Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 69

Neo couldn't understand it.

How did he survive the Darkness if he didn't create a Seed of Darkness?

"Did Obitus save me?"

It was the only answer he could think of.

He looked at the sword.

"Obitus, what happened back then?"

There was no answer.

The sword's spirit was asleep.

"It must've spent a lot of energy to help me back then," Neo smiled. "Thank you."

Foreign emotions appeared inside his head.

Happiness, Delight, Joy, Pride.

Obitus could not talk.

But it could hear him.

Neo smiled seeing how happy the Spirit became after hearing his praise.

"Now then, should I wait for the Immortal to restack or should I return to Underworld as is?"

The time limit was ticking by.

Neo made his decision.

He used Death skill and woke up in the Underworld.

For the first time in ages, he didn't lose half of his Divine Energy upon arrival.

He took a deep breath.

"I can taste the Darkness infused in the air. Seems like my senses increased with the mastery."

The thick amount of Death and Darkness elements in the Underworld calmed Neo.

He felt like he was home.

"I wonder if my current mastery is enough to complete the second trial."

The hill where the second flag post was located was only an hour away.

Neo reached its base.

With his improved mastery, he could see the thick, almost intangible, Darkness covering the hill.

He smiled wryly.

"How did I fail to sense all of this before?

"If I hadn't been lucky back then, the Darkness here would've devoured me."

Neo took a step.

He climbed.

The Darkness rushed towards him.

It wrapped him in thick miasma and tried to eat him alive.

Insanity attacked his mind.

Emotions that weren't his own…

Memories of a past he never experienced….

Desperate pleas he never made…

His mind buzzed with countless thoughts.

Neo continued to walk.

He ignored everything.

His mind, numbed, withstood the onslaught unwaveringly.

The Darkness surged when he reached halfway through the path.

Black flames of Darkness materialized.

They tried to burn Neo.

But.

He was one with the Darkness already.

The black flames of such level were no longer a threat to him.

So.

He walked.

Step by step.

And.

He reached the top.

Neo took out the flag and inserted it into the flag post.

Suddenly, the flag post shined and it absorbed all of the Darkness lingering on the hill.

"The second trial is done."

Neo couldn't help but think it was ironic.

The trial nearly made him go insane and turned him into a monster, and once he finished his preparations, it was far easier than the first trial.

He checked the timer.

"Ten hours left. I can start searching for the third flag post."

It was clear by now the next flag posts would have a trial associated with them.

The next trials would be more dangerous.

Neo was not afraid of them.

His emotions were numbed thanks to the mastery of Darkness.

He had not become an emotionless machine.