Chapter Twenty: Drive To Work
I now know what I have to do...
The first thing was to stop the coming calamity before it happens. I only have a week for that. The second is to find whoever killed Hades and repay them the coin. I can do both simultaneous, for now I have to gather as much information I have about this world.
I have to go to work!
BEEP! BEEP!
"Common boss let's go!" Hecate called out to me from the driver's seat.
I stepped out of the house for the first time to be greeted by the enormously blanket of stars and black at the roof of the world. It was breathtaking as it was spectacular, was it always night in the underworld?
I looked down my mansion to the gate where Hecate sat in a black sports car with silver rims that looked brand new. It was part of my thousands of other exotic cars, there was a hummer and limo too. Wow! Hades does love his cars, a red Lamborghini caught my eye too.
To think he had this much and from the looks of it I doubted he touched it. I just could not take my eyes off it for a minute.
I crossed over to my garage of cats and felt the car, it was smooth and clean. I could see my beautiful reflection on it. It made my heart jump, the only luxury car I had in my old life was a small four wheeler. It was so boring I never remembered it's name. In this life I can have the luxury I always missed.
I could feel Hecate's presence as she approached me from behind. "You like that one? I know how much you loved to drive fast cars so I kept bringing the fastest I could."
I could see my smile reflecting off the car's body, I looked cute when I wasn't always brooding all the time.
I moved over to the side and opened the door, the key was there in the ignition waiting for me to start it. "Get in! I'm driving!" I ordered Hecate.
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"Talk about being a beast!!" I smiled as I reversed with the car roaring loudly. A small screen next to the wheel came on with the GPS showing the routes that led to my work place- THE UNDERWORLD CORP.
I drove down the beautiful roads down the huge hill where my mansion was situated, I passed by different modern houses and buildings, it really was like an estate. The beautiful multicoloured streetlights and signboards came in red, blue, green, purple.
"Woooooohoooooo!!"
BA-DUM!!
My car ran over something or somebody. "Shit!"
Hecate smiled. "These undeads really just do whatever, huh?"
"So that things gonna be alright?" I asked a little bit agitated.
I found Hecate looking over at me, her light blue eyes glowed brightly indicating she was manipulating her eyes with some weird energy, her hair bounced up and down. She looked hot as she smiled at me.
"Boss, you look cute like this. When you are not brooding, whatever happened to you I love it and I rarely love anything." She said in a sweet tone. "That is... Even if you really are someone else in there."
My eyes twitched lightly, "What?" Did she just figure if out? Can she see through me? How? I know I did slip up a few times but, she is Hades' best friend so she would easily know right? But what she does now will determine my next cause? Should I KILL HER?
What am I thinking, I have to calm myself and react appropriately.
Just as I opened up my mouth to speak— "Stop! We're here Boss!"
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"WHAT!?" I screamed as I slammed hard on the break, the car screeched to a halt sharply but not before running into someone, green sludge splashed all over my windshield. "Not again."
"Heh!" Hecate laughed as she came out of the car. "I'll get someone to clean that up. Besides Hades doesn't show compassion the way you do, I suggest you change that boss!"
Seriously what is going on through her head? Is she a genius detective like Batman or something? Now she has be at the edge of my seat.
I came out of the car and looked forward to see the legs of someone on the ground dripping green blood. I really killed someone huh? I saw Hecate walking towards the huge building and hissed under my breath. "Ugly bitch."
I looked up to see a huge skyscraper that seemed to go on forever, the windows reflected the stars in the sky. "Why do I get the feeling I'm working in a firm?" My eye started to buzz and I hissed. "What now?"
YOU HAVE UNLOCKED AN ORIGINAL SKILL.
SIXTH SENSE (LOW)- ALLOWS YOU TO SENSE THE THINGS IN THE SURROUNDING AND GIVES HEIGHTENED SENSES.
CAN BE IMPROVED WITH DOMINATION POINTS (1000)
"Now this is rigged, I only have five hundred of these things." My ears started to pick every sound and footstep around me, it wasn't just my ears— it was my whole body acting as an extension of myself with the environment. "Am I recovering the original abilities of Hades?"
I felt something vibrate in by pocket and plucked out the black book, I flipped it open to find the words reading:
YOU ARE AWAKENING MY POWERS, I CAN SENSE IT
THE COMPATIBILITY IS QUITE LOW SO IT WILL RECOVER OVER TIME
"Hades, how did you die?"
...?
I...
I CANNOT REMEMBER!!Chapter Twenty One: The Underworld Corporation
"Good morning sir!"
"Good morning sir!"
As I entered into the magnanimous building I was being saluted left and right. I could see many black winged creatures like humans but not quite humans. Huge monsters with green skin and huge fangs sticking out.
All these Greek creatures bowing down to me.
Well most of them seemed surprised to find me there. "This way!" Hecate led to a futuristic elevator, after I entered she tapped on one of the buttons and up we went.
I stood next to her taking quick glances at her. I could not get it out of my head, the fact that she just figured out who I was. But clearly she lacks concrete proof of who I am, what if she tries to extract some information from me?
The rest was silence till we reached the top where there was a long hall with black carpet on the ground that led down to my office. I passed by my secretary, a slender woman with voluptuous bosom. She had pink skin and her hair was snakes, GORGON.
"My liege, it's been quite a while." She bowed her head down at be and her snakes hissed at me their own greeting. I don't think she's tight with her hair stylist.
WHIIR!
MARCY: SWAMP GORGON
LIKABILITY TO HADES- 15
ROLE TO HADES- SECRETARY AT THE UNDERWORLD CORP
CONFLICT- DISLIKES HADES FOR NOT GIVING HER A PROMOTION, HATES YOUR ATTITUDE.
"Marcy?" Wow, this one's a real annoying bitch ain't she? I see you keep your hair same as all.
Marcy raised her head and glared at me. "My liege."
CHARACTER "MARCY" HAS DECREASED LIKEABILITY FOR YOU -1
Why this little bitch!!
I felt my eyes beam a bright light as my blood boiled.
YOU HAVE UNLOCKED SKILL DOMINATOR'S AURA (LOW)
YOU CAN PRESSURE CHARACTER LOWER THAN YOU WITH YOUR AURA.
"Look down when ever I talk to you you vile scum!" I gritted my teeth as I slapped her on the face. "I won you!" I could feel my blood boiling, was it because of the skill?
Marcy slipped and fell on her butt with a scream. "Urgh!" She cried. I breasts bulged against her tightly buttoned shirt. "M-- my liege!"
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But I wasn't done just yet, I walked over to her and placed my foot on her her chest and pinned her to the ground. "You speak only when spoken to! Am I clear you measly peasant?"
She coughed agressived and cried. "Y-- yes my liege!"
I pressed my foot even more and ran my hand down my long blue hair. "Good, now I want to see all my board of directors in my office now!!"
"Yes my liege!" She coughed.
I slapped her on the cheek again and watched blood fly from her mouth, her cheek reddened instantly. The air around me sizzled. "That was a order, not a question moron!"
YOU HAVE DOMINATED A CHARACTER BY FORCE!— YOU HAVE RECIEVED DOMINATION POINTS 200.
THE CHARACTER "MARCY" NOW FEARS YOU.
YOU HAVE UNLOCKED A MAIN SKILL- BASIC COMBAT (LOW)
YOU HAVE UNLOCKED PASSIVE - AURA MANIFESTATION.
YOU HAVE UNLOCK A PASSIVE- AURA CONTROL.
I was surprised I could get strlnger this way too, I did not know what came on me but that dominators aura really made my blood boil but I did the right thing nonetheless. I had to manage the underworld as best as I could, how else would I secure my power in this world?
I walked over Marcy and dug my hands in my pocket, Hecate silently went forward and opened the door to my office. I gently strolled in with crocs on and a I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ATTITUDE.
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Hecate shut the door behind me and ushered me over to my huge office table with my laptop and files there, it was over twenty times bigger than my old table. The room was bigger too, and the view from the glass window that over saw almost all of my estate was beautiful. The room was in a semicircle shape with a huge fridge, a fan.
I tried not to sound too mezmerized not to give Hecate more evidence to figure me out. I walked over and slipped into my comfy chair and dissolved in the sweet comfort. I felt like a marshmello there.
I looked up at Hecate standing at the other side of the table, her light blue eyes stapled on me. I felt she was waiting for me to say something so I spoke the only topic that I felt most appropriate.
"Do you think I did the right thing to Marcy?" I asked her in a strict voice.
The question was also directed to the black book I had opened before my face.
I HAVE NO SAY AGAINST YOUR ACTIONS.
Hecate nodded after a moment's hesitation, "To be clear it was about time and she really was a bitch so I am not against it. Why do you want to see the board of directors so soon after returning?"
I placed my hand on the table and said. "You told me that they are slacking off on work, the delivery and storage of souls is a very delicate work and if handled wrong will affect my profits. And we can't have that can we?"
Hecate tilted her head lightly to the side as if looking at me from another angle before saying. "Sure thing boss."
Could it be because she was the goddess of sorcery and ghosts that she can figure me out? And why does she change her tone from formal to informal so sudden. It gives me bad vibes.
"Do you have to stand there the whole time?" I asked boldly.
"Yes, I do!" She responded.
For fucks sake she's annoying me.
A moment later the speaker came on, "My liege, the board is here...." It was Marcy, she sounded broken, more obedient.
I smiled deeply and said. "Send them in! It's time to reclaim lost investment."
YOU HAVE TRIGGERED A HIDDEN MAIN QUEST- YOUR CORPORATION IS INFESTED. CLEAN OUT THE TRASH
Oh this I can gladly do!Chapter Twenty Two: Disciplining My Subjects
I sat comfortably on my seat, my fingers tapping on my table as I looked at the board of directors before me. Hecate stood behind me with a notepad in hand.
I willed the cursed eye of mine to work, there were about six of them there before me. They were in charge of managing all the matters pertaining to my empire, apparently because of the growth of the underworld they had grown pompous and lenient.
"Is this all of them?" I asked Hecate. She responded with a nod, I could tell from the way she looked at me that she was curious on what I would do. "Don't worry, I'll show you something good." I muttered to her.
From left to right:
DOMA: DARK BEAST
LIKABILITY TO HADES- -150
ROLE TO HADES- DIRECTOR OF SOUL COLLECTION AND ANALYTICS AT THE UNDERWORLD ESTATE
CONFLICT- LAZINESS, UNPRODUCTIVITY, DIVERGENCE OF FUNDS.
I smiled inwardly, let's start with this one shall we. The dark beast was a huge red boar with huge tusks, he had short brown hair and wearing a checkered suit. His pot belly stuck out from his outfit, from the looks of it he's been eating a hefty breakfast. So that's where all my money went.
"Mr Doma, you head the soul collection division right?" I like to start out at a slow pace before getting up to the good part, it's more fun that way.
"Yes my liege, I am glad you have awoken fr your deep state rest." He bowed his head to me. He does have a big mouth both figuratively and physically, you can't flagger me!
Besides, I know what each one of you is worth deep down...
CHARACTER "DOMA" IS CURSING YOU DEEP DOWN.
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LIKEABILITY IS DROPPED BY -15.
Not so long ago my eye upgraded and now I can use lie detection. I can see through any fake up someone tries to pull on me.
"I hear productivity has dropped in your division by twenty percent since I went asleep." I tapped my fingers on the table even faster, I could feel it with my sixth sense, they were getting agitated. But I haven't even stayed yet. "If I add up the monthly income for the past two hundred and fifty seven years I have been asleep I estimate having lose at least this much."
I snapped my finger and Hecate showed them a page on her notepad where I wrote in black pen and absurd long number of digits more than a hundred, I would have added more but I got tired.
"You have been negligent with your duties, you all have!" I started to pressure them with my dominator's aura and watched them shake in their boots.
"But my liege, it wasn't intentional. Business has been bad." Doma argued and that was when he fell into my trap.
I banged my fist on the table alarming all of them, Hecate on the other hand was the least intimidated. In fact she stood as still as a rock. "Do you mean to tell me that in over a millenia business stayed at a twenty percent drop without as much as a shift? Month in and month out?"
Don't even try to argue, I've been getting in and out of arguments as a kid. The only difference was that I became a god, no one argues with a god.
"Bu--" Doma was starting to piss off. Well I guess he was eager to start the party then, so who am I to deny the poor faggot to be the opening act.
"Move to the left now." I will teach you not to speak when spoken to.
"But my liege—"
To have the guts to even argue against my command, Hades must have been slack on these ones. Good thing I'm here. "Mr Doma please move to the left, I promise nothing wrong will happen I just want to try something out."
I watched him hesitate before walking away from the group. This is how obedience is learned, through hardship.
I pulled the phone next to my table and spoke into it. "Marcy, bring a sledgehammer down to my office this instant." Now this is where the real show begins.
For the next minute their faces were distorted, mixed with confusion and worry. I could feel their heartbeats drumming louder most especially Doma.
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There a soft knock on the door causing their hearts to jump up. "Come in, come and join us." It's time to clean out all the rats.
CHARACTER "MARCY" IS BEING OBSERVANT OF YOU.
Marcy came in dragging the huge sledgehammer behind her, it looked just ancient and real. She could barely pull it with her tiny build, she was also scared that I could tell. And I thought gorgons were supposed to be vicious.
"I apologize for taking too much of your time my liege." She was more obedient than before, I guess my small lecture worked wonders.
"No biggie, you just have to do one thing for me before you go." I smiled and rubbed my hands together causing everyone to jump. Oh I remember! I'm not supposed to smile, now they were more scared. "Marcy would you kindly bash in Mr Doma's head now? I want to see what the insides of his brain looks like, that way we can know why he thinks he can lie to me."
I made the room spin in that moment.
YOU HAVE INSTILLED GREAT FEAR IN TO YOUR SUBJECTS, DOMINATION POINTS HAS INCREASED BY 50.
CHARACTER "HECATE" IS DEEPLY AMUSED BY YOUR VERDICT.
"My liege, pardon me!" Marcy panicked.
I rose to my feet and used my dominator's aura once more. "Did I stutter? Or perhaps you are deaf?"
"My liege!" Doma boomed.
Now he had done it, I was pissed. Marcy silenced the mumurs as she raised the sledgehammer above his head and brought it down hard. WHACK— "How dare you talk back to our liege like that?" She screamed as the snakes on her head hissed out.
I watched Doma fall on his back, half his face had been bashed in and blood gushing out from it. "I guess they don't call you a gorgon for nothing."
Marcy dropped the sledgehammer with a loud thump and turned to leave. "Will that be all my liege?"
I like her, I really do. I was planning to kill her myself before but to not flinch when doing it, she will be a very useful asset. "No Marcy, that will be all. I can handle it from here."
She bowed her head and turned to leave. As the door slammed shut behind her the remaining five board directors looked at me in great fear.
I walked around the table and over to the sledgehammer, Doma was still squirming on the floor so I smashed open his skull just to finish the job. His blood splattered on my face and suit but that was okay. You always get dirty when cleaning out the trash.
I turned to the other board directors and said with a smile. "Can we pick up where we left off then?"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
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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.
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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.