Not to mention how Poseidon had once flown into a rage and made the Queen of Crete develop a passion for bulls, which ultimately led to the birth of the Minotaur.
The method used to solve the labyrinth was completely useless.
Back then, someone had used a long, thin thread to mark every turn in the maze, ensuring they could find their way back out.
But the new Tartarus Hell labyrinth was moving!
Basically, whenever Zeus and the others walked five hundred meters, they'd hear the earth rumble. Then the enormous bronze walls Poseidon had built to imprison the Titans and Zeus's Titan father would block the entrance they'd come through, leaving them no way to turn back.
There were only two ways to solve this kind of labyrinth. The first was to be a maze destroyer, powerful enough to tear down its walls and shatter space, taking the shortest path between two points. Unfortunately, they'd ruled that out from the start: the bronze walls had been built by the gods specifically to keep gods out. The second was to use your wits, figure out the labyrinth's patterns, and perhaps even grasp the laws governing its formation, then find a way through.
But here was the problem: did Chaos have laws?
Yes and no!
In theory, Chaos represented absolute disorder. In practice, from the Chaos Lords down to the lowliest Chaos Devils, it had a strict hierarchy.
In theory, Chaos should also have its own set of rules.
The trouble was, Tartarus Hell had only been partially invaded by the power of Chaos, leaving this world incomplete. Neither Order nor Chaos was whole here. And the corruption wasn't one-sided. Hades had discovered that the flames of Hell could actually counteract some of Chaos's power.
That made things difficult!
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