Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 376

Emotions surged.

Neo kept his presence suppressed, which kept him hidden from the man.

The man looked to be in his late 40s.

His shoulders were slumped. He had dark circles beneath his eyes, and his tie was loosened, hanging awkwardly over a wrinkled shirt.

He walked back to his home, with his worn office bag in his hands.

His steps were heavy, dragging behind him.

Neo stopped his skill.

He pulled back the tide of emotions he had been ready to inject into the man.

’If I’m going to do it, might as well do it properly,’ he thought.

He extended his hand subtly and activated Mind Invasion to look into the man’s mind.

Flashes of a bright childhood surfaced in Neo’s mind.

The man had once been a top-performing student. He turned from a genius into an average person as he grew older. No, as he grew up, he realized he wasn’t a genius.

He wasn’t special.

The face of hammered further as the man passed the age of 20 without awakening Godblood.

He would never become a demigod.

Awakening past the age of 20 was almost unheard of. Your next chapter is on freewebnovel

There were exceptions, of course—rare cases where individuals awakened after 20. These outliers were monstrous geniuses.

It was said their Godblood was so powerful that their bodies and souls couldn’t handle the strain of their awakening until maturity.

Their dormant powers only awakened after their bodies and souls had reached their peak. That is a few years after the age of 20.

The man had hoped, once, that he might be one of those rare cases.

But deep down, he knew better.

It was normal for someone like him to remain unawakened.

Only one in 10,000 people awakened, and late awakenings were even rarer—a one-in-a-billion occurrence.

His life trudged on.

He graduated from a local university, earned a certification, and landed a job with an average income and a slightly toxic work environment.

He couldn’t change jobs due to his limited skills.

Five years later, he got married.

Four years after that, he had a child.

The memory recollection ended.

The man continued his slow journey home.

He wanted to rest, but he never stopped moving, not because he had purpose but because stopping felt pointless.

He was exhausted, but he didn’t complain.

His mind, dulled from years of exploitation, had no intentions of changing the flow of his life.

"An average life, in other words," Neo muttered.

He used Empathic Bond and transferred hope, passion, and optimism.

The man’s feet came to a halt.

The bustling noises of the city seemed to quieten for a moment as he blinked, confused, and looked around.

The dullness in his eyes vanished, replaced by a faint sparkle.

He felt as if he had just woken from a long, dreamless sleep.

Neo observed him silently, suppressing his presence so thoroughly that the man remained unaware of his watcher.

"Yawn, when did I reach here?" the man muttered to himself.

He rubbed the back of his neck and glanced in the direction of his home.

The tired lines on his face eased slightly.

But instead of continuing his walk home, he returned to the main road.