The training field lay silent under a sky smeared with ash-gray clouds. Jack Swei stood alone, sweat carving rivers through the dust on his skin. Before him, holographic runes flickered—a blood-red interface only he could see:
**[System Alert]** **Name:** *[Jack-Swei]*
**[Strength: V2●●●○○]** **[Speed: V2●○○○○]** **[Flame: V2●●●●○]** **[Sun: V3●●●○○]**
A voice thrummed in his skull, deep and resonant, like molten gold poured over iron. *"Listen well, Jack."* Helios—the Sun God—spoke not from the heavens, but from within. *"The boy... Nio. His power reeks of* ***wrongness***."
Jack clenched his fists. Embers sparked between his knuckles. "You've mentioned that already, *oh divine one*. Dark element. So what? Every mage's energy has a flavor—"
*"Do not mistake rot for spice."* Helios's voice turned colder than lunar shadow. *"His darkness isn't mere 'elemental affinity'. It... twists. Writhes. As though something* ***alive*** *feeds him those shadows. And what dwells in the abyss, Jack? What crawls where my light cannot reach?"*
Jack froze. The training dummy ahead—charred and skeletal—suddenly seemed to leer. "You're saying he's... connected to *them*? The Underworld gods?"
*"Hades."* The name slithered through his mind, and the air thickened, sulfurous. *"Lord of Rot. Keeper of the Unseen Gate. But no—your flesh-bound friend isn't his herald. Mortals who bargain with Death's pantheon don't* ***walk*** *among the living. They become puppets. Hollowed-out husks draped over decay."*
"Then what's wrong with Nio?" Jack's flames died. His pulse drummed against his ribs.
For a heartbeat, silence. Then—laughter. Bitter, crackling laughter that singed the edges of his thoughts. *"Stupid child. Do you still not grasp the* ***rules*** *?"*
The System interface flickered violently. New text bled across the holograms:
**[Cosmic Law – Trifold Realms]** **[Heavenly Domain]** – *Lords of Light, Sky, Order.*
**[Mortal Veil]** – *Fleeting lives; clay to be shaped.*
**[Abyssal Chasm]** – *Rot's cradle. No soul returns intact.**
Helios's voice dropped to a searing whisper. *"Realms do not mingle. The dead do not breathe. The damned do not laugh beside you in daylight. Yet this...* ***Nio***—*his shadow-cloak reeks of the Chasm. But his heart beats. His lungs draw air. A paradox. An* ***abomination*** *stitched together by forces even I cannot name."*
Jack stumbled back. The training field blurred. "So... he's not human? Not... alive?"
*"Oh, he breathes."* The god's tone curdled with disgust. *"But borrow a corpse's shroud long enough, and the rot seeps in. Watch him, Jack. When he thinks no one sees—does his shadow* ***ripple*** *? Do his eyes flicker blacker than void? And ask yourself... what pact did that wretched boy forge to claw his way back from Death's maw?"*
Wind howled. The holograms shattered into crimson ash.
In the silence, Jack realized two things:
1. His hands were trembling.
2. Nio stood at the field's edge, smiling softly—a crescent moon of a smile that didn't touch his blood-red eyes.
"Yo, Jack!" Nio waved, his shadow stretching too long, too sharp behind him. "Ready for sparring?"
Helios's final warning sizzled like a brand:
***"Do not turn your back to that thing."***
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Sorry I'm late but I was thinking about Jack and how to add him to the chapter and fix it because I don't know much about Helo🔥s so I went and I was looking to search for him and in the end I decided to play God of War to know some details about him well it was kind of good shape and the game and I had to collect some things about the god of the underworld but it turns out that there is the god of death of the underworld and the god of death Thanatos I don't understand what the benefit is here Assassin there are 2 gods of death how did this happen
Note: 🔥Helos, the sun god, doesn't know anything bad about Severia or the world's system. He only knows the gods in the sky and the gods of the underworld, so naturally he doesn't know Neo's power.
] Thank you Daoisto6BHPW ❤️🔥]