The moment Serena and Yuri stepped out, the study doors closed with a heavy finality.
A deep breath escaped me.
Not tired.
Not overwhelmed.
Just… finally alone.
Which meant I could deal with something I hadn't touched in far too long.
Something monstrous.
Something bottomless.
I lifted my hand and flicked my fingers lightly.
The air rippled.
A familiar blue interface shimmered to life before me—sleek, modern, impossibly out of place amid marble columns and papyrus scrolls.
The System.
My greatest weapon.
My greatest secret.
And, apparently, a hoarder.
Because the moment the UI loaded, it nearly blinded me with numbers.
TECH POINTS: 4,854
BUILD POINTS: 391,524
EDICT POINTS: 75
"...Yikes," I muttered.
Almost a year on campaign.
A year of battles, victories, territory expansion, legion expansions, enemy defeats.
And every single day, the system had just kept quietly feeding the numbers.
