Neo quickly chose the Nullhour Concept.
He began to corrupt it with Void.
Diverting his focus towards creating new energy reduced the strength of the World Energy barrier covering him.
He started to lose mories.
Tyr. Celestra. The Dragon Clan Leaders. The child who gave him the recipe of his grandma's cooking. The man who asked him to hold the sword his late-wife forged for him.
Neo was forgetting their nas.
The people who sang songs of his praise. The people who thanked him for killing them.
Neo could no longer rember their faces.
'No! No! No! No! No! No!'
The daughter of the sword saint who had sneaked into the Abyss of Nightmare. The millions of soldiers who joined Grand Expedition despite knowing they might die on it.
They…
Huh?
Who was Neo thinking about?
He couldn't rember.
Not their nas, not their faces, not their voices.
The emptiness gnawed at his heart. It ate him from inside.
Those people gave him everything they owned. Their only wish was to 'live' through Neo's mories.
And now, Neo had forgotten.
Breathing heavily, Neo was drenched in sweat when he completed creating the new Consciousness with energy.
Finally, Neo's World Energy was pure enough to stop the tampering of his mories.
But…
It did not matter anymore.
All he now rembered was that he had forgotten about soone. That those people had asked sothing for their final wish.
What was that wish?
He did not rember.
In his mind, mories replayed with people who had blurry faces, who smiled and shouted but had no voices.
"Neo Hargraves, have you finally cald down?"
Neo raised his head and focused on Sphinx.
"Can you tell what happened? Is it related to the 'Tartarus' you were talking about?"
Tartarus. That na sparked an idea in Neo's mind.
He wasn't the only one who had returned. Maybe the others would rember what transpired in Tartarus.
Ignoring Sphinx, who seed to have no knowledge of Tartarus, he spread his senses and used Pseudo Gap.
Neo appeared above the sky of Luminera.
He noticed the cracks in the skies, and the eldritch entities who seed to be trying to invade the world now that the barrier protecting Luminera was nearly destroyed.
With a wave of hand, Neo turned back the ti of barrier and restored it.
Right now, he had more important things to do than et those invaders – the Outer Gods who were the cause of world's destruction in the novel 'Son of Zeus'.
Neo appeared before Percival who was inside the office of Student Council in the academy.
"Whoa! Who are you… Wait, Neo Hargraves? Why did you co here suddenly, and why do you look so—"
"Do you rember about our journey in Tartarus?"
Percival blinked, confused.
Neo apologized in his mind and used Intent to read Percival's entire mory.
'He doesn't rember Tartarus.'
Turning his head, Neo 'looked' out of the window and focused on the sun in the sky.
"Sunshine, do you rember the previous tiline?"
"Huh…?" Percival froze when he saw Neo move with conviction. "How do you know that the sun is Sunshine?"
"…"
Neo did not answer.
His focus was on the Spirit.
Just when he thought the Spirit would not answer him, it spoke.
'Thanatos, I do not know what Tiline you are talking about. Can you explain it in detail?'
Neo was able to hear Sunshine thanks to his Empathic Transcendence Trait.
Percival opened his mouth and closed it repeatedly in shock when he realized Neo could hear his Spirit.
"Tartarus," Neo said, hoping soone rembered. "Do you know that na?"
'I apologize. But this is my first ti hearing that na.'
"It's fine."
Neo used Pseudo-Gap to appear in Senator Nicolas' mansion.
It was fine if Sunshine did not rember it. But Senator Nicolas? He definitely would. His sword was sothing special, and it had a unique presence.
Neo banked on the sword to rember everything.
'I can ask them to transfer the mories of the people they have to .'
The mansion of Senator Nicolas was in upheaval.
Everyone was running to and fro and seed to be in an ergency.
A quick glance at their Intent told Neo that Senator Nicolas was dead. People were shocked because of it.
"Beelzebub, stop ti."
The tiny caterpillar opened his mouth, and it began to devour the ti of the entire Luminera Continent.
Everyone was frozen.
Thanks to it, Neo could check Nicolas' corpse without being stopped.
"This… his corpse is perfectly normal. His body is there, his soul is there, and so is his Seed of Existence.
"The only thing that disappeared is his Consciousness."
Neo rembered that Nicolas would soon die because he had given his life force to his sword.
But that should've not happened after ti was rewound.
"Was his sword sothing like True Darkness and Abyss Mirror, and it could retain its effect even if ti was rewound?"
Neo looked through the mansion for the sword.
But it seed to have disappeared into thin air.
Biting his lips, Neo was about to call Elentals when suddenly he noticed sothing with his sharp senses.
Olivia was missing.
She wasn't in her ho.
Neo shouldn't have been surprised since anyone killed by Blood Sea remained dead even after ti was rewound, but there was another reason for his shock.
In Olivia's ho, there was no picture of her. There were no clothes that were of her size.
Even the family portraits had only Leonora and her father.
Sothing was wrong.
Incredibly so.
Neo noticed sothing that had slipped past his mind.
Why did Sphinx not rember Tartarus?
She spoke as if… Tartarus didn't exist.
Neo used Pseudo Gap to cover several hundred thousand ters and entered Olivia's house.
He told Beelzebub to let the ti flow for Jin, the Clan Leader of Poseidon Clan, and husband of Olivia.
The man looked like a child. He sat on a throne.
His expression remained calm when Neo suddenly appeared before him.
He looked around, noticing everyone frozen in ti, then he expanded his senses. Much to his bafflent, ti had been stopped for as far as he could sense.
"Are you the one whose presence suddenly spiked a few hours ago?" Jin questioned in a calm tone which hid his inner emotions.
"Yes," Neo said. "I apologize for my rude actions of entering your ho without permission."
"It's fine. Now, who are you?"
"Neo Hargraves. I am—"
"The classmate of my daughter, and the heir of Death." Jin's eyes narrowed. "But Neo Hargraves wasn't 'this' strong. Were you perhaps a reincarnation who recently regained his mories and powers?"
"Sothing like that," Neo said.
"Why did you enter my house and why have you stopped the ti?"
"I will let the ti flow soon, so please pardon my rudeness until then. As for why I entered your house…"
Neo could feel his heart hamring inside his chest.
He hoped – prayed – that the reason Sphinx did not rember Tartarus was sothing normal, and his worries were needless.
"Can you tell where your wife Olivia von Villiers is right now?"
"What?" the man blinked, more confused than angered. "Wife? I don't have a wife."
The answer made Neo's mind freeze.
Yet his body moved.
"I'm talking about the mother of Leonora von Villiers. She is an Executioner of Akashic Records, and one of the strongest Demigods on our continent."
"Leonora is a Spell-born child I created with my blood, Neo Hargraves. She has no mother." Jin spoke coldly. "I hope that you won't say such rude words again."
"…I see." Neo muttered. "I apologize if my words offended you. It wasn't my intentions."
Neo left the clan of Poseidon.
He told Beelzebub to let the ti flow.
People of Luminera had no idea that they had been frozen in ti for several minutes. The only exception was Jin.
"Tartarus, and Olivia. It's almost like they don't exist…"
Neo frowned.
He didn't understand what was happening.
Ti sohow turned back.
He was able to perceive the tampering of ti, and even though he knew why he retained partial mories, he couldn't understand why he retained his strength too.
And worst of all, people seed to have vanished.
Neo looked all over the Continent, and didn't find Kane.
"Hey, what is happening?" he asked the elentals.
Air giggled and jumped around him, as if hoping he would beg for answers. Water, Holy, and Light hesitated.
Space was about to speak but Death stopped him.
Darkness seed to support Death, and it asked Space to not answer Neo.
"I'm asking you guys sothing. Why was the ti turned back and where have Olivia—"
Ti wasn't turned back.
Void Elentals appeared around Neo.
StopdonottellNeostopstop Darkness seed to lose its temper.
Void, if you speak one more word, then…
Death Elentals' aura surged.
Void scoffed. It ignored them.
Why are you trying to hide it from him? He has to face them one day. It's better if he knows it early.
Shut up, Void! We are warning you. If you any harms co to Neo—
I don't care about your warnings. Attack and kill if you can. Void taunted Death.
Death Elentals froze. Anger bubbled in their mind.
Why are you silent now? Void smirked and just as it was about to speak to Neo, Darkness Elentals surged.
The sky darkened and darkness spewed out of the ground.
Stopvoid
This damned bitch. Void Elentals clicked its tongue and flew back. I'm doing this for Neo. Can't you see how much pain he is in? Or are you going to 'protect' him again by withholding things from him?
Darkness Elentals stiffened.
Void saw the opportunity to dig its claw into the wound.
You didn't let him wield True Darkness and he suffered because of it. And now you are doing the sa. If he doesn't know about 'them', he can never prepare for them. Then, just like now, even if his friends were erased from existence, he would not be able to protect them.
Darkness cald down.
The majority of the Darkness Elentals disappeared, leaving only a few behind.
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