Chapter 692
My steps upward are far slower now. While it took less than a single minute to climb multiple kilometers with ease before, it takes me over an hour to climb the next 50.
I'm halfway through the final stretch, but I can feel these last 50 are not going to be easy at all...
The amount of green energy pouring through my core makes the entire orb I consumed earlier seem like a tiny drop in the ocean of power around me.
My core still feels the same, like a True Core cycling in my chest, but the amount of power it can control feels as though it's multiplied by thousands of times...
The jump between green and yellow feels as though they're worlds apart, and it's very apparent as my body continues to reject climbing higher every time the density in the air shifts.
It takes two full hours to climb the next 25 kilometers upward.
The links of loyalty available to me start to slow down, evening out at around 280 million. A few hundred thousand links still roll in every minute, but it's nowhere near the millions per second I felt at the peak of my battle with the demon.
From what I can sense, over half of the system-connected population has signed the mental contract. While I'm not in desperate need of power now, it is still nice to feel new links form.
During the time I've climbed, the Crimson Army and the Inner Circle have made their way back to the Crimson City to be welcomed by tens of thousands of people from neighboring cities all over Sector 2 of the Dark Continent.