His conversation with Byeok gave Chi-Woo a lot to think about, especially what he was going to do from now on. Being strong didn’t only involve physical strength. He also needed to consider others besides himself. There were plenty of people who were working for the same goal and purpose as him, and he needed to work with them. Though training independently was good, he needed to find companions and build connections before it was too late. And to do this, Chi-Woo needed to raise his tier first.

Chi-Woo already threw away his plan to save up his merits and use it all for later. After seeing that his physical ranks didn’t go up even after training so hard, Chi-Woo realized how inefficient and wasteful he had been with his time. Furthermore, he could no longer ignore the perks of having abilities in his user information. Tiers not only expressed how strong an ability or person was, but they were also equated to influence in the hero world.

Besides Ru Amuh, Chi-Woo needed to gather six more people for his group. He would probably have a hard time gaining the trust of other people by maintaining the lowest tier of Iron IV. Byeok agreed and said that he should reach at least gold tier to increase his influence. Chi-Woo was confident in terms of raising his tier since the number of merits he’d collected so far was enormous, and he had several exemptions for promotion tests. He decided to go to La Bella to raise his tier right away, but Byeok stopped him.

She said that would make things too boring and proceeded to say that while she acknowledged his exemptions for promotion tests, he shouldn’t touch his merits yet, and should instead try to amass new ones.

“Didn’t I tell you before? Your training isn’t over yet.”

Chi-Woo was a bit taken aback to hear this. It wasn’t easy to increase a tier. Though he earned a great number of merits thanks to the recent war, the number of heroes at gold tier was still very small. Chi-Woo...