Chapter 197 Feels like Home~~
Reading those lines, Noah felt his lips twitch a little. He wondered how the disciples from the Frozen Heart sect would feel when they would see these words.
He did not even have to wait as the girls from the said sect didn't take long to get over the death of one of their fellow disciples. After a moment of silence, they turned to look at the words and they froze in shock.
Their eyes widened for a second before they returned to normal. Noah could still see them clenching their fists to keep their emotions in check.
One of their fellow sisters died because they did not wait for the words to appear but they felt the words deliberately came late. Like the pagoda was waiting for someone to make this mistake before reminding them.
Noah remembered that while he was talking with Xueyan and Jiang Shi, they told him that the girls from their sect can only become completely emotionless after they reach the golden core realm and all the disciples and even their sect leader are aiming for that level.
They are told that when someone becomes a golden core expert, besides losing their emotions they will gain a true understanding of cultivation which will help them in increasing their cultivation speed.
While everyone was looking at the bubbles with fear on their pale faces, the words in the air changed once again.
{Now the rewards will be allocated based on the distance from the stele.}
{For destroying the stele special award will be allocated.}
{We will be Starting with the participants who were placed at the very end in ten minutes. }
{Take the time to recuperate.}
After that all the words disappeared from the air, leaving behind nothing.
"Squeak!"
Noah who was looking at the words suddenly heard the sound of a hare before he sensed a small figure rushing at him at a speed comparable to high-level Qi Condensation Realm humans.
It was not just him the hare caught the attention of everyone. They were surprised to see that there was such a high-level beast in this area and got on guard.
They all took their weapons out and wanted to attack the beast before it attacked them.
"Little rabbit!" Yuan Ming came out of his shock and ran after the hare while calling out the name that came to his mind.
But the hate ignored him and rushed forward to Noah and jumped on him.
Seeing Noah not moving from his place, Ma Li panicked for a moment. Ruo'er and the two girls from the Frozen Heart sect were too shocked to think of anything.
Ma Li thought that Noah was caught off-guard and was not able to defend himself but to everyone's surprise, Noah not only did not attack but raised his arms to catch the little hare in his arms.
"Squeak!" (Hehe~, Finally! The smell of home!)
Jumping in Noah's arms the hare nuzzled his head in his chest.
'WHO IS THIS LITTLE SHIT! HOW DARE SHE TOUCH MY DEAR!' Elysia's enraged screams echoed in Noah's mind causing him to smile wryly under the mask. He patted the hare before pulling her a little away from his chest.
Elysia felt the disturbance around and then sensed a different and unknown smell on Noah. She did not care about saving her energy for emergencies and used her senses to look at the hare.
Even after she found out that it was an animal, she did not decrease her vigilance but even released a bit of killing intent seeing that it was a girl and was licking Noah's neck like a little kitten.
"I am sorry about my partner." Yuan Ming came forward towards Noah and scratched the back of his head while apologizing to Noah.
Yuan Ming turned his attention towards Xueyan and Jiang Shi who were standing a little far behind Noah.
His face gained a crimson hue as he looked at the Xueyan's face looking at the screen. When he saw Jiang Shi standing beside her, his face turned sour as if he had eaten a fly.
He had already recognized them on the second floor. He wanted to approach Xueyan before but he did not want to interrupt her and refrained from going near her.
When he saw Jiang Shi the memories of the past resurfaced in his mind and he could not help but feel a little angry at her.
Noah watched the changes of the boy with an amused look in his eyes. He could tell there was a story behind this reaction but he did not have any intentions of getting to know that story.
Yuan Ming shook his head to clear off all the unnecessary thoughts and looked back at the little hare with a weird look in his eyes.
He did not understand why his little sister was suddenly interested in this stranger.
Ever since they saw the masked guy, she has been trying to run off to him but he has been stopping her till now.
He did not know when she took the moment of his lack of attention to run away from him. He did not know why but he felt a little bitter inside his heart seeing his 'Partner' in someone else's arm and acting so close.
She would never even let him touch her but there she was licking the guy and nuzzling in his arms.
"Where did you get her?" Noah asked calmly but his question made everyone interested.
After all, having such a strong animal with intelligence was incredibly rare to find.
"Sque.. sqeee. Sqea! Squeak!"( He saved me and bribed me into following him by using a beast core and ever since then this idiot has been giving me disgusting names!)
Before Yuan Ming could say anything the hare pointed at him and started explaining with a disgusted look in its eyes. Noah's lips twitched seeing such a small and young beast throwing curses at the boy.
He had never seen or interacted with a beast as lively as her. The first time conversed with a beast, it was a dragon, who misunderstood him as a demon who took human form to deceive it.
Sadly Noah had to kill the beast to protect himself.
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Yuan Ming, who did not know that Noah could understand the hare with the help of the mark of the world tree, looked at his partner with a puzzled look.
He felt that his 'partner' was complaining about him and even cursing him but he didn't think that was true. He just shook it off as an illusion.
"Well, I found this little guy injured from a fight in the forbidden forest and saved his life. To my luck little black was a mutated beast and we formed a contract."