Chapter 38 – Chained
Noah had no words.
What he was feeling couldn't be named.
This wasn't fear. It wasn't awe.
It was as if something had peeled open his soul—laid it bare, naked under a divine gaze.
Not eyes. Something worse.
Elizabeth's voice echoed in his mind.
"What a beautiful soul."
His frown deepened.
Instinctively, his Aura of Limitlessness ignited—veiling his soul in endless depths. An infinite chasm of being, unknowable, unreachable.
Instantly, the visibility of his soul vanished. Hidden from all perception.
But she still stared.
"Your soul…" she whispered, her head tilting ever so slightly. "Even Elijah's—radiant, endless, like a sun that never dies—doesn't come close."
Her voice now only existed in his mind. Private. Intimate. Terrifying.
"It's like something that could freeze entire universes. Birth storms across dimensions. I see both life and death in you… and yet neither. It's illusionary—uncertain, chaotic—but the pressure it emits…"
