The Glorious Evolution

Chapter 268: What Do I Gain From This?

After Levi voiced his decision to help the two teams, everyone respected it... whether it was what they wanted or not, it didn’t matter. The captain’s orders were final.

However, Levi still shared his reasoning.

”Whether it’s the right thing to do or not, I know that neither team is going down without putting up a fight... we all know what that means,” Levi said.

Hearing this, everyone showed a deep furrow, realizing that they had missed such a critical revelation. Besides doing it for the sake of helping each other out, if they decided to ignore the two teams and use them as a distraction, it wasn’t going to end on a good note for them either.

After all, they wouldn’t hesitate to go all out to save themselves if it meant avoiding returning to Earth empty-handed... when they do this, Arthur and the rest couldn’t imagine what would happen to the fractured dimensional membrane.

Their own exploration might be canceled if the instability reached a certain level... a level that threatened the planet’s collapse into the Shadow dimension.

The only good side of such a situation was the shift of blame... instead of falling on Levi’s team, the other two teams would be the ones getting burnt.

”In other words... It’s a lose-lose situation.” Nurah frowned, realizing that the other two teams also had the choice of whether to be nice or assholes.

If they were nice, they would leave the site under their care even if it meant leaving it empty-handed... if they were assholes, they would ruin everything for everyone in retaliation for not helping them out.

As The Titan mentioned... it was hard to be kind, and stay as one, when almost everyone was in it for themselves.

”I have the fastest mount, so I will deal with the Leviathan... I will try to buy you time as you guys focus on saving them from the swarm.”

Before Arthur and the others could protest at him taking the most difficult task again, Levi continued with the explanation of his plan, ignoring their dissatisfied expressions.

After he was done, he uttered calmly, ”I will meet up with you inside the Pyramid... don’t forget to lock it behind you.”

Then, he left Arthur to ride on Jasmine’s nightmount and took off on his own towards the gigantic flying shadowy phoenix that was wreaking havoc in the city... as they watched his disappearing figure, Arthur and the girls glanced at each other with stern expressions.

”Let’s go save these idiots,” Nurah uttered irritably, not pleased with having Levi distract a Leviathan Class Beast for their sake.

Although she knew that the Leviathan was out of energy, just like the rest of the Corrupted, which had weakened its overall strength immensely, it was still a Leviathan.

’If I am doing this, I am going to make the best of it.’

As Levi flew rapidly in the direction of the gigantic, shadowy phoenix, many thoughts were coursing through his mind on how he was going to handle it.

In the eyes of Arthur and the others, he was just going to buy them time by distracting it... But in reality, Levi never had such a plan in the first place.

He knew it was almost impossible to find a Leviathan in such a state in the real world... no access to abilities and alive solely through the corruption.

It might not seem like much, but he understood that a Corrupted Leviathan was nowhere as dangerous as the real deal... that’s because the corruption turned them into Tier 1/Tier 2 nightcrawlers when it came to intelligence.

In other words, the Leviathan Phoenix had absolutely no idea that its spiritual prowess was so powerful, it could literally cripple them purely through its spiritual aura!

Instead, it was chasing after the two teams, akin to a giant, stupid bird that had no idea what was going on in its mind besides eating their sunlight.

As for its dominion? It couldn’t use it too since it consumed an insane amount of solar energy to bring it to life... so much that early-stage Solarbound Daywalkers were advised to either use it right away or avoid it since its energy consumption might devour their entire tank and life force too.

’If I can take it away from the city, I might be able to devour its soul through False Sun.’ Levi steeled his expression, ’A Leviathan’s soul is worth hundreds of Tier 4 nightcrawlers if not more.’