Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 371

Neo stared at the reincarnations of his parents.

The sight made his blood freeze.

His chest tightened, and for a moment, even breathing felt like a Herculean effort.

"Mira and George. The people who streamed my battle against the Minotaur."

The realization made feel an emotion. Fear.

"If I had not interfered….."

Neo had defeated the Minotaur, which caused a Tiger-ranked Window to open above the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.

The Window had trapped a Mythic-rank Necromancer.

In the original timeline, where Neo did not exist, the Tiger-ranked Window would’ve opened a few years later.

The Necromancer would’ve emerged.

He would’ve kidnapped a few people.

Mira and George, the reincarnations of Neo’s parents, were among them.

The Necromancer would’ve used them to feed the Spirit Seed he was raising.

’George’s fate in the novel was a brutal death at the hand of Necromancer.’

’He, like other people, was tortured for months so that the Spirit Seed could get to eat plenty of negative emotions.’

The traumatic experience would’ve allowed Mira to awaken her Godblood.

’Her awakening helped her snatch control of the Spirit Seed from the Necromancer and kill him.’

The Spirit Seed was one of Darkness.

It would’ve corrupted her mind after it bonded with Mira.

"Mira’s mind broke completely in the novel, and she became one of the future big villains."

Neo’s hands curled into fists.

If…

If Neo had not interfered, his parents’ reincarnations would’ve faced a future more horrible than death.

Bael’s words echoed in Neo’s mind.

The closer your parents’ reincarnations are to each other, the worse death they will suffer.

Mira and George were a couple who had intentions to marry.

They were pretty close.

The curse would’ve killed his parents after soaking them in despair.

Just the thought of his parents suffering made his emotions go out of control.

Neo stopped using the Mind Invasion skill.

The scene around him returned—the dark hall, the oppressive silence, and the Sphinx’s mocking gaze.

"How was it?" the Sphinx snickered. "Since you seem to know bits and pieces of the future, you must know what the future holds for those reincarnations."

The Sphinx tilted its head.

A grin appeared on its face.

"How does it feel to know you’ve saved the lives of your parents’ reincarnations unknowingly?"

Neo remained silent.

He felt like shit, but he wasn’t going to give the Sphinx any satisfaction by telling it how he was feeling.

While Neo remained silent, the Sphinx’s voice echoed again.

"Now that you have your answer, how about you accept my task?"

"…."

Neo wanted to accept the task.

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But he did not trust the Sphinx, especially when he did not know the reason behind the task.

"Oh, please, are you seriously considering refusing my offer?"

The Sphinx teleported before him.

"You need my help to save the Tyrant Queen. You should know you can’t save her yourself," the Sphinx said, its grin widening.

"I can—"

"Hahahahaha! Are you seriously saying you can save her? How will you do that? With ’those Concepts’?"

The Sphinx’s laughter rang out again.

As an administrator of Akashic Record, it could access Neo’s Status Screen.

It had seen his previous Concepts of Life and the Holy Element.

"Your Concept of Water is ’Aqua Nihil.’

"For Life, it was ’Decay,’ and for Holy, it was ’Preservation.’"

The Sphinx’s voice dripped with disdain.

"All those Concepts are destructive in nature. Because that’s who you are. Because that’s the life you’ve experienced, Neo Hargraves.

"No matter how much you train, you can’t change your nature," the Sphinx spat. "You won’t magically get a Concept that will allow you to heal the Tyrant."

Neo’s mind flashed back to the world Velkaria had destroyed.

A world devoid of hope, color, and vitality.

There was no greenery, no life.

Nothing was left.

The source of life, water, had disappeared with everything.

Life would never return to the world again.

Neo had lived in that desolate world for centuries, walking through barren lands and watching as even the faintest hope of life was snuffed out.

That’s what became his Concept of the Water element.

Aqua Nihil.

The Nihility of Water.

It created a domain around Neo where no water was present, turning his surroundings into an arid wasteland.

It was especially useful against Water-affinity demigods and monsters.

"Your Concepts? They can’t save anyone. I mean look at them."

The Sphinx’s words cut bore hole into Neo’s mind.

"Water, I can understand that you don’t associate it with healing like most people do, but ’Decay’ for life?"

The Sphinx chuckled.

Concept of Decay.

It allowed Neo to extract the life force of his target and turn it into a poisonous life force—decay—with which he could attack others.

That’s how Neo saw life.

Decay.

From the day one was born, they started to walk toward their own death.

Even if they were successful, even if they became happy.

The ending never changed.

They would die.