Birth of the Demonic Sword

Harold followed Noah without giving voice to complaints. The expert had recognized Noah's worth, so he was willing to see where his existence led.

Noah didn't have anything set in mind. He was only following the map toward the next floating lake. Everything else depended on what he found in his destination.

The duo flew for years until they reached their third destination. They avoided Devils and sharks as usual, but the scenery they found once they found their target left them disappointed.

Noah and Harold found a floating lake, but its structure had crumbled. The inscriptions and water were in pieces. It was clear that something or someone had attacked those defenses and had won the battle.

The duo still inspected the insides of the broken structure, but they didn't find anything interesting. The assailants had even destroyed the experts' space-rings during the attack. The place was empty.

"Let's go," Noah ordered after confirming that the broken floating lake was empty.

Harold could only oblige with his orders. He still imagined himself as a slave, but part of him felt glad that Noah was in charge of that mission.

Noah was clearly trying to create a plan against Heaven and Earth, and his recent victories made him the perfect existence for the task. Harold had seen a dark sky for the first time in eras thanks to him, and he wouldn't forget that scene.

The duo continued to fly. Noah had to take his usual breaks from time to time since he had long since abandoned any form of protection against the white sky. His mind was under constant pressure, but he had eventually become used to that pain.

Still, he needed to dispel the acc.u.mulated stress every few years. Noah's mind didn't really need that treatment, but it only benefitted the center of power in the end. Investing a few years in that process wasn't an issue for rank 8 existences.

The breaks gave Noah and Harold time to focus on their projects. Noah was unaware of his underling's intentions, but he had too many experiments to complete. He didn't have the time to mind an expert that he had already defeated.

Noah moved his main project toward the next stage even if his experiments didn't give promising results. Heaven and Earth were too powerful to care about his safety. Noah felt the need to transform his existence, so he didn't hesitate to test the chaotic laws with his existence.

Of course, the tests happened in a safe environment. Noah didn't use King Elbas' pellets anymore. He let his ambition fill part of the dark world before releasing the Devils' aura and studying its effects.

It was hard to force such chaotic energy to follow a precise path. Noah failed even when it came to simple purposes that didn't match his existence. He needed something far more influential to force that power to follow his d.e.s.i.r.es, but he could only test different combinations of laws for the time being.

Noah tried his various features, but he always obtained random transformations. He even decided to fight a pack of sharks at some point to study their innate abilities, but he didn't find anything that could tell him how to force the mutations to work for him.

The Devils were pure chaotic beings. They existed to transform laws, and their fuel was the other world's will.

'I've already confirmed that I can't suppress that will,' Noah thought during the travel. 'The other world's will is too massive. My existence can't handle it.'

Noah had felt the other world's will the first time he had interacted with the chaotic laws. He had quickly severed his connection with that power. Still, it seemed that the key to the success of his procedure came from that detail.

Noah didn't feel good about that discovery. He was arrogant, but he knew that he couldn't fight the will generated by an entire plane. His existence was powerful, but there was a limit to how much he could do.

'This feels like a leap of faith,' Noah concluded in his mind.

There was no science behind the procedure. Even King Elbas would find it almost impossible to perform. The power of change came from an entire lower plane, which meant that he had to seize that will before even thinking about using its power.

Noah soon understood that he would approach the final phase of that procedure only when his existence reached a bottleneck or Heaven and Earth became too hard to handle. That decision didn't leave him disappointed. It actually satisfied him to the point that he decided to reach other foreign forces again.

An intact floating lake soon appeared in their vision. Noah and Harold didn't do anything different from the usual. They approached the structure and stopped once white lines appeared around the uneven azure sphere.

The environment was identical to the previous intact lakes. The inscriptions were part of the world, and the experts could barely sense them.

Noah even prepared his offensive at that sight. He firmly suspected that the lake would contain Heaven and Earth's followers, and he didn't want to fight experts at Otto's level again. He wanted to go for a clean kill, which meant drawing the cursed sword if necessary.

"Castor, Rebecca, and Melissa have sent us to gather experts for a great army," Noah shouted while remaining at the edges of the inscriptions. "I don't want to fight. An envoy should be enough to settle this matter."

Noah had been honest, but the experts living inside the floating lake took his announcement far more seriously.

A tunnel appeared among the floating lake, and four experts came out of it. They were all rank 8 cultivators in the liquid stage, but their power seemed to linger near the might of the upper tier.

"I have never seen you around," One of the three women exclaimed.

"I haven't been around for long," Noah replied while ignoring the expert.

Noah had no intention to indulge in those trivial conversations. He felt too out of place to be among those people. He had a few good friends there, but they were far away, probably exploring other floating lakes.

"Do you follow Heaven and Earth?" Noah promptly asked while placing a hand on one of the leaders' shoulders.

The leader didn't sense the danger generated by Noah's figure. Noah was doing his best to suppress his existence, and the laws of space that he had recently obtained made him able to fake any ill intention that he harbored.

Noah wanted to be ready to deal with the leader immediately, but the expert didn't show any fear. He kept his eyes fixed on Noah, and an unexpected answer came out of his mouth.

"We actually are against Heaven and Earth," The man among the leaders said.

Noah didn't know if he could trust them, but his senses told him that he couldn't be paranoid. It would take a long conversation to unravel their real intentions, and he wasn't in a hurry to return.