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Noah smiled, his body covered on blood and bruises, as he glanced at what remained of Kireina, devoid of soul, as it was vaporized completely, devoid of anything other than a corpse, crystalized as it was completely dried out of cosmic energy, slowly fragmenting into pieces of gray-colored crystals.
There was no lifeforce within her, no soul, no energy, nothing. Kireina was truly killed, and Noah thought that finally, this was it.
He had never battled someone so persistent like her before, and someone that pushed him so far while being also much weaker than he was.
Her techniques, skills, and magic were all ridiculous as well…
But at the end, he was superior in strength and power.
And that, no matter what, cannot be overcome!
"That was truly excellent," Noah spoke. "Kireina… Through all my life, I had never fought a more formidable and tenacious foe such as you. The Apex Vampires of Abyss, the Outer Gods, the Dragon Gods, none compared to you. Even if you were my enemy, I will not forget you. You will remain as a reminder that there's always someone that could surprise me no matter what, and that I must always remain cautious, to not underestimate my foes… Thank you."
Noah sighed, feeling slightly melancholic, deep down, he wanted the battle to continue even if a little bit more. But he had to ruin it and release everything he had in a single attack, completely decimating even Kireina's strongest blow so far.
He silently glanced at her fragments, which were slowly turning into ashes, unlike before, over ten minutes had passed already, and Noah had not seen her revive or reappear again, her presence was gone, and the root that connected her to her other body was gone as well.
She was completely gone from all of existence, dead, finished.
"Hmm… I wonder if Frank could ever reach your level?"
Noah sighed, as his transformation was cancelled, his appearance quickly going back to the human teacher at Tokyo High School. However, his clothes were all ruined, and his glasses broken.
"I guess I'll have to buy new clothes… Iris is going to get mad I will come back like this."
He glanced at whatever remained of Kireina, a hand, a few fingers, half her face, and a horn, slowly breaking down to ashes.
"Goodbye, Kireina."
As he found peace of mind after taking down the monster that had arrived at his world who stole and ate the sun, causing tremendous chaos in the entire world while bringing even more Outer Gods, he sighed in relief, walking away.
RUMBLE!
The world trembled, Noah's eyes widened, he was sure she was dead.
Yet…
YET!
FLUOSH!
Darkness, void, chaos, all began dropping from nothingness itself, like liquid black mud, a primordial soup of pure corruption and destruction.
"Impossible…"
He was shocked beyond belief.
Noah was sure…
He was damn sure she was dead!
It quickly took the form of Kireina, absorbing what remained of her and quickly emerging.
Her appearance was dark and angelic, with long black hair, crimson red eyes, six of them, and also six black feathered wings, with a black, shattered halo floating above her head.
Void and Chaos twisted and warped around her; Umbra was reborn.
"Oh my, I sure took a bit more of time to come back…" Kireina smiled. "But it seems that my second soul had loaded just in time. Hello Noah, did you miss me?"
"A-Ah…" Noah was left speechless, he pointed at Kireina with his finger, his hands… trembling! "What… what are you?! How is this possible?! I killed you! I checked everywhere; you were dead! And it was impossible for you to come back!"
"There's no such thing as impossible for me," Kireina smiled.
Thanks to her Cosmic Psyche Ability, Kireina's soul was divided in two.
Even when one of her souls were destroyed, the other would remain, and would automatically revive her into the other form.
In the last moments as Kireina was engulfed by the power of Noah's almighty attack, she used the last bits of energy within her gauntlets, merging them with her still regenerating secondary soul.
With this, the soul was instantly regenerated, and the Egos were also saved from being destroyed alongside her.
Hence, she was able to revive.
However, it took some serious delay, over ten minutes before she was able to come back.
She was honestly surprised that Noah waited this much, he must really love fighting her.
"I was really hoping that you would've left by the time I revived…" Kireina giggled. "Hah, well, I do feel kind of strange now."
Kireina's Soul Aura emerged from within her, as Noah felt the presence of that damned gauntlet now flowing through every inch of it.
"T-This is…?!"
Her Spirit Hearts were all shattered and so her combined egos into the gauntlet.
But the shattered fragments merged into her developing soul, further strengthening…
And evolving it!
"I think I'm beginning to figure out how you did it, Noah," smiled Kireina. "I don't need to eat an astral object necessarily, right? As long as I have enough power to create it myself… I can just use that to grow stronger."
Her aura changed, as her soul itself became a gigantic, chaotic nebula, gray, black, red, blue, yellow, green, gold, white, all sorts of colors emerging and twisting together, forming countless eyes that kept emerging and disappearing, jaws everywhere, smiling and showing their sharp teeth.
"I've kind of ascended… I think. All thanks to you, Noah! I'm so grateful!"
"Y-You're… Just what are you?!"
Noah only grew more frustrated than ever before!
He summoned Excalibur again, as he was about to use Lifeblood Exceed once more and skip all the way to Level 11!
"Oh? You still want to fight!" Kireina laughed. "Nice! I REALLY want to test what powers I've gained now… I feel really… Haha, free."
"Tch…!" Noah clicked his tongue, gritting his sharp teeth furious of how Kireina mocked all his efforts over and over again. "I'll end you! I'll definitely end you once and for all, Kireina!"
As the two were about to face one another again…
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
Space around them shattered into countless of rifts, as dozens- no, hundreds of agents wearing black and white clothes descended.
They had all sorts of shapes and sizes, but wore the same formal clothes and black glasses, holding gigantic magical and legendary weapons.
"Huh?"
"Eh? You guys?!"
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