Ch.228Chapter 228: Age of Chaos (12)

# Chapter 228: Age of Chaos (12)

Arias, Lati, and Lilith nodded as they understood the meaning of his words.

They instinctively felt that this might be the only way to overcome their desperate situation.

Though the other companions hadn’t caught on to their plan, they began pushing back the demons more fiercely from their positions, driven by absolute trust in Valt.

“…Are you really going up into the sky, brother?”

Victor had never seen Valt use this kind of magic before.

Valt smiled and said, “Victor, I’ll show you what can be done when muscles exceed their limits.”

Victor’s eyes filled with anticipation.

“Keu! I’ll be watching, brother!”

Valt turned to Arias.

“Arias, do you remember?”

Arias replied solemnly, “Yes, how could I forget?”

At her gesture, a clear, transparent aura of water rose up.

“Undine, will you help us?”

In response, the water spirit Undine began swirling around Arias with a giggling sound.

Lati also stepped forward.

“There are still demons around. I’ll stack my invisibility magic to its limit. It won’t be detected by ordinary magic sensing.”

Her face was already pale from magical concentration, but her eyes remained resolute.

“That’s helpful. As expected of the fairy princess, Lati.”

Lilith quietly approached Valt.

“Lilith, let’s go.”

“Yes, Valt.”

The four pressed themselves against Valt’s body, preparing to ascend to the sky.

“Good. I’m counting on everyone.”

When Arias asked the water spirit Undine for help, a shimmering water barrier gently enveloped Valt and the three mages.

It wasn’t a simple protective barrier. Created by Undine’s mysterious power, the water membrane strangely refracted the surrounding light, cleverly blending their forms into the sky’s background.

Valt smiled with satisfaction.

“You’ve improved, Arias.”

“Of course. This is our home, after all.”

Being an elf, Arias could exert greater power near the World Tree.

Lati layered several intricate invisibility spells on top.

Their presence had now become so faint that even high-ranking demons with exceptional magic detection would mistake them for weather phenomena or magical fluctuations in the sky.

“Let’s go!”

With Lilith’s whisper, red magical platforms began forming beneath her feet, extending toward the sky.

Invisible stairs started appearing one by one, carefully yet quickly, leading toward the hellish sky swirling with dark red magical energy.

Valt began ascending the precarious stairway with the three mages, heading skyward.

Below, Solphin, Victor, Irene, Yuria, and Robin, sensing that he was planning something extraordinary, fought more fiercely against the demons to defend the elven line.

“Kekeke!! Am I about to witness what I’ve only heard about in stories?!”

Their struggle was buying precious time for Valt’s group ascending to the sky.

The sky was truly a den of demons.

Despite Robin’s efforts, hundreds and thousands of winged demons circled above the elven village, emitting eerie screams.

Several times, swarms of massive gargoyle demons passed perilously close to their concealed forms.

Each time, Arias and Lati strained their magic to maintain the illusion and invisibility spells, while Lilith provided stable footing without the slightest error as they gained altitude.

Valt remained perfectly still, focusing only on reaching higher into the sky, beyond the direct detection range of the demons.

Finally, after barely breaking through the dark red magical cloud layer, they reached the silent expanse where only starlight dimly shone.

Lati spoke softly, “Ugh… it’s freezing up here.”

Valt looked down.

He could see the demon legion swarming like ants around the elven village, and at the center, the World Tree desperately emitting its purifying light, appearing both precarious and tragic.

Then Valt called out to Noise.

‘Noise, it’s your turn.’

‘The time… has come. Master….’

With a low, deep voice, a wondrous transformation came to his loyal earth spirit Noise.

The World Tree below, though groaning in pain, was expending its last remaining strength to emit purifying light.

The pure and powerful life force of the World Tree and the primordial energy that had protected the earth for thousands of years poured down toward Noise like powerful green beams of light, as if resonating with him.

Simultaneously, from the depths of Valt’s soul, who had reached the 8th Circle, pure elemental power flowed into Noise along with the World Tree’s energy.

Valt’s amplified magical power opened the channel for all this energy, with the World Tree’s desperate wish and Valt’s elemental power serving as the catalyst.

[KROOOOOOOOO!!]

From Noise’s being, a massive spiritual roar—incomparable to anything before, mixing primordial chaos and creative power—burst through Valt’s soul and into the entire sky.

Valt vaguely understood.

Just as he had evolved,

His spirit Noise had now reached its time for evolution.

Noise, who had been quietly sleeping within Valt until now, was at this moment undergoing evolution with the power of the World Tree and Valt’s amplified elemental force.

‘This is…? Even more than I expected…!’

He could vividly feel the wondrous process of evolution that Noise, connected to his soul, was experiencing.

Noise’s presence became incomparably larger and more refined than before.

A majestic and pure power that seemed to embody the will of a living continent itself, beyond simple earth power.

Noise was no longer just Noise.

【The Earth Spirit Noise has evolved into the Supreme Earth Spirit Noares, empowered by the World Tree’s resonance, the contractor’s pure elemental power, and amplified magic!】

【Soul binding with Noares is strengthened to the extreme! The power of elemental magic and creative authority are greatly increased!】

【Under the effect of Strong Spirit Friend, Noares now has the possibility of becoming the next Spirit King!】

With the system’s magnificent notification, Valt felt his connection with Noares grow deeper and stronger.

He even faintly felt an omnipotent sensation, as if he could move mountain ranges and split the earth at will, like a primordial creator.

Supreme Spirit.

An earth spirit that watches over the land directly below the Spirit King.

That was what Noares had become.

Arias, Lati, and Lilith were shocked by the tremendous storm of magical and elemental power that nearly broke their concealment spells, but soon felt both hope and awe from the even more powerful and sacred energy flowing from Valt.

“Noares!”

Valt called out the evolved spirit’s new name.

His voice was majestic, as if resonating throughout the entire sky.

“Are you ready!”

And from Noares came a solid voice of a supreme spirit dominating the earth with overwhelming elemental power, all previous cuteness gone, echoing in Valt’s ears.

[I am ready, Master.]

Reborn as a supreme earth spirit, Noares exerted his power to shake the earth—no, to create matter from the sky itself—following Valt’s command.

With a sound like space itself tearing open in the sky above, a massive, shining metal mass began condensing at the speed of light, incomparably larger and more magnificent than the simple rocks summoned during the previous Orc War.

It wasn’t just a simple rock.

Osmium—the heaviest and hardest metal said to exist only in the deepest parts of the continent or even deeper.

Noares was mobilizing Valt’s amplified magic and his own enhanced elemental power to draw, compress, and shape the metal’s elements from thin air.

Kugugugugugu—

A miraculous sight of matter being shaped by elemental power.

Noares instantly created a house-sized massive metal mass.

[The heaviest metal… Is this the form you desire, Master?]

Valt smiled.

“Excellent, Noares.”

Overwhelming physical force.

A house-sized rock made of the heaviest metal on this continent had been created above Valt’s head.

Arias, Lati, and Lilith stared in awe at the wondrous scene of creation unfolding before their eyes.

“This… this is… the true power of Valt and… a supreme spirit…!”

“What happens when this falls?!”

Valt felt his muscles and magic circuits screaming.

He was pouring everything into this single creation—his magic expanded to the 8th Circle, his physical body with 500 strength, the amplification power of the amulet, and Noares’s supreme elemental power.

Even so, handling this massive metal mass was almost too much.

“Lilith, lay down multiple magic platforms. I’ll have to lift it directly.”

Lilith, startled, began creating dozens of platforms beneath Valt.

Kuung—

Invisibility, and Arias’s spirit mirroring.

Without these, anyone who saw this sight would have said:

‘A star of destruction.’

In Valt’s hands, the one star that could overcome this situation was about to fall.