He opened that level-up page again, only to find it wasn’t quite what he expected. Inside, there was only a Guardian Spirit Level, currently at LV1, with the progress bar similarly empty. Below it were four rather unusual attributes: "Life," "Demonic Power," "Armor," and "Resistance."
Behind each attribute was a neatly divided progress bar with rectangular grids, most of which were dashed empty grids, except for the first grid behind each attribute, which was lit up like it had been "activated."
The Guardian Spirit Level is probably for enhancing these attributes, with all attributes initially at level one, requiring you to choose a specialization route afterward?
Gu Mo nodded with some understanding, but it seems he still has to grind.
As for the final "Equipment" and "Appearance" interfaces, there wasn’t much to say, as there was indeed nothing at all. Having explored them roughly and gained some understanding of the Guardian Spirit’s functions, he switched back to the initial interface he started with.
He remembered that he seemed to have gotten some kind of achievement, but where should he look for it?
He browsed around and found no relevant button to enter the page. Finally, his gaze slowly shifted downward to a row of garbled options beneath his reflection, which seemed suspicious, but temporarily dysfunctional, making it impossible to enter.
Thinking this helplessly, he tried to click them randomly, and unexpectedly, the garbled options with no response previously now reacted—although still displaying garbled text, he could access them! Stunned for a moment, once he realized it, Gu Mo’s eyes lit up instantly.
Indeed! The dim-witted system wasn’t just slacking off in the background after all; it was also working hard to self-repair?
Great, it wasn’t in vain to trust it so much! From today, it becomes the most reliable and powerful golden finger again!
Controlling his excitement and unease, Gu Mo quickly browsed the first page, discovering a very simple interface layout with only "Friends," "Blacklist," and "Mail"...
So, the first option below is essentially the friends function?
Gu Mo didn’t have time to explore carefully since the friends function’s presence in the game was just like that, seemingly without much use. Hence, he just skimmed through it and immediately tried opening the second option, and a new page replaced the friends list page, presenting itself before him.
Unexpectedly, the second seemed to be the achievements list, with a densely packed layout of gray question mark icons. At the very top-left corner, two icons were lit up, and the content was revealed.
The first icon was a bronze-tin colored badge, named "Beginner," obtained at an unknown time without any impression left on Gu Mo. Although it’s an achievement, it’s also a title, with the badge effect activated by default, explained as——
"Beginner (Bronze): A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Before the Life Level or Professional Level reaches level 10, the player’s experience gain from any means is increased by 25% (active)."
And the second achievement was the golden icon, the one he vaguely remembered having.
"First Blood (Gold): Every great work requires sacrifices to forge; your enemies do not need to understand, but they will submit. The player’s experience gain through combat and slaughter is increased by 100%, and it cannot stack with other restricted type bonus effects (active)."
Gu Mo suddenly became excited, this was the real treasure and exactly what he needed most as a reward.
For a newbie player like him, who was broke and owned nothing, everything seemed elusive except for upgrading and efficiency in leveling up, which was the hard truth! If only he had reached level twenty before, no, even reaching just level ten would have sufficed. Would the scene in Thirteen Sakura Village have been so messy and thrilling?
With controlled excitement, he browsed through other gray question mark icons, knowing these were probably other achievements or title badges not yet unlocked, perhaps all offering particularly useful gain effects, but unfortunately invisible and untouchable for now, with no response even after clicking.
After some struggle, he had to sigh and exit first, continuing to browse other options.
In the following experiments, the operations to open the third and fourth options both failed, and as a piercing electrical current passed through his nerves, a clear prompt flashed across the reflected interface, clearly and unmistakably telling him the reason——
"You cannot use this function on a mission."
This didn’t disappoint Gu Mo; instead, it triggered his imagination even more.
After clicking the fifth option, it operated normally. However, what appeared before him were several different sub-options—"Graphics," "Audio," "Game," "Display"... and under these sub-options, there were various dense sub-options.
Things like "Resolution," "Background Sound Effects," "Dialogue Sound Effects," "Subtitle Switch," "Language Selection"...
The overly familiar and classic interface made him look on in amazement, leaving him temporarily speechless, only able to confirm that this dim-witted system must have some serious issues.