Harem Stealer: Reborn with the God-Tier Sharing System Chapter 486: Answers are no benedictions

"A lotus and a child?" Noah cocked his head, his gaze scanning Solstice who twisted under him like a worm struggling through thick mud.

"And they feed on the Lake along with billions of souls?" the Prince pressed on, sensing the oddity of the scene growing deeper.

"Yes, my husband." Ester replied, her form surging up from the shadowy pool as if ink seized and dragged toward the heavens, positioning herself behind Noah.

"I could only catch a brief sight before the realm sealed shut. Yet the strength I sensed from that young girl..."

She halted, while Solstice let out a hoarse, furious screech toward Ester, his stare filled with murderous rage.

Noah raised his left foot and slammed it onto the Soul Ruler's head, producing a dull thud and a sharp wail of pain.

"You're making too much noise, Solstice." Noah snarled, then faced Ester again. "Go on. What about the girl's power?"

"Far more potent," Ester stated. "I think it's even surpassing Solstice's. Plus, it felt entirely distinct. I can't quite put it into words, husband, but there's an aura of singularity within her."

The details Noah absorbed only deepened the furrows of confusion on his brow.

He dropped to a crouch, seized Solstice's head, and jerked it upward. The Soul Ruler groaned under the sudden force, his neck popping audibly.

The Soul Ruler's array of eyes locked onto Noah's mismatched pair, seething with hatred.

"Will you speak, or keep quiet?" Noah demanded, then quickly added,

"I must warn you, I despise stumbling into unknowns. So normally, I just..."

A chill smile spread across his face.

"...obliterate it all. Would you like to witness that?"

Color drained from Solstice's features. He shook his head frantically, grasping that Noah meant every word; he truly intended to wipe it all out.

"Stop!" Solstice pleaded, nearly on his knees. "You have no clue how vital she is!"

"That's precisely why I'm inquiring. But you're just dragging this out on purpose now." Noah's gaze sharpened. "Pointless. I can freeze time across this entire Dominion for however long I want."

"Trust me," Solstice murmured, "you don't want to learn it. I'd have preferred staying ignorant myself. Answers bring no blessings!"

"This is your final chance. What is she?"

Solstice went quiet, his multitude of eyes fixed on Noah, all quivering with terror. Not terror toward Noah, as the Prince soon understood, but directed at

another entity. Or perhaps something beyond comprehension.

"P-Please... just leave Her alone. She mustn't be disturbed! She serves as Her Vessel."

"Vessel for whom?"

Solstice swallowed hard.

"For one of Them."

A profound chill of dread washed over Noah instinctively, looming like a stormy sky ready to unleash fury. In that moment, the Prince realized pursuing further truths could seal his doom.

Yet a different urge within Noah stirred curiosity, urging him onward despite the heavy stench of peril hanging in the air like broad daylight.

"Ester," he murmured, his tone oddly tight. "I retract my earlier words. You'll be safer keeping distance from me. Relay that to your sisters. Retreat to the borders of this Principality!"

Ester's pulse raced, a swelling unease climbing into her chest.

"Husba-!"

"Do as I say." Noah cut her off, sensing that whatever force orchestrated this had now fixed its gaze upon him.

Solstice trembled violently beneath him.

"I warned you!" he roared, his tone laced with raw panic. "Answers bring no blessings! Foolish! Foolish! Now behold! Behold what you've called forth!" Ester's anxiety surged at his outburst and the eerie sensation gradually descending upon them. It resembled a presence gliding across the skies, inching closer with deliberate slowness.

She longed to protest further, but the intensity in Noah's eyes forced her lips shut.

She bowed her head, then started fading into the shadows.

"I'll convey your command," she responded, struggling to keep bitterness and dread from tainting her voice.

Noah offered a bitter smile. "Ester," he summoned her as only her head lingered.

She stopped and met his gaze.

"You know nothing."

Noah invoked his Gift, Ignoramus, upon his wife, erasing her awareness of

the ongoing events entirely.

From the lotus to the young girl, to their exchanged words. In erasing it, she lost all recollection. Solstice had been correct here, Noah acknowledged; answers

held no blessings.

Particularly not for Ester or his other wives. Whatever approached transcended their level. Even Noah's.

The Paragon of Shadow's eyes dulled momentarily at her husband's declaration before clearing. Then she fully vanished.

Noah could have applied the same to himself. But perhaps Solstice proved right once more.

He raised his gaze skyward, posing the ultimate query that would push this peril beyond recovery.

"One final question," Noah declared, his stare fixed upward.

Solstice shook his head desperately. "No further questions! One more, and we're finished! Finished, I tell you!"

"Then finished we'll be, Solstice, because I need to understand."

He hesitated, leaving the Soul Ruler slumped on the ground in despair,

as if resigned to his end.

"Who are They? And who claims the Vessel?"

"That's two inquiries."

"Don't push my limits."

Solstice grimaced, then exhaled deeply. "I don't comprehend Them. But I know - no, She permitted me to know - her. Or at least, her designation."

Solstice faltered, swallowing loudly before proceeding, his words sharp and terse.

"The Pale Lady, that's her name."

The title struck Noah's psyche like a blade's pierce. He gasped at once, sensing the brink of his mind's total erosion.

Overhead, furious clouds whirled, contorted, and boiled in a self-devouring spiral.

Solstice lay collapsed on the earth, his eyes vacant, his essence utterly shattered.

Clinging to the remnants of his awareness, Noah's form flickered into swift action, materializing far inside Solstice's domain, hovering over

the Lake.

Without a moment to marvel at the Lake's eerie glow and allure,

he plunged downward, bypassing the captivating pale bloom and arriving at the realm's entrance Ester had described.

There, Noah sensed his own essence fracturing, and he burst into wild laughter.

And so he did.

Merely uttering that entity's name threatened to unravel him completely. Yet Noah refused to yield; he was the Son of Reality.

The innate blessings bestowed upon him at birth surged forth, safeguarding his thoughts and identity.

With a mere finger snap, he shattered the realm's barrier and stepped inside. His vision immediately fixed on the young girl on the verge of awakening, her pale lids fluttering rapidly.

High above the Dominion, a woman's visage materialized. Strangely, though plainly present, no one could discern her features.

This contradiction wracked Noah's distant wives with groans — spared only by their ignorance of the spectacle.

Unknowing served as their barrier.

Such protection eluded Noah.

The Prince himself dashed toward the young girl, aware that her awakening spelled utter ruin for him.

He attempted to hasten his speed with time manipulation, but even that divine favor stuttered.

He swore, then cackled madly.

At last, he reached the girl perched on the lotus. He extended his arm and seized her right as her eyes flew open. Noah's psyche splintered, fueling his hysterical laughter, crimson streams pouring from

his eyes, nostrils, ears, and lips.

His frame gradually stiffened into immobility, like a cursed effigy. In moments, motion would desert him forever.

At the same instant the young girl unveiled her eyes, her form aged abruptly into that of a woman past thirty.

Her pallor gleamed intensely.

She parted her lips, poised to utter, and Noah deployed the sole remaining functional part of himself then.

His head.

He smashed his mouth against the pale woman's parted one - her eyes bulged in shock as he triggered his birthright's ultimate boon. "Right of Creation - Raj's Primeval Consciousness." -End of Chapter 486-