[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-extra-who-shouldn-t-exist":3,"chapter-the-extra-who-shouldn-t-exist-the-extra-who-shouldn-t-exist-chapter-400":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Extra Who Shouldn't Exist",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1550023,2013,"Chapter 400 - 401 : The Asura Queen (1)","the-extra-who-shouldn-t-exist-chapter-400",400,"\u003Cp>Hephaestus lowered his head slightly, shadows deepening the lines on his weathered face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice came out rough, gravelly with exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had no other choice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The forge felt colder, the embers’ glow dimming as if in sympathy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For my last creation... for a weapon suitable for someone like you... someone who can use powers no one else can...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His tired eyes lifted toward Alex, holding a flicker of desperate hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I needed something unique.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something no one else could even dream of wielding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex sighed softly, arms crossed, the weight of the revelation settling in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what did you use?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus looked at him and smiled faintly, a ghost of his former pride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A soul.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused, letting the word hang heavy in the smoky air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A soul so corrupted... and so cursed... that even death could not fully claim it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex let out a low whistle, eyebrows rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah... I’m going to need more detail than that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus met his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for the first time, there was something almost regretful in his gaze, raw vulnerability cracking his divine facade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the past,\" he began quietly, his voice steadying into a storyteller’s rhythm, \"there was a world where I had countless followers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had temples in every major city. Sects built in my name. Entire bloodlines devoted to me, their lives woven into my worship.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers tightened around the empty bottle in his hand, knuckles whitening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In one of those sects... there was a girl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused, memories surfacing like ghosts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She was born to the sect leader.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The leader had many wives. Many heirs, all vying for power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But her mother... was the cult leader’s favorite concubine. And that bred jealousy among the other wives.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Her mother was falsely accused of infidelity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Accused by the other wives who feared her position, scheming in the shadows.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The sect leader did not investigate, as he believed the false evidence presented to him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He did not defend her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He did not protect his daughter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex remained silent, leaning in, taking more interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They were thrown out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cast onto the streets like trash.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The once-revered wife... and her child.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The forge seemed quieter, as if the flames held their breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The mother begged for mercy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No one helped. Former allies turned away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The sect that once praised her... spat at her feet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The faintest bitterness crept into his tone as he continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They wandered the streets for months.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No shelter from the biting rains.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No food beyond scavenged scraps.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No mercy from the world they’d served.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And eventually...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He closed his eyes briefly, the memory cutting deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The mother abandoned her own daughter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex’s eyes sharpened slightly, a chill running through him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The girl had become a burden for her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She left her in a forest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To die amid the thorns and beasts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As the mother eventually remarried someone else.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence stretched, thick and mournful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That child survived by eating leaves, tough and bitter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Roots clawed from muddy earth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sometimes even dirt, when hunger clawed deepest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She slept under broken branches, shivering through endless nights.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No one came for her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No father to claim her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No mother to return.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No god to answer her silent pleas.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus’ voice grew heavier, laced with sorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Years passed in that forsaken wilderness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And one day... she returned to that world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex tilted his head slightly, curiosity piqued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Returned how?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus’ gaze darkened, shadows pooling in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As something else entirely.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She had learned demonic arts, black magic, and forbidden techniques.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No one knows where—from what abyss.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I suspect...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He exhaled slowly, breath ragged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"An Outer God, a powerful one, chose her as an avatar or gave her its blessing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because even I could not comprehend the energy she wielded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked directly at Alex, intensity burning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was not mana, familiar and tame.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not spiritual energy, refined by cultivation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not even divine energy, pure from priests.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was something superior.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something alien, devouring all it touched.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She called it cursed energy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Like what you use.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex’s curiosity increased even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Another unique type of energy, huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus continued, momentum building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She did not beg for justice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She did not demand answers from her betrayers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She simply delivered judgment as the carnage began.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Entire sects were erased overnight, reduced to smoldering craters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cities burned under skies choked with ash.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Clans vanished without a trace, whispers of her name the only epitaph.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No one was spared.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Men in their prime.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Women fleeing with babies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Children caught in the fighting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Guilty or innocent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It did not matter to her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The more she killed... the stronger she became.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Her energy grew denser, a vortex of night.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"More terrifying, warping reality around her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Her followers gathered like moths to a flame.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Monsters from the depths.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Outcasts shunned by all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"War criminals seeking redemption in blood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They called her ’The Asura Queen,’ kneeling in rivers of red.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The world descended into chaos.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"War spread everywhere, uncontainable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kingdom against kingdom, banners drowned in gore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sect against sect, ancient rivalries exploding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blood became currency, spilled without end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex smirked, impressed despite the horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow. She’s really something, isn’t she?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened next?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus’ expression hardened, lines etching deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even the lower-ranked gods began to notice her rise.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They sensed the blessing of an Outer God clinging to her like a shroud.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They realized something terrifying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If this continued unchecked...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She would come for them too, her hunger endless. And I was held responsible for all this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silence felt heavier, the air thickening with dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The world stood on the brink of total destruction.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And when everything was nearly lost...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus’ voice dropped lower, confessional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The strongest existence in that world stepped forward.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was known as the Heavenly Demon, the pinnacle of martial might.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex’s eyes narrowed, pieces aligning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hephaestus’ gaze did not waver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was also her father—the very man who had cast her out to survive on the streets, the one responsible for turning her life into a living hell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1008,"2026-06-06T07:14:57.193Z",1,"novelbin.me","0a25869e41f13d9e3b2c300fca400168fb010914c990d3516c1568c21c787a70","the-extra-who-shouldn-t-exist-chapter-301","the-extra-who-shouldn-t-exist-chapter-399",418,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-extra-who-shouldn-t-exist-cover.jpg"]