Chapter 355 Second Two

In the waiting room, Michael exhaled.

"He's strong," Michael muttered to himself.

His fingers tapped lightly against the armrest. "Is this what advanced mastery looks like?"

He frowned. He was currently at the latter half of Intermediate Mastery in Spearmanship. Just a few percentages left. 

When he first got the skill, he had thought—naively—that it was a clean transition. 

That once the bar hit a hundred, he'd enter the next stage and everything would click into place.

But now? Seeing Renn? Feeling the pressure through the screen alone? He realized it wasn't that simple. 

There was a wall. A barrier.

And breaking through it…

"Step by step," Michael said under his breath.

Whether it was advancing his Spearmanship to Advanced Mastery… Whether it was evolving his undead units… Whether it was reaching Rank 2…