry.

The Egyptian pantheon was not just refilled; they were conceptually upgraded to the standards of the Hyperverse.

Hades then moved to the Duat, the Egyptian Underworld.

The Duat was suffering from a massive backlog of souls, and the processes of judgment and renewal were slow, inefficient, and constantly struggling against the energy drain.

The river of judgment, which carried souls toward the weighing of the heart, had become sluggish.

Hades used the Christian Universe’s newly assimilated organizational structure, combined with the Norse efficiency of Valhalla, to overhaul the Duat’s entire system.

He created instantaneous Nexus Points connecting the Duat directly to his centralized Greek/Norse Underworld, funneling Hyperverse energy into the process.

The river of judgment surged, the backlog was instantly cleared, and Anubis’s mechanisms for weighing the heart gained blinding speed and perfect accuracy.

The Duat was transformed from a suffering bureaucracy of the dead into a streamlined, powerful engine of spiritual transition, processing millions of souls in seconds.

Finally, Hades repaired the core of the Egyptian universe’s physical reality.

The long decline had caused the stars to dim, the concepts of life on planets to stagnate, and the flow of magic to weaken.

He didn’t just restore the energy, but he reversed the thermodynamic decay.

The stars in the Egyptian cosmos flared back to their absolute, youthful brilliance.

The magical ley lines that had been severed during the wars were re-stitched with Yggdrasil-infused energy, making the flow of Egyptian magic stronger and more adaptable than ever before.

He transformed their entire reality into a robust, vibrant, and perfectly functioning segment of his Hyperverse.

The process, which should have taken eons of gradual repair, was completed in a single moment of focused will from Hades.

The Egyptian Pantheon was whole, powerful, and ready to contribute their renewed strength to the stability of the Hyperverse.

The restoration of the Egyptian cosmos was instantaneous, that it didn’t even cause any ripple to the newly expanded Hyperverse.

And after he was done, Hades turned his focus, his consciousness snapping across dimensions, to the new, troubled frontier: the Christian Pantheon.

The war there had already escalated into a cosmic brawl of terrifying magnitude.

The fusion with the Hyperverse, which had repaired the Egyptians, had conversely acted as a catastrophic accelerant for the celestial conflict.

The entire Christian reality was now swimming in the boundless, raw power coming from the Hyperverse.

This sudden, immense injection of energy fueled every angel, every Seraph, and every Fallen, turning their weapons into instruments of universal destruction.

For Michael and the loyalist angels, however, the massive surge of energy was the unmistakable, devastating confirmation of their deepest fear: the final signature of their Father’s departure.

The energy rush was the consequence of Yahweh’s Heart being absorbed, the final, agonizing testament that the Creator was gone, and his sacrifice complete.

Satan also felt the same energy rush, but his reaction wasn’t sadness nor joy, but one of ultimate, psychotic rage.

He, too, recognized this sign—the massive, anchoring power of an unknown energy mixed with the fading essence of his Father.

He knew the source; the Hyperverse.

He knew the cost; the death of Yahweh.

"AAAHHHHH!"

His scream was a sound of primal betrayal that cracked the firmament, and he doubled his destructive fervor, attacking the loyalist lines with the crazed desperation of a cornered beast.

Hades watched in silence, yet he knew the war could not be allowed to continue; their energy expenditure was already carving irreparable scars into the Christian cosmos.

Remembering the sincere, dying wish of Yahweh to spare the child, Hades acted.

He didn’t move, he simply appeared as if he was already there the entire time.

Hades materialized not in the periphery, but in the absolute center of the raging battle—a vortex where a million swords clashed and celestial fire burned hotter than a nova.

He stood there, radiating a silent, crushing force that immediately rendered the battle meaningless.

The warring factions—the dark, furious shadow of Satan’s legions against the blazing, defiant light of Michael’s host—instantly froze.

Weapons hung suspended in the air.

The sound of clashing metal died, replaced by a vacuum of fearful silence.

Satan, his face a mask of incandescent hatred, was the first to recognize the intruder.

He felt it—that profound, absolute, presence—and realized it contained not just the infinite power of a new reality, but a faint, distinct echo of the being he had worshipped.

His Father’s essence.

His eyes, now burning with the destructive ambition of his new identity, widened in terrifying realization.

’This is the man. The pagan god who took my Father from me.’

Satan let loose a howl of pure, agonized fury. "PAGAN GOD! IT IS YOU! IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT! I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU! I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!"

He didn’t wait and immediately launched himself forward, like a silver comet wreathed in black fire, sword aimed for a death blow that Hades should, by all logic, have had to defend against.

But defense against someone who hasn’t even reached Transcendence was beneath him.

Hades merely lifted a single hand and pressed a finger forward, the gesture less an attack and more a casual dismissal of an annoying insect.

And reality complied.

A weight that defied gravity, defying even the laws of their own celestial dimension, instantly crushed Satan.

It was not kinetic force, but the pressure of ultimate sovereignty.

The weight of the Hyperverse’s reality was placed directly upon him and Satan’s charge halted instantly, his sword dropping inches from Hades’ chest.

"AAAHHH!" He screamed, not in pain, but in rage and utter frustration, his muscles straining against the invisible, absolute barrier.

Beside him, his entire legion of Fallen Angels, who had been charging to his defense, suffered the same fate.

They were forced down onto their knees, then onto their bellies, their newly blackened wings cracking against the celestial floor.

They fought with everything they had—the accumulated might of a rebellion, the fury of betrayal, the hyper-fueled energy of the Hyperverse, but it was futile.

They were pressing against the fundamental truth of reality, and the truth always wins.

Hades stared down at the struggling, screaming mass of the former Morningstar, his expression detached, almost bored.

His voice, amplified to a resonant thunder that brooked no argument, echoed the promise he had made.

"Do not forget my face, Lucifer." Hades delivered the promise of eternal enmity and containment. "Do not forget your hatred. I am Hades, the Supreme Deity of this Hyperverse. And I am the one who killed your father."

With a final, infinitesimal push of his will, Hades opened a yawning, dimensional rift beneath the fallen host.

The rift was cold, bottomless, and utterly desolate—the lowest, most secure stratum of the Christian cosmos: Hell.

Satan and his millions of screaming Fallen Angels vanished, swallowed by the collapsing portal.

The rift sealed instantly, a cold, impenetrable prison erected by the single decree of the Anchor.

Just like that, the havoc in heaven was instantly suppressed.

Now, with the rebellion summarily dealt with, Hades turned, slowly surveying the millions of loyal angels who now dominated the field.

They were stunned into total, fearful silence, having just witnessed their greatest former comrade defeated by a single gesture.

Hades observed them, and began to wonder what was on Yahweh’s mind when he created his angels.

Some of then were humanoid, and he has nothing to say about that.

But most of the legions were beings of terrifying, sublime strangeness, as if Yahweh had based them from the Outer Ones.

He saw the Ophanim—colossal, intersecting wheels covered in eyes that spun silently in the air.

He saw the Seraphim, whose six massive wings were covered in blazing, watchful eyes, their bodies radiating searing, perfect heat.

And he saw the Cherubim, whose faces resembled a terrifying fusion of man, lion, ox, and eagle.

These were creatures of one can describe as cosmic horrors, not flesh and blood, but they were all staring at him with a mixture of terror, awe, and terrible loss.

Just then, Yahweh’s final, absolute command echoed through the now-silent realm, bypassing their minds and embedding itself in their very essence.

The command was simple: Serve him. Serve your new God.

A ripple went through the vast angelic host.

The spinning wheels of the Ophanim slowed to a respectful halt.

The six burning wings of the Seraphim folded inward, shielding the countless eyes from Hades’ transcendent form.

One by one, led by the shattered but dutiful Archangel Michael, who sheathed his sword and sank to his knees, every single angel in the Christian Pantheon performed the ultimate act of surrender.

They lowered their heads, bowed their myriad faces and obscured their blazing forms, acknowledging Hades as the new Supreme Ruler of Heaven and the absolute King of their existence.

The Angels, soldiers and servants of God, now bowed and surrendered before Hades, the new Lord of Hosts.