The twins accessed the Soul Gem System and saw an option they had been eyeing for a while.
[All Energies Absorption Upgrades and Conversion Upgrades Fusion - Only one level available - 1000000 Destiny Points]
"Sister Orb, this is the option that will integrate the Divine Energy and Star Light Energy absorption upgrades into a single skill, right?" Rean asked.
[That's correct. Obviously, the conversion of Divine Energy into Divine Origin Energy Upgrade will also be included. There will be no need for you to buy each one anymore. Instead, this option will open a new Upgrade that will increase the efficiency for all of them at once. For example, buy one level, and this level gives you 5% better results. You will get 5% in any type of energy absorption as well as a 5% faster conversion of Divine Energy into Origin Energy.]
Rean nodded. "That will make it easier to keep track of the upgrades."
Roan pondered if they should really buy this one. "I wonder if this is a good idea."
"Why?" Rean asked back.
"It costs one million Destiny Points to fuse all these upgrades into a single skill," Roan explained. "But that's about it. We will spend a million points while it will have no immediate benefit to us. Only after we start buying the new option will it appear to make any difference. At the moment, we want to gain time, right?"
Rean understood what Roan meant. "It makes sense. After all, we don't need to worry about converting Divine Energy into Divine Origin Energy with all these cores in our hands. You mean to simply buy the Energy Absorption upgrade as always, is it?"
Roan nodded. "That's pretty much it."
[I find it a terrible idea, though,] said Sister Orb. [It will literally become wasted Destiny Points once you get the option to fuse everything together into a single option. I know you are in a hurry to go back to the center of the Realm of Gods. However, this is just recklessness.]
"Father, I think she is right." Surprisingly, even Luan agreed with Sister Orb. "For you who have always been extremely realistic, choosing such an approach really isn't like you at all."
Roan massaged his forehead after hearing that. He might not show it on the outside, but it is true that he is a little worried about Calina. However, he had to admit Luan was right on this point. "Sigh... Forget I said anything. Let's get the fused energies."
Rean smiled as he felt that Luan's words also held value for him. "Sure, let's go with it."
[All Energies Absorption Upgrades and Conversion Upgrades Fusion - Only one level available - 1000000 Destiny Points]
[Destiny Points: 1633215]
[Confirm Purchase?]
"Yes!"
[Purchase Confirmed]
[Initializing Upgrade]
Rean, Roan, Kentucky, and Celis immediately felt it. After they got the Sky Energy, they could tell how the three energies fused inside their bodies before using it. Now that this upgrade was acquired, they felt like a new link between them was created. It was as if they had suddenly harmonized into a single entity.
Surprisingly, there was no pain or anything like that. In just a matter of a few minutes, the fusion of the upgrades given by the system was done.
[Upgrade Completed]
[All options regarding Energy Conversion or Energy Absorption have now been removed from the Upgrade List]
[New Option Available]
[Universal Cultivation Enhancement Level 2 - 100000 Destiny Points]
"Oh! So this is the new one, uh?" Rean was the first to comment. "By the way, Sister Orb. I don't feel any difference in my cultivation speed now that the integration has been made. Wasn't the previous options removed? In that case, shouldn't the benefits we got from there be removed as well?"
[That's indeed surprising. I, too, thought that you would return to your original state and would have to upgrade from there. At least, that's what made sense.]
Roan sighed in response. "If I knew this would happen, I truly wouldn't have bought this upgrade. We could have totally bought the Divine Energy Absorption Upgrade and then carried its effect when we fused everything. We didn't do that because we thought we would lose everything afterward."
Luan felt quite bad about it. "Sorry, Father. I shouldn't have spoken about it. It is my fault that you ended up losing this many Destiny Points."
Roan shook his head, though. "Wrong. It was my fault and my fault only. Your logic was sound, and I agreed with it. Besides, the Divine Energy Absorption Upgrade was already quite expensive."
"Oh, that's true!" Rean immediately remembered. "The next level needed 500000 Destiny Points. Going by proportion, I think we could expect the next level to be somewhere close to a million. In the end, we would only get two levels with the Destiny Points we had."
[Hey, in that case, it wasn't a bad decision at all! Look, it is only 100000 Destiny Points to get the first level of the Universal Cultivation Enhancement. As you already expect, each level increases the overall efficiency by 5%, just like all those options that got removed. Suppose you can buy Levels 2 and 3. In that case, the end result will be even better than if you had spent Destiny Points in the Divine Energy Absorption alone.]
Sure enough, the fact that their cultivation hasn't been impacted and the price of the first level made it all worth it. "Great! See, Luan? You were right in the end, regardless of the outcome," said Rean.
Luan was relived. "That's good, that's good..."
Roan didn't waste time and called Rean. "Let's immediately buy the first level. We can't spend the points anywhere else other than cultivation speed."
"Alright!" Rean obviously had no complaints about that plan.
[Universal Cultivation Enhancement Level 2 - 100000 Destiny Points]
[Destiny Points: 633215]
[Confirm Purchase?]
"Yes!"
[Purchase Confirmed]
[Initializng Upgrade]
*Arrrrghhh...*
Too bad, though. This time, the upgrade hurt as much as it did before. There was even a certain Black and White bird that fell from the skies somewhere else in the Realm of Gods, catching the Demon Beasts' attention.
