He stopped providing energy as the grandiose pieces of armor began to fade from the bodies of the beasts as they carried the dead sea creatures back into the Spiritual Land. The arrogant penguin flashed by Noah's side with the bodies of the dead fish, making it 5 Mythical creatures that came into Noah's possession just in the past few hours.
Multiple skill books, cores, and items were brought by the [Emperor Penguin] as Noah came to now hold six more skill books as well four items of the Mythical rank. He placed them in the [Sea Pearl] as soon as the penguin teleported them in front of him, looking forward to observing their details in a few minutes as he got started with using the two acre long [Time Space].
The beasts and this unique treasure were originally from the Beast World, and they now held the same system of power from Noah's homeworld. This combination, as well as the uniqueness of the Spiritual Land would allow for something rarely seen across worlds.
They could upgrade their strength with cores and skill books just like Noah, and as long as their strength rose to the next level, he could upgrade the Spiritual Land once again. This made Noah excited and apprehensive at the same time, as he felt like he was breaking a tremendous amount of rules with the things he was about to do.
It was unnatural and scary even as his mind mixed together the possibilities of the quick rise in the beast's strength, the usage of [Skill Combination] and [Time Dilation], and the many other features of the Spiritual Land. His heart palpitated just at the thought of it.
His gaze landed towards Barbatos that was nonchalantly going through the section of the Spiritual Land where he built Atlantean style houses after going past the modern and ancient architecture he had been experimenting with during his down time. His voice traveled towards her as he continued to observe her piqued interest.
"I'll be improving my strength a little in the next few days. I can trust you to not destroy and kill anything if you become bored?"
Her ears twitched as she turned towards him from quite a distance below, before a nonchalant reply came.
"I don't think I'll be bored for quite a while, little fish. Just provide me with some of that amazing food you made before every day until we get to the time limit of the contract and I'll be your best friend you know?"
Noah listened to these words and he believed them, as they lined up with the personality he had watched in the many stolen memories. He nodded towards her and prepared to move to the underground section of the Spiritual Land while giving directions to the [Emperor Penguin] and other beasts to follow him.
The beasts had more of a connection to the Spiritual Land and had a sense of what Noah was now trying to do as they moved excitedly. The figures flashed in a silver light that spread from the [Emperor Penguin] as they all appeared outside the area of many erected monoliths that were connected to each other with thin blue lines.
The monoliths encircled an area of two acres as they stood imposingly, a source of power that they hadn't come across before being felt. The two acres was a huge section of land where the manipulation of time would occur. Noah nodded his head with enthusiasm as his figure flashed into the middle of the large acres.
The mana of the Spiritual Land Master was required to activate and keep active the [Time Dilation] in this space, so Noah's nigh-infinite mana broke the rules once again by allowing him to keep it active at all times.
The beasts entered the large field of the Time Space as Noah closed his eyes and activated the long-awaited [Time Dilation]. A burst of blue light released from him as the thin lines connecting the many risen monoliths around the two circular acres of land equivalent to 871,00 square feet lit up.
The area larger than two football fields was briefly covered with a blinding silver light as those in it felt something change, but they couldn't grasp what. Noah's mind that was connected to the Spiritual Land felt the distinct differences as it felt everything outside of the field they were in was going at five times slower speed. Five hours here would be just an hour outside.
His smile became wider as he confirmed this time difference, realizing he was about to do something world breaking once more.
Chapter 180 - Skill Combination at its best (II)
For someone that had been able to rapidly increase in strength every few days, time was the only enemy in becoming even stronger. Now, if time was something that they had plenty of, the results would be astounding.
Noah continued to be a special case in this new environment as he could continue to spam and raise the proficiency of his skills at an insane degree. The beasts that were raising their skill proficiencies in the [Time Space] just as him would never be able to match his speed.
In the [Time Space], an entire week had passed as Noah raised the proficiencies and combined multiple skills. He used a variety of ways to escape boredom as his own body was filled with energy while also having [An Undead's Stamina] that made the idea of tiredness even further away from him.
He first battled with the newly advanced Mythical beasts until they were spent. The beasts found themselves not being able to match Noah even after they advanced to the same rank as him, the arrogant [Emperor Penguin] hanging its head just a little lower as none of its surprise attacks went through.
After they were about to run dry of energy, Noah activated the [Beast Armament] feature as the powers of the beasts instantly became boosted with terrifyingly fitted armor appearing on their bodies. When they fought with their armored forms, Noah had to activate all the six styles of the Mountain Sea Sect's Secret Techniques just to keep up with the ferocious attacks of the beasts.
But the results were spectacular. His skills continued to increase at a rapid rate while he gained more combat experience with them. There was also no sense of boredom as he battled the enthusiastic beasts who were raising their proficiencies just like him.
The beasts were becoming more and more used to the boost provided by the [Beast Armament] feature of the Spiritual Land as they began to work in conjunction to deliver deadly blows. As for Noah, the Skill Combinations he was looking at were abundant, and his strength had begun its first phase of skyrocketing like never before. It was about to get plain ridiculous.
First off were the 6 Mythical Skills that he learned for himself from the deaths of the Mythical Sea Creatures that were lured by the burst of energy from the upgrade of the Spiritual Land as well as the ones Barbatos brought in. The six skills that were already learned and had risen past 60 in proficiency in the past 7 days were [Admantine Skin], [Titan's Regeneration], [Metamorphosis], [Thunder Distortion], [Megaladon Transformation].
Aside from the new skills that had already been risen past 60, his old Mythical skills had already reached the required 100 proficiency, with a few of them already becoming combined.
Mountain Sea Sect's Fifth Style- Descent of the Emperor + Mountain Sea Sect's Sixth Style- Dragon Form :: MYTHICAL+ [Descent of the Dragon Emperor]
Summon Creatures of the Deep + Gigantification :: MYTHICAL+ [Summon Destructive Titans]
Aside from the rapid and spectacular appearance of these new Mythical+ skills, there were also many Legendary+ combinations.
Mountain Sea Sect's Third Style- Healing Water + Mountain Sea Sect's Fourth Style- Wings of the Sea :: LEGENDARY+ [Healing Wings]
Whirlpool + Hydrocyrokinesis :: LEGENDARY+ [Whirling Frozen Death]
Corrupted Sigil of Hegemony + Demon King's Haki :: LEGENDARY+ [Demon King's Banner]
There were also the skills that graduated from EPIC+ to become Legendary, as the spectacular efficiency of [Skill Combination] added to [Time Dilation] continued to exceed all expectations.
Fiendish Sword Beast Transformation + Summon Saint of Death :: LEGENDARY [Summon Death Reaper]
Destructive Domain + Storm of Ice and Bones :: LEGENDARY [Devastation]
This was just in one continuous week of training and spamming of skills. This one week was only equivalent to a day and a half in the outside world.
One of the things he did run into
for the first time was not having equivalent skills to combine for the lower-ranked skills. There were many skills ranked Epic and lower that would be considered null in any helpfulness towards Noah's level, but there were a few that he still used and continued to be crucial.
Examples of these were the rank A [Language Comprehension], [Recorder], [Cook], as well as the rank S [Thought Acceleration] and [Crisis Avoidance]. They were skills that were not combat related, but boosted his power and or had their own usefulness.
Noah continued to spend the days in the Time Space as the proficiencies of skills continued to spike at a fast rate, coming out for an hour or two a day to entertain Barbatos as he felt the thrill of visibly growing in power every day once more.
In the first week he spent in the space affected by [Time Dilation], which was equivalent to a day and a half in the outside world, he had gained two Mythical+ skills and three Legendary+ through combinations. The week after that, the 6 Mythical skills that were more than halfway maxed during the first week had reached 100 and were also combined, producing another 3 Mythical+ skills.
Noah stopped spreading his focus to lower-ranked skills as he focused on achieving a PHANTASMAL ranked skill as soon as possible. Only Legendary skills and higher continued to receive his attention and combination as during the third week, after 21 days, he had multiple Mythical+ ranked skills that were maxed in proficiency.
21 days.
This was equivalent to four days in the outside world, and he had achieved the conditions to obtain a PHANTASMAL ranked skill through skill combinations. For Noah, it did not matter if he had the strength of Phantasmal rank, as long as he had a skill of that rank that required mana, he would dominate any average being in that rank.
The beasts practicing with him in the Time Space had only been able to raise 1 or two skills to Mythical+ rank, and weren't anywhere near ready to combine skills to reach the Phantasmal rank. They could not replicate his horrendous cheat of spamming skills continuously and simply watch as the proficiency rose every hour, and they were about to be left behind in rank once again.
Noah looked at the additions of Mythical+ skills that were now already maxed in proficiency as he chose carefully what his first PHANTASMAL skill should be.
Megaladon Transformation + Metamorphosis :: MYTHICAL+ Deep Sea Terror
Admantine Skin + Titan's Regeneration :: MYTHICAL+ Titanium Body
Thunder Distortion + Aura of Death :: MYTHICAL+ A Rain of Death and Lightning
Besides these three, he already held [Descent of the Dragon Emperor], and [Summon Destructive Titan]. Between these, which ones were compatible and would come together to form his first PHANTASMAL skill?
Chapter 181 - PHANTASMAL!
A terrifying sight was occurring in the underground area of the Frozen Plateau Spiritual Land as powerful Mythical beasts found their bodies sinking lower into the ground at the pressure that their Master released.
The arrogant penguin that normally had its beak raised high was looking towards the ground with clouded silvery eyes as it felt a hit to its confidence once more. Its beady eyes peered at the sight in front of it once more as the oppressive feeling was enforced.
In the large space where [Time Dilation] was kept active, a ferocious kaiju was swiftly moving its three heads around the area as it acclimated to its new form. The body of the Kaiju shone with a black metallic sheen as it looked extremely real, its power pressing down on everything around it.
This was the PHANTASMAL ranked skill combined from [Descent of the Dragon Emperor] and [Deep Sea Terror].
The first PHANTASMAL skill that Noah grasped was called,
[The Dictatorial Kaiju-Hydra] :: The form of a pinnacle Three-headed Dragon is activated. The first head releases toxic poison that melts all it touches, the second head releases destructive lightning that shreds apart enemies, and the third head is blessed with the pinnacle control of the water element.
The cast skill allowed Noah to feel a tremendous amount of power in the body of an enormous Kaiju that felt like his own flesh and blood. It wasn't just a hazy outline of a dragon while he remained in his Atlantean form inside the body, but a completely transformational change when the skill was cast.
It was extremely painful the first few seconds as his body expanded and changed forms, but after the transformation was complete, the power he felt could not be denied.
He had to get used to the feeling of three heads as each of them had their own vision and could move independently, the skill [Thought Acceleration] granting him a huge help that allowed him to quickly adjust. He was about to continue testing the powers this new skill held when he felt a movement with his expanded senses that caused him to look in a certain direction.
In the ceiling of the underground area of the Spiritual Land, a hazy red light had appeared as something looked to be drilling through the frozen ground. The figure of Barbatos appeared grandly as her eyes piercingly looked for the tremendous pressure she felt when she was relaxing in a bubbling jacuzzi.
Her eyes expanded to become even bigger as she saw the huge formation of monoliths surrounding a large area that pulsed with a mysterious power. She felt her heart beat faster as she recognized the type of power she was feeling in the area on top of the powerful aura of a three-headed dragon. Her mind worked quickly as she came to multiple conclusions.
"F.u.c.k.i.n.g hell, are you really some big shot member of the Celestials? You were playing with the power of time down here this entire time? You jumped to PHANTASMAL in the span of a few days, and that's actually the least surprising thing. Just who the hell are you, little fish?"
Her figure was floating confidently in the air without a single thread of clothing as she showed off her full figure without any reservations. She didn't even bother placing anything on her body after coming out of the jacuzzi, her powerful body drilling through the layers of the Spiritual Land to reach the underground portion.
Noah's tremendously large body that was the Dictatorial Kaiju-Hydra, looked at this questionable figure he had entertained these past few days as his voice thundered out from his three draconic heads, the vibrations sending out waves of power that caused the sky to tremble.
"My identity remains the same as I told you, whether you believed me then or now doesn't matter. At this moment in time though, it means we can continue to move forward with the next phase of plans."
His three heads were focused on different parts of the Demon Empress's body as he watched a gothic dress dr.a.p.e over her as she moved closer to the field where Noah had deactivated [Time Dilation], her eyes shining with interest as she looked over his body that was larger than twenty meters.
"...This is genuine PHANTASMAL power, and extremely powerful at that. With this type of ability, your words might actually not be bullshit, little fish."
She floated across the skies as she went around Noah and observed the pulsating monoliths around the large field.
"Hey hey, why don't we battle again so I can see just how powerful you've gotten? You could stand against me before, but if you can defeat me now, I'll even allow you to have a taste of the body of a Demon Empress your eyes feasted on just now. What do you say little fish, why don't we have another bout?"
Barbatos's body was crackling with death energy as a red light expanded, her power bubbling and ready to go.
Noah's ears perked up at her ridiculous words as his power pulsed out just as powerfully, her provocation riling up his own interest to test the power of his first PHANTASMAL skill.
"We can test things again in the sea, after we're done we will head towards the location of the Trident of the Sea right away."
Noah's thundering voice reverberated again as a silver light covered his large body, teleporting himself out of the Spiritual Land and into the dark waters of the Abyssal Zone.
The powerful figure of the Demon Empress appeared right after and the waters around them began to vibrate. Noah activated the [Size Regulation] and [Anchor] feature of the unique ski
ll, {Spiritual Land Management}, as the vibrant Spiritual Land reduced in size rapidly until it could barely be seen before it attached itself silently to his body.
The battle intent from Barbatos was high as she stopped being surprised by the things this Atlantean did and focused more on the contract that seemed to have more and more credibility as she observed more of this interesting being's strength.
"Haha, come on little fish, let's see just how much more of my interest you'll capture!"
Blazing red suns began appearing around her as destruction and mayhem began around them. Deathly energy was in the air as transparent figures began forming around her as well. These were the [Dread Spirits] that Barbatos could summon and control under the usage of her ultimate skill. Their power was palpitating as Noah faced these attacks without fear this time.
His body that was that of a Kaiju roared with its three heads as a green poisonous light came from one head, purple lightning began to roar out from another, while a blue light shone powerfully in the other.
Waves of destruction spread out in the dark waters as two powers of PHANTASMAL rank clashed.
Chapter 182 - Kraken I
"Damn, little fish, what kind of messed up stamina is that? Sheesh"
Words that the 8th Ruler of the Demon World never expected to say to another being of the same rank as her came out of her mouth. The problem was that this wasn't the first time these words were said in the past few hours.
The first time these words were uttered from Barbatos's mouth was after an entire hour of deadly skills clashing against one another in the dark waters of the Abyssal Zone as Noah adapted to his terrific new PHANTASMAL skill. The body of the Kaiju had extreme defenses while its heads let out terrible attacks.
Noah was able to withstand the blazing suns that Barbatos threw as well as the dreadful spirits she continued to summon. This continued until a sense of exhaustion filled the body of the Demon Empress and she was looking towards Noah with a frightening light in her eyes. He did not seem to have any sense of tiredness as the large three heads looked down at her menacingly.
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