Cosmic Ascension

CH 5: No food

— Are you finally awake now?

Sitting on the cold and hard ground of a desolate cave, Noah slowly opened his eyes. a sense of utter darkness greeted him. He had long since reached the point where darkness was not a nuisance for him.

What is the situation at hand?

— You have depleted all of your energy as you ran with that woman and faced that monster.

Tch!

Noah couldn’t help but click his tongue when he heard the Voice speak. He had been careless back there. He should have not forgotten that in this icy tundra, almost anything was possible, and there was never a lack of enemies and beings that were after his life. Though he was at the top of the food chain, mistakes could still be fatal to him. A hoard of bison was still enough to take out an injured lion.

“Ohh you finally woke up!”

Noah's thoughts were interrupted by the feminine voice that reached his ears. Moving his head, he looked in the direction the voice was coming from and then tilted his head, confusion lacing his eyes.

“You took off your armor?”

He asked quietly, watching the red haired woman who finally appeared in front of him, wearing a relatively tight skinsuit over her lithe body.

Though he could only see her face right now, she had beautiful dark skin which reminded him of his companion Leo from the time he served in the Zodiacs.

But that was all they had in common between them. Her skin had similarities to some of the Africans that he knew of in the past. But as far as he remembered, black people didn’t have red tattoo-like carvings on different parts of their skin.

Their eyes weren’t slitted like those of a reptile and they certainly didn’t have semi-long pointed ears.

‘I was wondering if I was in front of a human or not.’

Noah kept his nonchalant attitude but his eyes were slightly moving as he observed her, the situation and the overall surroundings nearly at the same time.

The last time a human met an alien, to his knowledge, it ended up in a war of survival to avoid the extinction of all of humanity.

So yeah… He wasn’t about to just stand and say that he would befriend all races that were outside the scope of humanity.

— Should we just kill her then?

In the end, he made one simple judgment. Though her prowess was still unknown, he was sure about one thing about the individual in front of him.

He could kill her in one hit before she could even react.

Thinking like this, a sunny smile appeared on his face. There was nothing wrong with being friendly to someone weaker than him after all.

“Yeah, I was finally able to recuperate my body and energy a little. Though I wouldn’t dare risk going out without at least this skinsuit. It helps me regulate the temperature of this abysmal place.”

Not knowing how close she had come to dying just now, Morgiana sauntered close to him, which allowed him to take a closer look at her appearance.

Her tribal-esque tattoos, intrigued him a lot. They were clearly not just ordinary tattoos that had been engraved onto the skin.

Looking at them closely, he had the vague impression that they were like rivers, where red flame was flowing inside in real time.

Currently, the tattoos seem rather dim in color.