I'll Come Find You Again...

(Heartfelt thanks to 'You Bi Ji Yue', 'Wufeng Haotian', and 'Ye Yue Chen Yu' for their donations!)

His head felt as though it were being scorched by fire, waves of indescribable agony crashing through it.

His body could no longer muster any strength. Every part of it sent Noah signals of distress, as though it could fall apart at any moment, leaving him numb.

Especially inside his body, where his once boundless magic power had been drained completely, leaving his entire body hollow, as if he had been emptied out.

Calling the sensation worse than death might have been an exaggeration, but saying it was unbearably miserable was no overstatement at all.

Fortunately, over the past month, Noah had experienced this feeling countless times during his special training in order to use two avatars at once.

Thus, almost instinctively, Noah forced a shred of consciousness from his fire-scorched, agonized mind and used Elf Avatar.

"Zing—!"

Starlight as bright as fireflies poured from every part of Noah's body, enveloping him completely.

It was as though a clear spring had been poured directly over him. Noah felt the pain in both his body and mind ease considerably in an instant.

His consciousness, which had nearly faded away, gradually began to clear.

Then, Noah painfully opened his eyes and looked ahead.

There stood Ophis, still appearing like a girl of twelve or thirteen. Her moonlit-night-quiet eyes stared directly at Noah, who was leaning against a broken boulder, without even blinking.

From Noah's angle, he could clearly see that Ophis's chest had been completely hollowed out.

Because of that, Vali and Kuroka, standing behind Ophis, looked at Noah in shock, making him smile bitterly inwardly.

Vali and Kuroka probably thought Noah had torn out Ophis's heart at the very last moment, which was why