In just a period of one month, Sebastian achieved so much.

In this same time frame though, Sebastian’s greatest archenemy, the Atlantis Empire achieved a lot more as they were already halfway to taking over the Hot Realm Great Sea where they started their conquest.

Things didn’t go exactly as planned by Queen Auralis as the native forces of this Great Sea put up a much fiercer resistance than estimated.

Despite the overwhelming force that they came with, despite their inexhaustible reserves as more and more warships invaded the Great Sea, the native Empires resisted tenaciously like bulls that never gave up.

Despite the animosity between them, once they saw their lives on the line, the Beast and variant human Empires in the Hot Realm put aside their differences as they all put up a fight against the Atlantis Empire.

Even though the mighty Pugilist Sea King was the one who led this fight, they were only able to put a fight against the Atlantis Empire and not do more.

The Overlord Empire of Oceania was just too much of a terrifying opponent to face when they mobilized to war at their full strength.

The speed of advancement was slow until Queen Atlantis finally demanded the presence of her son. Once Prince Poseidon showed up on the battlefield, the battlefield situation experienced a massive change.

With Queen Atlantis leading the forces, it originally felt like the situation of a warrior using a wooden blade; where the warrior was the numerous forces and warships of Oceania while the wooden blade was the Queen.

Now, once Prince Poseidon came, it was like everything changed as the situation now felt like the warrior suddenly replaced his wooden blade with a legendary well-crafted Mithril sword.

With Prince Poseidon at the head, the forces of Atlantis started cutting through those of the Hot Realm as even the Pugilist Sea King could no longer be as imposing anymore on the battlefield.

Prince Poseidon was truly the strongest warrior of Atlantis, and in this conquest was his full strength showed to the whole world.

The more the Atlantians pushed, the more the will of the native Empires wavered and the more of them defected to the side of the enemies.

This presented a situation where their forces kept on growing thin while the forces of their enemies kept on expanding. They were slowly on a path towards doom, it would only take a matter of weeks now before the Hot Realm was taken.

The Pugilist King was frustrated but there was nothing that he could do.

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While the Atlantians made their move openly in the Hot Realm, after his one-month stint where he leveled up to the pinnacle of the Red tier realm, Sebastian laid low again as he got set to break through a great dam.

Sebastian finally started the practice of the ancients, like all other pinnacle Red tier predators, he started searching for inspiration for his breakthrough.

For the first 2 weeks, Sebastian searched and searched but like all other Red tier predators, the inspiration never came, it never came so fast.

Sebastian was already getting a little frustrated, he dreaded the thought of spending as much time as Eliana and others spent to finish this sublimation evolution, he needed to think of a solution.

Sebastian only needed to think a bit before he remembered a name, Manapedia!

Without hesitation, Sebastian packed his load and left with his main Megalodon body to the nearest Manapedia where he was easily accepted.

Sebastian did not hide his identity, once he revealed his identity as an owner of a Celestial Beast, the respect that he got was amplified as all his requests were fulfilled. Sebastian got to go to the most mana-saturated part of this Manapedia.

There, Sebastian called Goldie out as he started meditating. He not only meditated on the primordial origin essence, but he also meditated on Goldie since his Celestial Beast was an extension of the primordial origin essence.

Sebastian soon forgot his perception of time as he meditated but all he knew was that at some point, his consciousness seemed to float to a high realm.

In this high realm, Sebastian saw the universe. This time, unlike the normal depictions of the sun, the moon, and the 9 planets as he was taught back on earth, Sebastian saw more, he saw a lot more.

Sebastian saw different massive suns that illuminated different galaxies, he saw thousands of planets and he also saw the corner where Oceania was placed.

It was true, Oceania was indeed a weapon!

This massive planet was heavily fortified like a war fortress. Sebastian could only see a little of the details, but from the little that he saw, he knew that Oceania was an extremely advanced weapon of mass destruction.

To the naked eye in space, there was nothing in the spot that Oceania occupied since it was obscured with extremely high-tier illusion magic.

Sebastian only saw it because he was a part of Oceania.

Sebastian intended to get closer and see more but before he could understand what was going on, his consciousness flickered and disappeared.

Blink!

When Sebastian regained his consciousness, he was already back in his body and he was still in Manapedia. Before doing anything else, Sebastian called out to the nearest Megalodon who was awake and asked.

"How long have I been out for?"

"2 weeks".

Sebastian was surprised as it felt like he spent only a second but before he could comment, a system notification lit up the next moment.

[You have understood more mysteries about Oceania!]

[Congratulations! You have gained the mark of Oceania!]

[Congratulations! You have gained the mark of Oceania!]

In the blink of an eye, Sebastian gained 2 additional marks in Oceania which proved his decision to come to a Manapedia to be the right one.

Before he could rejoice and celebrate his success, Sebastian’s eyes suddenly turned drowsy and heavy as it felt like he just worked 365 days of the year straight without getting any rest in between.

Before Sebastian could understand what was happening, he fainted.

It was at the last moment before he fainted that he understood. At 7 accumulated marks of Oceania, he was already a prime candidate to get easy inspiration and due to his current location, the inspiration came easily.

Sebastian drifted merrily into the world of his mind.

[Host’s evolution process has started. You have only 30 minutes to contemplate and make the choices that you want for your evolution route.]

[Your remaining evolution time- 29: 59.]

[Make your choices.]

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