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The answer left hi’s coht for a moment, nodded "Very well I’ll even aid you Pippin, if you please"

Another piece of the tablet provided a map of the nine underworld realms and the ability to flash anywhere within them The only location forbidden to him was inside Lucifer’s palace, the walls mystically blocked

But there ays around that Or there would be by the tiht pulled at the waist of his pants, he looked down A grenade hung frorinned Here was the way

Like for like Lucifer destroyed his home, now Baden would destroy his

He flashed to the outskirts of themoat was a ons flew through a sky of smoke and fire

The scent of sulfur and bri with the fetid stench of death A thousand screarueso he’d ever heard in Hades’s douards patrolled the palace parapet They spotted hirenade Boom! As the parapet crumbled in a burst of fire and debris, he flashed to the other side of the palace and lobbed a second grenade He continued the assault until his belt loops were e that tied to pinpoint his location They pitched spears in his direction while others pitched spears everywhere else so that, when he flashed to a new location, one of those spears would find and gouge him

Which it did

On impact, he lost the ability to flash, was pinioned by an invisible barrier, Destruction roaring Every guard focused on hi more spears Just before the avalanche reached him, the beast was able to free hirab a handful of discarded spears, but he reappeared atop a steel trap--one made for flashers Metal teeth snapped closed around his ankle, preventing hi The lines that an to burn and blister, as if the beast breathed fire on them fro a wall around him

Not smoke, he realized, but the creatures that had once lived inside his victims

Shock clouted him in the chest He’d witnessed the rise of shadows from Hades, had even seen a hint of the shadohen he’d dealt with the Berserker, but he’d never expected this

An army took shape around him

What the hell was he supposed to do? The humans who’d once hosted the creatures hadn’t kno to utilize them, Hades had said Baden had no idea how to utilize the hih an invisible tether kept the too far They stopped every weapon tossed his way--even a grenade As fire blazed around him, unable to touch him, he reeled Within seconds, the shadoere able to eat through thehim

Be ready, Destruction said

The very moment the shadows reabsorbed in his arms, Baden flashed ho multiple embers with hi room He rushed to stomp them out before they could spread When he finished, s to think about the shadows, or what they were capable of doing Not now He had too h the hohold in a desert realm where no one else would ever dare venture The only patch of grass was located in a gated oasis found in the backyard When wheeling and dealing with Galen, he’d insisted on a place for the dogs to run and play Because Just because Galen had delivered, in his own unique way Other than the palace and the oasis, the real rocks, and black sand dunes

Welcootten

To enter, you needed a key Only Baden and Galen had one

The longer he stayed here, the more likely his memory was to fade from the minds of everyone he’d ever et him More missions meant e a date between Galen and Legion Or Honey Or whatever the deirl-turned-huhter After the terrible abuse she’d suffered in hell, thein his power to heal her mind as well as her body While he’d had no trouble with the latter, he’d had no luck with the former She suffered still Maybe Galen was the answer He and the girl had history