Just after two in the afternoon, Noah eagerly ca to the secret room.
From the hands of an intelligence agent, he received sothing that looked like a lunchbox.
Holding it in his hands, Noah could not help but feel doubtful.
'This was the Teigu Hekatonkheires?'
'The so-called giant... was inside a little box that was less than forty centiters in length, width, and height?'
'Wait.'
'The material of this box is refined steel?'
It was not as strong as Orichalcum, but it was still a valuable high-hardness tal.
It was the sa kind of tal used for the bars of the Capital's prison cells.
Noah carried the box containing Hekatonkheires to the laboratory that had been prepared in advance.
He used the key to unlock the box, then slowly opened it.
Inside the box was sothing that looked like a stuffed toy.
Noah took it out and examined it carefully.
First of all, this thing was not any animal, or even any living creature, that Noah knew.
It looked a little like a dog.
Its face was cute and dumb-looking.
It gave off a harmless feeling!
Following the instructions, Noah found its core and gently pressed it.
"It actually has a switch..... It really does look like a toy."
After its core was activated, a faint light appeared in Hekatonkheires's eyes.
It was as if it had gained awareness.
It looked blankly at the young man holding it.
Then it tilted its head left twice, tilted it right twice, and stared directly at Noah.
Suddenly, the soft little dog toy opened a huge bloody mouth.
A stuffed toy's head grew more than ten tis larger!
Its mouth beca big enough to swallow half an adult in one bite.
How terrifying would that scene be?
Most victims probably never got the chance to find out.
Before they could react, they would already be swallowed by this vicious monster disguised as a harmless little animal.
Bang!
A powerful force struck upward into the dog's chin.
Hekatonkheires's giant head, which had grown more than ten tis larger, was twisted out of shape by Noah's fast palm strike.
The blow almost made tears squeeze out of its eyes.
Noah stepped back six or seven steps and touched the small wound on his face.
It had been caused when the creature grazed him by surprise.
The wound was shallow and almost no blood ca out.
But it had indeed injured him.
"...It looks like a dog and its personality is almost the sa too."
Noah's gaze beca a little colder.
If he was going to study this thing, he could not allow it to keep acting so aggressively.
"A disobedient dog needs to be trained. It's better to make the hierarchy clear from the start."
Noah directly manifested Raven Feather as the gauntlets covered his hands and wrists.
After taking that hit, Hekatonkheires shook its huge head a few tis.
Then its face showed rage that was very human-like.
Its small body began to change.
Just like before, its body, limbs, and head expanded.
Each ti it grew, the flesh seed to appear from nowhere.
And it was all solid muscle.
The small animal that had been less than forty centiters tall beca a monster four or five ters tall in the blink of an eye.
It seed to understand Noah's words.
After becoming huge, it imdiately charged at him.
Noah felt the ground shake.
He did not dodge.
Instead, he opened his palm toward the massive monster charging straight at him.
Boom!
A violent explosion burst across Hekatonkheires's body.
Huge flas and smoke swallowed its massive form.
Noah stayed on guard, as if he could see through the smoke.
The smoke suddenly exploded outward.
Hekatonkheires's huge body had moved behind Noah in an instant.
It clasped both hands together into a hamr-like fist.
Then it raised them high and smashed down hard.
Slash!
Noah landed on top of Hekatonkheires's head with a sharp black blade resting on his shoulder.
The monster's two huge hands separated from its wrists and crashed to the ground.
The furious monster did not seem to care about pain.
Although it roared wildly because its hands had been cut off, it showed no intention of stopping its attack.
It shook its head, trying to throw Noah off.
But Noah simply lifted one foot.
Even standing on one foot on the monster's head, he was as steady as a mountain.
He gathered all the nearby gravity and focused it into his foot.
Then he strengthened it with magic and stomped down hard.
A huge force ca down on Hekatonkheires's head in an instant, smashing it into the ground.
But the monster acted as if it had only tripped.
It got back up almost imdiately, barely affected by the attack.
"It really is tough. As expected of a biological-type Teigu."
Noah gave a small sigh of praise.
At the sa ti, his eyes grew more excited!
The parts he had attacked had already regenerated and there was no sign they had ever been damaged.
That was one of the traits of a biological-type Teigu.
As long as its core was not destroyed, it could regenerate without limit.
Also, biological-type Teigu usually did not fear poison gas.
Even the poison from the poison-type Teigu's plants would not work on it.
But that did not matter.
Noah had never planned to train it in such a gentle way.
All Teigu had compatibility requirents.
The reason biological-type Teigu were dangerous was simple.
If a person failed to et the compatibility requirent, the Teigu itself would go berserk and launch a deadly attack on the failed user.
Many soldiers of the Empire had already died because they failed to match with this harmless-looking monster.
It crushed them into at paste.
n and won alike were torn apart and stuffed into its stomach.
Noah could tell that the way it looked at him now was like a predator at the top of the food chain looking down at a helpless rabbit.
Cruel and playful.
Even though it was just a dog.
It seed to have quite the rebellious personality!
"Looks like it's fine if I use a little more force."
This was a space Noah had specially prepared.
It was not just strong and no one besides him would co near it.
So it did not matter how much noise he made.
Six elents circled around him.
Feeling his magic power boiling, Noah suddenly realized sothing.
Since his last level-up, it had been far too long since he had fought with all his strength.
The light of the elents shone on Hekatonkheires's fierce face.
But compared to the monster, the faint smile on Noah's face looked even more dark and terrifying!
"For the first experint, let's test how long this so-called unlimited regeneration can last before reaching its limit."
In short—he would start by giving it five hundred fatal wounds and see what happened!
...
The faint underground tremors reaching the surface left the Capital's citizens montarily anxious.
When no earthquake materialized, the panic faded, turning the mysterious shaking into casual evening chatter on the streets.
Down in the Science Division, however, the researchers were in a state of panic.
"Do we really not need to go check what happened?" one asked.
"Idiot," another shot back. "Professor Noah is the only one using that place. No one else is allowed near it. If you don't want the Enhanced Unit dealing with you, stay quiet and kill your curiosity."
"But..."
They swallowed hard, having no idea what Professor Noah was doing down there.
The intermittent shaking and roaring sounds made it impossible to calm down.
'He wouldn't make this whole place collapse, right?'
'Are we going to be buried alive?'
'What even is that roar?'
Just the sound alone had terrified the caged experintal lions into losing control.
While everyone remained on edge, Bill finally arrived late.
Hearing the commotion, he looked deeply down the passage leading to the dark underground space.
"Go back to your work," he ordered the room. "You don't need to worry about that guy. If you really can't stop thinking about it, go ho early today."
Compared to everyone else, Bill was the calst person present.
Having watched Noah grow over the past six years, he guessed the noise was caused by that biological-type Teigu.
But it did not matter.
After all, that boy was a monster capable of trading blows with the newly promoted General Esdeath.
As the youngest person in history to beco a general, there was not a single soldier in the entire country who could fight Esdeath head-on and survive unhard.
Except for one scholar who had no interest in the military.
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