Levi was sitting on his chair in his apartment looking at the heavy pouch of gold with a wide smile in his hands.
"Who would have thought I would be able to earn 60,000 gold coins on the first day of my talent awakening, and I haven't even reached Tier 1 yet."
"The 500 coins I spent is not even worth mentioning, now that I have this much money. Unfortunately, today's earning was based on luck, I might not earn the same amount tomorrow Even if I put in twice the effort."
Levi originally had the idea to sell more of the flowers to the Twilight Family, but doing so would alert the higher ups of Dusty Ridge City. They would only let this kind of event slide once, however, if someone regularly sells a material they have a monopoly over, then the person selling them is in deep trouble.
Levi knew why the Twilight Family's servant gave him the token, he had dealt with the disgusting tactics of his own family, and this level of thing was child's play to him. Someone else might have fallen for this trick but he would not. But he did not want to alert the servant about this and accepted it. Obviously, he wasn't going to use the token either so he just kept it with him, waiting for the right time to dispose of it. He had already made a fortune from this deal he could have never made before he awakened, but things are different now.
Levi put the matter of the Twilight Family behind him and focused on the manual given by the Awakening Temple. He knew about this manual even before the ceremony started almost all the common folk used the manual to reach the peak of Tier 1 fast, some lucky people also broke through to 2nd Tier but only a few smart people among the citizens of the Dusty Ridge and all the Noble Families did not use this manual for increasing their strength.
Normally people say that rich people can buy their own manuals, however, there was a darker secret to this. The Noble Families all liked their positions in the Dusty Ridge City, and would not like others to stand up to them even if they had the talent for it, that is why they used the Awakening Temple to screen out potential talents and either make them submit to them or directly destroy their future of advancement through the manual given by the Temple.
The manual, though allows people to break through to the Advanced Grade of Tier 1 quickly, but it has a major flaw. The foundation of strength created due to rapid advancement was not stable and the accumulated origin energy was also not pure enough after all a low grade manual is not capable of providing them with pure and refined energy. Therefore, few people who noticed the changes in their bodies after getting to the stage of Elementary Grade Tier 1 instantly switched the manuals for a better future, while others were trapped in the dark politics of the rich families.
But everyone has the option to find better manuals at a very costly price, the Dusty Ridge City had its own Great Library which sold Origin Energy Accumulation manuals. That was Levi's next destination, but he decided to go there early morning it was already too dark now and he was dead tired deconstructing Sunset Petals from the serum.
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The Twilight Mansion.
In a room that smelled of precious and aromatic flowers hard to find, a woman was sitting on the bed with one leg over the other, covered by the veil of the bedroom that covered her exquisite figure, men would go mad just to take a peek, the woman pondered while gazing at the flowers in her left hand. Her hand was holding 4 glowing and reddish tinged flowers.
"I was expecting few from the noble families, but none of them had it. How was a commoner able to find it?" The Woman who spoke in a sweet melodious voice was the Heiress of the Twilight Family, June Twilight.
"Fortunately, the servant was smart enough to hand over the token to that man. If we can know where he acquired the Sunset Petals from we would get a new source for those flowers."
"I guess we can only wait for him to appear with the token."
Saying that June turned off the light in her room, preparing for the next day to experiment with the new recipe formulated by her, which would require her to be in top shape and adequate sleep was important for this.
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Early morning Levi got up to freshen himself to visit the Great Library.
The Great Library was about 10 minutes walk from his apartment so he did not bother to take a taxi and immediately went to the Great Library.
The Great Library had 3 floors related to Origin Energy manuals, one floor dedicated to increasing the amount of Origin Energy one can hold, and another floor that focused on increasing the strength of one can unleash. These two floors also had many overlapping manuals. After all every manual was different and had different effects. But Levi was unfazed by these manuals he wanted a manual that would allow him to unleash greater strength and also allow him to have a better foundation. Most people even from the great families would have already been more than satisfied with these manuals, if they had known Levi's thoughts they would have beaten him black and blue. Soon Levi, arrived at the third floor which contained a lesser number of books but of high grade quality, allowing people to go above the 3rd Tier and reach the 4th Tier.
Levi began to look through the manuals but he was amazed at the conditions needed to cultivate them, even some noble families hesitated to cultivate them because they would need to spend tremendous amount of resources to cultivate them. He was already losing hope of finding a better manual after going through 4/5th of the third floor when his eyes landed on a manual, [Seed Of Strength], he began to read the introduction of the manual,
The Seed of Strength Manual allowed one to increase their power exponentially and build a greater foundation, however, the condition of cultivating them was that he would have to accumulate a large amount of pure energy to cultivate them. The Seed of Strength manual at Tier 1 would need to accumulate a large amount of origin energy to form a seed and embed it into their bones at points specified by the manual, once one has accumulated origin energy in the seed to the brim, one would be able to increase their power by 100%. If a person has accumulated 2 seeds he will be able to increase his power by 2 times his strength, that is he would possess the power 3 times his normal strength.
However, this manual only allowed 9 seeds to be embedded into his bones before preparing to break through to the next Tier. But, this was not the end, the seeds would also help him expel impurities from his body every time he formed them, once he began to break through to the next tier the 9 seeds formed would also help the person to expel the impurities in their bodies thoroughly.
Levi liked this manual though it cost very much, with his talent he knew resources were not a problem, and he did not want to spare anything for his future. The manual only helps him till he reaches the 4th Tier after that he would not be able to use it and would need to switch for another high grade manual. He immediately checked the price of this manual, he was shocked to see the numbers.
'50,000 coins! isn't this daylight robbery, people do not even have much hope of cultivating it with it's stringent requirement.'
He grumbled but still decided to buy it in the end.
While he was coming home he also bought 5 bottles of Advance Grade Tier 1 monster blood at 100 gold coins each, these monster blood contained origin energy, that will help him breakthrough to Elementary Grade Tier 1. His pouch only had 9500 coins now.
He came home and did not waste a single minute with his preparations, and sat on the floor with the manual and the bottles of monster blood. He began to read through the manual and understood how to proceed with the accumulation of origin energy.
To test it once he took a sip of the monster's blood and began to absorb the energy contained in them. However, when he was absorbing the energy his body began to feel that the origin energy was not pure enough. He thought it was due to the Seed of Strength's method of accumulation. But he knew that that was not possible after all he took the blood of an Advance Grade Tier 1 monster just so he can satisfy the accumulation method's standards.
He stopped absorbing and pondered for a while at this anomaly. He then finally used his talent to know the composition of the blood. He was shocked to find that there was only a single ingredient's picture, after spending 5 minutes expending more power to analyze the blood he still found only one ingredient's picture that looked a spitting image of the blood just a little brighter and redder.
'Is my body feeling that the blood is impure through my talent? Does that mean I can deconstruct a pure version of the blood? But why can't I see the picture of the impurities.'
He then began to use his talent to deconstruct the blood's pure version from its older one, without thinking too much. The bottle was costly to him but he still had money to spend so he did not worry too much and began to experiment. Soon he got the pure version of blood and poured it into the bottle. And immediately took a sip of it, as soon as he started absorbing the blood he felt as if his body had become an animal devouring every drop of blood.
The energy in every drop had improved and he felt if he absorbed even half of the bottle of the pure version of monster blood he would break through to the Elementary Grade Tier 1.
Levi immediately sensed the opportunity and drank the whole bottle of purified blood. As soon as he finished the bottle he began to feel bloated, his body ballooned up lightly. He felt he might just break apart and hurriedly began circulating Seed of Strength, he frantically absorbed power and broke through the Elementary Grade Tier 1 in an instant, his body was still ballooning up and had no intention to stop, he knew that and still kept the circulation of energy.
His body already had signs of tears and trails of blood were flowing but he did not stop. Soon he began to feel something form inside his body and the bloated feeling slowly began to disappear.
"The first seed has been formed this quickly!!"
The feeling of something embedded in his skeletal was new to him but, he knew that it was the first seed formed due to the Seed of Strengths manual. The first seed devoured all the additional energy and got filled to the brim.
He looked at his body and tattered clothes stained with his blood, with a weak smile.
"Looks like I have to take some measures before doing something as drastic as this. Otherwise, my closet would not be able to bear it."
Levi wanted to continue but his body would not be able to bear it, if he continued now. He still needed to let his body get accustomed to his newly founded strength. He stored the remaining bottles. And went for the only place that would help him adjust his strength. But he would need some armor on his body first and even before that he needed to call someone who had been pestering him to go kill monsters. He picked up his phone and instantly sent a message to the certain someone of the Stone Family.