Chapter 44: Pandora!
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Haru focused his attention on the peculiar water droplet.
He distinctly remembered slaying only one Heretic God – the Heavenly Emperor. So, where did this droplet, brimming with divine power, originate?
"Egg, scan my body," Haru commanded, suspecting he might be under the influence of an Authority or some unknown effect. How else could a divine object enter his body without him noticing?
As expected, the egg detected a faint, foreign energy lurking within his soul. Haru, alarmed, immediately ordered the egg to annihilate it.
Memories surged into his consciousness…
So that's it! That energy was from the Netherworld. Because the Netherworld is a realm of spirits, the spirit holds precedence there. Memories experienced there are etched into the spirit. Naturally, when I return to my physical body, my material brain lacks those memories, resulting in a memory gap.
With Netherworld energy carrying the memories, when the soul re-enters the Netherworld, the energy would merge with it, and the memories would resurface. But I have the egg to protect me. It annihilated that energy and transmitted the memories back to me.
He remembered being kissed in the Netherworld! By Pandora.
Pandora had bitten her tongue, drawing blood, and then, using the only method that could affect a Godslayer – ingestion – had transferred her blood to him.
The transfer process had taken a long time, almost an hour.
His bloodline had been completely altered.
Then, a golden-haired beauty, more alluring than any other woman, with a charmingly childlike face and physique, had kissed the scum Haru. What would be the consequences?
He couldn't control himself and had forced himself on her…
By the time he realized it, it was already over…
"Why… why didn't you resist?" Scum Haru asked the goddess in his arms.
"Eh? Why should I resist? Isn't this a sign that Haru-chan likes me?" The golden-haired loli goddess, Pandora, responded with a blank stare.
"Is… is that so? Then, how about another round?" Haru, receiving such a strange response due to their different values, continued down the path of scumbaggery.
"Okay! As many times as you want! Mama loves Haru-chan the most!" Pandora's cheerful tone was like adding a heart symbol at the end of her sentence.
The unique perspective on relationships held by the Greek Gods had benefited the current scum Haru.
Their pleasure continued until Haru was expelled from the Netherworld.
"If possible, please don't fight the Earth Mother Goddess. It would be too cruel for Mama to be killed by her child…" Pandora's final words echoed in his ears as Haru slapped his forehead.
Damn, I'm getting further and further down the path of depravity. After my little sister, now my foster mother? Why did the thought excite him so much? Scum Haru ultimately accepted the truth of his scumbag nature.
"Hmm?" Haru noticed something amiss in his memories. When he forced himself on Pandora, she had bled…
Are you kidding me? The Mother of Gods actually bled like that?
"Egg, annihilate Pandora's blood, then apply the benefits to me. Most importantly, this time I want to review all the information." Haru, true to his habit of consulting the egg when confused, sought its guidance.
As Pandora's blood essence naturally contained information about her entire life, Haru had previously chosen to receive only the rules deduced by the egg and block out the specific information, except for the first time he had slain the Unruly Tsukuyomi.
But this time, it seemed he needed to delve into that information to find answers.
The egg activated the Dirac Sea, completely annihilating Pandora's blood essence.
Pandora was the first woman in Greek mythology, crafted from clay by Hephaestus. As punishment for Prometheus stealing fire, she was presented to humankind as the first woman.
But this was merely her fallen form. While clay was the material used, clay originated from the earth. Therefore, it could be argued that Pandora was created using the primordial Earth Mother Goddess as the raw material.
Furthermore, in the various stories of Gaia in Greek mythology, there was a phrase attributed to her: "The earth is the mother of all things, and stones are my bones."
Therefore, Pandora's prototype could be considered Gaia, one of the oldest Earth Mother Goddesses.
The information confirmed this point:
The primordial Earth Mother, who once ruled over the gods, was defeated by Uranus, the first-generation King of Gods, symbolizing the rise of male dominance.
Mythology was rewritten, and Gaia was reduced to being Uranus' wife. However, the fallen Gaia refused to accept her fate and meticulously planned a rebellion, manipulating Cronus to defeat Uranus, making him the second-generation King of Gods. Gaia, in turn, ascended further, becoming the Mother of Gods.
But the good times didn't last. Male dominance reached its peak with the emergence of Zeus. He, along with Poseidon and Hades, defeated Cronus and Gaia. After the defeat, Gaia was stripped of her divinity, her wisdom stolen, and she was forced to transform into the earth itself.
The male gods reversed the myth of Gaia creating the gods, turning it into the myth of the gods creating Pandora.
Therefore, Pandora, created from clay and stripped of her wisdom by the gods, was actually Gaia's fallen form.
This was the truth about Pandora.
"So, it was all a marriage in name only? And I'm the one who benefited?" Haru was stunned. This joke was too funny. The Mother of Gods was actually pure. This third-rate game called reality was truly entertaining.
He accepted this reality with a mixture of laughter and exasperation. Regardless, he was the one who had profited the most.
At that moment, the rules contained within Pandora's divine power were continuously analyzed by the egg, eventually being transferred to Haru in the usual manner.
Haru had developed some resistance to this, and he tried to resist, but he couldn't change the egg's strange habits. He watched as the rule runes, shaped like pieces of poop, emerged from the egg's lower region – the equivalent of a human's backside – and slowly fell onto the expanse of rule below.
Looks like I won't be able to argue with anyone who calls me full of shit from now on… Haru looked on in despair as the rules intertwined with his soul.
A new expanse appeared in his mindscape, standing alongside the other four. The Authority – Earth's Message – surfaced in Haru's mind.
*"The ability to manipulate the earth element!"* Haru stared at the newly emerged Authority expanse in his mindscape, lost in thought.
With a flicker, Haru left his soul space.
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