She helped establish the Eternal Council, an organization meant to maintain order and bring peace to all creations.

Life was good.

Until she destroyed everything.

After returning from an unknown location, she changed. No one knew what she saw. No one knew what happened to her.

She went insane.

She killed. She destroyed. She devoured.

She ate all of Hades' siblings. Her children she had created with her own hands. Children she once loved.

Hades met the same fate.

Her hand closed around his head. Her fingers pressed into his skull. Her thumbs dug into his eyes.

Pain exploded through him.

"Mo-Mother… why? Please… stop. Please."

"Child," she said calmly, almost gently. "I'm doing this for your own good. We should all die."

"W-what?"

"This world is doomed. We are nothing but puppets. Instead of living in a world like this and suffering for eternity, isn't it better if you die early?"

That was Hades' last memory of the First Eon.

He woke up in the Second Eon.

He was confused, and disoriented.

The pain was gone, but the memory lingered.

As he explored the world, he learned several things.

First, the First Eon had ended. Everything there was buried forever.

Second, people with the same faces were born again, but they were not the same individuals. Sarah existed in the Second Eon, but she was not the Sarah from First Eon.

Third, witches and demons could survive the end of an Eon.

Fourth, his Singularity—Undeath—would not let him die, even when an Eon ended.

In the First Eon, Hades had despised that Singularity.

It wouldn't let him die.

Now, for the first time, he was grateful for it.

"I need to find out what happened to Mother," he said to himself.

As he searched for the Mother of Dragons, he came across countless people who were suffering.

Not just because of the rampage of the Mother of Dragons that was still happening, but because of unfortunate life.

Hades served them, he helped them, he tried to bring justice to them.

Just like that, he kept growing stronger, and helping others.

[The Judge]

That's what they began to call him.

Hades continued to grow stronger and was eventually strong enough to contend against his mother.

He was able to stand on par with such an impossible situation because he trained like a mad dog.

He went through brutal battles, using his Singularity to the fullest, suffering countless times to grow stronger.

And finally, he was able to match up to Mother of Dragons.

After causing the destruction of the 2nd and 3rd Eon, she had stopped her rampage, knowing no matter how much destruction she caused, it wouldn't be enough.

Hades kept her in check while looking for the reason why she had gone insane.

He finally found the unknown location she had entered in the 1st Eon, from where, on returning, she was already insane.

"Hope Elemental World. I heard those who enter it can gain unknown powers. But no one has gone insane like Mother."

Hades had tried questioning people about what was inside that world, but none of them remembered it.

Finally, he decided to enter the Hope Elemental World himself—

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Hades returned from the Hope Elemental World.

He looked at his hands.

His gaze, that once shone bright and held endless determination, had dimmed.

"Cruelty. I need the [Fate] of Cruelty."

Hades clenched his fist.

"Even destroying a single Eon wouldn't be enough. I need to cause more destruction. Yes, destroying the entire Cosmos should be enough to get me the [Fate] of Cruelty."

But that was easier said than done.

Even Mother of Dragons couldn't do it.

Hades kept searching for a method to destroy the Cosmos.

Unlike the Mother of Dragons, who had gone insane, he still had his sanity, but the two of them now shared the same goal.

In the meantime, Hades kept doing good deeds and judging evil as always.

[Cruelty] would only appear when he gained a large amount of negative karma.

And doing good deeds gave him positive karma.

However, negative and positive karma did not cancel out each other.

So no matter how many good deeds he did, he would gain the [Fate] of Cruelty upon destroying the Cosmos.

Thus, he decided to act like normal until he found a method to destroy the Cosmos.

As Hades kept searching for the method, he realized it was not possible.

"If it's not possible with my own power, I need to use someone else's power."

Hades began to look for a being, one who had immense talent and would eventually surpass Hades.

Hades would use him to destroy the Cosmos.

This being would gain the [Fate] of Cruelty, but since Hades was the Judge, he could take the negative karma of others and planned to take the negative karma of the being and gain the [Fate] of Cruelty for himself.

Hades' research led him to create the Womb of Devil, through which he created a Devil with his blood.

Hades' research had been a success.

He saw the child on the ground, and immediately recognized the immense potential slumbering within him.

'I succeeded. My research succeeded.'

'Finally, I can reach my goal.'

Hades was happy.

Until he saw the boy's eyes.

The child was looking around the room with fearful eyes, and finally, when he looked at Hades, there was hope in his eyes.

Hope that this person was his guardian.

It was an instinctive reaction.

One that was carried from Hades' blood.

Hades was immediately reminded of his own mother.

Of how much he had loved her.

Of how he had cried when she committed atrocities, ate his siblings, and him.

And…

Hades was going to treat this child the same way.

He would force the child to commit atrocities and finally destroy everything.

The child that looked at the world with pure eyes. The same child that was looking at him, wondering if he was his… parent.

"It's a failure."

Hades didn't understand why he said those words himself.

The experiment was a success.

This child could fulfill Hades' dream. The dream he had been harboring for four eons.

But at the moment, all Hades felt was disgust.

With himself.

With the fact that he wanted to corrupt such a pure child.

He left the room as soon as he could.

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