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.

this one,

his words, a crack appeared on

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

was similar to Noel's Phoenix Wings. But instead of fire or feathers,

expanding and pushing the cocoon open. The crack spread as more

surprisingly, it was quite small. When the gap widened, he could

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

from the inside as the ice

completely dumbstruck by her appearance. As expected, her height was only reached up to his chest. In fact, her wingspan

pupils that completely covered the entire eyes. It was clearly not

her face was mature and devoid of emotion, making her look aloof. Other than those, nothing could differentiate her

ask,

long." Heisk nodded. "Let me introduce myself once again. I am Heisk, a Humanoid Rank Spirit coming from the Ice Fairy Lineage. Thank you for helping me evolve.

spirit. Once she evolved to the humanoid rank, her body expanded. It was probably due to her original size that she couldn't expand completely to

the fact that Heisk had become a

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

think there is any need to mention this, but

instant, Noel could feel a weird sensation, which never happened before. But this weird sensation felt

when you used to touch me? Our link…"

gotten stronger. Now that I have reached a humanoid rank, although my appearance doesn't look completely like a human, I have become pretty similar. You might haven't noticed this, but my

though after the evolution, she was still lower than Anna's Spirit, albeit it was extremely close. She should be proud since Anna's spirit was already a Humanoid Rank

right now, I'm afraid that I can't do it." Heisk raised two fingers. "Your body might have become a Spirit Grandmaster, but I should wait until you expand our Spirit Link with those pills so that I can give you even

to form a Spirit Link with Ardagan first before consuming

can help you suppress Ardagan's flame during 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 a little bit,

you're going to use all this power to help me." Noel nodded in understanding. "Is

it, yes." Heisk

you have any suggestions of what we should do next? You understand Spirits more than me, so I want to

new ability after boosting our link with the awakening

Noel frowned, feeling concerned. But he soon remembered something. "Wait a minute…

I don't know how