Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 600

Chapter 600: Demon Of Tomorrow

Zagreus snickered when he heard that.

The octopus looked at him and then sighed. It turned to Nameless Death, and continued.

"That was the idea behind it, at least. Unfortunately, a lot of things happened, and the project was a huge failure."

"That it was," Zagreus said. "I don’t know what happened to the previous Devil, but right now, that Womb of Devil is on my home planet, and well, let’s say, it’s being used for something entirely different that for what it was build."

Zagreus chuckled, recalling the cube back at his home.

"It’s at your home planet?"

"Yeah, it was called Pandora’s Box first. But right now, they call it Akashic Record."

Before Nameless Death could say anything, Zagreus waved his hand.

"Don’t ask how or why it’s name changed to Pandora’s Box then to Akashic Record. It’s a long story, and too exhausting to talk about."

Nameless Death nodded.

He was already surprised Zagreus had give him information about his background, which he normally didn’t do.

During the past years, Zagreus and Nameless Death might have been working together, but both of them kept their past and background hidden.

They only revealed some of their abilities to each other, and even that was because they needed to know each other’s powers in order to fight together.

Nameless Death turned to the octopus.

"How do you guys know so much? I was under the impression you came here from your Shadow Trial, so this should be the first time you visited this place."

The octopus turned to Zagreus instead of answering Nameless Death.

Zagreus nodded at the eldritch octopus before he moved deeper into the forge.

Having received the permission, the octopus spoke to Nameless Death,

"Let me introduce myself again. I am Ekravion, the Demon of Tomorrow. As with all Demons, I’ve lived a long life.

"Perhaps, it would be better to say that I’m one of the oldest entities along with Witches, and other Demons, and as is with all old entities, I’ve seen quite a lot of things.

"Once in the past, my previous contractor had met dwarves and it why I know about them," Ekravion explained.

Nameless Death nodded.

He had a feeling that the octopus was not normal but to think it was a demon. This was beyond surprising.

’Hmm? I don’t know what a demon is, so why did I think they are something special?’

Seeing Nameless Death’s frown, Ekravion called out to him,

"Is there a problem?"

"What is a Demon?" Nameless Death suddenly asked.

"Oh," Ekravion said, realizing he had yet to explain what Demons and Witches were. "Demons are weapons created by the Creator to bring end to the Universe, while the Witches are the pillars who support the Universe."

"...?"

"You must be thinking isn’t a Devil supposed to bring an end? Well, to answer you, a Devil was a artificial creation while we are natural phenomenon manifested by the Creator.

"As for why I’m not acting like some evil being who wants to bring destruction..."

Ekravion chuckled.

"All Demons have sentience. While we do have the potential to destroy the universe, it is something that benefits no one, neither us, nor another living being. It is why none of the demons are evil masterminds who want to bring destruction. Not anymore at least."

Nameless Death noticed Ekravion had used ’not anymore’ in his sentence.

Before he could question what that meant, the demon floated back to Zagreus.

"Come, we should get you healed first. We can talk about past later."

Nameless Death nodded and followed after it.

They stopped before Zagreus.

"Before we start, let’s go over our deal first," Zagreus said. "I will help you heal your Consciousness. In exchange, when Berserker comes to fight you, you would let me capture and interrogate him. After that, you can fight him or kill him or do whatever you want with him."

"Okay, but you need to explain the details about your Shadow Trial to me. I can’t trust you unless I know that your Trial isn’t related to fucking me over."