There were extra conditions. It was only expected when Chi-Woo was reaching the highest tier that even surpassed his brother, the legend’s tier. Of course the promotion would come with special conditions.

—The growth system’s Challenger tier is nothing more than a placeholder.

Yet Chi-Woo’s forehead creased after he heard that.

—As the name would suggest, a Challenger is a person who challenges.

—Um...ah, yes. To explain it in a concept that you will understand, it’s like challenging for the champion title.

In other words, rising to Challenger tier didn’t mean you would be a champion, but that you would gain the right to fight the champion.

—Thus, the Challenger will simply gain the qualifications to challenge, and they wouldn’t gain special privileges as they did with the previous promotions.

Mamiya continued.

—But regardless of that, you will have to offer your merits.

Chi-Woo was even more confused about the conditions. The growth system’s core principle was that heroes offered merits to the god they served to expedite their growth. Thus, what Mamiya had just said went against the growth system's very founding principle.

‘Is this perhaps why Chi-Hyun stopped increasing his rank from Grand Master tier?’ Chi-Woo thought.

‘Then, I won’t do it either,’ Chi-Woo wanted to say, but stopped. The growth system was one of the systems that allowed the current Celestial Realm to exist. There must be a reason such an unbelievable...