Chapter 277: The Gods

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Hades glanced at Terra from within Abraddon's Divine Realm.

Since he was separated from Frank that he had felt quite weird, he was happy to have a body and be some kind of small God, but he still felt weird.

He was, after all, helping a completely different world from his own to maintain an entire Transmigration Cycle.

In fact, if it weren't for his amazing talent at this, the Gods wouldn't have managed to deal with the situation as quickly, and even if they could have managed to make a Transmigration Cycle, it would have ended quite flawed, and filled with loopholes.

He still felt quite embarrassed to be here a bit, although he hidden it very well with his prideful nature.

After all, he was a complete outsider to this entire world and was dragged here as Frank's powers manifested into it, converting him into an item he acquired.

Frank's Trait, the power hidden within his Infinite Core had such a power, to draw objects, or even entire entities from other worlds within the universe to him, as items, or even Skills.

Hades didn't truly understand what was even going on at first, and simply decided to go with the flow and help the kid who really needed some psychological support.

He even helped him in the life and death battle against Wasp, and Frank had admitted that if it wasn't for Hades… he might have surely died there.

And he has been helping him ever since then, he even slept with him through his coma, and although he couldn't be present, through such a long sleep, he also meditated and coped with many things.

One of them was that he was already quite far away from his world…

He accepted that he needed to do what he could to help Frank, and then whenever he accumulated enough trust, he decided to ask Frank if he could help him… by going back to his own Earth.

But well, things scaled quickly one event at a time, and many, many things happened.

And due to all this unpredictability, he was now standing here as a new God of Terra, albeit temporary.

He was replacing the Transmigration God Hekaton, who ran away after he found out about the Watchers, and didn't desire any conflict with such entities, a very cowardly act… but deep-down Hades understood him.

"After all, the guy didn't have any attachment to this place. He seems whatever he does as work if this place is not suitable for work anymore, he simply goes away and unplugs his Transmigration System…" sighed Hades.

But now, by Frank's request, he was given Hekaton's job.

He was not getting tired because his body was Undead-like, but he still felt mentally tired, he wanted to take a nap at the very least.

But now that he was given such a responsibility, he had to maintain the Transmigration Cycle with his powers.

Although the other gods were also helping, he was the core of this entire thing.

For now, he sighed and kept firmly keeping things together while noticing the large quantities of Miasma forming within Terra… exactly where Frank was.

"Frank… I hope you're doing okay…"

As Hades mediated in a state of concentration, Thineas and Abraddon came to take a visit.

Unlike before, Hades noticed that they had become stronger, their souls were now overwhelming with strength, and they looked fairly younger as well.

These two Gods were the other two pillars of the transmigration Cycle, especially Thineas who was accidentally given Death Attribute Mana by Frank, and she assimilated it into her very essence.

After leveling up through Frank's System, she kept evolving this power, and made it her own, becoming something akin to a Goddess of Life and Death, although her total power was still not even half of what he used to have before creating Terra.

Indeed, when the Gods create Terra, large quantities of their power were lost, alongside their energy, and they had fallen asleep almost immediately after.

They had originally thought that they would be able to recover after waking up through the worship of living beings, but that wasn't exactly the case… they indeed got power, but not as much as other Gods that had recommended them to make a world said.

This caused discord and desperation by some Gods, which also caused fights, blaming each other for their rash decisions.

This is how both of them ended fighting against other Gods, mostly defending themselves than anything… Thineas was almost given for death by Abraddon, who always watched over her sleep, while Abraddon was slowly weakened by the wound that didn't completely recover yet.

But since Frank came to this flawed world where the Gods themselves had committed more mistakes than their very creations, is when things stabilized… albeit after a bit of brawling.

But now, Hades noticed these two gods who had become way healthier and even livelier than before.

After months of using Frank's System to nurture their Souls, they had acquired a large amount of power, leveling up, changing Jobs, and gaining Skills and Titles.

Like this, their souls grew bigger, with the boost of stats and the law-breaking power of Frank to drain energy from what he killed which the System named "EXP".

Even Gods could benefit from this, and not only Thineas and Abraddon but also Zudithe and Judith, who were becoming way better at their own attributes thanks to Skills and Spells used by the System giving them the power to skip conjurations and more.

Hades was leveling too, but at a slower pace as he needed to mostly pay attention to his job here… Nonetheless, hope began to blossom in the non-existent heart of the old God, who believed that even these Gods who were so weakened before might be of some help against the Demon King and the even worse threat, the Watchers.

"Hades, how are things going?" asked Thineas.

"Oh, everything is okay for the moment… Though, have you sensed it?" asked Hades.

"Ah… yes, the miasma…" sighed Abraddon.

"I wonder if we should try to do something…" said Thineas.

"Hm… Not yet. Frank should be capable of handling this. And as we are now, we shouldn't go down, the transmigration cycle might destabilize if we do," said Hades.

"You're right… let's trust Frank…" said Abraddon.

"As we always do!" said Thineas.

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