[!Ding! Congratulations for completing the quest against the Church.]
[Your rewards are being calculated…]
Logan stared at the floating text with a skeptical look on his face.
Gabriel closed the box and slipped it away. He watched Logan's face for a beat, then spoke calmly. "Look up."
[Ding! Rewards ready.]
[You gained experience points.]
[Ding! You have leveled up.]
Logan blinked in surprise, not expecting to level up. Of course, he didn't know how the system worked, nor that it deemed his quest worthy of a level-up.
Regardless, he was now level two in the span of just two hours—placing him among the top five players in his batch, meaning those who started the game at the same time as him.
'I guess the reward isn't that bad after all,' he thought with a small smile.
He had thought that was all—until he saw the masked man retrieving a mechanical-looking mask with a faint, steady glow along its edges.
Gabriel held it out. "Take it."
Logan hesitated. "What is—"
