Chapter 321 Beatrice's Decision

"Anyway, I will focus on dealing with Lara for now, but dont forget to do your part, okay?" Etz Chaim prodded Dante verbally with a genial smile.

Dante sized her up and down before asking. "Well, I'll need more help. Why don't you let me select two abilities from the list from now on?"

Etz Chaim's expression froze, and she glared at Dante. "Hmph, you think it's easy granting those abilities? Hosting your single superpower consumes more energy than the entire First Gate!"

"Really? Then thank you for your sponsorship so far. I will try my best to achieve our mutual goal and see it through to the end." Dante glanced at her silently for a second then spoke with a smile.

Somehow, Etz Chaim felt that he was insincere. However, the timeless entity felt that it was just being sensitive because Dante's words were clear-cut and positive. As such, she nodded with a happy smile.

"Alright, that's that. Thanks to you reaching the S rank, I have finally somewhat descended into your soul space with my true body, which is why you can see me like this now. So you can keep in touch if anything goes wrong."

Etz Chaim seemed to be about to leave, but Dante quickly stopped her.

"You never did say why you chose me to be the vanguard for this endeavor." Dante pointed out.

Etz Chaim paused and placed a finger on her lip thoughtfully. "Oh, right. The answer to that is quite simple, really."

She then shrugged and revealed the truth. "It's because you somehow managed to charm an authentic forest fairy, something that's never been done in history."

Dante blinked in surprise and confusion. "Excuse me?"

"Yeah. You obviously weren't my first choice when I noticed this problem hundreds of years ago. My first choice was to tell Luka, but he waved his hand and told me to handle it because he had to deal with Origo and Deus," Etz Chaim continued nonchalantly.

"So then I naturally contacted Myra's army of forest fairies, the second most powerful beings in higher-dimensional space. Because of the difficulty of descending to lower spaces, they had to reincarnate themselves into native lifeforms in random universes, like Lara did."

"Many failed and died in their new lives, returning to higher- dimensional space. Those that managed to stay ended up with different problems like lost memories, lost power or multiple personalities, etc."

Etz Chaim then looked at Dante strangely. "Imagine my surprise when I was looking through the available ones and I saw one being pressed down into the bed and being manhandled while enjoying it. I immediately knew that the one who could achieve this was not simple."

It was like thunder struck in Dante's mind.

"Valeria?!"

Etz Chaim nodded. "That's right, Commander Valeria. Knowing it was her, I was even more convinced that you were special because Valeria is a Lara loyalist. As a forest fairy, she despised lower lifeforms much like Lara and took pleasure in tormenting them, though not like Lara."

Etz Chaim glanced at Dante askance once more. "For a lower lifeform to put her in such a shameful position, even if she had lost her memories, it is no different from you actually creating your own authority. You achieved that with no powers, which is why I am confident in you and have willingly invested so much without bothering you much."

Dante was well and truly speechless this time. So he became a 'chosen one', a protagonist of sorts, because of his charisma? Because of the 'bad bitch' he pulled?!

"Oh? This is interesting. Hehe." Etz Chaim unfocused for a bit and then regained awareness, her expression becoming playful.

Dante felt the aura of trouble brewing. 'What is it?"

"Hehe, Commander Valeria is Commander Valeria after all. She never lost her power even when she reincarnated; she simply lost her memory." Etz Chaim revealed.

"Huh?!" Dante was shocked.

If Valeria had superpowers, she would never need the financial help of a mere him to study like she said. They only linked up because of that reason, though it became irrelevant towards the end.

...so why?

"And even better...hehe... hahahah!" Etz Chaim couldn't stop from laughing.

Dante felt terrible. "What is it now?"

"Welllll... You see, I have some shocking news for you." Etz Chaim teased with an arrogant smirk.

Dante did not deign to respond and simply glared at the floating pipsqueak, considering whether to capture her and give her a good spanking. Etz Chaim seemed to sense Dante's malice and shivered slightly.

"Cough, well, guess what? Valeria recovered her memories the day you took her virginity." Etz Chaim quickly revealed.

The second round of thunder exploded in Dante's mind. The being who was said to hate lower-dimensional species recovered herself in the midst of intercourse with a lower-dimensional species.

Not to mention she possessed all of her power already. She could have just vaporized him on the spot in a fit of rage, and there was nothing anyone could have done.

...but instead she kept coming back for more, the frequency growing each week, Dante remembered. In fact, just the day before he had activated Quantum Entanglement, he had met up with her.

Dante was naturally confused. "Why?"

Etz Chaim regained her playfulness. "Find her and ask her yourself."

"Well no. You cannot find her even if you tried with your current power. Rather, wait for her to find you." Etz Chaim corrected herself.

While Dante was still baffled, Etz Chaim waved goodbye and receded into the trunk of the tree. Dante continued standing there, lost in thought for a few seconds before shaking his head and leaving his soul space.

He still wasn't sure what sub-ability to choose and had received too much information which he needed to share with Beatrice. As such, he left the now ruined area that was reduced to rubble due to his breakthrough and appeared in his mansion where Beatrice was currently cultivating diligently.

Beatrice immediately halted her practice and walked out to meet Dante who was seated on the couch, with his legs up, leaning back comfortably. With a beautiful smile that only she could give, Beatrice sat on Dante's lap and leaned onto his upper body.

"How are you? You seem stressed?" Beatrice immediately identified what was wrong with her husband and gently stroked his hair.

Dante felt heartened and held Beatrice closely. He didn't even need to regale her verbally; he simply linked their minds together using a psionic link and shared his recent experiences.

After digesting everything, Beatrice rubbed his chin. "Hmm, quite troublesome indeed."

Dante was left speechless. "Why are you rubbing my chin instead of your own?"

"Because I am thinking for you." Beatrice replied cheekily.

Dante laughed and shook his head. "You're really the best, you know that?"

"Hard not to know when I have the greatest man in the multiverse as my husband," Beatrice responded and gave up thinking because she trusted Dante's thoughts more.

"l think... Beatrice, are you willing to ascend to the higher dimension with me?" Dante asked with a bit of hesitation and then firmed his voice up.

Beatrice glanced at him with amusement. "Why does it feel like you're now finally proposing to me for marriage?"

"As for that, well... I know what you're asking, and the answer is... yes." Beatrice spent a moment to think about the consequences of her choice and made the one she wanted deep down.n(0)vel(b)(j)(n) was the first platform to present this chapter.

Dante and Beatrice shared a look and smiled at each other. The prospect of being together forever was something they looked forward to and was the main reason Dante even agreed to Etz Chaim's request.

As long as he had Beatrice with him, Dante felt like there would be no problem living for that long. Obviously, the task to take over the management of the lower universes was not one that had a term limit but would likely exist in perpetuity, which meant that he would exist in perpetuity.

For someone who previously disliked the idea of living for long periods of time, this was obviously a big leap for him to make, and he was not sure he could do it alone despite sounding confident before Etz Chaim.

Dante casually entered his soul space and chose the sub-ability of Quantum Ascendant Bond. Although Quantum Restoration and Quantum Universe spoke to him, he had a feeling he would be choosing this one the moment he saw its effects.

Upon claiming the ability, Dante activated it and chose the target to be Beatrice. Immediately, he felt a well of power gush out of his body and connect to Beatrice's very soul, allowing the two of them to connect with each other side by side.

With regards to Etz Chaim, the threads - which now revealed themselves to be roots - that connected her to the quantum entanglement gate split in half and traveled over to Beatrice's soul space and established a cloned quantum gate there as well.

This new gate immediately sucked in the things in Beatrice's soul space, which were three shattered and deformed manifestations of the superpowers she inherited from Portia.

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[Poster notes: Just a PSA that I will be stop posting priv chapters after this month as I no longer enjoy this novel / dislike the direction the author is taking the novel in, you guys will have to wait until non-priv chapters catch up with the chapters, sorry and thanks - Gus]