The Heir of the God of Death
Chapter 35's

[You have entered the world of Hades, the whole system will be disabled except the item storage system.]

[Warning!

You can get out of Hades if you conquer 10 floors of this world, and you can get out of this world if your HP is below 10%, you will be given the option to continue or get out of here. If you choose to give up then you will not be able to enter this world again and have been considered a failure.]

"So, I can still use inventory. Maybe here are a lot of items that I can get later, so this system allows opening inventory. And again.This system provides a quest with little information and I don't know what I got after successfully completing it."

I walked forward and passed through a wilderness, this forest looks very horror for ordinary people to see it.

I walked forward and ignored my surroundings.

"How long have I been walking and I don't feel the slightest bit of danger here."

After passing through the long forest, I finally arrived at a very wide river in front of it.

"Wow, this river is really very wide. But, how do I get across?"

I turned my head to the left and to the right, everything just seemed empty or rather there was nothing at all that something could use to head across there.

"Do I need to build a boat?"

I turned around and saw the forest.

"I think I should cut down some of them...."

I took out my scythe in a large size and took a position ready to swing this scythe as hard as possible towards this forest.

"Son, you don't have to do that."

"..?"

I was surprised because suddenly someone's voice sounded from behind me and I immediately turned to look at it.

Someone was seen riding a boat in a black robed outfit, and he stood up while holding a tool to row the boat.

The boat came to the edge and he looked at me straight away, looking like I couldn't see his face because his face was covered in darkness.

While noticing his familiar appearance to me, I immediately remembered a mythological name similar to the appearance of this person in front of me.

"Charon!" Unknowingly, I immediately said his name.

"Most people know me by that name, but when I have my own name, because most people already know me by that name then I don't care to introduce myself anymore."

"So he really is Charon huh, then this river is. So no wonder why this world is called 'Hades, ' because this is the underworld of Greek mythology."

I looked at the river as wide as the eye could see and I could not see the other end or the other side.

"You get on this boat, I'll take you across."

"But I don't have any coins to pay you."

"You don't have to pay me, because you're 'Libera' just like me."

"Liberas?"

"Yes, we are the same people who lead lost souls to their new lives. It is evident from within you that four souls are lost, whether you want to make them slaves or actually lead them to their new lives, that's your right and I have no right to interfere."

I just fell silent and thought about what he said, there are still many things I don't know about this system and why Charon calls myself part of them, is it because of my job? So that I was considered like them.

"May I ask you something?"

"Yes, please."

"How long has it been or since when have you been here?"

Charon just stood still for a moment and looked at me carefully then said:

"I've been here, ever since I realized I've been here and it's been a long time, until now I forgot to count the names again."

I was surprised to hear that....

"Since he realized he was here, it means there's a chance he's lived somewhere other than here." I thought about it for a moment, then looked at him and asked. "If you may ask again, it means you have lived a place or in another world other than here, right?"

"Yes, you're right, but it's only in my estimation, because I don't remember everything at all. All of my memories simply disappeared like I was drowning in deep darkness, even if I realized that I was not from here, but I don't remember at all when I entered this world and all my memories of being here just disappeared, even if I met your current self but... in some time I'll just forget you."

I just kept quiet and watched all of her words carefully.

"Meaning the person behind this system has really done everything according to his plan, I don't know if this creature before me was made by himself or another being he took out of nowhere, to be an NPC in a game of his own to benefit his player personally is me."

I sighed at the dizziness of thinking about it and said to him:

"All right, I'll ride on your boat."

He just nodded and I got on the boat and sailed down this wide river.

...•••...

A few minutes....

Charon continued to paddle his boat nonstop and it seemed that I saw nothing here but this vast river.

"From being called a river, it looks like a vast ocean and there is only water to be seen from here."

"What you're saying is true, but it's a river, the answer is you can see for yourself in there" Charon said, pointing downwards.

I followed his index finger that led down to that river.

I looked at him for quite a while, suddenly the river was bubbling and seemed to start appearing something.

Plu... Plu... Plu....

"You'd better keep your head away, because they'll show up."

I followed his words and moved away from the edge of the boat, looking more and more bubble and bigger.

Plu..! Plu..! Plu...!

Harr!ghhhh!!

Instantly appeared a figure with a strange and disgusting shape, his body looks there are many hands, face, legs and various other bodies. They look like hybrid creatures.

"What's that shape?!"

I immediately took the position of being ready to fight and wanted to take out my scythe, but Charon blocked me with his hand.

"You don't have to waste your energy, it's my business and I should have brought my rider safely and safely across. They are miserable souls because they can't go across, this is because they don't have anything to pay me to take them across."

Charon raised his paddle and flung his wand onto the boat several times.

Tak... Tak... Tak....

Suddenly a magic circle appeared that surrounded this boat.

"You better watch this."

Harr!ghhhh!!

The strange creature drew closer to the boat and Charon muttered something.

"Your shop...!"

Instantly, the magic circle emitted an enormous amount of magic light.

Beams!

Quickly the light immediately flew rapidly towards the strange creature.

Harr!ghhhh!!

The light managed to penetrate and injure him, not until there this magic circle continued to fire its magic light.

Harr!ghhhh!!

Instantly the strange creature vanished and disappeared just like that and a yellow light floated after the strange creature was destroyed.

"What's that?"

Charon raised his hand and pointed at the yellow light, it seemed that the yellow light wanted to fly quickly but.

"What do you want?"

"Oh this, this is just food."

"Did?"

Suddenly the yellow light was absorbed into tiny particles and into the mouth that was covered with darkness.

"Food? I think that a creature like the Angel of Death or the God of Death doesn't need nutrients for its life."

"You're wrong, a creature like us always needs his name food for survival, and what I just ate was a soul."

"..!"

I was surprised to hear it and said:

"Soul! Means that you ate earlier was really the soul of a living being?!"

"Yes, we need it other than to eat, but to strengthen ourselves as well. You have also eaten the souls of living beings several times."

"What do you mean! I never--" As soon as I remembered something. "She said I've eaten a lot of souls, which means...."

I remember one of the systems that made you strong and helped you too, the shop system.

"To buy something from the shop then you need Soul Points and Soul Points to get from...."

I was wide-eyed about it, because the requirement to earn a lot of Soul Points was to sell your items or kill any soul-creating beings.

"What he said just now was that he ate it to be strong, and I used the shop to strengthen myself by buying useful items, in other words I had also eaten souls to strengthen myself."

My legs started to limp and my head got a little dizzy.

"You better rest, for our journey is still far away."

I just kept quiet and Charon kept rowing this boat.

After a few minutes of silence, all I could hear was the sound of my heart and my breath, I was quite immersed in my daydream.

"Hey, can I ask you something?"

"Yes, what is it?"

"You said you've been here since you were aware, which means the person who sent you here then that person created this place too."

"Yes, you're right, then?"

"Do you know who sent you here and created everything here?"

Charon was just silent while rowing his boat, after a few oars he finally opened his voice:

"The person who sent me and created this place is ■■■■■■, only my memory of him not being erased at all."

"Wait first! Would you like to mention that guy's name again?"

"His name is ■■■■■■."

I was very surprised because when Charon mentioned the name, at once he did not have a voice and moreover supported his face so dark that it was very difficult to know the motion of his lips.

"I think the system forcibly locks information about that person or that person might be the one who controls this system?"

I shook my head slowly and I thought finding information about this system was too fast, because I wasn't strong enough yet and again I really needed this system for a while.

"If I go too deep looking for it, maybe. I will lose this power." I sighed immediately. "I think this system will bring out itself to me one day, I don't know why I'm thinking about it but. I just feel like that."

...•••...

Plung... Plung... Plunging....

After some time of silence on this boat, I finally reached the other side.

"Alright, only up here can I drive you."

"Yes, I'm really grateful."

Charon simply nodded and said:

"What are you coming here for? Do you want to hunt souls to strengthen yourself?"

"Yes, I came here for that."

"So, I should warn you that after you pass through the gate, there is no way out for you other than to master the floor guarded by the rulers of each floor, then you can get out of that gate for mastering one of those floors."

"What would happen if I controlled every floor here?"

Charon was silent for a moment and said:

"Then you will be the ruler of this world."

"That's it, thanks for the information."

Plung... Plung... Plunging....

Charon nodded and rowed his boat away from me, so that it could no longer be seen by me.

"It seems he's been very far away. It's time to continue this journey."

I walked through a wilderness, and when I came out I saw a path.

"This way...."

I was a little surprised, because I saw a very neat road, it looked renovated.

I followed the direction of this road, just as I reached the end I saw a large gate ahead.

"So that's the gate, but it won't be easy to get in."

I saw a big dog with black fur all with three heads.

"So this is the so-called gate guard dog of the underworld... Cerberus!"

I immediately stepped my foot forward and it seemed that the three-headed animal opened its eyes.

"Lately I've been very stressed, then you'll be my outlet for me to calm down."

Grrh!

The three-headed dog growled and rose from his sleep.

Oh hoarrgh!!

His roar was so loud that it made the air around him get knocked out quickly.

"With this let's begin." While taking out my sickle.

[Bosses

Cerberus - Gatekeeper of the underworld

Level :???]