"Because I don't feel like stopping either."
His eyes locked onto the Chimera, and there was something deeply unsettling in how steady that gaze was, how completely unbothered he looked standing in the middle of all that destruction.
"You can regenerate now, but can you carry it infinitely?"
The Chimera lunged again, its entire body twisting violently as claws, wings, and tail attacked all at once.
The ground shattered beneath its weight and the air screamed from the pressure of it moving, but Noel stepped forward into it rather than away from it, and his presence seemed to drop like something physical and heavy, something that pushed against everything around him.
His smile deepened.
"Let me teach you something." His voice had turned cold, but underneath the coldness there was something else, something that sounded almost like excitement, like a person who had just found something genuinely interesting after a long and boring stretch of time.
"Regeneration only works..."
