Three days passed in a blur in the real world.
Lily had once again returned to the Zeroth Layer.
Aside from wanting to complete the remainder of her monthly quota, she also had to continue the ongoing task of finding more Cornerstone fragments.
For this, Michael did not expect immediate results. He still had no idea how rare those fragments truly were. But since the opportunity existed, it would be foolish not to take advantage of it before Lily advanced and lost access to the Zeroth Layer.
[A/N: Time moves three times faster in the Origin Battlefield. However, the monthly quota is calculated in real time, based on the outside world. Unranked Awakeners need to spend at least twenty days a month in the Zeroth Layer to fill their quota, which in real time is a bit above six days.]
Meanwhile, in the Land of Origin, Michael's attention had shifted almost entirely toward the native Awakeners appearing throughout the empire.
