Shackled (The Lord Series) by Amy T

261. Rueben - Pandora III

I want to ask about it, but Ansel claiming that Olivia can bring back the dead gets Rin and Steven's attention. "That's impossible. No one has such power. Except God," Steven says, but there is hope in his voice. I don't blame him. Losing his twin must have fucked him up well. Not only Isak but Gavin as well. Rin's eyes turn black. If Olivia were here, he would have already dragged her out of the house all the way to where Levi was put to rest for eternity and demanded she would bring him back.

"It has to do with Olivia's heritage," Ansel says. "She is the descendant of a very powerful Archangel. Her name was Pandora. She is the original owner of the twin daggers. At least, that's what I learned when I was researching about her. More than that, she is also the one who put Ophyr and the Nephilims inside the box. Lucifer is the one who made the Dybbux box in the bowels of Hell. Ophyr is the being that attacked Camila." Pandora is not someone I have heard about before. Not the name, but an Archangel with that name. And why don't I know anything about Ophyr? Is it because the Elders don't know about him or because they are hiding things from us? It wouldn't surprise me if it were the latter since they then keep a lot of information about the Dukes to themselves, maybe thinking they are protecting the Lords, but all they are obtaining is to put more people in danger. "Isn't there a legend about Pandora?" says Tyson. "And who is Ophyr?"

The story of Pandora is one of the first ones my mother told Camila and me when we were children. She was the first woman on Earth and the one who opened the box which contained all the evil of this world. When the box was closed, the only thing remaining inside was hope.

"Myths and legends are based on real events. Pandora's box was a reference to the Dybbux box, but it was more like a prophecy of what was to happen than a tale of the past. As for the hope that remained in the box, I think it's a reference to Pandora's descendants and how they will fight against evil." Ansel's eyes glow a strange shade of red. "From what I gathered, Pandora had only daughters, and so on. Olivia is a Pandora hellstar, referring to her lineage. The powers Olivia has are a fraction of what Pandora was capable of doing.

"As for Ophyr, there is little to no information about who and what he is. But all I know is that he hates everything God created and wants to destroy the entire Universe with the help of the Nephilims, who are his creation. Well, more or less his creation, but it is something he...altered," Ansel explains.

want to know more about Ophyr, there's something I don't understand. Didn't Wasp say the hellstars born now were originally from other worlds? "Do you know what happened to Pandora after she defeated Ophyr?" I ask. Ansel rubs his chin. "Not all the Nephilims were locked inside the Dybbuk box. Part of them were sent to the end of the many worlds God created, scattered all over the Universe so they wouldn't find each other again. Pandora left this world to ensure what happened here wasn't happening in other worlds. At least that's what was written in records, Ladybug, thought that during the battle between Ophyr and Pandora, she got mortality injured. Since she put most of her divine power into the daggers she used to defeat Ohyr, she couldn't heal herself and ultimately died. For all I know, it can be something between the two. What I do know is that

only had daughters?" Jasper raises

humans more than Ophyr hated the Universe, Pandora asked Dabriel and Ariel, the first demon-angel pair, to raise Lilith in the Garden of Eden. Despite Lucifer and Pandora's efforts to keep Lilith safe, she disappeared without a trace. Lucifer

More than that, Pandora never told Lucifer

After his wings were cut off and he was stabbed in the chest with his own sword, full of grief, Lucifer retreated deep within his realm to mourn not only the loss of his dear friend but everyone who perished because of Azael and Michael.

locked the gates of Hell and didn't know Pandora had taken it upon herself to

to be suitable for humans to live on, faced Ophyr. Without any help, Pandora was defeated but not

and Ophyr extended for a long time. Earth became populated with humans, and the fight

loved his creation so much, why didn't he stop Ophyr? Or helped Pandora defeat him and the Nephilims? And more