I let out a slow breath, feeling the grin spread across my face. The Scumbag System living up to its name—rewarding patience, rewarding cunning, rewarding the willingness to grind in silence while others rushed ahead and crippled their potential.
"Show me the Ensemble tab," I said, curiosity overriding caution. "I want to see how they've progressed."
The screen shifted with a fluid motion, the combat statistics fading to reveal a new interface. I nearly choked on my own breath when I saw it.
The tab was glowing gold, pulsing with power that hadn't been there before. Each name was listed in elegant script, accompanied by ranks and titles that seemed to shimmer with contained energy. But what caught my eye—what made my heart stutter in my chest—was the first entry:
Natalia Kuzmina - Rank 10: [COVENANT]
New Title: [The Psychic Sovereign]
Effect: [System Symbiosis]
