[{"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-303":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},418321,682,"Chapter 303  For A Better Foundation","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-303",303,"\u003Cp>But Neo was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can send my Intent back, right?\" Neo questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...I can try.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Losing his enlightenments and masteries didn't matter to Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could easily get them back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This is a good choice. I lost too much while rushing to grow stronger,' Neo thought while looking at his scarred hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His goal had always been to be the strongest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet he was giving away his powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a reason for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Angel grew stronger as the two fought for centuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Angel's strength had not grown, Neo could've defeated it 2,000 years earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To match up with the Angel's pace, he had to make a lot of compromises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It led him to make mistakes, which made his foundation weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just like with his Concept of Darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Concept of True Darkness was stronger than the Concept of Emotion and the Concept of Pathfinder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pathfinder gave high temporary stats in exchange for sacrifices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The user of this Concept could devour everything, but the gains were temporary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gains could range from 30 to 500 stats, depending on what was devoured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was when the user was at Expert mastery (Lowest).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reaching Expert mastery (Peak) would increase the stat gain severalfold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emotion granted low permanent stats in exchange for emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The users of this Concept could devour only emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Needless to say, the 'low' here was significantly higher than what Darkness users without Concepts could get from devouring normal objects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Darkness allowed the user to devour anything, and the chances of receiving stat gains increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pace of receiving gains was slow, but they were permanent (unlike Pathfinder) and the user had infinite things to devour (unlike Emotions).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was enough to understand that True Darkness was better than Emotion and Pathfinder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the short term, True Darkness was the weakest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo had encountered similar things as he progressed on the path of World Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he had made many mistakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But if I give away everything now, I can redo everything and become the strongest.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should double think about this.\" Professor Daniel, unaware of Neo's thoughts, said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice was calm, but it still revealed the tension in his furrowed brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You'll lose—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm not lose anything. I'm making use of it.\" Neo said firmly. \"Besides, I can get them back easily. But…..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm not sure we can fix everything even with this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The amount of white threads dancing over Neo's palms increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They grew brighter glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The energy crackled softly, twisting like living strands of silk in his grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He started to infuse his enlightenments and masteries over it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The threads pulsated with every technique he poured into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Daniel wanted to tell Neo to not give away everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression worsened as he saw Neo's hard work of thousands of years disappear into the ball of Intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Neo did not stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what Neo was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He always walked the path of his own beliefs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't grown strong because he was afraid of losing a bit of strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh…. Stop looking like that. I'm not giving away everything. My Will is still with me,\" Neo said when he noticed Professor Daniel's countenance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The professor looked as if he was watching his own child die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His lips were slightly parted and his face was pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white threads started to wrap around each other, forming a glowing sphere that pulsed rhythmically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elemental masteries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sword techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enlightenments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo put as much as he could into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ball of Intet began to swell with condensed brilliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he started to put his World Energy directly into it, Professor Daniel stopped him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't put energy into it. That will increase the Intent's weight, and I won't be able to send it back into the past.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If everything Neo had put into the Intent was a bullet, then the Energy was the gun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Putting the two together would make it no different from a powerful Demigod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either only Energy could be sent back, or the techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo was sweating heavily by the time he was done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His chest heaved up and down, and his eyes looked tired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Daniel stared at the white ball of light floating above his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyone who inherits that 'thing' will burst apart like an overcharged battery, even SSS rankers. How will someone inherit it?\" Professor Daniel asked, despite knowing the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That will happen only if they inherit my Intent all at once. I've made sure that won't happen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo had upgraded Kane's transfer technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The changes would allow step-by-step inheritance of techniques instead of receiving everything at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is it. Can you send this back?\" Neo asked as he looked toward the ball of Intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It contained centuries of his hard work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he was doing now was a necessary step to create a better, stronger foundation for himself and to fix the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to do this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of answering, Professor Daniel hovered his palm above the ball of Intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He closed his eyes, concentrating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint hum filled the room as ripples of energy pulsed from the sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, the world started to shake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Angel, bound by chains, was trying to break free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chains rattled violently as it strained against its bindings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was making use of the opportunity now that Neo had given away his masteries and enlightenment and weakened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you stop doing that?\" Neo asked the Angel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'You lying asshole!' the Angel shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Why the fuck are you acting like a melodramatic bitch!?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'These chains haven't weakened for shit! Give away your powers properly if you're going to do it!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Angel felt wronged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had thought it could escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it seemed Neo was still quite strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to it, even Professor Daniel frowned, his concentration breaking momentarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why is it cursing so much?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…I don't know.\" Neo muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Angel had not picked up Neo's way of speaking after thousands of years being together. Definitely not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you, shut up. I'll deal with you later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo increased the output of World Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He transferred the energy into the Hell inside him, strengthening the chains binding the Angel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will and mental strength were something that could not be transferred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With them, Neo could produce World Energy without any issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Daniel focused on the ball of Intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sphere of light hovered below his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think I can send this back. However…..\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the best we can do. Don't worry, I'll look over the guy who gets this and make sure he saves the Child of Mana.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Daniel frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo should've known what Professor Daniel wanted to say, yet he gave an answer to something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shaking his head, Professor Daniel started to use his time element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint aura enveloped him, distorting the space around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His aura grew denser, pressing down on the area as if the air itself resisted the bending of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space seemed to collapse around Professor Daniel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed the ball of Intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since normal time manipulation won't work for the amount of time we have to cover, I need to lessen the load.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll be using an anchor point that exists in this world and the timeline where he has to send this Intent,\" Professor Daniel said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go ahead.\" Neo nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that was present in both places was Professor Daniel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words meant the Intent would appear near his own young self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing this, Professor Daniel's sadness and grief appeared in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>",1267,"2026-05-30T08:00:57.452Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","f78e02d37ceb2347340be1107b4706385644a3d89b9240af058e5f89049c2abe","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-379","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-378",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]