Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 245

Ares signaled Emma to follow after Jack.

She nodded.

The meeting hall was plunged into silence.

Ares broke the stillness with his words.

"We can't fight Typhaon until we are completely prepared."

He looked at Neo in the eye.

"Now that you know about our choice, we need to hear yours. Do you still want to save the Child of Mana?" he asked.

"Why do you want to know about it?"

"It should be obvious."

Neo pursed his lips and the gears in his minds churned.

'We will become rebels if we go against their decision and try to rescue the Child of Mana,' he thought. 'They will do whatever it takes to stop us.'

'Well, I tried my best to convince them. This much should be enough.'

Neo opened his mouth.

"Can I give my answer tomorrow?" he asked, trying to buy time, since lying was useless due to Iapteus' lie detection.

"Why not now?"

"It's not an easy decision to make. We have come to the past to save the Child of Mana, and now you are requesting us to do otherwise. I need to think about it carefully."

Ares stared at Neo for dozens of seconds, his expression unreadable, before he sighed.

"Fine."

Neo left the meeting hall after receiving the answer.

After his departure, Ares sank into his seat, the leather creaking under his weight.

"He is going to go for the Child of Mana," Francis said as he stared at the door from where Neo had left.

"I can see that."

"Want our help to stop him?"

"No, it's fine. He is just a B-rank awakener. We can deal with him ourselves."

"You know it better than anyone else that our ranking system is highly flawed.

"Besides, a B-rank awakener should not have been able to survive Anomaly #79 until now, nor should he be able to take out a Necromancer, who devoured Spain, in under 5 minutes."

Ares had to agree with Francis.

Neo's abilities were too diverse.

His Time and Darkness elemental manipulation made him a mage.

Having high mastery in two unrelated elements alone crowned him as an irregular.

However, Neo also had powerful sword techniques, high physical stats, and a wealthy combat experience that belonged to a physical fighter.

Lastly, his strange ability of removing the corruption of Darkness, inhuman willpower, and his unknown methods with which he defeated Anomaly #33.

One could be either Master of One or Jack of All.

But Neo was more of a Master of All.

"He is just one man," Ares said. "He can't defeat the Association alone."

Shaking his head, Ares continued.

"Forget about him. What happened to the World Time project?"

"We've had a breakthrough in the project and we successfully developed its first working prototype, the [Space-Time Cube]."

A cube appeared in Francis' hand.

He threw it in the air, and the cube disappeared in a portal that materialized above it.

A few seconds later, another portal appeared before Ares, and the cube landed in Ares' hand.

"That's the completed prototype. You can check its performance," Francis said. "Who are you going to give it to?"

"Athena."

"That's a good choice. It's best if you can protect the Child of Mana with it."

…

Neo met with Jack outside, who was sweating buckets.

"Not my fault. It's funny to see you angry one second and regretting the consequences the next second." _{ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com}