A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6263

Time passed through the hollow without a sound.

Jared had already lost track of how long he had been sitting in front of the stone dais.

At times, his mind was clear.

At times, it blurred, like a candle in the wind, flickering on and off.

Life force kept pouring from his palms, flowing without pause into the two golden seeds.

He could feel his flesh thinning and his bones turning fragile.

Even the Golden Dragon Bloodline inside him was fading at a slow but irreversible pace.

But he never let go.

Right in front of him, the two seedlings kept growing taller and stronger with each passing day.

By the third day, they had already reached 3 feet tall.

More branches had split off from their stalks, and every leaf had turned clear, gleaming gold, giving off a warm light.

What surprised Jared even more was that the shape of the two seedlings had started changing in silence.

Their tops began to swell.

Little by little, they sketched out blurry human outlines, like two embryos being carved into form.

By the fifth day, the human shapes had become clear.

On the seedling to the left, a male outline was taking shape.

Broad shoulders. Long limbs. His features were still blurry, but Sidney's outline was already there.

On the seedling to the right, a female outline grew at the same pace.

A slender figure. Slightly curled long hair. And that face that had once gone hazy in Jared's memory was now becoming clearer and clearer.

Jared stared at the two faces still forming, and heat pressed faintly into his eyes.

Almost there.

Almost there.

On the sixth day, Gwendolyn opened her eyes.

She rose from the corner of the cavern, walked to Jared's side, lowered her gaze to check on the two seedlings, and gave a slight nod.

"Faster than I expected. Your life force is richer than I imagined."

Jared said nothing.

It wasn't that he didn't want to speak.

He just didn't have any strength left to spare for words.

Jared's face had gone white as paper. His lips were split and peeling, his eyes had sunk deep into their sockets, and he looked like he'd lost a whole layer off himself.

The fullness that used to be in his cheeks was gone. They had caved in hard enough that his cheekbones stood out sharp, like he'd just crawled out of a long, brutal illness.

Gwendolyn looked at him and said nothing for a moment.

"You've already burned through nearly forty percent of your life force," she said evenly. "If this keeps going, you'll damage your foundation."

Jared shook his head. When he spoke, his voice came out so hoarse it was almost impossible to hear.

"I'm fine. I can still hold on."

Gwendolyn didn't say anything else.

She reached into her sleeve and took out a golden fruit the size of a thumb. It was crystal clear, and the presence coming off it matched the Worldtree exactly.

She held the fruit up to Jared's mouth.

"Eat it."

Jared glanced at the fruit. He didn't ask what it was. He opened his mouth and swallowed it down.

The fruit melted the instant it touched his mouth. A warm stream slid down his throat into his stomach, then burst through his body.

The life force inside it was so pure it hit like long-awaited rain falling over a riverbed that had dried out completely.

His body gave a slight shudder. At last, a trace of color returned to that paper-white face.

The Golden Dragon Bloodline inside him got replenished. It began moving faster, and the life force he poured into the seeds grew fuller too.

"That's the Worldtree fruit. It only bears once every three hundred years."

Gwendolyn spoke in that same flat tone, like it was nothing worth dwelling on. "One fruit can restore twenty percent of the life force you've used up. If you take two more, you should be able to hold on until the end."

She drew out two more fruits from her sleeve and set them beside Jared.

"Eat one every other day. Don't eat them early, and don't wait too long either."

Jared nodded.

Something tangled passed through him.

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