After feeling around Alcmene's corpse, his life count reached 1,019, breaking four digits for the first time.
As soon as the system began upgrading, his total number of lives immediately dropped to 1,000.
The upgrade progress also got stuck at 1.99%.
Fang Cheng found it incredibly frustrating. Couldn't it just give him a nice round number? Why leave it at a point that made him itch to see more?
And losing nineteen lives had only increased the progress by 1.99%. Did that mean he'd have to feel around a thousand more corpses before the system finished upgrading?
Fang Cheng immediately caught a strong whiff of a pay-to-win scheme. The system was using this method to push him into feeling around more corpses.
As for the three abilities he'd obtained, they seemed pretty useless.
Terror Hunting Ground let him create a web and control it in battle. Its function overlapped with Deep Sea Tide, and it might not even be as useful.
Heart of the Swarm let him make any insect-type Monster weaker than himself serve him unconditionally, giving him absolute control over every insect.
Protection of the Earth Mother granted powerful protection from the Earth Mother as long as he stood on the ground.
But there was one condition: he had to become a devout believer of the Earth Mother. The more devout he was, the stronger the protection.
All three abilities were pretty useless to Fang Cheng. Their only value was probably as collectibles.
The only ability of Alcmene's that caught Fang Cheng's eye was Throat of Despicability, the deadly poison that could even melt Steel Body.
Unfortunately, he'd only gotten a fragment, not the complete ability.
Seeing that the system upgrade was still at only 1.99%, Fang Cheng felt another wave of frustration. Without thinking, he reached out