Apocalypse Arrives: I Become a Powerhouse by Scavenging
Chapter 12: Spiritual Power

Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Spiritual Power

The next day, Moira Lynch was jolted awake by hunger. The moment she opened her eyes, she was startled by the sight before her. The water level in the swimming pool, which had been full, had somehow dropped by a third.

’Did my fever last night really evaporate all this water?’

Moira Lynch staggered to her feet in the water. "This is too ridiculous."

’Just how terrifyingly high must my temperature have been to evaporate a third of the pool’s water?’

Moira Lynch climbed out of the swimming pool and dried her hands. An intense pang of hunger from her stomach reminded her that she had to eat immediately, or she might actually starve to death.

She took out two pre-packaged, fist-sized meat buns from her storage space and began to wolf them down.

Moira Lynch had never felt this hungry before. At this moment, she felt like she could eat a whole cow.

Only after eating six fist-sized meat buns in a row did Moira Lynch’s hunger finally start to subside.

’I could eat more, but I have to get out of these soaking wet clothes first.’

First, she dried herself off and changed into a set of clean clothes. After soaking in the water all night, she felt like she had become waterlogged.

After doing all that, she took out a table full of food and started eating again.

The table in Moira Lynch’s house was huge—the kind where two people sitting face-to-face would have to shout to be heard.

After eating every last bit of food on the massive table, Moira Lynch opened a one-liter bottle of milk to fill in the cracks, then sat back in her chair and let out a satisfied burp.

The strange thing was, even after eating so much, Moira Lynch’s stomach was still completely flat. It was a mystery where all that food had gone.

"Right, I almost forgot."

Moira Lynch got up from her chair and grabbed a thermometer gun to check her temperature.

Thirty-six point two degrees.

Her temperature had returned to normal, which made Moira Lynch breathe a sigh of relief.

’Does this mean my awakening was successful?’

’So what kind of Talent did I awaken?’

Thinking about the novels she used to read, where people awakened Talent Abilities, Moira Lynch sincerely hoped her own Talent wouldn’t be too useless.

Just then, a familiar, mechanical voice rang in Moira Lynch’s ears.

[Congratulations, player, on successfully awakening your spiritual power Talent. The system offers a special notification: Due to your unique constitution, your spiritual power is infused with a spatial attribute.]

[As you are the first player to successfully awaken, and you did so within three days, the system has prepared a special reward for you: one S-rank Spirit Relief Liquid and a basic shop.]

[Additionally, you have one chance to change your name. Please use it carefully. The System Mall has also been opened for you.]

[The next assistance game will begin after all players have finished awakening. Please be ready at all times!]

After saying this, the system vanished again. No matter how Moira Lynch called out, there was no response.

At the same time, a bottle of pale purple liquid appeared in her hand. A label was thoughtfully affixed to it, detailing the instructions for use.

Spirit Relief Liquid: Helps a newly awakened spiritual power Talent soothe their power and get through the initial period of restlessness.

PS: A Spiritual Power Awakener’s Spiritual Body is uncontrollable during the initial awakening. Please consume the Spirit Relief Liquid as soon as possible.

’Uncontrollable spiritual power?’

Moira Lynch looked up at the delivery packages that had, at some point, flown up to the ceiling. She had tried to control them and bring them back down, but it was as if the packages had come to life, zipping around even more energetically.

’Forget it. I’d better just drink the Spirit Relief Liquid now.’

After drinking the Spirit Relief Liquid, Moira Lynch clearly felt her spiritual power calming down. Under her control, the packages on the ceiling slowly returned to the floor.

Seeing this, Moira Lynch couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

This incident made her realize that a Spirit Relaxant was definitely a good thing for a Spiritual Power Awakener.

’Thinking of the System Mall the system mentioned earlier, it should sell this kind of Spirit Relaxant.’

Opening the System Mall, Moira Lynch eagerly began to search. And sure enough, there they were, with ranks ranging from E to A.

Moira Lynch was wondering why there was no S-rank Spirit Relief Liquid, but when she saw the price of the A-rank Spirit Relief Liquid, she fell silent.

The A-rank one actually cost 10,000 Gold Coins. Even the E-rank one cost one Gold Coin, which was a hundred silver coins.

Moira Lynch, who had only managed to earn three silver coins after bustling about in the game for three days: ...

She decided to figure out how to make money first. As the first Talent Awakened, she also had a level-one shop.

A level-one shop could only display ten items at a time, which wasn’t many. In fact, you could even say it was very few.

But when Moira Lynch checked, she saw that it cost a player a thousand Gold Coins just to own their own shop.

Furthermore, the condition for upgrading the shop was to pay ten times the previous amount for each level.

In other words, if Moira Lynch wanted to upgrade her shop to level two, she would have to pay ten thousand Gold Coins.

Seeing this, Moira Lynch instantly felt that a level-one shop was actually quite good. Selling ten items at a time wasn’t too few, after all. As long as her goods were eye-catching enough, she wasn’t afraid that others wouldn’t buy them.

[Please name your shop.]

Suddenly, a prompt popped up.

Moira Lynch thought for a moment and named her shop [Don’t Miss It]. Then she changed her own name to [SoySauceDrunkard].

’One look at that name, and no one would ever connect it to a pretty girl like me.’

Looking at the empty shop, she decided not to list any items immediately. Right now, she didn’t know how many others had successfully awakened like her, but she estimated the number wasn’t high.

Besides, most of what she had was food. Although prices were skyrocketing, people hadn’t reached the point of starvation yet, so listing food wouldn’t be very competitive.

As for that interstellar food, Moira Lynch decided not to take it out for now.

The main reason was that she still hadn’t figured out if those dairy products were near their expiration date or had already expired. If she made someone sick, it would ruin her shop’s reputation.

After signing for today’s deliveries, Moira Lynch spent the entire time from morning to afternoon unboxing them. During this period, she also refilled the swimming pool that had lost a third of its water.

Since it had already been used, dumping all the water would be too wasteful. Moira Lynch decided to claim the pool as her own exclusive swimming pool, and she even resolved to buy a few more just like it.

In the afternoon, the temperature dropped, and Moira Lynch decided to go out to procure supplies. Throughout the day, she had seen her neighbors bustling in and out, and she figured she should blend in.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw two property management staff standing outside, looking like they were just about to knock. Behind them stood two serious-looking young men who exuded an air of righteous integrity.

It was the kind of aura that screamed "good guy" and made them seem extremely trustworthy.

Moira Lynch took two steps back, eyeing the visitors warily. "Who are you?"

The two property management employees gave Moira Lynch a polite smile and said, "It’s been very hot lately. To prevent anyone from getting heatstroke without realizing it, these two gentlemen are here to check everyone’s temperature."