Reborn As Hades In Olympus

Chapter Twenty Three: Cleaning Up Matters

WHAM!

I sent the brains of another one of flying over the floor, my face was half bathed in blood but my eyes were souless.

YOU HAVE COMMITED A EVIL ACT, A NEW TITLE "UNFORGIVING MASTER" HAS BEEN ADDED TO YOUR HONOURS.

THE NEW TITLE HAS RAISED YOUR DOMINATOR'S AURA TO MID LEVEL. SKILL EFFECTS HAS BEEN AMPLIFIED.

YOU HAVE COMPLETED A HIDDEN MAIN QUEST- YOUR CORPORATION IS INFESTED. CLEAN OUT THE TRASH. 2000 DOMINATION POINTS HAVE BEEN AWARDED.

I bashed the poor woman's head in a third time just to feel good enough. This wasn't the first time I had killed before— I remember now. It also had to do with why I was never intimate with my daughter. I was a rising scholar at the time when I met my wife, she made me feel whole. Turns out having a child for me was part of her master plan to seize all of my wealth and property.

She took custody of my daughter and I never saw them again. She manipulated me into attacking someone that broke into our house who turned out to be a close relative of hers. It was all staged. She stole my world from me and I had nothing but my job to be my only foundation, I had to move to get away from the shame though.

But not before paying her relative a visit and putting a knife through his neck. It had me traumatized for weeks on end, I didn't get caught. I learned that taking a life really isn't worth much, you just have to know when to ignore the little voice inside.

In this life, I won't lose a single dime to no one. "Now I'm all sticky." I raised my head and looked at the only two I chose to keep alive for certain purposes.

The one on the left was:

TAURUS: MINOTAUR BORN

LIKABILITY TO HADES- 0

ROLE TO HADES- DIRECTOR OF UNDERWORLD CORP SECURITY

CONFLICT- HATES HADES FOR NOT TAKING THE SECURITY DIVISION SERIOUSLY. WAITING ON SECURITY FUNDS

Now this guy I like, he has a legitimate reason to hate me I guess, but is likeability being a zero means it could tip over at any time but it didn't.

The huge guy was a black bull there times the size of any man I ever saw. He was a nice deep blue uniform with his badges hanging on his chest. His horns were huged and curved inward, his eyes a tiny red ruby and glowed from time to time and on his nose a huge gold ring.

The second person was:

CHARON: ???

LIKABILITY TO HADES- 0

ROLE TO HADES- FERRYMAN AND MANAGER OF RIVER STYX

CONFLICT- NONE.

I rolled my eyes slightly, I guess some guys are just born to hate. If I have to give a brief detail of what my powers currently are and what they do I would say, I could see the race and name of others as well as their likeability for me. By resolving any conflict I increase their likeability thereby allowing me to extract any information I wishes.

"Taurus!" I could not sense a hint of fear from them, it was almost as if they knew I wouldn't kill them. "I will be diverting more funds to you division starting today."

Taurus huffed out deeply.

THE CHARACTER "TAURUS" IS DOUBTING YOUR INTENTIONS.

Well I sort of expected this.

"Hecate, handle the matter. It's a bore to work when I'm dirty." I collected the white napkin she gave to me and whiped my face free off blood. "Also give him as much as he requires not too much though. I trust your judgement."

THE CHARACTER "TAURUS" LIKEABILITY FOR YOU HAS RISEN BY 4.

Wow, have a little faith. Well I didn't do it to make him happy anyway, the tighter the security is the better the chances of securing my money and my life.

Hecate nodded lightly. "And what about Charon, what is your verdict on him."

Charon's work was to act as a ferryman who rowed the shades across the river Styx. Hecate never mentioned him as an offender, still I needed an audience to show that I was no pushover.

"Oh! Hi Charon." I waved at him. "How's it being." He was just a thin bony figure concealed in a black cloak and his hand holding out an oar. "Do you carry that around all the time or is it glued to you?"

Charon did nothing but stand, I wasn't even sure he was breathing. "You are all dismissed, Hecate fill the slots that have all been emptied with capable individuals."

"Yes." She responded with a head bow which the other two followed before leaving the room.

I phoned Marcy to send someone over to clean up the mess. I had fixed the underworld matters for now, my next issue was the coming calamity in seven days time. I had to go over it once more.

For some reason the events of this world are slightly altered from the original, the next big event would be. The APPLE OF DISCORD!!

I stroke my chin as I moved back to my seat and sat down comfortably.

Now I had to do a quick run down of what I know about the calamity.

The apple of discord was a golden apple dropped by Eris, the goddess of strife, at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis in the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris. It sparked a great dispute among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite that eventually led to the Trojan War.

It was a canon even in the myths and now I have to prevent such an inescapable myth from existing? Good thing I love impossible challenges.