**The host's combat power is stronger than anything seen before. Please do not court death.** **The timed mission "Seedling Tender" has been completed. Stage mission completion: 69%. Stage rewards have been issued.** **The conditions for unlocking subsequent missions have been met.** **The timed mission "Seedling Tender (2)" has begun. Details follow...**
For some reason, surviving a calamity was clearly something worth celebrating. Yet the boy who had only just survived looked as though he had bitten into a lump of chocolate that tasted like shit.
This system is messing with me, isn't it?
The boy thought indignantly... but at this moment, he had no time to worry about the Demon Fetus within his body... It was the Great Exchange System, after all. He could not argue with it. The wound in his abdomen had nearly cost him half his life.
He could spend Merit Points to repair his body... The repair speed depended on the number of points invested, but the boy had no intention of using them for now—he did not want to expose the system's existence.
A sudden burst of strength could still be explained, but recovering instantly from a serious injury would be difficult to pass off.
Especially with that man who possessed the Blazing Sun Battle Mark. The system's advice was clear: Do not court death.
But he could not simply leave the wound untreated.
The boy hurriedly took out some medicine and applied it directly to the wound. He had bought it from the black market in Infinite City. Its effects were decent, but it was horribly expensive. Medicine of this grade was prescription-only, and without the proper paperwork, it was nearly impossible to buy from ordinary pharmacies.
He slapped a handful of hemostatic powder directly onto