2033. Breakthrough

Noah's dantian seemed to shrink on its own. The muscles around the organ remained still, and no evident energy flow happened to create that event. However, he could sense the potential accumulated throughout millennia of battles and defying acts vanishing to fuel that breakthrough.

Ethereal faces appeared on the dantian's edges as it shrunk to condense the energy in its insides. Noah's organ drank the fuel he used to push his level beyond its normal limits to evolve and meet his insane standards. His incomplete world seemed to tremble as it dictated rules that he didn't know to have set.

The ethereal blackness knew what Noah wanted. He had created it for that exact reason. His incomplete world was aware of his desires and goals, so it checked the amount of potential filling his dantian to see whether it had to accept that breakthrough. The imperfect world couldn't say anything about the matter. Noah had done his math correctly, so the evolution continued.