Levi could only play, using his own body and weapon as instruments... his ears, his flesh, his mind, and even his soul... everything was vibrating at a quantum level, leaving him to experience the world no longer through frequencies alone... but delighted frequencies, appearing like they were mini bright colorful suns dancing to his beautiful tunes.
Levi ignored literally everything around him... the clock, Light Eater, the combat room, even his own situation... he just knew, if he wanted to win this battle, he must find out Light Eater’s hidden Subconscious Barrier’s natural frequency!
Usually, when Levi needed a natural frequency of something, he asked Ash’Kral about it as he was the true master of the Nine Senses Seed... however, when Levi tried to learn how to detect natural frequencies on his own through sounds, he realized just how challenging and precise it was.
He practiced it with his violin and Harmonic Spine, but unlike the rest of his techniques, he failed to achieve it... the perfection it needed kept eluding him.
Now... Levi was put in a situation that demanded his success... no giving up, no delays, no second chances. Either he succeeded or he would have a nasty battle on his hands.
’Ash’Kral said I have not just to feel the frequencies, I have to be them... I have to put a symphony of my own that’s so good it will make the world dance.’
Levi recalled Ash’Kral’s teachings, knowing that he needed to do more, to become one with the world. Only then would it allow him to detect the natural frequency of anything he desired. He must not order the frequencies; he must tune his own body and soul to the frequency of the world to create... Harmony .
Thus... he played like nothing before... he played with such genuine emotions, the viewers could only listen to the intensity within his improvised song... silenced, captivated, their eyes stunned, but their ears... blessed.
For they were witnessing a mortal’s attempt to break his limits... his doubts... his fears... and seek a hand to the world’s natural frequency.
For he knew... to align his soul and body’s frequencies to the world, it was the start of unlocking the Melody Aspect.
Whoosh!
With a dramatic motion, Levi drew the bow slowly from one side to the other, releasing a steady, high note that made many viewers feel goosebumps coursing through their skin.
Even Jasmine... who lived in a world of absolute silence... felt the vibrations moving through her body the moment Levi held that steady, high note.
She heard nothing... no song, no echo, not even a hint of sound. But the vibrations? They hit her like a wave; she couldn’t help but allow herself to be splashed.
Her breath stopped briefly as she slowly lifted her hand and touched her forearm... The instant her slender finger brushed her skin, her pores opened and a sharp, tingling shiver raced across her arm, then up her neck, then down her back.
Her eyes widened in disbelief.
’How...? Levi...’
She couldn’t hear the melody, yet she felt every rise and dip of it without needing her ears... for he had made her enjoy the song through her eyes, her bones, her nerves, and her entire body.
Neither Levi nor Jasmine knew this... but he had connected her senses cross-dimensionally through Nocturn’s contract that created a spatial bridge between her and the death game’s map.
Usually... this was something impossible, for a song to affect frequencies dimensionally this intimately, but it wasn’t to the Harmonic Spine.
Levi’s Harmonic Spine wasn’t just an organ... It wasn’t just an instrument.
If Levi knew anything about this, he would understand immediately why it was called the best audible organ in the universe.
It was the one instrument in the universe capable of crossing dimensions, bypassing silence itself, and sinking directly into the body for even a deaf person!
At the moment, Jasmine didn’t need ears or sound... Levi had made her feel the music anyway.
For Jasmine, who believed she would never hear another song from Levi unless she fell into another Reality Limbo, this was the closest she had ever come to hearing anything without pain.
’Levi...’
Jasmine’s eyes reddened slightly, getting emotional the more she felt the beautiful vibrations coursing through her body. Yet, she didn’t cry... for she wanted to enjoy his music to the fullest.
Yet... Jasmine wasn’t the only one moved... she was just one of hundreds of millions watching the game.
’What the... did he cast a spell on them?’
Gamemaster Gamble was left stunned as he saw everyone’s emotions fully displayed in their spectating eyes... they tuned in to watch battles, death, excitement, and forgot about their harsh reality if just for a moment.
But Levi’s song dragged them back to their reality and made them confront it... Some cried, some recalled the death of a loved one, some celebrated, and some laughed with tears pouring down their faces.
Levi wasn’t playing a tune anymore... he was in control of everyone’s emotions through frequency.
But Levi didn’t even think about their existence... he put his entire focus on his Harmonic Spine, which responded immediately. It let out a faint internal vibration that matched the note... It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t flashy. It simply aligned, and then Levi captured it back with his violin and released it in the direction of Light Eater.
The emotional viewers saw nothing but Levi playing the violin, and so as the confused Light Eater... Meanwhile, Levi’s vision was so alien, it would make anyone feel like they were trapped in a colorful, hallucinatory trip.
It was like the stable and detailed frequencies aligned with Levi’s notes so perfectly, they wanted to be part of it; they wanted to be in it.
And so... They did.
’Huh... musical notes... I can see them... is this what Ash said that time...’
Levi continued playing, adding one more note, then another... but his Harmonic Spine showed him more than the environment around him... it showed him colorful musical notes making contact with each other... merging, or splitting... all based on Levi’s chosen tunes.
He didn’t see just the ones inside his Harmonic Spine... no, his vision captured all the musical notes heading everywhere, even the ones connecting with the watchers’ frequencies.
The moment the notes touched their eyes... Levi was stunned to witness his sky of pitch-darkness getting filled with colorful, glittering eyes, resembling a mesmerizing starry night.
’So beautiful...’
Levi murmured inwardly as he dragged the bow, releasing another longer note... this time, he was able to watch the note’s trajectory break into millions of paths, each note carried a different meaning, a different emotion, to the billions of viewers watching. Some hated it, some blocked it, but the majority responded to it in kind.
The moment Levi felt this intimate closeness with the people’s emotions and the world’s, he suddenly felt a shift within him.
His breath synced with the sound, then his muscles, then his bones, and then his nerves... every silver thread connected with the Harmonic Spine and coursing through Levi’s body was linked to the world’s natural frequency... into one rhythm, into one Harmony.
The Harmonic Spine had become... The World’s Spine.
Levi achieved this state without forcing anything or summoning any power; he just genuinely wanted to feel the world, and it responded to him at last.
In this state... everything changed around Levi. His Harmonic Spine’s tunes were no longer an add-on... it was part of the sound itself, and so was he.
’Melody Aspect... I get it now,’ he whispered. ’Melody isn’t about the song... It’s about the alignment behind the song... It’s about the world, the universe, the people, and the emotions behind life... it is the orchestra of existence.’
A gentle note echoed from his back as Levi released one final tune with a faint smile behind the mask.
Levi Larson has unlocked the Melody Aspect through the hardest and natural method in the universe... through unlocking its affinity naturally.
And now... he no longer needed to ask Ash’Kral about the frequency of anything, for he possessed the key to exploring them on his own!!