Chapter 206: Noah's Heavenly Throne
Noah had always been a cautious person who preferred to prepare well in advance.
If compared to a gamer, he was the type who would spend an entire day equipping skills and preparing, only to play the actual game for five minutes.
Or to put it another way, for Noah, the game was that entire day, not just the five minutes—the five minutes were merely the result, while the entire day was the process.
So after Noah witnessed the Supernova explosion through simulation, although many of his plans and actions were aimed at preventing it from erupting, he had actually prepared for two possibilities.
Of course, actions on the ground were necessary, but what if the mastermind behind it wasn't the Heavenly Fox?
What if the Supernova explosion was just a natural phenomenon born from this strange world?
What if it was someone else's doing?
In any case, Noah had thought a lot about this.
If he were to drag out every possible mastermind behind these scenarios, he couldn't do it—there were too few clues and too many possibilities.
So after that, Noah had been preparing the simplest, most direct, and most effective method to deal with this problem.
That was...
—Could I block this?
Noah led his team to construct the Usurpation Formula outside the Great Yata Barrier.
Meanwhile, Noah himself, along with Minamoto-no-Raikou and the members of the Enforcement Knights, stood guard in the surrounding area.
After seeing a force like the Enforcement Knights, Minamoto-no-Raikou, as a warrior, gained a deeper understanding of just how powerful the western emperor Noah truly was.
A developed Alchemy civilization, elite troops, and those incredibly skilled Magi...
Although they followed a completely different path from Great Qin, this was by no means a civilization to be underestimated.
Just as Minamoto-no-Raikou was marveling at all this, she noticed Noah suddenly stop and look up at the sun in the sky.
Seeing this, Minamoto-no-Raikou was puzzled, while Noah furrowed his brow.
"You all keep an eye on her and stay alert to the surroundings. I'll be away for a moment."
Noah gave this order to the Enforcement Knights, who nodded in acknowledgment. Then, Noah's figure vanished, reappearing above the clouds the next moment.
"Mary, am I seeing things?"
Noah asked Mary in his mind, and her voice grew serious.
"You're not seeing things... Though I don't know how it's being done, the sun now seems to be consciously targeting a single point with an attack—and the attack is about to descend!"
Hearing Mary say this, Noah nodded.
"The attack itself isn't the problem. Compared to the reputation of an attack from the sun, its actual quality doesn't live up to the name... What I'm mainly worried about is that this might not be the only one."
Seeing the sun acting strangely, Noah thought of the Supernova explosion from the simulation.
At this thought, Noah couldn't help but sigh.
—Although his preparations were not yet complete, if the Supernova arrived earlier than expected, he would have to use everything he had.
With this in mind, Noah's eyes began to gleam.
Then he sat back in mid-air, and behind him, his throne materialized directly above the clouds, upon which he took his seat.
Since Noah had sent Altera to search for the asteroid belt and there was still no news, the construction of this throne had not yet reached its final stage.
Even in its unfinished state, however, this throne was a special equipment Noah had crafted to resist the supernova. In its current condition, it could still be used once or twice without issue.
Thus, Noah was already preheating the spell formula within the throne.
As for the strike from the sun—
Noah gazed at the sun overhead. From his throne, excluding one of the core spell formulas located on the ground, twelve Holy Spears of the End unfolded directly. One of them aimed straight at the sun and launched with tremendous force!
The strike from the sun descended from the sky, while Noah's Holy Spear rose from the ground to meet it.
With a violent collision, Noah's Holy Spear shattered the attack and stood firmly in place, as if awaiting the next assault from the sun.
To Noah, such a strike, though capable of annihilating nations on the ground, was merely a probing attack.
What truly concerned him was the supernova explosion.
So he waited.
He waited to see how the sun would react.
Noah's actions were not subtle, occurring high in the sky, so whether it was the Ladies of the Lake constructing the usurpation spell formula, or Morgan, Manaka Sajyou, Scáthach, and Vivian—they all noticed.
Even Minamoto-no-Raikou and the Enforcement Knights witnessed this scene.
However, unlike Tamamo-no-Mae, whose view from within the Heian Capital was obstructed, allowing her to see only the Holy Spear, those outside the Great Yata Barrier could clearly see Noah seated on his throne in mid-air.
The Holy Spear floating in the sky did not return, but eleven more remained embedded in the throne behind Noah!
If initially, upon seeing the sun expand and unleash what seemed like divine retribution, even the Ladies of the Lake and the Enforcement Knights had paled slightly—
Now, as they gazed at Noah in the sky, their eyes gradually filled with fervor!
What of the attack from the sun!
Was it not effortlessly blocked by our King (Emperor)!
Such was their reaction.
This time, even Morgan and Vivian were left stunned by the sight.
They had long known Noah was powerful, but as a king and emperor, he could not constantly operate on the front lines like a warrior, so he rarely took action, making it difficult for others to form a concrete impression of his strength.
Merely by seeing him, most could keenly feel the gap between themselves and him—vast as heaven and earth, an absolutely insurmountable existence.
Yet even so, Morgan and Vivian had not imagined Noah could be this strong.
After all, they knew—and so did Manaka and Scáthach.
The Holy Spear of the End... that was not Noah's strongest attack. In fact, it could even be said that it paled in comparison to the most powerful strike Noah 2.3 could unleash!
They could see that the blow from the sun was utterly insignificant to the sun itself.
Yet, an attack casually launched by the Holy Lance in its most ordinary state—was equally insignificant to Noah!
Though they didn't know why the sun had suddenly become like this... after seeing Noah in the sky, they exchanged glances and quickly refocused their attention
on seizing control of the Great Yata Barrier.
The sky, the sun—as long as Noah was there, everything would be fine.
And now, all they could do was swiftly complete the takeover of the barrier and quickly forge the Holy Lance that would soon merge with the Great Yata Barrier!
For this was the command of their king.
Beyond that, what did it matter even if the sun exploded?
With Noah present, nothing would go wrong!