Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 718

Chapter 718: Lurking Danger

He wanted to find a way to help her.

That’s why he looked.

And what he saw inside her froze him.

A girl drowning in the depths of the Blood Sea, dragged down by countless corpses.

Every time she managed to break the surface, a giant goddess plunged a spear into the waves, forcing her back under.

Again and again, she was swallowed, struggling endlessly, suffocating.

Neo drew in a sharp breath.

She is caught by the ghosts of the dead.

Amelia couldn’t move on.

She couldn’t let go of the faces of those she had lost.

Her compassionate nature chained her to every single one.

She carried their deaths inside her, blaming herself for each one.

All her rage at Neo, all her shouting was her venting herself, nothing more.

The truth was simpler, and crueler.

She didn’t hate him.

She hated herself.

It’s impossible to calm her mind within a week, Neo thought bitterly.

He turned without another word and just as he left the office, Amelia’s voice came.

"I don’t trust you to bring back mother."

"..."

"Every time I trusted you, I’ve only gained more scars."

"..."

"Stop giving others empty promises."

"I will bring her back," Neo replied in the end.

Neo left the office and the door closed behind her.

The guards outside tensed as he emerged, but he ignored them.

He walked past them, down the hall, until he stood outside in the cool air of the palace courtyard.

Jack was waiting.

His expression tightened when he saw Neo’s face, but he didn’t ask what had happened.

"Let’s go meet Felix," Neo said.

He quickly wanted to handle all the matters and make his breakthroughs so he could search for Elizabeth.

For a brief moment, Neo turned back.

His eyes lifted to the tall windows of the palace.

That was when he noticed her—Layla—standing by one of them.

She was watching him and Jack from far above.

Their gazes met, and something unspoken passed between them.

She opened her mouth slightly, as if words were about to form.

But whatever she wanted to say, she swallowed it back down.

Her lips pressed together, and she lowered her head.

Neo’s chest tightened.

Jack followed his line of sight and quickly sensed Layla’s presence too.

His voice cut in. "Let’s go."

Neo gave one last look before nodding.

He placed a hand on Jack’s shoulder, and the two of them vanished, reappearing in the open sky high above the continent.

The air was thin.

Clouds stretched below them, and the horizon curved gently, reminding them just how small the ground had been beneath their feet.

For a moment, Neo didn’t move.

He simply hovered there, letting the silence of the sky surround him.

Then a deep exhale slipped out.

Fuck my shitty life.

He wished there was an easy way to help Amelia without tearing her wounds open again. Some way to meet Elizabeth quickly again. Some way to speak to Layla without adding to Amelia’s bitterness.

The weight pressed down on him harder than the pull of gravity.

Another sigh escaped his lips, softer this time. He shook his head.

Let’s focus on the issue at hand, he told himself.

He needed to meet Felix.

That was the next step.

His mind turned toward the problem that had been gnawing at him since Percival mentioned Felix’s mercenary job during the breakfast.

Felix had a mark of a dragon on his hand. Neo had seen it.

The mark had the aura and faint presence of Ancient Dragons.

And that fact alone was troubling.

Neo hoped—truly hoped—that the mark wasn’t something personally given to Felix by the Ancient Dragons themselves.

Because the moment Neo had seen that mark, he realized something else.

Felix had recognized him with that mark.

Not as Neo, not as a powerful God or a Heavenbreaker, but as an Ancient Dragon.

If the mark’s function was to locate me and brother....

Neo narrowed his eyes at the endless sky ahead.

If that mark truly was given by the Ancient Dragons, they must’ve placed a tacker on it.

If Felix carried a tracker embedded in that brand, then his every movement could be traced.

And if Neo or Henry came too close...

The Ancient Dragons would know.

And if Felix failed to carry out whatever role they had set for him—whether it was to test, to weaken, or to capture—then the real predators would follow.

The Ancient Dragons themselves.

They might be lurking around already.

Neo exhaled slowly, his gaze drifting downward toward Earth.

From where he floated above the clouds, the planet seemed fragile. Too fragile.

I don’t think the Ancient Dragons would attack soon.

They might be keeping their distance because of her.

They won’t stop for long.

They could be gathering strength at this very moment by calling other ancient dragons to strike Earth with overwhelming force.

Fuck my life.

Why does it keeps getting worse and worse?

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the Ancient Dragons have nothing to do with this at all.

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