Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 180

Neo walked through the black desert.

He saw the door to Depth Level 2.

It was a swirling mass of shadows, about a day's walk away.

Tremors appeared on the ground. Bones of various colors—white, yellow, black—jutted out from the earth.

Revived corpses of monsters and mythical beasts began to unearth themselves.

"Seems like there's a Necromancer here."

"Is he related to why Mira became so strong in the novel?"

Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of corpses emerged.

Instead of taking a stance, Neo continued to walk.

Red lightning crackled around him. It traveled from his core to his legs, entering the ground.

The red lightning pulsed through the earth, killing the revived corpses before they could fully emerge.

"They're really weak."

The journey was uneventful.

Ghouls, ghosts, Dullahans, Wraiths.

They continued to attempt becoming roadblocks for him.

Neo reached Depth Level 3 after several hours.

The Divine Energy in the air grew murky. Instead of Shadow elementals, the air was filled with Death elementals.

Black bones jutted out of the ground. Neo frowned when he laid his eyes on them.

"What is this...?"

He could feel the grudges of souls embedded in the bones. A tear slipped down his cheek.

Confused, Neo realized it was his blessing crying.

"Save them," it was telling him.

Before Neo could do anything, he heard maniacal laughter. Dark clouds gathered in the sky.

"You've come, sacrifice.

"I must say, I was surprised to see you defeat my underlings!

"But it ends now! You've stepped into my Domain! You are as good as dead!"

The Necromancer, a skeleton in a majestic red robe, laughed from his throne far ahead.

A giant orb of Darkness floated behind the throne.

"I commend your bravery, sacrifice, for coming to face me alone! As a—"

The Necromancer stopped speaking when Neo disappeared from sight.

He felt a gust of wind pass him and heard a voice behind him.

"A Spirit Seed. So this is where Mira got her Spirit and became so powerful.

"I take it you used the grudges of the dead and their souls to empower the Seed?" Neo asked, standing behind the throne.

The Necromancer froze.

'How did he get behind me?'

'I didn't see him move.'

'Teleportation? Space Warping? Perception manipulation?'

He grew nervous.

'I felt the gust of wind. Was that pure physical athleticism?'

'Did he move at a speed I couldn't perceive?'

That was not good.

It was bad bad news.

The Necromancer raised his hand.

The rings on his fingers glowed.

But before he could attack, his vision tilted as his head fell from his body.

The bones of the skeleton's neck had been cleanly sliced.

Neo looked back.

He had beheaded the Necromancer when he passed him earlier.

"It could still talk, even though I beheaded it.

"Seems like a 'Lich' is quite hard to kill..."

Neo's words trailed off as he sensed something.

He looked toward one of the bones jutting from the ground.

The bone grew, like a sapling becoming a tree, and transformed back into the Necromancer.

"What did you do?!

How did you attack so fast?"

Gone was the majestic aura and pride the Necromancer held.

Five seconds were enough for it to realize the disparity between itself and Neo.

"Hmmm..."

Neo unsheathed his sword, ignoring the frantic Necromancer.

He infused his Aura of Death into the sword.

Engravings of red lightning arcs appeared on the blade.

"The Aura Blade doesn't look defective.

"So, how are you still alive? That attack could've killed the Minotaur in one go."

He retracted his Aura, and the engravings disappeared.

Seeing his frown, the Necromancer realized he might not be as helpless as he thought.

A smile appeared on his face.

"This is the power of my Domain!

"As long as I'm here, I'm Immortal!

"You might be strong, sacrifice, but you can never kill me!

"Sooner or later, you'll exhaust yourself, and I'll end you when that happens!"

The Necromancer's confidence returned.

Neo looked at the bones jutting out from the ground.

'It seems like he revives himself through the bones.' _{frёewebηovel.cѳm}

'There are hundreds of thousands of them.'

Neo returned the sword to its sheath.

While he could brute-force his way through and destroy every bone, it was time-consuming and exhausting.

Trying to use Death to overpower the Necromancer's Immortality directly was even more futile.

The Necromancer had lived for centuries; his Death resistance was leagues above what Neo could muster.

'This is troublesome.