11 System Level Up!

"Don't worry! I'm taking a break from having to stay in my physical form! Right now, I'm inside your head, I guess you could call it that. It's pretty annoying to maintain my form outside. I can probably only maintain it for around 10 hours a day." Lily nonchalantly spoke inside Lin Ke's head.

Lin Ke continues on his walk, however, instead of wandering randomly now, he pulls out the map given to him by Master Sal… to realize he didn't know where the hell he had wandered off too. He looks around the street to see that it is completely desolate, with not a single soul around. Helpless, he could only turn to Lily. He asks, "Lily? Can you bring me to Master Sal's residence?"

Lin Ke is answered by silence.

"I'll buy you snacks along the way."

"Deal! I want ice cream!"

"Fine, if they even sell ice cream in this world."

"Oh, they do. There's a lot of similar things between this world and your world. Someone introduced ice cream to this world about 100 years ago. If I remember correctly, he was also from your world." Lily seems to be thinking deeply about something. "That's right! I forgot! You also completed the mission for becoming a C-class Artist along with the one for D-class! Your rewards for the mission is 5 Mid grade Chaos Stones, A cultivation increase to Eye Tempering Sub-realm, the expansion of your spatial storage space by 3-feet and an extra reward!"

Lin Ke is pleasantly surprised. "Oh? That's amazing! I'm earning so much from just one exam! What's the extra reward?"

Lily answers, "I will be upgraded to the second level, which introduces a few new features! Would you like to receive rewards?"

Lin Ke knew better this time. He says, "Give me them all except for the cultivation increase for now. I don't want to experience another round of torture right now. Let me recover first."

"Very well, you scaredy-cat. The rewards have been deposited, would you like to hear about my new abilities?" Lily says.

"Sure, what are they?" Lin Ke curiously askes.

"There are lots! They only serve to make me even better! Of course, I was already super useful, but these tools make me even better! First of all, I can now give you more missions! Also, you can now access the additional features for your spatial storage space! These include, temperature control so that you can keep the space at the most optimal temperature, self-organization and division of the space into different parts, fresh food preservation features, and many more to come! Of course, all these features cost a monthly fee of 9.99 each, but if bundled is only 24.99 in total! Wait. I mean 10 Chaos Stones for each and 25 in total. What a steal right?"

Lin Ke is once again left speechless. He didn't know that the system also had a self-promotional feature installed. This was like those sites in his previous life that played ads asking you to pay to not have to play ads. Quite complicated.

However, Lily doesn't give Lin Ke more time to cut in. She continues, "The duration I can stay in my physical form is up to 12 hours in total now, and you also gain access to a limited portion of the system market. Some pretty good upgrades, huh?"

Lin Ke thinks, 'NO THEY'RE NOT! All of them require me to use money myself! What is this upgrade? Scam!"

"How dare you call the system a scam? I am a righteous and upright business!" Lily scoffs at Lin Ke's thought.

This was the first time Lin Ke had seen this side of Lily. Not only was she an annoying, unhelpful, downright useless sometimes, irresponsible system, but was also a money grubber. He wondered whether God had also decided to spin a wheel to decide the nature of the system assigned to him and he just had to get the worst combinations possible.

That was when Lin Ke remembered something. The brush. The Semi divine artifact that he borrowed from her. He looks down at his right palm. There was still a tiny brush mark in the center, but he could still not feel anything else besides that. "Lily? What's going to happen with this brush?"

Lily, who had been giving him directions on which way to go suddenly stops. "Errr. Ehehehe. Erm… Sooo… You can keep it for now… Hehehe... " She said sheepishly. "When I told you the instructions for bringing it out, I realized that the manual I was reading had said that that was how you imprint the artifact. Now the artifact won't recognize another owner other than you… Errrr. Don't tell anyone about this okay?"

Lin Ke was surprised, but also not very surprised. This seemed just like a Lily thing to pull. Accidentally not reading the instruction manual correctly. In fact, even the fact that she needed to read an instruction manual surprised him. However, deep down, he was celebrating. He had just gained a free Semi divine artifact! How could he not be happy?

"Okay, we're here." Lily interrupts Lin Ke's celebration. Lin Ke finally pays attention to his surroundings again to see a quite a huge plot of land surrounded by fencing. There was a large, beautiful mansion at the center, with bright flowers fluttering in the cool breeze. It was now late afternoon, and the sun was beginning to set. There were two guards standing in front of the front gate. They were wearing pretty normal clothing but now, Lin Ke could feel a pretty dense aura coming off the both of them that he couldn't feel before.