Chapter 292 - Realizing one's own insignificance
Noah turned to the Harbingers of Sin around him as he spoke out with enthusiasm.
"You guys wanna go for a ride?"
"A ride?"
They looked at him dumbfoundedly after just witnessing the immense show of power that was required to upgrade the Spiritual Land, their minds still reeling from that shock.
"Haha, yes. A ride! Get on the Spiritual Land. I'll be right back."
His figure flashed as he teleported away from the Icebound World and appeared at another freezing location, this one being in the Frozen Kingdom of the Beast World. His senses spread out to cover the entire kingdom as he honed in on the Frozen Queen and her Shadow Guard, Night, his figure materializing in front of them as they glanced towards him happily.
"I have something to show you."
Noah said this towards the Frozen Queen who was ever so slowly showing off a brighter and brighter smile from her cold exterior, his hands wrapping around her and Night as they all disappeared from the Beast World and reappeared on top of the Spiritual Land in the Icebound World.
The room that Adelaide was just in turned silent as the Ill.u.s.trious King Roark, Adelaide's father, glanced at the nobles and ministers awkwardly as the current Queen was just swiped away by the powerful Sir they knew to be pulling the strings behind the scene.
"Get back to work!"
The old King Roark roared out these words as the ministers scrambled out of the Queen's Hall and returned to their normal duties, a slight smile appearing on the father's face as he felt proud for one of his children finding such a grand path.
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In the Spiritual Land, Noah reappeared with Adelaide and her Shadow Guard, Night, as everyone was gathered in the central location of the Spiritual Land where he cl.u.s.tered most of the buildings that he made through the use of [Architecture].
The Harbingers of Sin were shaking their heads at the overflowing essence they could feel in the Spiritual Land, Kazuhiko once again speaking out to the reappearing Noah as he let out more grievances.
"We don't even need to go anywhere else to train, this place is a haven with mana this dense all around us."
Noah laughed as he nodded towards this Sword Master and replied while watching Barbatos join them, still in her satin pink pajamas as she yawned.
"All in due time. For now, buckle up!"
Noah initiated the feature of the Upgraded Spiritual Land, [Interstellar Travel], as he chose to not notice the sparks flying off as Barbatos's eyes landed on the newly appearing Adelaide, with her Shadow Guard even pulling out a knife as this stare off was initiated.
OONG!
Immense mana wrapped around the Spiritual Land as it trembled slightly, and seconds after it began to rise in the air as it pierced through the cold winds and cloud, climbing higher and higher by the second.
Shock spread throughout the beings cl.u.s.tered around the Spiritual Land as the Emperor Penguin looked at his Master in shock, its body quickly flashing to the edge of the Spiritual Land as it observed the rapidly reducing mountains they could visibly see.
"No f.u.c.k.i.n.g way!"
"What!"
Disbelief and wonder spread throughout everyone's faces, even the cold and angry Calamity of the Sea, Kraken, looking out with its large eyes above them as the speed of the floating landmass they were on only continued to go faster and higher.
Noah was observing all the changes around him as he noticed the transparent blue barrier thinly cover the Spiritual Land in its entirety, the entire land mass gaining a blue hue as it shot through the skies at increasingly faster speeds.
The mischievous Barbatos neared Noah's side as her cute eyes blinked quickly towards the enlarging small stars above them while the world they were on began getting increasingly smaller.
The icy Adelaide grasped onto Noah's right hand a moment after as she was even more surprised by this whole venture, with much of her time spent dealing with affairs of the kingdom and not being near such fantastical sights. She received an abundant amount of cores from Noah, with her strength now being at the Transcendent Realm as she broke through with brute force and power leveling, with almost all of her skills still being lower ranked and only her attributes reaching the Transcendent Rank. She came closer to Noah as this brand new experience unfolded in front of them.
They quickly broke through the stratosphere of the Icebound World as the beasts and all other beings in the Spiritual Land experienced something out of their wildest dreams. The cold blue world below them that had covered the entirety of their sights just moments before became smaller and smaller in their eyes, the sparkling expanse of space around them coming into focus.
Noah spread out his aura as he observed this immense accomplishment, slowing down the speed of the ascending Spiritual Land as his gaze landed on the small Icebound World.
This world was a Large World that was even larger than his own Homeworld, and yet at this moment in time, it felt extremely small. Looking at this ever so small star, he felt his heart unconsciously tightening as a variety of thoughts erupted in his mind.
These thoughts entered and left his mind as he continued to stare at the ever so decreasing size of the incredibly large planet he was just on, his mind unexpectedly entering a sort of trance as he was lost in the beauty and profoundness of it all.
He was just a single small being from a world even smaller than this one below him, a small world that was located in an insignificant corner of a Galaxy in an expansive universe.
THUMP!
He could distinctly feel his heartbeat increase as these types of thoughts continued to come, the experience of personally controlling a vessel and really giving the time to observe the void of space and the smallness of stars and those who lived in them hitting him at full force, different then when he travelled in the ship with the cultivators of the Profound Astral Sect and simply focused on maintaining his identity while surrounded by enemies.
This feeling of smallness and insignificance increased in Noah's heart as he observed the extremely large Icebound World getting smaller and smaller, his hand reaching out in front of him as he felt like he could snatch this wide planet in the palm of his hands.
THUMP!
'A mere human from an insignificant planet that is even smaller than the one in front of me...from a small star, a rock floating in space that is surrounded by millions of more rocks...millions more of these stars that hold even more insignificant beings just like me…!'
A suffocating feeling began to cloud Noah's heart as almost all others around him looked at the small shining blue Icebound World they were just on with wonder while their gazes observed the unbelievable sight of the starry space all around them. Yet Noah continued to feel his heart beat increasing as questions and thoughts about himself continued to swirl around as this flight into space brought him into an unexpected mental state.
Different feelings were spreading amongst different people observing the same scene as a mystical landmass moved across the starry beauty and the terrifying void of space.
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