Kronos

> I finally found out in the end. It's never the children's fault. I was the biggest problem... Next, it was because of you, Even now, thinking about it, I still grind my teeth. My insanity was all your doing, right?! **Demononism**
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> — Kronos to the Demonism

> "Hahaha! I'm well aware of my own greatness. If you want to look at me with admiration, feel free to do so to your heart's content"
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> — Kronos to Yeon-woo

## Description

### Vitas Status

DeceasedAlive (Inhabits Vigrid)Alive in novel

### Cause of death

Curse of the Gaia/Great Mother
Titanomachy

## Relationships

### Relatives

Ouranos (Adoptive Father)
Gaia (Mother)
Oceanus (Adoptive Older Brother)
Iapteus (Adoptive Older Brother)
Theia (Adoptive Older Sister)
Hyperion (Adoptive Older Brother)
Rhea (Adoptive Sister/Wife)
Zeus (Son)
Hades (Eldest Son)
Poseidon (Son)
Hera (Youngest Daughter)
Hestia (Oldest Daughter)
Cha Yeon-woo (Son)
Cha Jeong-woo (Youngest Son)
Demeter (Daughter)
Hermes (Grandson)
Athena (Granddaughter)
Ares (Grandson)
Apollo (Grandson)
Artemis (Granddaughter)
Hercules (Grandson)
Persephone (Granddaughter)
Sesha (Granddaughter)

## Status

### Affiliations

Olympus

**Kronos** was the former Lord of Olympus and God of Time and Death. Husband to the Earth Goddess, Rhea. He was the father to the Six Elder Olympians.

## History

Kronos was stated to have been descended from an incredibly ancient clan of Transcendents known as the Pneuma Faction, one of the first Transcendent Soceities to form and was stated to have existed since the beginning of the universe.

The Pneuma faction was described to have been a group made of lunatics who wanted to expand the universe and were stated to do anything for prosperity and victory. The Pneuma Faction was a Society said to have represented time. They worshipped and admired it and they once even attempted to write the long history from the beginning of the universe to its end into a book. The Pneuma Faction were known to have been relentless in reaching their long desired goal and was infamously known for having foul tempers.

Eventually due to their violent behaviors and tendency to wage wars against anyone who crossed them, The Pneuma Faction had lost a large number of their members. In a last ditch attempt to reach their goal and help restore their dwindling numbers, they had chosen to offer a seed filled with their unique energies and essence to the Primordial Earth Goddess, Gaia (Great Mother), who then used it to then create a new spawn, Kronos.

After giving birth to him amongst the hundreds of other children she had birthed/created during that time, Gaia quickly assessed Kronos's body as being highly compatible for a certain being and labelled him a unique mutant. Giddy at her new "accomplishment", Gaia quickly began making plans to take advantage of him for her own benefit. However, due to her waging several wars against several Godly, Demonic and other transcendent Societies at the time, Gaia quickly abandoned Kronos amongst a mountain of rooting corpses of her other created "children" and left him to his own devices.

Kronos, not knowing any better, remained in that rotten filled hole, believing that his mother would return for him.

Coming across a now abandoned Kronos, Ouranos adopted the orphaned him as his youngest son.

Due to due to his own responsibilities, Ouranos primarily left Kronos and his siblings under the care of Ananke, who quickly became a mother like figure to Kronos. As described by Ananke, Kronos was known as a troublemaker, causing numerous problems and pranks in Olympus and picked fights with his older adoptive brothers and was stated to have relied on his older brother Oceanus when having to be reprimanded by Ouranos to help smooth things over with him.

After the fall of Ouranos from the curse of the Gaia and the complete loss of all his power, all the children of Ouranos fought for the throne of Olympus. Kronos was initially imprisoned by Theia's faction, but having grown fed up with the squabbling and warring of his siblings, decided to personally get involved and take the throne. Having received the last of Ouranos's power, Kronos teamed up together with Rhea, who had remained neutral in the conflict, and together managed to overpower both Oceanus and Theia's factions and become the new king of Olympus.

As per their agreement, Rhea was married to him and took over as Queen of Olympus in order to stabilize Olympus and insure a power balance.

During Ouranos's last days, only he and Rhea was left to say their goodbye's to their father as he died.

Sometime after, Kronos gets inflicted with the curse of Gaia. This causes his mentality to distort heavily as he continues to reign over Olympus with an iron fist, in contrast to his father. This distortion did not go unnoticed by Rhea, and made her all the more worried when to was pregnant.

Upon the birth of his children, Kronos threw them into his personal space except for one, Zeus. Eventually, Zeus returns and slays Kronos, leaving his body in the underworld Tartarus.

Even as a dead body, Kronos's immense power still remained within his corpse. His other siblings, the Titans, thus then began siphoning his holy energy and power from his corpse and using it to greatly magnify their powers, causing their bodies to inflate and giganitfy due to Kronos's immense energy adding to their bodies density.

Using his powers, he managed to separate a piece of soul and send it out. Eventually, his soul reached a unique universe, on the planet called Earth. From there, he thought of ways for him to return to his universe and to Olympus. He then started his plans of laying out his myth to increase his powers.

After multiple reincarnations, he eventually reincarnated into the body of an orphan. It was not long before he met the reincarnation of Rhea, Shin Le-ah. After falling in love all over again and getting married, to their surprise, Cha Yeon-woo and Cha Jeong-woo were born. Sadly, Rhea's health was deteriorating after destroying her godhood. She was constantly leaking divine energy, to save her, Kronos set off to find a way to do so.

Years later, Jeong-woo had entered the tutorial floor in hopes of saving his mother. Rhea finds out and contacts Kronos as she knows the dangers of the tower after having been there and leaving it. Kronos quickly follows using his powers, but instead of entering the tutorial like his son should, he ended up on the 77th floor. There, he met Bivasbat who then imprisoned him within his world.

## Powers & Abilities

During his time as the Titan King, Kronos was stated to have had immense power that easily eclipsed the rest of his siblings and was stated to have singlehandedly defeat all of them and force them to submission. In fact, Kronos's might was so powerful that the other transcendent societies were unable to fight against his power and few beings, such as the primordial gods who founded their own societies such as Odin and the Jade Emperor could match him in terms of power and only beings who were powerful enough to be able to roam around without a Society or Pantheon, such as Cernunnos was capable of fighting him toe-to-toe.

### Holy Power

As the King of Titans and the most powerful of Ouranos's children, Kronos possessed immense Holy Power. So much so that even when his physical body was killed, it still retained his immense power that could then be siphoned and mined by the Great Mother to strengthen the Gigantes and the Titans.

Other than his own distinct Holy Power, Kronos was also shown to possess two other distinct Holy Powers that were given to him that was the foundations to his strength.

* **Holy Power of the Black King:** As the Apostle of the Black King, Kronos possessed a bulk of his Holy Power that granted him control over "Death" and "Darkness".
* **Holy Power of Ouranos:** After being injured during an expedition, Kronos was given a gigantic bulk of his adoptive father Ouranos's remaining Holy Power. This Holy Power was stated to contain Ouranos's divine control over space that when fused together with Kronos's own innate power, eventually transformed into his power to control and manipulate Time.
* **King of the Titans:** As the King of Titans, Kronos was shown to have gigantic amount of power that easily surpassed the other Titans, as seen where due to his massive power, his bodies size and density was large enough it was comparable to several mountains. Kronos himself was shown to have massive amounts of Holy Power, this is seen where using the remaining Holy Power within his Corps in Tartarus after the Great Mother extracted only a minor fragments of it, the Titans and Gigantes were not only able to regain their lost power after being exiled to Tartarus, but actually boost their powers further despite them not being compatible with his power. Because of the sheer amount of Holy Power present within his corpse and how even a small fragment of it could restore and massively boost the power of even the weakest Gods, Kronos's corpse was stated to be an indispensable resource to Mother Earth as it essentially made his corpse as a Virtual Gold Mine for Holy Power. As seen when the Titans began siphoning his power from his corpse, his residual "light" was shown to be gigantic enough that it caused a majority of the Titans to transform into Giant Gods due to their densities increasing after absorbing his residual energies. His remaining power inside his corpse was strong enough that it had even granted a few of the Titans access to his authorities, as seen where Astraeus gained access to some of them in order to empower her Artifact, Deneb and made her sufficiently strong enough to challenge Hades and Dis Pluto singlehandedly.

### Authorities

#### God of Death

Kronos was stated to be the Titan that ruled over and presided over "death" and as such had a level of divine control over the dead and souls.

* **Apostle of the Black King:** It would later be stated that Kronos himself was one of the earliest known Apostle and Successor of the "Black King" and as such received a numerous Blessings and Powers from him that granted him his power over "death".
	+ **Soul Collection:** Similar to Cha Yeon-woo, Kronos was also capable of capturing and collecting the souls of any being that he desired and keeping them contained in an alternate space until he willingly summons them.
		- **Soul Enslavement:** As seen during the civil war between the Titans, Kronos was also capable of enslaving and transforming the souls he collected into his personal soldiers. His power was so immense that he was even capable of resurrecting and reviving other Gods into becoming his familiars, as seen where he had raised several dead Gods from both Theia and Oceanos's factions and turned them into his undead soldiers.
* **Scythe:** As seen during his fight against Mother Earth, Kronos is capable of focusing and forming his authority over Death into the form of a Scythe that he can then use as a weapon. This ability was shown to be powerful enough to even be capable of destroying and "Killing" the manifestation of the primordial earth mother and force her back into hibernation. As shown after it was rebuilt and claimed by Cha Yeon-woo, Kronos himself could actually physically transform into the Scythe, allowing him to work in tandem with his son and combine their respective powers over death. Kronos was later also shown to work together with his younger son, Cha Jeong-woo and allow him access to his powers over death as well.
	+ **Curse of Death:** Using the Curse of the Great Mother as a template, Kronos learned to implant the concept of death into the very framework of a Transcendent Being, destroying them in a fundamental level by literally killing their [Legends] and [Holy Power]. This ability was shown to be strong enough to completely annihilate Michael.

#### God of Time

Kronos was also stated to be one of the few Transcendent Beings that had divine control over "Time" and was stated to be immensely powerful because of his authority over time. Kronos's control over time correlated with his divine authority over death, with him stating to embody the concept of "Death through Time" and this power was precisely the reason why the Godly Society of Olympus was feared by all other transcendents during his time as its King.

The degree of his strength and influence is dependent on how much causality he is willing to offer. The ententes of his power is vastly inferior to that of the Heavenly Demon.

In fact, its been stated that due to the sheer power of time that Kronos possessed, he himself could no longer completely control its immense power and him losing control of it was ultimately the reason to his "death".

* **Time Manipulation:** During his time as the King of the Olympus and Ruler of the Titans, Kronos was shown to have the ability to freely manipulate the flow of time within his vicinity. As seen where he was capable of halting and freezing the time of a specific area as he pleases.
* **Fate Divination:** Similar to the Three Platform Goddesses, Kronos can observe and a see the "fate" of whoever he pleases. Kronos himself has stated however, that unlike the three Norns, who have divided up the ability to the see the past, present and future between themselves, Kronos was capable of easily had access to all three of their forms of their divine powers and was stated to easily far surpass theirs. This is seen where he was able to see all the possible outcomes of Cha Jeong-woo's life and death within the Tower and see all of his possible "fates", a feat that was stated to only be barely accomplished by the three Norns only when all three of them combined their power.

### Reincarnation

Due to Kronos having the Divine Authority over Time and Death, it was stated that he could reincarnate himself over and over again while completely retaining his memories and sense of identity. This is seen where after his consciousness and soul landed on earth, he successfully managed to reincarnated repeatedly with little trouble for hundreds of thousands of years while on earth as thousands of Heroes in hundreds of stories, legends and myths in order to rebuilt his power to the level that he could exuviate once again.

* **Folklore:** After reincarnating in Earth after his initial death, Kronos was stated to have continuously reincarnate over and over again in the planet as hundreds of different legendary heroes and figures of human history in order to built up the belief and faith in him to transcend back to Godhood. Kronos himself has shown that due to his many lives, he could make use of the various unique abilities of his many myths and stories based on his previous exploits. However due to the fact that Earth was a planet that leaned more towards the scientific than the supernatural, these stories never became anything more than mere [Folklore], a weaker variations to [Myths] and [Legends] that severely limited his growth in power due to people not really giving him [Faith] and [Belief] they would give a God. Because of that the abilities he has using his stories as a mortal hero are weak in comparison to the powers of a God.

## Trivia

* Due to him having "Died" during Zeus's rebellion, Kronos was unaware of the identities of his grandchildren and had no knowledge of the events after his "death".
	+ Due to him having died in ancient times when the Gods and the other transcendents were free to roam the cosmos, Kronos is unaware of the events that occurred after the Transcendents imprisonment in the Obelisk. As seen where he does not know of Luciel.