Rank 2 upgrade

Nope. Nothing was ever going to be normal.

Niera stared blankly at the three men who were bound and tied up with thick, twisting roots. Their eyes were wide with terror and resignation, their faces marred by dirt and fresh wounds. 

One of the men, a short fellow with tangled hair and a deep cut along his cheek, whimpered, "Please… let us go," his voice trembling with fear.

Maybe if it was the Niera of the past, she would have believed the words of the man naively, but now she knew better. "I am sorry." She firmly replied before focusing back on the system interface and going through various tasks for the settlement management.

Things like taking inventory of all the meat they had and storing them in the settlement's storage space gave her experience points, and she was inching towards another level up. Then there was water. Also, there was the part where she had to input the details of the citizens.