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Chapter 517 - Your wife
The process began swiftly.
Before officially starting, though, Noah asked for the right to see all knowledge and information related to rituals stored inside Luminara's mind.
She didn't understand why, but she had no reason to hide anything from herself, let alone from Noah, and least of all something as trivial as rituals.
Once that was done, information secured, things began on their own. Noah first bound Luminara to himself, causing a piece of her
Existence to enter inside him.
After that, he used Atom Manipulation on her, unraveling Luminara down to her most base form.
In one instant she was a stunning woman. In the next she was being unmade piece by piece. From flesh and bone to organs, then cells, and finally a drifting cluster of purple-blue atoms.
The atmosphere grew heavy and sacred, as if Noah was conducting an act worthy of reverence. Which was the case, for Creation was something few had any right to.
Laeh watched from the side, intensely. Even to herself a Will of a Unique World - she couldn't stop dread clawing its way back into her heart as she felt her brother's power slam into her like a physical wall.
It was nothing like she had ever witnessed.
And in that instant, a strange sensation bubbled up inside her. It came with a whisper that filled her with something greater than fear.
'He can unmake you!
Laeh believed it without hesitation. Noah could unmake her and
reduce her to nothing but memories. And even that would be a mercy from him.
At that chilling realisation, and as the very origin of Luminara unraveled before them, Laeh found herself smiling.
Because she remembered that Noa was her brother. She remembered who Noah was to his family.
And that thought brought pride, joy, and the urge to be someone worthy of being called his sister.
'A pattern I know all too well by now! Laeh mused.
Everyone around Noah sought mainly one thing: to be strong enough not to be a stain on the ground beside him.
It was the kind of drive Noah never installed in them through his attitude or his words. It was something they each arrived at on their own, through observation.
Noah was simply who he was. And they knew who they were wasn't enough for who he was.
But said by whom?
Noah never said such a thing.
But there was another question beneath that.
Who decided their worth?
Not Noah. Not the universe. Themselves. And if they had decided they needed more to stand beside him, then naturally, they would reach for more.
'We trap ourselves. We know it. We know it so painfully well. Yet we cannot escape it. Just like you always want more, brother, we want more too.'
Lach thought, her face calm, her heart steady, an important decision quietly made somewhere inside her.
But beneath all of that, a subtle question - unheard, yet deep-rooted - whispered through her mind like a passing breeze.
'When will we have enough?"
The thought was fleeting. It disappeared as fast as it came, as if it was never meant to be uttered.
She refocused on what was in front of her.
Noah stood with his palm facing upward, an eye hovering above it.
The mere sight of it drove Laeh's knees to the ground harder than she would have liked. She felt something creak inside her body, and her head bowed low against her will. She cursed inwardly.
"The Eye of the Progenitor!' She bellowed inside herself, unable to fathom how that bitch Luminara had been made from such a thing.
"Interesting." Noah muttered, unbothered by the wave of monstrous power pouring from the eye like an endless river.
The eye was something to behold. Its iris was pure yellow, the pupil shaped like an X. One half of the X- the /- was frosted, formed from ice. The other half the \ curved like a cat's tail.
And that eye was looking directly at Noah, radiating a primordial ancestry as old as the universe itself.
Noah knew then that he was looking at the Progenitor of the Divine Beasts.
"Vaelgrim." The eye spoke, the sound like the howl of a thousand wolves under a full moon.
"Oh, so you know me." Noah's expression broke into a grin. "Well, you know," he continued, "I would have returned your eye if I hadn't recently received a very interesting offer. That's no longer possible, of course. Unless you accept mine."
"What offer, Vaelgrim?"
"I want your wife." Noah said with a straight face.
Laeh, kneeling at the side, nearly choked on her own saliva.
'What in the world is my brother saying?"
She was not the only one asking that.
"What?" The word came with a harrowing crack of thunder from the
heavens.
Noah lazily swept his right hand, turning the blue-purple thunder into a gentle energy that dissolved into the world around them.
The Progenitor grew even more furious.
"You heard me." Noah said with a smile so arrogant it was painful to look at. "I have seen your wife through Luminara's memories. And honestly, I will spare you if you willingly allow me to meet her for a simple meal. Just a meal. I'm not asking you to hand her over."
"You are trying to humiliate me."
"Yes. But answer the question first before we get to that. Will you-!"
"I won't." The Progenitor cut him off with wrath, the pupil narrowing until it could no longer be seen. "A man of your station, Vaelgrim, lowering himself to attack a man's honour through his woman. You are not worthy of your Epithet. You are not worthy, Vaelgrim!" "Let's revisit that the day you're the one who gets to decide my worth,
beast."
"We will meet soon." The Progenitor spat.
"Don't be so eager." Noah chuckled. "You will either die or worse."
"That we shall see." The Divine Beast said.
"We are all waiting for you, O Prince. You have brought down the
World Tree and the Tail of Dragon. But you have not brought down half of us, and certainly not the strongest. If you truly believe this universe is yours..."
"I have higher goals. Talk to me about Reality instead."
"...then you are in for a surprise."
The eye fell silent, then without ceremony, detonated into a cluster of
ash made of frost and evaporated blood.
The presence of the Progenitor vanished completely. The Divine Beast
had ended the very existence of its own eye. With that, Luminara was
officially dead.
At least, that was what the Progenitor believed.
Noah watched the scene with laughing eyes. Then he raised his hand,
pressed it against his own neck, and ripped out his jugular veins.
Laeh, now on her feet, let out a sharp yelp of alarm.
Noah's face was stone.
He took the jugular veins, the ash left behind by the Progenitor, and
the piece of Luminara's Existence he had secured through the
binding.
He held all of them together.
"Reborn anew, mother-in-law." And Luminara was remade. -End of Chapter 517-