Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 427

There was another thing Neo noticed.

If Tartarus was so strong, then why was it trying to hide the truth about the Abyss of Nightmares?

"How is Tartarus killing them?" Neo mumbled to himself.

"You don’t know?" Zera asked, surprised.

She took deep breaths to stabilize her condition and kept her hands on her abdomen to stop her entrails from spilling as she spoke,

"When did you wake up from the nightmares?"

"Two days ago."

"How did you do that?"

"…"

Neo suddenly became silent.

From what she told him, everyone was inside a collective nightmare.

They were having the same dream and could meet each other in that dream.

But Neo?

He had been in an entirely different Nightmare alone.

’Tartarus must’ve done that to end me and to make sure no one can help me.’

When he remained silent, Zera chuckled.

"It’s fine if you don’t want to reveal it. Everyone has a trump card or two that they keep hidden.

"What I want to know, though, is something else. How have you been surviving for two days?

"The energy recovery must be a problem for you," she said.

"Huh?" Neo frowned. "Energy recovery problem?"

Zera stared at Neo, wondering why he was trying to act clueless.

It took her a few moments to realize Neo was serious.

"You… what are you?" she spoke, surprise leaking into her voice for the first time. "This place is near Tartarus’ Core. All Energy and Elementals here belong to Tartarus.

"It doesn’t want us to recover. Thus, we can’t absorb the ambient energy in the air to recover our energy reserves.

"Eating energy-rich food is an option, but that would mean you realize you can’t absorb energy from the air.

"How did you not know that?" she questioned.

"I am used to recovering my energy from devouring the food inside my Shadow Space, not from the air. That’s why I didn’t realize it," he said with a calm tone.

"That’s a lie," Zera said instantly. "Could it be that…."

She looked Neo up and down as if she was evaluating him.

Neo tensed, ready to escape at a moment’s notice.

Kane had warned him the Dragon Clan leaders might attack him if they found out he was a Heavenbreaker.

’Since they don’t have any place to draw energy from except food or natural treasures that are rich in energy, they might try to use me as a battery.’

There was no doubt the Expedition must’ve stocked up on energy-rich food and materials.

But a Heavenbreaker was special.

Neo’s Energy Purity was off the charts.

His current energy purity was on par with a Stage-1 World.

Gods could never match that, since they were inherently weaker than Worlds at their same rank.

A Paragon Demigod, Stage-1 God, and Stage-1 World were at the same rank, technically.

However, Demigod was the weakest.

The reason being their low energy purity and low element mastery.

Stage-1 God had Element mastery at the same rank as Stage-1 World, but their Energy Purity was much lower than the World’s.

Stage-1 World had both: high Element Mastery in multiple elements and high Energy Purity.

It would take multiple Stage-1 Gods joining hands to fight a Stage-1 World.

’I might be lower rank than Zera, but my Energy Purity must be far higher than anything the Expedition could have brought.’

’I need to be careful.’

Neo remained alert.