'I died. I remember my life before this, my life in the city, but my family I can't remember them. I know the morals that my presumed mother and father taught me, but their faces I can't remember, heck, I don't even feel sad about leaving them behind, but I guess that is what death is. When will I be freed from this place, the eternal darkness where I float around? Is this where I spend my life? I used to remember my past life clearly, but it just faded into time. What the hell? What is this push, this feeling, it's suffocating?' He thought as his eyes saw light for the first time in who knows how long.
It took a while to adjust, but when it finally did, he saw her. Her hair flows like cascading silver-gold starlight, and her eyes shimmer with the calm wisdom of the cosmos, deep and maternal. Clad in flowing robes woven from moonlight and fertile earth, she embodies both the grace of creation and the sorrow of betrayal. She spoke in a voice filled with love, "You will be called Hades."
'Hold up! The fuck you just said lady, Hades? As in the Greek god of the underworld, Hades? The forgotten King, Hades?' Hades' mind immediately went through all he knew about the Greek mythos, which was not a lot, considering that almost all his memories were buried or forgotten. 'There is no way I am him, it's just that we share the same name,' He thought. Just then, as if the universe wanted to rub his wound in, a huge man burst into the room. He had a bald head, a beard that looked like he went through sage hood or something, and most importantly a fucking scythe like a really big one although not as big as him.
"Cronus, wait!" Rhea said, hearing this Hades thought 'Yep, I am fucked' before he could do anything else he was swallowed whole. The displeasure at being swallowed was something else, it felt constricting and daming. His entire body was stuck in a constant regeneration and being burned by the acid, Hades was kept awake through all of this and felt the pain crouse through his body.
He spent a month falling down the esophagus, and in this time, he grew accustomed to the darkness and pain. Finally, when he fell into the stomach, the acid burned faster and hurt more. It felt like transitioning from getting constant paper cuts to basically being hit in the head with a hammer. Hades let his mouth open to scream, but nothing came out as he downed, regenerated.
{Another month}
'It has been another month since I arrived in the stomach and grew acid resistant, it seems, since I don't get burned and can't physically drown. I can breathe underwater now, I feel like that one green-haired really good scientist from a fictional story called anime, maybe?, All I know is that I have been counting the seconds I spent here in my mind and did the calculation to reach approximately a month.' Hades thought, 'In this time, I thought my myself how to write and read Greek as even my thoughts began to appear in Greek words. My brain seems to be forgetting English, and I finally got a hold on this god thing.'
'In this world, literally everyone has a domain. Ok, not everyone. Only around 90% of the population, which are Primodials, Titans, and finally I, who are the gods. Every being that possesses a domain naturally has the basic instinctual knowledge of this and specific knowledge on how to access their domain. Once the domain is everything, there is no other way for someone to climb the ladder other than divine weapons. The difference between the above-mentioned races is that the primordials are living embodiments of their domain, as in killing them is killing the entire domain, but of course, you can absorb their domain.
Primodials are the only race where you can devour their domain, as in not absorb it, but just eat it up, and then nothing happens to the domain. That is exactly why my dad was able to kill his grandfather without destroying heaven, now talking about Titans, they are a race that are naturally bigger, not as much as primodials, but big enough to scale mountains like hills as for their domain. They have a core, and as long as the core is safe, you can only incapacitate them, thus leading Zeus to imprison them inside Tartarus.
Finally, the gods, aka my fate, according to my knowledge, the gods have the same ability as Titans, except their domains are easier to hit since they are another organ to us. The benefits, we can 'devour' or gain minor divinity in other domains through killing or reproducing. This is exactly why gods kept the throne the longest, due to their being able to grow more powerful as time passed by.' Hades' mind digested the information he had gotten as he opened his eyes and swam to the bottom of Cronus' stomach and sat there in a meditative position.
'To awaken a domain, well, not awaken since your domain is active since you were born, but to gain knowledge on your domain, you must look within yourself. I know my domain already, but I don't know the skills it gives, so let's see.' Hades thought as he meditated, according to his previous lifetime time this is how you look within yourself by meditating.
{11 days later}
Hades was still in a meditative state as he finally opened his eyes, and a bunch of information flooded his mind. 'Huh? Weird. I didn't get the death but infinity, I became the god of infinity. How the fuck did this happen?' Filing these thoughts to the back of his mind to ponder upon later, he went through the passive abilities he had. 'Limitless Progression: My body, mind, and soul are in a constant state of evolution. The more pressure I am under, the more I grow, adapting to and eventually overcoming any force. Adaptive Divinity: When I acquire or interact with the divine essence of another god, it doesn't clash or get destroyed. Instead, my core expands its conceptual boundaries, forming a perfect orbit around the new domain. Infinity Body: My Body, soul, and mind can all be destroyed or erased, but the core regenerates them infinitely unless it is damaged directly' He thought as he smiled at this and went back into meditation.