Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades

Neo stood before the two ancient dragons.

Their minds were gone, and their eyes were empty.

Their will was broken and battered repeatedly until nothing was left of it.

They had tried everything—Energy Holes, Seals, countless other techniques—but nothing worked.

Neo's energy was far too much to be contained by the Energy Holes.

The seals couldn't contain him anymore, and every other method they used simply broke against his power.

He watched them in silence.

The dragons looked almost peaceful, but there was no life behind their gaze.

They had died too many times, revived too many times.

Their thoughts were shattered.

Neo had even used the Happiness Concept of his Life Element to heal their minds.

He did that just to break them again.

He repeated that cycle until their minds no longer healed at all.

Now they were only husks. Empty shells of what they once were.

Without saying a word, Neo raised his hand.

Darkness poured out of him like a tide, spreading across the ground and reaching toward the dragons.

The darkness swallowed them whole.

Their bodies, souls, abilities, ancient blood, Cores—everything—flowed into Neo. Even their very Existence became part of him.

As their essence merged with his, memories flooded into his mind.

He saw the Beginning of the Eon, the birth of Creation itself.

He saw their creator.

She had many names.

The Mother of Dragons. The Prime Evil. The First Sorcerer. The Witch of Pride.

She stood equal to the Supreme Sovereign.

She was someone who remained in the Eternal Council even after the Supreme Sovereign left it.

Since the Sixth Eon, when Prime Death left the Eternal Council, endless wars had followed.

The Eternal Council and Prime Death clashed again and again.

Sometimes the battles were quiet, lasting centuries.

Sometimes they were so violent that the entire Cosmos trembled.

But the wars finally stopped in the 10th Eon. Because a new enemy appeared.

Ouroboros. The Devil of Time.

He united Witches, Demons, Devils, and even Supremes under his banner.

He promised them what they wanted most in exchange for loyalty.

Then, to everyone's shock, he declared war on both the Eternal Council and Prime Death.

And he was winning.

Through some unknown method, Ouroboros managed to steal a portion of the Mother of Dragons' Authority.

The Witch of Gluttony devoured that fragment and became impossibly strong.

The Eternal Council nearly collapsed.

It looked like Ouroboros would conquer everything.

But then, Hades—Prime Death—found a way to kill Supremes without truly killing them.

Normally, a Supreme could only die when an Eon ended. They could not be killed otherwise.

But they had all forgotten who they were fighting against.

Nothing was impossible for Prime Death.

Ouroboros lost the war.

Forced into hiding, his followers were wiped out.

Supremes who supported him were 'killed', Witches and Demons were sealed, and Devils were hunted to extinction.

Among them was one of the worst: the Supreme of Darkness.

She had served as a vessel, holding the fragmented Authorities of many Witches.

Her power grew so much that even Hades had trouble destroying her.

In the end, she lost her sanity completely.

She became a monster ruled by her instincts, one that attacked anything that moved.

So Hades cast her out of the universe itself.

Before the war, the Cosmos and the universe were one.

But the war between Ouroboros and Prime Death tore reality apart.

The fabric of existence shattered, birthing countless Parallel Universes, what later became known as The Infinite Neverborn Branches.

The gap between the Cosmos and the universes was born from that destruction.

If the Cosmos was a massive sphere, the universes were countless small ones floating within it.

Hades threw the Mad Supreme into the void between the universes and the Cosmos, into a place where nothing existed.

The war finally ended.

Or at least, that's what everyone thought.

But then Hades turned his gaze toward the Mother of Dragons.

With the Eternal Council gone, he believed it was time to end her tyranny.

To him, it wasn't justice.

It was necessity.

When asked why he attacked her, Hades gave only one answer.

"Your children committed war crimes. They attacked innocents who had nothing to do with your loss of Authority."

Another war began between Prime Death and the Mother of Dragons.

It was brutal.

Hades wounded her badly and eventually threw her out of the universe.

Out there, in the void, she was devoured by the Mad Supreme, the very monster Hades had banished.

After that, the Ancient Dragons fell one by one.

They had truly committed atrocities when their mother lost her Authority, but whether that was the real reason Hades hunted them, no one could say.

The surviving Ancient Dragons went into hiding.

After destroying most of them, Hades stopped.

He didn't chase the rest.

No one understood why.

Kaelus and Velion, two of the last dragons, never found the answer.

But Neo had a guess.

Hades must have been injured.

There was no way he came out of the war with Ouroboros unharmed.

He must have been hiding his wounds.

That could be why he was desperate to finish off the Mother of Dragons.

In every Eon, Hades' existence had forced her to restrain her actions.

But if he ever fell, she could seal him before he reincarnated.

Then, she could rule uninhibited.

There was a reason she was called the Prime Evil.

Chaos would consume everything.

To stop her, Hades made the only choice he had.

He decided to end her completely, even if it meant using the Mad Supreme to do it.

After the war ended, Velion and Kaelus had no idea what was really happening in the universe.

Something felt wrong. The flow of time wasn't the same anymore.

The timeline had been reversed during the war.

It had gone from the end of the 10th Eon all the way back to its beginning due to the actions of the Devil of Time.

Velion and Kaelus believed this twisting of time was why they felt strange fluctuations in the timeline while they were hiding.

Though they couldn't pinpoint the true source—

Though they couldn't pinpoint the true source—

Though they couldn't pinpoint the true source—

Neo frowned.

He realized what was happening.

"Their thoughts are repeating," he muttered quietly.

This wasn't just a small disruption in time.

The source of the fluctuations wasn't because the Eon's timeline had been twisted or reversed.

No, this was something else.

A Time Loop.

One that spanned the entirety of Cosmos.

Neo frowned, deep in thought.

"After time was rewound to the beginning of 10th Eon by Oruboros and the river of time started to flow again, someone else created a time loop."

"But who created this time loop… and why?"

This wasn't something a normal being could do.

Even the Ancient Dragons hadn't realized they were living through repeated cycles.

Their memories, their very lives, had been reset over and over without them ever knowing.

Neo only noticed it because of what he was. A Heavenbreaker.

His existence, now at Stage 6, naturally saw minuscule irregularities in the flow of time.

He could sense when something wasn't right.

"Was it the person who cursed my family?"

"Or is this someone else entirely?"

He couldn't tell.

"Who could have done this—"

"That would be me," a voice said.

Neo froze.

The voice was a part of the memory.

Neo had been sensing him as the source of the time loop, but this person was in a different part of universe compared to Velion and Kaelus— in the memory.

'His existence within the memory moved when it sensed someone was watching the memory, and it came to find me,' Neo realized.

Two gigantic purple eyes appeared in front of Neo, piercing through the memory he was watching.

Neo's chest tightened.

'The only person I've seen do something like that was Cole…'

His eyes narrowed.

'This guy is on Cole's level?'

'Who—'

At that moment, Neo froze.

Because he sensed the existence of the eyes.

It was a familiar existence.

"Void?"