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When Noah opened his eyes again, the scene before him was no longer that pure white space, but the room he had only lived in for a few days, yet was still fairly familiar with.
Just as he had been in the second before Gaia and Alaya pulled him away, Noah was still seated by the window, as though everything that had just happened had only been an illusion.
However, the object lying in Noah's hand told him that everything which had just happened was real.
As though replacing the ornate scabbard, a lavish, entirely golden sword shaped like a key lay quietly in Noah's hand, dispersing much of the surrounding darkness.
Gripping the hilt of that key-shaped sword tightly, Noah closed his eyes as streams of information flashed rapidly through his mind.
All of that information concerned the Gate of Babylon in Noah's hand.
Just as Gaia and Alaya had said, although Noah's Gate of Babylon was the same as Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon, it was a higher-grade Treasure Tool derived after modification.
Of course, the higher grade here referred to its functions, not its power.
The Treasure Tool known as Gate of Babylon possessed no power itself. It was merely a treasure vault. How much power it had depended entirely on the quality of the weapons and tools stored within it.
After Gaia and Alaya's modifications, Noah's Gate of Babylon was no longer a key that connected to a treasure vault. Instead, it contained a treasure vault within itself, preventing the trouble of Noah being unable to connect to it through the barriers between worlds after traveling to another world.
Thus, every item collected by Gaia and Alaya rested within the