[{"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-468":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},418108,682,"Chapter 468  Breaking Apart","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-468",468,"\u003Cp>One by one, the fallen monsters began to rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their grotesque forms shifted with unnatural vigor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their eight legs cracked back into place, and their hollow eyes gleamed with renewed malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo gritted his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stopped healing himself, and abandoned his attempt to repair his Seed of Existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no choice but to divert all his remaining power into manifesting Death Essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dark mist began to coil around his blade, twisting like ethereal serpents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monsters lunged, and Neo responded in kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His broken body screamed in protest, but he did not falter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine Swordsmanship Fourth Form: Ryu no Mai\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He weaved between their attacks. His movements were smooth and precise. It looked as if he was dancing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blade carved through their twisted forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each swing was slow—far too slow compared to his peak—but his precision remained unmatched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with his body in ruins, his techniques did not weaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood splattered. Limbs fell. The stench of death thickened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monsters did not stop. They kept coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo fought without hesitation, but he knew his body would not last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he did what he had to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He devoured them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he consumed the first monster, an unimaginable chaos erupted in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if a second consciousness had been forced into his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts became tangled in a web of hunger, rage, and primal instinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The personality of the spider monster surged forward, clawing at his sanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vision distorted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt the urge to move on eight legs, to scuttle into the shadows, to hunt, to feed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is this…?\" Neo grunted, clutching his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had consumed minds before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness brought back a portion of the original's essence when he devoured them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The echoes of their thoughts still haunted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he wasn't just hearing their voices. He was becoming them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Memories that were not his flooded his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw flashes of an underground realm, the home of these creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw darkness swallowing their world, turning them into pitiful immortal existences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pain lanced through his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He staggered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't see the next attack coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monsters swarmed him. Their grotesque limbs pinned him down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Razor-sharp mandibles tore into his flesh. He felt his body being eaten alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo's instincts screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body, honed by years of combat, tried to retaliate, but it was breaking apart—crumbling like fractured porcelain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strength was failing him, and yet his thoughts continued to spiral into madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to kill. To consume. To become stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" Neo muttered. \"Those aren't… my thoughts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The memories of the spider monsters twisted around his own, trying to merge with him, and to overwrite him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This… is far from enough… to trouble me…'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo's will churned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Get the fuck out… you bitches…!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a final surge of will, he seized control of the invading thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His darkness did not consume him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He consumed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voices in his head shrieked, and resisted, but he crushed them beneath his indomitable will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His darkness did not consume him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He consumed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Devouring the monster brough a powerful surge of energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His shattered limbs reformed, his flesh knitted together at an accelerated pace. Strength returned to his muscles, and he could finally move without the fear of breaking down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monsters sensed the shift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo lifted his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine Swordsmanship Eighth Stance: Kami no Shinpan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single slash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of destruction followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground split apart, and an explosion of force erupted outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nearest monsters were obliterated in an instant. Their bodies were torn asunder by the overwhelming might of the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo exhaled slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had devoured the monster's memories, its experiences, its knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was True Darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Darkness devoured everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not bound by luck or chance. It did not merely take fragments of memories or stats—it consumed entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Darkness became what it devoured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo clenched his fists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A giant wave of Darkness erupted from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It surged outward like an endless sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The malevolent energy devoured the spider-like monsters in a single gulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their chitinous limbs flailed, and their twisted screeches filled the cavern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They clawed at the ground, at each other, even at their own flesh to resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monsters tried to resist the pull of Darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo exhaustion had reached its peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not have time for another prolonged battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His World-Energy reserves were running dangerously low. His body was teetering on the verge of collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, he reached out and consumed his own left arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sharp, searing pain tore through him as his flesh and bone vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, a torrent of power flooded him in return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cavern trembled as he unleashed the energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A storm of red lightning bolts, each larger than mountains, burst out from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact was catastrophic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air split apart with a deafening crack as the lightning struck, incinerating everything in its path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creatures shrieked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bodies convulsed as the sheer magnitude of the attack tore through their defenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smoke and the acrid scent of burning flesh filled the cavern. Silence followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their resistance was crushed, and True Darkness devoured them with ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tens of thousands of memories burst forth into Neo's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He staggered back. His mind was overtaken by confusion, and chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His nails dug into his skin as if trying to claw his own face apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His head felt like it was splitting open from the inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tens of thousands of monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their centuries of hunting, of consuming, of dying and reviving. The hunger. The rage. The endless cycle of devouring and being devoured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hands pulled at his hair. He couldn't breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sheer mass of personalities was tearing his sense of self apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo had done this on purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel his mind breaking apart, and shattering like fragile glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts weren't his own anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Voices, urges, instincts that didn't belong to him roared within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel their memories, their desires, their pain as if they were his own. His mind was splitting at the seams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He collapsed to his knees with ragged breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind was in tatters, but he didn't care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only way he could recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body, no longer being attacked, would mend itself in peace while his mind bore the brunt of the madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he went insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he lost himself in the process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was okay with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because once he regained his strength, he could use the Ouroboros.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was prepared to touch the madness, if it helped him meet her a minute faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vision blurred, flickering between reality and the illusions forced upon him by the stolen memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clenched his teeth until blood dripped from his lips. His identity. His existence. His everything. It was all being ripped apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Neo was not someone who broke easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a hoarse breath, he forced his trembling hands together and gritted his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this was the cost, then so be it. He would endure it. He always had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind was screaming. His soul was fraying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his body—his body was recovering.\u003C\u002Fp>",1212,"2026-05-30T08:00:57.451Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","e34e0fc2800f2cb75591554c9dbb227c097a3275bd0e68625707ae61523cf77b","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-469","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-467",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]