HAREM STEALER: REBORN WITH THE GOD-TIER SHARING SYSTEMC337: Talk
Chapter 337: Chapter 337: Talk
Chapter 337 – Talk
She didn't speak.
Noah might have had control of her body and her brain, but he had no control over her Will. And her Will was a strong one.
She sat in the void, chained by the three powers of the siblings, as she looked at them, eyes cold, eyes filled with spite and contempt.
Even in her current situation, it looked like she was not worried.
All her wounds were already healed. She looked as pristine but also as bloody as the first time she appeared. You would think the siblings had suddenly turned gentle and healed her, but you couldn't be more wrong.
The Red Woman was just that monstrous.
Noah's eyebrow knitted together. He turned his head to look at Asaemon and found his right hand still hadn't grown back. Everything had disappeared as if there was nothing to begin with, and that remained true up to his elbow.
It was an eerie sight.
He had tried to heal it, but his threads were always destroyed before he could restore it back to normal.
Aurelia was more lucky, only her daggers had been completely destroyed. Well, not really.
The daggers were a part of her golden tree back in her realm. Destroying them meant that tree had been hurt, wounded.
And when it was hurt, Aurelia too was hurt.
That was why her face was slightly pale, twisted in anger, looking at the Red Woman intently, her mind thinking of all the possible tortures she might give to her.
The battle didn't last long, but each of them had suffered from it.
Except Noah.
He took a step forward, approaching the chained woman, and threads exploded outward to envelop the three of them inside a small realm.
It was to prevent curious eyes from knowing what they were going to talk about.
The realm had nothing except threads. But those threads formed a silver sky with drifting clouds, a ground carpeted with luxurious grass, meadows split with white pristine streams of water coursing through them.
There were even, with his innate nature, some cute animals here and there, looking at them with curiosity.
Some even dared to approach Noah, more precisely one silver cat with white eyes and a slit made of threads, recognizing its creator and snuggling against his legs.
Noah smiled softly and took the cat into his embrace, then put it on his left shoulder.
It sat there, looking at its fellow cats with contempt and disdain.
Even cats became arrogant when they received power.
The Red Woman looked around the realm, then snickered. "Nice trick."
Noah crouched down and looked at her. "I can see you've got a high Will. That's maybe the reason why you think you can endure anything I'm about to do to you, right?" he asked, his tone neutral.
She didn't bother to respond.
She was clearly showing him that she was going to talk only when she felt like it, not because he asked questions.
Even in her situation, she was confident, arrogant, her eyes still filled with contempt.
Noah had seen this type of behavior before.
'Orien...' he mused.
He remembered when he captured Orien and went to ask questions. He had acted, in a way, just like this woman.
He was calm, confident, and looked at everything around him like it was some kind of game where everyone else was just pieces for him to move as he willed.
At the end, what did he discover?
That bastard was the heir of a huge family that even other factions didn't dare cross.
And now this woman...
Noah's eyes narrowed.
He had made that mistake once, suffered from it, and learned.
He would be the greatest fool to let that type of incident happen again.
So he didn't ask any more questions.
He activated his Domain—The Genesis—and wrapped it tightly around the woman's body.
She shuddered, unease fluttering inside her heart like the wings of a raven.
Because of his Domain, the threads' influence inside her body and brain started to grow with great speed. That uneasy feeling slowly shifted into one of terrible dread.
Noah was not done.
There was still his Authority left. Authority with its power enhanced now that he was at Law Creator rank.
The cat on his shoulder seemed to grin mockingly at her. Noah parted his lips.
"Epithet."
The world stilled.
Even Asaemon and Aurelia stood up, feeling a strange weight stir inside their chests.
"The Records...?" Aurelia murmured, but soon shook her head. It was not them. The feeling was familiar but different. Weaker, far less mysterious and unfathomable.
"...It's the youngest," Asaemon said, looking at Noah's back with strange eyes.
Not only him, but Aurelia too.
They couldn't wrap their heads around what was happening.
How come the youngest make them feel the same way The Records did?
But their expressions shifted from surprise to shock as Noah continued his words.
"Your name shall be...The One Abandoned by Everything." Noah intoned.
He was more afraid of suddenly having someone knock at his door because of this woman. So he made her abandoned by everything.
By her people, by the world, by the universe...by the very concept of traceability.
If Noah was strong enough, even the very concepts of life and death would abandon her.
At that time, what state would she be in? Between life and death? What was that state of being?
It was a curious thought, but Noah didn't entertain it for long as he witnessed how the eyes of the Red Woman went wide in absolute horror.
"H-How...?" she stuttered.
"T-The Records...? Are you...?" Something stopped her from speaking in that direction. Her lips moved, but no sound came out.
Noah raised his head to look at the sky, then slowly shook it.
He decided to let go and simply watched how the Red Woman's mind struggled to understand what had just happened.
"Youngest, what did you just do?" Asaemon asked as he stood beside Noah.
"Just gave her a title to stop some unforeseen events from happening," he said nonchalantly.
"I beg your pardon?" Aurelia asked as she approached, feeling like she hadn't heard correctly.
But she had.
"A title. Just a title. Just like the ones the Records gave you, but much weaker." He explained.
The siblings stared at him, dumbfounded. Then they shifted their heads and looked at each other, before sighing in unison.
"What did I expect from a guy who became an abomination just because he said 'I am who I am' type of shit," Asaemon muttered lifelessly.
"Yes...what did we expect? He became Law Creator at not even a hundred years old...now that I think about it, why are we even surprised by the youngest?" Aurelia asked.
"We shouldn't, right? But still...power to name? Did the Records have to show their favoritism this much?"
"Don't ask me. But does life have any meaning now?"
"I wonder, sister...I truly wonder..."
The two siblings continued their stoic talk. Their voices lifeless, their expressions blank as they talked about Noah.
They felt like he was the real abomination and they...they were frauds.
Noah's lips twitched slightly at their exaggeration. He ignored them and focused back on the Red Woman who now was calmer compared to before.
He smiled. The cat above him smiled with him.
"Now tell me, do I look more like prey to you now?" he asked, tone mischievous.
She clenched her jaw tight, not responding. But this time it was less arrogance and more apprehension.
Noah's smile stretched.
"Good. Now do me proud darling, and tell me who is that Ruin."
—End of Chapter 337—
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HAREM STEALER: REBORN WITH THE GOD-TIER SHARING SYSTEMC338: 338: Saint
Chapter 338: Chapter 338: Saint
Chapter 338 – Saint
She bit her lips tightly until she tasted blood.
She was doing all her best not to feel the creeping dread, the fear pulsing through her body like a venomous poison.
The title she received was not just a cool thing. It was not something Noah gave to her and it was over. No, she was feeling the effect of the title.
And oh… what a desolating feeling.
She felt like everything had abandoned her. Her family, her friends, a part of her power… her master, Ruin.
She was alone. Alone in front of a being who looked like he would eat her at any given moment.
Fear started to bloom inside her heart. But she didn't let it show.
She didn't let any feelings surface anymore. She was cold. She was apathetic. She was lifeless.
She stared intently at Noah's white eyes and spoke.
"What do you want?" she asked evenly.
"What else? The Ruin you talked about when we first met. But before all of that…" Noah paused, then pointed at his two siblings.
"…heal their wounds." It was not a request.
It was an order.
And the woman, even though she was chained and abandoned by everything, had not reached her current level of power because of some mercy of the universe.
She worked hard for it. She bled for it.
She returned Noah's gaze without flinching. "My liberty," she said.
Noah paused. It took him almost a second to realize this woman was trying to bargain with him.
He almost laughed. But he was not in that type of mood. He didn't like to see his siblings in this state.
"I don't think you understood clearly your situation. You are at a disadvantage here. You have no choice but to do what I want," Noah intoned.
"Disadvantage?" she scoffed coldly.
"There is no power like Ruin in this universe. And nothing can win against Ruin except Ruin. No, it's possible. But you would have to be much more than a simple Law Creator rank to do so."
"And besides, 'darling,' once there is a trace of Ruin inside your body, it will continue to expand until all of your body is… ruined."
She shifted her head toward Aurelia and Asaemon, whose faces were becoming more and more pale. Black veins started to slither through their pale skin.
Realization dawned upon them.
The woman smiled.
"And once it reaches a certain stage, even I would not be able to save them. And Ruin kills even soul, so reincarnation would be a feeble dream."
She looked back at Noah. She shuddered subtly at the coldness he was emitting, but she didn't back down. She finished her words.
"If I were you, I would not waste time."
Silence fell.
It was an uneasy one. Even the cat on Noah's shoulder twisted its body nervously.
It was just born. It didn't want to die so soon.
"You are threatening me?" Noah asked.
"I am simply giving you choices to make. You can ignore what I said and try to torture me, and I will make sure to resist until your siblings reach the point of no return."
"Or you can accept my terms. You set me free, I save them." She then gave him a small, crooked smile.
"You happy. I happy. We happy."
Noah didn't know if this woman was mocking him or not, but he couldn't discard the truth in her words.
But still,
"I would be a fool to set you free after your attempt to murder me," he said.
"It was business. I will tell you what I know about Ruin before disappearing too. You'll never see me again."
Noah shook his head. "I don't like loose ends."
"It doesn't matter what you like."
"But oh, it does. It does."
He slowly stood up from his crouching position, took a couple of steps back.
"You said I cannot save them?" Noah asked, then smiled.
"Let me show you."
He didn't want to do what he was about to do, because the price he would pay would be too much.
He was not strong enough to save them without losing something in the process. And that something he was about to lose made him truly feel indignant.
But he didn't want to let his siblings suffer. Especially if all of this was because of him.
The woman wouldn't talk. She was stubborn, he could see that. He could have made her talk, but before that happened, things might worsen.
As if waiting for this, both Aurelia and Asaemon staggered down as they felt excruciating pain.
Asaemon's left hand continued to disappear, sweat dripping from his head.
Aurelia clutched her chest, unable to do anything.
Noah panicked. He immediately ran to them, inquiring if they were feeling good or not.
It was a dumb question, he knew it. They clearly looked like their lives would end at any moment.
Noah gritted his teeth. Simple wounds like this shouldn't be so hurtful and life-threatening to beings like Aurelia and Asaemon.
So how?
What he didn't know was that this power came from outside his universe. And the origin of this power was someone even realities feared.
The Red Woman was weak. The weakest Ruin could send without alerting the others and the Records by masking her. If she had been strong enough, the siblings would have been dead just by inhaling the air with her in their presence.
That's how Ruinous they were.
Without wasting more time, Noah acted.
He used his causality.
"I can heal them because I am the greatest healer."
Failed.
"I can heal them because of some luck during the process."
Failed, once again.
Noah paused for a brief moment, his mind running through countless thoughts in search of a way out.
But there was no other way out other than the one he currently dreaded to use.
After all, it was supposed to be his hidden card.
"Accept the deal. That's—!"
"Shut your goddamn mouth, bitch." Noah snapped.
He glared at her with eyes that could kill.
"Just wait till I finish saving them and I swear you will regret making me lose this life." His voice was filled with wrath.
The Red Woman trembled.
A mistake, once again.
Instead of trying to prove that she was not some meager being, she might have had a better chance if she had acted tame to curry favor with Noah.
She had been abandoned after all. She had no one.
Wasn't this the time to build something with someone who could make her abandoned?
But no, she decided to bargain her freedom. It would have worked on anyone else, honestly. But Noah was Noah.
He had cheats.
Even though these cheats would not help him save his siblings without a cost, they would still save them.
And the cost was easy to bear. Just difficult to swallow.
Noah parted his lips again,
"I can save them because I have already been killed by the same power, thus I know all its intricacies," he whispered.
Time froze for a brief moment. Then—
{You have lost your title: The One Protected by The Records.}
The threads of causality changed. New information poured into his mind as he understood how to save his siblings, and even how Ruin worked.
But at the cost of losing the one protection the Records had granted him.
He almost cursed in irritation but then, as if unable to see their favorite in distress…
{You sacrificed your life to save your siblings.}
{The Records are proud of you, Noah.}
{You have received a title: Embrace of Records (3 times).}
Noah was stunned for a while before his mouth split into a smile.
"Ah… is that the famous: goodness is always rewarded by goodness?"
He chuckled.
"I might change my vocation to be a Saint then."
"Saint of Mercy."
Sounds cool.
He chuckled and went to save his dying siblings.
—End of Chapter 338—
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