[{"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-656":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},418646,682,"Chapter 656: Transcending The Limits","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-656",656,"\u003Cp>Barbatos inwardly acknowledged Nameless Death’s superiority in strategic battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you can’t awaken your Path fully, then we have no need to fear you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barbatos understood that if Nameless Death had to fake an enlightenment, then it meant he was nowhere near to actual enlightenment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a Path, they had nothing to worry about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barbatos dashed towards Nameless Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t try to undo the Silence on Zagreus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zagreus couldn’t remember the previous timelines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn’t know what Nameless Death had done or how to counter it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning back time to remove the magic wouldn’t matter. Nameless Death could do silence Zagreus again before Zagreus understood what was happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Berserker had been watching this unfold with narrowed eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A grin slowly stretched across his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is it,\" he muttered to himself, barely able to keep the excitement out of his voice. \"This is what I’ve been waiting for.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t just a fight anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a battle where every move counted, where strength alone wouldn’t carry you to victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them were powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them had aces they hadn’t fully revealed yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they were all walking on a tightrope, where a single misstep could mean instant defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Berserker’s grin widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A proper fight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a loud laugh, he lunged toward Zagreus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even silenced, the Ancient Dragon blood flowing through Zagreus gave him immense power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He blocked the initial strike, his claws tearing into the ground as he braced himself, but Berserker didn’t let up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Barbatos attacked Nameless Death again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shadow tendrils lashed out like whips, sharp and fast, aiming to pin him down or slice through his limbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nameless Death fought back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he was about to be overwhelmed, he would use [All-Shadow] to slip back into the past at the exact moment before he would have been struck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew he wouldn’t win by doing this forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just a stalling tactic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What mattered was what he was focusing on during those moments in between.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I need to improve Resonance.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time lost meaning inside the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the outside, it might have seemed like only seconds were passing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But within the bubble of looped time and constant rewinds, the battle had stretched into days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over and over again, Nameless Death threw himself into combat, only to rewind the moment before defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But each time, his mind dug deeper into his technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Resonance was created by combining all of my Concepts,’ he thought, ducking under a blade and letting a shadow claw tear through his side before activating [All-Shadow] again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood splattered the air, but he didn’t flinch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The resulting fusion of Concepts produces a raw destructive energy.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always used that destructiveness as the main feature of Resonance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, in the middle of this chaos, he saw something he hadn’t before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s not just meant for destruction. That’s not the only way to use it.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His understanding deepened with every cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barbatos began to sense something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His attacks grew more furious, and desperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He conjured legions of shadow beasts, each shaped from the minds of slaughtered gods and monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zagreus, still unable to speak, created countless weapons and rained down infinite bombardment from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mental pain wouldn’t kill Nameless Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it should freeze his mind, if only for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It seems like he is gaining an enlightenment. We need to stop him.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no way of knowing whether Nameless Death was truly gaining enlightenment or faking it again, but the risk was too great to wait and see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, though, Nameless Death refused to let them break his concentration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fought back, even as his body broke again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as his bones cracked and blood sprayed across the broken battlefield, he didn’t let his mind stray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The destructive output of Resonance is like burning the fuel.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The fuel explodes and does damage.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But fuel isn’t meant to explode. Sure, that does damage, but there is a better way to use the fuel.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s to power something.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was no longer using Resonance simply as a weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The fused Concepts—the energy created from them—can be used to empower a Concept.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been wasting the Resonance Energy, using it as a blunt force tool instead of harnessing it to reinforce his Concepts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His grip on his sword tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He exhaled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, for the first time, he channeled Resonance into his World Devouring Flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames twisted around his blade, black and crimson, dense with potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blade passed through Barbatos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Barbatos thought it was a failed attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Nameless Death hadn’t gained enlightenment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then, the world started to burn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames clung to his World, spreading like a curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire was consuming the very essence of Barbatos’s World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind recoiled from the backlash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he kept his eyes at Nameless Death, eyes filled with the dawning realization of what had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zagreus noticed too. He stopped mid-charge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fists were raised, but he didn’t strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it was already too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nameless Death had learned a technique beyond what one should be able to learn at his Stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could see it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The oppressive pressure rolling off of him wasn’t just power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was transcendence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had broken his limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in doing so, he had found it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Path...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>....that he walked on to grow stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>....that he walked on to defeat his enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>....that he walked on to overcome his limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>....that he walked on for eons and would continue to walk on until he reached the Zenith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the Path Nameless Death would never stop walking upon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Nameless Death became the strongest in his universe, then he would go to other universes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would continue doing so until he was the strongest in all universes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he became the strongest in all universes, he aimed to go beyond, to wherever that was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nameless Death would keep on walking on his Path until the end of eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was Nameless Death’s Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To continuously transcend his limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the end of Eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Path of Eternal Transcendence.\u003C\u002Fp>",1040,"2026-05-30T08:01:13.698Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","11faad632b0c4b33939407a3b061ffc5c3096ff06e0b991ac0df755832e83ef0","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-657","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-655",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]