The huge tornado slowly spun, connecting the earth and the sky. This terrifying scene also drew the attention of all the troops around.
The battle between the Inherited Levels had once again shown itself to the world after several decades.
The Mechs in the air were not the only ones watching the battle.
Underground, inside a huge blood-red array that passed through an intricate labyrinth of tunnels that spanned the entire city, Noah sat cross-legged next to the cultivator clones of Lena and Magna.
In front of them, the blood essence stone steadily sucked in blood and vitality that sucked the array from the surface.
As it sucked in, little by little the part broken earlier by Noah was slowly being repaired.
The group of three paid no attention to the stone, instead, they stood with their eyes closed as they used their divine senses to not only watch the battle but to sense the two opponents' every move.
Boom!!!
Two figures burst out of the tornado of energy generated by their attacks and crashed into the ruined city below, creating two huge pits.
A great tremor ran through the place where Noah and the others were, though they paid no attention to it as Noah had already magically reinforced the entire place.
In one of the pits created by the two Mechs was a distorted black light, from which the Great Mech of Light jumped out and escaped.
In another pit, the Red Whale Mech flew out again, staggering slightly. Obviously, it had been badly wounded. There was a huge crack in the Mech's chest and abdomen. What was flowing from inside was not the same kind of components as ordinary Mechs, but some kind of liquid silver mucus.
The Red Whale Mech was quickly removed by a special Mech medical team.
Garen and the group of pilots observing also left and returned to the original battleship.
On the other side, Noah disabled the matrix defenses before picking up the blood essence stone and the two clones.
He then activated a bomb that caused the entire complex tunnel structure to explode.
Suddenly, a large number of expressions rang out accompanied by a strong earthquake as the entire city sank 20 meters into the ground without warning.
The Mechs of the White Light Organization were alarmed by the situation and began to search for the source of this phenomenon.
On the other hand, Noah entered the clone's room and checked his blood essence stone.
"I have managed to refine another twelve drops with the minerals you have provided me.
There are now a total of thirty drops of Hellfrost Peacock blood essence inside the stone."
Noah nodded before sitting cross-legged and beginning to absorb the life energy inside the first stone.
All the life energy he gathered from the eastern city of destiny was purified by the stone before being swallowed by it.
He began to generate the first drop....
The second drop...
The third drop...
When he reached five drops, the vitality within the blood essence stone was completely exhausted.
Without wasting any time, he condensed those five drops into a ball of golden blood that came out of his mouth and entered the smaller blood stone.
Inside the bloodstone, two lights could be faintly seen floating.
The first and larger one was a pale blue color while the second was a bright gold.
The two masses of blood had fundamentally opposite essences within them.
One represented the cold Yin of the Hellfrost Peacock while the second represented the fiery Yang of the Demon God's blood.
Due to the unequal quantity, it seemed that the Hellfrost Peacock's blood was beginning to want to drive out the Demon God's blood.
Both bloodlines were of a similar quality so the one with the higher quantity would win.
In this case, the winner was the Hellfrost Peacock blood.
Noah did not allow the two blood essences to conflict.
He activated a spell that caused them to be temporarily isolated from each other.
Now that he had poured those drops of blood into the stone, his amount of golden blood returned to its previous 30%.
Now that he had run out of resources, he began to think about what he could do to meet his current needs.
After thinking for a while, he remembered Clint.
"That boy should now be in the radiation circle..."
Due to the extreme radiation of the place, the mother federation could not extract the mineral resources of the place efficiently.
Slowly, a new plan began to form in Noah's mind.
A day later, he appeared outside the radiation circle and pulled a cryogenic chamber out of his magic gourd.
Opening the cabin, a small black snake crawled out before increasing in size, reaching 200 meters in length.
Noah placed a strange device on the snake's head before instructing it some commands.
The snake nodded its massive head before spitting out a corrosive liquid that melted the entire ground before plunging its massive body into it and beginning to travel underground.
The device Noah embedded in the snake's forehead was a radar that could detect the signal produced by the cold radiation from the rainbow stones.
Once it detected a mine, the intensity of the beeping sound produced would increase as the snake got closer to the mine, indicating the direction it should take.
Once the intensity of the signal perceived by the radar reached its peak, it would send a direct message to Noah's terminal clock.
Due to the tracking spell placed on the snake, he would be able to teleport directly to its position.
With this, he only had to sit and wait for the snake to do the work for him.
As the said mines were in the radiation circle, once found he could absorb the rainbow stones it contained without being disturbed.
Staring at the progressive bar in front of the monitor, Noah's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
...
One week later.
Noah, who had just left his clone in a rainbow stone mine discovered by the black snake. He was about to teleport home when he felt something calling him.
It was the orb he had left Clint.
Sensing the location of the orb for a moment, he transformed into his amalgam incarnation before appearing in a dank cave.
He first looked at Clint, who was in a rambling state with his gaze lost in nothingness.
Then he looked at Baylon, who was in a comatose state and his body looked like a dried corpse.
"Please help them! Clint doesn't have much time left!"
Noah heard Red Moon's hurried voice.
Truth be told, Red Moon doubted that the orb would actually make Noah appear here.
He had already secretly called Garen to hurry to this place.
On the other hand, Garen met a Mech from the Holy Light organization halfway and started a fight on the spot.
Noah ignored Red Moon and swept the duo with his divine sense, checking their conditions before pulling out two pills with many veins on their surface.
The first he gave to the unconscious Bailon before slapping Clint, snapping him out of his rambling state.
"Boy! You're in luck today! Take this pill and stop rambling!"
Noah's voice boomed in Clint's mind, waking him up completely.
Gripping the pill tightly, Clint popped it into his mouth.
Immediately after, the pill melted and swept over Clint's entire body, killing the worms that had parasitized his body and healing any wounds he had.
Clint immediately began to vomit.
Large amounts of black blood mixed with dead maggots came out of his mouth.
Bailon's dried and blackened body, on the other hand, returned to its original state in a matter of seconds, although he remained in a comatose state and would not wake up for a couple of hours.
Clint looked at his regrown amputated finger in amazement and was about to speak when Noah gave him a deep look before disappearing, causing words to get stuck in his mouth.
A few minutes later, a black Mech appeared on the other side of the cave and Garen emerged from inside, looking at the seemingly healthy couple with confusion.
...
Time flew by and in the blink of an eye, another two months had passed.
In a mine of rainbow stones.
Noah looked at the blood essence stone in his hand, which was divided into two regions by a thin layer of qi.
In the right half, the fifty drops of Hellfrost Peacock blood essence had already gathered.
Now all that remained was the Demon God's golden blood.
Looking at how half of the rainbow stones on the wall had turned from pure white to a yellowish color, Noah pondered.
He could have his clone refine more drops of blood essence and then use it as fuel to create more drops of golden blood but as he looked at the snake lying on the ground on the other side, a wild idea popped into his mind.
The secret technique of the Hellfrost Peacock was aimed at altering the physical body to become closer and closer to that of the ancient beast Hellfrost Peacock.
That was the ultimate goal of the technique.
After the snake practiced the first three levels of the technique, Noah realized that he had a great affinity for it.
He assumed it was because both the snake's darkness attribute and the hellfrost peacock's ice attribute were Yin in nature.
After hesitating for a moment, Noah approached the huge snake and placed his hand on its massive head.
Focusing his mind, he felt the bondage seal within the snake's soul.
With a sound of shattering glass, the bondage seal broke into nuggets.
The huge snake suddenly raised its head and began to shake wildly for a full minute before calming down.
Focusing its huge eyes on the tiny human in front of it, the snake stared at Noah intently.
This human in front of her enslaved her and took away her freedom for years.
Despite being disgusted, the huge snake did not attack, it merely stared at Noah while its huge vertical pupils continuously contracted.
To begin with, her senses were extremely acute and right now they were warning her like crazy that if she dared to attack the human in front of her, the only thing that would await her would be certain death.
Despite being only a holy rank demonic beast, her spirituality had awakened long ago, so she was aware of Noah's every action.
She was aware that he, despite taking away her freedom, still cared for her and helped her reach her current level.
Noah looked the snake straight in the eyes and spoke.
"I can give you two options.
The first would be to set you free. I will no longer restrict you and you can do whatever you want."
The snake's eyes contracted even more at hearing that he could be free to roam the world again but he continued to listen, waiting to see what else Noah had to offer.
"The second option is to follow me and become my beast companion.
You will not have any kind of contract or chain to restrict you but you will have to follow me in my future battles and fight alongside me.
Let me warn you beforehand. While choosing the latter path may open doors for you to evolve to an unimaginable level, the dangers are equally great."
Smiling, Noah looked intently at the huge beast and asked with a big excited smile that came from the bottom of his heart.
"What do you say! You want to follow me to the top? You and I, together, will fight our way to the peak of the world!"
The snake raised its huge head and let out a roar that shook the whole cave, making its answer clear.
"Hahahahahaha! Good! To celebrate, we must give you a new name."
After thinking for a moment, Noah said the first name that popped into his head.
"From this day forward... Your name will be Ouroboros! The Infinity Serpent!"
Noah gave his new companion a name that remarked the great ambition and hopes he had for him.
On that day, the beast was born whose name would make all who heard his name tremble throughout the Omniverse.
Getting serious, Noah passed the remaining levels of the technique to Ouroboros before instructing him to go in search of more mines to absorb.
After reaching level five, a new type of rainbow stone was needed to advance.
The red rainbow stone.
For the time being, Noah gave him the task of reaching the limit of level five and then he would create a new radar to search for the new stones.
Leaving Ouroboros alone, Noah teleported to his lab and watched the countdown on the monitor.
There were less than ten seconds left before the end of the last simulation of the body alteration method.