The dark fire consumed everything, rushing down the lines of the ritual circle and consuming that too.
But Noah was preoccupied with something else.
At that moment, he felt mana slam into him like a freight train.
He gasped as the torrent of energy rushed into him, like a dam had burst somewhere.
It rampaged in his body, like a snake with no head, until he seized control of it, breaking it under his will.
The torrent slowed into something manageable, and Noah guided it through his body.
He couldn't quite control what the mana did, but he could, in a way, supervise it.
It coiled around his muscles, making it stronger, faster, and better.
It seeped into his mana core, sweeping through the whole place, and sweeping back out.
After almost a minute, the mana slowed to a stop, and began reversing. And just as fast as it came, it left.
Noah sat there, breathing hard, when the screen appeared before him.
[Congratulations! You have ascended to FF-rank!]
