In the end, after confirming with Iris that nothing else had happened, Christian opened his chat with Eva and finally decided to message her, feeling like seeing her right now.
He didn't go in round way too much, and after some greeting, he immediately asked what she was doing, and if she was free to come to his house and meet, as he didn't want to go out, but, still misses her.
Surprisingly, or not, she replied that she is free, and in half an hour, would be here.
He didn't beat around the bush too much. After some greetings, he immediately asked what she was doing and if she was free to come to his house, as he didn't feel like going out but still missed her.
Surprisingly, or perhaps not perhaps, she replied that she was free and would be there in half an hour.
Feeling happy for a moment, then, realizing he wouldn't be able to get much work done in just half an hour, Christian decided to receive the Idle accumulation. After all, he was also looking forward to the results of the Idle Practicing of the essence technique.
[First Slot - AI Programming - 13:15:01/24:00:00]
[Second Slot - General Programming - 13:22:16/24:00:00]
[Third Slot - Perfect Hand-to-Hand Combat - 13:15:01/24:00:00]
[Fourth Slot - Breath of the Shadow Blade - 13:15:01/24:00:00]
Looking at the system window in front of him, he decided to first receive the three other Idle slots, allowing him to concentrate fully and devote all his attention to the Breath of the Shadow Blade later.
[You have received 375 Experience]
[You have received 400 Experience]
[You have received 455 Experience]
[The skill Intermediate AI Creation has become Lv.8 (10%)]
[The skill Intermediate Programming has become Lv.3 (23%)]
[The skill Intermediate Hand-to-Hand Combat has become Lv.3 (4%)]
He couldn't help but close his eyes, and immerse himself in this first experience of an essence technique, as it was really a unique sensation, as aside from just the information and the difficult exercises he got to know about the technique. He finally felt the presence of essence!
Christian took a moment to process all the information he had just received. Then, with a deep breath, he finally willed the idle system to receive the fourth slot.
As he did, he couldn't help but close his eyes and immerse himself in this first experience with an essence technique. It was truly a unique sensation, as beyond the information and difficult exercises he gained from the technique, he finally felt the presence of essence!
It was something ever-present around him, after all, though it seemed he needed concentration to sense it with his current, unpolished ability.
And while essence was naturally not the all-purpose solution for becoming powerful, with the knowledge he had just received, he couldn't help but feel that the road ahead was both long yet full of promise.
As he delved deeper into understanding the Breath of the Shadow Blade technique, he also realized there was something he had previously missed: it was about the stages of power, or the realm of strength, which seemed to be referred to as mastery stages. The Breath of the Shadow Blade technique allowed one to practice up to the first one.
While that initially seemed impressive, learning that there were actually second, third, fourth stages, and possibly even more, left him feeling disappointed with his current technique.
Shaking his head after carefully digesting the information, Christian finally opened his eyes.
[You have received 3.350 Experience]
[The skill Intermediate AI Creation has become Lv.0 (60%)]
[Due to gaining access to essence, the Idle System will now begin its upgrade.]
As he read the messages that appeared, the smile on Christian's face grew even more prominent. First, he was pleasantly surprised by the amount of experience he had received, which was even greater than that of Advanced skills. Then, seeing that the Idle System was upgrading, he couldn't help but feel eager to see the results and how the system would evolve after the upgrade.
Because of that, he didn't do anything and simply stared at the system window in front of him, watching as the percentage steadily rose. He waited patiently, feeling that the upgrade wouldn't take too long.
After no more than ten minutes, it finally seemed to be about to reach its conclusion.
[You received 10 unassigned points.]
[The Idle Practicing Slots have increased to 5.]
[The feature of Idle Practicing has been upgraded.]
With the system upgrade complete and the flurry of messages, Christian was beyond satisfied, no, he was practically flying with joy. The most important feature, Idle Practicing, had been upgraded, after all.
He didn't know if that was the reason, but he couldn't help feeling that the upgrade to the Idle Practicing feature was because he had been working too hard- so hard that even the Idle System seemed to feel ashamed of its owner!
Perhaps, in hopes that he would finally walk the easy road, staying idle as intended, this feature had been upgraded. Or so he thought, probably.
Jokes aside, he still needed to assess the extent of the changes to the Idle Practicing process. Even so, Christian genuinely felt that this upgrade was huge and, more than that, timely, as aside from how it seems, everything would accelerate with upgrade to Idle Practicing feature, itself, there was also the addition of the Fifth Slot.
Christian still remembered the time when his level reached twenty. Back then, he had held a small hope that he might unlock another slot, only to be met with disappointment in the end.
So now, getting one for free felt like sweet compensation!
Beyond that, there were also the ten unassigned points, which felt incredibly precious to him, especially given his current situation.
Still expecting more surprises, he opened his status window.
Host: Christian White
Level: 21 (EXP: 48.080/70.000)
Unassigned Points: 22
Advanced Trading Lv.2(56%)
Advanced Program Hacking Lv.4(90%)
Intermediate Kinetix Body Building Lv.1(7%)
High School Knowledge Lv.10(Max)
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Lv.10(Max)
Intermediate AI Creation Lv.8(9%)
Intermediate Human Biology Lv.7(90%)
Intermediate Hand to hand combat Lv.3(4%)
Danger Awareness Lv.-
Breath of the Shadow Blade Lv.0(60%)
Intermediate Programming Lv.3(23%)
[Idle practicing slots:(1/5)]