Chapter 196 TAKE-OFF
Strap yourselves to the chairs. The flight will be a bit bumpy," one of the two armoured men coldly announced. The first type of emotion Noah had heard in any of their voices so far.
Doing as they were ordered, the group of 43 strapped themselves to their chosen seats, calmly waiting for whatever announcement would be made.
Picking a seat at the back of the room of sorts, Noah had decided on that spot due to the view he hoped to get.
The seats in that room totalled 60, which meant there was at least one seat separating them from each other.
With that done, the guard's exited that room to converse with the middle-aged man. But their voices couldn't be heard.
They eventually finished their talk, and one of the duo immediately went down the ladder, the other walking into the room to say a few words.
"You are to remain on your seats until you are given the go ahead to leave them. There are extensions in the cushions to allow you sleep. For the journey would last nothing more than three days. Four to five if you encounter trouble," the man explained.
Seeing their affirmative gaze's, his voice rang out once again, "I wish you a safe journey," he said, immediately leaving afterwards.
'Three days,' Noah thought. 'How far is the distance, and how slow is this beast,' he wondered seeing the entry space into the box close off. But that event made no difference whatsoever. They could still see the outside world clearly.
Silence fell in the room at the exit of the guard, but no one seemed ready to talk, even after over 6 minutes passed.
"I'm Nathan," someone suddenly said from beside Noah, his hand out-stretched towards him, but the distance remained too far for the interaction of their limbs.
Rasing an eyebrow in slight amusement, Noah sent his mental waves forward to Interact with the man's.
"Good to meet you mate," Nathan said again, his late twenties to early thirties aged face stretching with a smile.
Nathan had black hair which he combed backwards giving him a neat look. His eyes sported deep orange Irises that seemed to glow from Noah's point of view.
Featuring a clearly defined jaw line and a sharp pointed nose, Noah affirmed that the man was definitely above average in looks.
The only detail that ruined his looks for Noah was his smile.
Although they seemed genuine, Noah could spot details that told him that he forced that smile. He most likely wanted something from Noah.
ραпdα nᴏνa| сom Deciding to keep his name secret, Noah replied him, while also making sure his mental voice sounded as flat as his real voice would, if he had spoken with it.
"Nice to meet you."
"You've remained all by yourself since your arrival. What's up?" Nathan enquired still keeping his smile.
"Nothing that concerns you," Noah stated coldly.
Nathan performed a fake laugh at Noah's icy response, but Noah could clearly sense his anger.
Straightening his position to stop facing Noah, Nathans smile slowly vanished and he didn't glance at Noah's side again.
Enjoying the quietness that room featured, Noah waited patiently for their departure, and his mind couldn't help but drift to Ariana's whereabouts.ραпdα `nᴏνɐ| сom
Wondering if she was okay, even if she most likely was. Noah whiled his time away, until another announcement was made.
"One minute till take-off. Beast riders please prepare yourselves. And remember to depart in the formation in which you have been given," the voice explained before going silent again.
Excitement inevitably rose in Noah's, mind at those words, and he found himself counting down.
'45,' he said Inwardly, when the entirety of the golden room suddenly experienced a violent tremble, shockwave's of dizzing power barreling out in all directions, but blue Inscriptions promptly lit up around every single beast there, protecting them from the waves of power.
A pin sized tear suddenly opened in the space far above them, which neared the roof. Further causing more shockwaves.
The tiny tear expanded Incredibly rapidly, that event releasing a high pitched sound, that even the box couldn't protect them from.
Noah felt his ear drums tremble madly, and he immediately clasped his plams on his ears, an instinctive reaction to the large amount of noise.
The erratic soundwaves ended as soon as the tear had expanded in every direction within that room.
A red light immediately shone on the edges of the torn space, preventing its closure.
Seeing the light of the sun-set hit his face, Noah raised his head to stare at the open sky which featured a mix of blue and orange light.
He struggled to begin to understand how much of a task that show had been, since tears in the fabric of space was something only the system had done.
'Or is there more to this,' Noah thought in astonishment. That sight sunk deep into his mind to inscribe itself as one of the more beautiful views Noah had ever seen.
'It feels like a different place,' Noah thought when suddenly the beast they sat upon arose. Its height easily crossing 40m. The middle-aged man had positioned himself on the beasts neck at this point.
"Five!...Four!....Three!...Two!...One!" Halfway through the countdown their mount unfolded its large wings before slightly crouching. Immediately that countdown ended, Noah saw the beast flap its wings, and the immense golden room around them vanished as they appeared high in the sky!
Feeling his gut experience a weird sensation at that sudden elevation Noah widened his eyes when he confirmed that their movement had successfully shattered the sound barrier.
Frantically looking backwards to see the city below them, Noah and all the others witnessed droves of flying beasts ascending behind them.
The party of hundreds of beast proceeded to circle that district multiple times, entertaining the cheering people below them.
Their rapidly moving figures soon focused on a specific direction before moving higher into the sky, and the city below them soon vanished below the clouds. Noah barely had a chance to see the three landamasses from that height, but he did, and a sense of satisfaction inevitably spread in his mind.
Straightening his position to focus on the Incredible view around him, Noah felt his ever fast heartbeat increase in speed, as excitement coursed through his whole being.
The others experienced similar emotions at that view and they soon sat back to enjoy that rapid but steady ride among the skies.
Right there and then, Noah vowed that whatever pet he would gain would have to be capable of flying.
And so the take-off ended. The journey to a location unknown to all the passangers beginning.
Chapter 197 SHOOTING STARS
Tapping his fingers on the chairs arm, Noah's bored eyes swept its gaze around the transparent room he currently sat in, and his eyes quickly fell on the moving scenery around him.
The lower side of his body lay on an extended portion of the chair, allowing for him to partially lie down.
It had been around a day and half since their departures from the dragons claw island, and the darkness of the night remained all around them.
Most of his group-mates were busy asleep, as even they had gotten used to the scenery around them.
'I knew flying would mostly be uneventful, but what the actual fuck,' Noah thought heaving annoyed sighs.
The journey so far had been mostly quiet, since most of the experts in there decided to keep to themselves. Noah had even pissed off his seating partner of sorts, which made the silence even more awkward.
However there had been a series of fun moments during that journey. Their mount, a tier 4 magical beast, liked playing.
It had executed multiple dives during that journey, sending jolts of excitement and fear through the minds of its passangers.
Not only sharp dives at Incredible speeds, but also rapid spins whenever they encountered a cloud with a big enough hole for it. And also loops, mostly when it had lowered its height.
Those experiences had been quite interesting, but its playing had stopped when the tier 4 cultivator calmly sitting on the beasts neck announced that they had gotten to the northern regions of their nation.
The announcement had brought about an air of solemness, utterly confusing Noah who knew next to nothing about the different environments in that nation.
Not being able to ask questions really hurt Noah and suddenly he began to regret his rude behavior towards his seat mate.
Nevertheless, he had a few guesses about the matter. The first and most convincing one being that, they had gotten to a dangerous environment.
While the second guess saw the reason for the sudden somberness being because they had left the regions that they knew.
Noah sided with the first one, but the second one also felt valid. Even he found himself reminiscing about his time in the outskirts of the Cusk nation.
Totally exiting the areas to a place only the opourtuned could go, felt weird. The events that had happened in those months had begun to feel like proper experiences adding to his life's story.
pαndα`noνɐ1--сoМ He had started a new chapter in his life on that planet, such emotions were perfectly normal.
Hours eventually passed, but Noah had fallen asleep by this point. Fortunately unfortunately, something eventually happened along the line.
An explosion of Incredible scales barreled outwards, miles from their position. The orange light of flames lighting up the darkness of the night.
Shockwaves and jets of flame's, arrived at their area even if the distance wasn't small. Every single person instantly exited their slumber at the turbulent impact. And only after a few seconds had gone by did they understand their situation.
Three more explosions of blinding power shook the sky, but this time it had gotten closer.
Seeming rivers of deep-orange flames lit up the sky's darkness even more, as their mount re-gained its balance to shoot towards the weaker beasts behind it.
A few seconds later and Noah got to witness devastating power.
Tens of miles from their position was an extremely bright figure dripping with rivers of flames. It was the red bird Noah had seen in the golden room. But its opponent was what caught Noah's eyes first.
A massive flying serpent, literally on fire, appeared in his eyes.
Whether the serpent produced the flames or it was as a result of the red birds own flames, most didn't know, but that sight remained Incredible nonetheless.
The two beasts battled each other fiercely, Noah confirming that the serpent was also of the fire affinity since it created fiery snake's to ravaged its opponent who defended itself pretty easily.
Jets of flames in their hundreds, shot out of the birds flaming wings to land on the serpents also flaming figure and fiery snake's.ραпdα `nᴏνɐ| сom
The collusion of tremendous power caused another catastrophic explosion, Noah confirming would be able to wipe out a city, after successful shielding his eyes from the light.
They were going all out and their battle caused the sky to seemingly tremble.
Pity for the passangers on the beast, rose in the hearts of those privileged to watch without being in too much of a danger.
However that could not be said for those riding tier 3 beasts and were relatively closer to the fight.
Although they were far away from the fight, the first explosion had caught almost everyone off guard, causing the weak beasts to recieve Injuries.
However, the tier 4 beasts who were totally unaffected by the shockwaves, like Noah's current mount, flew around the battlefield catching the boxes whose mounts and riders had turned to bloodly meat pastes.
Thankfully it seemed the box in which everyone stayed in could comfortably withstand the power of tier 4 attacks.
The middle-aged man clearly used his mental-waves to catch falling boxes while the other 15 tier 4 beasts did the same.
The battle with the flaming serpent raged on while the rescue missions continued.
Unfortunately, things changed when four other aura's well in the fourth tier flickered into existence distrupting the process.
Real fear couldn't help but spread inside Noah's mind at that point.
Although the number of tier 4 beasts on their side remained far more than the wild beasts. Most had to go around rescuing the endangered aspirants.
'Magical beasts don't have the ability to expand their consciousness. Only the cultivators can. And the cultivators probably aren't as fast as the beasts,' Noah evaluated, and he soon came to a grim conclusion.
"Sacrifices will have to be made," he muttered. 'They won't die from the fall, but would be surrounded by really powerful beasts. Which would lead to similar outcomes,' he concluded.
'Should I help,' Noah thought, seeing that they had begun to struggle. But he soon dismissed that idea as one beyond stupid. He wouldn't expose his most powerful trump-card for people he didn't know.
Only a few seconds had passed since the arrival of the four tier 4 beasts but tens to hundreds of tier 3 beasts, regardless of their stage had died already.
Chaos spread everywhere as their mount tried its best to cover the distance between it and the multiple falling boxes.
'What sort of shitty formation do they have if that many powerful beasts can't keep us safe,' Noah thought seeing more tier 4 beasts engage each other.
At this point, the sky around them had turned into an unsafe mess of tremendous power. Noah could immediately understand that he would instantly perish if merely grazed by those shockwaves.
Anywhere tier 4 beasts fought, only blinding white lights could be perceived by the weaker spectators.
Those entities were practically god's to them, since the sheer power within their singular attacks remained off the charts.
Noah felt unimaginably excited to achieve such power.
When everyone had began to doubt the capabilities of the Divine Lightning guild, something spectacular happened.
"Get ready for a bit of roughness," The voice of the middle-aged man, who was also the pilot of that beast; rang-out amidst the multiple explosions in the area.
Their view of the world suddenly turned dark before mana-bulbs lit up inside the room. Before the experts could properly react, their now enclosed box suddenly experienced a violent jerk, causing everyone to hold on to their seats.
However on the outside world, every single box had been ejected from its beast; as they lit up with golden Inscriptions, turning into streaks of golden light all shooting towards one direction.
The skies of that unknown region witnessed what resembled a shower of golden shooting stars.
Chapter 198 LAUGHTER
Deafening silence prevailed within the now enclosed box featuring mana-bulbs. The sudden turn of events had really placed tension in their minds, and they could only hope things worked out.
They all could feel the box remain in motion, but where it was headed remained unknown.
It had been hours or a day since the event. And they were sure that the four tier 4 beast would have already been killed. But why hadn't their guides returned.
Switching to the outside world, the sky saw hundreds of high-speed objects shoot through the sky, leaving in their wake streaks of golden light.
Each box housed a group of set Individuals who had different personalities and ambitions, but their moods currently could be classified as similar.
Some had light chats mostly about the fight and what exactly was going on, while most stayed silent amongst themselves.
The event that occurred had been too sudden; even traumatizing. At least for those who witnessed their mount riders turn into meat pastes expecting similar fates to befall them.
However, during the battle, all tier 4 experts 17 in number, had decided amonst themselves to activate a function in which they formerly planned on activating when their destination was only a few hundred miles from their position.
The function saw the inscribed boxes activating the auto pilot mode, which would travel towards the direction of the singnal meant specifically for them.
However this would only be capable of working when they were within a particular range, which was one of the reasons it hadn't been activated at the first sign of danger.
Thankfully that requirement had been met, even if barely.
A few hours had to pass for the aspirants, before there was a change in that monotonous event.
Feeling the box suddenly jerk sideways, Noah furrowed his brows at the sudden rumbling the entirety of the box experienced, forcing him to grab unto his seat-belt.
The rumbling got more violent, as it seemed something had smashed into the box.
Occasionally their box would randomly tilt sideways. Or something would violently shake it from beneath them.
This set of events continued for many minutes. Worry soon beginning to pile up inside Noah's mind.
He couldn't see what was going on outside, since his mental waves weren't capable of bypassing the box's material.
A powerful force suddenly pushed on the box and the roof immediately featured a bump.
Noah raised his eyes to stare at that damage in utter shock.
The attacks of tier 4 entities, although distant, hadn't scratched it. What exactly was going on outside, they wondered.
However contrary to their expectations, everything suddenly stopped.
Their box's movement experienced no disturbance, and a sense of uncertainty couldn't help but spread Inside their minds.
Everyone nervously exchanged glances, their eyes except Noah's, featuring tinges of fear.
'There definitely can't be anything to worry about....' Noah thought, trying to make sense of what was happening.
Before anyone could crack under the influence of their growing fear, a bright white light suddenly shone on their faces, from outside.
Untold shock flickered unto their faces to make that body part its rent-free home.
And the sight of individuals dressed in black graments featuring golden stripes further left them in wonder, but this time their minds relaxed.
"You've safely arrived at the Divine Lightning guild, aspirants," a black haired, young-looking female, radiating power well at the peak of the middle-stage, annouced with a smile.ραпdα `nᴏνɐ| сom
Noah felt his arms slouch in relief at those words, and the sight of a rectangular space opening in that box placed his heart in full calm.
He had been ready to use his strongest skill if he had been in mortal danger, but it seemed there wasn't any need for that.
"Kindly step out," the lady said, after a minute or so of silence. Which was to allow their safety properly sink in.
Quickly getting out of the box, Noah felt a wave of astonishment hit him when he laid eyes on the hundreds of boxes on a row of two each, stretch down an incredibly long and fully lit metallic hallway of sorts.
There was a group of two male individuals, one having brown hair and the other black, welcoming their group with a smile.
Both were gesturing at the door shaped space shimmering with red lights on its edges directly opened on the metallic wall before them. And the duo's actions inevitably pulled their eyes towards it.
The door was clearly made as a result of Inscriptions or whatever advanced practice that guild owned, but no one really cared.
Noah's group of 43 Individuals walked past the magical door, none complaining about the pressure that slammed into their minds upon entry.
"This will be your room," one of the two males leading them, said. The other walking deeper into that large room to do something.
Sweeping his gaze on the room, Noah felt totally unmoved when his eyes fell on a large room worthy of 5-star hotel.
He couldn't even begin listing out the luxurious features it had, since his mind had gone blank when a realization hit him.
pαndα`noνɐ1--сoМ 'Where will the women stay," Noah wondered glancing at the 13 females in the group.
The ladies of the group seemed to realize the same thing, since difficult expressions appeared on their faces.
The men in that group were more than double their number. Fear of being defiled even if they remained some of the more powerful and experienced experts, rose inside their minds.
However before anyone could voice out a complaint, a wall slowly emerged from the ground, splitting the room into two equal halves.
One metallic door present in the center of the wall.
"You are capable of splitting the room into parts to allow privacy for the opposite sex. You can also move the beds to accomodate your numbers on one side," the expert that had walked into the room explained with his voice raised. Before eventually bringing the wall down.
Over the next period of around twenty minutes, they were basically taken on a tour inside that room. The obvious guild-members of the Divine Lightning guild explaining the different functions of that room.
'Is this even allowed to be called a room. More like a smart safe house,' Noah thought in digust, when one of their guides explained how the room could withstand tier 4 attacks.
The contrast between the advancement in that mere room and cities like Vonol or even Crilion was wide. It felt weird to even think they were in the same country.
"That is all," the brown-haired man spoke. "Due to the unintended event, you all have been given a day to rest. The compe.....screening process begins the day after tomorrow," the young man announced, his words raising multiple eyebrows.
"You will all be summoned the day after tomorrow. Do not forget; you are to stay inside this room until told otherwise," the black haired member added, before the duo walked out the still opened magical doorway. And it immediately closed upon their exit.
Needless to say, the room fell into an awkward silence.
Notwithstanding, someone suddenly started giggling. His giggling soon turning into hard laughter.
Not understanding why the individual was laughing, everyone present soon found themselves chuckling, their chuckles also turning into laughter.
The room soon got filled with their loud, unintentional and uncontrollable laughter. Allowing all their pent up tension quickly vanish.
Chapter 199 DITCH
After their weird, but tension relieving activity, they promptly got into moving the various beds into nice positions.
Although the beds were bunks, their size rivaled king-sized ones which made them really heavy.
But being experts capable of lifting large magical beasts. Such furnitures didn't weigh more than soft-balls.
A weird sensation spread in Noah's mind at the sight of relatively tall females, lifting furnitures that weighed hundreds of kilograms as though they were nothing.
There were exactly 25 bunk beds present, but one side of the room wasn't capable of holding that many, which meant there would be need for pairings.
Although he had silently helped them in the movement, when it came to who would sleep with who, he was left out.
Noah didn't feel the least bit offended at that treatment. Heck he even appreciated it, since he didn't want to burden himself with someone. Like he did with James.
Regardless of their unwillingness to totally associate with him even if they did so amonst themselves; they left a bunk bed all for him.
There were a few excesses and he was granted one of them. Nobody objecting to that seemingly unfair treatment.
'Are they afraid of talking to me. Or are they discriminating due to my seemingly low power,' Noah pondered. Then it hit him.
'I see....just like me they don't want to associate with someone who would potentially slow them down,' Noah concluded.
Although his power remained confusing to their untrained minds, he clearly remained in the lower-stage.
Not even Noah disputed that reality. Ig it hadn't been for his timely breakthrough into having access to rank 2 speed essence, his power would be beyond subpar.
He would be unable to knock out a middle-staged cultivator, which would put him in big disadvantage, and anyone that was paired with him. If such happened.
His only advantage would be his Incredible speed, which didn't seem much.
'Speed is everything,' Noah harrumphed inwardly. 'With enough practice i should be capable of killing those a bit stronger than me,' he thought, but he hadn't fought in the way he currently imagined it.
'That would be really draining,' Noah frowned simulating himself delivering hundreds of punches to his opponents from different angles.
'I'm currently not agile enough for that. And it would take an insane amount of energy every second, as I'll have to be moving at my full speed,' he admitted.
'Unless...I manage to find a way to minimize the consumption of essence or be capable of reducing my speed while executing such complex actions,' he thought.
'Too fast would mean wasting essence, and too slow could mean my opponent could be capable of doing something,' he continued to ponder on the matter.
After experiencing the tier 4 bird's speed, which was multiple times faster than sound. Noah had figured that at some point down his rise to power, he would be surrounded by entities probably capable of moving as fast as him.
'What would i do then...' He wondered. But soon dropped the matter since he had no way of currently knowing.
The voices of his roommates continued to ring out in the room while Noah simply lay on the top of his bed.
They chatted as though they had been doing so for a long time, and it soon dawned on Noah that they probably conversed in the inscribed box using their consciousness.
Some of their conversations managed to reach his ear but they were mostly mundane stuff.
Noah eventually found his situation funny at some point. He felt like the quiet kid who was always left out off the interactions of his classmates.
However he actually didn't experience such treatments during his time on earth. Heck he would be a student classified as the light of the class.
Notwithstanding, the lessons that world had taught him, caused him to prefer not being the centre of attention at all times. Since they usually led to troublesome situations.
What period in the day they were, none knew, but also didn't care. And their conversations inevitably continued for hours.ραпdα `nᴏνɐ| сom
Feeling the urge to eat after spending what felt like three hours simply reading the inscription manuals. Noah got off his bed to walk towards a cylindrical object across the room.
Placing his palm on it, the glass material of the cylinder lit up with multiple orange lines.
Interacting with those Inscriptions using his mental waves as they had been taught, Noah felt a stream of Information enter his mind.
That was the way to check the menu the guild provided.
Deciding on a few things that sounded and looked juicy since, since even their images were present.
Noah waited for around five minutes until the cylinder suddenly lit up with the light of a teleportation, and a plate filled with his order revealed itself.
The surface on which the plate sat on ascended, allowing Noah lift the plate.
An aroma unlike he had ever perceived slammed into his nostrils, sending waves of excitement through his body.
'Oh my...bloody god,' Noah exclamained in excitement.
His plate consisted of things he had never seen outside a refined environment, but he barely minded that detail. He felt immune to poison due to his unique status.
The aroma Noahs order emitted made him realize how hungry for good food he had been. Instead of the make-shift meals he had indulged himself in due to lack of better option.
'I could eat this everyday,' Noah thought happily walking towards his bed. His eyes clearly radiating an intense desire to devour that meal.
However a few meters from his bed five experts suddenly surrounded him. All males.
An eyebrow rose on his face at that development, but he didn't do much.
"How may I help you," Noah stated.
"Give that to us," one of the five men ordered, his black mustache moving at every word he pronounced.
pαndα,noνɐ1,сoМ Noah furrowed his brows at the man's tone and words, "You mean my meal?" He asked to clearify his situation.
Seeing the other four giggle in mockery while the mustached man nodded, his gaze utterly condescending.
"You can just get yours from over there. Like we were taught," Noah spoke. His tone experiencing a sharp drop at the last sentence.
"No we desire yours. Now give it to us," the mustached man declared.
Noah couldn't but sigh at that point, his head turning backwards to see what the others were ready to do about it.
Seeing that they simply watched without showing the slightest intent to move. Only a few of the ladies turning their faces away from his.
"Are you deaf boy," the mustached man barked. His weirdly soothing voice filled with disdain.
Deep down, Noah felt the situation a bit funny. Only a bit.
The expert before him had gone multiple steps into the middle stage, which meant he was trouble.
Coupled with the other four also middle-staged experts, he didn't like his situation.
"Weren't you taught in what ever ditch you crawled out from to respect does higher than you!" the mustached man roared, seeing Noah's unmoving gaze.
Seeing the expert bring his palm forward to deliver a slap to his face, Noah casually raised his right hand to grab it successfully stopping it. But the other four pounced on him at that point.
Chapter 200 INFLUENCE
'I see...' Noah thought percieving his surroundings in slow motion.
'They obviously feel confused about my power. Which is why there are four of them. But isn't this overkill,' Noah clicked his tongue, casually walking out of their midst.
While Noah remained an extraordinary expert, that many middle-staged cultivators would be too many for even him. At least until they were in a proper fight.
He wasn't going to go all-out in that place, even if it could apparently withstand tier 4 attacks.
'I want peace. This tiny show of abilities should be enough to keep them in place. Hopefully,' Noah thought climbing his bed to sit on it. Then everything continued normally.
With blank eyes, Noah watched his opponents literally collapse on themselves, their mouths expressing annoyed grunts.
The others in the room who were casually spectating, stood up from their various positions in utter disbelief.
To their perception, Noah had simply vanished from the midst of the five to appear on his bed.
"What the fuck was that....is he a Deviant" Most muttered.
"I'm afraid i can't do that," Noah coldly announced from his elevated spot.
Seeing that the five looked ready to cast spells, he quickly opened his mouth to speak.
"Please do not forget our location. We could be under surveillance, and your actions could cost you your entry into this great guild," he calmly explained, knowing that the same applied to him. Hopefully they weren't actually watching.
Understanding his words as pure facts, the five regained their composure, but that didn't change their feelings towards him for humiliating them.
Clearly sensing their bloodlust, Noah's eyes shone with a tinge of his own, his mouth quickly opening to release words.
"If you wish to retaliate, let's meet on the field. I'm happy to take you on anytime," his eyes literally shone with a dangerous light. His words directed towards all present in the room.
"And i assure you that a you won't be escaping a fight with me with your lives intact," he added menacingly, and the room immediately turned chilly. But he stopped before any adverse effects of his emotions could occur.
Needless to say his audience were spooked out by his odd behavior, but none took his words to heart.
"He's insanely strong for a lower-staged cultivator, but against all of us he's only courting death," those words moved between themselves.
Quickly digging into his meal after threatening a proper group of cultivators who wielded enough power to devastate cities, Noah lost himself in the taste of his meal.
He inevitably placed orders for two more, and ended up finishing them in record time.
Laying on his bed to continue his studies, he eventually stopped after an hour or so, and decided to get some shut eye.
His sleep like most he had experienced, was dreamless. Only filled with darkness.
Slowly regaining consciousness, Noah took a deep breath, rolling a bit on that divinely laid bed, before sitting up.
Sweeping his gaze on the room, he saw that his roommates were suprisingly all awake. Cultivating.
Each one of them sat in different positions in the room relatively far apart from theirselves, clearly in a trance of sorts and Noah could see their bodies glow. The different lights indicating their elemental affinities.
He weirdly found that sight normal, afterall they were middle-staged experts, such discipline was expected if they wanted to advance in power.
The only issue about that suprisingly beautiful scene was that Noah knew he couldn't cultivate currently.
The bottleneck which could only be overcome by the feature he gained from having the system; levelling up, really frustrated him, but he hoped to escape it soon.
Determination surged in Noah's mind at that point. He would do his best to gather as many beasts as possible, since even after the first dungeon run, he would need more beasts.
Getting off his bed, Noah wondered what exactly he could do.
They weren't allowed to leave the room even if the metallic door lay very close to them.ραпdα `nᴏνɐ| сom
He couldn't practice his elements since such a sight would place too much attention on himself, something he didn't want.
He wanted his roommates and everyone whi would see him to underestimate his prowess, so he could totally blow their minds with his feats.
The only activity he could really do was read. And even that had gotten boring lately.
Making no progress whatsoever had made that activity a chore instead of a fun experiment.
A deep sigh eventually escaped Noah's mouth at the evaluation of his current situation.
"Being amidst people sucks," he muttered falling on his bed with another sigh.
Casually gazing at the ceiling of that Incredible room, Noah thought to the mulitiple functions it had.
Apparently the room could increase or decrease its temperature allowing them train their resistance to such environments.
It remained only one of the over twenty different functions, but it piqued Noah's curiosity, who suddenly wanted to understand how much heat his body could handle in its new state.
Immediately getting down from his bed, he walked towards a seemingly empty wall, and tapped his finger on it four times.
That action resulted in a series of Inscriptions flickering into existence.
Interacting with those shining lines using his mental waves, Noah found the feature he wanted and quickly expanded on it.
He wanted to limit it to one spot in the room, and luckily even that feature was available.
Picking a spot next to his bed, Noah glanced back to see a blue inscription light up on the floor, creating a cylindrical area where that feature could easily be edited.
Quickly walking over to it, Noah sat crossed-leg inside the space and his consciousness promptly expanded to activate the functions.
What looked like a lever appeared in his mind, the higher he pulled it the higher the temperature, the lower he pulled it the lower the temperature.
But before he started, his black garment vanished, and Muliixs material covered his groin like an underwear.
There were also grades of the temperature, which went from tier 1 to tier 3 higher-stage.
Immediately beginning to pull the lever past tier 1, Noah barely felt anything even when it reached the very peak of tier 2. Only that the air had gotten warmer, barely.
Even if the actual temperature had already surpassed 300°C.
The lever soon broke into tier 3. Noah beginning to feel his environment get reasonably warm.
Halfway through the lower-stage which consted of three small grades, Noah began to feel really warm.
At the peak of the lower-stage he felt as though he had been dumped inside hot water. But he could still comfortably bear it.
The middle-stage arrived and the temperature took a dramatic increase. The water had begun to boil.
At this point Noah was already drenched with sweat, and his hair stuck to his face and back.
ραпdα nᴏνa| сom It wasn't until he arrived at the peak of the middle-stage did all his hair catch fire, and his skin began to receive bad burns.
Noah felt unable to breath at this point, and even his sweat didn't exist anymore.
Multiple patches of his skin burnt under prolonged exposure to that heat. And he eventually had to reduce the over 1600°C temperature, when he began to get burnt faster than his body could heal.
Suddenly dropping the temperature to the cold level of the lower-stage of tier 3; that 5m radius of magically confined space, experienced a slight quake.
But Noah's attention wasn't on that event, since he found out that his body healed far faster under the influence of the cold.