[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 207: Terrible Luck

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There was no specific change to Noir's expression. She just kept quiet and carefully watched Noelle who was struggling to release herself from the pressure of fear.

As if it had been too long waiting, Noir then gave a small snort once, then spoke to Noelle in the same voice as before.

"You're taking too long. Let's play question and answer."

Without waiting for Noelle's reply, Noir had already reopened his mouth. "I'm sure you already know what the 'stolen' thing is about you. But, can you say it? "

Noelle's expression slowly changed. The color increasingly disappeared from his face that had been pale since the beginning. He was sure that there was nothing wrong with his guess. In that case, there was only one answer he could give.

This time he was able to open his mouth, but only a short answer managed to come out. "You ... Seizing 'my system'."

The answer was a little unclear, but it managed to reveal everything.

What Noir had just 'stealed' was the system that Noelle had. It was a system that everyone possessed, and enveloped the entire world, something that Goddess Anastasia created on a massive scale.

It was unmistakable, it had been 'stolen' from him. Noelle had ascertained it herself a moment ago. He could not see his status at all.

That fact made Noelle instantly widen her eyes in disbelief. Before, he didn't really care about status or anything because in fact it didn't really have much effect on his strength. However, seeing how it had been 'stolen' directly by someone, was something Noelle had never imagined.

That system is something Anastasia created, it should have a very complex structure and way of working. Moreover, it was impossible for a god of Anastasia's level to not have any precautions. He should have had another system that made his system of creation something inviolable.

As his thoughts went around, he saw the smile on Noir's face widening. She looked at Noelle as if she was having fun.

"Hehe, how could a low-level vampire like you have the intention to meet her'? Even a demigod or an angel who has lived for a very long time would think thousands of times to arrive at such thoughts and ideas."

Even without further explanation, Noelle already understood what Noir was talking about. 'He' whom Noir mentioned earlier was the entity referred to as the True Creator, Chronoa.

Noelle couldn't answer, because she knew that her choice was crazy. There were many unknowns in this world, but that was the principle, he would achieve what he wanted, even if it was hard at all.

Right now, Noelle was as much as possible not thinking or doing anything dangerous. It was because he instinctively understood that this Noir before him possessed a power that could twist all of that. Even one dangerous thought could be a double-edged sword for him.

Of course, Noelle naturally made some estimates about Noir's power limit. He was trying to find a gap, without involving any dangerous thoughts for him. This made him immediately remove the figure of Olivia and colleagues from his mind, preventing Noir from knowing their whereabouts.

Noir did not say anything more, and continued to stare at the wisp of light that was in his hand. It was the 'system' he had just 'stealed'. Then, he immediately put that light into his mouth, swallowing it in one go.

Noelle saw this as an opportunity, so she immediately jumped far back, preparing with all her strongest attacks. He was already aware of the power that Noir had, so there was no point in holding back.

Instead, the one cornered here was himself.

Noelle pulled Langen and prepared to pull over at any moment, but Noir did not even move a little. He only glanced at Noelle a little, then smiled faintly.

Then, his figure disappeared, replaced by hundreds of raven feathers scattered all over the place.

It made Noelle naturally raise her vigilance, and she immediately looked around, but did not find Noir anywhere.

Obviously, Noir won't be easy to find. She could appear suddenly without Noelle noticing; that meant she could easily trick the perception Noelle had.

A moment later, a haughty and arrogant sounding laughter appeared, resounding all around. A few crows with pure black bodies appeared and flew around Noelle.

One by one the crow opened its mouth, and spoke in human language and voice, "Aren't you a little late? Actually, you can take self-protection measures from the moment I first appeared. I only used my aura, and did not use any attacks at all. Clearly, you can be easily affected by your own emotions."

"When, if you calmed down immediately by then, you would have managed to escape by now. Ahh, in the end you're just a stupid little vampire and inexperienced. I'm sorry I felt a resemblance to you."

With that, Noir's figure reappeared, but not with his previous appearance. He's changed. His body became taller, and his slightly wavy and curly hair was rolled slightly down, covering half of his eyebrows. The crown on top of his head had turned bigger, and it was spinning on the spot, making it like a creepy angelic halo.

He looked at Noelle in a normal way, and without any form of hostility. However, that was precisely what became the most frightening thing for Noelle.

His hands stretched out again, but he only grabbed the empty air. He opened his arms as if he was grabbing something, but no one came out after all this time.

This left Noelle confused for a moment, and she was barely able to make a corresponding response. Fortunately, he regained his senses faster, and directly attacked Noir's figure using Langen.

Noir's body split horizontally, but then it turned into a wisp of black smoke that fused with his silhouette. His figure then reappeared without being injured in the slightest.

Noelle wasted no chance, she immediately jumped back and ran as fast as she could.

Even though the system no longer existed, Noelle could still use all of her strength. The system just makes it easier to organize them.

Noelle checks her connection with Olivia using《Oath of Blood》, and realizes that Olivia is not too far away from her.

(It's bad.)

Now he is playing a chase with Noir, so as much as possible he wants to avoid events such as meeting Olivia suddenly. No one knows what will happen if someone else gets involved in this.

It would be best for him to run in a different direction from Olivia and blatantly avoid her. That way, Olivia would definitely be aware that if something was wrong, she would not insist on chasing after Noelle in such a situation.

After making a decision, Noelle immediately turned the corner and chose a different escape route. He passed through a forest with trees that had thick black leaves.

A few monsters would occasionally get involved in his escape, but Noelle easily finished them off. Right now, all of his focus had been on escaping from the mysterious figure named Noir.

He didn't know if Noir was still chasing after him, but he couldn't stop now. At the very least, he had to keep running away from it until that wave of fog appeared, making him return to the real world.

(Hopefully he didn't implant a tracker on me. This will harm everyone .. )

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"Ughh … "

The internal clock is no longer working. I think he has been running for a long time.

In fact, he had already gone through countless dream manifestations, but he did not stop running.

He is now in the plantation area. Not far behind him, a majestic giant castle could be clearly seen.

Erwin had said it before, if all the manifestations of dreams in this nature will continue to exist until anytime even though the owner of the dream already does not exist in the world. This made him think of a few questions for a moment; in fact, who dreamed of the castle? From its size, it was impossible for it to be inhabited by humans.

It just means one. The castle was not manifested from a human dream, but rather a figure similar to a giant.

Noelle had already passed through the castle twice, and she had always felt an indistinct strangeness around the castle. The feeling was so strange that he wanted to leave the area immediately.

As Noelle's mind spun around with many questions, a wisp of black smoke suddenly appeared around her, followed by several crows screaming hysterically.

Noir had appeared before him.

Noelle naturally stopped, and looked at Noir with a doubtful look.

"Hehe, there's no point in covering up your fear, Little Vampy. I was very sensitive to human emotions, so I knew that you were pretending to be strong to bully me. Hehe, I've never met someone as reckless as you."

What Noir said was completely true. Noelle was only pretending to be strong, and did not show her fear of bullying Noir. That way, he could at least stall for some time.

"All right, that's enough. This very mundane pursuit bore me."

Noir waved his hand in annoyance, and a crow suddenly perched on his shoulder. After which, she looked at Noelle with a slight smile on her face.

A second later, Noelle felt an unusually painful sensation. His body seemed like it was about to explode at any moment, and his head was like it was being pierced with thousands of needles at the same time.

Those words clearly implied that he was already at the level of a god. Noelle looked at him in disbelief, and at the same time tried to withstand the psychic attack that Noir gave her.

The smile on Noir's face widened even more, and the crown above his head accelerated his own spin as if to show the emotional turmoil that Noir felt.

Then, he raised his hand. He ignored Noelle who was painstakingly trying to run away from the psychic stabbing, and instantly squeezed out her own hand.

A few seconds after that, the pain that Noelle was experiencing became even crazier. It was like something was tearing his soul apart directly.

His physique was unaffected, but he was almost insane because of this pain he had never felt before.

Indeed, sometimes psychic attacks are much more painful than physical ones.

Noelle held her own head in an attempt to ease her pain, but she could do nothing, so she could only thrash on the spot.

However, luck must have felt sorry for him, so a wisp of gray fog that pulled him back to the real world suddenly appeared.

Noelle instantly rose from her place, and she held her own head in a slight panic.

He then looked around, and realized that he had returned to the dining room on the ship.

After confirming the situation, Noelle secretly thanked the one representing luck.

(Thank God I got back to the real world on time. If not, I would have lost control.)

He heaved a sigh of relief as he thought of this fortune.

Before, Noelle had been in a situation that did not allow her to think normally. The psychic attack Noir gave off had driven him almost insane, and he was unable to think of anything.

(Haha, I might have a ritual to improve my luck. I hope it will work.)

Right now, Noelle had regained all her mind and composure. He looked around, and found everyone was discussing about what they found.

Noelle sighed and stood up. Then, he walked out of the room, followed by everyone in turn.

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Once outside, Noelle re-organizes her mind, trying to put all the dangerous behind her, and begins to look for solutions to her problems with Noir.

Slowly, one after another figures came out from different doors. They would look for their own place to sit down, then start discussing about what they had experienced before.

Noelle immediately looked for Erwin, and approached him. During that time, Olivia was with Levina and was about to approach her, but soon stopped when she saw her approaching Erwin.

Upon seeing Noelle approaching, Erwin immediately smiled and raised his hand, but Noelle only responded with a slight lack of excitement.

Noelle sat down for the test next to her, then asked in a deep and solemn voice, "Do you know someone named Noir? "

Erwin thought for a moment, checking his memories. "No, I don't know" he replied, shaking his head.

That answer made Noelle feel her different emotions; the first was a strange relief, while the other was increased fear and anxiety.

"What's going on? " Erwin did not miss the slightest reaction of Noelle, and immediately asked. However, Noelle simply shook her head while saying thank you and left just like that.

After returning to her place, Noelle was immediately approached by Olivia who was looking at her with obvious anxiety.

"What happened before? "

The question was clearly referring to the time when they were still in the collective dreamland. At that moment, Olivia clearly understood the cue or code from Noelle who was running away from her.

Only from that made Olivia immediately conclude that Noelle was involved in something dangerous. It's natural for him to worry.

At the same time, Noelle also hesitates to tell Olivia what to do. For her, this was a really complicated and risky matter, it would be very dangerous if Olivia found out about it.

(I think it's better not to tell it .. ) Noelle quickly made up her mind. She looked at Olivia and smiled.

"Nothing, just a small matter. Do you remember the members of the organization I told you about before? I was involved in a chase with him."

Noelle decides not to tell her anything about Noir, and subverts the Swallow Life Order members she meets to replace Noir in her story. After all, Noelle was confident the risk would be much less than having to tell Olivia about Noir.

She originally wanted to hide all of that from Olivia, but given how Olivia was so sensitive to secrets, Noelle decided to divulge them a little.

Olivia remained silent for a few seconds, then forced her smile while looking at Noelle. "If that's what Noelle said … "

He did not continue his sentence, as if someone was holding him back. In the end, he could only sigh in resignation while occasionally putting on a sullen face.

Clearly, she still did not believe Noelle's words.

(What Noelle is hiding is far more complex than I thought. I want to know, but .. I can't force Noelle .. )

Olivia was immediately faced with an uncomfortable dilemma. During his time in the collective dreamland, he had never experienced anything truly extraordinary that was worth paying attention to, so he really felt lacking in terms of contribution.

She also felt bad about having to let Noelle overcome many problems alone, but in reality Olivia did not have the complete qualifications to join the settlement.

Putting aside how Noelle had always kept many secrets from her, Olivia had always trusted Noelle to a rather horrifying degree. Olivia believes that Noelle will not do something that will betray her, so she can feel safe.

However, it was a pity, the problem that Noelle was now facing was something slightly different from her worries. It will not go into the ground to 'betrayal', but rather more than that.

Noelle had already tried to remove her own worries, and was seriously listening to the discussion.

Now it was Norman's turn to tell his part, and it took everyone by surprise.

During the story, Norman also included some thoughts he made himself, about how one could not possibly appear in dreamland without being in the appropriate area. Even Erwin had already verified that.

Then, who was that figure sleeping on the throne? This question resonated in everyone's mind.

However, at the same time, Noelle was also thinking of another possibility.

(There is a possibility that the person Norman saw was related to Noir, but .. Unfortunately I have no way of verifying it directly. He said that the castle was on an island that floated in the sky, while the effect of the magic-disrupting fog was very strong there.)

Noelle had originally planned to inspect the castle, but she immediately erased her thinking after predicting just how many problems she would face.

One of the biggest problems he is facing right now is Noir. He did not know whether Noir knew about his location or not, but Noelle had a feeling that the longer he spent here, the greater his chances of getting involved in great danger.

That was why, after he had told his part, he immediately proposed to hasten the journey and return to the garden of fog as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, everyone agreed with his proposal.

Noelle heaved a sigh of relief and entered the cabin with everyone. He was ready to rest in his own room.

At that moment, a crow suddenly appeared and perched on the mast of the ship.

His red eyes gleamed with a sinister light as human laughter shot out from his mouth, "Hehe."

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