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At first, when half of Ophis's power had been taken away by the Hero Faction and brought back to the Khaos Brigade, Noah had indeed wanted to take that power back and return it to Ophis.
It had been mentioned several times before that although only half of Ophis's power had been taken away, it had turned her infinity into something finite. In terms of strength, her decline had been far greater than merely half.
Yet even so, Ophis, whose power had greatly diminished, still possessed strength that surpassed the top ten experts of the other worlds. She had surpassed the Four-Digit Level and stood in the ambiguous rank between three digits and four digits, far beyond comparison with the Asura Gods and Buddhas who were only at the Four-Digit Level.
One could imagine what state Ophis's original power would return to if she recovered the half she had lost and restored the finite to infinity.
Honestly, if Noah had lost half of his strength, he would have wanted it back no matter what.
With that mindset, Noah had initially wanted to help Ophis recover her lost power. Ophis herself, on the other hand, had not cared about it at all.
Est and Athena naturally knew what Noah was thinking.
That was why, after Noah brought Lilith back, Est had asked him whether he planned to merge Ophis and Lilith back into one.
However, that would have been the same as erasing Lilith's existence.
Although they had not spent much time together, Noah could not bring himself to do something like that.
Lilith was no longer simply an individual possessing half of Ophis's power. She was another