System vs Rebirth

Noel had been meditating for quite a while. In fact, he began to lose track of time because of the chill coming from the ice energy.

The energy was much more violent than Heisk couldn't completely absorb it. The surrounding area had been frozen.

Fortunately, there was a master of ice standing not far from him. Raincart had deemed that the ice energy wasn't enough to cause a problem for Noel, so he decided to let him fully absorb it.

After what felt like a week, Noel could finally open his eyes. But this time, instead of meeting the frozen grass field, he found himself inside his consciousness.

The white space expanded to the horizon with no one in sight.

All of a sudden, a chill breeze brushed his skin, causing Noel to shiver.

"What is this chill?" Noel was quite surprised. On the one hand, he had been with Heisk the whole time, so the chill wouldn't be that much of a problem. On the other hand, Heisk couldn't protect him from the chill anymore, and this breeze had a temperature lower than Heisk's ice.

As soon as he turned around, Noel found a huge cocoon behind him. The cocoon was made of ice and emitted a chilling breeze from time to time.

"What is this? No, is this Heisk?" Noel corrected himself, slightly panicking. This was the first time he saw a Spirit evolving, so he wondered what change Heisk would have.

"Ardagan?" Noel called the other spirit, wanting to understand the situation.

Unfortunately, Ardagan couldn't appear before him or his element would clash with Heisk. It would be detrimental when Heisk was about to evolve.

However, that doubt soon disappeared.

When Noel couldn't find Ardagan anywhere, he decided to take a closer look at the cocoon. He realized that the closer he was, the lower the temperature. And it wasn't the radiation. Instead, it felt like the Spirit Link connected the temperature because the chilling sensation came from within instead of the breeze.

"Heisk…" Noel called her name quietly.

As if responding to his call, the cocoon released another breeze.

Noel couldn't help but smile, knowing that Heisk was fine. But at the same moment, the cocoon began pulsing.

Noel's heart skipped a beat. He thought responding to him caused this one, so

finished his words, a crack

crack became bigger in an instant as a pair of wings pushed through the crack,

Wings. But instead of fire or

the cocoon open. The crack spread as more and more shells were

a human. But surprisingly, it was quite small. When the gap widened, he could see the legs and head

covering her back. Due to her coming out from the back, Noel couldn't capture

voice echoed from the inside as

only reached up to

entire eyes. It was clearly not

her look aloof. Other than those, nothing could differentiate her from

help but ask, still not

again. I am Heisk, a Humanoid Rank Spirit coming from the Ice Fairy Lineage. Thank you for helping me evolve. It appears that you're quite startled by my appearance, but this is how other

could remember, Heisk had only been a head-size spirit. Once she evolved to the humanoid rank, her body expanded. It was probably due

didn't change the fact that

Helping you is also helping me…" Noel replied slowly, still having a hard time calming

mention this, but if you haven't felt it…" Heisk extended both hands toward

feel a weird sensation, which never happened before.

this the usual sensation when you used to touch me? Our link…" Noel

look completely like a human, I have become pretty similar. You might haven't noticed this, but my conversion rate has increased to 92 percent. Though, it doesn't matter because Ardagan has increased

still lower than Anna's

power right now, I'm afraid that I can't do it." Heisk raised two fingers. "Your body might have become a Spirit

form a Spirit Link with Ardagan first

the linking process. You could say that my evolution is one of the requirements for that Spirit Link. Without my ice suppressing that flame even for

this power to help me." Noel nodded in understanding. "Is this why

part of it,

we should do next? You understand Spirits more than me, so I

a new ability after boosting our link with the awakening pills, I

soon remembered something. "Wait a

me that chance. I don't know how long, so I want to give you a stronger