Chapter 39: The World’s White Blood Cells

Chapter 39: The World’s White Blood Cells

Kanos blinked three times. He rubbed his eyelids hard with the back of his dirty hand. The transparent blue interface that had been practically glued to his retinas since his first day in this hell was completely gone. No health bar. No mana pool. Not even the faint glowing grid of his structural analysis skill. The world suddenly felt incredibly naked.

A sudden wave of vertigo hit him. The absence of the system was not just a visual change. It felt like a phantom limb had just been chopped off. He had unconsciously relied on that stamina bar to tell him when he was tired. Now, the pure and unfiltered exhaustion of his human body crashed into him all at once. His knees buckled slightly. He had to grab the edge of a tall wooden bookshelf just to keep himself standing upright.

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