Reborn As Hades In Olympus

Ch. 159: The Flow Of Change (IV)

Planning a big fight was something I had no experience in so it took me a while to fit into the role. I still had yet to release my full power so I could not tell if I was stronger than Poseidon.

Planning everything with Talos was a lot of work, Hecate's goal to find a cure proved more successful than I expected. Anok talked, I guess she must have been more persuasive than I thought.

With the help of Hermes and Aphrodite we were able to come up with relevant facts, facts Talos was able to put together to give us a conclusion.

Apparently the convention organized by Hermes used Pandora as the face of its latest brand. The crowd would be magnanimous and with it they would infect everyone with the black amber. With the type of chemicals we found them shipping out we came to the conclusion that they would convert all the black amber to a rain cloud of black amber. This was beyond the normal scope of what I had envisioned.

There would be some big shot gods there which Apollo had invited, I was also invited. The circle planned to infect all the gods and me with the poison, weakening us enough so we would not pose a threat to his agenda.

Apollo would get what he always wanted, the goddess of love. Poseidon would rule Olympus but Pandora was the one was the one I was most cautious of, she could possibly have a agenda even bigger than the circle's.

We still had a problem if we would have to face her without touching her.

Artemis was still hooked up to the life support apparently she had more than a lot taken from her. Thinking to the full efficiency of my alliance, and their combat power. I would have to take care of Poseidon since he was the most dangerous threat, I had seen his power first hand but Pandora was also an unstable catalyst. I could not possibly take them both at once.

Fighting them one at different time intervals would too much for me. Perhaps Hermes could face her wine he would be fast enough to avoid being getting cursed by her.

Throu the week I tried to mobilize as many as I could to throw the convention into chaos on the said day. The time was drawing closer and closer, the time I had to train myself became very little for me.

"Hey, you're not sleeping yet." Talos called to we as she walked towards the fridge and came back with two cans of soda she tossed one over to me which I caught swiftly.

"You're one to talk." I gave her a reassuring smile. "Thanks anyway."

She wore a light black singlet and a boxer, she sat on the table, her skin glowing on her thighs. I could see her boobs poking the soft fabric of the singley, now that I thought back to it did she really wear bras. And there I was getting distracted again.

"You haven't slept in three days champ, you know the day after tomorrow is the showdown. We are going to need you rested and at full power since you're the one who'll take down Poseidon." She said before opening the can and taking huge gulps of it's chilly contents. Her eyes reflected the low light from the bulb above, her hair flowing down her back, the parts uneven and rough.

Not wanting to be rude I opened the can and took a gulp and instantly felt my stomach grumble for more, instinctively I emptied the can faster than I thought, squeezing the can in the process. It was after I was done with it that I realized how foolish I must have looked but Talos being the ever quiet one just looked at me, her eyes reflecting the innocence I found annoying about her.

"I don't know how things were from when you were a mortal but even gods need their sleep." She said shortly after I was done with the soda.

After I kept silent for a while and went back to the work I was on initially which was a piece of the map of the convention center taken by one of Hephaestus' drones. A book flipped all the way to the middle where I had run my simulations in ink.

"What is up with you? Even I sleep when I work, at least short naps this is just too much." She spoke again. "Can you do visualizations?"

I tried to plot the best possible course of action in case of any mishap. I would plan as much as I could to prevent the death of anyone else.

"Visualize this, you walking over a Poseidon beaten to a pulp. Me putting a bullet in Pandora, our alliance saving the world. You guys can take all the glory for it but I doubt you would, as for me I--"

Before she could finish I interrupted her. "Someone will die in the final battle. I have this feeling, I have to plan this out in case of any possible casualty."

Talos' eyes darkened as she spoke. "I never thought I would ever be whole, I had no reason to believe I could ever understand the emotions of others but meeting you changed that. You can't predict the every move of your opponents and I'm sure you know that. Just as we know only a portion of their plan have you stopped to think of the advantage Imyou hae over them?"

I paused for a moment and looked over at her but her eyes were not on me but on the body of Artemis lying dormant on the bed next to the life support.

"The circle don't know of you, your plans or of the dark pantheon. Unlike them who are moved by their own personal objectives we serve a similar goal, mostly revenge but we also want a better world and we want to repay you for what you have done to us. The alliance is the biggest wedge in their plans and they don't even know about it." Was she trying to cheer me up now? How noble.

I sighed.

"Just say something already." Her voice held a tinge of annoyance.

I opened my mouth to speak but closed it after choosing not to. My attention diverted to my work for a moment before saying. "Something else?"

She dropped down on the table, her back pressing down her weight on it. She looked into my eyes and said. "You must have thought that was very funny pulling off that stunt. I have a question to ask."

This time I could not refuse. "Well ask away, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon."

She nodded gently and said. "What are you going to do after all this?"

Had I really thought of that? "I dunno, managed the underworld some more. Perhaps some excursion and exploratio. Things might be even more quiet than I hoped for."

"So you will have a lot of free time then, good." She said.

I raised an idea. "And why is that?"

She locked eyes with me in a gently gaze. "Because you are going to go on a date with me. I haven't been in one of those before. I never had any reason to."

"That's strange coming from you." I responded.

She looked away and then at the roof. "They say you should go out with those you like and I like you— I think. So let's go out and have some fun after all this work."

She really did act the way I never expected.

"Well..... Yeah!" I justified her offer.

The rest of that was silent till she fell asleep, I carried her to her room as gently as I could and set her down to sleep even further. Throughout the night I stayed up working and by the time I had cracked the code and achieved a way to keep all the civilians safe. All that was left was to have as short a nap as I could.

I went to my room on the last day before the battle, leaving every to Talos to take care off. I also tha ked her for the night before, her company helped clear my mind the previous night.

The short nap I had intended on taken got prolonged and I ended up sleeping for much longer but was the most relaxing sleep I had in a while. By the time I woke up I was much more refreshed than I had ever hoped to be, the total time I slept for was 18 hours. It had been surprised.

But the day was finally around the corner, I gathered the alliance again together at the same location as our first meeting for a brief assessment. Madame Perisa was added to the roundtable as a temporary member.
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