Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 105

The interior of the building was covered in darkness.

"Keep your eyes peeled open…."

Neo stopped speaking when he sensed a presence behind him.

He turned around only to find nothing.

"W-what is it?" Nathan questioned.

"…"

Before Neo could answer, he sensed another presence rushing at him.

Something came out of the wall.

It was the face of a woman with hollow cheek and empty eye sockets.

The woman smiled.

She giggled and disappeared back into the wall.

"Stay sharp!" Neo shouted.

Arthur and Sean took out their weapons.

Suddenly, a hand came out of the floor and grabbed Sean's neck.

It smashed his face into the floor before disappearing into the wall.

A leg came out of the roof to flatten Sean's neck.

Arthur arrived at the nick of the time and slashed at the leg.

He planned to cut off the monster's limb only to find his dagger passing through the leg as if it was air.

The leg returned to where it came from.

"Huh?"

"It's a wraith. It can make its body tangible and intangible at wish.

"Our attacks won't connect if it sees them coming."

Neo's words made Arthur frown.

"Intangibility? Isn't that too overpowered?"

"Not really," Neo answered.

He helped Sean stand.

"You okay?"

"Cough! Y-yes, I was just caught off guard."

"Good, let's keep moving."

The wraith kept harassing them on their way to the Corner.

Whenever they would try to attack, it would make its body intangible and their attacks would pass through its body harmlessly.

Leonora woke up.

She groaned and tried to move.

"Let's take a break," Neo said.

They sat at the center of a long corridor.

Neo put down Leonora carefully.

He gave her a bottle of water.

Giving her another recovery elixir, even if it was weaker, was lethal in her current condition.

"Thank you."

She gulped down the water with trembling arms.

"Neo, the wraith…. Is it okay to sit like this when it can attack us at any moment?" Arthur asked.

"Yeah, it's fine. Look at this."

Neo pointed at the ground.

The Darkness beneath his feet was not normal.

Arthur realized they were inside the Coffin of Darkness.

"Monsters follow their instincts.

"The wraith won't try to attack us through the Coffin of Darkness."

"Isn't it hard to maintain something like this for a long time?"

"It is. That's why I used it only when we had to rest."

As he answered, Sean spoke up,

"What… what are we doing?

"We've been walking for over two hours and we haven't reached the Corner.

"I should've never accepted this mission.

"My sister died and now even I will die, stuck in a damned place that is making us walk in the same place over and over."

He started to cry.

His voice cracked.

"We aren't stuck in a loop. We are moving forward.

"It's just that this 'space' couldn't bear the weight of high amount of elemental leaking from Corner and it ended up being stretched," Neo explained.

"No! We are in a loop! Can't you see we've been walking in the same corridor!"

"S-Sean, calm down. Shouting will just tire you out."

Arthur intervened.

He tried to pat Sean's back, but Sean swatted his hand away and glared at him.

'Sean is beginning to lose his cool," Neo thought.

While he was thinking of how to improve the mood of the group, he felt a tug.

Leonora was holding the end of his sleeve.

"…?"

"I'll deal with the wraith and the Corner."

Neo frowned.

Leonora, although awake, was in no condition to fight.

She had recovered only a small portion of her Divine Energy.

Her eyes were shaking, unable to focus, and her breaths were short.

"You should rest. We can deal with it ourselves—"

"N-no," she said as she tried to stand. "The Shadows can return at any moment. Trying to close the Corner while dealing with them will cost us greatly.

"Open the Coffin of Darkness."

Her gaze was firm.

She used the wall as a support and waited for him.

Neo knew his words wouldn't change her mind.

He sighed and released the Darkness.

The giggles of wraith returned.

"H-hold your breath," she said.

The group followed her instructions before she chanted a Spell.

A cry of a whale echoed when suddenly cracks started to appear on the walls.

Water leaked into the corridor through the cracks.

The flow increased.

Like a dam had burst, the corridor was flooded within seconds.

A whip of water held everyone by the waist.

The Grim Reaper's giggles turned into the screams of banshee.

It came out of the wall.

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