The Blessing was still settling into him when the battle began.
Noah felt it as a constant rising tide rather than a single event. The Pure Primordial Essence within his existence, already vast past any prior measurement, was multiplying a thousand times over, and the rivers of fresh Essence flowing in from the resonance Seo-yeon had established poured into his foundations continuously, the blue and obsidian radiances pouring off his frame in waves that made the space around him difficult for lesser perception to look at directly!
THE Aura of THE Source Barbarian drank all of it in, integrating the amplified Essence into its compound expression, every component of his existence growing denser and grander with each passing second.
Because mind you, Persevere and Exelissomai, Prime versions, continued to be utilized every second!
He could have moved immediately as everything unfolded. He chose not to.
