[{"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-424":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},418264,682,"Chapter 424  Awakening Void Element","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-424",424,"\u003Cp>Neo tried to use World Energy again, only for it to not respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same was true for Obitus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blessings responded, but they were weakened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He brought his palms close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tiny ball of lightning started to condense between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He compressed it to the limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The amount of Death being forced into the tiny point diistorted space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo ignored the maggots eating him and kept his focus on the task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He let the ball explode when it reached its maximum limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of large red lightning bolts erupted from the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything in his vicinity was wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo used the chance and condensed another ball of Death, this time fusing his Concept into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He let it break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power of the Concept was much stronger than his normal attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightning larger than planets crackled in the space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It forced the maggots to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if to say his attack was a joke, more maggots arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo repeated his attacks, only for more maggots to arrive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It did not matter how many were forced into eternal sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their numbers were endless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo kept fighting without a break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time had long since become a blur to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, doubts started to creep into his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could he escape this place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would he be forced to live his nightmare eternally again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo kept fighting the maggots without a break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind slowly entered a trance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The maggots, the emptiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were gnawing at his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was being forced to relive his worst memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo didn't run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He embraced those memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So this is a [Nightmare].\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like he was reaching an epiphany.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always known what a nightmare was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were dreams that showed one a horrible sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though, living in this world showed him the true meaning of Nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo's limbs were trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nightmare was forcing him to look at his fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Age, experience, mental resilience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing could protect you from your fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo moved his body on instinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A black mist covered his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed the fabric of the world and tore it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tear in the space was the size of a palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see pitch-black emptiness beyond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, no maggot existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Neo could enter that world, the torn space was stitched back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world of nightmare had healed on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo looked at his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ignored the maggots attacking him and heightened his focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power of Nightmares.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was now capable of wielding it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, his mastery was too low to use and brute force his way out of this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed time to master the Nightmare Element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time he didn't have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was only one other way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo needed Fear, and use it to learn the Nightmare Element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have the perfect place to take fear from.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked around at the maggots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was afraid of them, but the true reason for his fear was something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His memories of Eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seal on the memories made by his mother could be broken by a single thought of his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps, she made it this way, predicting Neo would need the memories one day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dived into his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His soul trembled at the thought of breaking the seal on his memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed it with a thought and crushed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear, desperation, and agony flooded in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was something worse that the memories brought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The loneliness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emptiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind was being torn apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The terror of the eternity made him shake like a leaf, and the emptiness he learned from it consumed everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emptiness was another name for Void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no beginning or end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just Nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His goals, passions, emotions, memories, personality, body, will to live—everything was becoming one with Void(Emptiness).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was losing it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No… No….\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo desperately searched for something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fixation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something that could overpower the Emptiness that was growing within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forced his mind, frozen from fear, to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Think…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed a goal so dear to him that nothing could take it from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'PowerIsYourGoal'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo snapped his head towards the voices of Darkness within his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They spoke to him as Neo lost them to Emptiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'YouWantedToBeStrong'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'ThatIsWhyYouNeverGaveUp'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voices disappeared as Emptiness took over half of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His dream was to be the strongest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Christian and Leonora died because he was not strong enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He manipulated Elizabeth into defeating the Temple of Void since he couldn't do it with his own strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kane was forced to sleep because he lacked the strength to kill Anomaly #79.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was weak and had to force his responsibilities on young Daniel in order to protect Athena, Kronos, Gaia, Zeus, Apollo, and others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to force Jack to leave Shadow World and ended up causing him mental scars since he was not strong enough to fight Velkaria while protecting Jack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not meet his parents, tell them that he missed them. He was too weak to remove the bloodline curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now, when Elizabeth's time was at the end, he was here, in a world made from his nightmares, unable to escape due to his lack of strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time his problems always had a simple solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time he lacked that one thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed more of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be the strongest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To achieve his dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To cut down anything that stood in his way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Growing stronger had always been his obsession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Neo came to his senses, he realized the power of Void consuming him had lessened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at his arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body was there. So was his soul and mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't fallen to Emptiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the only reason I couldn't stand Eternity was because I lacked the obsession to overcome it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was ready to live for Eternity if that was what it took to be the strongest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at his hand, Neo could see faint bubbles with purple suns within them and black mist floating around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Void and Nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His memories being unsealed allowed him to feel the fear that had once shaken him to the deepest part of his soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It allowed him to increase his mastery of Nightmare at an unprecedented speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to suppress the tremor in his limbs and used Nightmare Element again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black mist covered his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used Nightmare Element to grab the fabric of the world made from nightmares.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he pulled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike before, a large tear appeared in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rate at which the tear was being stitched was too slow, and Neo entered it with ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt as if he was falling—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo's eyes shot open as he felt the force of the crash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gasped and looked around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground beneath him was made from some unknown material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo scanned the area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blessings were back to full power, he could generate World Energy, and Obitus was with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo, you are awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah,\" he replied. \"Do you know where we are or anything about the others? Since this place is the Abyss of Nightmares, they should've teleported to one of the random zones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some odd reason, the sky and the boundaries of this world were too far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo could not see them with his Intent Vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a large world would be at least Stage-3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Zone—made from a World eaten by Tartarus—shouldn't be that big, since Tartarus was itself Stage-3, and there was no way it could defeat multiple Worlds at the same Stage as it without the inhabitants' help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something is wrong about this place.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt dead? Inverted? Lifeless?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo couldn't point a finger at the thoughts in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your friends….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obitus suddenly spoke to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are above….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? Above?\" Neo stared at the sky. Intent Vision was like a sphere. He could see everything within the sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for objects farther than that, he could not see them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The range of my Intent Vision should be the radius of a Stage-2 Planet. How high are they in the sky that I can't see them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo started to circulate his World Energy in large amounts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He trusted Obitus' words and decided to jump as high as he could, trying to see where the others were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Funnily enough, Obitus didn't react like she used to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made him feel as if she had gotten used to his praise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reading his thoughts, she harrumphed and became silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you still angry about the last time? I didn't mean it the wrong way when I called you easy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo was exasperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This pattern…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beelezebub had gone through a similar puberty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm not going through puberty!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the fastest and the clearest reply he heard from Obitus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stop analyzing my words! I just wanted to hear a sorry, and… and….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was embarrassed to say the next words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo could sense her emotions and understand what she wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My apologies, my lady. I said those words back then only to tease you. And yes, I do love you very much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel Obitus being happy, embarrassed, and a little angry at how he was poking fun at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, okay, I'll stop now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shifted his focus back to the task at hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He directed the World Energy towards his legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His muscles exploded with power beyond limits, and he jumped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space around him was torn open from the shockwaves created by his jump's residual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body shot upwards like a bullet, rapidly climbing the altitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly noticed objects hung from the sky and held by thick threads connected to their tops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 'objects' were familiar to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were the people who entered the Abyss of Nightmares with him. The Grand Expedition.\u003C\u002Fp>",1647,"2026-05-30T08:00:57.452Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","ee8dde8e8181e9f9e7f0c0d2934c8e93c8d68ac645a6d3ca41512a085c4f82f9","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-425","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-423",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]