Reborn As Hades In Olympus

Ch. 168: The Fallen?

I went through the rare assortment of books in the library and flipped through them like someone with an agenda. I had already spent over a week here and I was not pleased about it, there was no way for me to tell if the timing in this world interacted the same way with world of Olympus.

A part of me tingled with excitement, maybe because all my years reading myths was not something to be laughed at. "Damn it." I hissed out in rage.

It seems that the name was merely an inconvenience and had nothing to do with a connection to Olympus. I looked over another shelf and looked through every book.

I think I was causing a ruckus because I attracted the attention of another person. I could hear the soft gentle footsteps of someone coming from my side, the person appeared to have fallen asleep because he walked groggily.

He was wearing a white jumper that looked a bit rough, he seemed to be a bit muscular and built. I could not make out his face because he dug at his eyes as he closed in on me, his white kicks the only thing keeping him from tripping over himself.

From his hand I could see his was light skinned. "Hey, you-- some of us are trying to escape this world. It's called reading not book terrorism." The boy sounded young looking to be in his early or mid twenties.

He pulled away his hand from his face and yawned, his eyes carries dark sacks, clearly evident that he lacked sleep. His face was pale and his jawline angular, his eyes a light blue and his hair smooth and cut neatly around the edges. From the looks of it he was a foreigner most likely Asian.

Knowing I was in the wrong I made a move to apologize with a light head bow. "I apologize for disturbing the peace, I seemed to have been lost in my interest here."

The young man yawned loudly and said nothing, he looked at me for a while I thought he was considering hitting me. Then all of a sudden his eyes widened and he bent down and greeted me in a honourable fashion, I deduced that he was a well mannered boy from wherever he was from. So I waved him off.

"It's okay, I was in the wrong anyway." I said.

The young man raised his head and scratched the back of his head and exchanged a nervous glare with me. "I apologize but I was in the wrong here, I should not have acted in such a way to an elder."

I smiled, he really was a funny lad. A part of me cried at the fact that I was being referred to as an elder once more. I guess this was my reality for now. "So what brings you here?" I asked, seeking to break the tension that was already building in the air.

The young man smiled and said. "Actually I come here often, it has some books that are really interesting. You see I run a blog on stuff like this."

Intriguing

, I said to myself.

"You are interested in greek mythology at such a young age, I am quite impressed." I felt like patting him on the back but he gave me a quick reason not to.

"I wouldn't say greek mythology exactly, those kind of stuff can get easily boring since they are over repetitive." His eyes turned to the book I held in hand. "From the way you're dressed you're not poor, I haven't seen you here so you're a new face. But it seems you're here for greek myth, if you need more they are on the shelves right down tha way. So pleased don't disregard library policies."

I nodded and looked the way he pointed. "Thank you actually."

He bowed his head once more and started to leave. "If you need me I'll be here for another hour or two. Bye elder."

I found him to be quite nice despite how we met. I wondered what someone as young as him could really be doing there. Just as he was leaving my phone rang and I cursed under my breath, perhaps due to what has been going through my head lately I had forgotten to turn it off.

"Shit!" I hissed under my breath as I tried to pick the call before the library attendant would start to rain cursed to me. I also looked over my shoulder to see if the young man I had just spoken to would give me a good lashing to but he did not seem to mind as he walked away.

"Phew." I sighed in relief.

I was more used to being the quiet one in the library not the other way around. The phone rang again and this time I picked it up as quickly as my shaky hands could. "Hello... Jess..." I fumbled on my words.

Her voice from the other end sounded sweet and pained at the same time. "Dad, you promised to call the moment you got there and you didn't. What if something has happened to you what then do you expect me to do? I am not about to lose my father a third time." Her voice sounded genuine.

I tried to reassure her but she seemed to drag the talk for longer than I expected. As we talked my attention was drawn to a slight commotion at the entrance. Still holding on to the phone in I moved and peeped though the space one of the book shelves to see what the problem was and there I saw it.

My heart tightened at the sight of it. Three huge figures each one a towering figure, four times the size of an average man. Their body mass was that of a mountain bear. They wore dark cloak with golden sigil markings around it. I could see their huge golden chains dangling off their neck.

The fact that they looked too frightening to be humans was not what frightened me but that the each held a huge scythe making the look like grim realers but their scythes were much smaller than grim reapers.

I tried to move a bit closer with the air of my walking stick and listened to what they said.

The one in middle sounded like a hoarse monster growling out black puffs of smoke. "Where is he mortal, THE FALLEN who hides away in the your sanctuary. Hand him over to us and we will spare your lives."

The attendant looked up at them with a rusty look on his face and spat. "You cosplayers really do go all out around this time of the year. I get it it's one of those things where there's a hidden camera right."

The cloaked figure on the right said to the others. "This mortal dares mock us and as such must lay the price for defying THE CORE."

I swallowed hard out of feat and the fact that this was too much to stomach. None of this made sense if they really were beings from the world of Olympus then did that mean they were here all along hiding in our midst.

More clearly that would mean that there really was a way through.

The one in middle raised his scythe above the man's head startling him a bit but he still believed it to be a cosplay but I could feel it in every fibre of my body this was real as I was.

In a few moments the poor library attendant would die and because of me nonetheless.

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"Whoever stands I our way will be cut down." After those parting words the scythe came down in a swift motion.

I reacted quickly and stepped out to stop them...

"STOP!!" A voice rang out but it was not mine, dashed it was that of the young man I had met earlier. Why was he getting involved in this matter when he clearly knew nothing about them. "Why don't you leave him alone? Don't you think that this cosplay is going too far?"

He reached into his his crossbag and sent a bottle of whiskey flying at the one in front and flame in the form of a recently lit match. Flames roared and consumed the one in front.

He initially intended to scare them off and force them to drop their costumes but instead they stayed there unmoving.

"Perhaps I watch a lot of junk movies but there's usually a lot of screaming at this moment. Did I miss something or this will turn very hard around this moment." He said in a sarcastic tone as the library attendant looked at them in worry.

The first cloaked figure brought down his scythe on the library attendant faster than I could blink and before I knew it things worsened.

Blood coat the air as the library attendant split down in two, from his neck down to the torso. The boy in the jumper was next as he stood there immobilised.

I kicked off as fast as I could and blocked the attack with my walking stick, the parry was even as I repeated my routine, channeling my energy into the walking stick and it worked else I would be dead now.

I sent them flying back with the wind pressure from my swing. I was still amazed by the fact that I could move more than my creaking body could handle and it was superhuman though not on level the body of Hades himself but still...

Extremely powerful.

Without looking back I called out to the young man to snap him out of his self coma. "Hey kid stay behind me."

"Y- yes." He said hesitantly.

Just to relieved him I asked his name. "What's your name kid?"

He responded after a moment's thought.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Junghkook!"