The Ceremony was nearing its end, and every ceremony participant received a Normal Tier-1 Origin Energy Accumulation Manual,
Origin Energy is the energy generated by the planet Nexus, accumulation of the Origin Energy allows people to break through and gain tremendous power. There are places in the Empire where simply staying in a rich origin energy environment will allow the people to have strong bodies and better physiques to absorb energy seamlessly. However, to absorb such energy one must awaken their talent first.
There are Nine Tiers to the power level common to all humans, even the Empire only has an ancestor at the Advanced Grade 5th Tier. Higher Tiers are inaccessible to a small city like the Dusty Ridge which only has a single 3rd Tier, the City Lord. For the newly awakened beginners, the first 2 Tiers are the easiest to breakthrough compared to the 3rd or even the 4th Tier, as the 4th Tier represents a qualitative change that cannot be surpassed easily.
The Great Families of the Dusty Ridge City only has experts at the Elementary Grade 2nd Tier or Intermediate Grade 2nd Tier and some top families even have Advanced Grade 2nd Tier Elders or Ancestors. However, they never show themselves and are always in seclusion from the outside world. The overseer of the Ceremony Hans himself was an Advanced Grade 2nd Tier Powerhouse Swordsman and the right-hand man of the City Lord. While Thor looked like a normal human being he might already be at the 3rd Tier or the 4th Tier for that matter. Other than them, the representatives of the families present were also at the 2nd Tier Elementary/ Intermediate Grade.
The Tier-1 Origin Energy accumulation manual can only help a beginner reach the level of Advanced Grade 1st Tier quickly but thereafter one must switch to a manual of their desire. Since some manuals focus on simply the amount of Origin Energy they possess, others focus on the strength of their body and so on.
The first 3 tiers are known as
Tier 1- Bone strengthening Level,
Tier 2- Blood Purification Level and,
Tier 3- Flesh Tempering Level.
The names of the Tier are given because of the parts of the human body they focus on refining.
After Levi received his first origin accumulation manual, he bade farewell to Caleb, before he started on his long walk home. But how could his thought processes stay idle, they were still constantly going through the information his talent had provided. He got the general idea of what kind of talent he had awakened.
First, the Deconstruction Algorithm allowed him to know the composition of the substance he wanted to deconstruct, meaning he would be able to tell the recipe of a dish just by using his talent's passive function.
Second, Deconstructing is to separate out or break down the items however one must decide what item to deconstruct from the target selected, even when one selects the item and deconstructs it, the target item might not be able to hold out since its structure has been disturbed and turn into a garbage item or turn to dust.
Third, every item chosen from the Target Item to deconstruct and retrieve must require energy to recreate it back to its original form before it was merged to construct the target item.
Looking at the general description provided by his talent he knew he had landed a gold mine or better yet a diamond mine. Even now he still was not able to understand all the information the talent was trying to provide but he knew that this must be related to his low strength as he was not even a Tier-1. But even the passive functions of his talent were amazing enough that he did not want more than what he could chew, Levi did not want to be greedy and instead wanted to keep his talent a secret so that he would not have to worry about people trying to backstab or kidnap him. After all, an Arcane Talent with this level of power is hard to find even in the entire Empire, Dusty Ridge was not even worthy of mentioning it.
As he was done reading the talent information, he was about to reach his Apartment when suddenly a commotion was introduced into the open streets.
"Attention, Sunset Petals are required by the Heiress of the Twilight Family. These delicate Flowers are hard to find and are grown using the moon's essence. If anyone has the Sunset Petals in stock, the Twilight Family will pay generously for it."
"The Twilight Family!? but what's this Sunset Petals Flower. I have never heard of them."
"Are you that uninformed everyone knows that the Twilight Family specializes in the cosmetics industry and requires Sunset Petals to create their high-grade creams or pills that increase beauty. Every female is a fan of their products. Actually, have you even seen their Heiress?"
"Of course I have!!, I might be uninformed but that doesn't mean I forget the top beauties of Dusty Ridge City. But why are they asking for something like this, can't they grow such flowers themselves like they had been doing it before?"
"I will let you in on some interesting thing, the Heiress has figured out some new formula and wants Sunset Petals for it. Unfortunately, they have all been used up to make this month's batch of their Beauty Serum. Believe me, if you have those flowers you will become a lucky man today and might even get to meet the beauty."
Levi who was listening to the conversations of the two grown men from a distance pondered before looking at the man who was announcing the news.
'This smells like an opportunity, finally, I will get to test the limits of this talent.'
He sprinted all the way to his apartment and looked for his stash of savings, before taking out some cash and going straight for the Twilight Families shopping branch, after wearing a black disguise, trying his best to not look like a thief.
"Good evening sir, how may I help you?" The receptionist said with the brightest smile he had ever seen.
"I want to buy 5 of your beauty serum."
"That would cost you 500 gold coins."
"Pack it up." He gave the receptionist the gold coins.
He had an expressionless face however, he was already bleeding from the inside.
'That was the entire saving I had. No wonder the Heiress wants the Sunset Petals, the serum that uses the Sunset Petals is so costly. They must be rare to find.'
All though he was from a rich background he was not supported much so money was a major issue for him. He might not have known Sunset Petals' rarity as a boy but he knew that Twilight Families main income depended on these flowers, since he was also from a rich family, he also had his channels.
He sprinted back to his apartment and sat cross-legged with the 5 serum in front of him. He then picked up one serum before calming himself.
'Alright here goes nothing. Activate!!'
Soon he felt a warm energy in his body, circulating towards his eyes. His eyes had a golden touch when he began to inspect the serum in front of him.
Soon he saw a picture of the 9 ingredients used to make this serum. He was amazed when he saw the ingredients that only he was able to see,
'So these are the ingredients and it also seems that some ingredients are in less amount than others.'
Soon he found the Sunset Petals he had seen before, glowing with the shine of a reddish moon. He began to retrieve the flower from the serum, when he felt a sudden dizziness, causing him a headache. A Normal human using a talent for a short period of time, on his first day of awakening was not common. It was all thanks to the effort he had put into developing his physique that he was able to do it. He felt the energy disappearing and appearing outside filling the picture of the Sunset Petals. It took 10 seconds that looked like an eternity to Levi before the Sunset Petals picture was filled and the flower took on a corporeal form and landed on the ground, while the serum turned into dust, that smelled of disgusting medicine.
He looked at the flower with a smile but looked at the remaining serums left to deconstruct.
'This is going to be annoying.' He sighed before he stored the flower in a proper pouch to not damage it before picking another serum. And then began the same process.
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The man sighed, he was a servant of the Twilight Family and was given such an important task by none other than the Heiress of the Twilight Family to collect the Sunset Petals. He knew that the last batch of the rare flower had already been used up but still took on the task in hopes that he might be rewarded if he was lucky enough to find the flowers in Dusty Ridge City. But unfortunately from the time he spent announcing to the public, everyone had a look as if they were lost, none of them were able to get such a rare flower in their life much less a flower that only the Twilight Family knew where to grow and find.
He looked at the sky the moon was already set high above his head and people were already packing up to leave.
He who was already tired from announcing, finally let go. And also began to wrap up when suddenly he was approached by a 5-foot-tall man in a black disguise, his first thought was that he was getting robbed but suddenly the disguised man extended his hands and brought out four flowers with a reddish moon glow.
"What is the Twilight Family paying for these flowers ?"
The man took a sharp breath at the sight of those flowers.
"Our family will pay 10,000 gold coins for one Sunset Petals flower, would you be willing to sell them to us... Dear Sir."
He was shocked at the sight of someone coming up to him and showing him the flowers, He who was a servant of the Twilight Family knew at a glance that they were original Sunset Petals and not fake.
"15,000 gold coins"
"Sir, that would b--"
"15,000 no less"
The man knew he had met a fierce opponent, he couldn't even see through the disguise the man wore. Otherwise, he would have immediately appeared at this disguised man's doorstep tomorrow and taken back all the coins.
"15,000 per flower it is, Sir, you won't be disappointed." The servant took out a token and a pouch of gold coins and tossed it to Levi, who was in the black disguise.
"Sir, I only have 60,000 gold coins at the moment, however, you can use the token of the Twilight Family to get the other 30,000 gold coins when you visit the Twilight Family in the future."
"Deal."
As soon as the deal was completed both sides went about their own business, while Levi was walking amidst the crowd who were going home, just in case someone followed him.
However, what he did not know was that the servant had already played his piece by giving him the token and knew that he would soon meet the disguised man someday as long as he had the token.
'Hmph, want to bargain with the Twilight Family, in your dreams.'
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When Levi returned home he took off his disguise and looked at his pale face in the mirror which was dried up. He used up all his energy to make those flowers and also failed to create the last one due to insufficient energy, which resulted in 4 flowers in total.