First love?(2)

Drake didn't know what to do, as that woman suddenly vanished. He felt his knees weaken as he plopped on the ground while breathing heavily.

He was too stressed and anxious!

Drake tried to remember her facial features but just like Noah, who couldn't remember her facial features, Drake forgot as well. But he was sure she was a bombshell! As a 7-year-old kid, he didn't put too much attention into it. Soon, he gathered himself and shook his head trying to forget about her.

Time passed by and soon Noah was 8 years old. His body was growing up. But he had no food to support his growing body so he often looked like a sack of bones.

He was again sitting near the bank collecting a few snails to cook and eat for dinner when suddenly he heard footsteps...

The same scenery repeated as Drake saw the woman saying those same words that she said before but this time before vanishing she said:

"Don't forget who I am!"

Drake was dumbfounded? Who is this woman? And why can't I remember her features when she vanishes into thin air? Wait? How the hell am I supposed to remember you when I can't remember your face as soon as you vanish? What kind of ghost are you? Forgettable ghost?

For the next 6 years, Drake witnessed the same scene and he would always fall in a daze whenever he looked at this beauty. He was now 14 years old and he slowly started feeling emotions that a normal young teenager should have but he couldn't remember her facial features after she vanished.

1 more year passed by as Drake kept stealing food, eating whatever was edible to survive as his ambitions started growing. He was a teenager and like any teenager desired a woman by his side...

But-

He couldn't look at other girls when his heart was slowly started to get attached to the woman whose features were always a mystery. Drake knew she was beautiful but he couldn't remember her. He wanted to talk to her and make some progress.

He was waiting for her on the riverbank as the day to meet her arrived...

But-

She never came. He waited for 3 whole days while eating whatever food he had stored in his bag...

But-

She never came.

His heart broke for the first time but then he thought that maybe she would visit him next year...

But-

The next year,

She never came. That day Drake, gritted his teeth and started thinking about her words...

"[Time]? I don't know what it is."

"[Space]? I don't know what it is."

"[Energy]? I don't know what it is."

"[Soul]? I don't know what it is."

"But the next time we meet, if we meet, I will ask you something that you don't know anything about!"

"A subject in which I reign supreme!"

Drake turned around and left the city in his search for power, the same supernatural power that the upper echelons of the church used. He knew this woman was not normal and had some ways to use those same supernatural powers. Drake has already guessed that this woman was talking about something related to those powers. He was willing to go to any lengths to get what he wants.

His heart burned with intense desire to achieve a power so great that would put even that bitchy Goddess to shame and this woman who kept poking him with words he had no idea about!

That day, Earth received a crazy researcher roaming around the world in his search for supernatural powers!

.....

The woman watching this scene from the clouds in the sky breathed in the fresh air of relief.

"This is the only way...[Chaos]...we will meet again and then we will spend our lives together for eternity."

The woman killed herself...following the endless cycle of reincarnation...!

( A/N: Revisit chapter-49, there may be a small hint related to her and Noah's Immortal name-[Chaos] in case you are getting lost in the mysteries surrounding Noah)

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Noah opened his eyes and looked at Gina who was looking at him with tender eyes filled with affection and love.

"Do you know what is [Gravity]?" He asked curiously.

"Eh?" Gina showed a confused expression.

"Sigh~ I am really going senile" Noah muttered under his breath as he shook his head slightly.

"Eh? What are you saying? You are almost 18! Just 18! How can you become senile at such a young age??!" Gina was confused. Why was Noah asking something ridiculous and then calling himself senile? Is he crazy or what?

Noah sighed again...What did he expect? That woman to reincarnate? Noah knew she was probably a [Immortal] who knew about his future. As he still remembers her questions that she asked about: [Time], [Space], [Energy], and [Soul].

But even in the [Immortal Council] he never heard about such a woman who was proficient in all those four laws.

He had several questions for her? She could have killed him and tried to change the future, a future in which [Chaos] never existed. She could've not bothered with him at all, and [Chaos] might not be who he is now. Noah didn't know much about [Time] but he did know even a slight alteration in the past could change the future entirely because of the butterfly effect. Although Noah was a noob in [Time], yet he knew that, that woman had a particular goal with which she interacted with him? Did she want to cause the birth of [Chaos] or something else? Did she want him to do something for her after he becomes [Chaos]?

Noah knew, his heart broke that day, for the first time, when she didn't return. And his heart kept breaking again and again as he saw his partners die in every life. He tried to have [Immortal] partners but no [Immortal] was crazy enough to live with a time bomb! Especially because of his crazed past in which he slaughtered worlds like insects, fought [Immortals] for years without breaking a sweat.

He hunted down young [Immortals] who didn't have a way to revive as he killed them with a smirk on his face! You thought you could live forever? Heh~ So cute!!

He hunted down younglings of many primordial species as he watched the entire Universe burn around him in his madness!

But he never met that woman again who broke his heart for the first time and made him the person, who he is now. He slowly closed his heart, not using the word 'love' again as he simply caressed Gina, while Gina didn't think too much and hugged him falling asleep in his embrace as she felt his warmth.

[Chaos] became a living legend because of that woman.

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Meanwhile, a person with pale skin and sharp teeth entered Trynis in search of some clues regarding a particular man. A river of white liquids was flowing through the city, he was disgusted by the sight in front of his eyes. His mood turned worse as he saw several men who hanged themselves as their wives and lovers puked and cried.

He entered a juice shop to ask for some clues. The woman at the counter looked very happy and cheerful. Many widows and divorcees were visiting her shop to have a refreshing drink and forget about the disgusting sight that they saw a few hours earlier.

The pale-skinned man went to the counter and asked the woman whether she has seen some weird powerful people in the past...and he finally got what he was looking for.

A man with purple hair and purple eyes, accompanied by a pink-haired, blue-eyed woman vanished into thin air like it was nothing right before her eyes and they even gave a huge tip with many precious mana crystals as if they were nothing but dirt.

The pale-skinned man was happy as he imagined the reward he will get for giving such important information to their 'Queen'. He may even get to lick her heels for a few seconds. He was incredibly joyous!