Chapter 1358 Trophy ----- The Supreme Goddess of Death and End sat down over her throne, as a trembling and delicate girl looked at her, she was obviously a zombie, as no living beings could truly be here unless they were Gods, as they would instantly die. She was a particular entity, the soul of a girl once offered as a sacrifice to her because she was the bearer of many Divine Protections from the Gods of the Realm of Vida. Hel was a mischievous Goddess that had a tendency for malicious acts, it felt as if they were natural from her very nature and behavior, and sometimes she felt weakened and grow even more insane if she didn't indulged in such malicious acts. It was like this ever since she acquired the Primordial Law of Death that allowed her to become a Great Goddess of Death, as she had devoured the largest part of the Great True Spirit of Death that was once the pillar of Death in the World of Genesis before the world were to be destroyed, in the great war of Gods, the Ragnar?k, where all hell broke loose and Gods began fighting one another for the scarce resources there were, and for their endless desire to grow stronger. Amongst the things they destroyed and devoured for power, the Gods battled against the large Spirits that maintained the order and balance of the world, and many were destroyed and devoured by the Supreme Gods of today, while some of the others willingly gave their lives to their apprentices, that were also some of the other Supreme Gods of today. These Great Spirits were the true Gods of this world, and governed it before any other Gods was born, they were born from the World's Will to protect and balance the world's elements, and they were the true caretakers of the planet for eons as they demolished mountains when there were too many, formed forests when there were no nature, and filled the world with oceans when it was drying. They maintained the world stable so it could continue giving birth to life, which was something very important to feed the World's Will. Life made it possible for the core of a planet to be formed, the more life accumulated, the more of this life's energies would slowly be absorbed into the core of the planet, therefore, for a planet's core to grow stronger and powerful and filled with energy, there was need for life to be thriving as much as possible, the more life there was, the better. Therefore, the World's Will continued making life evolve, and there were also those that survived through the catastrophes, the unyielding race known as humans… who once raised against her once more using her own power now as theirs… It was as if it were all an elaborate joke that always made Alice chuckle… She was part of such a "revolution" and she also saw the world end and be reconstructed; she saw how it all exploded into pieces only to everyone to be encapsulated into a single dimensional bubble and forced to cooperate to maintain the order… Hel became the pillar of Death despite not being a Supreme Goddess, but was feared as one by all beings except other Supreme Gods, who only saw her as a nuisance someone that nobody was fond of and that everybody hated for her malicious nature and ruthless personality. Hel had developed such nature and personality long ago and had continued to grow more malicious over time, devoid of the only thing she ever wanted in her life, a mother, she slowly became more and more darker, her heart turned completely black, and she embraced the being of darkness and death that she was destined to become, and the reason why she was created by her mother to begin with. After acquiring the Death Divinity and becoming a death pillar, however, her nature slowly changed to the worse, now she felt an even greater pleasure by torturing the living beings of the world, and couldn't help but continue doing malicious acts as if they were a necessity for her existence, as if this was all… a curse from the original wielder of her divinity for having devoured him, like a last curse to spite on her, and force her to become even more of a monster, twisting her personality, and if she didn't do as the curse said, she would only become progressively more insane to the point she would become a complete berserk, a beast. Deep down, Hel was desperate, but nobody could understand her as her true self was slowly devoured by her own insanity and this malicious "curse" that she called as the power of the divinity she had, desiring to see living beings suffer, she continued to offer her powers to mortals, asking them for all sorts of sacrifices, and even punishing them when they didn't do as she said, she stole countless souls from them, and continued disrupting the transmigration cycle made by the Supreme Goddess of Souls and Reincarnation. She did as she pleased, taking the souls of her sacrifices, and caging them as if they were trophies… And lately, she ended doing something even more atrocious, as she deeply hated all the Gods of the world due to her resentment to living beings, she asked her cultists to bring her the sacrifices of those that held Divine Protections from Gods, torturing these foolish gods that had blessed these mortals by taking away their lives and their souls… And one of her latest "trophies" was this zombie girl here, using a random body that didn't belong to her, this little girl's soul was that of Redgaria Frostbite's sister. The girl he had been working hard to one day rescue by the promise of Kireina. All this time this girl has been here, working as a mere maid to the Goddess, who mistreated her and made her suffer, tortured her, and reminded her every day of how worthless and pathetic she was… the girl, however, always had hope in her heart, and this only made it more fun to break for Hel. She sometimes wondered how long she would take to finally break down? And how fun would that be to see… -----