Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 434

"Most of my enemies would be Gods now, so the difference in Elemental Masteries will become a big problem if I don’t do anything about them."

Stats could be increased with ranks.

Demigods would do this, but their Elemental Masteries were lacking compared to Gods, who had Stats and Elemental Masteries.

Just because Neo could hit harder than Stage-2 Gods didn’t mean he should ignore his Elemental Masteries.

He wanted to make his foundation as firm as possible.

Or else it would come back to bite him in the future when he fought even stronger enemies.

"Are you worried about your elemental masteries?" Zera’s voice rang from behind.

He turned around and noticed her walking towards him.

"You should rest. Why are you here?"

"It’s boring to do nothing."

She stood before him.

Her injuries had healed somewhat. Her hand had been reattached firmly, and the hole in her stomach was closing slowly.

"Want my help?" she asked.

"It’s okay," Neo replied. He needed to create his own World before he could start pushing his elemental masteries higher.

"You know from Savant we need the help of the World to increase our masteries?" she asked. "Tartarus doesn’t do that. That’s why everyone here is only peak Expert unless they came from the outside."

"That’s why I didn’t see many Gods among the Grand Expedition," Neo commented.

He looked at Zera with a complicated expression.

For the inhabitants of Tartarus, they couldn’t go beyond Expert as the World didn’t help them.

The people who came from outside were in a similar position. Tartarus cut all communication from outside, and they couldn’t receive their World’s help to go beyond Savant.

This problem was not lethal for Awakeners/Demigods.

They could rank up their Traits.

But Gods needed to increase their Elemental Masteries to rank up.

In other words, Zera had been a Stage-3 God when she arrived in this world.

Had she been somewhere else, she might’ve reached higher stages.

"You don’t have that problem, do you?" Zera asked him.

"….?"

"You gave a connection to Elizabeth. That’s something only a World can do."

She stepped closer, looking at him with a mischievous smile.

Suddenly, the world around them warped.

’Shit! This is a Sanctuary!’

Neo became alert.

Each Sanctuary was unique and was a subdimension of its own.

In other words, Zera had just kidnapped him.

"Are you thinking of fighting—"

"No, it’s nothing like that," she said. "I deployed the Sanctuary to make sure Tartarus couldn’t hear us."

Neo nodded. The World could hear them since they were near its Core. Nonetheless, he didn’t drop his guard.

"Why did you pull me here?"

"You are a World’s Avatar, right?"

"….?"

"Don’t act oblivious. Worlds can manifest a body and put their consciousness inside it. That’s how most Worlds interact with their inhabitants."

Neo frowned.

She didn’t know about Heavenbreakers?

Or maybe she knew, but meeting a Heavenbreaker was so rare that she believed Neo was an Avatar as it was more plausible?

"Maybe I am, maybe I’m not. What’s that got to do with you deploying your Sanctuary?"

"You don’t need to act. You being a World’s Avatar explains how you didn’t realize Tartarus wasn’t allowing us to absorb its energy. Because you had your own power source, and you never bothered to absorb Tartarus’ energy."

"As I asked before, why does that matter?"

Zera stared at Neo silently.

Despite her carefree smile, he could tell countless thoughts were moving inside her head.