Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 2927 - 2928: The Hades Family Reunites

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"Come, join me. Parallel selves can become one in this world. Like it happened to Kireina and many others," Earth's Tsukuyomi said with a gentle smile, inviting his parallel self to merge.

"Ah…! Is that… possible?" Genesis Tsukuyomi asked.

"It is… Let's fight together, to avenge Amaterasu!" Earth's Tsukuyomi urged.

"…Yes! I am not a fighter like you but… if my power, and my moon, can be of any use, take it!" Genesis Tsukuyomi nodded firmly. He fused his soul with Earth's Tsukuyomi.

Their minds and memories unified into a single deity of the moon. At last able to draw fully upon Genesis Moon's power, Tsukuyomi overflowed with unprecedented might.

He surged toward the Supremes of Time, Destiny, and Souls, clashing fiercely and supporting Aura and the System Master while Lucifer channeled the raw power of Hell ever closer.

"Wait, you?!" Aura exclaimed.

"Excuse me, gentlemen, let me assist you," Tsukuyomi said calmly. "In these dire times, we must work together."

"Fine by me," the System Master sighed. His body erupted with pillars of celestial light and heavenly elemental power. "Aura, don't slow us down!"

"Hah?! I should say that about you, my friend!" Aura laughed.

The three clashed against the Supremes of Time, Destiny, and Souls. The battle stood even. Time's abilities were the deadliest, but Tsukuyomi's own authority over Time allowed him to intercept and counter before they could affect anyone else, making him Time's primary adversary.

At the same time, Aura unleashed his cosmic universe of stars domain, raining millions of blazing stars upon the three Supremes. The System Master manipulated their system status, altering stats and skills as much as possible to weaken them while stealing abilities and fusing them into his own powers.

As they fought with everything they had, Tsukuyomi swiftly sent a message that reached every ally on the battlefield—even Kireina and those high above.

"To stop the brainwashing you must separate your target's body and soul! If the soul remains brainwashed, split it open and extract the inner side. The brainwashing creates an 'outer shell' that controls and cages the true mind and consciousness buried within! If you do this, you can save them. The outer shell cannot be recovered, however."

Once everyone understood the method, they nodded. High above, Zagreus flew alongside his mother, sisters, and friends against Hades, who had been grotesquely mutated into a colossal tentacled aberration of corpses and ghosts, possessed by the Netherworld Plane Ruler.

"But how can we do that when Father looks like that?!" Melinoë demanded angrily.

"Yeah?!" Makaria echoed in disbelief.

"The power is within you, my dears," Persephone said gently. "Makaria, you are the Goddess of Soul Healing. Melinoë, you are the Goddess of the Duality Between Life and Death. Zagreus, you are the God of Undead Hunting. Combined and elevated by the Blessings Flora and Kireina granted us, it is possible. But we must unite as one. Zagreus, you who inherited your father's Tartarus Authority, must conjure our souls into a single entity."

"That's possible?!" Zagreus asked.

"I will guide you," Persephone smiled. She took her daughters' hands and embraced her son.

FLAAASH!

Zagreus felt his latent power ignite. Hundreds of thousands of souls from Tartarus surged forth to aid them, fusing into a towering, winged demonic serpent. Zagreus and his sisters' Divinities merged, with Persephone at the core. Their friends infused the power of Moon and Sun, granting the serpent the ability of Eclipsing—to separate body and soul.

"Divinity Soul Grand Fusion – Soul And Body Eclipsing Primordial Serpent: Acheron-Helios Sunderer!"

"SHAAAAAHHHH!"

The kilometer-long serpent hissed with ferocious power. Everyone within felt the radiant forces of Sun, Moon, Death, and Life coursing through its ethereal form.

"Then, shall we begin?!"

Persephone roared, leading the charge toward the monstrous aberration Hades had become.

Even weakened, the creature bellowed in response. Its tentacles lashed out while armies of ghosts, skeletons, and zombies fused into enormous grasping hands.

The serpent answered with beams of eclipsing light—attacks designed to end the undead peacefully and guide them onward.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The monster groaned and resisted, but its tentacles burst apart as the serpent, like a black-and-gold arrow, pierced through them and plunged deep into the main body.

"HADES!!!"

"DAD!!!"

Persephone and the children called out desperately as the serpent dove into a churning sea of consciousness and darkness.

Inside, Hades was imprisoned within a massive black cube, and that cube was encased in an even larger sphere of blinding light.

He was not controlled by one entity, but two—completely stripping away his ability to resist.

The serpent hissed at the radiant sphere and pierced it like an arrow. The light pursued fiercely, but the serpent, embodying both light and darkness, moved faster.

Then the black cube roared, its crimson eyes snapping open.

The Netherworld Plane Ruler's consciousness awakened.

"WHO DARES— AAACK!?"

Before it could act, the serpent struck again, shattering its mind and leaving it in a vegetative state deep within the Netherworld Plane.

"Hades!"

"Dad!"

"E-Eh?"

Hades slowly opened his eyes and gazed upon his beloved wife and children. They rushed to embrace him as the serpent consumed his form, allowing his soul to appear and float within its ethereal body.

"P-Persephone?! Zagreus…! Melinoë…! Makaria!"

Hades wept as he hugged his family, finally reunited after so long. At the same moment, Ferberite—Divine Supreme Darkness and Death Spirit, sibling to Ruby and the others—awakened and poured his power into Hades.

"Hades! We don't have much time! That monster's mind is destroyed, but its instincts to devour all life remain. Let's escape—quickly!"

Ferberite granted Hades a new Spirit Body and infused his powers into the serpent, evolving it further. The creature burst free from Hades' corpse, transforming into an endless mass of tentacles spreading death and nether in every direction.

"GRUUOOOHHHHH…!"

Hades knew this abomination had to be destroyed before it caused even greater harm. He nodded to Persephone, his son, his daughters, and even his son's friends behind them.

"Let's do it!"

His Divinity and Ferberite's Spirit Power blazed like a black star. Everyone's divinities converged into that sphere, unleashing a devastating death-erasing beam.

"Divinity Soul Grand Fusion – Acheron-Elysium Equilibrium!!!"

The beam—carrying sunlight's radiance, moonlight's silver glow, death's power, and life's brilliance—pierced straight through the monstrosity. Its body swelled, unable to contain the colossal forces colliding within.

Until…

BOOOMMM!!!

The explosion consumed everything around it. The monstrous vessel of the now mindless Netherworld Plane Ruler shattered completely. With its god brain dead, the Plane lost all intelligence capable of breaching other dimensions.

"It's finally done!" Persephone celebrated joyfully. "Aahh, how I missed you all, my dears!"

"Mommyyyy!" Melinoë cried like a child.

"Mooom!" Makaria sobbed heavily.

"Mother…" Zagreus smiled warmly as he hugged her, tears held back.

"My family…! Everyone…! I cannot believe it… we're finally together again…!" Hades wept, clenching his teeth as he embraced them all.

"Well, looks like things turned out nice and good, heheh!"

"Yep! I like good endings."

Hanshuan and Henshian, the Sun Monkey God siblings, grinned as they celebrated the Hades family's reunion.

"It's not done yet, however!"

"Yeah, we must press on. With this serpent's power, we should help the Supremes regain their minds!"

Glimmerdust, the Moon Moth Goddess of the Moon's Shadow, and Sindarin, the Moon Elf Goddess of the Moonlight Dew, urged the family not to rest.

"You're right. This Divine Beast we've forged holds the key to saving them!" Hades nodded. "Let's not waste time—let's hurry!"

The Hades family shot through the skies, heading first toward the Supremes of Time, Destiny, and Souls.

Lucifer had already unleashed his full might. He summoned the Dimension of Hell and fused with his true body there, gaining overwhelming power.

Together with Tsukuyomi, Aura, and the System Master, they held the three brainwashed Supremes at bay.

But because they refused to kill their old friends, they could only restrain them—only to be thrown back again and again by their immense strength.

When facing beings of such caliber, restraint was nearly impossible. The only realistic option was death.

"Damn it! Do we really need to kill our old friends?!" Aura cried, starry hands pinning Time in place.

"T-There's nothing else we can do!" the System Master shouted. "If you won't, I will!"

"Stop!" Lucifer commanded. "Look!"

From the skies, a giant serpent descended. Everyone gasped at the immense power radiating from it. They all recognized what it was—and who commanded it.

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