Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 421

A giant black tornado stood before them.

Its base had a diameter of thousands of kilometers, and its height seemed to pierce the sky.

The tornado—the entrance to the Abyss of Nightmares—emitted a powerful aura.

"Have you told them everything about the Expedition?" Zera questioned Kane.

"I will do that now," Kane replied.

"Okay. Make sure you don’t forget any basic details. Even if we can’t die in Tartarus, there are fates worse than death.

"They need to have all the information they can get to increase their chances of making it out through the Abyss in one piece."

Zera left the area.

She began to teleport the Grand Expedition to their current location.

Kane faced Neo and the others.

"Do you know Tartarus catches anything that floats on the Blood Sea and has high negative karma?"

"We do."

"People aren’t the only thing Tartarus captures like this."

"…?"

"You people should know it. Something else that floats on the Blood Sea. Something that is not ’beings’ but has life."

Neo frowned.

An idea came to his mind, but the implications behind it were dangerous.

He kept his mouth shut and waited for Kane to continue.

"It’s the Worlds," Kane said. "When a World gathers high negative karma, Tartarus swallows them.

"The Abyss of Nightmares is where those Worlds are imprisoned.

"They are now a former husk of what they once were. Tartarus uses them as a shield to protect itself from the prisoners it has captured."

He continued.

"Here, we call each World Tartarus has captured a [Zone].

"The Abyss of Nightmares has three [Floors], and each floor has three zones.

"Everyone will be teleported to a random zone on the first floor.

"After all three Zones are cleared, you should be able to find a weak point in the Floor and use it to travel deeper into the Abyss and reach the next Floor."

Neo looked around.

If they had to fight nine worlds on their way to Tartarus, he could understand the need for millions of soldiers.

"Each Zone has a [Protector]. They are immensely powerful.

"Honestly, Protectors are the reason why the previous Grand Expeditions failed.

"More than half of the Dragon Clan Leaders who were slain inside the Abyss were done so by the Protectors," Kane explained.

"How were they slain? Isn’t everyone immortal here?" Percival questioned.

"Trapped in ice, turned insane, turned into a monster, had their souls devoured. There are a lot of ways around that immortality," Kane said.

He noticed the grave expressions of the group.

A chuckle left his lips.

"Don’t worry. This Expedition isn’t going to be as hard as the previous ones."

He gestured at the millions of soldiers.

"Unlike before, where quality or quantity was prioritized, this time we have both quantity and quality soldiers.