Void snorted when Darkness retreated.
It turned to Neo.
Everyone was erased from existence by 'them'. Void spoke. The Eternals.
"Eternals…? Who are they?"
No idea. Void shrugged. We found them only when they made a big move on Tartarus. But we will forget about them soon. It seems like they don't like making their existence known.
"What?" Neo frowned. "You just acted as if telling about Eternals was sothing that could put in danger, and now you are saying you don't know who Eternals are? Are you fucking kidding ?"
Death acted that way because Eternals can and will erase you if you beco an eyesore. To be honest…
Void Elentals circled around Neo, and stopped before his eyes.
None of us rember how Hades died. This is why Death is afraid that sothing might happen to you if you antagonize Eternals.
"What does dad's death has to…"
Neo stopped speaking.
He realized what Void had just said.
They did not know how Hades died?
Was it possible for Elentals to not know about sothing? They were supposed to be everywhere.
Then, it hit Neo.
Eternals seed to be able to erase people's existence.
Not kill them, or make people forget about them.
They could quite literally alter everything to make it as if soone never existed.
The sa had been done to Olivia and Tartarus.
Hades was strong. Impossibly strong. That was why even the Eternals could not erase his existence entirely.
But since no one knows how he died, it is clear they had hands in his death, and his curse.
Void chuckled.
And it's not just that water woman and tree man whose existence was erased. Everyone whose fate was affected by that tree was erased – pruned.
You would've been erased too. But being a Heavenbreaker saved you.
Neo Hargraves, they have not turned back ti. They simply erased people from existence, and the gap ford from their existence is what pulled the tiline back to this mont.
After all, your mory couldn't be erased completely, and from this mont, you would've left to search for the tree man who no longer exist. It would've been a paradox.
Thus to solve the paradox, the tiline moved back to this mont where you had yet to set out to find the tree man.
Neo had no words.
Erased?
Why?
For what reason?
Oh, looks like the ti is up, Void's voice was laced with amusent. Your Cosmos gives you insanely high resistance to everything, Neo Hargraves. Sadly, while we have resistance too, it's not on par with Heavenbreakers. So…
The Void Elentals flew back.
Welco, to the Hell, Neo Hargraves. We hope you can carry the burden of truth and that instead of being crushed by it, you-
Sothing shifted.
Neo felt like his consciousness blanked for a second.
He looked around. Everything was the sa, except for one thing. The Elentals were tranquil.
"Darkness."
The Darkness Elentals fluttered towards him with a single call.
"Do you know about Eternals? Or Tartarus?"
No
Neo felt empty when he heard Darkness.
It had forgotten. Whatever Eternals did to erase their traces and people's affected Elentals too.
Silence stretched through Neo's mind.
For a mont, he was incapable of thinking at all.
People could wield power of such level that even Elentals could do nothing but be affected?
'They erased people.'
Neo felt lost.
What was he supposed to do?
How was he supposed to track down people whose existence was unknown to even Elentals?
And what would he do if he found them?
Fight them?
That would achieve nothing.
Neo would lose.
Before Neo knew it, his feet had taken him to Sphinx.
The Sphinx – a faceless man wearing a black suit – tilted its head.
"Judging by how strong you've suddenly beco, it seed you have regressed."
"Yes," Neo answered.
Silence stretched between the two.
Sphinx beca confused when it saw how helpless Neo seed to be. For soone who was always scheming to outsmart Sphinx, he looked pitifully lost.
It clicked its tongue.
"Stop acting like a lost puppy," Sphinx said. "Let's just finish our talk and then you should leave. I don't want to see your face anymore."
Neo did not respond.
"Neo Hargraves, you suddenly barged into my ho, and demanded to search information about your parents.
"So do you want the answers or not?"
Neo slowly raised his head. He 'looked' at the Sphinx.
Sphinx thought Neo was listening to it, and spoke,
"I've tried to access your parents' Records and the Records of the people Henry Hargraves brought into your house. Unfortunately, I cannot look into their past, and predicting their future is near-impossible.
"It demands too Causality–"
"Wait," Neo suddenly spoke up. "What did you just say?"
"Unfortunately I cannot look into their past and predicting their future is near-impossible."
"No, before that."
"I've tried to access the Records of your parents, and those people who you call your parents' reincarnation."
"No, before that."
"Just say what you want to say, Neo Hargraves. Stop spinning the words and trying to confuse ," Sphinx said, irritated.
"You said 'I' barged into your ho and asked for information about my parents."
"Yes, I said that.."
"Did that really happen?"
"Yes."
Neo frowned.
Originally, he ca to et Sphinx because Sphinx called him for a deal. He would defeat Tartarus, and it would answer him where his parents' reincarnations were.
Since Tartarus did not exist anymore, it made sense the tiline was changed to fit the events.
Now, it was Neo who approached Sphinx one-sidedly.
"How is this possible? How did I not notice it before?"
"Neo Hargraves?"
Neo ignored Sphinx, and his mind churned.
Originally, he had approached Sphinx because it knew his parents' current reincarnations.
But, Neo also rembered another thing.
They were the words exchanged between him and Sphinx.
"Fine. Whose future do you want to know?"
"Mom and Dad's current reincarnation's future. I want to know…"
"Current Reincarnation?"
Back then, Sphinx's words made it clear it did not know his parents were reincarnating.
But it had called him by saying it would tell him the location of his parents' reincarnation.
Two facts.
Both were clashing.
Sphinx called him because it knew about reincarnations, it gave him the reincarnations' location, then it said it didn't know his parents were reincarnating.
As much as weird that event was, what was even weirder was how Neo never noticed this back then.
He had glossed over it as if it was sothing normal.
'How did I not notice this?'
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