After Yu Yuan decided to continue upgrading the [Bard's Pen], the title [Curio Scholar] displayed three branches on the Virtual Light Screen, each followed by a brief description.
--Prediction: What it writes listens to the voice of the future. It no longer attempts to change fate, but captures fate's ripples in the river of time.
--Narrative: The holder is no longer merely an observer, but can add to, delete from, annotate, and even rewrite passages of another person's fate as though editing a manuscript.
--Epic: What it writes is no longer one person's story, but the beginning and final chapter of a civilization, an era, a stretch of history.
The three upgrade paths represented three different roads.
Every one of them tempted Yu Yuan.
But considering how terrifying that entity in the New World was, Yu Yuan chose [Prediction] after much deliberation.
The [Bard's Pen] already possessed a predictive function. He made this choice to push that capability to its absolute limit.
Once he made his choice, the Oddity offering platform was once again enveloped by the Green Screen.
Upgrade time--24 hours.
"Twenty-four hours. I wonder how high its ranking will rise this time..." Yu Yuan pondered as he read the information on the Virtual Light Screen.
This upgrade consumed forty crystals, which was no small amount.
The further an Oddity's upgrades progressed and the higher its ranking climbed, the more Spirituality Crystals it required.
Looking at the few dozen Spirituality Crystals he had left, Yu Yuan felt a hint of pressure.
He had already consumed many Spirituality Crystals while killing the Everfrost Tyrant and the Source of Corruption. Fortunately, killing them had replenished some of his supply... Killing Gulrad had replenished it again. Even with the Spirituality Crystals collected from killing Spiritual Creatures throughout so many Civilization Wars, this