'These creatures aren't so suitable as Blood companions.' Noah thought as he stared at the massive corpse laid on a brown terrain. 'But they are natural shields, and I can improve their innate ability with my greed.'
He was inside the separate dimension, making the last preparations for the Body-inscription spell, and he couldn't help but evaluate the prowess of the Lazy whales during the process.
The trio had returned in the tunnel after Noah killed his target, and he had even asked the Demons to let the specimen in the middle tier go. Noah had long since learnt about the drawbacks that accompanied his hybrid status, and he wasn't willing to lower the number of rank 5 magical beasts in the world just to see those nourishments sold.
He was basically preserving the lives of the powerful creatures so that he could hunt them when he was strong enough to face them alone.