He is a pure-blooded dragon in the miniature garden.

Chapter 281 Hades: No? Father? You've come back from the dead?

Half an hour later, having made up his mind, Aaron took a deep breath and said.

"Godfather, can I trust you?"

"That depends on what kind of result you're hoping to achieve."

Su Nian glanced up at Aaron.

"Is it to help you seize Hades' soul? Is it to help Sasha win the Holy War and end it completely? Or is it to protect the earth from the hands of the gods?"

“If you say you will protect Sasha and keep the war of the gods outside of the gods themselves, then you can trust me.”

“But if you also want to be an enemy of me and Sasha and take the land from us, then naturally you don’t need to trust us.”

Aaron fell into deep thought. Indeed, in essence, Su Nian had no conflict of interest with them.

Su Nian collaborated with him, and he profited more from the partnership.

Even if Su Nian wanted to, there was absolutely no need for her to tell them all this.

"Godfather, I have one last question."

"go ahead."

Su Nian glanced casually at Aaron, understanding his concerns. After all, he was too weak, an ordinary orphan suddenly drawn into the vortex of a war between several gods.

Moreover, he knew too little information, and it was all Su Nian's side of the story. How could he trust Su Nian?
"What would have become of me without your help?"

Upon hearing this, Su Nian gave Aaron a deep look.

What will your ending be?

He resumed his old ways of waging holy war, feeling that everyone was suffering too much on earth, and prepared to kill everyone to build a lost paradise and send everyone to a blissful Pure Land.

Sasha has had an incredibly lucky start to this Holy War, with all twelve Saints gathered together, and none of them betraying him except for Gemini.

In the end, however, the entire army was wiped out except for Dohko and Shion, which can be described as tragic in a sense.

Although he eventually reformed and the Hades soul within him was expelled, he rushed towards Elysium with Pegasus and Sasha.

"It will probably suppress Hades' soul, but influenced by Hades' will, it will believe that death is the only way out."

"Then I look forward to the liberation of all life on earth."

"That is, preparing to destroy the world."

Aaron couldn't help but shudder when he heard this.

"Does the Godfather mean this is my fate?"

Su Nian glanced at him, rolled her eyes, and said.

"What do you think?"

Aaron seemed to understand why Su Nian had sought him out; she believed that death was the only escape, followed by the destruction of the world…

This is far too cruel. Is the will of Hades really that terrifying?

“I understand, Mr. Godfather.”

Aaron bowed deeply to Su Nian.

He now understood why Su Nian had told him the story of the Ship of Theseus before.

This is a warning to him: if the direction is wrong, even if the ship is still the same ship, it is no longer the same ship. But if the direction is right, then no matter how the ship changes, it will always be the same ship as before.

No matter how his physical body or soul changes, as long as he firmly believes that he is Aaron, then he is Aaron.

Upon hearing this, Pegasus, who had finally finished eating, paused for a moment and said...

"What do you understand? Aaron, have you finally accepted that Sasha has become our mother?"

Upon hearing this, Su Nian and Aaron both glanced at Tianma.

"Is this kid... really that simple-minded?"

Su Nian said in a subtle tone, "He shouldn't have blocked Pegasus just now, right?"

Or is this what all hot-blooded protagonists like Pegasus looked like when they were young? Su Nian seemed to have realized some kind of truth.

"Tianma... he never reads books."

Aaron's voice was somewhat dry.

Thanks to the charitable nature of churches and the need to recite scriptures, clergy members are knowledgeable and bear the responsibility of literacy.

In the orphanage, the old nun understood the importance of literacy and always focused on teaching them to read.

Only Tianma... couldn't concentrate at all, and fell asleep instantly during class.

I suddenly feel so embarrassed.

Aaron couldn't help but cover his face.

"Godfather, I'll explain the Pegasus matter to him later."

Upon hearing this, Su Nian sympathetically patted Aaron's head.

"You've really worked hard all these years."

Aaron's lips twitched, and he sighed.

Then he stood up and said to Su Nian.

"Godfather, I'm counting on you from now on."

"Let's go then. The church has been almost fully repaired."

The next question is whether memory will prevail, or whether Hades' soul and will will be more powerful.

……

Inside the dilapidated church.

Inside a room that had just been cleaned.

Aaron, with his palms facing upwards, calmly closed his eyes and sat cross-legged on a huge ice crystal.

The ice was crystal clear and seemed to emanate a chilling aura that penetrated to the bone, but Aaron, who was sitting on it, showed no sign of discomfort.

This is a container that Su Nian created using the authority of [Memory] and based on the Six-Phase Ice, to protect Aaron's consciousness.

Just in case they fail, Aaron will be utterly destroyed.

"Dad, won't Aaron get frostbite sitting here?"

Pegasus, chewing on a chicken leg, looked at Aaron with some concern.

Although Su Nian took Tianma in as her godson on a whim, she did not neglect him in terms of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation.

Everything that should be there will be included, not a single word will be missing.

"No, do you feel cold?"

Su Nian rolled her eyes. Although it was ice, it was the manifestation of the power of memory. It froze the memory, rather than emitting cold air.

"Oh right, the chicken leg is still warm."

Pegasus also realized that he used to exhale mist in winter, but it seemed that he wasn't doing so now.

Even so, there was still a hint of worry in Pegasus's eyes as he looked at Aaron.

He wasn't as clever as Aaron and Sasha, so he couldn't understand what Su Nian and Aaron were saying. He only knew that Aaron seemed to be in some kind of danger.

It was precisely to prevent this danger that Su Nian came to do this with Aaron.

Lacking knowledge and knowing he couldn't speak, Pegasus could only express his concern in this clumsy way.

"Alright, we can start now."

"Before we begin, Aaron, you must guard your mind and strengthen your will."

"Are you ready?"

Su Nian looked at Aaron seriously and said that this was the last consultation. It was also the first time he had done something like this, and Aaron would have to bear most of the burden himself.

“I’m ready, Mr. Godfather.”

Aaron took a deep breath and then said seriously, "Although it is extremely dangerous for me to fight against the will of a god with the will of a mortal, I don't even believe that I have such an ability."

"But no matter what, for Sasha, for Pegasus, for everyone in the orphanage, for all the living people in this world... I will do my best."

Hearing this, Su Nian paused for a moment before speaking.

"Actually, you don't need to put so much pressure on yourself. I'm not going to put all these responsibilities on you."

"So what if I failed? It's no big deal. At least I can still tear Hades apart with my bare hands."

"It's just that I can't intervene because of the gods."

Aaron: ...

However, Aaron breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the pressure on him suddenly wasn't so great.

"Thank you, Godfather."

Aaron didn't know what to say, so he could only express his gratitude and remember this kindness in his heart.

In fact, he was able to trust Su Nian so much because of Su Nian's behavior and honesty, and also because the prayer bracelet left by Sasha told him that he could trust Su Nian.

On the other hand, there was indeed a cold will resurfacing within him. Under this cold will, Aaron was unsure whether he could withstand it or become the kind of person Su Nian described who believed that death was the only way out.

That's why he believed Su Nian's explanation and let her do as she pleased.

"Now that you're ready, let's get started."

Upon hearing this, Su Nian snapped her fingers.

In an instant, time and space were frozen, memories ceased to function, and everything turned into ice.

Then, a dark figure emerged from Aaron's body and was absorbed by the ice crystals on the ceiling.

The next instant, a dark, deathly universe erupted, and Aaron opened his eyes, his hair transforming into long, jet-black hair.

……

The Sanctuary, the Papal Palace.

Wearing papal robes and serving as the current Pope of the Holy Land, Sage suddenly looked up at the sky.

"Hades has already revived even though there are still two years until the Holy War..."

At that moment, a gentle female voice rang out from behind the Pope's palace.

"Sage, don't worry, Su Nian's plan must have succeeded."

Accompanied by the sound, a vast yet gentle microcosm spread out.

Pope Sage immediately turned around, knelt on one knee, and addressed the purple-haired woman behind him.

"Yes, Your Majesty Athena."

Sage, however, failed to notice the tense expression on the face of the girl holding the scepter of the goddess of victory.

What do you mean by saying that you took Aaron and Pegasus as your godsons and became their godfather on a whim?
And she became their mother?

Su Nian, I think you really need to be taught a lesson!
Want to experience the goddess's lightning-fast punch?
Sasha tightened his grip on the scepter of victory slightly, his face turning ashen.

……

Hades, Holy Roman Empire.

Two of Hades's minions are playing chess in the courtyard.

"What is this? His Majesty's divine microcosm? His Majesty has been revived?"

Thanatos, the god of death, paused, and the chess piece he had just picked up fell to the ground.

"What should we do? If we don't find His Majesty before he recovers, we'll definitely be punished by him?"

Opposite Thanatos, Hypnos, the god of sleep, rested his chin on his hand and let out a cold laugh.

"It's alright, let Pandora go. Anyway, she's the one who lost His Majesty's soul, so she should bear the punishment."

“Good idea. We’ll go and apologize to His Majesty after he punishes Pandora.”

Thanatos looked like he had learned something, then picked up the chess piece from the ground and gently placed it down.

"We are His Majesty's most loyal subordinates, how could we have made a mistake?"

It was clearly Pandora, the leader of Hades' army, who failed to properly care for His Majesty's soul.

……

A remote village in Rome.

Su Nian dispelled the chill, retrieved Hades' memories and will that had been sealed within the light cone, and smiled.

"Looks like we succeeded, little Aaron Hades."

At Su Nian's call, his memories returned rapidly, and Aaron's eyes gradually regained their color.

Su Nian's plan was very successful. As a god who controls souls and death, Hades was indeed not very skilled in memory.

His memories and will were easily stripped away and sealed within the light cone.

Aaron successfully possessed Hades' soul, becoming Hades completely, inside and out.

However, this won't last long. Hades' true body is still in Elysium. This is just a divided soul. Who knows how many layers of power the original body possesses?

What Su Nian didn't expect was that the will of the gods was indeed a will, similar to but different from authority. Or rather, authority was engraved in the spirit, while the will of the gods was engraved in the will.

In other words, at this point, Aaron actually only possessed Hades' divine cosmos, but that was enough. The missing part of the will of the gods could be temporarily filled by his authority.

When confiscating the property of Buddhist monks, Su Nian made quite a bit of money; a power over a soul or death was nothing to her.

Shiva has already paid off one-twentieth of his debt, let alone him.

"Godfather, it seems we've succeeded?"

Aaron looked at Su Nian with some surprise.

He felt light and airy, his whole body was more relaxed than ever before, and a power within him had emerged that could arbitrarily decide death, and near this power was a vast microcosm.

"However, I think what you need most right now is to prepare to control your power."

Su Nian pointed to the floorboards that Aaron had accidentally stepped on and broken.

The power of gods is not so easy to control, especially since Hades' soul has no memory of how to control power; everything has been taken away by Su Nian.

At this moment, Pegasus couldn't help but sigh.

"Aaron, you're stronger than me now."

Su Nian rubbed Tianma's head and smiled.

"Train hard, you never know when we'll need you to protect Aaron and Sasha."

At this moment, Hades' memories, which had been sealed within the light cone, were awakened.

'This power? Memory? Mnemosyne? But why male?'

Through the cone of light, Hades' memory watched as Su Nian reached out and turned back time on the floor that Aaron had destroyed.

At that moment, he seemed to understand something.

'Cronus!! He has returned and devoured the cosmos of Mnemosyne, the traitorous goddess of memory among the Titans.'

Zeus was able to defeat the Titans because Mnemosyne stole the memories of Cronus and the Titans, which allowed Zeus and his allies to successfully defeat them.

Unfortunately, the goddess of memory who helped them possessed a terrifying power that allowed her to steal the memories of gods at will.

Feared by the gods, she ultimately left behind the nine daughters of the nine Muses, who were then sealed away by a combined force.

He was sealed within the abyss Tartarus along with the twelve Titans, never to be reborn.

But who could have imagined that at this moment, Cronus, who had been eternally sealed away, would break free from his seal?

The key point is that his physical body didn't feel anything at all.

Hades' memory felt it was about to perish and had to find a way to send the message back to its original body.

After all, guarding the abyss is one of Hades' duties.

(End of this chapter)