In a place far away.
Balton was a talented, newly promoted level five Mech pilot belonging to the fifth general's squadron of the divine wind.
During a mission, his group encountered a pilot from the top level five Holy Light organization.
The result was obvious.
The enemy played with them as they wished and slaughtered them one by one.
Two of his friends sacrificed themselves to give him a chance to escape.
As he had no other choice, he could only run to the radiation circle.
Unfortunately for him, his Mech stopped working after only a couple of kilometers.
With his body severely injured but resigned to his fate, Balton managed to crawl into a cave not far away.
Fortunately for him, the cave gave off a type of cold radiation that repelled all ambient radiation.
Entering the cave, Balton arrived in front of a huge vein of white rainbow stones.
Using the ring on his middle finger, he focused it on the ground before a huge ten meter high and wide capsule filled with some strange liquid appeared.
This was a very high level biochemical pool.
Only extremely wealthy energy machinists could afford it at a low level.
In addition to being an initial rank 5 Mech pilot, Balton was also a rank 3 energy machinist.
Now that his Mech became useless, he could only rely on monsters synthesized by the biochemical pool.
Due to his low level, he could only control three synthesized monsters.
Balton poured his willpower into the biochemical pool, causing the mark of a crescent moon to appear on his forehead.
The huge biochemical pool began to work.
He then pulled out a large amount of resources and began pouring them into the pool one by one.
Two hours later, a huge black bat emerged from the biochemical pool before standing behind Balton like a loyal servant.
The bat was a night bat, an elite synthesized monster that cost a great deal of resources to produce.
Balton could care less about resources in his current situation, he simply kept pouring resources into the biochemical pool.
When he formed the second bat of the night and began to form the third, suddenly a cave wall exploded before the head of a huge black snake emerged from the hole.
Both the snake and Balton looked at each other in confusion for a moment, not knowing what the other party was doing here.
Ouroboros' eyes contracted and he shot out of the hole.
"Not good!"
Balton controlled his two bats to surround Ouroboros.
Due to the constant use of the devouring ability, Ouroboros' body was constantly refining and removing any traces of impurities.
Because of this, his enormous body became smaller and smaller.
Now his body went from the colossal size of 200 meters to a mere 20 meters.
Ouroboros let out a roar at the pair of bats and bared his sharp fangs at them before extending his head in an attempt to bite one of them.
The bat was extremely fast and dodged Ouroboros' attack with ease before unleashing a sonic attack charged with level three willpower that confused Ouroboros.
The other bat took the opportunity to attack, using its nimble claws to rip a few scales from Ouroboros' chest.
As the three beasts fought, Balton frantically tried to urge the biochemical pool to speed up the process of creating the third bat of the night.
He felt that with one more bat, victory would be absolutely his.
The battle raged for a full half hour.
Ouroboros, now severely wounded, opened her mouth wide before releasing a breath attack that consumed most of the qi within her monster core.
The attack pulverized the first bat's head.
Ouroboros then continued to fight the second bat for another ten minutes before releasing an icy force field that momentarily froze the bat before taking the opportunity to wrap its body around the bat and devour its head.
It then devoured the rest of the body before doing the same to the first bat.
Staring at Balton who had managed to synthesize almost half of the third bat's body, Ouroboros' eyes contracted before deciding to attack.
Suddenly, his body froze for a moment.
The aftereffects of the previous battle began to take effect now that he had relaxed for a moment.
His monstrous core was completely empty right now and his body was riddled with wounds.
On top of that, the bats had injected him with a poison that was only suppressed by the cold aura in his body.
Now that he had also deployed his cold radiation field, leaving his body without that energy, all the poison began to course through his body and wreak havoc.
Despite being a snake and having a high resistance to poisons, the bat poison was strange and had willpower within it.
Balton, who was currently unable to move due to being in the middle of the bat's creation process, smiled with joy and relief as he watched the black snake writhe on the ground.
"Twenty minutes... Just 20 minutes and I'll be able to kill it completely."
Balton's joy didn't last long as he watched as the snake turned to him and gave him a mocking look before opening its mouth wide.
A black vortex formed over its mouth and began to attract all the radiation emitted by the white rainbow stones.
Currently Ouroboros' hellfrost peacock technique had reached the maximum level 4, just one step away from reaching level five.
At this level, one would experience an evolution that would enhance various aspects of his body.
Now that Ouroboros had begun to absorb all the cold energy from the surroundings with his devouring ability, his technique began to increase like crazy and with a cracking sound, he went from level four to level five.
The wounds on his body also began to slowly heal and a feeling of fatigue, as if he wanted to go into a deep sleep, assaulted his mind.
Ouroboros forcibly suppressed this urge and looked intently at the half-formed bat inside the biochemical pool.
She did not know why but within her mind, two instincts continually urged her to make a decision.
The first instinct urged her to enter a state of hibernation so she could begin evolution while an even stronger instinct told her to repress that idea for the time being and jump into that pool.
Ouroboros' eyes were bloodshot as he charged at Balton before spitting out a mass of strange flesh that struck the latter's head.
With a popping sound, the distorted seed exploded in Balton's face before the latter's body began to mutate strangely.
Strands of hair began to grow all over his body while a scorpion tail sprouted from his back.
Despite the immense pain he felt, a strange command in Balton's mind ordered him not to stop operating the biochemical pool.
Now that he had controlled Balton with the distorted seed, Ouroboros ordered him to open the entrance to the pool before jumping inside and coiling the half-formed body of the bat with his body before entering a deep state of hibernation.
The open wounds all over its body began to slowly absorb the various products of the pool as the bat began to slowly melt into a wound on its back.
Balton, who had become a mindless beast, could no longer think of anything.
He merely followed the only order he had in his head, to pour his willpower into the pool.
Half a day later, all of Balton's willpower was completely spent.
Not caring, Balton began to expend his own life force to generate willpower before pouring it into the pool.
A day later, Balton's withered and deformed body fell to the ground.
Inside the pool, a cocoon of ice began to form around Ouroboros.
The serpent of infinity officially entered a state of evolution from which it would not awaken until many years later.
...
Inside the hospital where Garen was currently staying.
A so-called doctor hired by his master tried to kill him, but thanks to his soul seeds, he managed to avoid his death.
But as a consequence, his wounds got even worse and the willpower of the seventh general of the divine wind split into small strands that ran through his entire body.
The enemy wanted to use him to demonstrate his power.
His master abandoned him when he learned that it would be virtually impossible to regain his willpower, making him practically a cripple.
Céline's family took her away by force and removed the guards protecting the hospital.
Inside the hospital, only he was left.
Even the other patients and doctors were removed.
Now with the hospital unprotected, a group of Mechs entered to end his life once and for all.
Thanks to the enemy underestimating him, he managed to infect the leader of the group with a distorted seed, turning her into a horrible monster.
Garen gave him a single command, to kill everyone.
Taking advantage of the ruckus created by the monster woman, a Garen on the verge of death managed to squeeze into the missile compartment of a wrecked Mech before falling unconscious.
...
"Hehehehe... here, here. Yes! Throw it here."
Some tow truck drivers were maneuvering their vehicles as they tried to throw a Mech's arm into the pile of trash.
At the edge of the trash pile, the cranes were moving the remains of the horrific incident in the city to the trash pile.
Mountains of trash were formed and waiting to be burned.
The black crane towed a Mech that was beyond repair and dumped it into a pile of trash. It then turned around and left the area.
Although this area is right on the edge of the region's radioactive belt, it was already considered to be within the radioactive belt. Before the garbage was burned, these mountains of garbage were the main source of income for the radioactive people. To occupy these mountains of garbage, many small-scale attacks had arisen in the village of the radioactive people who were near this area. In the end, a small village called Lion had managed to obtain ownership of this area.
Today, a collection group from the village came to search through the garbage to see if they could get anything of value.
In the end, the captain of the group discovered the mechanical arm in which Garen was hiding.
Because it released a strange cold radiation, the woman became interested in it and decided to take it for examination later.
Quickly, a year had passed.
Noah looked at the circular metal plate floating before him and gently grasped it before imbuing it with his energy machinist willpower.
The metal plate became illusory before disappearing completely, reappearing in his mental space.
Noah tried to activate it, causing an Omega symbol to light up on its surface.
A similar symbol appeared on his forehead while a blue holographic display appeared reflected on his retina.
This screen was produced by the energy machinist chip and could only be seen by him.
The best part of this chip was that it was connected to Nexus so Noah could transfer and store any data he wanted.
If he wanted to look up any kind of technique or information, Nexus would send it directly to the chip, who would reflect it on the holographic display.
Noah tried to do the mathematical calculations he always practiced, noticing how his calculation speed doubled to ten times his original speed.
A lot of data was appearing on the holographic screen as he calculated.
One would be lucky to obtain an energy machinist chip that doubled his speed by five times but with the data provided by Red Moon and the help of Nexus, he managed to push the chip to the limit of its theoretical capabilities.
Now that he had obtained his energy machinist chip, Noah was able to proceed with his training.
He instructed Nexus to create two more chips for Lena and Magna before continuing his training.