[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades":3,"chapter-extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-269":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},418059,682,"Chapter 269 The Life of Neo Hargraves","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-269",269,"\u003Cp>Neo had huge amount of memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hundreds of years of his own lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thousands of people whom he purified with his blessing and gained their memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And lastly, the fourth vision of Sphinx where he spent eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The memories of Eternity were sealed by his mother, but the emotions he felt during those countless years were not sealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despair, hollowness, fear, grudges, insanity, love, ambition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything Neo gained during the eternity was still with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shadow saw everything at once when it looked into Neo's memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its foolish actions tore apart its sanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>idon'tWANTtoliveihatelivingsomeonekillMEpleasepleasepleasePLEASEpleasekillME, the Shadow screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Neo could do anything, the Shadow exploded, having killed itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo stared at the remains of the Shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shaking his head, he devoured it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The memories of Neo Hargraves poured into Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was born to two humans who didn't awaken their demigod lineage and he had an older brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Neo Hargraves, who had a healthy physique like his mother, Henry Hargraves had a very weak body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It led him to develop an inferiority complex against Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The relationship between the brothers had been strained since childhood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo Hargraves didn't pay much attention to it. He was content with his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hargraves family was a sub-clan of the Hephaestus Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The High God Clan treated his family nicely even though they didn't have any demigods in their lineage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo Hargraves had been happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But everything changed during the centennial tournament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an event that happened once in a century, it was highly celebrated, and almost every member of the Hephaestus Clan participated in it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The day, which should've been one of the happiest of Neo's life, was torn apart when the sky shattered, and thousands of eyes poured out of broken sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A storm brewed in the skies above the arena, turning daylight into an ominous twilight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd's cheers turned to screams as grotesque monsters descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were a mass of writhing eyes that seemed to pierce through souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just looking at the grotesque monster made Neo Hargraves' eyes burst, and he was turned into a cripple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo Hargraves thought he would die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing he remembered was his mother's voice telling him everything would be okay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His parents left saying they would do something about the monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They never returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Neo Hargraves and his older brother Henry Hargraves were left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'B-Brother…. Mom and dad… hic… hic… where are they'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo Hargraves remembered crying in his brother's embrace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of them hid under the wreckage, praying the thousand-eye abomination wouldn't find them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I'll g-go and look for mom and dad. It has been hours since t-they went out and didn't return,' the little Henry had said to Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't go. I'm afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo kept the words he wanted to say in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His brother hated him, and now Neo was a cripple who could die at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of sticking with Neo, it was better for Henry to escape alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hey, what are you thinking!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry had flicked Neo's forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'There is no way I will leave my little brother alone and escape myself.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry understood Neo was afraid, and he decided to stay with Neo instead of searching for their parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last thing Neo Hargraves remembered was his weak-willed big brother saying he would protect Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Neo woke up, a week had passed since the incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They called it the Void Window #8477 incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The complete Hephaestus Clan was annihilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only survivors were Neo and Henry Hargraves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The change hit Neo hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little child couldn't even cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would've killed himself to escape the nightmares of the thousand eye monster if not for Henry, who had matured from the incident, being with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, there was a blessing in disguise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inheritance of the Hephaestus Clan was divided between Neo, Henry, and a few remaining members of the Hephaestus Clan who didn't attend the tournament and thus managed to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry used the settlement money to start a new business, and he made it into one of the biggest business empires within one generation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were a lot of hurdles Henry had to face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During those times, Neo was assassinated without Henry's knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But someone—a 'new' Neo—replaced him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assassination happened again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another 'new' Neo replaced him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It repeated several times until the Neo who died to a zombie transmigrated into the body of Neo Hargraves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Shadow ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this is what everything was about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo massaged his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gaining the memories allowed him to understand a lot of things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time he was assassinated, the seal on one of his previous life's memories would break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broken seal would dissolve into raw energy and revitalize Neo's damaged body and soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The breaking of seals healing my injuries is too good to be a coincidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only reason I can think of is King Morgan making the seals this way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more Neo thought about it, the more ridiculous it became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were never different people transmigrating into Neo Hargraves' body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them were my previous lives' selves whose memories got mixed up with other lives, and they started to think they were different people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo didn't know whether to laugh or cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was really ridiculous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And here I was thinking I needed to make sure Henry didn't realize I had hijacked his brother's body when I first 'transmigrated'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though there is still something I don't understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How can someone assassinate me multiple times in my own house?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no way a normal assassin can fool Henry's senses multiple times and assassinate me without getting caught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo thought of a culprit candidate, but immediately shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no way he can be the assassin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he finished his contemplation, a new power exploded from within his Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel his Shadow affinity successfully awakening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It allowed Neo to sense the giant presence that was looking down at his trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked enough?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entity smiled and snapped, creating a door for Neo to leave the trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I go, there is something I want to ask you, Neo said to the entity. Why didn't my Shadows appear inside Shadow Windows?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo would have never needed to enter the Shadow World if his Shadows manifested in Windows.\u003C\u002Fp>",1068,"2026-05-30T08:00:57.452Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","c694445deca123beac62b4a88149ef8d2b165c07b742d2409131ead23e1d5dc5","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-270","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-268",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]