MTLNOVEL Chapter 301: Divine Fury
Echidna was stunned beyond measure.
No,even the word stunned didn't do justice to what she was feeling at that moment.
She was horrified.
She looked at the man in front of her—this man impossibly beautiful, with silver hair flowing down his shoulders like a tapestry of moonlit river.
His eyes…were impossible.
Echidna couldn't help but unconsciously shudder as she looked into those white, thread-woven, runic eyes that seemed to hold all the mysteries in the universe—eyes that looked directly into her fate and her destiny.
She stood there, unmoving. Not even trying to utter anything.
Because right now, she was still trying to make sense of what she was seeing.
Because if she was right, then the man in front of her was—
"N-Noah Weaverheart..?" Echidna said, her voice trembling as she stuttered out Noah's name.
If she were anything but black, you would've seen a shade of pink burning across her stunning face.
Noah smiled at the name.
It had been such a long time since someone called him that.
For a moment…he almost missed it.
How could he not? That was the name of his dear, loving mother. Her legacy. But more than that—that was the name he was reborn with, the name that gave him a second chance.
By all accounts, that name was dear to him.
But that's how life goes. Sometimes you have to let go of something to obtain something greater.
Yes. If you want to become who you must become, then you certainly have to destroy who you are.
And by doing so, Noah was no longer a Weaverheart.
Right now…
"I am indeed Noah. But I am Noah Vaelgrim."
He smiled faintly, his body lounging with even more impossible grace in his threaded chair.
For a moment, it didn't look like he was sitting on a chair.
It looked like he was sitting on a throne that encompassed everything between heaven and earth.
He spoke again.
"It's been a long time, Echidna. How long again? I don't know how time flows for you… down there."
His voice was calm and smooth.
And it made Echidna begin to relax around him.
She stayed silent for a while, not knowing what to say, but eventually…
"How… how did you become like this? How come I feel like you've reached World Dominator Rank? What's with the change of name? And why…why do you not even feel human anymore?! What happened?!"
Echidna was freaking out.
Noah was just too different from the last time they met.
Back then, he was just a pitiful human at B or A rank. He was special, yes—but there were many special beings in the universe.
So nothing truly out of line.
Yes, he had become an abomination during their meeting, proving how unfathomable his potential truly was.
Yes, potential.
But what stood in front of her wasn't just potential.
It was deep, terrifying power that made her heart race and her spine shiver in dread.
For a moment, Echidna was even tempted to bow before him.
That was how his aura felt.
And that was not surprising. After all, Echidna was just a Mythic-rank being, just like Justicia.
She had no worlds under her—nothing close to dominion—and that made her even more fearful now that she realized what Noah had become.
A World Dominator.
A being… under a hundred years old?
That was no longer the level of an abomination.
'…He…he…what is he????'
Echidna was losing her mind. But more importantly, she was losing her self-esteem.
The first time they met, she had the upper hand. And even then, by the end, they were nearly equal.
But now there was no equality.
Having realized that, Echidna suddenly seemed to lose some of her aura.
She looked like any other powerful being in the crowd. Ordinary. Shaken.
Noah couldn't help but shake his head as he saw her breaking down.
He didn't even say anything, and she was already accepting defeat.
He shook his head again, this time not out of pity.
But out of disappointment.
"I see now why you are still in the lower levels of Hell. Why you haven't progressed all these years."
Noah's voice was sharp.
Echidna snapped her head toward him, her face twisted with confusion.
"What did you just say?" she asked.
Noah answered coldly.
"I said… I understand now why you're still just a simple Demoness in the lower levels of Hell. After all, just seeing the level of power I have reached is already enough to make you give up."
"I wonder… how do you act in front of the rulers of Hell? They're as powerful—or more—than me. Tell me, my dear Echidna…"
He smiled mockingly.
"…Do you cower in front of them too?"
His words were made to wound.
And they did.
Echidna's aura suddenly flared. Her eyes burned with black flame as she glared at Noah with divine fury.
Space and time around them began to burn, twisted and devoured by black fire.
Behind Echidna, the manifestation of a phoenix-dragon fusion appeared, its slitted golden-black eyes locking on Noah like a predator wanting to devour him alive.
"How dare you?!"
Her voice cracked the sky open.
Flames rained down like judgment from above.
"How dare you utter such words?! Do you know my situation?! Do you know how Hell works?!"
Each word came with a force that shook the world.
Laeh, a middle-grade world, could barely hold under her rage.
Only the Vaelgrims could surpass beyond the SSS-rank limit here.
So when a divine being like Echidna unleashed her anger…
It tore the land apart.
But Echidna wasn't done yet.
She approached Noah, stopping just an inch from him—so close that the ground beneath vanished, the entire hilltop swallowed into void.
And yet, Noah didn't move. Hell, he didn't blink.
His chair remained anchored in space, untouchable. His hand gently caressing Lucie, who watched the scene with detached calm.
Echidna leaned closer. Her voice was furious, but also filled with something raw… something bleeding beneath the rage…
"Do you think all of us have the gate to become an abomination? To be favored by the Records and cared for like a beloved child?"
Her voice grew louder.
"Tell me, Noah—TELL ME!!!"
BOOOOOMMMMM—
Space behind Noah shattered completely by the echo of her voice, at the end only the void remained.
Noah smiled faintly at her outburst. It looked he had struck something deep and that he was the last straw.
But he didn't care.
What he cared about instead…
"Echidna, it's basic courtesy to show respect when you enter the home of another being."
His voice was soft.
"So… first of all, you'd better sit down and lower your voice when you talk to me."
Immediately, as if the very heavens were pressing down on her spine…Echidna knelt, the space beneath her cracked.
"And second of all…"
Noah's smile widened.
But this time, it was murderous.
"It's the last time I'll tell you to stop burning and hurting my little sister."
The world froze for a moment alongside with time. Then, it began to rewind making all destruction undone.
And everything returned to the moment before Echidna exploded.
And as she watched it all rewind, all she could think was…
She was fucked.
—End of Chapter 301—