diff --git a/src/cache/impl/LevelDbCache.ts b/src/cache/impl/LevelDbCache.ts
index 541531a..28f4ca7 100644
--- a/src/cache/impl/LevelDbCache.ts
+++ b/src/cache/impl/LevelDbCache.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { MemoryLevel } from 'memory-level';
 import { CacheOptions } from '../../core/WarpFactory';
 import { LoggerFactory } from '../../logging/LoggerFactory';
 import { SortKeyCacheRangeOptions } from '../SortKeyCacheRangeOptions';
-import { AbstractSublevelOptions } from 'abstract-level/types/abstract-sublevel';
+import { AbstractSublevel, AbstractSublevelOptions } from 'abstract-level/types/abstract-sublevel';
 import { AbstractChainedBatch } from 'abstract-level/types/abstract-chained-batch';
 import { AbstractKeyIteratorOptions } from 'abstract-level/types/abstract-iterator';
 
@@ -79,23 +79,11 @@ export class LevelDbCache<V> implements SortKeyCache<V> {
     const contractCache = this.db.sublevel<string, ClientValueWrapper<V>>(cacheKey.key, this.subLevelOptions);
     // manually opening to fix https://github.com/Level/level/issues/221
     await contractCache.open();
-    try {
-      const result: ClientValueWrapper<V> = await contractCache.get(cacheKey.sortKey);
-      let resultValue: V;
-      if (result.tomb === undefined && result.value === undefined) {
-        resultValue = result as V;
-      } else {
-        resultValue = result.tomb ? null : result.value;
-      }
-      return new SortKeyCacheResult<V>(cacheKey.sortKey, resultValue);
-      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-    } catch (e: any) {
-      if (e.code == 'LEVEL_NOT_FOUND') {
-        return null;
-      } else {
-        throw e;
-      }
+    const subLevelValue = await this.getValueFromLevel(cacheKey.sortKey, contractCache);
+    if (subLevelValue) {
+      return new SortKeyCacheResult<V>(cacheKey.sortKey, subLevelValue);
     }
+    return null;
   }
 
   async getLast(key: string): Promise<SortKeyCacheResult<V> | null> {
@@ -104,12 +92,9 @@ export class LevelDbCache<V> implements SortKeyCache<V> {
     await contractCache.open();
     const keys = await contractCache.keys({ reverse: true, limit: 1 }).all();
     if (keys.length) {
-      const lastValueWrap = await contractCache.get(keys[0]);
-      if (lastValueWrap.tomb === undefined && lastValueWrap.value === undefined) {
-        return new SortKeyCacheResult<V>(keys[0], lastValueWrap as V);
-      }
-      if (!lastValueWrap.tomb) {
-        return new SortKeyCacheResult<V>(keys[0], lastValueWrap.value);
+      const subLevelValue = await this.getValueFromLevel(keys[0], contractCache);
+      if (subLevelValue) {
+        return new SortKeyCacheResult<V>(keys[0], subLevelValue);
       }
     }
     return null;
@@ -121,9 +106,35 @@ export class LevelDbCache<V> implements SortKeyCache<V> {
     await contractCache.open();
     const keys = await contractCache.keys({ reverse: true, lte: sortKey, limit: 1 }).all();
     if (keys.length) {
-      const cachedVal = await contractCache.get(keys[0]);
-      if (!cachedVal.tomb) {
-        return new SortKeyCacheResult<V>(keys[0], cachedVal.value);
+      const subLevelValue = await this.getValueFromLevel(keys[0], contractCache);
+      if (subLevelValue) {
+        return new SortKeyCacheResult<V>(keys[0], subLevelValue);
+      }
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  private async getValueFromLevel(
+    key: string,
+    level: AbstractSublevel<
+      MemoryLevel<string, ClientValueWrapper<V>>,
+      string | Buffer | Uint8Array,
+      string,
+      ClientValueWrapper<V>
+    >
+  ): Promise<V | null> {
+    try {
+      const wrappedValue = await level.get(key);
+      if (wrappedValue && wrappedValue.tomb === undefined && wrappedValue.value === undefined) {
+        return wrappedValue as V;
+      }
+      if (wrappedValue && wrappedValue.tomb === false && wrappedValue.value != null) {
+        return wrappedValue.value;
+      }
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    } catch (e: any) {
+      if (e.code != 'LEVEL_NOT_FOUND') {
+        throw e;
       }
     }
     return null;
@@ -215,8 +226,12 @@ export class LevelDbCache<V> implements SortKeyCache<V> {
 
     try {
       transactionMarkValue = await this.db.get(this.ongoingTransactionMark);
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-empty
-    } catch (error) {}
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    } catch (e: any) {
+      if (e.code != 'LEVEL_NOT_FOUND') {
+        throw e;
+      }
+    }
 
     if (transactionMarkValue == 'ongoing') {
       throw new Error(`Database seems to be in inconsistent state. The previous transaction has not finished.`);
@@ -281,6 +296,7 @@ export class LevelDbCache<V> implements SortKeyCache<V> {
   async kvMap(sortKey: string, options?: SortKeyCacheRangeOptions): Promise<Map<string, V>> {
     const result: Map<string, V> = new Map();
     const allKeys = (await this.db.keys(this.levelRangeOptions(options)).all())
+      .filter((k) => k != this.ongoingTransactionMark)
       .filter((k) => !sortKey || this.extractSortKey(k).localeCompare(sortKey) <= 0)
       .map((k) => this.extractOriginalKey(k));