Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5698

Chapter 5698: Engineer! I

Noah controlled his expression, and internally he cursed with everything he had.

What fucking choice?!

Because there was no choice. The choice to be made here was clear, and it was horrible, and it was clear precisely because it was horrible.

A weapon that could topple an architect, offered to a man standing frozen in front of one, and the correct answer was to hand it back!

Noah did not hesitate.

He gripped the golden ring and physically pulled it off his finger, the metal coming free without resistance now, and he drew his arm back and threw it up through the frozen steam toward THE REMINISCING WIDOW!

"This ring was given to you."

His voice carried across the whole of the frozen spring!

"It is a grand artifact and I could choose to keep it. But I know what it means to you. It was the last thing he gave you." He watched it turn end over end as it rose toward her. "You can now put it on."

The ring reached her.

THE REMINISCING WIDOW caught it.

She did not speak as she held the small golden band in fingers that Noah could see clearly now, and she looked at it for a length of time that had no measure to it, in a silence so complete that the frost stopped ticking against the frozen water.

And then she put it on her finger.

BOOM!

Her two golden halos EXPANDED!

They swelled outward from her face and multiplied, ring after ring after ring blooming into existence around her head, growing and layering and overlapping until her entire visage was surrounded and buried behind them, circle upon circle of turning golden metal that hid her completely.

She... did not want a single one of her emotions to be seen!

Noah understood that immediately.

And in the place where the ring had been, in the empty air where it had spun before he ever touched it, Noah alone saw a faint golden brilliance still hanging there.

A residue. A remainder. Something left behind that only his eyes could find!

And out of it, into his mind, came a laugh!

|Haha! You actually gave it away?|

Atlas!

|You dumbass, I would have actually let you keep it!|

Noah’s eye twitched!

|Haha! But no. It was not something you made. So giving it away was the right choice, and you would not have liked what you became if you had kept it.|

|That was one of my finest creations. A Gu Elsedimension Ring.|

|But I will help you make your OWN, so that you remain true to yourself. Our Provenances are grand, and yet we still cannot do things alone. I will make sure you learn to become a grand Engineer in your own right.|

|Understand what I am, before you get any ideas. I am here and not really here. I am a cluster of records and probability. I do not have my own cognizance.|

|For now, say goodbye to the one who loved the wrong person. Being near an Immense One for too long will alert him.|

|I learned that the hard way.|

...!

Noah’s eyes pulsed.

He looked up through the frozen steam at THE REMINISCING WIDOW, at the layered halos hiding her entirely, at the hand that had lowered from them and was now turning the golden ring slowly on her finger, stroking it with a thumb, over and over, in the manner of someone who had done this exact motion in her mind ten thousand times without anything actually being there.

And Noah spoke, and his voice was heavy.

"You need to go."

"I did what you wanted. I even reunited you with his weavings, and you may be hearing his voice even now." He held his ground in the frozen water with Thalia motionless behind him. "Your presence here alone is a danger to me. So you... need to go."

|Yet another person I warned.|

|And who did not listen.|

|You all... I truly do not know what to say to you all anymore.|

|Do whatever you want. Build whatever you wish to build. Climb whatever you have decided to climb. And when death inevitably comes for you, and it will come, you will remember me. You will remember this evening, and this spring, and every word I said to you.|

|They always do.|

|For doing what you have done for me today, I owe you a favor.|

|You know how you can reach me.|

...!

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