119 The Wasteland World - First Encounter (1/2)
”The third level of system upgrades..” muttered Daniel to himself.
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System Upgrades Lv.3
Reap What You've Sown = Purchased
Time Is Precious Lv.11 = 69.500 KP
(Active: Multiply the cost of karma points in order to multiply the speed of progression. +100% of cost and effect. Max lv.20)
Reduced Cost Lv.20 = Current Max Level.
Bonus Points Lv.20 = Current Max Level.
Second Chance Lv.20 = Current Max Level.
Second Chance Upgrade Lv.2 = 500,000 KP
(Passive: Halves the cooldown of Second Chance.)
Karma Debt = Purchased
Karmic Retribution = Purchased
Karmic Retribution Update = 20,000,000 KP
(Active: At the cost of half of the wielder's remaining karma points [minimum 250,000], the wielder can force a karmic retribution on himself. The cost of 'Karmic Retribution' directed at others, is increased from 100,000 to 250,000.)
Karma X Luck = Purchased
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Accumulate 100,000,000 Karma points to unlock System Upgrades Lv.4
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”Nothing new..” Said Daniel in his head, slightly disappointed by the lack of new effects brought by the third level of the system upgrades.
”What did you expect? Godly power?..” Responded Sewah sarcastically.
Slightly irritated by Sewah's behaviour, Daniel said out loud ”Would you mind telling me what the hell is wrong with you? You've always been sarcastic, but never this borderline hostile.”
”I'm not enjoying having to follow you around wherever you go. We always end up in shitty places.. Look where we are.. How long do you think we will stay here?”
”Should have I pretended to have seen nothing? What is the point of a karmic system if it reproaches me when I do something of karmic relevance?” asked Daniel with disdain. He was quite fed up by Sewah's hostility.. His uncertain situation didn't help him in containing his calm either.
”Honestly, I couldn't care less if you have a good karma.”
After his discussion with Sewah, Daniel went back into focusing on the books.
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Inside Daniel's pocket dimension, a large group of cultivators were filling the square in front of Daniel's castle completely. On most of their faces, expressions of worry, confusion and fear were present.
The portals that had allowed the inhabitants of Daniel's city to leave the pocket dimension for the past three years, had now disappeared.
Only a couple of days had passed since the closing of the portals, and during that couple of days, the spiritual cultivators which had comprehended spatial essence, and weren't part of Daniel's group, had spread the news that the connection to the outside world had been cut off completely.
This had caused a general state of fear in the solitary cultivators, and in the families and sects that had moved into the pocket dimension.
Luckily, thanks to the work done by Daniel group's members, the citizens of the city had complete trust in them. Therefore, most of the unranked and low ranking cultivators had remained calm, and waited for updates from the leaders of the community.
Meanwhile, the works of expansion were proceeding.
Before this whole mess with the worshippers of death, Edmund had been thinking of ways to increment the space of the pocket dimension, until one day, an idea had come to his mind.
There was no reason for the population to live all within the same pocket dimension.. After all, trying to fit the slowly increasing number of citizens into a single pocket dimension, was like trying to find more space to live in within an island.
Sooner or later, Daniel would reach the peak of the ninth rank of cultivation, and that would put a limitation to how large the pocket dimension could become.
His idea, was to create more, and smaller pocket dimension which could be used to plant food, or to house more villages and cities.
Luckily, the thousands of spiritual cultivators within the pocket dimension didn't lack comprehension of basic essences, or low to mid level essence treasures.
Those two things combined would only work in creating small pocket dimension, but they would still be habitable.
It was right during the ideation of this sort of idea that Daniel had requested for high ranking cultivators to leave the pocket dimension, and aid him in the eradication of the worshippers of death.
For days, they welcomed back injured or tired cultivators.. And right after Roley and Jerigh were sent back, the portals had suddenly shut.
Back to the present, Edmund and the other members of Daniel's group were standing right in the middle of the castle's hall, and were currently looking at Roley, Jerigh, and the few other cultivators that had seen Daniel last before the portals closed.
”A portal?..” Asked a surprised Edmund.
Roley shook his head and added ”Not a simple spatial portal.. It was made out of an unknown essence, and lead into a world devoid of natural essences..”
Sounds of people gasping in surprise could be heard all over the hall.
Edmund looked at Roley with grave seriousness. He then asked ”What do you think is the reason for the connection to the outside word to be severed?” He was of course aware of the possible results, but he still asked Roley to openly expose his ideas in front of Daniel's entire group.
Roley sighed, then responded ”Our connection to the outside world might have been severed due to Daniel not being in the outside world anymore.. He might have entered a different dimension, which I assume was the place in which the portal lead to..The only other possibility is..” he then paused for a few seconds.