Before anyone could react, tendrils of darkness shot out from Levi’s fingers, touching each of their foreheads and even their summoned weapons... Their eyes went blank for a split second, and then all the memories since the moment they entered the pyramid were erased until this very moment.
In his Void Form... Levi couldn’t create abilities or techniques unless he had the necessary resonance... However, his owned abilities based off the Void seed were all amplified to match his current power.
This allowed him to use Veil of the Forgotten ability to erase not just memories of his existence, but also what happened in the Dominion to protect Jasmine’s secrets. This was the least he could do for her after she saved his little brother.
The moment the Daywalkers and their contracted nightcrawlers had their memories erased against their will, they remained standing with a blank look on their faces.
Levi then used his aetheric grasp to destroy their NeuraLens to avoid the stored data landing in everyone’s hands... Next, he picked them up together and pushed them inside the portal one by one until only Jasmine remained behind.
She was the only one he hadn’t erased her memories, and it was for a reason... Levi had no plans to send her with them in her current peculiar state.
The moment the portal closed, Levi walked up to Jasmine who was curled up in the corner... her unblinking eyes were affixed on him, but he could tell... she wasn’t looking at him at all, but something else.
"N’ibby... is it safe if I left her alone for a moment?" Levi asked calmly, his vision switching to N’ibby in the spiritual bridge of darkness.
Only when he willed it did he show up in the bridge... in his current form, no one could see him in the spiritual bridge since his own spiritual aura was erased completely.
"Yes, but don’t take too long... she is experiencing a Reality Limbo and needs an immense amount of life force to pay the price for abusing her laws without having the strength or authority to back it up." N’ibby said indifferently, seemingly unsurprised by Levi’s current form.
Levi also didn’t care about her tame reaction... by now, it was clear that both sides knew that something was off about each other, and they just went along with it.
"What will happen if she doesn’t get the necessary life force?" Levi asked.
Levi wasn’t surprised with life force being the ultimate price for whatever Jasmine did in the Dominion to save them... he knew that life force was considered one of the highest forms of energy, going beyond even solar energy in potency.
Since everyone alive had a life force within them, and it was accepted by all seeds alike, it was considered as an emergency tank by many, using it only when the situation truly called for it.
"She will remain stuck in Reality Limbo until the price is paid or... her reality will shatter forever, leaving her trapped there for eternity."
Hearing this, Levi could tell that Jasmine’s situation wasn’t the same as the rest... instead of paying with her own life force, she was given the option to use now, pay later. Though, she would be stuck in a Reality Limbo until the price was paid.
Although Levi had no idea what a Reality Limbo was, he wasn’t in the mood to ask... seeing Jasmine, pale as a blank page and trembling with a petrified stare, was enough for him to understand that whatever she was going through was pure hell.
He didn’t know if she did it to save herself or the others... and to be honest, he didn’t care about her true motives... saving his brother was all he cared about.
Levi crouched in front of Jasmine... his shadowed, voidlike form stood in complete contrast to her pale, almost ethereal whiteness. From a distance, they looked like two opposing forces, meeting in a moment of fragility.
Levi didn’t know if she could see him or not, but he slowly lifted his hands.
He signed to Jasmine: -I’ll be back.-
Then Levi turned and vanished.
Jasmine remained in her corner, watching the last trace of him disappear... but her eyes reflected different scenes in the background, not the black inked sphere.
Flashes of colors, small bits of matter, whole worlds and stars passing by like memories... It was as if she could see and hear everything from the tiniest speck to the biggest star in the universe in changing colors that the mind couldn’t even perceive.
This was the only time she seemed to be able to hear... and yet, she wished to god she was deaf in it too as this kind of noise and vision was simply too much to handle and could easily fry anyone’s brain off... but Jasmine had already experienced it once and knew what she needed to do to offset the agony, if not by a little.
Focus on a single thought, scene, or a person... and that’s what she did, envisioning Levi alone until the scene that showed before her was of him blinking across the celestial river in the direction of the spatial tear... or more precisely, the Mad Emperor.
It was like she had her senses connected to the entire universe all at once... but once she focused on Levi alone, the rest of the noise and seizures lessened for a bit.
This allowed her to lift her hands with great difficulty and sign... smiling softly.
-I know.-
***
Meanwhile, as the Emperor was flying away, evading the obstacles in his path, getting closer and closer to the spatial tear, his instincts suddenly flared up.
Azhukar frowned, his senses darting everywhere but finding nothing... however, the instant he passed next to a massive yellow building slab, Levi suddenly appeared next to him without warning.
Shit!
Azhukar almost jumped out of his skin at the sight of Levi raising his hand like a gun, his shadowy fingers aiming at the Emperor’s temple a mere couple of meters away.
The moment he made the trigger pull gesture, a small dot of darkness shot out in Azhukar’s direction.
The Emperor twisted away at the last instant... The black marble shot past him and struck a ruined building behind.
The building didn’t explode... It suddenly folded on itself and dragged two kilometers of rubble inwardly into a single dot, vacuuming the entire area in an instant. The void closed a second later... leaving a gigantic empty zone where the rubble once stood.
The Emperor’s breath caught in his throat for a moment, realizing that the attack could erase matter in a millisecond.
However, he soon frowned, ’If he wanted me dead, why hasn’t he used his spiritual pressure or dominion? Is he playing with me?’
The Emperor stepped back, his sole eye narrowing in Levi’s direction, sensing that something was off about him... and thus, he wanted to test him out.
The moment Levi blinked next to him, planning to use Singularity Break point-blank, Azhukar’s body ignited instantly.
Ka-booooom!!
A mini white Nova exploded out of him, expanding fast enough to erase everything nearby... Levi swiftly gave up on his assault and turned his form intangible again, allowing him to blink away.
Before the light could get pulled into the Hungering Dark, Levi summoned his Starpiercer and hid tens of kilometers away from the Emperor. He lay on the roof of a building that was split in half. Then, he pointed his pitch-black shadowy sniper rifle at the Emperor, who was looking all over for him, but to no avail.
Levi’s Void Form allowed him to switch between tangible and intangible... when he turned himself into the embodiment of nothingness, he couldn’t be sensed, touched, or destroyed, while his speed matched the speed of light due to having no mass. However, at the same time, he couldn’t do any harm to others in this state.
Only when he turned into tangible state was he capable of channeling the void, darkness, and such powers to harm others. But this meant he would forsake the invisibility, speed enhancement, and invincibility.
It made sense... nothingness couldn’t be touched, but at the same time, the laws applied to it.
Thus, the moment Levi got Azhukar in his sniper’s crosshair... he swiftly became tangible and fired another Singularity Break.
’There you are.’
Too bad, when he made his presence public again, the Emperor spotted him instantly and his honed experienced instincts alarmed him.
Azhukar moved slightly to the side and watched as a speeding black marble landed on a meteor a hundred meters away from him.
Knowing about its second destruction, Azhukar didn’t remain in his position for long... he set his body in concentrated flames and swiftly got away from the danger zone.
However, when he focused on Levi’s location, he found that he was already gone, changing his location to another a couple of kilometers away.
Then, another void-like bullet arrived... and another, and another. Levi kept firing only once before changing his location to another, making it near impossible for the Emperor to be proactive.
However, at the same time... Levi’s attacks weren’t posing much of a threat to Azhukar.
This left him confused, feeling like he was fighting an amateur with a mere couple of tricks up his sleeve... he had seen how true Oblivars fought in the void.
They were so dreadful, so powerful, they would drive their enemies insane just for the fun of it. That’s the only reason he ran away, scared of sharing the same fate as them.
But now? He felt like he was fighting a mortal with the appearance of an Oblivar with limited powers.
"Who are you?"
Azhukar asked out loud with a deep frown... He received no response, and he expected as much... But this was all the confirmation he needed that he wasn’t in the presence of a real Oblivar.
His expression turned cold as he uttered while moving his head slightly to the side, evading another void bullet, "I may not defeat an Oblivar in the void, but clearly... you are a cheap knock off... tell me, you are a Half-Oblivar aren’t you?"