Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 274

Association Headquarters, Turkey, Shadow World

After the battle between Neo and the Awakener Association, which resulted in a crushing defeat for the Association, time passed like a blur.

Neo's actions caused a lot of changes.

Awakeners all over the world were in an uproar.

The news spread that an awakener had singlehandedly defeated the Awakener Association and put Typhon in a deep slumber.

It pissed off Emma when Jack wasn't given any credit.

As for Jack himself, he couldn't care less about the news.

His focus was on searching for Neo.

Neo had disappeared from the face of the world.

If not for a new vision of Apollo, which showed Neo fighting Typhaon, Jack would've thought Neo had left the Shadow World.

Since the vision confirmed Neo was still somewhere around, Jack decided to stay.

He joined the Awakener Association temporarily.

In the next few weeks, the Awakener Association demanded a reason from the Titans for supporting Neo during the previous battle.

Kronos revealed his reason at the Council meeting.

"I helped Neo Hargraves because my intuition told me to trust him."

It was a simple yet highly irresponsible reason.

Unfortunately, the Awakener Association couldn't hold him accountable as Neo was right in the end, and Kronos was the leader of Titans.

Kronos was an existence they couldn't judge easily.

He was one of the only two SSS-rank awakeners.

During the same council meeting, it was decided that the fact Jack and Neo were from the future would be hidden for obvious reasons.

The council also demanded Jack to explain why he had stayed behind in the past after everything ended.

"The world is going to end because we couldn't save the Child of Mana on time," Jack said. "Neo and I've stayed behind because of it."

A lot of awakeners were skeptical of Jack's claim.

To point out an obvious reason, if the future was destroyed, how were Jack and Neo still alive?

They should've been dead because the future where they were born was destroyed.

Jack, being someone who rarely paid attention in classes, didn't know how to explain the situation.

His confusion was visible as he rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.

At that moment, Kronos helped Jack.

His friendly tone cut through the skepticism.

"They are alive because of paradoxes," Kronos began.

"Think about it," Kronos continued. "If someone goes into the past and kills their grandfather, what would happen?"

"The grandfather dies."

"If the grandfather dies, their grandchild is never born."

"If the grandchild is never born, he can't go back into the past and kill his grandfather."

"If the grandfather isn't killed, then the grandchild is born again, and he goes back into the past to kill his grandfather again ."

"This is a paradox,"

Kronos explained, pacing slowly around the hall as his gaze met the eyes of each council member.

"It is a constantly changing past. Such changes cause deformities in the timeline."