The world cried.

A strong blast of wind blown away the rubble and dirt. Heavy rain washed away the bloods that were spilled in the ground.

Accompanied by a huge thunderstorm, the surrounding scenery was squashed and distorted.

Lying on the ground, bathed on his own blood, Hein’s body suddenly started to burn.

Seeing him like this, Flora and Iona began to cry once again.

Flora even tried to recklessly put out the fire with her bare hands, completely ignoring the scalding pain.

— This was after all, the most important man in her life! Even if Hein was covered with the hottest flames in the world, she still wouldn’t let him go.

She wanted to hug Hein but the collapsing burned limbs pass through her hand and became fine particles of ash.

Looking at his face, Flora’s heart couldn’t help but trembled.

In there, there were no signs of anxiety, sadness, pain, sorrow—what she could only see was an innocent yet frivolous and unrestrained face, as if sleeping peacefully, his mouth turned into a beautiful smile.

Still the same, nothing changed.

She could only watch helplessly, his appearance and attitude that doesn’t even change even a little bit since they part that very day.

Hence, she could only kiss the air.

It was the only thing she could do in his disappearing body.

Although hot and scorched, Flora kissed his lips that taste like burned sweet fruit.

But this fruit, for her, was the sweetest and the most valuable fruit that she would certainly sacrifice everything just to acquire it…

When their lips separated, the handsome man whom she had yearned for day and night and could not simply forget had already vanished … leaving only a pile of grey ash.

Flora embraced the ashes tightly in her arms, sobbing uncontrollably.

Flora raised her head to look up to the sky and screamed in sorrow.

The sound of her voice echoed between heaven and earth, persisting for a long time.

Hatred and anger burned in her eyes, as she bellowed towards the sky.

An ill wind seemed to pass as her heart immediately turned incomparably cold, seemingly engulfed in chilliness.

Without warning, her divine power suddenly erupted as she felt a burst of heat in her head.

…then, she stood up and glared at Hades in extreme hatred.

— —

Amidst the heavy rain, standing nonchalantly was Hades with Cerberus and Orthros beside him.

In front of him were two beautiful girls looking at him with two teary eyes filled with hatred.

With a boom, Flora kicked off the ground, shooting herself towards him.

“Aaaaa!!”

Her throat trembled.

“AaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhHHHHH!!!”

As if the sky shook in sorrow.

“AaaaaaaaaahhhhhhHHHHH!!!”

As if the ground roared in sadness.

Numbing her brain, trying to wear herself down. Flora released her deepest emotion as her tears joined with the rain dripping on her beautiful face.

The emotions that she had hidden inside her finally erupted like a volcanic eruption. At this moment, Flora already cast away her earthly form and activated her [ Divinity ].

– She was now a Goddess of Nature, not the Queen of Dryads.

— —

Although the furious Flora had not lost her reason completely, but her state of mind has only focused in killing Hades.

Her eyes were now dyed red in anger, hatred, sadness, sorrow and many others complicated emotions that were swelling up inside her.

“How dare you!”

Her beautiful face dampened in tears.

“How dare you how dare you how dare you how dare you how dare you how dare you”

Flora raised her arms and in an instant, dozens of huge wooden stake shimmering in gold appeared above it as she killed the distance between her and Hades in a flash.

Hades looking at her seemed amused as his mouth turned into a sneer.

With a wave of his hand, a dozen of dark spear appeared it and shot it towards her.

Booom!

The dozen of wooden stakes and the dark spears collided in the air, making a deafening explosion.

Seeing this as the signal of a new battle, Iona kicked the ground and flew forward, standing in the way of the two huge dogs.

Gritting her teeth in hatred and sadness, Iona cast away her sorrowful emotions as she faced the two huge dogs, wanting to kill them.

However, it was still a disadvantage; two vs. one with an overwhelming difference in physiques.

Cerberus and Orthros split up to the right and left and made a pinching movement from the sides.

Closing the distance, Orthros came at Iona with its fangs and Cerberus with its claws. A combined attack from the side and top.

Normally, the only available option would be to dodge while retreating but…

“Die!”

Along with an angry shout, Iona leaped forward.

She headed for the right leg of Orthros.

She closed the distance in an instant and when she was close enough to reach it with her hands; she then enveloped her fist with her flames and swung it on Orthros head.

“For my MASTERRRRRRR!!!”

With a roar, Orthros received Iona’s burning fist sending it flying, piercing through two or three houses in its way.

Cerberus who was approaching from the right changed its course as it jumped and dived at her with full force, raising its sharp claws towards Iona’s head.

The impact of its jump hollowed the ground, making a crater.

Clang! With a metallic sound, the claw was repelled. The ferocious attack of Cerberus had been fended off by a red fiery wall that Iona had set up previously. She then held up her right hand towards it.

“DIE!!!”

At the same time she declared it, a red ball of light shot from her hand and hit Cerberus huge body directly.

Boom!

After the explosion, the guardian of Hell; Cerberus was sent flying, just like Orthros crashing towards a couple of houses.

“AaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHhhhHhhHH!!!”

Letting out her frustration and sadness once more, she screamed her heart out towards the gloomy and crying sky and then fell on her knees lifelessly while weeping. The tears that fell down from her cheeks didn’t stop for a while.

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“WHY HADES?! WHY DID YOU KILL HIM?!! I… I already separated myself from you selfish gods. Why? ANSWER ME!! HADES!!!”

Releasing a roar like a crying voice wet with tears, Flora continued to shot wooden stakes and poisonous vines.

With every step she took, flowers and plants grew under her feet but all of them didn’t bloom, no, they lay in the ground lifelessly as soon as they grow.

It’s as if they too were crying on sadness, mourning in sorrow for the lost love.

A very fantastic yet gloomy phenomenon.

Looking at her, Hades sneered in amusement.

“Well, actually I didn’t expect for you to be here, Chloris~ specially, for you to actually care for him like this, that’s rather… unexpected. You who hated the gods and live in seclusion, discarding your identity as a Nymph who governs Nature, caring for him like this…”

“Don’t call me Chloris! Hades! My name is Flora! And you, you are responsible for it! You and your kins—especially your brothers; Poseidon and Zeus, always killing and destroying nature; my beloved children and family just for what? Your own amusement!?

With your meaningless earthquakes and undead servants walking around, corroding everything around them; destroying all trees, soil and living things that will make contact to it! And now… now even Hein…”

Flora’s tears flowed down relentlessly, like a pearl necklace with its string cut.

Hades hissed, “Oh come on, didn’t we told you that it’s always an accident? Besides its all Gaea’s fault you know, she’s always annoying.”

Hades said while waving her right hand.

“But if you said you hated the gods, what about that ‘Fool’ isn’t he also a god or no, a titan? Anyway, he can still be considered a minor deity at least if not then you can refer him as a celestial being~”

“What? What do you mean?! Hein is neither a god nor a titan, he’s a mortal! A [World Jumper] from another world!”

“Ah, I see you didn’t know~” Hades mused.

“Well, can’t be helped he still haven’t regained his real self right now, though he’s already dead~ He is… no, he was Epimetheus; one of the titans. He’s the son of good old Iapetus and Clymene. That trickster, Prometheus, beloved brother along with Atlas and Menoetius… Do you remember now?”

Flora, hearing his words couldn’t help but allow a complicated look appears in her eyes.

“Epimetheus? B-Big sister Pandora’s husband?” Flora’s heart was swayed.

“That’s impossible! Hein is a human, an ordinary human! His body, I mean aside from him being a [World Jumper], his body have no trace of [Divinity] that we deities, celestial beings and mythological existence has! So he can’t be him! Even if a deity like us died, we will always reborn a deity not a human! Similar to that, even if he’s a titan, when he’ll reborn again he will stay as a titan!”

A hint of smile could be seen on the lips of Hades; he looked at her and said,

“Yeah, actually there’s a very long explanation for that. He was really the well famed Clown of the Gods, the ‘Fool'” Hades then counted everything while stroking his chin as if he found it quite nostalgic.

“When his brother Prometheus tricked Zeus at Mecone for the humans and then stole the fire to give it to them, Zeus was really enraged. Hahaha really, Zeus face at that time was too priceless. I remember him blowing his fuse while striking the world with his thunderbolt while screaming, hahaha…

Anyway, he punished that trickster by chaining him to a rock; you know very famous event~ well, his brother Epimetheus who loved his brother so much, objected Zeus. Thus, Zeus also punished him by throwing him to the mortals reincarnating him as a human, becoming the son of David… yeah, the famous king of Israel, Solomon.

As an immortal, his soul wouldn’t die but his body could for he was cursed by Zeus to become a mortal despite being a titan, in conclusion he’s a human but a very special one. He could regain his [Divinity] but he will start as a mortal, so even if he has [Divinity] his body is that of a mere mortal he would never become like us, immortals.

Only his soul will repeat the same cycle, he could age and die and then reborn as a human once again, losing his [Divinity] once again…. same cycle anyway a very harsh punishment.”