The Glorious Evolution

After Levi checked on Jasmine for a moment, he swiftly went to retrieve the cannon and the dimensional wallet... he knew that they were strapped for time, and he needed to be quick if he wanted to pull off the story he prepared for the authorities back on Earth.

Once he had collected them inside his wallet, he returned to the inked sphere... Then, he told Jasmine that he was going to search for anything that could help her inside Azhukar’s dimensional wallet.

Levi raised his hand and placed it over the strange pyramid-like wallet... then, he whispered a short incantation under his breath, one that only he and Azhukar knew. If Azhukar had been underestimating Levi the moment he figured out he wasn’t an Oblivar, why would he bother to take extra precautions when using the incantation?

He whispered it so faintly under his breath inside the Shadow Dimension... this was enough to kill anyone’s ability to catch it on, but not Levi’s.

Cling!

The wallet cracked open from the top of the mini-pyramid as its tip broke off and began to levitate slightly. In an instant, Levi’s spiritual vision and Harmonic Spine were blurred for a split moment... and then, without warning, his consciousness was pulled inside.

When Levi regained his focus, he found himself floating in a wide stretch of land that seemed to go on forever... The ground was mixed between grass fields, gardens, and desert biomes. Usually, the dimensional wallet’s sky was just a peaceful black void. But in this case... the sky was cloudy blue with a miniature representation of a sun.

Levi could tell that it wasn’t real, just a massive white fireball resembling a sun, and illuminating the entire pocket dimension.

’You boy sure have struck the jackpot...’

Ash’Kral uttered with a wide grin as he gazed at countless structures shaped like pyramids, each one several stories tall... they were arranged in neat rows, stretching far into the horizon.

Every pyramid had a wooden door at the front, with engraved words on it.

Artifacts.

Natural Treasures.

Clothes, Accessories, Feather Products, etc.

Rare Collectibles.

Library.

Experimental Lab.

Each name was written in ancient IIthorien language...

”As expected of an emperor... he has a personal town here with everything he needs.”

Levi murmured as he stepped on the ground, walking between them... he could tell with his Harmonic Spine that each storage was filled to the brim.

If he weren’t in his Void Form, he would have already dropped to his knees and started praying for such a blessing.

Just the dimensional wallet alone must have cost millions of credits, and this wouldn’t be enough... because such detailed and environmentally friendly wallets weren’t easy to find, and one needed deep connections to get some intel about their sale.

At the same time, Levi’s Void Form stopped him from freaking out and focused on the task at hand... finding natural treasures with enough life force to help Jasmine.

”It must be here...”

Levi stood in front of the vault for Natural Dimensional Treasures... then, he pushed the wooden door wide open and stepped inside.

The moment his foot touched the interior, dozens of crystals hanging from the ceiling or affixed on the walls started illuminating dimly, casting a faint light on the insane treasury before him.

The inside was enormous... much bigger than the pyramid looked from the outside. Shelves as tall as the library’s shelves lined the walls and extended down long aisles... Each shelf was filled with glass containers of all shapes and sizes, emitting peculiar lights depending on the content.

’This is truly a forgotten kingdom of wealth... I see things here that have been sold for quite high prices even during my time...’ The Titan smiled.

Meanwhile, Levi did recognize some natural treasures from the network, but the majority were foreign to him... on the first shelf alone, he saw orbs of golden flame floating in glass jars with a sticker written on their surface... Nirvana Cores.

They were burning nonstop after who knows how many years... Nearby, long crystal tubes were holding radiant orange feathers... they were shimmering nonstop like they were blessed by the heavens themselves... their sticker said, Dawn Phoenix’s Baby Feathers.

Yet, Levi ignored anything and everything without a rich life force to them... he just kept walking deeper and deeper, feasting his eyes on natural treasures with affinities to Sun, Radiation, Plasma, Fire, and Soul Aspects mostly.

If he had to guess, there should be around 60% of them, while the remaining 40% had mixed affinities to other Aspects.

After walking for some time, Levi was lured to a shelf at the far back... unlike the others, it had only three glass containers, each one long enough to occupy their own shelf. Levi took a closer step and saw through his Harmonic Spine as those three treasures were emitting immense, rich life force.

It was so potent, he was forced to tune out the life force frequency to be able to see the treasures emitting them.

That’s when he found three wide, milky white, thin pieces that resembled tree leaves... Levi tilted his head slightly in confusion, but Ash’Kral and The Titan were left with raised brows in astonishment.

’Primordial Tree of Life’s leaves... Azhukar must have been really cherished amongst Radians as their follower.’ Ash’Kral commentated.

’These are Primordial’s leaves?’ Levi frowned, ’How? I assumed the leaves should be as big as stars...’

’They are even bigger than that... but these are still considered its leaves.’ The Titan explained, ’The Primordial Tree of Life sheds the decayed parts of its leaves every hundred thousand years... The Radians are responsible for collecting those decayed parts and cutting them into small pieces shaped as leaves... they share them amongst each other, allies, and followers if they were favored.’

’Decayed leaves... and yet, they possess such intense life force? How much life force does the real thing have...’

Levi couldn’t help but wonder, feeling like he was being told a mystical myth... these three leaves had the most potent life force he had ever seen in his life. Yet, they were nothing but discarded trash by the Tree of Life.

’One man’s trash is another man’s treasure... truly.’

Levi shook his head and asked Ash’Kral how he could use one on Jasmine... Levi had no interest in wasting time by gathering other treasures with decent life force to save up on a leaf.

He knew that the longer they remained here, the harder explaining themselves would be to the authorities. Most importantly, he had no idea how much life force Jasmine required, and he would rather use the best thing right from the start.

’Just put it on top of her like a blanket... she will automatically feed off the life force from the leaf.’ Ash’Kral answered.

Not bothering to continue his exploration, Levi touched the glass container... immediately after, he found his consciousness returned outside with the giant leaf in his hand.

But Jasmine was no longer in a passable condition... he found her seizing on the floor while her entire body was switching colors nonstop like she was glitching in a video game.

Without further ado, Levi shattered the glass on the side and used his aetheric energy to hold the milky white leaf... then, he gently put it on top of Jasmine, covering her entirely.

’Is that?’

N’ibby showed a flicker of interest as she felt the gentle, soothing, rich life force pouring through Jasmine’s body and soul like she was being blessed by a divinity.

”Primordial Tree of Life’s leaf... Azhukar was really favored by the Radians.” N’ibby remarked depressively.

”That’s what I said.” Ash’Kral narrowed his eyes at N’ibby inside the spiritual Bridge of Darkness.

”And? You want a gold star?”

N’ibby gave him an unbothered side-glance, leaving Ash’Kral’s eyelids to twitch in annoyance... he had a theory about N’ibby’s origin, but he realized that it wasn’t going to be easy to confirm it.

But he didn’t give up.

As he watched Jasmine’s true colors slowly return while the blinding light of the leaf continued to fade away, he spoke his thoughts aloud.

”To suck up the life force of an entire leaf... she must have used a Dominion minimum... nothing else can explain such an astronomical price.”

Seeing Ash’Kral side-glancing at her, N’ibby knew that he was attempting to find more information about her and Jasmine, considering some of her secrets were in the open.

However, Jasmine wasn’t the only one exposed today.

”Your little partner sure has put out a show for us...” N’ibby spoke with a deadpan expression, ”Half-Oblivar, Half-Human, three distinct weapons, three distinct spiritual auras, and a form that increases his strength to rival that of Tier 6+ powerhouses... If I knew no better, I would have assumed that he didn’t have a Shadowlife Seed at all... Maybe, dare I say, an Origin Seed? And not a single one at that...”

Hearing this, even Levi felt exposed for a brief moment... But he didn’t respond, focusing mostly on Jasmine... He trusted Ash’Kral to handle it.

”Well, well, well... you sure have a vast imagination.” Ash’Kral smirked, ”I believe this is the side effect of possessing The Origin Seed of Creation and Erasure...”

”I sure hope you get well... Miss Heir.”

”...”

N’ibby went silent for a moment and kept staring at Ash’Kral... as their eyes met, they could see the richness of experience and history embedded in them. This made her understand that Ash’Kral was no regular Nightcrawler... he might not be a Nightcrawler at all. But she kept those questions to herself and switched her focus back to Jasmine.

”She will decide.” She uttered.

Hearing this, Ash’Kral turned to Levi and gave him a slight head nod, seemingly telling her the same thing.

Decide on what? It was clear in Levi’s mind...

They were leaving them to decide how they were going to continue their relationship moving forward with all of their secrets in the open.