Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 837

Chapter 837: A Mother’s Love Knows No Evil

The Emperor looked at Neo with unreadable eyes.

A moment later, the palace shook.

The battle that followed was nothing like Neo had imagined.

He was overwhelmed.

Every move he made was anticipated.

Every attack deflected or redirected.

His power was suppressed, twisted, crushed by an authority that felt absolute within this domain.

Neo was slammed into the ground, then through walls, then into the depths beneath the palace.

By the time it ended, he was bound in chains.

He was thrown into a prison beneath the palace, deep underground.

The door sealed shut behind him, and layers of formations activated one after another.

He was scheduled to be present in the court tomorrow, and likely be executed after that.

Neo tested the chains.

They didn’t budge.

The suppression was terrifyingly thorough.

"...This doesn’t make sense. Even if Heaven is strong, everyone else in this world is weak. How did someone make chains strong enough to hold me? Where did the knowledge for this come from?"

As he grumbled under his breath, a familiar presence asserted itself.

A screen appeared in front of his eyes.

[Question: How to avoid surveillance of Heavens?]

[Primogenitor slot available.]

[Would you like to receive an answer?]

"...Huh?"

Neo froze.

"Primogenitor? How is this still working?"

This shouldn’t have been possible.

The Witch of Greed had fed him answers through the Great Net of Life.

But that network no longer existed for him. He could feel it clearly.

He was completely disconnected from his previous Great Net of Life (Sea of All Consciousness) when he came to the past.

Then—

’Did you come to the past with me?’

Neo frowned.

If this screen was still functioning, there was only one explanation.

The Witch of Greed was here.

With him.

’Now that I think about it... I never really understood why this Primogenitor Trait was so strange.’

’And...’

His eyes sharpened.

"If I recall, weren’t you the one who told Zeus to kill the Devil of Cruelty? Were you trying to sabotage Cole’s plan?"

There was no response.

"What game are you playing, Witch of Greed?"

The unease in Neo’s chest deepened.

Why had she acted like the First Child of Mana?

Why had she helped create the Akashic Record on Earth?

Why had she interfered with Cole’s attempt to create the Devil of Cruelty?

And most importantly—

Had she tampered with Neo’s Life Flame so she could bind herself to him through his Trait?

"What’s your goal?" Neo asked coldly. "No... are you even a Witch? Or are you something else entirely?"

[...]

[Confirmation received]

[Answer: Heavens watch from above. All that is beneath the sky is visible to Heavens. Hide in a location where no sky or light is visible to hide from the vision of Heavens.]

Neo stared at the message.

His trait had answered on its own.

’So she’s saying... I need to avoid Heaven’s eyes before we can talk.’

Neo exhaled slowly.

If this was true, then Heaven had been watching him the entire time.

And he hadn’t even known.

Darkness began to seep from Neo’s body.

It spread, swallowing the prison room and cutting off every source of light.

The chains suppressed his power heavily, but small actions like this were still possible.

The darkness settled.

Then—

Something stirred inside him.

Energy flowed outward, coalescing into a familiar form.

The Witch of Greed stood before him.

Neo’s eyes hardened.

"Why did you help create the Akashic Record?" he asked. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

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