Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 605

"Origin Trait."

",…?"

"Origin Trait is an invention of Ultris. That is the source of Traits, evolution and everything he has created."

Nameless Death frowned and looked towards the demon then at Zagreus.

"You guys know Ultris too?"

"We don't," the demon shook his head. "However, an Origin Trait is something we do know. It was… quite an invention. The very fact that Origin Trait allowed mortals to fight Gods should be enough to tell you how ridiculously powerful Origin Trait was."

Nameless Death nodded.

From what he understood, in the beginning the only Path of Ascension was Path of Elementals/Godhood.

Later, Ultris created the Path of Awakeners.

His Path, while strong, was not meant to overshadow Path of Godhood. Instead, it was a 'crutch'.

It was a helping stick for the mortals, who wished to be as strong as Gods for whatever reasons they had.

This crutch didn't allow them to defeat Gods – no mortal (Awakener) could kill a God – but they could fight them and preserve their life.

"This reminds me, why can you kill Gods despite not being a God?" Nameless Death asked Zagreus.

"We will talk about it later," Zagreus said as he waved his hand.

He jumped down from the chair.

"Let's start building a Womb Of Devil for you."

"Okay, so how do we start?"

"I will forge it and help you train by fighting with you. You just need to sit and follow my instructions."

"You will forge the Womb of Devil?"

Nameless Death frowned.

"Actually, can I do it myself?"

"…do what?" Zagreus asked, already feeling an ominous premonition.

"Forge the Womb of the Devil."

"Do you know blacksmithing?"

"No, but I can learn. The blueprints are on—"

"Sigh," Zagreus rubbed his face with his palms, then muttered. "I see. I guess I now know how infuriating I feel to others."

He was looking at the ceiling with a deadpan gaze as if wishing the ceiling could fall and end everything already.

The demon ignored his antics and looked at Nameless Death.

"Why do you want to do it yourself? Is there a reason?"

"I want to forge my Path of Power. The Womb of the Devil will be my Path of Power. So I want to build it myself."

"…huh?" Zagreus snapped his head towards him. "You are a Heavenbreaker?"

"Yes? Why are you—"

"You used Elementals. You, how…"

Zagreus opened his mouth and closed it repeatedly, unable to understand how Nameless Death could walk on multiple Paths despite being a Heavenbreaker.

He looked at the demon for answers.

"Don't look at me like that. I barely know anything about Heavenbreakers. I never met any of them," the demon raised his tentacles in surrender.

While both Zagreus and the demon were unaware how the powers of Heavenbreakers worked, they were pretty sure Heavenbreakers could not walk on multiple paths.

Zagreus could only put the topic behind him and focus on what he understood.

"Got it. You should forge it yourself," he said. "Actually, start learning the blueprints on the walls have basic knowledge of Womb of Devil now. As for forging, this guy will teach you."

"Yes, I can do it," the demon replied. "I have plenty of experience in forging. And I dare say, my knowledge is on par with the dwarves of Iltanea Empire."

After they made the decision, everyone got to work.

Nameless Death began to learn forging under the instructions of the demon.

Zagreus left to find the materials for the Womb of Devil.

Twenty years passed in this manner, and Zagreus had found most materials except a few.

"We are missing the Titanium-branch Elemental Metal," Zagreus said as he drank tea with the demon while Nameless Death was hammering away on the forge.

The hammers of the dwarves were comically large for him, and so were the other equipments.

He could've made a smaller version by devouring them and learning their structure, but Zagreus told him that he should train properly before he tried to take an easy way out.

Simply put, he wanted Nameless Death to use telekinesis to handle the equipments.

Nameless Death complained that Zagreus had no right to teach him about how to 'not' take an easy way out, but Zagreus countered by saying that since Nameless Death had preached walking on the hard path to reach success he should do it right now too.

"So where are you going to get the last metal from?" the demon asked.

"I was planning on taking down a level 9 monster, and have Nameless devour it so that he can get the elemental metal affinity and create it himself."

"I don't think that's going to work. For one, Nameless wouldn't devour any monster given the conditions he gave. Secondly, even you can't defeat a Level 9 monster unless you take more of your future strength."

"I already have a plan to make him devour the monsters."

"And what might that be?"

Zagreus didn't answer immediately.

He stared at Nameless, who was hammering on the metal, with a silent gaze.

'Zagreus,' the demon's voice echoed inside his head. 'I don't know why you are helping Nameless so much. You are going as far as making it look like you need help while you are in truth doing the opposite. If you want to help him so much why are you being embarrassed to use Grim Reapers for your choice? They would be happy to serve you.'

Zagreus frowned.

In truth, Nameless gave him the feeling that he was Zagreus' little brother.

The only reason Zagreus was confused was because Nameless didn't have the Blessing, and the shape of his soul was different.

Looking at it from this angle, it was clear Nameless was not Zagreus' brother, but Zagreus couldn't shake off the feeling.

It was why he was going out of his way to help Nameless.

"Alright, I will call the Grim Reapers."

Zagreus opened his palm.

The Grim Reaper disciple badge manifested in his hand.

Before he activated it, the demon spoke again, "We might be in future or past. Make sure you don't ask them about their present, or history if we are in future. And don't tell them about future, if we are in the past."

"Yeah, yeah, I know."

"You should. Dealing with timeline paradoxes is always a headache. I hope you don't trigger them."

Zagreus nodded and he called out to Nameless.

"Hey, little shit, stop hammering for a second and come here."

At the same time another thought popped up in Zagreus' head, 'The Grim Reapers should be able to tell if he is my brother or not.'

Unaware of his thoughts Nameless Death came towards him.

He wiped his sweat with a towel, and asked, "What is it?"

"I'm going to call some guys here. Greet them properly, little shit," said Zagreus.

He activated the Grim Reaper disciple badge.

"Gremory, can you hear me?"

There was a short silence before a response came back. "First prince? How is this possible? You shouldn't be—"

"I'm in a Shadow Trial."

"Oh," the voice replied. "I'm s-sorry for not realizing something so simple earli—eiik!"

Zagreus shook his head when he heard the noise. Knowing Gremory, she definitely bit her tongue.