Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday-Chapter 240: Sleeping Dragon

Grace smiled against his chest but didn’t get the chance to respond before Davian was pulling her away from Rune, cupping her face between his hands. His dark green eyes searched hers, still stormy with emotion.

"You scared me," he admitted, his voice quieter now. "Don’t do that again."

"I’ll try," she promised, knowing she would likely break it again someday.

He sighed, then kissed her. It wasn’t soft or hesitant - it was deep, firm, claiming. She sank into it, into the way his lips moved over hers, the way his body pressed against her like he needed to make sure she was truly here, truly safe.

When he finally pulled away, he rested his forehead against hers. "You drive me crazy," he muttered.

"Join the club," Rune added with a little smirk.

Davian let out a small sigh and finally lowered his hands. "Go and get changed. It’s already pretty late. I’ll prepare a quick meal so that we can eat and get some rest."

She nodded her head and immediately headed to her bedroom. It was almost dawn and they had stayed awaken throughout the long night. With how much energy they spent on this mission, they definitely needed good food and sleep.

She quickly showered and got ready before joining Davian in the kitchen. He had already showered while Rune was now showering. The two of them worked in perfect sync as they prepared a quick meal within half an hour.

Once they had filled their bellies with food, the three immediately headed to bed.

- - -

Days turned into a week, and things remained going smoothly for Grace and Greenstone.

It turned out she wasn’t far from truth when she guessed about things that were going on in Mapleton City and the restricted zone.

The government and the military were stunned by what happened within a night right under their nose, but no matter how much they tried to find the culprits who broke into restricted zone and took away whatever secret was hiding there, they were unable to.

Fortunately, Rune had cast a spell on the group they came across in Mapleton to remove their memories of Grace and the team. And he also removed any of their traces from the restricted zone - this left the military with no way to link the incidents to them.

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An entire week went by but the dragon didn’t wake up even for once. Not only that but it turned out that in its sleep, it had been consuming a lot of the pure energy that was present in the Realm.

The good thing about this situation was that no matter how much energy the dragon could consume, there would never be a lack of it as the Realm kept replenishing the energy. But the real problem was - why the dragon suddenly started consuming all this energy?

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2025 was quick to find out the answer, and it left Grace stunned.

"Are you saying that the Spirit Stone Inside it is about to level up? It will soon be a Level Ten Spirit Stone?" She asked, wanting to make sure that she wasn’t overanalyzing what the little creature just told her.

"That’s right." 2025 confirmed, forcing her to inhale deeply. "It’s Spirit Stone started consuming the pure energy of this world the moment it came here, and after consuming it for the past nearly six months, it’s about to level up."

While only one week had passed in the outside world, it had been nearly six months inside the Infinite Realm, and throughout this time, the dragon had been peacefully sleeping and cultivating.

Grace was happy about the news, but at the same time, her head was filled with questions. "Why it can level up by consuming pure energy of this Realm, but my other mutated Beasts can’t even though they have been living inside this Realm for years?"

All the animals she kept in her Realm from the very beginning, and had them consume Shadow Rain when it concurred, completed their mutation process long ago.

The two years of the outside world that had went by were worth decades within the Infinite Realm. In these two decades, every single one of her mutated Beast formed a Spirit Stone within their cores, but not a single one had been able to cross above Level Three.

On the other hand, there were infected Beasts out there who had already reached level six and above. This didn’t make much sense to her.

But it seemed like 2025 already had an answer.

"That’s because your Beasts and the ones in the outside world are completely different."

Grace arched her eyebrows, staring at the little creature for its choice of words. "What do you mean by different?"

"Let me explain it in this way - you consumed the Shadow Rain and so did the zombies. But while you unlocked superpowers, they turned into the monsters they are now. Why? Because they were out in the rain for too long, because their bodies weren’t strong enough to handle the mutation, and so on."

She listened carefully as 2025 continued to explain.

"Now if you try to compare the level of advancement between these two groups - the ones who ended up unlocking superpowers and the ones who turned into the zombies - you will see which one is evolving faster."

As 2025 pointed it out, Grace did realize that compared to those with superpowers, the zombies were progressing and evolving much faster. While most of the former group was still struggling to understand their powers, let alone leveling up, the latter group was already at the peak of their mutation.

"And why there’s this difference?" She asked 2025, curious to know why the bad ones were evolving quicker.

"Because that’s how it works." 2025 answered simply. "The darker, or negative, side of anything always evolves faster. But just because it’s showing results quickly doesn’t mean it’s good."