I let out a long breath and stared at the ceiling.
Okay. Game face on. Time to stop being a simp and start being a strategist.
I sat up, ignoring the protest from my still-healing ribs, and pulled up my System interface. The familiar blue window materialized in front of me, and I navigated straight to the important part.
Schema Points: 1,195
Hot damn. That was a lot of zeros. Well, not zeros exactly, but it was still a fortune by my standards.
The question was: what to spend it on? A thousand possibilities flashed through my mind—upgrades, new abilities, maybe even something for Natalia.
"Nel," I called out to the empty room, my voice cutting through the silence. "You awake? Or do cosmic entities need beauty sleep too?"
