Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 303

But Neo was different.

"You can send my Intent back, right?" Neo questioned.

"...I can try."

Losing his enlightenments and masteries didn’t matter to Neo.

He could easily get them back.

’This is a good choice. I lost too much while rushing to grow stronger,’ Neo thought while looking at his scarred hands.

His goal had always been to be the strongest.

And yet he was giving away his powers.

There was a reason for it.

The Angel grew stronger as the two fought for centuries.

If the Angel’s strength had not grown, Neo could’ve defeated it 2,000 years earlier.

To match up with the Angel’s pace, he had to make a lot of compromises.

It led him to make mistakes, which made his foundation weak.

It was just like with his Concept of Darkness.

The Concept of True Darkness was stronger than the Concept of Emotion and the Concept of Pathfinder.

Pathfinder gave high temporary stats in exchange for sacrifices.

The user of this Concept could devour everything, but the gains were temporary.

The gains could range from 30 to 500 stats, depending on what was devoured.

This was when the user was at Expert mastery (Lowest).

Reaching Expert mastery (Peak) would increase the stat gain severalfold.

Emotion granted low permanent stats in exchange for emotions.

The users of this Concept could devour only emotions.

Needless to say, the ’low’ here was significantly higher than what Darkness users without Concepts could get from devouring normal objects.

True Darkness allowed the user to devour anything, and the chances of receiving stat gains increased.

The pace of receiving gains was slow, but they were permanent (unlike Pathfinder) and the user had infinite things to devour (unlike Emotions).

This was enough to understand that True Darkness was better than Emotion and Pathfinder.

But in the short term, True Darkness was the weakest.

Neo had encountered similar things as he progressed on the path of World Energy.

And he had made many mistakes.

’But if I give away everything now, I can redo everything and become the strongest.’

"You should double think about this." Professor Daniel, unaware of Neo’s thoughts, said.

His voice was calm, but it still revealed the tension in his furrowed brows.

"You’ll lose—"

"I’m not lose anything. I’m making use of it." Neo said firmly. "Besides, I can get them back easily. But…..

"I’m not sure we can fix everything even with this."

The amount of white threads dancing over Neo’s palms increased.

They grew brighter glow.

The energy crackled softly, twisting like living strands of silk in his grasp.

He started to infuse his enlightenments and masteries over it.

The threads pulsated with every technique he poured into it.

Professor Daniel wanted to tell Neo to not give away everything.

His expression worsened as he saw Neo’s hard work of thousands of years disappear into the ball of Intent.

However, Neo did not stop.

This was what Neo was.

He always walked the path of his own beliefs.

He hadn’t grown strong because he was afraid of losing a bit of strength.

"Sigh…. Stop looking like that. I’m not giving away everything. My Will is still with me," Neo said when he noticed Professor Daniel’s countenance.

The professor looked as if he was watching his own child die.

His lips were slightly parted and his face was pale.

The white threads started to wrap around each other, forming a glowing sphere that pulsed rhythmically.

Stats.

Elemental masteries.

Sword techniques.

Enlightenments.

Neo put as much as he could into it.

The ball of Intet began to swell with condensed brilliance.