Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 2518: Despair

Zagreus and the Moon Elf Goddess moved through the Cloud Sea, hiding beneath the battle ongoing above the skies. It seemed that just as Fate had said, the Cloud Seaʼs turbulent winds and energies made for a good way to hide their presences from the monsters above. Unless one of them were to fully focus into the sea alone, it would be near impossible to be spotted. ”I can sense someone over there, Zagreus...!” The Moon Elf goddess muttered. ”Letʼs go!” Zagreus nodded, as the two rushed through the clouds.

They suddenly saw two silhouettes within the cloud sea, they had very faint presences, so they quickly rushed to see who they were.

After closer inspection, they were the Sun Monkey siblings, their red fur was unmistakably theirs, there was one holding the other, while crying.

”There they are! Hey!” The Moon Elf Goddess became slightly happier, rushing towards them.

”Wait, calm down! Donʼt rush!” Zagreus managed to grab her before she was to rush there. His eyes slightly shocked, as he had already realized what had happened there...

”S-Sister...! Sister, hey! Wake... wake up please! Sister!”

The Sun Monkey Gods were two twins, the male twin, a bit larger than his sister, was holding her body... half of her body, from her torso below, was missing.

Her eyes were dry, without blinking, and her blood had already dried, her wound seemed burned by whatever explosion hit them by accident.

”I-Is she... is she dead?” The Moon Elf Goddess asked. ”Zagreus, youʼre a God of the Underworld, right? Your father was Hades...!”

”...” Zagreus remained in silence for a moment. ”I canʼt feel her soul... She died. Although Gods of our Realm can survive even without a head, when we take enough damage to have our divine power drained away or destroyed, we can easily die...”

”S-Shut up!” The Sun Monkey brother screamed while crying. ”Bring her back, Zagreus! Youʼre the god of the underworld, right?! Please bring back her soul!”

”I-I am not like my father!” Zagreus muttered with frustration. ”I-I... My divinity isnʼt even about manipulating Souls...”

”B-But...!”

”For now, place her inside your Divine Realm, we have to hurry,” said Zagreus. ”Maybe... if you come to Tartarus... With my sisters, we could try something. But I cannot guarantee you anything.”

”Z-Zagreus...! Thanks...” the Sun Monkey god muttered, cleaning his tears and putting his sister inside his Divine Realm. ”My name... I guess I never said it, right? I am Hanshuan, my sister was Henshian. We are... I guess you already guessed, we are Sun Monkey Twin Gods. We were born the same day, and blessed by the Sun.”

”I see... Itʼs nice to know your name, Hanshuan...” Zagreus forced slight smile, although Hanshuan could tell the pain in the young godʼs face, still mourning his father.

”What happened to your father... Iʼm very sorry...” Hanshuan muttered. ”I felt so powerless back then, even more now... I-I...”

”Itʼs alright,” Zagreus said, trying to stay calm, to be more like his father. ”We have to get out of here and survive, Hanshuan. Our mission was accomplished. Letʼs find the other goddess.”

”A-Ah, yes!” Hanshuan nodded.

”My name is Sindarin... I am the Goddess of the Moonlight Dew,” muttered Sindarin. ”I-I guess you didnʼt know but I can conjure healing elixir from my hands, it is the Moonlight Dew I accumulate by absorbing the moonlight. Please let me heal you.”

”C-Canʼt you heal your wound?” Hanshuan wondered, worried.

”No, it doesnʼt work on me or anybody else in the moon... I used to be called a useless goddess because of that, but...”

FLAAASH!

Her dew dropped from her hands, as Zagreus and Hanshuan gasped, their wounds healed rapidly within mere seconds.

”I volunteered to this mission because I thought I might finally be of some use...” She muttered. ”Iʼm glad it worked... Iʼm relieved my power... is not truly useless.”

”Itʼs incredible, this rate of healing...!” Zagreus was shocked.

”M-My wounds are healed too!” Hanshuan looked at his stomach and shoulders; they were now completely fine.

”We have to hurry... The Moon Moth Goddess you saw with me is my friend, Glimmerdust. Sheʼs the Moon Moth Goddess of the Moonʼs Shadows. I think she might be alive, sheʼs good at surviving,” Sindarin said.

The trio quickly rushed through the Cloud Sea, trying to seek Glimmerdustʼs presence, Sindarin was able to detect her very deep under the sea, where the wind pressures were

immense.

”She mustʼve gone there to hide, sheʼs... she sometimes falls into an extreme state of panic...” Sindarin muttered. ”And usually hides for days until the problem is solved.”

”R-Really?” Zagreus muttered.

”She doesnʼt seem fit for the battlefield...” Hanshuan was more ruthless with his words.

”I-I know...” Sindarin sighed. ”But she also volunteered for this mission because she wanted to be useful, like me... The Moon is overly populated, thereʼs thousands of gods you see. Because thereʼs so many of us, the divinities have become more and more contrived and strange; no god can have the same divinity after all. Eventually, gods with strange, weak divinities like us were born.”

”Something similar is going on in the Sun as well... This mission, the Supremes couldnʼt really force anybody, so they only took those that volunteered. Me and my sister volunteered because we wanted to finally earn some honor and resources,” Hanshuan muttered. ”If things continued as they were, we would soon become Fallen Gods once we were unable to sustain our Divinities with the required resources... Despite being so huge, the Sun is also a fierce battlefield full of competition, gods like us can barely fit. Escaping wasnʼt an option either, the Astral Road has become too chaotic now.”

”Hm...” Zagreus nodded. ”Iʼm sorry for your sister...”

”T-Thanks...” Hanshuan sighed.

Zagreus slowly learned about the perspectives of other gods, which he had never considered before at all, he realized everyone had their own problems, their own traumas, and their own self-doubt, and he felt more connected with them, because he also went through similar

things they did.

”T-There! Glimmerdust! Itʼs me!”

Sindarin screamed at a large cocoon shaped as silver shadows, hiding in between several thick

white clouds.

The cocoon slowly shook, as a pair of big moth eyes appeared within.

”S-Sindarin?”

”Itʼs me! Yeah! Iʼm so glad youʼre alive!”

Sindarin rushed towards Glimmerdust, as Zagreus smiled. After they regrouped, they would have to quickly move to the nearby coordinates to be teleported away.

Whatever happened to the other teams wasnʼt his problem anymore, they had done more than

enough and...

RUMBLE!

”Ungh?!”

Zagreus, however, felt a tremendous pressure the moment he started to relax about his problems, realizing something gigantic was rushing down towards them.

”S-Sindarin! Glimmerdust! RUN AWAY FROM THERE!”

”E-Eh?”

Sindarin looked back at Zagreus, a second before a gigantic figure rushed down towards them.

Zagreus immediately recognized that it was a demon!

They found them somehow!

”N-No...! I donʼt want to lose more allies! Please...! No more!”

Zagreus screamed, as he rushed towards them as quickly as he could.

”NO MORE!”

As he cried and saw the demonʼs claws rushing towards the goddesses...

RUMBLE!

A wave of phantasmal energies emerged from his body, encompassing him completely like an

armor, his hands suddenly stretched, grabbing both girls and pulling them back, a second

before they were to get shredded to pieces.

BOOOM!

An explosive shockwave of demonic flames was unleashed from the area where the demon

landed, as he glanced at Zagreus while smiling with his multiple heads.

”Oh?! You must be the son of Hades, right?”