Double awakening

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For this chapter, I assume you all know about the double dungeon from Solo Leveling. I was told in a comment that he/she did not like it and that I simply copied the fights from the wiki in JJK. That's why I won't do that here.

So, should you not know what happened during the beginning of Solo Leveling, I will not spoil it too much and I encourage you to go and read either the novel or the manhwa. 

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I also changed the German dialogue. It is now in brackets whenever they speak another language.

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Hein awoke with a gasp. He found himself in a hospital bed with the usual beeping sound announcing his awakening. 

He had just experienced the worst nightmare a human could imagine. However for a god ... it was nothing much. 

That's right. Hades' consciousness had awoken as well. He didn't have a lot of imagination and thought that Hein would work as well as any name. I mean come on, Freund Hein? That was literally the expression for death in German. He could not be more obvious.

And the fact that the people who knew him called him 'Freund Hein', was just funny to him. 

Now what was going on? Well, it was easy. Hades thought about how he could get the powers of Ashborn. And being a human would work but there was no way he would go through the whole being born and baby phase again. 

He had that in the Jujutsu world and was content with that. Taking inspiration from DC's own Darkseid, Hades decided to create a human body for himself that was more of an avatar whom he could fully control. 

That way he could spend the time in a sleep-like state and not worry about the entire childhood again. He made sure to make his avatar as weak as he could, without it dying. How he achieved that was through boundary manipulation. It was like a code that made sure he would find a way to survive in moments when he would die. 

And would you look at that? It really did work. He had experienced the double dungeon, just like Sung Jin-Woo did and gotten the system from the Architect. 

Now it was time for him to grow stronger and show his resolve to Ashborn, so that he may inherit his full power. He could already feel the power he had gained. The system was a fascinating creation. It linked acted as a link between Ashborn and Hein, meaning that each point in his stats, would mean that Ashborn sent more and more power into him, strengthening further. 

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The door to his room opened and a doctor walked in. 

(So you woke up. How are you)

(I feel fine so far. I don't know what exactly happened but I feel better than before. Can you tell me ... what happened with my companions/comrades?)

(I'm sorry to tell you, that you are the only survivor. All the others didn't make it.)

Hein/Hades knew this of course. He was present during the event after all. No matter, he had to keep up appearances. 

After the doctor did all kinds of tests he told Hein that they were going to keep him here for a couple of days, just to make sure he was truly fine. That was no problem for Hein.

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An hour after Hades had woken up, two agents from the Swiss Hunters Association came and wanted to talk to him. He was expecting them and knew that a case such as this would lead to many questions. 

(Good day, Mr Hein. We come from the Swiss Hunters Association and wanted to ask you a few questions.)

(Please, take a seat.)

(Thank you. Mr Hein, you understand that a case such as this is very uncommon and we wish to get a picture of the events that transpired. So if you would please, in your words, tell us what happened.)

(Of course. It was a usual E-rank dungeon for me. I am a very weak hunter and therefore am only able to do those to survive. My contact in the 'Feinschmöker' guild, Heidi hooked me up with this raid and told me it was an 'easy' one. 

The raid up until the boss went as you'd expect. It was an easy time for everyone and after killing the boss, one of us managed to find a corridor that led to a pair of huge doors. Believing it to be a double dungeon the group decided to check it out. What we found was ... terrifying and brutal. The doors closed right after the last of our group had passed ...)

Hades told the entire story. How the big stone statues came alive and started to slaughter them one after the other. How they had to perform a set of tasks and how he thought that at least one of the others would have survived. 

When he finished the two agents looked at him disbelieving. Such a story was hard to believe for them and for good reason. 

(Well Mr. Hein that is quite the tale you tell us. The only problem is that ... none of these stone statues that you told us about could be found. There is nothing inside the room where we found you. The only thing we found was blood and you lying on the altar.)

(What? Nothing else? But that's impossible. I - I swear I'm telling the truth. Please you have to believe me. I could never kill all of those. What for? There is no loot or money to gain from that.)

(Relax Mr. Hein. If you would please put your hand on this mana stone. It can measure your magical power to make sure you are not a false ranker.)

Hein put his hand on the device and they waited for the results. After about 15 seconds the device beeped and then showed a number telling the agents Hein's magical power. 

'5'

(Well then. Mr. Hein, I believe we are done here. What you stated will be taken into account and you are of course not punished for this. I find it very unlikely that an E-ranked hunter with the power of 5 could take out everyone and live to tell the tale. A good day to you.)

'Wow ... a magical power of 5. That is like absolute trash. Thank goodness for boundary manipulation.'

Before Hades could think about it long a screen appeared in front of him. The screen looked just as he remembered from Solo Leveling. It told him that he had unopened messages. 

'Welcome Player. You have agreed to become a player and have been granted the title 'The one who survived doom'.'

'New daily task initiated. Quest to become strong. 

Push-ups: 100

Sit-ups: 100

Pull-ups: 100

Crunches: 100

Run: 10km

Failure to complete the tasks will be punished. Time remaining: 3:07:23'

So there it is. The quests that will make him stronger in this world and slowly grant him the powers of Ashborn. 

Hein didn't waste any time and immediately went to work. It was very hard to do those push-ups and he got tired really quickly. When he designed his avatar he truly made it weak. 

His willpower was still his own though, so he pulled through and managed to do all 400 callisthenics. Now, only running was left and he had to hurry. He only had about 1.5 hours left. And he was dead tired. Hard to imagine that only 400 of those workouts took him 1.5 hours. 

He didn't listen to the nurse telling him that he should not be moving for now. He started running and took a short break whenever he couldn't go on anymore. 

Finally, after a long time, he completed the daily task. 

'Daily task. Time remaining. 00:18:03'

Hades checked his status and thought about where to distribute the three points he got for the completion of the task.

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Status

NAME: HEIN  LV.1

CLASS: NONE

TITLE: THE ONE WHO SURVIVED DOOM

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HP: 100

MP: 10

FATIGUE: 98

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STRENGTH: 10 STAMINA: 10

AGILITY: 10 INTELLIGENCE: 10

PERCEPTION: 10 AP: 3

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PHYSICAL DAMAGE REDUCTION: 0%

MAGICAL DAMAGE REDUCTION: 0%

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For now, Hein put one point into agility, one into strength and the last one into stamina. Balance was what he went for. Although perception and intelligence would not be levelled up for now. He first wanted to be physically strong and be able to escape whenever needed. 

It seemed like his path to becoming the Shadow Monarch was truly beginning. 

Now there was one last thing Hein thought about. His man Sung Jin-Woo would probably start his career as a hunter in a few years. And he just took away his chance to gain power. But he had something special for that. He would help his boy to grow stronger and he had the perfect tool for that: the system that the Architect designed. 

He would not take it with him and give it to Sung Jin-Woo. He would make sure that his mother is cured and help him with gaining money and everything else. That way Hades could leave this world after taking care of the Monarchs and have Sung Jin-Woo protect the earth while he wasn't here. 

There was only one thing left to do. Grow more powerful and that is exactly what he planned to do.