The ghosts and skeletal warriors formed ranks and encircled Hades as if they were protecting him.

There were about a hundred in all. If one were to focus their attention to the undead’s weapons, they would felt surprised.

These undead were after all extremely rich because of their weapons being made from imperial gold.

Imperial gold were precious metal which would deal huge damage and pain to every monsters. Unlike normal weapons, imperial gold weapons were very precious and more deadly.

The least grade of these weapons were [Unique] grade—now, these undead actually held more of these metal… such things could only incite jealousy.

However, the four [Devil] in front of them didn’t care at all.

Most likely they won’t even care if their enemies were equipped with nuclear weapons and missiles, as long as they can take their revenge for their master, they would rally towards their enemies without fear and hesitation.

Hades snapped his fingers and immediately the undead around them rushed towards the four [Devil] who was ready to fight to the death when suddenly…

A surge of heat waves coming from above.

The dark clouds which carried heavy rain and storms disappeared, leaving a huge mass of flames that looks like a sun illuminating the whole place.

The sun blazed more brightly as it fell down from the heavens.

“Darn it! Retreat!”

Hades cursed as he tried to command the rest of the undead to make a wall of defense in front of him.

The blazing sun fell down to the earth and collided with the ground.

It should’ve been shattered, transforming the ground into a sea of flames but for some reason, when the sun touched the ground, it became thinner and longer, separating the four monsters and Hades with Flora behind him into two group while incinerating the undead between them.

The undead were swallowed in the thin wall of flames, turning them into ash and dusts upon making contact with the fire.

— Truly, resistance was meaningless.

When the sun-like wall of flames finally faded away, Hades turned to the sky with his handsome face distorted in rage.

“Show yourself, Apollo!!”

All eyes look up and saw the sudden intruder.

A blonde haired man floating in the air—though his hair was a mess for some reason, making him look like he had been in a hurry.

He looked at the people in the ground with a cocky smile while correcting his white toga-like clothes.

“Apollo,” Flora muttered.

The sudden intruder—Apollo, winked at Flora while waving his hand casually.

“What do you want, Apollo?!” Hades raging voice echoed in the surrounding.

“Ah, really sorry brother Hades but I came here to stop you~”

“Stop me?… Ah, you also came here to protect Epimetheus.” Hades exclaimed as if something had just dawned on him.

“So, Pandora was really the one responsible for bringing him in this world~”

“Yeah, big sis Pandora… so I came here to stop you from k—”

“You’re already too late, Apollo. The ‘Fool’ have already lost, of course, killed by me~”

Hearing Hades words, Apollo couldn’t help but widened his eyes in disbelief.

The four monsters on the other side also began to scream and cursed him, ready to attack if not for the dim wall of flames erupted from the ground again.

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Apollo shook his head, “Damn! And I came here in a hurry… Hades you do know what she will do when she will know what happened to him right?”

Hades smiled and say, “I’m guessing she would once again open the box… am I right?”

“Then why did you do it?! Even if it’s you, I believe you know what will happen if that box will open again!”

“I know too well what will happen, that is also one of the reasons why I did it!” Hades shrugged his shoulders.

“INSOLENT! Hades, you as one of the major gods of Olympus should prevent it from happening!”

A young girl appeared deftly from behind the sun god, Apollo. She looked about twelve or thirteen in age.

Her beautiful silver hair looked as though infused with the droplets of moonlight and her eyes were more pitch-black than darkness, however it exudes extreme intelligence and wisdom while shining with luster.

Dressed in a simple white robe of Greek style, the little girl scolded Hades.

Hades seemed surprised for a moment but then his face turned that into a smile.

“Athena, it’s been so long, how are you?”

Focusing her hatred and anger in her stare, she accosted the owner of the voice:

“Shut up, Hades! Don’t you dare address me casually! Killing one of your brothers, you should feel shame!” Athena bellowed.

“Actually, it’s not me who killed Zeus, really… it’s that trickster Prometheus~” Hades defended himself.

His handsome face expressed his displeasure from Athena’s words.

“… You, you killed Zeus?” Flora seemed surprised by Athena’s claim.

Hades who had long and narrow eyes held out his index finger while saying it in a very calm voice.

“Oi, Wait up. Let me say it first to clear up the misunderstanding. The culprit isn’t me.”

“… Didn’t I just say it, its Prometheus and not me.” Hades said, annoyed.

“I just suggested something to him then… actually I was also surprised at that time, for him to actually succeeded, truly amazing~”

“Silence, Hades!”

“Control yourself, Athena. You’re not Ares; I can still defeat you easily.” Hades said while glaring at the wisdom goddess,

“Anyway, as what I said, you’re too late. Epimetheus is gone~”

“Oh my, you’re quite mistaken God of the Underworld~” A mischievous voice echoed in the sky.

Raising his head, Hades was even more surprised.

A young man with a beautiful face riding a huge boar and a little girl with a white mask of a monkey’s face with red round eyes on the side of her head appeared.

The little girl was riding a little golden cloud hovering in the sky, looking down from the air with a playful smile.

Contrary to the beautiful man’s golden eyes, her eyes were very strange.

The little girl’s eyeball was red as if bloodshot from smoke irritation but her pupils were golden in color.

Fiery eyes with golden gaze.

“This is quite a surprise~ the infamous irrepressible Handsome Monkey King; the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong and the Norse God of fertility, sunlight, rain and peace; Freyr~ what are the two of you doing in here?”

Hades looked greatly unimpressed of the sudden new intruders, his eyes full of derision.

“My pleasure in meeting you, Greek Lord of the Dead; Hades”

“Tsk, throw that fake and stupid smile from your face, it looks ugly~ I don’t like it at all”

After listening to him, the beautiful young man; Freyr replied politely while the monkey king responded aggressively with a mocking tone.

Hades ignored the Monkey King’s provocation and stared at her calmly.

“… I don’t know why you came here but that doesn’t matter. What do you mean by I’m mistaken?”

The handsome monkey king’s lips were twisted as though she was mocking him.

“Kakakaka Hades, Epimetheus is still a–”

“Quiet, monkey king!”

Without finishing her words, the handsome monkey king; Sun Wukong was cut off by Athena who was glaring at her.

“Besides being annoying, are you also a woman having poor judgment? Telling that to that shameless man will be quite problematic!” Athena said scornfully.

The handsome monkey king only shrugged her small shoulders, feeling unperturbed.

“You know Athena, you’re like that old geezer, the Jade Emperor. So serious, loosen up will you or you will get bald~”

“Excuse me?!”

Watching their interactions, Hades thought about what Sun Wukong said.

He then looked up towards Athena as he remembered that she was a goddess with multiple aspects.

A goddess of wisdom, poetry, and art. She was also revered and hailed as the goddess of war on its strategic side.

— Thus, knowing he already killed Epimetheus, why does she still didn’t act?

“I see. In other words, Epimetheus has not been defeated yet… he is still alive?”

“Wha….!”

Hearing what Hades unconsciously muttered under his breath, Flora behind Hades couldn’t help but gasp in surprise.

Her eyes widened from the hoped displayed in front of her.

—Then the place fell into silence.

“… But that’s impossible. His body had already been turned to ash…. wait, ash?” Hades eyes widened as he unconsciously turned his eyes towards the pile of ash in the ground.

“Ash… [Devil] spirits… I see, so that’s what it is! The 37th [Devil] spirit of Solomon, the undying Phoenix!”

“Ah!”

Hearing his words, Flora’s eye widened even more.

That’s right! If Hein completed the dungeon, he should have taken Peisha’s power!

Because of the shock she felt from Hein’s death, Flora completely forgot the power Hein should’ve absorbed from her best friend.

Thinking similar with Flora after hearing Hades words, the four no, five monster which is the [Devil] spirits also looked at the pile of Ash and then like lightning, rushed towards it to protect it.

Although they don’t know how Hein took the Phoenix power of rebirth, they still subconsciously moved their body.

Hades looked up the gods and deities above him and scowled, “So that’s why you all came here! Even the monkey king and a Norse god, it’s because Pandora know this ability! That’s completely unfair!”

“Do you think you have the right to be saying that? Attacking him when he still haven’t regained his true self, aren’t you also shameless?”

Terrible, that would be the word used by any human who saw Athena’s smile right now.