"…"
Davis watched the black-golden winged roc lean closer, her dark-violet eyes shining with a hunger that went far beyond simple greed for a single flower. She was aiming to enter the Realm Beast Stage and become something even more powerful in it, something known as a Dynastic Realm Beast.
The offer he had just voiced still hung in the air between them, heavy with consequences he alone fully understood.
Helping an outsider restore an Emperor-Tier bloodline and then push her through the True Exalt Beast path was no small matter. It would demand rare resources, careful guidance through a lethal tribulation and the suppression of the second layer, not to mention the constant risk that her fate would twist in directions even he could not fully predict, which could cause her to die without a soul remaining.
Yet the Eternal Nightshade Moonflower was too valuable to leave behind, and Illumina's quiet hope for it was not something he could casually ignore.
