"I simply used my brain. It wasn’t that hard to figure it out." Noah replied, pretending as if he wasn’t constantly bothered by her spiritual pressure.
He then continued before she could say anything,
"Do you not think it’s rude of you to come behind me when I have nothing on me right now?"
As much of a pervert he was, no way he would feel comfortable being the only one naked when they clearly are not going to do anything intimate.
Aurora squinted her eyes, not from annoyance but from surprise.
It was clear that she wasn’t going all out against him. Simply, it was a test for him.
She wanted to know just how strong he was, and it seems her previous evaluation was wrong.
That thick mana surrounding him... she could sense it, far more clearly than anyone else.
’That’s the purest mana I have ever seen. Not only that, but it seems to have a will of its own; it doesn’t matter what I do, my attacks are blocked each time.’
This kind of reaction speed shouldn’t be possible for anyone, unless that person was stronger than her, but in this case, Noah was clearly weaker and yet... not a single one of her attacks was going through him.
But an even stranger thing was, she couldn’t sense his realm even though she was so close to him.
"That matters none to me. I have no interest in that."
She replied flatly.
Noah’s eyes turned cold. He has been trying to move for a while, and finally, he could do it.
With a swift motion, he turned around, facing the sword saint.
But the moment he did, a hand was placed on his chest.
Aurora was physically trying to examine his realm after failing to do so from her senses alone.
It did not even take her a second before she figured out,
"You already have a core?"
She raised her eyes to look at the man before her. Before it might have been just curiosity, but now it was amazement.
It was simply astonishing that someone his age already has a core.
As she was marvelling at this probably impossible feat, Noah was also marvelling at something.
Aurora, the sword saint, master of Noelle, was an extra in his story, someone who perished in the coming war.
If he wanted to, he could have added her as a heroine too, but he did not at that time; now that he looks at her, he feels foolish that he did not.
The reason why she was considered the strongest in this world, wasn’t because of her skills alone.
In sword, she was unmatched, no one could defeat her.
But the key factor for that was also her race.
She wasn’t a human, but an elf. However, she was neither a normal elf nor a royal or high elf.
That dark skin and the long, pointy ears were an answer in themselves. She was a dark elf, a branch of the elves that is ostracised from the main branch.
Elves are supposed to be unparalleled in beauty, and he could see why, even though he was the one who wrote it like that.
Aurora was majestically beautiful. An aura of superiority surrounded her, gained through her years of hardships and victories.
She wasn’t wearing anything extravagant, just a simple long dark dress, not fancy but something that hid her body.
Elves don’t believe in such fancy things; they simply don’t need them to look beautiful. They are born unparalleled.
However, that piece of thin fabric on her body only hid her bare body, but the majestic curves of her hourglass-like body couldn’t be hidden at all.
Noah did not dare look down on her assets, but even without looking, he knew, or he could sense.
His tit senses were tingling, something giant was close to him.
He knew it was there, but sadly he couldn’t prove it yet.
He gazed on her sharp golden eyes and responded with, "So?"
He wasn’t going to tell her how he did it, that’s for sure. So he simply pretended as if that was a normal thing.
Everyone can awaken a core, right? What’s the big deal there?
That was true, except for the fact that he was only 18, where even the monstrous geniuses are figuring out how to gather more mana or refine it into pure mana.
She was at his height, staring straight into his eyes. Only because, Noah was a few inches inside the pond.
Aurora stared intently at this man, whom she couldn’t read for some reason.
No matter how much she wanted to figure out what kind of strange creature this guy was, she couldn’t.
"You... feel no fear of me?"
More than anything, he wasn’t scared at all.
The reason Dark Elves are ostracised from the main branch was because of their colour, but that’s something only fools believe in; the actual reason was their violent behaviour.
Elves are a nature-loving creature who spend their life inside their forest, close to their god and creator... the world tree.
But when there is another branch of elves which is opposite to them.
They seek strength more than peace and are considered violent, but they are considered violent because they are strong.
Elves don’t have a high population like other races, the same is true for dark elves, who are even less, but all of them are monstrously stronger.
Not only are they strong, but they also live longer than anyone.
Since others couldn’t defeat them most of the time, they began to call them evil and a creature that only causes destruction.
It did not matter to them cause they lived long, but humans spread such rumours so fast that it lasted for generations.
The once rumour became a truth that everyone believes in.
But the irony here is that,
There could be elves alive who have seen the start of the rumours, but no human can tell which generations of humans started this rumour.