Spidergwen: I have a system?!

Chapter 120: Planning, Ideas, and the Future

[3rd POV]

Over a month had passed since she had gone to the Land of Shadows, and Gwen had finally decided to hang out with team RWBY. Mostly because she hadn't really been paying much attention to them over the past month or two, and felt a little bad, mostly for Ruby. She had been dealing with it a bit over the past few days, as she had been absorbing more and more grimm, and traveling around more and more.

She had naturally completed a couple more quests over this time, as she absorbed any grimm and grim. pool she had come across. And with it, she had begun to look into what the grimm pools actually were, and what the grimm was. And so far, she had figured out that they were closely related to the soul, and even the planet itself.

They were also NOT coming from just some pools, but the literal core of the planet. Something deep inside of the planet was passively giving off this grimm pool "Goop" which was then traveling to the surface of the planet, allowing for the grimm to rise from them. What that core was, Gwen didn't know, but she was excited to find out.

As for the soul aspect, Gwen had found that their souls were quite...different than normal, almost Frankenstein- like, with traits belonging to the soul of an animal and a humanoid. The souls themselves were completely different, and had some other traits specific to them, that she hadn't figured out just yet.

The quests she had completed during this month was...quite a bit.

Grimm Absorption [XVIII]

Details - Absorb 75,000 grimm

Reward - 50 NL tickets

Grimm Absorption [XIX]

Details - Absorb 100,000 grimm

Reward - 75 NL tickets

Grimm Pools [IV]

Details - Absorb 50 grimm pools

Reward - 25 NL Tickets

Grimm Pools [V]

Details - Absorb 100 grimm pools

Reward - 40 NL Tickets

Grimm Pools [VI]

Details - Absorb 250 grimm pools

Reward - 75 NL Tickets

The fact that she had absorbed so many grimm pools, had of course been noticed by some...less than good people, Salem mostly.

Everytime she went out, she had noticed an uptake in Salem's spies, which would normally be annoying, if they weren't incredibly easy to get rid of, and after the first week of Salem doing it, they no longer bugged her.

She would have used the tickets, but she decided that instead, she was going to save them up until the next system evolution, and then she would turn them into TL tickets, and then the TL tickets into the next level, which she believes was Substellar. Substeller being Moon level to Brown Dwarf Star Level.

She expected the quests to be far more difficult once she got to the next level, which was why she planned on doing this. That and after the next world, she was finally going to a rather...powerful one,  one that would actually be threatening to her, and give her more challenges. Even with her next system evolution.

Besides absorbing a shit ton of grimm and grimm pools, Gwen had started to put some of her technological skill to use. She had started to craft some weapons for Korra, Raven, and M'gann. As while Artemis already had hers, they didn't, and relying solely on their powers wouldn't work well with the world she planned on going to two worlds down the line.