With new credits deposited into her account, Xu Zhi exchanged every last one for cores without hesitation.
The school had a cafeteria, but Xu Zhi still chose to eat back at the dormitory, taking the opportunity to digest all the newly exchanged cores as well.
She truly had no intention of leaving even a single credit in her account.
After all, Xu Zhi felt that even if her credits were accidentally deducted into the negatives, the Light Institute probably would not expel her.
The [Lamp] Attribute Cores worth over four hundred points produced remarkably obvious results after she consumed them. Or rather, the cores worth over nine hundred points from before had already done most of the work; the cores she exchanged this time merely filled in the small amount of extraordinary energy her circuits had previously lacked.
The instant the cores turned into energy and surged into her body, the golden threads docilely lying dormant along her circuits greedily devoured all that energy, using it to patch and mend her already exquisitely crafted circuits.
Under their influence, Xu Zhi's circuits underwent another subtle change. Yet it did not seem to be a bad change. Originally, her circuits had merely been complex and intricate, but after those minute alterations, they somehow began to appear almost "solemn."
And at the moment that change came to an end—the moment her circuits finished transforming—a vast power radiating from the depths of her body swept through Xu Zhi from head to toe. The sensation even felt somewhat familiar, as though—
As though she had once swallowed that strange fragment.
Energy coursed through her entire body, as if secretly cleansing her. Her circuits gave off a sacred pale golden glow, and her mental strength seemed fuller as well. She could not yet sense the changes