Later that day
Maeron was floating in the grey sky of Tartarus, he was so high that no one could notice him.
His piercing gaze was cast toward the ground, he could see a settlement of Titans just below him.
A decrepit old man who looked like a beggar was by his side breathing heavily, entirely covered by a dark and tattered cloak and a protective barrier around him, even with all that his skin seemed to be actively burning, due to the chaotic energy emanating from the gray sun above his head.
And yet he didn't utter a single complaint, the memory of the pain and suffering that Maeron inflicted on him was much worse than all the years of torture he experienced in this god-forsaken place.
"You didn't Lie to me Eden," Maeron said looking titan that had taken a human appearance.
"I wouldn't dare lie to you my lord," he said lowering his head, no longer daring to even look at Maeron in the eyes.
"Here is your gift,"
Maeron extended his hand toward Eden as dark purple energy filled the titan.
Eden quickly noticed that the energy that filled his body was a form of condensed chaos energy.
He was then filled with intense pain, and felt his inside was melting, as he lost consciousness.
After about one minute of that torture, Eden's eyes abruptly opened.
"What!!" he exclaimed
He looked at his hand in bewilderment they saw that they were muscular again, his previously scrawny body which seemed to be only skin and bone was now filled with muscle and energy.
Touching his face he noticed that he had lost that beard his skin was no longer wrinkly and dirty,
"I no longer feel like a sick old man!" he said and it was the truth
In front of Maeron was no longer an old man but a young, dark-haired man filled with strength and energy.
"Is it chaos energy that I feel in me," he said looking at Maeron with bewilderment.
"So it worked! Good to know," Maeron said looking at his palm which had the tattoo of a grey sun engraved in it,
It was the key that Typhoon had given him a while ago.
'So he used me as an experiment,' Eden thought offended for a few seconds
'It's not worth it,' he decided and just focused on being happy with his situation
With the confirmation that everything worked as he intended Maeron decided that he was ready.
Time to introduce myself,"
And with those words he let himself plummet toward the ground
In the settlement a ground the titans were going about their business when
"Booom"
An explosion resounded in the center of the settlement
"Ahhh, an explosion,"
"We are attacked!!"
"The monster attacks,"
"Everyone on your guards,"
"..."
In the settlement, an organized escape started some titans and titanesses were running away while some already armed and ready to fight were running toward the explosion.
"How impressive," Maeron said looking at the titans of various sizes that had surrounded him, some were as tall as mountains while some were only as tall as himself, but all of them had a thing in common.
The energy surrounding them was impressive.
"For people that have been trapped in that hellhole for a thousand years, you all still have a lot of energy left,"
"This is not a monster of Tartarus...this god!!" one of them exclaimed after seeing Maeron walking out of the cloud of dirt.
The atmosphere began immediately more dense and the air felt heavy.
'Ten titans in normal form and five in human form,' Maeron analyzed as he walked forward.
"I am..."
"Boom"
Before Maeron even had the time to introduce himself a massive fist fell upon him.
Blocking it with one hand he smiles remembering how Eden greeted him a few hours ago.
"I guess this is the appropriate response"
"Kill the god!" at that signal from the titan trying to pin him where he was.
Maeron was surrounded and attacked by the divine energy of the Titans
"Boom, boom,..."
He was relentlessly bombarded until it stopped.
"I don't feel him anymore, he must be dead," said the Titans that were holding Maeron in place as he removed his bloody hand from the attack range.
After a few seconds, the dust settled enough for the Titans to see the state of the place.
"A hole!" one of them exclaimed
Immediately after Maeron busts out of the ground behind them, clenching his fist he punches one of the small Titans slamming him head-first on the ground.
"Hello there Titans and Titaneses, my name is Maeron and I am here to recruit you in my army," he said getting up to look at the Titans surrounding him.
"Screw you, you think you can play with us, that we can't feel the energy of Zeus inside you,"
"boom, boom" the big Titans slammed their fists toward him
"fush" but it was futile as he flew in the sky avoiding their attacks
You are faster than I would have expected Maeron said slam
"It would've indeed been more peaceful if I had sent Eden before but..." he said Slamming his fist in the guts of one of the titans sending him flying into one of the tents behind he continued
"I like to make a strong impression on my subject,"
"Eren!! Did you say Eren," One of the human titans arrived at his level and through a punch in his face that he effortlessly block
"Oh, you know Eren? Ah of course in a settlement as small as this one it would be that strange if didn't know each other after a thousand years,"
Moving from the side he avoided the attacks from one of the human titans as they all gang up on him
"And to respond to your question I helped him ascend," Maeron said with a smile as he avoided the flurry of attack coming toward him from all sides from the Titans.
"You killed Eden! We will make you pay for it," one of them said in anger as the four of them moved away while the other six continued to attack with even more vigor and with such speed that after images of them surrounded him,
To make up for the absence of the others their speed augmented so much that a normal god wouldn't even have noticed it.
Unfortunately for them, all of their attacks were useless as this time Maeron didn't even bother to dodge or parry
Channeling his energy in his body he reinforced himself, his skin started to glow due to the energy in it.
He then stood there he let himself be pummeling them.
"When did I Killed him?! Well, I can understand that you would assume it knowing who my father is, but, know that the only reason you can feel a glimpse of his energy in me is that I allow it after all even Hera and his children weren't able to feel it on me when I didn't want to,"
While the Titans were busy striking him with all their strength to the point of injuring their limbs Maeron just talking
"I'm trying to start this relationship on sanes base, you know like, honesty, strength, we both suffered because of Zeus, and I'm here to help..."
"Booom," During his monologues the human Titans distance themself from him and he is blasted by the combined force of all the Titans around him.
The explosions were such that even those massive Titans had trouble standing straight while a few of the smaller ones were sent flying away.
"We charged a lot of energy for this one attack, even if he isn't dead he will be badly injured, even someone like Zeus would be injured by that in Tartarus," one of the massive titans said
"Those gods are always the same, they think that because we stayed trapped here for so long we became helpless and they can beat us for fun,"
"Yes, they forget that Tartarus is even more poisonous for them as they relied more on their divine energy than us,"
"We have more experience fighting here, "
"Thank you Atanas for covering our energy waves, he didn't even feel it to avoid,"
While they were celebrated they heard Maeron's voice coming from the dissipating cloud of dust
"No bad, Very good, I'm impressed, good strategy, that's true that in Tartarus an attack like that would've been fatal for nearly all gods, but you see I'm not like all gods,"
"Let me introduce myself again, I'm Maeron," he said speeding to one of the smaller titans clenching his fist he punched him so hard that he flew in the sky out of view of nearly everyone
"I'm the god of many things, knowledge, water, earth," he moving at lightning speed toward another of the titans and punching him in the head sending him crashing into the settlement below and destroying houses and tents on his way
"Love, Gravity, and so many things that citing them all will be a hassle," he continued blitzing the Titans, and in an instant, all the small one hand had been defeated
"But the most important thing right now is that I'm one of the masters of Tartarus,"
saying that he put his hands in front of him and flew faster than the speed of light into the body of the massives titans surrounding him piercing through them from either side and leaving massives holes in those behemoths in front of him
"The most important is that I'm your future lord! Do not worry you will come to love me more than your own lives,"
"I guarantee it," he said with a beautifully devilish smile.