CHAPTER 40: EVERYONE RETURNED

"Sword of Doom." It was indeed a befitting name. Noah was happy about his skill.

"Okay, now the defensive skill. I want something that will protect my soul from any kind of spiritual attack."

Noah started thinking about his skill again.

Soon, he thought of a prototype. He should create a skill that would create a second soul. That soul would take the full attack instead of his main soul.

And that soul would have a self-healing talent. It would also have the capacity to minimize the attack to 25% of its full force.

This reduction buff would work against those who had twice his spiritual power. If the power surpassed four times, the buff would only work at 50%.

After reducing the force, it would take the hit. The hit point of the soul would be the same as his spiritual power, meaning the same as his main soul.

"Let’s see."

[20 quadrillion mana points needed. Confirm?]

It took all of his mana at once. But Noah could afford that, as his mana pool would be full in 100 minutes.

However, he would have to wait for 50 minutes because he had just used 10 quadrillion mana points.

Fifty minutes later, he finally created the skill and learned it too.

The moment he created the skill, a person started to take shape in his mind. It looked just like him, just a miniature version of himself.

"So this is the demi soul?"

Noah was observing its full forming process.

After one hour, the soul was fully formed.

He was almost ready. He wanted to create a control skill too.

"A domain would be formed within 100 km surrounding me. All my enemies who have lower spirit power than me would be suppressed by 90%.

Those who have twice my spiritual power would be suppressed by 50%, and those who have four times more would be suppressed by 25% from all of their strength inside my domain."

He had a feeling that it would require more mana than both of the previous skills.

[50 quadrillion mana points needed. Confirm?]

"Sigh! Figures. Anyway, I’ll create it later. Now let’s go and kill those apes."

Noah’s eyes were spitting fire. He remembered the intense pain he had felt a while ago.

He teleported into their tribe once again. Those apes were still angry that their prey had escaped from their clutch before.

So when they saw that pesky thing appear again, the tribe leader roared with full might and attacked instantly.

This time, Noah was ready. He wanted to check the prowess of his new skill—the defensive one, which he named "Nascent Soul."

He saw the soul shake a little, but he didn’t feel any pain.

Those apes had less spiritual power than him. They could harm him before because Noah wasn’t prepared for such an attack.

"Okay, you can die now."

"Sword of Doom."

He muttered softly. Instantly, ten invisible swords were formed with his spiritual energy.

He targeted the ten most powerful apes and shot at them.

Instantly, ten lifeless bodies fell to the ground. No one saw what happened. The apes just died—their souls were crushed.

"Not bad."

He took out his dagger and vanished. He decided to kill them with his hands now.

One minute later, all the adult apes were gone. He had killed them all and let the children live.

[Ding! 1.2 quadrillion EXP is added to your panel.]

Noah had a huge harvest, more than before.

After that, he went on a killing spree. He killed all the tribes of diamond-level monsters—they were called Demon Sovereigns.

He left a few monsters alive so they wouldn’t go extinct.

After three days of constant fighting, using all his techniques, Noah successfully killed every Demon Sovereign in the forest.

[Name: Noah Aldric

Level: 60

Talent: Creation (Unranked)

Mana: 20 Quadrillion

Combat Power: 2.25 Billion Stars

EXP: 5.009 Quintillion / 380 Billion

Coins: 4.015 Quintillion]

Even with constant killing, he couldn’t amass the EXP he had earned from that trial. Hundreds of thousands of monsters had come out that time, but now there weren’t that many in the entire forest.

Now he would go for the legendary monsters. They were called Demon Saints.

He entered the deeper part of the forest. He was sure there were more Demon Sovereigns there.

And soon, he found a tribe of monsters. It was a red tiger tribe.

There were seven Demon Saints and 490 Demon Sovereigns, as well as thousands of Demon Emperors.

This was a huge tribe. Noah felt lucky to have found such a large layer of monsters here.

He attacked the lower-level demons with flying knives and engaged in battle with the seven legendary demons at once using his daggers.

He was enjoying the battle as well as gaining experience from them.

He had been just a normal boy on Earth, someone who had never even killed a chicken. So killing these monsters always made him more experienced. This world was, after all, a killing ground.

Rooaaar!

The tigers roared at once. These legendary tigers could fly and move like teleporting. So battling them was perfect training for him.

Two hours later, he had killed all the tigers except some lower-level ones.

[Ding! 3.3 quadrillion EXP is added to your panel.]

He got 3 quadrillion from one layer. He was looking forward to more. The layers in the deeper regions were even more powerful.

He was sure there were Epic-level demons too, so this place was a great hunting ground for him.

Ten days later, Noah finally came out of the jungle. He had received many calls from the skill he gave to each team, but he didn’t have time to answer them then.

He looked at his panel again with satisfaction.

[Name: Noah Aldric

Level: 60

Talent: Creation (Unranked)

Mana: 20 Quadrillion

Combat Power: 2.25 Billion Stars

EXP: 5.994 Quintillion / 380 Billion

Coins: 5 Quintillion]

He had a great harvest. He could make many people powerful with this much EXP.

After that, he teleported back to his empire. Some teams had returned with new people, while others came back empty-handed.

Noah waved his hand, and 24 portals appeared in different directions. He answered the call for all of them at once.

As soon as the portals appeared, everyone could see what was on the other side. The 24 teams soon saw the portals and ordered everyone from those tribes and villages to enter.

Noah was satisfied with them all. They brought 3,000 new people.

But William’s and Rudi’s teams still hadn’t arrived. They hadn’t even called for help.

Noah gave them 15 days to return. Two more days remained. He would search for them if they still didn’t arrive tomorrow.

Noah was drained after 13 days of constant fighting.

He had hoped to get more EXP, but he had already cleared all the legendary-level areas. If he wanted more EXP, he would have to enter the layer of the Epic Demons—and he was not ready for that yet.

So Noah fell asleep.

By evening, both William’s and Rudi’s teams arrived at the border.

Each brought 500 people, so the total number of new subjects in the empire was now 4,000. If Noah made them platinum level too, he would gain another boost.