[{"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-503":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},418493,682,"Chapter 503  The Enslaved World, Cindaros","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-503",503,"\u003Cp>\"I think so too. But from what I can see, that is the only reason they could've come to the Floor 1,\" Neo said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Great I believes the same,\" Nyxtharion #2 chimed in. \"They might've found a new way to transfer short messages between Layer 2 and Layer 4. It is not entirely impossible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wall guardians looked at each other, and after a moment nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very well. If that is way happen, there is a need for hurry. Come, Neo Hargraves. Devour the Protector of Zone 3.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragons revived the Protector. They returned to Zone 2 before Neo devoured everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Protector was a petite woman with long, silver hair with tears of blood flowing down her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He defeated her rather easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness surged again, devouring the world along with its Protector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madness and memories flowed into Neo's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cosmos was drowned in an eternal war among the planets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gods would invade and plunder Sacred Treasures. They used the tools to uplift the limits of their world, or their own gene limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The race to gather Sacred Treasures led powerful Gods to enslave weaker worlds, then they turned them into farms of Sacred Treasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Enslaved World, Cindaros was one such world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was forced to create a Sacred Treasure, and when the Sacred Treasure was completed, the invaders would take it away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Sacred Treasure was created by a World after it nurtured something of value for millennium, or maybe even eons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be anything. A memory. A weapon. A person. Different type of object would result into different Sacred Treasures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To a World, a Sacred Treasure was more valuable than life, and losing it was far more painful than being tortured and killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the enslaved worlds had no choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They created Sacred Treasures, and gave it to invaders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cindaros' spirit became weathered under centuries of such torture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It— She was a kind world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She treated her people as her children, but the grief of losing the Sacred Treasure made her spirit crumble slowly over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people of the Cindaros could not see her in pain. They worked together to create a Spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Existence Devouring Spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took a small part of existence of the people of Cindaros – their memories, their stats, their ranks – and used it to empower Cindaros.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spell was dangerous, but Cindaros, after much persuasion of her children, decided to use the Spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made her strong enough to repel the invaders when they came to collect the Sacred Treasure again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was not able to defeat them, but at least she was able to protect herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to thank her children for—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no one left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To fight the invaders, she had devoured the existence of all her children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spell erased the very existence of those people. In other words, their body, soul, and memories of them that other people had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Cindaros was losing the memory of her children during the fight, she never realized they were being erased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The invaders never returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her Sacred Treasure remained with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her children had disappeared, forgotten in the sands of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tartarus judged her for cannibalism of trillions of people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Funnily enough, the name 'Existence Devouring Spell' was too grand. It could not devour Seed of Existence, or consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the fragments of the people's Seed of Existence and Consciousness had remained, scattered across the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Neo devoured the entire world, he gained their memories and emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unlike what Cindaros thought, they never regretted their decision. Just as how she saw the people as her children, they saw her as their mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They died happily, knowing their mother had gained freedom, and that she was no longer enslaved by the invaders.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo took a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cindaros' last pieces of memory says that she continued to blame herself for her children's death, and that she believed they resented her for killing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even though this made me stronger, it's making me feel like shit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Cindaros could meet her children, maybe her thousands year grief could've lessened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it never happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo wiped the blood pouring out from his nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he could withstand the madness, it had grown so strong that it was affecting his physical body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo looked below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was floating in an empty void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the space inside Layer 4.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Layer 4 was a box, each Zone was like a pebble inside the box. After devouring two pebbles, Neo was in the empty space that was created.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Shadow Core (Shadow Element Concept) +0.02%]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Shadow Core (Shadow Element Concept): 98.01% → 98.03%]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? Say that again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Shadow Core (Shadow Element Concept) total: 98.03%]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He summoned the Abyss Mirror and checked it. Sure enough, he gained copy percentage of Shadow Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not interacted with Tartarus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the copy percentage should've been 98%. When did it reach 98.01%?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seems like I gained the copy percentage from the interaction of Cindaros and Tartarus from when Tartarus imprisoned her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since it was a very short interaction, the copy percentage was only worth 0.02%.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo was surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"True Darkness devours everything, and makes it my own. Since the memory of the interaction of Cindaros, and Tartarus is now mine, I gained the copy percentage from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This means the change from 98% to 98.01% must've come when I devoured the Protector of Zone 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She had also interacted with Tartarus, unlike the Protector of Zone 2 who was imprisoned instantly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Protector of Zone 2, the Sovereign of Three Thousand Shadows, had never interacted with Tartarus. He was… a person who lived for himself. Tartarus didn't think it was worth meeting someone as wretched as him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo shook his head, and looked at the Abyss Mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I can gain copy percentage from the memories of interactions with Tartarus, does this mean I can get more copy percentage from my own memory?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I don't think that's possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe, each interaction needs to be a new one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An idea came to Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nyxtharion #2.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You called?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you have memories of your meetings with Tartarus?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…only a few.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo winced when he sensed the emotions behind the dragon's tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon did not remember a lot of things, probably a side effect of being cut into hundreds of pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asking him if he had memories of his meeting with Tartarus was putting salt on the wound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo had to do this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gaining Shadow Core Concept would change everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would open the doors for him for the path to defeat Tartarus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you show me those memories?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Understood,\" the dragon answered, realizing it was something important for Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hivemind buzzed and memories poured into Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A figure, hidden in shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a bark-like exterior, but a portion of his body seemed to have turned into a statue.\u003C\u002Fp>",1156,"2026-05-30T08:01:09.214Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","22efb9fc52f957e7524630a4efc81e09b8c93495e97ccf9a378c3aba14d72be8","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-504","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-502",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]