Chapter 178: Swimming against the tides (2)

Vardan POV

"PERSEUS, GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"

My skin, my internal organs, everything was unbearable, my eardrums have burst from the constant wailing from everyone else, I screamed for their help, i swam towards them, but they pushed me away.

They ignored me and are all pleading for their lives, I would say it looked pathetic, but I am too, I want to kill myself, but I can't, I'm not strong enough t kill myself, I tried to drown myself, but this urge and desperation to survive would just force me to stay afloat as I swam.

Despite my eardrums bursting earlier and my skin blacked due to the river of fire, I am constantly being healed back to normal and the pain gets worse and worse as I am being healed against my will.

I tried to swim to shore which is just sharp jagged red rocks, this time I made it there and grabbed onto it with all I could muster, but the river would magically create tides to push me back, ripping my hand, I used my hand and stab it with a rock to stick me onto the spot, but my hand just got its flesh torn.

I was showing my most pathetic self, I cried for the help that never came.

But as what I felt gone for hours, I can see the dhampir boy who was in this transformation form where he got the suit and black hair walking on air above me as the tide is pulling me along slowly to match his pace, though it's still strong enough to me it impossible to resist against.

"Perseus, just kill me, take me out of this nightmare!" I pleaded as I muster up my strength to speak

"Nightmare? Wait, you think...huhu...hahahHAHAHAHA." he laughed and continued to do so in my face "You'd think this is an illusion where I should just kill you 'in real life' and this will all go away? I don't think so, fat shithead."

He then use magic to lift me up, parts of the river along with it to constantly swirl around me so I can always be in pain.

"Please, I don't know why I did it? His aura, it was like a succubus, I'll tell you everything that happen, just let me go." I tried my best to quickly talked about my interaction with the charming person with jade green eyes.

"Look around you, where do you think you and all those you plead for help are?" He asked after I finished

I looked around, it was dark, I can't see anything far in the distance, the only sort of light were emitted from the river he was in and lava flowing above the wall, the river of flames were deep in this ravine, but there above the ravine, there was nothing, it's too dark, he know longer have his enhanced vision.

"You are already dead, dumbass." Perseus said

"W-What?"

"I, Perseus Silver, will curse you to this damnation, your soul shall suffer eternal pain, you will swim in the river of phlegethon for all eternity as so you can pay for everything you've done, you shall receive no chance of redemption, by my authority as the prince of Tartarus, I curse you to never reach the field of asphodel much less Elysium, you will desperately swim, you will struggle, and every time you get close, the phlegethon shall pull you back, nothing will be able to save you, mark my words, you will never receive your salvation or see the light of day ever again."

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3rd person POV

"The prince of Tartarus...that's a bit pretentious." Tartarus commented as he watched the astral body of Perseus dropping the damned soul back into the river of flames "I've never gave him that title."

Vardan's body will get injured and it will always be healed back again, but that's what every tormented souls punished with the rive of flames will suffer, though an eternal punishment...that's a rare one.

And as his son, Perseus can directly pull the soul away from the judgement of the underworld and directly to the pit, he can be the judge, jury, and executioner to the soul, Perseus knows he can do it, but he's never done this before, he never wish his enemies such hard punishment.

His sister has and was the one that taught him the technique, the only salvation Vardan had was the fact that his physical body did die a painless death, but it's no use, Vardan will never receive the chance at reincarnation unless the gods were to be the one who deemed Vardan worthy of redemption which was most unlikely.

"He's a sweet person, despite his dark feelings, he hasn't reached his breaking point yet..." Tartarus commented as he stopped spectating all together and leaned back against his throne "That Zeus...he better stop going after Diana, she's the only one who's keeping him sane, if she get killed trough unjust means, Zeus' fear will come true...and the time deities' speculation will come true...Perseus will be the end of everything."

<Luckily Tartarus and I are secretly killing those demigods, it will never reach that point.> Amaterasu thought as she was thinking the same thing when she saw what her son did <Even if we're caught, Zeus broke the rules, and we're only fixing what was broken, no one will be punished...to think it goes both ways, those 2 should have been properly raised, they...they would have been weaker and better.>

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Perseus POV

I made sure to use fire to burn the ghoul's body into a crisp, and used spatial magic to erase the ashes, he can't be used to be studied for the array. I woke up from my hiding spot when I got back into my body after I made sure the guy got whatever he deserved in something worse than hell.

Ares recognized who the person with jade green eyes is...and the story of that ghoul match, I know who the god is, I can't believe it took me this long to connect the dots, can't believe it took me this long to know it's a god even...I'll just get back for now, I need to give those kids a proper burial.