Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 430

"The promise that I will live?"

"Yes, I wanted to know if you want me to complete the promise."

"…?"

"You will live, but for Eternity."

Neo’s uplifted mood was plunged into the depths of an icy ocean. He realized he hadn’t been able to help Elizabeth.

Sure, he was trying to save her, but she would be forced to live for Eternity. If he was to believe Ava, Elizabeth would never die after consuming the Everwitch Violet.

He could use his Concept to ’kill’ her. Though that didn’t change the fact that he had failed to find a no-risk method for Elizabeth.

Neo bit his lips. He never succeeded. Every time when it counted, he failed to make a change.

"Are you alright, Miss Guardian Fairy?"

Elizabeth held Neo’s hand and squeezed it lightly after sensing his downcast mood.

He smiled, trying to put up a front.

"I’ve never been better than now, child," he said. "Now, do you want me to save you? Or would you rather that I do not do that?"

Elizabeth didn’t answer immediately.

She seemed to be in deep thought.

Neo was a bit surprised when he didn’t sense malicious emotions from her.

"Are you not angry at me?"

"For what?"

"I tricked you. I told you I would save you, but now, I came to tell you that there is a condition attached. " _{freewebnσvel.cøm}

"That doesn’t change how I feel. I’m happy that Miss Guardian Fairy came to meet me again."

Again, Neo was surprised to see her—the Tyrant—talk so innocently.

He wondered if she would act the same in real life after he revealed he had been the ’Miss Guardian Fairy’, not that he was planning to do that.

"What… is Eternity?" she asked after thinking about it for a long time. "Is it something scary?"

"Eternity isn’t scary or comforting. It’s All-Consuming."

Neo could’ve sugar-coated his words.

He should’ve sugar-coated his words.

But he wanted Elizabeth to know what Eternity was. Receiving a ’yes’ from her to save her wouldn’t matter if he had to trick her by lying about Eternity.

"All-Consuming?"

"As long as you have a desire, you will find Eternity beautiful.

"When you have nothing left, no goal, no aspiration, Eternity will become a cage."

Neo continued.

"That’s why Eternity is All-Consuming.

"You have to keep giving it your goals to devour.

"As long as your mountain of goals doesn’t end, Eternity will be a peaceful voyage.

"And when your mountain of goals is completely devoured, and Eternity has nothing left to eat, it will turn to you and feast on you instead," Neo explained.

He wondered if his explanation was hard to understand for Elizabeth.

"Do you want to live for Eternity, child?"

Elizabeth thought about the answer. She fiddled with Neo’s hand and pondered over his words.

"I have a goal," she said. "I want to live. To see happiness. To see what lies beyond the world I’ve been forced to live.

"I want to meet my daughter and hug her. I want to meet Neo and thank him. I want to meet Master and tell her I was happy to have someone like her in my life, and…"

She stopped.

A lump seemed to have formed in her throat.