[{"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-378":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},418320,682,"Chapter 378  The Tyrant's Past [2]","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-378",378,"\u003Cp>She slapped Elizabeth with all her strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact sent Elizabeth flying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body slammed into a nearby chair, toppling it over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sharp sound of splintering wood echoed in the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth's cheek was torn open, and a portion of her skin was ripped away, leaving raw flesh exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood dripped down her face, staining the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of crying in pain, she raised her head and glared at the woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman flinched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You—you bitch!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman raised her hand to hit her again, but stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could see it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth would rather die than listen to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman's face twisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took a step back, her voice trembling as she barked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Use this to heal yourself. We can't have you looking like a monster with that face at today's party.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pulled a weak healing potion and a small book from her Spatial Inventory and threw them at Elizabeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bottle rolled on the floor, stopping near Elizabeth's legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without another word, the woman turned and left the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the sound of her high-heeled shoes faded into the distance, Elizabeth lowered her gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears slipped from her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She touched her torn cheek with trembling hands and—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood stains on the floor had dried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth's face was wrapped in bandages, stained with faint traces of blood that had seeped through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The healing potion the woman gave her was a weak one, designed to work slowly over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth couldn't use stronger healing potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn't a demigod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body would be overloaded by the Divine energy in them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would cause her to explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth was busy reading the book the woman—her 'mother-in-law'—had given her along with the weak healing potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo, although frozen and unable to move, could see the content of the book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clenched his jaws due to the overwhelming pressure of Elizabeth's subconsious mind crushing him and read the book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a Spell for childbirth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The contained a detailed method for creating life through magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man and the woman would tear a portion of their souls and fuse them along with their Divine Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This process would create an embryo that could then be nurtured and developed in specialized hospital chambers until it grew into a 'child.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire process, the book claimed, would take only a few months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This Spell…'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo knew about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was how children had been born for centuries since long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to it, women no longer needed to carry children in their bellies for nine months, and labor pains had become a relic of the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Intercourse had long since ceased to be necessary for reproduction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This was the Spell I helped Gaia create during the apocalypse,' Neo thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, childbirth had become nearly impossible with normal methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene shifted abruptly again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why haven't you used the Spell?!\" The mother-in-law's glared at Elizabeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have not awakened my GodBlood. I can't use Spells,\" Elizabeth said, giving a genuine reason, but an excuse nonetheless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You bitch!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman raised her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, her hand froze mid-air when she noticed the look in Elizabeth's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth wasn't afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The the mother-in-law lowered her hand and spat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You either awaken and use the Spell, or you do it the natural way with Aelric.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How?\" Elizabeth scoffed. \"He can't even get it up—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Both of us know he hasn't touched you because he prefers the other gender, not because he can't do it with you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman's words made Elizabeth freeze in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I give him an ultimatum, he'll do it with you. So, make your choice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the woman could leave, the Elizabeth spoke through gritted teeth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is a child so necessary that—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A child is necesaary. Ours is a world that stands of bloodline,\" the woman spoke coldly. \"We bought you because of your bloodline. Now do your work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene shifted once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth stood next to a cradle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by Elizabeth's appearance, two or three years seemed to have passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the cradle, a child barely a month old slept soundly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth maintained an expressionless face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, her eyes revealed her true emotions as she stared at the child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Disgust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just a Spell-born child,\" Elizabeth muttered, as if she was trying to reassure herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The child, inside the cradle, remained utterly oblivious to Elizabeth's emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo, his soul form flickering in and out of existence, observed from the corner of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He noticed the changed air around Elizabeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an unmistakable sign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'She awakened her Godblood.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'She awakened when she was almost 21. In other words, a late awakening.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'It means she had a sky-high talent.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That explains how she became the youngest Exalted Demigod in the history.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze shifted to the child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Seems like she used the Spell for childbirth-'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo's thoughts came to an abrupt halt when he saw what was happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth moved her hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She reached into the cradle and grabbed the child's neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I… hate you….\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hatred, sorrow, regret, and confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her emotions crashed against each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth's gaze was locked on the child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew, deep down, the child had done nothing wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hadn't asked to be born, much less under these circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the sight of it—the tiny being lying there so innocently—only made her hatred boil over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her lips quivered as tears began to streak down her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hated herself for feeling this way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, after what felt like hours, Elizabeth's grip loosened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took a step back from the cradle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her shoulders shook with suppressed sobs as she turned her gaze away, unable to look at the child any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few months seemed to have passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The once dimly lit room was now brighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warm glow of daylight streamed through the open window and a faint scent of lavender wafting through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The room was properly taken care of, unlike before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biggest change, however, was in Elizabeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sat beside the cradle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes were filled with tenderness as she played with the child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'She decided to not hate the child for what happened,' Neo realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by how Elizabeth flinched every time the child laughed and tried to grab her fingers, he could tell that Elizabeth still found it difficult to forget everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, she was trying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying her best to be a mother.\u003C\u002Fp>",1072,"2026-05-30T08:00:57.452Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","bec389c9cd061c7422c82bc472b0ff1ed4d0478fecd6e3385946733fe9989266","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-303","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-302",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]