Immortal Kingdoms

Pfft!

Leonardo spat a mouthful of blood, his closed eyes snapping open to reveal an expansive darkness with black blood trickling down his cheeks. Nonetheless, a faint smile graced his lips.

…

Pfft!

In the higher realms, Rosaline opened her eyes with a pale complexion, blood trickling down the corner of her mouth as her crimson eyes flashed with horror.

She felt the will to exterminate all life pulsing from the depths of the black ocean. However, just as she thought she was done for, soul about to be obliterated, a suction force not unlike a gravitational pull snatched her strand of will into the depths of a boiling crimson nebula, quickly splitting into a smaller dense sphere that rotated along with the other three.

She didn't know that Leonardo pushed his innate martial intent to the limit, calculating through thousands upon thousands of timelines for a path of survival, eventually adding her strand of will to the orbit of his soul pearl, allowing it to orbit the bloodthirsty nebula.

However, even though she didn't know about that, when she felt a trace of Leonardo's will in the suction force, she allowed him to control her without resisting. That feeling of being under someone else's control, for some reason, sent her heart beating wildly.

She quickly shook her head clear of these thoughts and inspected her body. Then, she smiled bitterly to herself, almost 40% of her soul was sucked dry, cutting the efficacy of her domain in half.

After adjusting her breathing, she quickly tore through the spatial dimensions and jumped into the sub-dimension where Nier and Aria were resting.

Then, she saw Nier consoling Leona who was still crying while Ingrid was entranced by the sleeping Aria. As for Kieran, both he and Wendy were silently walking around this sealed dimension, curiously inspecting the place.

No one noticed her arrival.

She smiled at this scene while hiding herself in the folded space, silently wishing Leonardo good luck as a resolute expression surfaced in her crimson eyes. Then, she took a step back and disappeared.

She was only worried that the meeting between Leonardo's adoptive children, his blood daughter, and their mother would end up in a disaster. However, she was probably overthinking it as logically speaking, the three children had the blood of the same Infernal Race running through their veins.

…

On that day, news about the new Tesla's Chairman being the infamous Ghost Face and that the similarly infamous White Specter and Winter Soldier will stay behind to inherit Leonardo's Arcadian Legacy shook Valdmor, the Forbidden Domain, and Arcadia as a whole.

Only, no one took a moment to consider the unfathomable influence Leonardo left on Arcadia in his wake, mostly because no one knew of the entire civilization currently growing steadily behind the Sky Mountains.

As for Leonardo, Juvia, Pandora, and Lucas, no one knew where they went during this period as no one had expected Leonardo to come back after two years of absence. Similarly, no one could be sure that he wasn't deliberately keeping low-key to bait out another organization that is tired of living into making a move on his people.

When Leonardo arrived by the lake that seemed both familiar and unfamiliar, observing the waterfall that also seemed familiar yet unfamiliar, he caught a glimpse of Juvia and Pandora through the corner of his eyes.

Only this time, it wasn't only Juvia who knelt down naked, but Pandora accompanied her in doing the same.

Only this time, the two weren't trembling in fear, but in excitement and arousal.

Only this time, Leonardo wasn't so apathetic, but he directly stripped off and accompanied the two women for a sensual marathon that lasted for three days and three nights, pouring his energy into them until they both achieved their divine constitutions, allowing them to naturally achieve the half-step divinity realm in the future.

In these middle realms, unless they've encountered a celestial incarnation or the realm lord, no one would be their match.

With that out of his system, Leonardo left the artificial cave where Pandora and Juvia rested in each other's embrace, leaving behind a set of his clothes, a note, and a spatial ring.

Then, he brought out the teleportation talisman with a faint smile on his face.

His cultivation and fluctuations suddenly grew dim and weak, every bit of energy within his cells drawn into his soul pearl before it went behind the black gate, floating above the black sea.

Only when his body seemed void of cultivation whatsoever did he crush the talisman, allowing the force to pull him into the wormhole connecting to the higher realms.

…

An untold distance away in the Interstellar Supreme Court's Temple, the middle-aged man opened his starry eyes, muttering something to himself before crushing a piece of jade.

…

In a chaotic region of folded space and twisted sub-dimensions, a decently tranquil zone suddenly pulsed as twelve indistinct silhouettes appeared. One couldn't even judge whether or not they were humanoid, let alone their race, gender, and age.

"Your security measures are getting even more ridiculous! What the fuck man?!" The same person who always complained, albeit his voice now sounded vastly different, spoke up.

However, no one bothered with him this time. Instead, the other eleven waited patiently for the person who summoned them to speak up.

"The House Lord made some arrangements with the Interstellar Supreme Court's people after some incentives. They had also contacted House Hestia and offered sufficient compensation in the form of free licensed passage to the Core Mainland in exchange for that Leonardo Evernight."

Everyone was silent for a moment before an unfamiliar voice with an unfamiliar tone spoke up, "This is going to ruin our preparations in the sect, how are we supposed to corner Lady Nier now? New disciples of the institution can't leave the Holy Land before completing the mandatory three years of service in the army."

"It can't be helped, the Great Jin Dynasty is pressing the Judicial Sector, and the Judicial Sector is pressuring the Holy Land for talented cultivators. I heard about the matter with Lord Hestia-…"

"Shut up! If you want to die, don't involve us! Dogs only bark when the master commands it, if you don't even know how to be a dog, you shouldn't have signed up for this assignment." The mysterious voice spoke coldly, interrupting the flow of the conversation.

"My House Lord said that we naturally don't need to worry about this. Even if that Hestia girl can run around the Core Mainland, she doesn't have the cultivation methods necessary to survive, let alone sufficient resources and knowledge to cultivate. Moreover, it's not like House Hestia is the main dish, it could only be considered an appetizer at best."

"No matter how far she runs, if we can take House Lord Rosaline as captive, she will naturally come to find us."

…

While the alliance representatives of the twelve houses were discussing, Leonardo crossed the wormhole and landed in the familiar main lobby of the small house where he had his first experience with a woman, although his memory of that moment could be considered fragmented at best.

He could smell a dense odor of blood, sighing to himself that what ought to come would truly come.

Boom!

A heavy aura descended from above, striking against Leonardo's chest as the entire house and the asteroid beneath it exploded to bits.

Thirteen powerful auras similar to Nier's boundless aura locked down space-time.

Leonardo looked up to see Xavier standing behind a masked individual in space, a faint smile of ridicule on his face.

Leonardo could feel his consciousness gradually sink, so he smiled back with ridicule before closing his eyes, withdrawing his soul and consciousness into the black gate before its doors shut with a heavy thud.

Xavier and the other masked men had a bad feeling as they hadn't expected Leonardo to come by himself with no one for them to take as a hostage, let alone the fact that he had shut down his own consciousness.

"Hmph!" One of the masked men spoke up, "So what if he shut himself down? If we want to investigate his memories, no one can stop us! Take him back to the underground prison where we keep 'that' person, make sure no one finds out about it, this person is definitely an outsider."

What he meant by an outsider was a planeswalker, but no one would dare say this word in the presence of an actual planeswalker.

The twelve men nodded, quickly escorting the unconscious Leonardo away.