77: Son

20 years passed by and Klein could finally relax, no longer wishing to destroy every living creature or having the urge to kill or destroy something made his life much more peaceful! The winter was still here, sometimes it would be gone, but it always returns worse than before... Klein met some 'mortals' as well as developing his very own divinity. How do you develop a divinity? Well, first off you need to know how to manipulate Divine Energy, second of all you need to let the energy reflect your soul, your body, and your mind, and that reflection is your divinity. But that's not the only way to get a divinity, one of the ways Klein has done was absorbing the divinity out of God into yourself. When Erebus attacked him, his [Omnipotent Powers: Absolute Adaptability (O)] adapted to the divine energy together with Erebus's divinity, absorbing his divinity and divine energy at the same time.

And of course, you can make your divinity yourself.

Also... No, Erebus still has his Darkness Divinity, but he is weaker than ever, Klein was able to have every single ability he had in his dignity in greater scales since his [All Mighty Powers: Divine Energy Manipulation] was a higher level than Erebus's.

His Divinity was deeply related to him... He got the Divinity of Slaughter, and he did not only had one Divinity... No! He had:

[Abilities Registered:

[All Mighty Powers: Divine Energy Manipulation FFF→FF→F→E→D→C→B→ (A)]

[Enchantment: Slaughter Divinity FFF→FF→F→E→D→C→B→A→ (S)] (New)

[Enchantment: Gruesome Death Divinity FFF→FF→F→E→D→C→B→A→ (S)] (New)

[Enchantment: Destruction Divinity FFF→FF→F→E→D→C→B→A→S→ (SS)] (New)

Please have a nice day.]

Klein discovered soon enough that Divinities are but an enchantment, they make already strong attacks stronger. Take Zeus as an example, if he uses any ability that is not related to the sky, then it will be weaker than ever! However, if he uses any ability related to the sky, then it will be stronger than normal! It doesn't apply to every divinity, but most of them are enchantments that you can use with Divine Energy to produce different effects. Persephone can use her Divinity to channel Divine Energy in the earth below her and make her garden resist the harsh winter with ease, this is something incredible.

Klein didn't slack of as you can see, every Divinity comes in the (FFF) rank, and for it to be acceptable for Klein, they needed to be at least (S) rank! His [Destruction] Divinity is (SS) because of his affinity with it, that's another thing about Divinities and why gods don't go around stealing Divinities from others... Because of affinity, if you don't have an affinity to a Divinity it won't make you stronger but it will make you weaker. And every single God has a great divinity only related to their first divinity! Like Ares, the God of War would have an affinity with the divinities of Slaughter, Pain, Discord, Anger, and even Strenght which is Hercules Divinity. When a God takes another Divinity for themselves, they acquire what is called 'Sub Divinity' while your stronger divinity is you 'Main Divinity' the others are your sub divinities.

Gods are complicated.

Anyway, after he got his [Destruction] Divinity, which is the one he has the most affinity to, he acquired both [Gruesome Death] and [Slaughter] as his sub divinities. Klein got to feel again after 15 years, which made him smile and laugh with Persephone a lot. Their friendship grew and Persephone even told him about some things about Olympus while Klein told her about what he knew of other dimensions and worlds, which fascinated Persephone a lot. They even discussed the Underworld, Persephone go on and on about Cerberus and the fields of Elysium... How Orpheus would sing his songs, even though sounding always sad, and how she would go to Asphodel to get news in Eurydice for Orpheus, which always brightened his day. She always wanted to break the contract Orpheus had with Hades, but she couldn't, which was one of her regrets.

She also told him the little she knew of the Titans Fall or Titanomachy, what her mother would tell her about how great Zeus was... How great Poseidon was... Every time she would talk about Hades, her tone would change and she never called him great once. Klein could tell Persephone still loved Hades a lot and he could guess why she left the Underworld and he just supported his friend's decision. As the wind blew, Klein spotted something approaching the garden, he squinted his eyes as he saw a young man approach the garden and walk towards them. This young man was not mortal as Klein could feel the Divine energy in his body, but also the decaying life force that was being sucked by the earth below every second. He approached the standing still Persephone, as she said: "Who are you? You are trespassing private property."

The young man, with black hair and heterochromatic eyes, looked at Persephone and asked: "Are you perhaps... Persephone?" Persephone tilted her head, and asked: "And who might you be?" Just then Klein noticed that the young man had a sword with him, Klein got ready to fight if necessary. "My name is Zagreus... And I think I might be your son."

The silence following this was awkward, Persephone's face morphed from confusion to sadness, to anger: "How dare you!? Leave! Get out, out with you!" Klein could easily tell that Persephone was hurt by the mention of her probably deceased Son, which was understandable, Klein doesn't like to mention Zagreus to Persephone because it makes her sad. "I am completely serious... I-" The young man, now known as Zagreus, coughed blood into his hand and looked at it in confusion. "Anyway, I am you son! Why did you leave me? Why did you leave father? Why did you leave the underworld?" His questions were answered by a crying Persephone: "Zagreus...? My son! He even kept your name! Oh my boy!" Persephone hugged him tightly while Klein smiled towards her, enjoying his evening tea. "I have so many questions! You survive? How did you survive? Why no one told me you survived?"

Zagreus mailed kindly and his so ever calm voice said to her: "I did mother. Nyx saved my life... Or rather, gave me life... After I died, she brought me back." Persephone looked at Zagreus's feet to see it red hot like the metals in Hephaestus's forge. "Oh, they're kinda cool actually... I never get cold feet." He chuckled at his joke, his chuckle turned into a cough, and soon the cough became a throwing up session. Persephone soon knew what was happening, Zagreus said: "I'm fine... Must have been the weather, is rather cold up here..." Klein shook his head while Persephone said: "Oh Zagreus... You can't stay..." Zagreus looked at her with shock, asking in a slightly trembling voice: "Are you kicking me out, mother?"

Persephone shook her head, saying: "You can't stay up here for long... In the world of the living... Just like your father." Zagreus's face became grim, pale white, as he said: "I'm sorry mother... I... Be... Back." As his words were getting slower, the light in his eyes faded and suddenly his body melted into a red liquid that resembled blood and was absorbed by the earth, quite fast. Like that, Persephone's son was gone.