The System Awakens: Rise of the Champion-Chapter 290: Curing The Morrai Sisters

"Is it really okay to let him go just like that, my king?" Hypnos asked, looking up at the demon progenitor.

Hypnos and Thanatos stood to the side, below and in front of the thrones of the king and queen of the Greek Underworld.

Damian was seated upon the king's throne. Beside him stood two additional thrones, as two of his wives were present. He summoned another throne at his other side for Gaia and Demeter to sit upon, while Persephone was struggling to remain seated on Demeter's lap, her face flushed a deep red with embarrassment.

Damian let Hades go, but not before taking away a massive portion of his divinity. In an instant, Hades fell from a god-king level deity to a low-level god, no, even weaker than that. The only things he had left were his life and a tiny fragment of divinity, not even enough to truly call himself a god. For Hades, it would take years just to be considered an actual god again, and several more years beyond that to regain any meaningful power.

After Damian stripped him of the authorities he once possessed as the King of the Greek Underworld, Hades became nothing more than a wandering god. If things were left at that, there was always a chance he could fade into the background, quietly brewing conspiracies, forming plans, or eventually growing into a real threat. But Damian was not going to kill him just because he might become dangerous in the future. As much as Demeter wanted Hades dead, Damian had no desire to kill another god, especially after slaughtering dozens of them only days earlier.

At the same time, he wanted to satisfy his wife's wishes.

So he made the best possible choice.

He took away Hades' divinity.

And that was exactly what Damian did.

With the majority of his divinity stripped away, Hades became so weak that even some daemons could now kill him.

Seeing that the Heavenly Son had no intention of ending his life, Hades fled. His expression was twisted with terror and fury, for the threatening gazes directed at him by Demeter and her daughter Persephone were more than enough to make him fear for his life. With his divinity gone, even Demeter, a mother goddess without dominion over any offensive divine concepts, could kill him effortlessly or simply send assassins after him.

It was as if he had signed his own death sentence.

As a proud and powerful god, Hades had made countless enemies throughout his eons of existence. Now that he was no stronger than a newly ascended god, it was only a matter of time before they came for him.

Before Hades was allowed to flee, Damian forced him to kneel, his knees and forehead pressed to the ground before Demeter and Persephone, and made him apologize repeatedly without lifting his head even once. The mother-daughter duo found this deeply satisfying, especially Demeter.

"No worries. He is weak now, and I have also weakened his core connections to his divine concepts, so he won't be able to progress them as fast as he usually could. Plus, I have the system monitoring his every second. If he does something out of place or suspicious, I will be notified." Damian shrugged.

Just then, everyone felt several presences appearing, and moments later, several figures materialized out of nowhere.

Leading the group of gods was Nyx, one of Damian's wives and the goddess of night, darkness, concealment, mystery, and silence. Following her were her children. Other than Hypnos and Thanatos, who were already present, there were Moros, Morpheus, Momus, Oizys, Nemesis, Apate, Philotes, Geras, Eris, and the three Moirai sisters, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.

"Come, my children, greet your father," Nyx said excitedly as she jumped onto Damian, landing on his lap and hugging him like a little child. Her children watched in shock and disbelief as their creator, or what she liked to be called, their mother, latched herself onto the Heavenly Son, the strongest being in the universe, calling him their father. This meant that their mother had married him.

"W-We greet the great Heavenly Son… I-It is a great privilege to be in your presence."

All of them knelt, their heads bowed as they greeted the man seated upon the throne.

They all knew who he was.

He was the man who had wiped out the gods and goddesses of the Norse and Greek pantheons.

He was the man who had forced the strongest god of the lower pantheons, the Heavenly Father himself, to lower his head in subordination.

He was the progenitor of countless races, the being birthed by the Universal Tree itself.

They knew exactly what kind of monstrous and incomprehensible existence he was.

After all, Damian had allowed information about his identity to spread after his slaughter of the Greek pantheon. In the five days that followed, days he spent with his new wives, the news about him spread rapidly. The chatty gods and goddesses he had allowed to live naturally shared what they knew. Some of them had connections with gods and goddesses from other pantheons, so the information spread far faster than expected.

Damian could only sigh at this. Even though he had never stopped them from spreading information about him, it was still surprising just how gossipy some of those gods were.

"There is no need for so much nervousness, fear, and overexaggerated respect. As my wife Nyx said, you are my wife's creations, and so you are my children as well…" Damian said, acknowledging them and allowing them to stand straight.

Of course, although Damian and Nyx called them children, and they called them mother and father, it did not mean they were their actual children. Everyone knew this, including Nyx.

All gods referred to their creations as their children, and Nyx was especially excited about making her "children" call Damian father. It allowed her to imagine what it would be like to truly have children with him, almost as if she were conducting a trial for what would inevitably come in the future.

"M-Mother," Thanatos called out, since his mother still had not acknowledged his or his brother Hypnos's presence in the throne hall.

"Ara~ Thanatos and Hypnos, I was wondering where you two were. I see you have already met your 'father,'" Nyx said, feigning surprise.

"…" Thanatos and Hypnos could only stare at her blankly, completely speechless.

Within a second, the throne hall fell into total silence, broken only by the soft sounds of Nyx kissing her new husband.

"You all can go do your thing. I only wanted to see you. Actually, everyone except the Moirai sisters can leave," Damian said, causing the three sisters, dressed in matching hooded robes, to stiffen in surprise.

Hypnos and Thanatos remained behind, as they lived within the castle.

The three sisters removed their hoods, revealing their faces to the Heavenly Son.

They were identical, like perfect triplets. Each bore features similar to Nyx's, though younger and lacking her mature allure. Black hair, black eyes, and an eerie beauty defined them all.

They were so alike that without considerable godly perception, it would be nearly impossible to tell them apart.

Damian gently lifted Nyx from his lap and stood, placing her back onto the throne. She let out a dissatisfied sigh as he walked toward the sisters, though Damian could distinguish them at a single glance.

From left to right stood Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, the Three Sisters of Fate. Pseudo-goddesses who, for some unknown reason, had never been able to become full-fledged goddesses or make any progress in their divinity.

The sisters felt nervous as the most attractive man in the universe stood before them. Even they, beings who neither needed nor desired relationships, felt an inexplicable attraction toward him.

"Stand still and do not worry," Damian said.

He raised his hand above their heads, palm facing downward. A speck of reddish-purple energy manifested, then began to fall upon the sisters like a gentle drizzle. Yet the moment the droplets touched them, they vanished as if they had never existed.

The sisters did not understand what was happening, but they could tell he meant them no harm. Trusting his words, they remained still.

Using the power of his ability, [Predation], Damian began dissecting their beings without physically harming them, searching for the reason they had been unable to ascend to true godhood and what had been preventing the growth of their divine concepts.

After a few seconds, he opened his eyes.

"I can cure you."

"C-Cure?" Lachesis asked, confused.

"You have been unable to become goddesses, right?" Damian continued. "I found the problem. When my wife Nyx created you, she intended to create a single being. However, creation can be complicated, and she likely made an error during the process."

"The soul she created split into three, forming your separate existences. In short, your souls are incomplete. They should have naturally recombined, but before that could happen, you developed pseudo-divinities and became bound to the domain of Fate."

"That status prevented your souls from completing themselves. If you were to become whole, your status as the Three Fates would disappear, and you would instead become true goddesses of the Greek pantheon."

"To solve this," Damian said calmly, "I simply need to remove the Three Fates system from the Greek pantheon, stripping that status from you. Your souls would naturally recover over time, or I could speed up the process by directly restoring them."

He looked at them quietly.

"What do you say? Should I do it? Or do you wish to remain as the Three Fates?"

The sisters exchanged glances, silently communicating with one another. After a brief moment, they nodded simultaneously.

"We will do as Father says."