Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 312

"Wait, what do you mean—"

Before Daniel could question him, Kronos activated the World-Time Spell.

A blinding light erupted.

The once deafening sounds of monsters faded.

The world around Daniel went dark.

Silence engulfed him.

Suddenly, a powerful current smashed into him.

The waves surged stronger with time.

Daniel tried to stay afloat desperately.

The current twisted and turned, dragging him along.

Days, weeks, months—he lost track of time as he swam against the river of time.

His body ached, his mind screamed, but he refused to give up.

Just when Daniel thought he could not continue any longer, he heard a voice.

"I’m sorry. There is no one named Selene in the rescued people list—"

"Amanda! What are you saying to a patient who just woke up!?"

The smell of antiseptic filled his nostrils.

The beeping of medical monitors echoed softly.

Blinding white light burned his vision as he blinked awake.

The sharp scent of a sterile medical room was unmistakable.

He looked around, noticing the doctor and nurse staring down at him.

The nurse, Amanda, had a panicked expression, while the doctor maintained a professional calm.

"Patient Daniel, are you okay? How are you feeling?" the doctor asked.

Daniel looked at his arms.

He pinched his cheek.

Pain returned instantly.

It was proof.

This wasn’t a dream.

He had returned to the past.

"Hahaha."

Daniel’s laughter echoed hollowly.

He covered his face with his hands.

His shoulders trembled.

"What the hell?"

He couldn’t stop his tears as he laughed bitterly.

Everyone he cared about had died.

They died because of the mistakes he made.

He returned to the past to fix those mistakes.

But…

"Hahaha, is this a sick joke?"

He woke up three days after his sister had been kidnapped by Charybdis, the Sovereign of Typhaon.

He couldn’t save her.

A few minutes later, Daniel exhausted his tears.

The doctor left after giving him a check-up, leaving to look at other patients.

The sterile scent lingered as the machines beeped steadily beside him.

Daniel lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling with a blank gaze.

"Use healing slip," he muttered few seconds later.

[Healing Slip is being used.]

A faint, golden glow surrounded his body.

Daniel’s injuries began to heal.

The physical pain in his limbs eased as the magic worked through him.

The ball of Intent within Daniel, Neo, had returned in time with Daniel.

Daniel had grown emotionally.

’This is good.’

Neo felt a sense of relief.

Daniel’s emotional growth was important, or else Daniel would break before he could save the world.

However…

’Something is wrong.’

’We should’ve returned one month before Daniel’s sister was kidnapped.’

’Did the spell fail at the last moment?’

’Is it because Kronos didn’t have time to run proper checks?’

An error of a month was acceptable in a Spell that could send the user eight years back into the past.

Neo and Daniel had been just unlucky.

They couldn’t been sent to the exact date they had planned, a few days later, or a few days earlier.

’Was it really luck?’

Fate commanded cause and effect and luck.

’Fate might be trying to stop us from changing the past too many times.’

’Or maybe it was just simple bad luck.’

Neo hoped it wasn’t Fate.

Daniel stood up after having his injuries healed.

The white hospital bed crinkled as he shifted.

The nurse nearby was about to stop him until she noticed his wounds had completely closed, leaving only faint scars where the injuries once were.