"A trip? To fulfill our promise?"
"Of course. What else would it be?" Noah paused, then narrowed his eyes. "Wait. You haven't found another entrance to a parallel universe, have you?"
Seeing the Ancient One's guarded expression, Noah was left speechless.
Had he really been looking for entrances to parallel universes?
Lately, he'd been far too busy for that.
Then again, he had thought about it-though his goal was very clear.
There were only two things that could truly draw his attention now.
The power of light.
And the power to search souls.
Aside from those, nothing else interested him.
Noah's strength had already reached a very high level.
Of course, in the eyes of true giants, he was probably still just an ant.
But Noah had never intended to step into the world of giants.
Even if he did, he wouldn't dare provoke them.
In the ordinary world, he was already prominent-just barely transitioning from an ant to something larger...
No.
More like an embryo.
From beginning to end, Noah had never sought that kind of trouble.
"No, Master," Noah sighed. "Although I do have thoughts in that direction, you know I've never given up on the power of light."
"That's true." The Ancient One considered it briefly and nodded. "You shouldn't give it up. You have the qualifications to try. But that matter can wait."
"Of course," Noah replied. "Is there anything else about this trip?"
"Do you know," the Ancient One said suddenly, amusement flickering in her eyes, "that His Majesty Odin visited me yesterday?"
"He congratulated me first."
"And then complained that one of his sons had recently been misled by someone. The boy keeps talking about going to some future world."
"...."
"He also said that this someone went too far." The Ancient One smiled faintly. "Apparently, that person even wanted to take both of Odin's sons along. His Majesty says his head has been aching ever since."
"...."
"So," she looked at Noah calmly, "do you have anything you'd like to say?"
Anything to say?
Noah gave an awkward smile.
How could he not know who that someone was?
It was him.
And yes, he had done that.
For a bit of insurance, Noah had coaxed Thor into going along.
But Loki?
Noah hadn't invited him at all.
Honestly, if Loki wanted to go, couldn't Odin just smack him and be done with it?
Was that really Noah's fault?
At this moment, Noah had the strong urge to teleport straight to Asgard, grab Loki, and interrogate him face-to-face.
If Loki didn't give a satisfactory answer, Noah wouldn't mind sparring with him on Asgard's training grounds.
He was also curious how well Loki had mastered the Casket of Ancient Winters-and the Reality Stone.
As these thoughts passed through his mind, a word suddenly stood out.
Congratulations.
Noah had clearly heard the Ancient One say Odin congratulated her.
That alone made him pause.
Congratulated her... for what?
Suddenly, Noah looked up sharply.
At the same time, he activated True Sight.
He hadn't used it to examine others' strength in a long time.
This time, what he saw froze him in place.
"Eleventh-tier. Extremely dangerous."
Eleventh-tier.
Noah's mind went blank.
This level had already surpassed the mortal boundary.
What was going on?
How had the Ancient One advanced this far, this fast?
For the first time in a long while, Noah felt truly confused.
Then it hit him.
He had misunderstood something.
The Ancient One's current state felt exactly like Odin's-gentle, restrained, ordinary. Like a normal person.
"Could it be..." Noah thought, "that after completing divine transformation, it doesn't look radiant or overwhelming at all?"
His thoughts stumbled over themselves.
He realized he had subconsciously overlooked many things.
Odin had long been confirmed as a being who completed divine transformation, yet Noah had never truly observed him carefully.
Part of it was fear.
Noah worried that probing too deeply might anger Odin-and lead to his own demise.
So he avoided looking inward.
But in doing so, he had also ignored what was right in front of him.
Noah had always assumed Odin's current appearance was a disguise.
Now, it seemed that wasn't a disguise at all.
It was simply how beings at that level existed.
"But this doesn't look like a god at all..."
Noah felt unsettled.
This was far removed from what he had imagined.
Yet when he observed the Ancient One again, he realized it wasn't so simple.
Beneath her ordinary exterior was something indescribable.
Something vast.
"What are you staring at?" the Ancient One asked calmly, taking a sip of tea.
Noah flinched.
"Uh... Master," he said carefully, forcing his thoughts to stop. "Have you... already completed the transformation?"
"Mhm." The Ancient One smiled. "Yes."
"Is that surprising?" She tilted her head slightly. "It surprised me too."
"...What happened?" Noah asked honestly. "How did you complete it all at once?"
He examined her closely.
Her body was flawless.
That meant only one thing.
She had completed the transformation through her domain.
But half a year ago, her completion rate had been only forty-three percent.
The Ancient One smiled-and unfolded her domain.
In an instant, Noah was enveloped.
The moment he sensed it, he froze.
The domain was stable.
Perfectly balanced.
It pulsed with a wondrous rhythm.
For a brief moment, Noah lost his ability to speak.
Then the Ancient One began to recount.
-
"The compatibility of time and space is far greater than imagination."
The Ancient One sat quietly within the Mirror Dimension.
Her domain unfolded fully before her eyes, and she fell into thought.
She had seen Noah's domain.
Many of her inspirations had come from it.
But as a top-tier sorcerer, she understood a fundamental truth.
Two sorcerers may be similar.
But they can never be the same.
Even Noah understood that.
So how could she not?
Noah's domain was the most astonishing thing she had ever seen.
It was almost a newborn universe-lacking only alternating light and dark energy.
The Ancient One had long sensed the direction her own domain should take.
But she had no intention of copying Noah's path.
That route was inevitable in the end.
But not now.
She preferred resolving the major problems first, then addressing the minor ones.
She was not as reckless as Noah-trying to solve everything at once.
The greatest challenge of a domain lay in the fusion of different elements.
So she focused entirely on that.
She borrowed Noah's ideas.
But what she manifested was fundamentally different.
Unknowingly, her progress surpassed Noah's expectations.
After all, she had always been a top sorcerer.
Her comprehension needed no explanation.
Comprehension itself was an elusive thing.
Once insight struck, progress could leap beyond imagination.
Without it, one could only move forward step by step-verifying everything through endless trials.
Noah's system represented the latter.
The Ancient One embodied the former.
When she interwove time and space into a massive ring-
And used that ring to encompass four different elements-
In that instant, something clicked.
"This feeling..."
"Yes."
"This is it."
Even someone as composed as the Ancient One felt a surge of childlike excitement.
Because at that moment, she had grasped something fundamental.
Following that sensation, she adjusted her domain.
Time passed.
The domain remained calm.
Like the surface of the sea.
Yet beneath it churned a devouring whirlpool.
"This is it..."
After an unknown duration, the Ancient One slowly opened her eyes.
At that moment, she was sacred.
Untouchable.
Like a true deity.
Her domain had become as deep and boundless as the universe itself.
If not for the Mirror Dimension containing it-
The ripples alone would have been unimaginable.
And the sight...
Would have been even more beautiful.
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