[Unfortunately, it takes 72 hours for the mystical compass to upgrade its grade because it has to download every detailed route in Arcion].
’That’s too long! That dum---I an, Ren could be dead in 72 hours!’
[Don’t worry, host! You can speed up the upgrade ti by paying 3,000 gold coins!]
Forget about being kind to the system, it deserves to be insulted forever!
deia sighed. ’Okay, process it now.’
[Upgrading the Mystical Compass from Grade-B to Grade-SSS by using 10 taken souls.]
[Speed up the ti upgrade by paying 3,000 gold coins.]
[Effect:
- Navigate to every place the user’s wish to go.
- Find the safest, fastest route to the destination.
- Track a person where about
- Allowing instant travel for up to 3 people by consuming 5,000 MP (Cooldown: 48 hours)]
deia groaned in her heart because she had to spend so many gold coins just to find Ren. She hadn’t even bought plant seeds to give to Richard.
The system really knew how to drain her balance.
But, at least, the compass could also be used as the teleportation device.
"I think I can find Ren with my compass." deia asked Lucian, "Can you tell Tian to et ?"
Lucian didn’t ask anything about the compass. Even though the compass seed a bit different from what he rembered, he still didn’t open his mouth.
At this point, deia suspected Lucian wasn’t able to feel curious at all.
"Okay. I’ll be back in a minute."
Lucian left the room, leaving deia alone. She brought the compass closer to her face, observing its upgraded form.
The color had been changed from silver tallic to gold and there was an awkward space above the needle.
"System, activate the compass to find Ren," she commanded.
[Activating Mystical Compass]
[Destination: Ren Zhang.]
[Searching for the destination and routes ...]
[... DING! System has found Ren Zhang’s location.]
[Location: X-12 Zone.]
X-12 Zone? What was that?
It was the first ti deia had heard about that place. The real deia’s mories also did not have any mories about that place.
"Can I know the information about that place?"
[That is valuable information! The system has to charge Host with 200 gold coins for detail informations]
deia clicked her tongue. "Forget it. I’ll ask my other system to explain that place to for free."
[Who is that? Host, you only have one system!]
"Lucian." deia scoffed at the system. "He is more informative than you and I don’t need to spend a single gold coin to access all of his information."
[I am your only system, Host!]
[I can give you a discount if you behave well!]
Why did the system suddenly use ’I’ in its words? Maybe deia only imagined it, but the system also sounded desperate.
"You’re so noisy. It’s not like you can’t charge for other things."
The system remained silent after that and deia also didn’t want to talk to it anymore.
Around ten minutes later, Lucian ca to her room with Tian.
deia hadn’t even opened her mouth, but Tian had rushed toward her, asking, "Lucian said you can help find Ren. How?"
"I can." deia continued, "But I have one condition."
Tian imdiately replied, "Just say it."
"Don’t ask how, why, or what because I won’t explain it to you. The only thing you need to do is listen to and you can et your brother again." She reminded him, "I repeat, don’t ask anything."
It would be troubleso to explain the chanism of the mystical compass and deia also didn’t want to explain things to others, except for Lucian.
deia didn’t expect Tian to agree to her condition, but he quickly nodded. "That’s all? You don’t want anything from ?"
She lifted up the corner of her mouth. "You owe nothing."
No, that didn’t an deia was helping him sincerely.
She deliberately didn’t demand anything from Tian because she wanted to bind him with a debt of gratitude. In that way, Tian would think twice or maybe thrice before he betrayed her or did sothing bad to her.
She wanted Tian to rember her kindness every ti he saw his brother’s face.
Well, it depended on whether Ren was still alive or not.
"I understand." Tian’s expression seed cold and emotionless, but his voice was filled with desperation. "Please, help find my brother. He can’t survive alone."
deia took out the mystical compass, showing it to Tian and Lucian. The word X-12 Zone suddenly appeared above the needle, filling in an awkward space that deia thought was unimportant.
"He is in the X-12 Zone." deia shifted her gaze toward Lucian. "Do you know what place that is?"
A sense of curiosity piqued Tian’s heart, but he didn’t want to ruin their deal by asking a question.
On the other hand, Lucian was startled after he heard about the X-12 Zone, making deia certain that it wasn’t a place humans could enter easily.
"Are you sure he’s there?" asked Lucian to make sure.
deia showed the compass to him. "This compass is never wrong. Is it a dangerous place?"
Lucian remained silent for a mont before he explained, "After the radiation hit Arcion, there are so areas that get more extre radiation than other places," he said, "the military calls them X Zone."
According to his knowledge, there were about 233 X-Zones in Arcion, and the X-12 Zone was the closest dangerous zone to their location.
"In every X-Zone, there are so many mutants that are stronger than the mutants in the Black Zone Forest. The militaries all around the world don’t even have the courage to explore those hazardous zones."
Tian felt like his legs lost their balances. All of the coldness in his face imdiately vanished, replaced by panic and fear that rged into one.
His voice trembled. "What ... What is the percentage chance that soone can survive in these zones?"
"It depends on the person. If it’s Ren, then the percentage is ..," Lucian said hesitantly, "Around 2 percent in one day and 0 percent in two days."
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