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"Bzzz—!"
The moment Noah opened his eyes, the entire pure-white world suddenly shuddered. For an instant, it seemed to darken, its pure white hue fading away.
Whether that phenomenon had truly occurred or was merely an illusion, Gaia and Alaya did not know.
The two Counter Forces only knew that, the instant Noah opened his eyes and they met those deep, pitch-black pupils, an invisible force seemed to suddenly strike their minds, blasting their thoughts apart with a roar and throwing them into chaos.
Yet the instinct of the Counter Forces made Gaia and Alaya offer Noah their submission.
Only after coming to their senses did Gaia and Alaya realize what had happened, and shock surged through their hearts.
However, Noah paid them no heed. He merely raised his head and looked upward.
Noah saw it clearly.
He saw feather after feather soaring into the sky one after another, exploding in front of the tide of death, gathering boundless power into barriers solely to hold back the tide's assault for a brief instant.
That sight made Noah's eyes widen, endless fury rising within him.
"Bang—!"
A terrifying storm of energy burst from Noah's body, becoming an unprecedentedly dreadful shockwave that blasted outward.
"Get lost!!!"
Noah's furious shout was carried within the shockwave as it surged outward, instantly spanning the less-than-ten-meter distance to the sky.
The shockwave precisely bypassed the remaining feathers and also bypassed Gaia and Alaya, sweeping upward like a violent gale.
The next second, the terrifying storm of impact engulfed the endless tide of death.
"Hiss—!"
It was the sound of water extinguishing flames.
Amid that sound, the first red Shadow of Death