CHAPTER 89: IMPERIAL AND BEYOND

After making his decision, Noel turned his attention to the storage ring holding the soul crystals he had gotten from Clarissa, and he willed to give them all to the Codex Null.

[Do you want to offer 100,000 Soul Crystals to the Codex Null?]

At the question that appeared in front of him, Noel didn’t hesitate for even a moment.

Something more profitable could exist somewhere out there. But that didn’t faze him in the slightest.

He could always find more Soul Crystals later, after all. There was no need for him to be this calculating in terms of money when opportunities like this presented themselves.

[You have received 990,581 Null Points.]

Let alone feeling any regret at the soul crystals that vanished from existence, Noel had a big satisfied smile spreading across his face at the impressive amount of Null Points he had gained.

But he didn’t slow down and moved on immediately.

[Your Soul has healed, and an upgrade to the features of Codex Null is currently available.]

[Do you want to spend 100,000 Null points to proceed with the upgrade?]

With nearly one million Null Points in his possession now, Noel didn’t even feel an itch as he agreed.

[Upgrade starting.]

[0%]

[1%]

With the window showing the percentage of the progressing upgrade floating in front of him, Noel found himself waiting for it to finish with bated breath.

One of his worries had been that it could possibly take a long time to complete.

But luckily, that was not the case at all.

With the current speed of progress, it was only going to take a few minutes at most.

But it seemed even a few minutes, at some point, had become a long time?

Noel, feeling the time pass more slowly than usual, thought that even when he was a child and his mother had promised to give him a precious gift later... he hadn’t felt this kind of childish excitement building up inside him.

Despite everything, time still passed steadily, and at one point...

[99%]

[100%]

[Upgrade successful.]

[The existence of the Codex Null will not be filtered inside the simulation anymore.]

[Premium simulations are available only once daily, with 100 Null points as the minimum price. It now has two modes: one is the normal one, a life simulation, and the other one is where you can transmigrate to a dead world and simulate your life there.]

[Possible dead worlds to simulate can change based on many factors, and you can decide which world to simulate before you start.]

[Talent choice after the simulation has now changed.]

[100 Null Points: you are guaranteed at least Rooted Talent, with 20% chance to pull Formed Talent.]

[1,000 Null Points: you are guaranteed at least Formed Talent, with 10% chance to pull Ascended Talent.]

[100,000 Null Points: you are guaranteed at least Ascended Talent, with 1% chance to pull Imperial Talent.]

[10,000,000 Null Points: you are guaranteed at least Imperial Talent, with 0.01% chance to pull Sovereign Talent.]

Reading the message windows floating in front of him, Noel’s expression at one point turned peculiar.

Was this really an upgrade? Or was it some kind of nerf instead?

Noel couldn’t help but grumble internally.

That the existence of the Codex Null would not be filtered anymore inside the simulation was naturally a huge plus. With it, he wouldn’t have to read about his simulated self trying to deduce everything from the leftover crumbs of information.

And most importantly, he should be able to concentrate on his goals more effectively.

So this point was naturally good for him.

Then there was transmigrating and simulating in other worlds... dead worlds to be exact.

That definitely seemed like something beneficial.

It could open countless possibilities to him that he hadn’t considered before.

But what exactly was a dead world?

At this point in time, Noel, with his memories returned, knew many things about the world and its secrets.

But dead worlds? It was the first time he had encountered this kind of term.

Regardless of the uncertainty, was it worth it?

Premium simulations were available only once daily now, after all.

So Noel couldn’t be entirely sure... well, that would be the case if things were only these three points.

But there was also the strangely more detailed explanation about the talent rankings.

Here, his eyes actually lit up with interest at the word Imperial.

It was the same designation as the sixth rank for relics, and according to his knowledge, there was no known better rank than it in the current world.

Even the Core relics belonging to the four major factions were only Imperial rank, after all.

But in the Codex Null, it was telling him that there was something even better... Sovereign.

Was it the same classification system for relics as well?

Noel couldn’t be sure about that connection.

But even with the similar naming conventions, Noel still felt that the similarities likely stopped there.

To him, the Boundless Soul, his Ascended rank talent, even if not more precious than the Imperial relics of the four major factions, was still not worth any less in practical terms.

So he felt that the Imperial rank here was bound to be far more amazing than anything he had encountered.

And then there was the Sovereign Rank above even that.

Just how game-changing would it be?

Noel couldn’t help but wonder with growing anticipation.

In the end though, his thoughts still moved on to something he couldn’t be certain of anymore.

Before the upgrade, what had been the maximum amount of Null Points he could have spent on simulation?

With it not being stated clearly in the previous system messages, he couldn’t be certain anymore.

But he felt the upgrade had been mostly focused here — on raising the ceiling of the available talents.

And maybe even improving their chances of appearing at the specified amounts.

But once again, at this point in time, he couldn’t be sure of that theory anymore.

Shaking his head with resignation, in the end Noel thought that even one premium simulation daily was still good, and decided to move forward with his plans.

Getting one amazing talent and making progress that could have taken others years to achieve... daily.

If that wasn’t something incredibly good, then what else could it be, after all?