Active Surrender

After discovering the many benefits of mounting Divine Artifacts once again, Natsume was tempted as well.

He hesitated over whether to mount the other Divine Artifacts onto the system too.

It was not that Natsume did not want to, but that he was a little afraid.

Once people became wealthy, they tended to grow timid.

It became hard to keep acting recklessly like they had when they were poor.

After all, even the system's buyback price for the cheapest complete Divine Artifact exceeded 10 billion Gold Coins!

Its value and effects were even harder to measure in Gold Coins!

Because of coincidences like the system upgrade failure from before...

Natsume no longer dared to fully trust the system's ultimate purpose.

If he mounted all four [Divine Artifacts]...

That would be worth over a hundred billion Gold Coins, right?

Who knew whether the system would just run off with the goods...

Wouldn't he suffer a massive loss then?

It was better to be cautious.

After thinking it over repeatedly, Natsume ultimately decided to mount one more [Divine Artifact] onto the system module.

He would leave the other two behind, just in case.

In the end, he chose the Divine Artifact [Bridge of the Other Shore].

First, it belonged to the Yellow Spring Lineage, making it more fitting.

Second, the Divine Artifact itself could not be touched and was difficult to store. Perhaps mounting it would make it more convenient to carry.

As for what passive attribute boosts it would bring after being mounted, that was secondary.

[ Ding, mount Divine Artifact 'Bridge of the Other Shore'? ]

"Confirm!"

[ Ding, successfully bound! ]

In an instant, under the system's control, the originally untouchable [Bridge of the Other Shore]

directly transformed into a short ruler-shaped mark and was engraved onto Natsume's