"The Senate must win over Noah."
Elder Falco spoke with a solemn face, as if making an oath, his eyes filled with unwavering determination:
"As long as we win over Noah, the great power of Septimont will be under the Senate's control. We must admit that we have always underestimated this person's value before."
At this moment, someone would ask: "Then how do we win him over?"
"Give him what he likes!" Elder Falco raised his chin, his eyes flashing with shrewd light.
Finally, after Noah finished clearing the Asphodel Barrens and returned to the temporary camp, Elder Falco was the first to rush out to welcome him, his face full of smiles:
"Hero Noah, please wait. Give me one minute to talk!"
"What do you want to talk about?" Noah raised an eyebrow.
"We would like to invite you to join the Senate. From then on, you will be second only to one person and above ten thousand."
Elder Falco threw out the conditions with full sincerity, but Noah only curled his lips and prepared to leave.
He quickly circled in front of Noah again and hurriedly spoke:
"Wait! We have other benefits for you. Don't you like being a Quick Tone influencer? We can also create a short video platform just for you, called Red Tone, and only promote your content."
"Eh?" Noah turned his head in surprise. "Say that again. What is the short video platform you want to make called?"
"Red Tone!"
Looking at Elder Falco's sincere appearance, Noah couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Red Tone? Why not make it Red note.
He found these noble old men quite entertaining. First there was the little spy showing off Echoes, then an elder offering to make Red Tone.
No wonder Avidius had stayed in the Senate before. The Senate was actually quite fun.
No longer paying attention to this elder, Noah shifted his gaze and met a pair of worried eyes.
"Your Resonance ability allows you to use other people's Resonance abilities, right?"
Seeing Noah's gaze turn toward her, Iuno seemed to find an opportunity to communicate with him. She spoke urgently and went straight to the point:
"Stop using my ability. My Resonance power to fight the Dark Tide comes with a price!"
"I know."
Noah nodded. His affirmative attitude once again startled Iuno. Worried and anxious, she asked in a panic:
"You know? Then why did you still use it?"
Was this a stupid question? Noah twitched the corner of his mouth.
Without using the anchoring ability, he couldn't kill the Dark Tide creations, so of course he had to use it!
"If I don't step up, who else can?"
He pointed at the vast plain. Originally, there had been dozens of Overlord-class Tacet Discords and countless Elite-class and Common-class Tacet Discords there.
But now, it was just a lush plain full of Asphodel flowers, with no trace of any Tacet Discords left.
"I can step up!"
Iuno raised her Moonbow:
"I can also anchor Dark Tide creations!"
"You?" Noah's facial features scrunched together.
In the original plot, Iuno had exhausted her Resonance power just by anchoring one Overlord-class False Sovereign, but on the plain earlier, Overlord-class was only the entry ticket.
"Hey, what's with that expression!"
Catching a trace of disdain on Noah's face, Iuno couldn't help but explode:
"Don't forget that your Resonance power was obtained from me! Whatever ability you have, I have it too. If there are more Dark Tide creations later, don't use your anchoring ability anymore. Let me do it."
"Forget it."
Noah waved his hand:
"I still have more than half of the anchoring Resonance power in my body. I don't need you to take action yet."
"Then..."
Seeing Noah's calm and composed attitude, Iuno found it hard to insist further.
However, the fact that something that should have been entirely her responsibility was now being shouldered by someone else left her feeling very unsettled inside.
It was like gratitude mixed with relief, along with some indescribable sense of indebtedness. It felt very awkward.
In the end, Iuno pointed at herself:
"You've done everything I was supposed to do. Then what should I do?"
Polish my shoes (French accent).
"Let's not talk about that for now."
Noah shook his head, opened the panel, clicked into the [Quest] module, and looked at the unfinished main quest. His thoughts surged like a tide.
Although the Nightmare Tacet Discords had been dealt with, the Tacet Discord that truly needed to be confronted in this main storyline was still hiding and refusing to appear.
On the Sanguiis Hunting Ground, if the False Sovereign was determined to hide, it would be an extremely troublesome existence.
Moreover, in the original plot, the False Sovereign planned to remove the Earthrend Wedge that Imperator used to seal the Dark Tide, allowing the sealed Dark Tide to burst out and flood Rinascita in one go.
Now that Noah was in Septimont, even if this happened, he could promptly resolve it with spatial authority.
But if he failed to kill the big False Sovereign today and allowed it to lurk, it might one day unseal Septimont while he was doing other main quests in the future.
At that time, no matter how fast Noah reacted, Septimont would still be doomed.
"I need to find a way to locate the False Sovereign."
While he was pondering, Noah suddenly felt his body sway uncontrollably. He instantly came back to his senses and looked around, but found nothing.
"Strange, what happened?"
"You felt it too?" As soon as Iuno spoke, both their bodies swayed again.
This time, the two of them reacted together:
"It's an earthquake!"
"No, it's the Earthrend Wedge!"
...
To the far east of the Sanguiis Hunting Ground, a delicately styled metal tower was driven deep into the Dark Tide below like a giant nail.
This was precisely the Earthrend Wedge that Imperator had once created using separated power to suppress the massive Dark Tide beneath the entire Hunting Ground.
Boom——
A massive sound instantly reverberated across the entire Hunting Ground.
The earth suddenly began to tremble, as if a giant beast that had been sleeping for a thousand years had been abruptly awakened. The whole Hunting Ground shook chaotically like it was drunk. All of this was because—
The Earthrend Wedge had broken.
"Hahahaha, the feeling of having a body is truly wonderful!"
Without the suppression of the Earthrend Wedge, the endless Dark Tide surged out like wild horses unleashed from their reins, roaring madly from underground and forming a spectacular black fountain.
Above the fountain, a slender black figure stood steadily atop the Dark Tide. Surging power materialized into purple mist swirling around its body.
It wore armor with a cold metallic sheen, a helmet with several chilling barbs, hands that were bone blades curled with layered blades, and a crystallized body.
It was none other than the False Sovereign.
"Go forth and submerge Rinascita!"
Ovathrax, which had fully taken over control of the god-king's body, had cold eyes. With a single thought, the Dark Tide beneath its feet twisted like living tentacles and shot into the air, heading straight for Septimont.
However, before the Dark Tide could spray far, it was suddenly firmly blocked by the blue Terminal loop domain and could advance no further.
"Big Fake Bro?"
Noah cast his perception from afar and took in the False Sovereign's state completely.
This frequency fluctuation—
It was Calamity-class!
The Overlord-class False Sovereign was fake, but the Calamity-class was no longer fake. It was a genuine god-king, which meant—
Noah blurted out:
"The False Sovereign has become divine!"
"Insolence!"
Seeing the arriving person, Ovathrax snorted coldly. Its figure flashed like lightning and in the blink of an eye pounced directly in front of Noah. The bone blade in its hand, wrapped in dragon-like Dark Tide, slashed out.
Noah's eyes flickered. He quickly retreated several steps, narrowly dodging the edge of the Dark Tide slash with a look of surprise:
"You can actually speak? No—"
Constantly recalling his memories, he finally recognized the familiar voice and identified the true identity beneath the opponent's black shell:
"It's you—Ovathrax!"
...