[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 215: Choices (1)

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'Killing Noelle's identity as Souris'. As soon as the other Asterisks heard it, they inevitably doubted their ears.

Noelle's request on this one sounds absurd to them. After all, if they had to kill Souris, then that meant they had to kill Noelle.

"Ahh, I know what you're thinking, and I mean it's not like that." Noelle immediately shook her head to clear all misunderstandings.

Then, he took out a plain white mask with a purple complexion in several places. It was the mask he used as he acted as Souris, a mask Ethan made for him.

"What I mean, is that I want you all to show that the 'Previous Couris' is dead. That way, I will appear as a new figure and 'replace the identity of the old Souris'."

The reason Noelle wanted to do this was because of her mistake of telling Olivia about her identity as an Asterisk. Thanks to that, Olivia finds out that Noelle is Souris.

Of course, if the Souris that Olivia knew reappeared to the public, it would make Olivia realize she was still around. That way, Olivia would definitely chase after him no matter what danger awaits.

Noelle wanted to avoid that scenario, so she devised this plan.

By the time everyone heard more about his plan, the majority of them instantly understood him, but the rest were still confused by what Noelle meant. Of course, the ones who did not understand him were Colyn and Tania.

Lucia realized their confusion, so she took the initiative to help explain.

"There are some people closest to him who already know his identity as Souris. In the outside world, Souris is presumed dead, or disappeared without clarity, this makes him have to change Souris' identity to make them sure that she does not exist."

Colyn frowned for a moment, trying to digest all those plans, then she sighed and crossed her arms on the table, then drowned her chin there.

"I don't understand .. Wouldn't it be good if they found out that Souris, the person they knew was still alive? "

"Of course, just assuming that there will be no danger involved" Lucia replied quickly.

Asher then interjected, "Souris has said it before. He has been involved in trouble and has to deal with the enturas named Noir. Noir must have known that Souris hadn't really died or disappeared, so 'She' would definitely continue to chase after her. It would be very dangerous if the people closest to Souris were involved in this."

Due to the similarity of the situation, Asher understands Noelle much better than everyone else at Asterisk. He felt a strong sense of familiarity, as well as having developed a great feeling of sympathy towards him.

Perhaps a man who has a certain obsession with someone has a radar that can find people similar to him.

Colyn nodded understandingly as her face looked grimaceingly, and on the other hand, Tania simply kept quiet without giving any confirmation.

Noelle saw this and was pleased that there was no need to explain it further, so she returned to her request.

"During the next mission, I want you all to act as if nothing is strange, but I will appear not as a Souris whom everyone knows, but as a completely different figure."

"And? How are you gonna do it? " ask Arnaz.

Noelle glanced at him for a moment, then replied almost without pause, "I'll just change my appearance."

After he said that, his right hand immediately let out a strange stifling black smoke, which then instantly enveloped his entire body.

This was the power of 'Domination' he had gained from Noir. With this power, he 'dominated' and controlled his own body, then made his appearance change forcibly.

At her present stage, Noelle could only 'dominate' certain things; her own body, the animals without intelligence, plants, as well as simple objects such as brittle rocks or wood.

It cannot yet be called powerful, but once it develops later, it is possible that this power of authority will become increasingly powerful, making it capable of 'dominating' abstract and obscure things like soul, spirit, spirit, space, and so on.

Black smoke covered Noelle's body for almost a minute. Then, they all disbanded, and showed a new appearance from Noelle.

Her white hair had disappeared, and was now replaced by shiny black hair. His skin was still pale, but his facial features had changed quite drastically even though traces of androgyny were still there.

He has sharp eye features but looks friendly, sharp nose, thin lips, thin eyebrows with slightly pliable eyelashes.

This was different from her appearance as Izaya Canaria or even Noelle Lynneheim, but Noelle was already satisfied with this appearance.

Compared to before, he had become slightly taller, probably around 180 centimeters. He looked like a man around 20 or 21 years old.

Naturally, he could still be called handsome, but his facial characteristics were fairly normal around the Republic. This is what Noelle is after.

From now on, this will be the appearance of his new identity; an adult who is a native of the Republic, who lost his home and family in an incident.

"That's impressive, I didn't think you could change your appearance so quickly. But, can you keep it for a long time? " Damian quickly made a comment. After seeing Noelle's new appearance, she already had a guess as to Noelle's next plan.

Damian is pretty sure that Noelle's next destination is the Republic, it will be his new base.

Noelle smiled faintly and closed her eyes with a light snort.

"I didn't change my appearance with magic, so there was no need for effort to maintain it. I can return to my original appearance at will, but it will take as little time as before."

"Once, yes … "

Damian did not understand the concept behind it, but he understood Noelle's intentions.

Basically the power of 'Domination' authority is not magic, but rather 'dominating' something, and instilling 'commands' so that the dominated subject can carry out all the orders of the Doer. In this case, Noelle dominated her own body and instilled orders to change her appearance.

"Just kill Souris' identity? I think it'll be easy. We just have to wait until the next mission is given to us." Arnaz said as he stared at the huge crystal floating in the middle of the table.

The crystal still remained there, changing its color every second as if nothing had happened.

Then, Damian cleared his throat and drew back everyone's attention.

"Then, what else do you want? I'm sure your request isn't just that."

One corner of Noelle's lips lifted, and she looked at Damian with a slight tilt of her head to the side.

"This request is for you. I need you to make me a new identity document."

Damian had expected this, so he wasn't surprised.

"I don't mind, but I'm sure you know that there's nothing free here."

"I'll pay it at the appropriate price later. For now, get me a new identity document. I'll explain the rest later after I teleport to the Republic."

Noelle plans to use Damian's true location point to get to the Republic quickly. It could also speed up all the processes needed to gather general information in the Republic.

"All right, I don't mind. After getting out of this place, prepare to teleport, I will allow you to appear at my place."

Before Damian came to this place, he had already moved into a room in his home away from the military barracks area, so Noelle's sudden appearance there would not make anyone surprised.

Since teleportation required more than three people to grant permission, Asher, Lucia, and Ethan happily volunteered to take care of Noelle's teleportation permit.

After finishing her brief discussion, Noelle then looked at Ethan. "I'm sorry to bother you, but can I ask for a new mask? "

"No problem, I still have a lot of materials left in the church" Ethan replied casually. He was happy to be able to help, but another reason why he easily agreed to it was because he wanted a fee from Noelle.

Ethan's asking fee is a voluntary donation from Noelle. The church where he lived had been in a critical state, and his own income would not be enough to support everyone, so he took this opportunity to solicit funds from Noelle.

Of course, Noelle easily agreed. He still has a lot of money, although most of it has been thrown into《Reign》.

Noelle has transferred the ownership authority of《Reign》 to Olivia and Chloe who previously still have a blood contract relationship with her. Therefore, Olivia and Chloe should not be suspicious why《Reign》 still survives even though the true creator is no longer there.

Before she had actually moved the ownership, Noelle had thrown a lot of things there, among which were; hundreds of gallons filled with her blood, which was a stockpile she had made long ago, piles of gold and material possessions, some other important objects such as weapons, books, and others.

Now, Noelle's spatial warehouse was almost empty. He only had a few weapons inside, as most of his weapons had he put out as a tsunami to deal with the Noir before.

For a valuable book, Noelle had made a copy of it, so she had nothing to worry about, whereas for other materials she could get at any time from the black market.

After Noelle agreed to Ethan's payment request, Lucia clapped her hand once. It caught everyone's attention and they're now focusing on it.

Lucia remained smiling as the eyes behind the black cloth covering her wandered around scanning everyone's expressions.

"Well, since Souris already has no other request, how about we exchange information now? "

"That's a great idea. I've been stuck in that place for a time I didn't know, so I missed a lot of news." Noelle unhesitatingly agreed to Lucia's proposal. Instead, he was truly grateful that Lucia made this proposal personally.

Noelle had previously had the intention to make this proposal, but she felt somewhat doubtful as she had already made many requests from this meeting and the previous meeting, however, so he waits for time until someone by themselves opens a free information exchange session.

Of course, if no one took the initiative to start it, then Noelle herself would do that.

Tania, who was sitting only separated by one seat from Lucia nodded firmly. He had already been in one of the dungeons that had been in Zeltis for an unknown time, so he had no idea what was happening in the outside world either.

Lucia had lost her connection to Voyager, so she was already unable to extract information from them anymore. But, he could still use his eye power to analyze the news in the newspaper.

"I want to give you some information, but I'm still stuck in the labyrinth now" Arnaz said casually as he placed both of his feet on the table.

Colyn's chin was still stuck on the table, and her eyes looked bored as she glanced sideways.

"Don't ask me. I live far away from any civilization, so I barely know what's going on in the outside world."

They already know about this. Colyn once told them; that she lived in a treehouse located far to the east, located at the eastern end of the Alacrylia Empire.

Most of them had been caught in a situation that did not allow them to gather information. Which means, the only people who can be their hope for this are Damian, Asher, and Ethan.

Damian, a top military officer in the Republic, he could access outside information faster than ordinary people. Asher was a holy knight, a Saint bodyguard who had to be stuck with him for almost a full 24 hours. Naturally, his chances of finding information by himself were low, but he had the privilege of accessing outside news whenever he wanted.

Ethan was from the beginning just an orphan living in a church located in the slums of the Royal capital, so the information he could get was limited to general information only, and the usual information is spread through illegal networks.

(Strongly powerful, but information-poor secret organization .. )

Noelle could not think of anything as she sighed helplessly.

"I heard this from some bar customer. They say that the Royal military units will deploy their units on a large scale to find our whereabouts. Lately the situation has become more and more difficult, especially after some problems occurred in the rebuilding of Rondo."

Damian nodded at Ethan, and continued, "Most likely the Kingdom has deployed their precious Royale Chamber unit. They should also be cooperating with units from the Diamond Heart Order team from several regions. With such a level of expenditure, it shouldn't be difficult for them to sniff out our existence."

The Royale Chamber and Diamond Heart Order that Damian mentioned were names for organizations working under the power of a particular party. The Royale Chamber was a special military unit of the Kingdom, which would only be deployed for certain emergency situations, while the Diamond Heart Order was a private unit belonging to the Church of the Goddess of Love and Hope Anastasia.

Every organization behind an important party like the military, or even the Church has its own level of priority. Normally, they would only work to take care of problems related to their tasks. However, in certain cases, several organizations will work together to solve a problem.

What distinguishes military-owned organizations from Church-owned organizations is the number and location of their existence. The Royale Chamber only had a center, branches, and members that were entirely within the area of the Royal capital, Zeltis. As for church-owned organizations, they have branches in one church or cathedral in each region concerned.

The majority religion in the Kingdom is the one that worships Goddess Anastasia, so the Diamond Heart Order has greater power and reach for inquiry than any other church organization.

Noelle tried to digest the information while following the conversation. Later, Asher added, "About that, I already have additional confirmation."

Asher gave a pause, then continued, "Light Sanctuary has officially made a cooperation agreement with the Kingdom and the Church of the Goddess Anastasia. Our Church organization will take part in the investigation and search for Asterisk."

(It's bad .. )

The information Asher provided had the same seedlings as the information from Damian and Ethan. However, the addition of it made everyone start to rethink the true danger.

If three such powerful organizations cooperated, then there would most likely be some traces of them successfully sniffed. This makes their identity threatened.

Based on the way Asher said it, Noelle immediately concluded that the Light Sanctuary was the organization behind the Church of the Holy Light Goddess Lumine.

The religion that worshipped Goddess Lumine was quite a few adherents in the Kingdom, and their largest base was located in the neutral region in the south. This should calm them down. However, hearing that they had decided to join the Asterisk quest, Noelle inevitably thought of a few things.

The reason why the Lumine Church was starting to move now must have something to do with Asher, because basically, only Asher had such a strong belief in the goddess.

While in the previous Rondo raid, Asher had destroyed the only Holy Light Goddess Lumine Church in the area around Rondo. This was enough to provoke all adherents of the Lumine Goddess based in the south there.

"The church side started moving, huh .. I really didn't like them. They always made trouble in the past, but strangely no one around me knew it … "

Arnaz with a displeased look began to say many things. Noelle was convinced that she had a lot of problems with the church in the past.

"You don't understand, it's information control. In contrast to events that are left free so that the public knows it, everything related to the organization behind the church always has strict confidentiality. If any outsider were to find out, then there would be two options; join to keep the secret, or be forcibly silenced."

Both options are basically the same. Outsiders who are involved in problems with church organizations always have their future paths sealed shut. This left them with no other choice but to join. At the very least, by joining them, they would still be living with a certain level of freedom.

"Church, yes … "

Tania seemed to be thinking of something. His facial expression was still as flat as ever, but he was visibly immersed in his own thoughts.

(Navi, is there any chance that they will find any trace of my existence? )

{Entahlah. It had been decades since the incident, so it was likely that they had forgotten about it. But, there was still a considerable possibility that they would link all of these events to events in the past. Stay careful, Tania.}

(I understand.)

"Serius .. I just found out that the church has other organizations under it. "Colyn doesn't bother to hide her curiosity.

For Noelle, this is a good thing. It was because he also knew nothing about the organization under the church, so he also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to gather a little knowledge.

Damian sighed for a moment, then glanced at Asher. Seeing as Asher had no intention to answer him, Damian inevitably went back to explaining.

"That's because they're rarely exposed. Their very existence is very secretive, and the public will not know about it. Various church-owned organizations have their own disguises to hide themselves from the public, and they will only appear according to their duties in that 'disguise."

Noelle was a little confused, but her brain slowly began to digest the information, while Colyn still did not understand, but pretending to lose she already understood.

"In short ... Church-owned organizations will wear the guise to cover themselves from the public. Take the Diamond Heart Order as an example; in the public, they have a number of hospitals that serve as the base of operations."

"Don't be surprised if the police or the church donates a lot of money to several hospitals, because basically it's all a form of funding for the organization."

"I understand .." Colyn finally nodded with a serious expression. That doesn't mean the information will be useful to him. He lived far away from human civilization, and only connected with them occasionally to fill supplies in his home.

Lucia, who saw that everyone had reached a basic understanding of the information shared, was of course happy. He then clapped his hands once, then spoke back.

"All right, I want to ask you one thing. Was there any suspicious movement from Voyager and all the parties involved from the last mission? "

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