"Why are you here?" Noah spoke without even looking in the direction where that person was standing.
"You never told when to co back." The voice contained a hint of playfulness along with a hint of complaint. Noah sighed at the words.
"Did you see… what happened?" Noah looked down while asking the question, no longer looking at the moon but looking at the pile of rubble in front.
"If you an the beautiful face you were painting, then yeah. You almost completed it too. She is truly beautiful~ it's a sha I did not get to see her face." Although Elysia's eyes contained a hint of pain for not being the person who was in Noah's heart, her eyes had a hint of darkness.
Noah smiled upon hearing her words, even though he was not looking at her face, he already knew what was going on in her heart.
"She is already dead."
"Oh!"
"C'mon, at least act like you were not thinking of killing her just a few seconds ago." Noah chuckled with a painful smile on his face, causing Elysia to pout. Honestly, sowhere in her heart, she was happy that she was no longer alive, but the painful smile on Noah's face made her wish she would be here to bring a smile to his face.
A real smile, instead of his fake broken one…
"They ssed up my world… they took her away from …"
"So you were in love with the world tree you talked about before…." Elysia stopped when she realized this point. "What was her na?"
Noah turned his head as he looked at Elysia in surprise; he did not think she would ever be interested in the woman besides thinking how to snatch him from her and kill her at the sa ti. He turned to look at the moon before giving her the answer.
"She called herself Evelyn. She asked to give her a na as she got fed up with elves calling her goddess or the divine one…" Elysia could see his eyes lighting up in nostalgia as he spoke the na.
"You are good at naming! you gave such a beautiful na too~"
*Swoosh!*
As the air blew by, the mont of silence between them started soothing Noah's heart. The more he felt this feeling, the more bitter he felt in his heart.
"You know Elysia… the mont I called for you through that seal… I wished no one would answer it." Taking a deep breath, Noah decided to co clean about it and looked straight into her eyes. Elysia's eyes trembled for a mont, even then she stayed still for Noah to finish his words.
"More than getting the knowledge about the world, I wanted to know if the world was strong enough to have self-awareness or not…"
"What would you have done if I had not answered your call?" She could not stop herself from asking this question. She was curious to know what was on Noah's mind.
"I would have…used the world itself as a sacrifice for reviving her…" Taking a deep breath, Noah ca clean. After revealing his original intentions, Noah looked at Elysia, waiting for her reaction.
For reasons unknown to Noah, Elysia remained silent for a few monts. This silence beca uncomfortable for Noah, but he knew she needed ti to process it like any other being.
"Is that so." After a while, Elysia broke the silence with three words that Noah would have never guessed coming from her. He would have expected her to be angry at him or even hate him. Maybe what he wanted was for her to hate him, but indifference to the news was not sothing he had expected.
"You know I was thinking about killing you here?" Noah decided to confirm if she had misunderstood his words by any chance. Elysia sighed, flew closer to him, and stopped in front of Noah. Raising her hand, she placed it on his cheek, caressing it slowly while eting his eyes.
Noah was stunned, seeing the amount of love and tenderness flowing from her eyes, but above all of that…
"If you still want to die, just ask. I will do it happily for you."
Her obsession with him surpassed all of these feelings!
Her eyes, vacant enough to make a man feel the coldness of death enveloping him, gave the warmth to Noah he needed from soone close to him but he lost everything the mont he lost his lover.
"Stop trying to make hate you and leave you again and again. Either you will have to accept my love or you will have to kill . Those are the only two options you have if you want to deal with ." With the tip of her nails, Elysia slowly scraped Noah's cheeks, drawing blood out.
Noah sat frozen on the pile of bodies as Elysia leaned in to lick the drop of blood clean.
"Do you think that playing these kinds of gas with has no consequences? Try sothing like that again and you will be facing so consequences." After whispering, Elysia blew in Noah's ears before backing away.
Noah never imagined his actions would draw out such consequences. He also knew that Elysia was not talking about his question but the technique he used, and her next words confird it.
"I don't mind you asking for anything to get stronger, but I do mind if you use idiotic techniques like that to gain power." There was no longer a seductive expression on her face, but instead, her worries and pain were exposed straight on her face to Noah.
"I will try my best to get stronger without using that technique." Even if she had not told him, Noah did not feel good about using the mories of her lover dying to gain power. This was the most disgraceful act he had to perform. This was also the reason he used the mories from the ntal demon and no other mories.
*Woosh*
Noah suddenly clasped his hands together, causing several seals to appear in Noah's hands. Elysia backed away, fully aware of what Noah was trying to do.
***
"Are you saying that there is soone more powerful than an immortal from the upper realm in Little Boy Tian's body?"
Xin Yan felt a little weird hearing the old man calling her son's na with so much familiarity and closeness, but she was also happy that there was soone else besides her who cared about his life.
"I don't know how powerful he is, but I know that he is not soone who is from our world." She did not share much of Noah's secrets with the old man, no matter how much he was trustworthy. Ruo'er's grandfather also noticed this as well; he also noticed how Xin Yan was looking at Noah.
"Shouldn't you go and help him or sothing? He looks down and the thing he did with the blood… Sigh~"
Hearing the old man's words, Xin Yan hesitated, but when she saw Elysia 'kissing' Noah's cheek, she stopped herself in the middle. If soone as assertive as Elysia was there to help him, what could soone like her possibly do? This was the only thought in her mind.
"Do you like this boy, I an the person inside your son's body?" the old decided to be bold and ask to confirm his suspicions.
"? Like Noah? How is that possible?!! I an, I am grateful for him and he helped so much but.. Love… how can soone like , who already has a husband, love soone else?" she beca flabbergasted hearing the old man's question, and by the end, she beca deflated and sad.
"Scoff! The sa husband who you were talking about killing a few monts before?" The old man scoffed, not believing her words at all. "If you like the boy, you need to take the initiative to help him while he is down or he will be snatched by soone who does that before you."
He beca silent after saying those words and continued soothing her granddaughter's mind with his qi, who was still unconscious in his arms.
Xin Yan looked at Noah and Elysia and beca confused about what she truly felt about Noah. She recognized the pain in her when she saw the two of them together. Now that he had helped her get her revenge, this feeling was even more prominent in her heart.
'What do I feel about Noah? Why is this feeling different from what I felt when I was in love with Long Yang? Did I ever truly love him?' her mind drifted deeper and deeper into those feelings and the mories of her past.
***
*Woosh!*
Noah looked at the hand-sized stone floating in the middle of the seal, sucking in all the blood and qi from the bodies and the air.
The seal he had placed before stopped the qi from dispersing in the air. It was more like a stasis seal, but it worked on the area instead of one body.
Soon all the bodies, be it the one of the people he killed or the one Xin Yan tortured to death, were sucked into the stone. Noah was back on his feet as he watched his makeshift bed being destroyed by his own creation.
*HUM!!!*
*Zhnng!* *Zhnng!* *Zhnng!*
The crystal glowed in blood-red color, while light and energies flashed around the crystal stone. Elysia ca closer and marveled at the beauty of the true Philosopher's Stone before asking.
"What does this glowing an?"
"It ans…" Noah looked at the Philosopher's Stone with a grin on his face before looking at Elysia and adding. "…that it is about to be completed soon and I can finally create my own body!"
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