Holden sat on his bed and pulled up the System menu.
The Breakthrough Acceleration tab glowed in his vision. Every breakthrough had cost fifty thousand KP, and every single one had been worth it.
He scrolled down to the current option.
[Current Rank: 2 (8-Star)]
[Next Milestone: Rank 2 (9-Star)]
[Note: 9-Star represents the final bottleneck of the Rank 2 mortal realm. The energy required to breach this threshold is significantly denser than previous milestones.]
[Cost: 65,000 KP]
[Accept?]
Holden pressed Accept.
The energy hit him like a tidal wave.
It was different from every breakthrough before it. Instead of flowing through his meridians like water, it moved like molten metal, thick and almost impossible to control. It forced its way into every part of his body until his bones creaked under the pressure.
Holden clenched his jaw.
