What Meaning Did Any of It Have?

(Thank you very much to 'Xuanmeng Qingwu,' 'Life Silver Home,' and 'Mr. Tianyu' for the rewards!)

What did death actually feel like?

Probably no one could accurately put that feeling into words.

After all, for ordinary people, once they died, everything was gone.

That was what death felt like.

The heartbeat, weight, vision, memories, and everything else one had once been able to feel would all vanish in that instant, including consciousness itself.

That was right.

Death was, in truth, simply the feeling of having nothing left.

Then what, exactly, was life?

Was it the feeling of possessing the heartbeat, weight, vision, memories, and everything else that ordinary people could perceive?

No one could accurately put that into words either.

The reason was that, at the moment life was born, the person entering this world as that life, in the form of an infant, could not even perceive that they were crying. Naturally, they would not know what it felt like to be born.

Now, Noah had experienced that feeling perfectly once.

The feeling of gradually entering life, where one gained everything, from death, where there should have been nothing at all.

It was like being sunk into a pitch-black seabed, then being dragged back up alive and slowly seeing the light again. Noah's consciousness gradually returned.

Just as he was about to awaken, Noah, having experienced life to death and then death to life, realized something.

Within his heart, a pattern connected to the stone disc, fluttering freely like a fairy, was shining brightly.

It was none other than the Elf Avatar.

Noah's Elf Avatar was a power derived from the regenerative ability obtained by fusing Verethragna's Shepherd Avatar with the Gastrea Virus enhancement.

As the predecessor of the Elf Avatar, Verethragna's Shepherd was an Authority that could revive