There was still a large quantity of mana left from the reward.

His core was absorbing the mana at an extremely rapid speed.

The massive mana that had flooded the room just now was getting sucked inside, visibly clear.

His core was extremely black, making his mana go darker as well.

Wavy tendrils of mana dozed out from. His body covered him up completely.

For some reason, it felt as if those tendrils were sucking more mana inside his core.

Within just a few minutes, every single drop of mana inside that room was gone. Sucked away by that mysterious core.

But something good did happen.

He was able to reach the Core Formation Realm, mid-tier.

'All that mana and just Core Formation Realm?'

He laughed bitterly at that outcome.

His core might be great, which he should be glad about, but that wariness did not go away.

He doesn't know what that core is or what kind of trouble this core might bring him.

More than a known threat, people fear the unknown that they have no knowledge of.

'Sigh~ let's leave that for the future. For now, I need to focus on my mana veins.'

He was going to follow the path of a Knight too. He was all set to be a mage with his core. Now that he had his core, he needed to focus on developing his mana veins.

Sending the mana inside his core to strengthen his veins, which includes the process, will make his body go much stronger and tougher.

'There is a limit to how much a body refining technique can help me. Mana is what is needed to make a body much stronger, pushing all limits.'

Body refining techniques can make a body strong, to the point of letting them talk about the destruction of a planet or even a galaxy when used to perfection.

But mana will allow them to do much more than that.

'World-destroying powers will be introduced later on, and I can't be a weak ass villain then, can I?'

He immediately gets on to turn his veins into mana veins.

To make or to turn his veins to mana veins, he needed to continuously let mana flow through his veins without stopping.

If he breaks his focus even for a second and mana goes berserk, it will rupture his veins, injuring him at the least or even killing him in the worst possible case.

But he let his mana through his veins without a care. Mana followed his every instruction without question.

In that state, he could do that easily, even if he wasn't in Author's halo state, he could have done it with equal fluency with purest mana.

The only reason he did not exit the state was that... he wasn't sure about this new mana flowing inside his veins.

The mana was slowly making his veins stronger, letting them adapt to this new energy that was flowing alongside his blood.

Soon enough, mana was filled in every single blood vein inside his body, making him glow like a dark bulb, as if he were a monk sitting in a lotus position with runes glowing all over his body.

Noah opened his eyes after a long time, he lifted his hands and observed the glowing veins, along with the dark mana flowing inside him.

This happened with every vein inside his body.

'I finally got the mana veins.'

He clenched his fist tight, with all his strength, until his knuckles cracked.

The strength was clearly felt by him; he grew much stronger with these mana veins.

'I should check my stats to see if they have gone up by a bit.'

He soon exited his state of Author's halo and was about to ask the system to reveal his stats, when...

Ding~

[WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!]

Ding~

[An anomaly has occurred.]

Ding~

[System error!!!]

The system suddenly glitched, showing red signals all over the panel.

He was just wondering what might have gone wrong with the system, then suddenly, all of that stopped.

The red panel on the system was gone. The system went off for a second and returned once again, but this time, the mechanical voice it had was gone,

[You really did it this time, huh, author?]

Taken over by the voice of a female?

But the way it called him 'Author' was enough to make him realise who this person was.

"Hello again, god." He greeted the one who transmigrated him into this world, with a 'polite' smile.

[Fufufu, I am glad you haven't forgotten about me.]

"How could I ever?" His brows twitched, making him frown with anger.

[I am glad to hear that. Fairly enough, you did not disappoint my dear author. Targeting your own mother and taking her to bed within 24 hours? I am impressed.]

Noah did not respond to that. He knew that he was being watched, even if he couldn't tell for sure, but he had a hunch.

He was observed, every second.

[Why did you go silent? I love talking to you, you know? I have no one else, anyway.]

"Sorry to say this, but this feeling isn't mutual at all. If you have nothing to say, then go away, I have more things to do."

[That's rude. Did you not wish to meet me? And here I thought we would have a friendly reunion. You ruined all my expectations.]

[However, there is one thing that exceeded my expectations. How were you able to get that core?]

Noah narrowed his eyes, it was a surprise, but also within his expectations.

'So he... no, she knows about this core.'

"I don't know, more than me, shouldn't you be the one to know that? I never said anything about this core in my novel."

[Did you know? Hmm, well, if you say so, I will believe in you. For your lack of information, I will mention its name for you. That core inside your head right now is called "The Aether Core".]

[Does that ring a bell?]

[No need for an answer. Your face says it all. Do you now understand this world, my dear author?]

[Sadly, I have to leave now. I can't stay long on this small planet. We will have to finish our chat some other time, take good care of yourself till then.]

The voice went quiet and so did Noah.

He was shocked, his eyes wide, all his thoughts were pointed at one and only thing,

The Aether Core.

Throughout the 900 chapters of his story, there was not a single mention of this core.

It was never in his story, so he had forgotten, but this core wasn't something he had never heard of.

He actually wanted to introduce a core even higher than the Primordial core, but he discarded that thought soon enough and never wrote anything about that.

But now that the so-called god mentioned that, the memories resurfaced once again.

'Does this mean?'

He had only thought of the core, but never actually gave any real time to wonder about its capabilities, but the truth still stayed... this was a core beyond the Primordial core.

However, this wasn't the thing that concerned him.

What made him go crazy... almost made him go crazy was the use of ideas or plots he had only thought of in this world.

It was one thing if only the contexts of his novel were applicable, but now, even the things he had only thought once counted.

'This is shit.'

He couldn't even begin to explain what kind of ideas he had thought before or while writing his novel.

Even if there was a possibility that all of them weren't applicable here, it was still a situation where he was fucked.

'Oh hell no. I fucking quit this shit.'

He had already fucked the plot when he battled against Noelle and was about to fuck more of the plot later on.

But now, he was the one about to be fucked because...

There was not just one end he had thought of before, there were multiple.

There were many more different plots he had planned which he never implemented.

'Even if most of them won't go with the flow of my novel's storyline, some will, and they are all insane.'

Ding~

[You want tissues, host?]

The system came back again, even going as far as offering its suffering host tissues.

'Shut up.'

[Okay.]

'Sigh~ I can go through them all, I just need strength, and I will be fine. But I won't know which plot will be used when. That's the tricky part.'

Now that the plot has gone way off, he couldn't just use the knowledge from his novel.

He needed to use those unwritten ideas and figure out the future.

'Now I need to observe the situation more, this sucks.'

He wasn't really worried about the plot getting trickier; he was only worried that he would have to do more work.

No wonder his work failed.

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