Creed's eyes widened in pleasant surprise. The system upgrade was finally complete!
It had been so long since it started that he had honestly forgotten about it.
With everything that had happened; the secret realm, the fight with the monkey, the whole mess with Alfonzo's ridiculous interest rates, he had pushed the system upgrade to the back of his mind.
And now, out of nowhere, it was done.
Creed rubbed his chin, his thoughts racing as he remembered something important.
The system had been upgrading ever since it absorbed that sliver of Primordial Energy from the curse mark.
It had not only used that energy to improve his cultivation stage, allowing him to finally break through and become a Bronze-level Awakened, but it had also absorbed all the remaining Primordial Energy to fuel its own evolution.
His gaze shifted to his hand, where the ominous black curse mark still faintly pulsed against his skin.
And that's when the dumbest idea ever popped into his head.
