Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 572

Underworld

Five Days Before Grim Reaper Disciple Tournament

"Leonora! Come out!" Asmodea banged the door angrily.

She couldn't believe she, the 14th ranked Grim Reaper, had become a nanny to her lazy disciple.

If it was anyone else, Asmodea would've whipped and ordered them to take their job seriously.

But she couldn't do that with Leonora.

Why?

Because Leonora was too competent!

Recently, she was the 1st ranked on the scoreboard of Grim Reaper disciples for the maximum amount of escaped souls caught.

She was lazy, but competent!

"Open the door, Leonora! Or I'm going to smash it open–"

The door creaked open. Asmodea lowered her gaze, and saw a cat standing on two legs opening the door.

"Where is she?" Asmodea asked.

"M-Master is… sleeping." Paw scratched her cheek, knowing what was about to happen.

"Why is she sleeping?"

"She was playing the VR games for weeks and got too tired."

"What?"

Asmodea's pupils shrunk to the size of needles.

"Weeks? What about her job? Don't tell me she didn't collect a single soul during the break."

"Oh, you don't need to worry about the work. She outsourced some other SoulKeepers, and paid them for work."

For a moment, Asmodea couldn't understand what Paw meant.

It took her time to remember that the Underworld had changed greatly.

The Underworld's technological and societal advancements had reached the level of Luminera, if not higher.

The reason?

It all started when Leonora was bored.

Until five hundred years ago, a person could do only one of the five things in Underworld.

Catch souls, eat, live, sleep, become monster.

There was no entertainment.

There were no games or consoles in Underworld.

Leonora decided to make a console and a game.

But wait, what about the game's storyline, who would make that? And where would the materials to build the console come from?

Leonora set out to find Soul Hunters who had a talent to become writers, and a talented forger to build a console.

The game took fifty years to be made.

It kept her entertained for… one week.

By then, she had completed all routes in the game several times.

"I need more games, but I can't build them myself again, it takes too much time."

After a quick brainstorming session, Leonora came to a conclusion.

"I need to make everyone like games. Then, many more game creators would come into existence as they try to profit from the games."

Making games famous wasn't hard.

For one, they gave an adrenaline rush to the people of Underworld who lived bored lives.

Secondly, she was a celebrity – a Grim Reaper disciple – and people followed her example and tried to do what she did.

As gaming became a famous entertainment industry, industrialization began.

Companies appeared. Stocks came into existence.

Paw sighed as she shook her head. She had told her lazy master she would need to go to the tournament, and she should prepare for it, but her master ignored her words.

In fact, Leonora was planning to surrender in the first round since she couldn't be bothered to fight.

On the way to the tournament location, Asmodea asked Leonora.

"Why haven't you broken to the next rank yet?"

"I'm facing a bottleneck."

Asmodea's eyelids twitched. "Leonora, all Grim Reaper disciples have a droplet of the Monarch in their blood. Thanks to it, they do not face any bottleneck – or gene limit, in your words. So stop giving excuses, and make a breakthrough after we return."

After the two reached the tournament location, Asmodea dropped Leonora

and went away to meet other Grim Reapers.

Leonora saw that quite a few Grim Reaper disciples were pointing at her.

Since she was the richest and the most famous person in the Underworld, she did not find that strange.

Nonetheless, no one approached Leonora.

They were all busy making final preparations for the tournament.

It was then, a woman with black hair and black eyes approached Leonora.

"Hi, I'm Nyx," Nyx said.

Leonora

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As it turned out, Nyx was from Luminera too.

She said she knew Jack and Neo, and had been trying to meet Neo since ages.

Unfortunately for her, whenever Neo appeared in Underworld, he would either leave quickly, or move around too much and it would make it hard to meet him, and this was six hundred years ago – the last time anyone saw Neo.

"Why did you want to meet Neo?" Leonora asked.

"Because he can leave Underworld without restrictions, and I want to talk to someone through him."