[{"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-67":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},418207,682,"Chapter 67: Devouring Darkness","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-67",67,"\u003Cp>The path downwards was miles away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo recalled something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hill was small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He should've reached the top within a few minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he completed only three-fourth of the way after twelve hours of walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossible unless....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the second trial.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An opponent worse than hundreds of Gremlins combined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An enemy he couldn't defeat with physical strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flag post was at the top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo decided to climb upwards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes turned into hours, and hours into days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the second day, he did not feel like he was making any progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how much he walked, the distance to the top wouldn't reduce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's a good thing I can create water, or I might've died already,\" Neo said on the fourth day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, Water element was the only element he could use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only generate water and do nothing else with the element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if his ability was being restricted by a higher power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A week went by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo was starting to feel hungry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Grade 4 Awakened demigod, he could live without water and food longer than humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was, however, a limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck, should I just climb down?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ninth day, Neo realized he might've walked over hundred miles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distance between him and the base of the hill continued to increase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, there was no guarantee he could climb downhill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There should be limit to how much this mountain can stretch. If I keep climbing, I'm bound to reach the top.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty days passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo's stomach hurt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt weak and fatigued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued to climb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After fifty days, the pain intensified to the point he couldn't stand straight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt frail, his body shivered uncontrollably, and it was cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo started to lose his focus by the sixty-eighth day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would frequently go into daze and sleep walk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hit his limit on the eighty-fifth day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking a breath sent throes of agony across his body, let alone walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the ninetieth-day, the pain disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt emptiness gnawing inside him, eating at his emotions, leaving him numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I have to reach the top.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo repeated the same words to himself for the past three months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He diverted all of his attention and energy to climb even a step higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zenith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would reach it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the hundredth day, Neo stopped breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't even realize he died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo's eyes snapped open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fell to his knees, gasping for breath, drenched in sweat, and shivering uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Time until you are forcefully revived: 5 hours and 26 minutes]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo was back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the base of the hill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"H-how?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't believe the screen floating before his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three months ago, he started climbing when 5 hours and 29 minutes were left until his revival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did only three minutes passed when, in truth, he experienced three months?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo stared at the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He expanded his senses and…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The hill is shrouded in Darkness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He bit his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it had been hallucination created by the Darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The months of pain, agony, and despair had been nothing but a lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo just stood with his head down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't move for a few minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That damned Barbatos. He gave me a hellish trial.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo woke up from the hallucinations through pure luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he tried to climb the mountain again, there was no guarantee he would wake up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second trial was far worse than the first trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless he found a way to resist the Darkness…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No way...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Resist the Darkness?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo stopped speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly understood the method to clear the second trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It gave him shivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Fucking hell. How is this training? He is trying to kill me.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only way to resist the Darkness was to increase his mastery over it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hill was coated in thick miasma of Darkness. It was unsuitable for training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Gremlins… I need to devour all of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I don't go insane, my mastery over Darkness would gain a huge boost.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barbatos did not leave him a choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trial was made in a way where it forced Neo to devour every Gremlin to increase his mastery of Darkness element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo returned to camp of Gremlins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw three quadrapedal monsters, with pinkish skin, blazing red eyes, and sharp teeth, feeding on the corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monsters pounced on Neo when they noticed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo let them bite his Ocean's Embrace and finished them with Necrotic Touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gazed at the hundreds of corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way he could remain sane after devouring them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the only path ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before devouring the corpses, Neo repaired the camp's boundary using the wood from the trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a high chance monsters would come after smelling the blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only Neo had to fight the insanity of Darkness, he had to protect the corpses from being stolen by the monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This much should be enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at the crude walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could barely provide any defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their only job was to warn Neo if someone broke through them to enter the camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I should start.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo formed the Enma Ten-In hand sign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Darkness, come.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shadows bloomed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They spread out in a controlled manner and covered a small area around Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He absorbed the six corpses he placed inside his domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whispers returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They spoke to Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Neo felt his emotions slipping out of his control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anger, fear, jealousy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emotions that weren't his own invaded his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found himself unable to control his urges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to wreak havoc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impulses of destruction and rage fueled his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corpses, completely devoured, disappeared and they took the voices along with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the foreign emotions vanished, Neo snapped out of the rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He realized his mind had been influenced by the Darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body shivered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So very cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Digestion +1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hearing +2]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six corpses devoured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over 300 corpses remained.\u003C\u002Fp>",1007,"2026-05-30T08:00:57.451Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","ad067de4565b9bf1b56b8e8cf6afb49df54c4b2c3adb1401d6edc95f013915e0","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-68","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-66",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]