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The killing intent rising from Noah directly provoked Hades, who seemed as though he had fallen into madness.
"Y-you... want to kill me?" Hades said in utter disbelief.
That was only natural.
Leaving aside the consequences of killing Hades, the mere fact that he could be killed was something Hades could not accept.
It was not that Hades feared death.
As the god of the underworld, as a Deity who governed death and souls, death was absolutely not something Hades found frightening.
But before this, Hades had never once considered that he might die.
Having lent Samael to the Hero Faction, set his sights on Ophis, and even dispatched the army of Death Gods to seize Ophis after she had lost half her power, Hades could not possibly have failed to consider the consequences of his actions.
First of all, Samael was an evil being sealed by the entirety of Greek Mythology and placed under Hades's management.
If Hades released Samael without authorization and allowed Samael's power to appear in the human world, the gods of Greek Mythology alone would hold Hades accountable for that.
And the Hero Faction was a terrorist group within the Khaos Brigade, the common enemy of all mythological factions at present.
Not only had Hades lent Samael out without authorization, he had lent Samael to terrorists from the Khaos Brigade. Forget Greek Mythology—every mythological faction had the right to pursue Hades's responsibility and make him pay dearly.
Yet Hades was not afraid.
Because there was no evidence, was there?
Even if this matter were exposed, Hades had ways to deny