But what they thought was also the same thing that anyone would think. Does anyone in this universe have anything of value that could possibly be worth such items?

Unfortunately, Spire Points in the First Gate were not tradable. This was to prevent factions from using slaves to farm Spire Points and then harvesting them without actually putting in any effort.

Lord knew that if such a thing were possible, even the aliens and mixed breeds of the Eternal Universe might be in short supply by now.

Dante saw the doubt on their faces and predicted their next question, so he answered ahead of them. “The Eternal Universe has been spelunking in the First Gate for many years before even Lara was born. Even though progress during that period was middling at best, there came an uncountable number of strange things that could have been brought in from the outside.”

Connor and Lily shared a look and could only acquiesce. At the end of the day, it was Dante’s decision to decide what his goods would be worth, and it was their job to facilitate the smoothness of his business model.

After that, the group discussed various finer details and hashed out the initial plan for everything before shaking hands. Connor saw Dante and Beatrice out with Lily in tow, and his eyes were bright and full of fighting spirit.

Dante… this young man would certainly rise to a height never seen before. It was an amazing prospect to be able to help him along his path.

………..

Dante settled down for the next month and focused on spending time with Beatrice. Ever since her mother came back to life, the hardy and playful exterior she had developed in response to her emotional trauma had shattered, and the almost juvenile version of her returned.

Or like most people who suffered such trauma from a young age, her juvenile self never left but was simply suppressed behind the pain and the memories. This usually meant that Beatrice acted more childish nowadays, which was cute at times but also frustrating at times.

This meant that he had no time to meditate on his superpower to bring it to the A Rank, nor could he practice the True Summoner’s Will for long periods of time. The good news was that he had a lot of time to digest and work on the information that Kurtaghagt had given him. .

Beatrice was quite helpful in this regard, almost out of guilt for being so clingy and needy during this period of time. She couldn’t fathom why her emotions were all over the place recently, especially when she had been perfectly happy to watch Dante achieve his goals and grow in power before, even at the cost of their personal time.

She was also worried that her recent behavior would cause Dante to feel annoyed and tired of her since it was starkly different from what he was used to. This constant worry and turmoil left Beatrice in a low mood nowadays, and she tried to hide it.

Luckily for her, Dante was extremely perceptive of her mood swings and tried to accommodate her as best as he could. From a young age, he knew relationships would have ups and downs because his mother had taken time to educate him on such a thing.

Aileen had spent her youth being raised to manipulate emotions and use words to control others, so the first thing she naturally taught her son was how to manage his own emotions and be perceptive of those of others.

As such, Dante assertively cornered Beatrice again and made her spit out what was bothering her. When he heard her worries, he was amused, so he informed her of Levi’s powers then called the Truth Beast out.

“Levi, who do I love most in this world?” Dante asked.

Levi pointed a wing at Beatrice.

“Who do I hate the least in this world?”

Levi pointed at Beatrice.

“Who will I love till the day I die?”

Levi first pointed at Beatrice, then hesitated and pointed at Beatrice’s belly.

Err… Dante’s romantic flow was now completely ruined, but Beatrice couldn’t help but laugh at his irritated expression towards Levi who looked aggrieved because he simply could not lie.

Anyway, Beatrice felt heartened, and all her doubts were dispelled. She became much more relaxed and calmer over the next period of time, often giving Dante space to practice his various methods much like before.

In fact, she had recently been spending a lot of time in a catered medipod that helped with her prenatal care, often spending time in the Etranet, helping Dante build his quantum world.

It was an inescapable fact that he would need the facilities and resources of the Etranet to do this. While he could avoid the Etraverse corp’s domain on the quantum network, Dante could not host his quantum worlds in nothingness.

It was not the same as the internet where one could theoretically have an intranet because quantum worlds were literally existences simulated using the manipulation of special quarks to derive atoms, then molecules up to cells and tissues for organisms or matter for all non-living things.

The world in question they were making was a small one. It couldn’t be helped again; the kind of computing power and resources, especially in terms of time, it would take to make one like the True Martial World, which was large and shared, would take many years.

It was a small instanced world featuring a simple planet the size of Earth undergoing an invasion from an outer space species called the Void Terrors. It was a typical scenario of ‘humanity was about to be annihilated until the chosen one appears.’

When the work was finished, and the world was about to be launched, Dante used his Quantum Core superpower for the first time. It felt so good because there was no AI presence to limit his control, and since the world was small, he could alter many more things.

He immediately tweaked the power of the world to grant the humans the ability to awaken a special power to be able to passively and actively absorb energy from any source into base energy for their sustenance.

This included kinetic energy from movement, potential energy from standing still, heat energy from the sun, among others. To achieve this, they would need to ingest a special liquid that appeared randomly in the world called the Concoction of Absorption.

Yes, that was right; Dante was aiming for his 5th power system slot to be one related to energy absorption because that was his biggest issue currently. Really, until he solved this issue, there was no need to talk about the First Gate because he would always be forced to rely on ambient Zero Energy to maintain his performance.

Rather than using Gluttonous Inferno to do that, he would rather create a unique power system for Energy Absorption in itself. Alternatively, he could have gotten a superpower for it, but meh.

He would need to give things to the Black Spire, and the only thing that could amount to that value were the Phoenix Fire. Anyone, whether cautious or reckless, could agree that it was not wise when he could just use a slot from Quantum Entanglement. 𝘪.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Dante and Beatrice activated the world together, and its first instance ran. Dante entered within and spent some time in the world, about 7 days, exploring the entire place and doing some ‘bug fixing’.

Finally, he went to collect the Concoction of Absorption, which was a golden liquid that condensed on the tip of a special flower that grew near the Earth’s core. This?was so that the humans of this world could access it, but the Void Terrors could not since light and heat were fatal for them.

Dante glanced at the world one last time and couldn’t help himself. He used the 7th-tier Space Spell, Space Storm, to cause all the interstellar ships of the Void Terrors that hovered around the planet to be destroyed and saved humanity from extinction.

He then left the instanced world, which meant his actions were pointless as the existence of this world was ended. Then again, he didn’t do it out of heroism or anything, but simply because he could.

Now out, Dante immediately replicated the Concoction of Absorption and placed the original ones to the side with all other ‘original’ items from quantum worlds in his quantum space. He then took out the replicated one and ingested it.

Immediately, he felt a surge of energy rush through his body as his skin seemed to become airy. Immediately, he felt like he had become a vortex as all the energy around him was slowly sucked into his body and converted into base energy.

Dante had the feeling he could switch from slow passive absorption to voracious active one. The best part about this new power system was that it followed the same rules as the Eyes of Illusion.

It did not have ‘levels’ or ‘ranks’ nor any techniques that needed to be practiced, but its effectiveness scaled off his raw stats. How this one, in particular, worked was similar to an appliance.

When plugged into a socket, an appliance would draw the necessary power it needed to accomplish its tasks. Dante was the same. The range, power, and conversion speed of his absorption were exactly as much as his body needed.

So if he was in a place with thick energy, he might only absorb energy from a 1-kilometer radius to manage his consumption, but if he was in a place with scarce energy, he might spread out his energy absorption to even 1 million kilometers.

It was only possible because of the tweaking from the EX Rank Quantum Core. After all, this kind of unscientific rule-breaking of common laws was only possible by superpowers.

Beatrice wanted to ingest the concoctions, but Dante held off. He did not want her to ingest any special item while she was pregnant, and only do so after giving birth lest they harm their daughter unknowingly.

In the end, Beatrice could only agree. She wanted the concoction because she also had energy problems, which was why she stopped at 20,000 in all fields. However, even with her superpowers broken, she could still continue to progress forward and catch up to Dante in time.

As for this matter, Dante planned to not only fix Beatrice’s superpowers but also her energy problem, or he wouldn’t have made something as simple as the Concoction of Absorption that can easily be ingested and required little stress to work.

Now that this was done, the duo spent another month together in which Dante mostly worked on his Quantum Entanglement since he was getting closer and closer to the A Rank.

In the meantime, Connor and Lily had already handled most of the business’s early steps. The current universe was in an uproar from the information revealed and the list of goods available.

If Dante had literally not just beaten Lara on camera for all to see, many would have directly descended on Etonia to rob him. Even though they knew they would die, many almost couldn’t resist!

Any of these items could change a person’s life and value, not to mention the superpower-enhancing items that made those of the Alumni faction have bloodshot eyes day and night, even when they slept.

Many tossed and turned in their beds, eagerly awaiting the opening day of Dante’s business and the first auction. Many dug into their treasure vaults to find any strange and special items that had never been able to identify since Dante claimed he could.

Meanwhile, while everyone part of the Eternal Universe honestly scratched their heads on how to buy Dante’s items, those who were not a part of it were full of panic and worry.

As Levi had revealed, other universes had placed their spies in this one to monitor a competitor, especially after the initial rise of Portia who conquered so many lands before her death.

These spies were now having constipation at the thought of Dante!

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