Born From a Forbidden Union, Humanity hates me.

While this era's Tetra was finally accepting Orion, the man in question finally stopped, breathing heavily.

"Ugh..."

Orion felt sick. His head was violently thumping, and his blood was burning.

The cloak of black lightning disappeared alongside the daggers in his hands before completely returning to normal.

'So, how are you doing now?'

With a smirking tone, Tetra asked him this, fully aware of his state.

'I feel like throwing up.'

His vision was slightly blurring now that he had stopped moving, and his legs were trembling from the speed at which he had run around.

For him, this took a long ten minutes, but in reality, this disgusting mess of thistledown body parts took roughly a few seconds to destroy the ranks of 'Corrupted Lords'.

The headache came from the 'Calm Analysis' ability, while everything else came from the link between him and Eurian.

'I have a lot to learn. I relied far too much on what I had, and this shows.'

Thinking of his missing elements, Orion frowned while placing a hand on his forehead.

'I'd say that you did not take it for granted. This was the only path that was opened to you at that time.'

'A path me and Enri forced on you...'

The apologetic sound of her voice made Orion unhappy. With a pained but honest smile, he corrected her.

'And that's why it's great. Now, there is much more for me to learn.'

'If you say so, who am I to contradict you?'

She relaxed and nodded internally.

These two had formed a strong bond where no amount of depressing thoughts could bring them down. They have supported each other since Tetra was brought back to consciousness.

While she was a conflicted woman, her support was gone, which was the only thing keeping her sane.

With Henrietta gone from her sight, she felt empty after all those years together.

Yet, Orion began to replace her in her eyes. He was the only person able to relate to her, share emotions with her, and understand her.

The same could be said for Orion. Without his family, he had slowly lost his mind and even started to forget them.

Without her, he would still be floating endlessly in the 'Corridors of Time' while being an empty shell of himself.

While they shared a moment of comfortable silence between each other, Orion knew that the fight wasn't done yet.

With a pained expression, he turned his face and looked at Noah, who was fighting the giant sphenodon.

'Really... Miasma isn't holding anything back anymore.'

With a worried gaze, Orion looked as Noah punched the squamate with a fist covered in darkness.

'Huh?'

Tetra suddenly exclaimed.

'What is it?'

Confused, Tetra ignored Orion and kept talking to herself.

'Why is he doing that? I don't remember him using that element like that?'

The punch sent the sphenodon to the side. With its four legs up in the air, it rolled on its side while slapping its long tail around to try to hurt Noah, who was falling toward the ground after jumping into the air.

This beast wasn't small by any means. It was thirty meters tall and around seventy meters wide from head to tail.

It was the largest lizard the men had ever seen.

Its body was the usual gray color, but the elements it had absorbed appeared clearly on its body, changing some colors around some parts.

Across its spine, a row of short spikes traveled down, but only on its back. Its large claws broke through the tough earthen protection around its legs.

Still, in front of Noah, one giant was nothing.

While falling, Noah pulled out a piece of ore, and as he met the ground, a sword of iron appeared in his hand.

Without holding anything back, he imbued the dark element into the blade, and with both hands holding the hilt, he dropped one knee into the grass and held his sword to the side, where the tail was coming at him.

*Slice*

The tail, which swiped in a large circular area, met Noah head-on and was sliced off without effort from either him or the sword.

Thrashing around without a head to control it, the separated tail moved erratically behind Noah, while the sphenodon hissed in anger.

Rolling on the other side to get back on its four limbs, it glared at Noah.

Noah opened his hand and stared at a light orb floating above it. The sword he held a few moments ago crumbled to dust, which didn't bother Noah in the slightest.

"Is it like... this?"

With a careful gaze, he pushed the light element into his chest.

*FLASH*

The entire area vanished into a sea of light the instant the element sank into his chest entirely.

Orion, Noah, Tetra, and the Sphenodon became blind for a brief moment.

Even the two Remnants watching this scene weren't able to see inside the water anymore, conflicted by what had happened.

After thirty seconds, the light suddenly ceased to exist and returned inside Noah.

Still blinded, the ones around the field, affected by the light, needed a moment to recover.

The only one entirely unaffected was Noah.

"This is incredible."

Then, Orion and Tetra recovered their sight before the enemy.

"..."

In complete silence, the two stared at Noah with no thoughts in their heads.

Noah looked unchanged. His clothes remained the same, and his posture, height, and manners were normal too.

The only difference was the pure, unfiltered, and gross amount of energy leaving his body.

Orion felt the crushing energy fall on him, pressuring him, just like Velridar did the day he was freed of corruption.

This was an energy that was against the very nature of a fighter. Noah's first 'Elemental Mastery' happened at that very moment, ready to erase any enemy fool enough to stand in his path.

Or so it was supposed to be. With Noah's words, they understood.

"Of course."

With a faint smile, Noah clenched his hands into fists.

"This is damaging my body."

The image of Orion breaking his bones and bleeding profusely from using his void elements before it was created flashed in his head.

'That's to be expected.'

Orion inadvertently let his thoughts out for Tetra to hear.

'The 'Elemental Mastery' doesn't exist for Noah.'

Tetra immediately understood. Just like Orion, who had used the void element before it was a part of this world and broke the laws of the world, Noah was doing the same.

This was something not written in his destiny, which created a conflict with the world.

A trail of blood dripped from Noah's mouth as he looked into the air.

"Henrietta!"

He yelled her name, which made the Remnant twitch. Not knowing if she was listening, he continued.

"You can modify someone's fate, isn't it? Do something about Noah!"

Still, even if she were to, she had no idea what to actually write for Noah to stabilize.

'Orion, you have to explain clearly. Henrietta's power requires a clear explanation for it to work.'

Explaining clearly what she knew about her friend's power over someone's fate, Tetra told him.

With a reflexive nod, Orion continued.

"Noah's currently trying to merge with his element. We're calling this effect an 'Elemental Mastery' in the future."

"Instead of working your way around it, make it so Noah's immune to his elements."

Then, while the sphenodon struggled to recover its eyesight, nothing happened.

Until the blood dripping from Noah's nose suddenly stopped.

The light element began to heal the injuries it had caused from the overload of energy, and Noah became one with the light element.

'She made it in time...'

Relieved, Tetra sighed inside Orion's mind. With a focused expression, Orion dropped his gaze and looked at Noah.

'Yes, she did. But...'

Being the cause of this change, Orion had mixed feelings.

As a pulse of energy gathered in Noah's right hand, Orion frowned.

'What have I done?'

—

Before Noah stabilized his energy, two women were panicking.

"What is he doing?!"

Henrietta slammed her fists on the table and stood up abruptly.

"He's bleeding?! Noah's... bleeding?!"

Tetra was losing it. This was the first time she had seen him injured, as Noah was great at avoiding any damage, scratches, or wounds.

"This energy is uncontrollable! How did Orion manage to use this a few minutes ago?!"

Pointing at the water, the pink-haired woman's suspicion reactivated in full force.

"Wait a moment.... just wait..."

Hurriedly pulling out the 'Book of Destiny' from her core, she skimmed through the pages and stopped on the pages telling Noah's story.

"He's dying?!"

With complete shock in her voice, she blinked a few times and lost her composure entirely.

"What the fuck are you saying, Enri?!"

"It's written there! Noah's going to die-"

As the two were barely processing the event, the voice of a man caught them off guard.

"Henrietta!"

From within the water, Orion was looking at the spying magic precisely, but with complete luck.

"You can modify someone's fate, isn't it? Do something about Noah!"

An angry expression formed on her face.

"What are you saying, you moron?! It's impossible to modify someone's fate!"

As Orion had left a blank before speaking the rest of his idea, she glared at him through the water.

But Tetra suddenly twitched.

"But then, how did Noah's fate change so easily?"

Confused, Henrietta looked at her friend.

"..."

She then turned to the book with mixed feelings. How did this even happen?

'Noah never failed to fight Miasma... So why now?'

In all the timelines she went through, Noah always ended up dying in battle against Miasma.

"Noah's currently trying to merge with his element. We're calling this effect an 'Elemental Mastery' in the future."

"Instead of working your way around it, make it so Noah's immune to his elements."

Orion's voice broke through her worries, forcing her to realize the situation. Noah was simply self-destructing because of this sudden merge.

"These Heroes! Are they stupid?!"

With a smile full of anger, she slid her finger on the page, adding a note to his profile.

With a focused gaze, she looked at the last sentence on the page.

Her eyes opened wide when she saw the man's death slowly vanishing from the page, replaced by the current flow of events happening around him.

"For fuck's sake..."

Relief filled her entire being as she slumped in her chair.

Tetra, with wide-opened eyes, looked at Orion in a brand-new image. The man she tried so hard to frame had actually saved Noah from destroying himself.

"Not bad."

With a smile, she observed him carefully before her gaze shifted to Noah, who had recovered from the damage.