Gabriel saw the bold system screen on his retina, and suddenly he did not feel sore or weak anymore. A smile appeared on his face.
The advancement quest had been one of the things stalling him from breaking past level 50. It was a bottleneck that would have taken others years to complete. However, he had done it in a span of a couple of months, which was still considered long for some gamers.
Even so, he was not too far behind compared to most NPCs and players who had started around the same time as him. Most were currently around level 55 or even higher. Progress from level 50 upward required a significant amount of experience points to level up.
Fortunately for him, all the experience points he had been farming even after hitting the threshold of level 50 had not gone to waste. They had been stored instead, which automatically made up for the lost time.
In a way, one could say he was ahead of others, but his progress had simply been withheld for the time being.
