This meant that somewhere out there, hidden from his view, there were other candidates climbing the exact same ladder of progression, fighting through their own quests, and trying to reach the very peak of power that he had just successfully claimed for himself.
'Does this mean those other magi with the system would receive a similar automated notification … informing them about my breakthrough?' he thought, a bit confused.
If the system was tracking all of them under a single master network, it was highly possible that a global announcement had just been blasted across their screens, signaling to every single holder that the ultimate milestone had finally been conquered by him already.
He heavily doubted that would actually be the case, but since he still couldn't confidently say he knew everything there was to know about the system's true origins or its creator's ultimate motives, there was still a very real, lingering chance of even that happening.
