In an instant, everything stopped, the Early Creature's leg mid-stomp, the tears on the Fold Dwellers' faces, even the air itself seemed to crystallize into stillness.
Noah appeared above the village, surrounded by waves of Mana. His eyes swept across the scene, taking in everything…the destroyed homes, the kneeling people, the Early Creature caught in mid-cruelty like an insect preserved in amber.
"This will do," he said simply, his voice carrying across the frozen moment.
His gaze turned to the Early Creature, this being of Ten Quadrillion Complexity and Purity who had thought his power made him untouchable.
Noah didn't attack. Didn't unleash some devastating technique. Didn't even really move beyond a casual gesture.
He simply exerted his Mana Haki…that aura of dominance born from Infinite Mana refined through impossible cultivation, and reality acknowledged which of them actually held authority here.
SQUELCH!
The Early Creature crumpled.
