Noah opened his eyes at six and stared at the ceiling for approximately four seconds before the void store appeared at the edge of his vision unbidden, the system doing what it did, sitting there patient and available the way it always sat.
He hadn't gone through it properly since the desert. Since the night he sat on the mech shoulder watching his people train in the red sand and scrolled through the whole thing and bought the forge stone and it came out of the sky.
He had coins. More than before, the Kruel quest rewards sitting in his balance alongside everything accumulated across the operation.
[Void Coins: 214,340]
'Two hundred and fourteen thousand,' he thought. 'Okay.'
He sat up and opened the store properly.
Storm was on the floor.
