Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades

Chapter 756: Hanma Clan’s God Relic, True Nature of Shadow Element

Just when Ilyana thought he would refuse, Jack nodded.

Ilyana exhaled softly, then instantly burned half of her Core.

A bright green fire erupted around her, shaking the ground.

Massive vines erupted from nothingness, coiling around the glowing chains that held the floating islands together.

Her Complete World reacted violently, shaking as if trying to break free from the Alliance’s suppression.

The Alliance’s gods began attacking in full force now.

Waves of divine energy cut through everything.

Countless soldiers were vaporized instantly.

The undead army shattered by the thousands, only to reform again under Jack’s control.

Ilyana screamed, and her aura exploded.

The vines around her twisted into enormous serpents of light, lunging toward the gods.

Some of them blocked the attack, others countered with divine fire, but her goal wasn’t to win anymore.

She was pushing against the fabric of their combined World.

Cracks began to appear in the air, tiny at first, then spreading like a spider web.

The Alliance’s Gods noticed it too.

“She’s trying to open a rift. Stop her now!”

The gods unleashed their strongest attacks.

Blinding light engulfed everything.

Jack shielded his face, feeling the heat melt through his armor.

Through the chaos, he heard Ilyana’s voice one last time.

“Jack! Go!”

The cracks in the air exploded into a black void.

If Jack escaped now and brought Neo to the royal palace, Neo could probably end the war.

But Ilyana wouldn’t survive long enough to see it.

Her Core was damaged beyond repair.

“Jack! Stop wasting time!” she shouted again, her voice cracking.

“Stop him!” one of the Alliance Gods yelled. “Don’t let him leave!”

The gods flew toward Jack, their weapons gleaming with divine light.

Until now, Jack hadn’t said a single word since he heard her plan.

He looked at the approaching gods, then at Ilyana, who was coughing blood as she tried to stand.

“Manifest,” he said softly.

Behind Ilyana, the air rippled.

A giant undead figure appeared.

Its body was made of white bones and black fire.

It was Jack’s Stage 6 undead, his strongest servant.

The creature reached out, grabbed Ilyana, and flew toward the hole she had created.

“Jack!” she screamed.

For a brief moment, their eyes met.

Jack smiled faintly, the same calm, tired smile he always had before doing something reckless.

’I’ll hold them back until you bring Neo,’ his voice echoed in her head. ’Now go.’

“Jack! Don’t do this!” she cried, struggling against the undead’s grip.

But her strength was fading fast.

She had already burned half of her Core, and her magic couldn’t even make a dent in the creature’s hold.

The undead threw her through the hole.

A flash of light swallowed her, and the crack in the World sealed shut.

The battlefield went silent for a second.

Then the Alliance Gods laughed.

“So that’s it. You let her go. Without her, we don’t need to hold back anymore. There’s no danger of a Black Sun now.”

“You’ve sealed your own fate, fool. And the fate of your army.”

Jack exhaled, rolling up his sleeves.

At that moment, black lines appeared across his forearm.

They spread slowly, forming intricate patterns that looked like ancient tattoos.

The Alliance Gods stopped laughing.

They recognized it instantly.

“That’s…” one of them muttered, his expression darkening.

A strange power began to pulse from Jack’s arm.

It was a God Relic.

Jack stared at the dark tattoos glowing faintly on his skin.

His mind drifted back to the past, to the first S-rank mission he, Neo and their teams had taken together.

That was the mission where Leonora and Christian had died.

They had been trapped inside a [Window], a place between the real world and the Shadow World.

Jack had found this Relic inside that Window.

He still remembered how Neo told him it belonged to his Hanma God Clan.

Jack had used it out of desperation, activating its power to open a rift and escape the sealed Window along with Neo.

How had a God Relic from his clan, the Hanma Clan, had ended up inside a Shadow Window?

At first, he thought it was just a coincidence.

The Shadow World was full of copies of people, places, and even divine artifacts.

Maybe the Relic had just been a replica.

But something about it always bothered him.

So, when he met Nyx, he had asked her about it.

“Do you know who created this?” he’d asked her, showing the God Relix that had fused into his arm.

She had looked at it for a long time before shaking her head.

“I don’t know,” she had said.

That answer didn’t surprise him.

Maybe one of her descendants had made it after her death.

But Jack had been too curious to stop there.

He had used the Akashic Record to trace the Relic’s history.

The results shocked him.

No one from the Hanma Clan had ever created it.

There was no record of the Relic’s existence in his Akashic Record’s archives.

No divine forger, no ancestor, no record of its origin.

The first day it appeared was when Jack brought it out from the Window.

Jack had searched for its origins for thousands of years.

He found it only when he met his master, the Elder Dragon Nyxtharion.

He remembered their conversation clearly.

“This thing has my grandfather’s energy signature.”

“Your grandfather?”

“Yes. The Shadow Supreme. This… is his Sacred Treasure.”

That had changed everything.

Why had a Sacred Treasure of the Shadow Supreme been inside that Window?

Had it been left there on purpose?

Had the Shadow Supreme known Jack would find it?

He had never gotten an answer.

Until now.

“You,” one of the Alliance Gods said sharply, pointing at Jack. “Where did you get that thing from?”

The other gods moved back slightly, their expressions tense.

They could feel the presence of something ancient, something that didn’t belong in their World, from that weapon fused into Jack’s arm.

Jack looked at them. “You seem nervous.”

“Answer the question,” another god demanded.

Jack smiled faintly.

“Do you know a funny fact?” he said instead. “If a Shadow Element user dies, they wake up inside a Shadow Window, resurrected.

“I died once in the past. It happened during on of my academy’s first mission, and thanks to the nature of Shadows, I was resurrected in the deepest layer of the Window.”