Sometime later... in the Boundless Expanse.
Levi lay on the bed in his studio apartment, his head resting on a warm pillow... he had a faint, relaxed smile as he slept for more than six hours uninterrupted.
The moment Levi left the death game, he didn’t return to the World Tree straight away... he understood it would be difficult to return to the Boundless Expanse without a reasonable excuse.
Hence, he decided to take an extra day to rest and handle his post-game business before he reunited with his brother and friends.
As for the Raids and such? Levi told them to focus on their evolution to Warden rank before they could embark on any new Raid... at the moment, his brother and the girls were taking advantage of the conference resources and the previous earnings from their raid to hasten their evolutions and push their growth as much as possible before their next raid... especially when a Faction War–based raid awaited them in less than two months.
Since the winner of this raid was automatically going to earn a slot in the tournament, no one was taking their preparations lightly.
After dozing off lazily for a couple of minutes, Levi forced himself off the warmth of the bed... a bit irritated.
He missed sleeping without a single thought in mind so much... but duties called, and he couldn’t embrace his inner laziness for too long.
"I hope you had a nice slumber... Baron Celestial." The Titan wished with a faint chuckle.
"We have a noble amidst us now; you’d better show him some respect." Ash’Kral scolded.
"You got nothing better to do, geezers?"
Levi’s brows twitched, but he was in a good mood, and he refused to allow their teasing to get to him... he sat on the bed and ruffled his messy hair, yawning lazily.
Then, he looked in the direction of the toilet, and when he saw the infested nightcrawlers’ worms gathered underneath the toilet seat, awaiting their morning treat, he swiftly activated his harmonic spine’s vision to paint his world.
Still... he went to the toilet and pulled his pants down... then, he opened the dimensional network screen and started typing his name on the explorer page.
He had yet to check the network after his game as he went straight to bed to recover some of his mental fatigue... Nocturn might recover his spiritual and energy tanks while also fixing his injuries, but the mental fatigue itself could be fixed only by going offline for a couple of hours to reset. Those six hours of sleep were more healing and rewarding to his mental health than any medicine... at least for him.
"Whoa... that’s a lot of research results."
Levi raised a brow in surprise after noticing both of his names were trending across the entire dimensional sector: Three-Body Problem and Celestial.
He didn’t even get to type his full name... just the first word was enough to pop up thousands of articles, videos, clips, fan reactions, edited clips with music, and more.
Most of them were linked to a single-dimensional site called: The Celestial Stargazers Society.
’When did I create a society?’ Levi murmured curiously as he pressed on one of the links, taking him to the home page.
The moment he was transferred to the home page, Levi’s mouth parted a little in daze... he felt like he walked into the holy grail of anything related to his Nocturn Ring’s persona.
The website opened with a black starry background and three glowing stars orbiting around each other... one gold, one red, one black.
In the center of each star, there was a list of his three signature weapons with related abilities or techniques to them.
The Sun had links related to Levi’s Half-Radian bloodline and everything he used that tapped into the sunflame powers.
The Void star had links based on his Half-Oblivar bloodline and abilities related to Void powers.
The Crimson Star had the Celestial Bloodline... with abilities and techniques related to sound, illusion, melody, and aether aspects.
Each technique or ability had a link sent directly to a clip of Levi using it.
Just as Levi was about to praise the society founders for such a great interface and its organization, a sentence showed up in bold letters in the center of the screen, surrounded by the three celestial stars orbiting around it.
-The Celestial... The one to unite us all.-
Levi read it once, twice... if he had eyes, he would be rubbing them, questioning if what he read was real.
In the end, he couldn’t hold it in anymore and cursed, "These pricks... are they trying to get me killed! What kind of shitty fan page is this!!"
’The one to unite us all.’ Ash’Kral snickered, ’They sure are putting their delusions of peace on your shoulders.’
’They must be messing around.’ The Titan smiled, ’They saw your duo bloodlines and created a motto that will generate as many clicks as possible.’
"Clicks? This is my life they are playing with."
Levi’s expression turned annoyed as he continued his exploration of his society... as much as they pissed him off, he had to admit that the society was really well done.
The theme mixed cosmic elegance with the thrill of the Celestial’s death-game persona... the menu bar floated at the top with clean neon-red text: Home... Celestial Moments... Fan Forum... Lore Hub... Membership.
Scrolling revealed a smooth transition where the three celestial stardust fell vertically to uncover each section... the homepage featured a stylized silhouette of the Celestial in a radiant black outfit, standing above the ruins of each game he conquered... a subtle nod to his death-games performances.
Those ruins weren’t just for show... when Levi pressed on the latest Joker’s game ruins, he was taken to a different tab.
He was left astonished to see all his highlights already masterfully ranked from the most viral to the least. In addition, there was a freaking playlist for the scores he performed in the game; each song was given a name and had the full video of Levi’s performance showing right underneath it.
’I slept for six hours... six hours, and it was enough to build and organize something like this? Who the hell are my fans?’
Levi didn’t know whether to feel honored or creeped out... the entire site didn’t feel like a fan page to him, but a cult with him as the mysterious leader.
Levi shook his head and checked the most viral highlight of his last game... it was of his battle against Drayven tilted as: The Celestial is an idea... and ideas never die.-
After the highlight played, Levi was left speechless to hear his own song played in the background while watching himself getting put in death’s door by Drayven’s nuke. Then, he started burning in wild sunflames, standing up against all odds, and manifesting his own Sun that he wielded with his violin to victory.
It was hype from the start of the highlight to the end... it looked like the citizens of his dimensional sector approved.
The highlight alone amassed more than one hundred billion views in six hours and close to billions of comments underneath it!
Levi scrolled down the infinite sea of comments, and all he saw was the fire emoji dominating the comments with his name almost always written next to it... As always, Levi ignored the good comments and went to check the hateful ones.
This time, there were plenty of them.
-Bro really thinks he’s a half-radian now? Using OUR light while dragging it through Oblivar sludge? Sit down dog!-
-You’re not one of us, Celestial! Stop using our deities’ powers!!!-
-The Celestial using Oblivar power makes me sick... to think our deities’ powers are being used in the same breath as sunflames... Ewww! Someone get rid of him already!-
-He’s not worthy of the Abyss... Not even close!-
-Radians don’t claim him! Oblivars don’t claim him! Man’s literally power-homeless, haha!-
-Using both just proves he belongs nowhere, and this shall be his reality until the day he dies!-
Levi’s smile faded a little as he read those remarks... it wasn’t like they hurt him emotionally, but it made him recognize just how deep each faction’s hatred was for another. He always knew that Radian and Oblivar followers despised each other, but to be denounced by both factions because he used both of their powers? He didn’t expect this level of hatred.
Usually, when someone was using both unique powers of two warring factions, they would be considered a vital resource that could be used by each side.
After all... he was literally the perfect spy.
Instead, not a single follower mentioned something like this... it was like their life was gold and white or black and white... no other color was welcomed.
"Well... fine by me, I guess." Levi shrugged, "I won’t be too bothered to join any side since they are fighting over who hates me the most."