The mother

"Wha…?" Taken aback, I took a few steps behind before the momentum of the sheer shock stalled my steps.

It was the first time for the system to announce that a mission could have arcs! And what was with this added "extreme difficulty"? Did that mean that the mission in this world was on an easy mode so far? What would that mean for the possible rewards I would receive from it?

"What happened?!" Noticing how startled I was, Teria instantly stepped forward a few paces, before a strange barrier halted her steps. Only capable of guessing that this barrier had something to do with my system, I decided not to pay much of my attention to it, dedicating my brain's processing power to tackle the issue at hand instead.