Chapter 76: Supreme - Light Spiritual Root
White’s actions just now had pissed off the system. But when it came to spiritual roots, the system was just talking big.
The system existed to grant spiritual roots to Nexus’s disciples. It had no way to refuse this request, let alone randomly give a disciple some trash spiritual root.
"Master, the system won’t give me a spiritual root."
White suddenly looked at Nexus, making both him and the system freeze. Wasn’t she trying to beat her master to death a few seconds ago? Why was she suddenly tattling to her master now?
[That’s enough, mortal. This trash master has no say here at all. You should remember that being able to cultivate is a blessing bestowed upon you by this great system.]
The system quickly grabbed the conversation before Nexus could speak. At least this way it would lose less face, since it had to give White a suitable spiritual root anyway.
"Alright, hurry up."
Only now did White become a little curious about this thing called a spiritual root. She had been a hunter for a long time, but she had never heard of anything like it existing on Earth.
[You damn S-rank mortals really don’t know how to respect the system, do you? Hmph, you should feel lucky that this great system is magnanimous enough not to hold it against you. I’ll ask you again. Do you believe in the light?]
After Bell came White. Even though it liked White more because of what happened with Ziz, the system hated the way both of them talked.
"Of course. More specifically, the light from heaven."
White answered without hesitation. After all, her awakened ability was called Holy Apostle. Her faith was absolutely genuine.
[Then the one that suits you best is obviously: Supreme - Light Spiritual Root. It carries the light attribute as the core of your spiritual power.]
A beam of white light flew out of the system toward White’s chest, sank into it, and merged with both her body and spiritual soul.
Inside White’s consciousness, a brilliant point of light appeared, so bright that she couldn’t look at it directly.
At the same time, White felt that her ability to use energy to create beams of light that could explode had immediately improved. It wasn’t much, but the old limit was gone, and the room for future growth was impossible to estimate for now.
"So this is a spiritual root? It’s amazing. Maybe I’m really an S+-rank hunter now?"
Feeling her own improvement, White remembered the way many people often referred to her. The reason they called her an S+-rank was that during dungeon raids with a team, she was far more useful than an ordinary S-rank hunter.
"Now that you have a spiritual root, don’t rush into cultivating. Learn the cultivation technique first. Otherwise, you’ll probably die in a stupid way from cultivating it wrong."
Even though he knew White wouldn’t make such a stupid mistake, Nexus still reminded her.
"I don’t need you to remind me."
White glared at Nexus before continuing to read the cultivation technique. But when she reached the part about the time required for cultivation, she frowned, and her expression grew uglier and uglier.
"Cultivation needs at least eighty-five percent of my time? What kind of trash is this? Do you have any idea how busy I am? If I go cultivate, who’s going to take care of my responsibilities?"
Unable to hold back anymore, White closed the book and threw it straight at Nexus’s face. She could accept not becoming any stronger, but she couldn’t abandon everything.
In this era, dungeons were no longer an extinction-level threat to humanity. They were more like a resource. But harvesting that resource was still extremely dangerous, and people died regularly.
White’s ability to fly and her support abilities were perfect for this job. Every day, she personally inspected low to mid-rank dungeons to check if anyone had gotten into an accident or if there were monsters far stronger than the survey had reported.
It wasn’t for no reason that so many people saw White as a saintess. In more than ten years as a hunter, even though she couldn’t remember the exact number, she had saved at least four digits worth of people.
The book suddenly stopped right in front of Nexus before dropping straight into his palm. White’s reaction wasn’t much different from what Nexus had expected.
Now, if he threw the cultivation technique back to White, she definitely wouldn’t catch it, so Nexus could only walk over and place it in her hand.
"Don’t be in such a hurry. In the long run, it’s more beneficial than you think. You might miss the chance to save a few people while cultivating, but you’ll save millions in the future."
Nexus didn’t care much about the emotional side of things. He cared more about the numbers. Letting a few people die to save a few million was obviously the right choice.
Of course, White wasn’t that kind of person. Call her foolish if you wanted, but this was her path.
"Hmph, what you’re saying makes sense, but that’s your perspective, not mine. As long as I’m alive, if I meet someone I can save, I’ll save them... Unless my superiors give me an order, and the order isn’t too unreasonable, I’ll do things my own way."
At first, White was going to say it with absolute certainty, but after thinking about the Hunter Association’s chairman, she added that last part. She might not listen to Nexus, but if the chairman said something, she would think about it very carefully, and in most cases, she would agree.
"Then go meet your superior and ask for their opinion on this. Whether you break through quickly or slowly depends on you. The normal method might be slow, but if you have enough spiritual herbs, then with your talent, a few sleepless weeks will definitely be enough."
"Spiritual herbs?"
The moment White heard about spiritual herbs, her eyes lit up. Spiritual herbs were extremely rare, but the Hunter Association had quite a stockpile in reserve.
White had used spiritual herbs before, but she didn’t anymore because their current effect was too weak since she was already close to her limit.
Recently, her workload had suddenly become lighter, so if she arranged her schedule properly, she could still spare a few weeks. If White really could quickly break through to the Qi Refinement realm, she could accept that.