"What new door?"
[You haven't advanced yet, so I'm not telling you.]
Xu Zhi:?
".Fine."
It was quite principled.
But Xu Zhi was still completely in the dark about advancement. It was not like Familiar evolution points, with a clear progress bar.
She had already consumed quite a few [Moth] Attribute Cores, so why did she still have no sense that she was about to "advance"?
Come to think of it, she did not really know what it felt like for an extraordinary person to advance.
Was the core difference between the advancement requirements of humans and Familiars really that great? The cores she had eaten would have been enough for a Familiar to rise from Level 1 to over Level 10.
Did other extraordinary people also find advancement as difficult as she did?
No, other extraordinary people simply did not have this many cores to squander.
Without anything to compare herself to, Xu Zhi could not make sense of it either. Fortunately, the Old Residential District would soon welcome quite a few residents. Once that happened, she could probe around and determine whether she was different from everyone else.
That night, before bed, after feeding cores to her Familiars, Xu Zhi ate several [Moth] Attribute Cores herself and fell asleep with the illusory moths appearing before her eyes as a sleep aid.
Honestly, she had grown somewhat accustomed to the gray moths that appeared around her after she consumed cores. They were not aggressive and made no sound. Other than making her a little dizzy if she stared at them for too long, they had no real effect. Besides, they would gradually disappear on their own.
Eating a few cores before bed and watching the moths for a while made it easy to fall asleep.
But tonight, Xu Zhi