Ripples of faint blue light, reminiscent of halos, rose from the edge of his vision. A dense web of fine cracks spread from the center of the firmament, peeling away the deep void like a shattered mirror.
Ten meteors sped forth from the end of the rift, dragging cold blue trails behind them as they fell at scattered speeds, resembling comets skimming across the sky.
"Tch, do double golds really only appear in dreams?"
Seeing the blue-violet light revealed within the spiraling, three-dimensional star rings, Caelus clicked his tongue audibly.
Within the blue radiance, the outline of an orange-yellow crystal emerged—a familiar Soul Crystal.
Glancing at the quantity of Soul Crystals and fragments in his inventory, Caelus noted he was just one fragment away from Knight Does Not Die with Empty Hands, which would increase unarmed attack power by 70 to 140 times.
Two white lights followed. One was a Learning Chip, nothing much to say about it; the other was some useless Liquid Alloy, good only as a toy.
[Item: Badge — Gale Arts]
[Rank: ★★★]
[Effect:
Haste: Increases base movement speed by 35.96%.
Rapid Slash: Increases attack speed of melee weapons by 6.75%.]
Caelus nodded.
A standard three-star badge.
The mechanism increasing base state speed and melee sharp weapon attack speed could be used by Li Sushang.
Currently, Caelus's main body and every female body were equipped with badges. There was a cap on how many badges each body could wear; otherwise, stacking stats upon stats—like stepping on your left foot with your right to fly—would let Caelus ascend straight to heaven!
The equipment slots were one more than in the game Honkai Impact 2. A single body could wear a maximum of four badges, so he still needed quite a few to fill them all up.
A low-frequency hum, like cosmic radiation sound, accompanied by a crisp noise like shattering glazed glass, heralded a figure familiar beyond belief appearing before Caelus's eyes.
Her features were exquisite and three-dimensional, her eyes as magnificent and dazzling as the deep ocean.
Even with the debuff of earthily outdated braided pigtails, she still appeared gentle and virtuous in a quiet state, brimming with the aura of a wealthy young lady. A beauty with no blind spots from any angle—as long as you didn't let her open her mouth.
[Character Card: Kiana Kaslana (Domain Outfit · White Comet)]
[Rank: ★★★★]
"...It's actually freakin' White... White Comet!?"
The corners of Caelus's mouth twitched slightly, his disdain overflowing in his expression.
The four-star rating was simply because character cards were four-star at minimum.
For Caelus, a new character card represented a life, a body, which was why it rated four stars.
"Sigh, the so-called White Comet means even if you practice, it's in vain!"
Although Caelus could currently only control three bodies aside from his main one, he could hand the Jade Knight over to Li Sushang herself to control, while he controlled Kiana.
That way, all bodies would be in a combat-ready state.
But they were about to group up to fight Phantylia. Just a mere B-rank Valkyrie... one couldn't say she had no use, only that she was absolutely useless!
Turning on auto-battle this time and summoning the Paramecium might actually trend toward negative optimization.
Caelus's talent for mastering Honkai energy far exceeded Kiana's, and his combat experience wasn't much different either.
After a moment of thought, Caelus decided to place Kiana in the Valkyrie space for now.
Once the Phantylia incident was over, he would first experience that waist, so exaggerated it could be recorded in the history of human civilization.
With particle effects scattering like stardust in its trajectory, another purple star fell.
The semi-transparent halo dissipated, revealing a silhouette that made Caelus's eyes widen abruptly.
It was a silhouette interwoven with gray-blue and night-black. Roman-curl twin-tails hung lazily over her shoulders, the hair flowing gradually from misty gray to deep sea blue. A lock of ice-blue highlight curled up amidst her bangs, resembling the tip of a cat's tail when its fur stands on end, echoing the rabbit ears erected on the top of her hood—super cute.
A loose black jacket was half-slid down to her elbows, revealing the slender waistline tightly wrapped in a vest. The wolf-preying motif on the back of the jacket was presented in a hand-drawn graffiti style.
Ankles wrapped in blue socks disappeared into black and gray sneakers, while two leather straps diagonally accented the tender, fair lines of her slender legs.
[Character Card: Haxxor Bunny · Bronie]
[Rank: ★★★★]
"Double purple character cards!"
This sudden, huge surprise made Caelus's eyes pop.
It just so happened he had drawn Crusher Bunny 19C before; he even had her signature weapon!
Drawing two character cards was certainly cause for celebration, but...
"It doesn't help much with the upcoming battle either."
To participate in a battle at the Emanator level, one needed to be at least Herrscher level to have some effect. Bronie's strength was still a little short of a Herrscher.
According to existing intelligence, Haxxor Bunny was similar to the Herrscher of Rebirth. Possessing abilities approximate to the First Herrscher, Bronie could be tentatively regarded as a pseudo-Herrscher of the Sea of Quanta side.
She didn't have a Herrscher Core. To be precise, she was an Imaginary Singularity that directly extracted Imaginary energy, so she couldn't be counted as a proper Herrscher.
"If it were any other Duck-Duck, I could have lit up a Star Soul for Silver Wing, but it just had to be Haxxor Bunny."
Bronie was Bronya, but a Bronya inside a bubble universe. The two were separate individuals with independent consciousnesses, so naturally, they wouldn't both count as Bronya.
"Forget it, that's two extra lives. I was very lucky this time!"
Caelus was satisfied.
"Speaking of which, there are a bit too many from the Duck family around me."
Rand-Duck, Silver Wolf, Silver Wing, Honkai Impact 3rd Little Duck, and now a Haxxor Bunny.
"Haxxor Bunny eats Wolf. Hmm, I'll go back and use the Haxxor account to play around with my good 'bosom' bro~"
Caelus narrowed his eyes, scheming in his heart.
Eh, the person you like is me, your wingman strategist is me, and your love rival is also me~!
"Wolf-cub, this is all brotherly love for you!"
Caelus placed a hand on his chest, sincere and earnest.
[Uh-huh, having a brother like you is truly the greatest fortune of her three lives!]
The System couldn't stand it anymore and clapped sarcastically.
"That's right, I'm the most loyal!"
Who else but me to help a brother enrich their amateur life!
Caelus sketched a plan in his mind and tossed it aside to deal with after everything was done. He continued to swipe; four gray meteors, pulled from outside the card pool of the myriad worlds, fell.
"At the cost of my good bosom bro Silver Wolf never developing further... I hope something useful comes."
Caelus pressed his palms together, praying sincerely.
[Creature: Goblin]
[Rank: ★★]
[Introduction: From "Goblin Slayer". Ugly little demons, monsters that many adventurers fight initially. They like to abduct women for reproduction. Although weak individually, they are tricky when acting as a group.]
Caelus smiled, clapped his hands, and raised his middle finger.
A bad start!
Given the physical constitution of the Xianzhou people, this thing couldn't threaten anyone. Any random Cloud Knight could hack down a group of them; even ordinary people could take them out. Ignore it.
[Item: Hemlok Burst AR]
[Rank: ★★]
[Introduction: From "Apex Legends". A 3-round burst assault rifle.]
Useless. Caelus continued to swipe. Upon seeing the content of the next meteor, his face gradually stiffened.
[Creature: Ten-Tails Larva]
[Rank: ★★★★★]
[Introduction: From the "Naruto" world. The source of all creation, a seedling of the grotesque Divine Tree that heralds the arrival of the end. It is a creature unique to the Otsutsuki clan.
Feeding it a high-quality Otsutsuki allows the Ten-Tails to transform into a Divine Tree, absorb the planet's energy and life genes, and turn into a Chakra Fruit.]
"Holy shit!"
The Ten-Tails!
The special creature used by the Otsutsuki clan to harvest and hunt planets.
"Hiss, the Ten-Tails... this is actually a pitfall."
Caelus sucked in a breath of cold air.
The word "Larva" was directly ignored by Caelus.
The power of a Ten-Tails Larva was already not weak; its volume was a size larger than ordinary Tailed Beasts, and its strength could suppress any Tailed Beast other than the Nine-Tails.
Good news: There is no Otsutsuki clan in the Imaginary Tree universe, so the Ten-Tails cannot transform into a Divine Tree and bear a Chakra Fruit in the normal way.
Bad news: Caelus is currently on the Xianzhou, and the Ambrosial Arbor connected to the entire Xianzhou has just revived!
If the Abundance Miracle, the Ambrosial Arbor, meets the Ten-Tails—both being trees—would a chemical reaction occur?
In the past, although the power of the Ambrosial Arbor was magical and unpredictable, the Immortal Traces left by Medicus herself had never been aggressive. But if, just if, the Ten-Tails Larva fused with the Ambrosial Arbor, the consequences would be unpredictable.
Especially since Phantylia was currently attempting to use the fruit of the Ambrosial Arbor to shape a body.
Caelus thought for a moment and clicked on the final gray meteor.
"This is!?"
[Item: Potara Earrings (Batara Earrings)]
[Rank: ★★★★★★]
[Introduction: From the "Dragon Ball" world. An exclusive treasure passed down through generations of Supreme Kais, capable of allowing two people to fuse into a super warrior.
The fusion principle is the same as the Fusion Dance. While possessing the advantages of the Fusion Dance, it is superior as it will not fail due to poor coordination.
Strength after fusion increases drastically. It perfectly possesses all skills of both parties and can combine their skills for use, thereby comprehending new skills.
For users other than Supreme Kais, the earring fusion can only be maintained for one hour at most. Fusion is still possible even if there is a strength gap between the two parties, but the effect will be reduced.
Note: For lives other than the System holder, using the earrings for fusion will have additional restrictive conditions and rules. Click to view details.]
"A six-star item! That fusion earring!"
Caelus felt a storm of shock exploding in the bottom of his heart.
Six stars!
A six-star item!
Although the System rating wasn't based on whether the item was useful to the host or could make him stronger, but rather on comprehensive factors like life hierarchy, item status, and activation conditions, a high-star item could absolutely not be a useless thing.
Six stars meant the earrings had a high status and their mechanism had extremely high priority.
This thing might be able to briefly fuse two Aeons together!
But Aeons were life manifestations of philosophical concept Paths. For instance, the naturally opposing Elation (approaching existentialism) and Nihility (nihilism)—Aha and the Black Big Shot probably had no destiny for fusion. Other Aeons with non-conflicting concepts should be possible.
Of course, the condition that non-System holders can use it must also be met.
"If I fuse two Emanators together, even if they can't rival an Aeon, they'd probably be invincible outside of Aeons."
Caelus clicked on the detailed restrictive conditions and browsed. The very first rule silenced his leaping thoughts.
One: Non-System holders using it will fuse permanently and cannot be separated.
Two: ...
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