They were left with:


    Level 5 Earth Rune


    Level 4 Lightning Rune


    Level 3 Earth Rune


    Nero glanced at Nemsus. "Looks like both of you will be keeping your one chance for later."


    Nemsus nodded before consuming the Lightning Rune, his body shuddering slightly as the power settled within him. Then, he turned to lunia, guiding her through the process as she absorbed the Level 5 Earth Rune.


    Now, they were left with one empty Eny—one with a Level 3 earth rune and a 4 Enys that still had their Will Runes one of them belongs to a sage.


    The group stood up, laughter breaking the tension that had lingered between them. The weight of exhaustion still clung to their bodies, but for the first time in a while, they felt lighter—stronger.


    Nemsus has now


    Lvl 4 lightening rune


    lvl 3 light rune


    Luniaa has a


    lvl 5 earth rune


    level 1 sound rune


    “With this, our path to power just got a whole lot easier,” Nemsus said, flexing his fingers as if feeling the surge of new strength. His grin faded slightly, his voice lowering into something more serious. “When we get back… I swear, I’m going to kill all of them with my own hands.”


    They all felt the same. The fire of vengeance burned in each of them, unspoken but understood.


    Nero turned to Delilah. "Did you notice?"


    She gave a small nod.


    Nemsus frowned. "What are you two whispering about?"


    Nero exhaled, his voice calm but firm. "I figured out why those three monsters were at the village."


    Nemsus’s eyes widened. "What? How?"


    Nero crossed his arms. "That panther… he was newly a sovereing.so It must’ve been a territory battle between him and the wolf couple after all the first time hé arrived one of them was folowing him.


    And he lost, Badly.


    So He ran and ended up near the village."


    Nemsus blinked, piecing it together. "So the wolves were just hunting him down?"


    "Exactly," Nero said. "We got caught in the middle of their fight."


    "But how did you figure this out?" Nemsus pressed.


    Nero smirked. "


    “A Sovereign with two Level 5 and two Level 3 runes? If he had time, he could’ve just killed some sages and raised his two level 3 runes to Level 4. But he didn’t. That means—”


    Nemsus let that sink in, then let out a low whistle. "Now that you put it that way… damn."


    ''Wait hear this" Nero raised his handswhile screming


    The bastard survived !!!


    Nemsus''s face was waiting Evry time Nero does this it end up with him Laughing


    He raised his first finger and said, "That bastard was lucky enough to find the dead body of a Sovereign."


    After all to go to a level, you must first have a rune of that level


    He raised his second finger. "That corpse the bastard found likely contained a Level 5 Time or Earth rune which matched one of the beast’s own runes."


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    He raised his third finger. "By consuming it, the bastard became a Sovereign, even though its Will Rune was only at Level 4.


    There’s no other explanation for how those two idiots, Victry and that woman, managed to break its will. It must have been a newly-formed Level 5 Will Rune a weak, unstable one. I refuse to believe that Victry had a Level 5 Will Rune. He was too stupid for that."


    Nero raised his fourth finger. "Somehow, that lucky bastard actually succeeded in becoming a Sovereign, with his Will Rune reaching Level 5 in the process."


    He raised his fifth finger. "Then, the bastard fought two other Sovereigns—and somehow the bastard survived."


    Nero raised his sixth finger. "He ran into Gaius—and the bastard survived again.


    Then, finally, the bastard was killed by octavian."


    He raised his seventh finger. "Even in death, the bastard managed to take Victry down and injure that stupid woman."


    Nero raised his eighth finger. "Then the bastard died again hhhhh."


    Finally, he raised his ninth finger with a smirk. "And after all that… I stole the Eny of the basterd."


    Nemsus and Nero exchanged smiles before bursting into laughter, completely losing themselves in the moment. Meanwhile, Delilah and lunia just stared at them like they were mentally retarded, their expressions caught somewhere between confusion and mild concern.


    ....After a few minutes.....


    Nero looked at Nemsus, his expression serious. "It’s time. I need your help to ascend."


    Nemsus was silent for a moment, then nodded." remember once you started all the layers must Evolves to level 2, if you stop the ascendent mana will break you layers this and the pain, i assure it''s really painfull


    Nero responded "don''t worry"


    Do you have everything you need?"


    "Yeah," Nero confirmed. "A Level 2 Will Rune, at least one other rune at Level 2, and my Refiner layer has fully renewed itself."


    Fully renewed? Lunia asked


    "Every time mana passes through the Refiner, it breaks and heals," Nero explained. "When every piece of it is reborn, it''s technically at Level 1+, just waiting. The moment it comes into contact with Level 2 mana, it’ll ascend instantly."


    Nero sat down, settling into a meditative posture, his breathing steadying. Nemsus did the same beside him, placing one hand firmly on Nero’s back, ready to guide the mana flow.


    "Ready?"


    "Go."


    Nemsus pressed his palm firmly against Nero’s back, channeling a surge of Level 2 mana into his Eny. As soon as the energy made contact, he pulled his hand away—Nero was on his own now.


    The moment the Level 2 mana touched his Eny, Nero''s Refiner layer reacted, shattering and healing instantly. The old layer renewed itself, fully evolving into Level 2.


    But this was just the beginning.


    Now, Nero guided his own mana that was in the core from the level 2 Refiner, letting it bé changed and compresses into a lvl 2 mana before forcing it back into the Core.


    The problem? A Level 1 Core couldn''t handle Level 2 mana. The moment the energy hit, cracks webbed across its surface, deep and agonizing. Pain tore through Nero''s body, white-hot and consuming.


    This was where the Will Rune came in—without it, controlling the mana wouldn''t be fast enough.


    Because the next step should be very quick


    As the Core''s walls shattered, turning into a gas-like state, Nero clenched his teeth and used his Will Rune to compress and fuse his level 2 mana and the gas together. pressing into the original shape of the walls. The agony stretched on for minutes that felt like hours, but eventually, the fusion completed. The Core had fully evolved.


    But he still wasn’t done.


    Now, the Attracter.


    The Attracter was between the Refiner and the Core, so the process was different here.


    Ignoring his trembling limbs, Nero remained seated, steadying his breath. His Core was empty now—he needed to fill it again. Slowly, he began drawing in mana from the surrounding environment, compressing it into Level 2 mana in his Refiner before pushing it quickly through the Attracter to his Core.


    Each time, he had to wait for the Attracter to heal first.


    Every time Level 2 mana passed through, it cracked a little.


    He gave it time to heal—each time a broken piece finished healing, it returned as a Level 2 fragment.


    But he couldn''t just push a large amount of Level 2 mana through at once; that would damage too many pieces at the same time, making it impossible to heal properly.


    As every part of the Attracter renewed itself, it automatically became Level 2.


    Now came the final and fourth layer—The Definer, where his runes were.


    Nero started gathering mana from the surroundings, this time in a meditative posture. With the Attracter at Level 2 and, on top of that, three runes at Level 3 and one at Level 5, his speed in gathering mana was like that of a Dominus.


    It only took three hours before the Core was full of Level 2 mana.


    Guiding the Level 2 mana toward the Definer, Nero forced it to spin violently in a circular motion, matching the natural shape of the layer. The pressure made the layer crack, shatter, and heal repeatedly.


    This layer was different from the others—no matter how much damage it took, it could always heal.


    The pain was intense, but he endured it. Ten minutes later, the Definer had fully evolved.


    Still, Nero didn’t rise.


    Because he felt it—a power from nowhere, urging him to choose a rune to evolve.


    Without hesitation, Nero chose the Darkness Rune, pushing it to Level 4.


    He exhaled slowly, his body drenched in sweat. The process was finally complete.


    Some might ask why not just use someone else’s mana to advance this layer instead of going through all this.


    The answer was simple.


    Except for the Refiner, which didn’t care who the mana belonged to, the other layers couldn’t heal unless the mana was a perfect match.


    It was as if every person’s mana was unique.


    The mana had to go through the Refiner first—only then was it considered his own. If the mana didn’t match, the layers wouldn’t heal. If Nero had used Nemsus’s mana, his layers wouldn’t heal, and he would have lost his Eny forever.


    Nero opened his eyes… to find Delilah staring at him, concer


    n in her eyes.


    He turned to Nemsus, who simply smirked and said,


    "The bastard ascends."