Unlike his expectations, the appearance of the status panel didn't bring any changes to his progress bar at all.
======== STATUS ==========
Name: Water
Remark (1/1): Melted by you.
=========================
To add salt to the wounds, there was no option to regenerate the remark as well. As a result, he wasn't even able to make the progress percentage rise by a single decimal point. It was still stuck at 97%.
However, hope is a funny thing. At times, no matter what, it fails to appear. However, when it does…it refuses to go away easily.
'The water body…I should check its status as well!'
Although he had been exploring what the water body contained all this while, the thought of checking the status of the water body itself had never surfaced in his mind.
"Yeah…unlike the icy ground, the water body should have been there from the start…" he muttered to himself, and instead of freshening up, rushed straight towards the coast several miles away.
