Name: Quantum Energy Usage License
Type: Item
Grade: Wow!
Effect: (Special Permit) Allows the storage and release of quantum energy (including using items and controlling subordinates). The magnitude cannot exceed 30% of total energy capacity.
Evaluation: Probably part of a building block set?
"Gold-quality?"
"This is truly... an unexpected harvest."
Gold-quality items, whether weapons or skills, were extremely rare. Even something like a Herrscher Core was only rated as purple, representing the "Honkai," in the grade evaluation.
The [Radiance] in Lu Xing's hands had only advanced to its current Gold quality after a series of missions and absorbing a Herrscher Core.
But now.
A simple achievement had actually rewarded a Gold-quality item... Aside from the unending war between the Tree and the Sea, perhaps that wisp of will the "Gods" had once projected was truly very pleased.
And this thing...
Although its name was a "License," the item's form was not a piece of paper or some kind of "Authority," but a genuine item:
An irregular triangular solid.
After obtaining it, the special effect it brought truly lived up to its "Wow!" quality rating.
The future potential was real:
The restriction on his use of quantum energy was not a fixed number but a ratio, "30%." This meant that as Lu Xing's power continued to grow, the amount of quantum energy he was allowed to use would also increase.
Even now, when he couldn't yet use quantum energy, he was "permitted" to possess quantum energy items or subdue subordinates like quantum monsters. The only problem was that both of these things were incredibly rare and hard to come by.
The most powerful quantum weapon Lu Xing knew of was the already-destroyed Abyss Cannon on the Mu Continent. Even if it were intact, that thing would only be a minor bonus to Lu Xing. As for the latter, a powerful quantum monster with a considerable degree of intelligence that was also willing to betray the Quantum Sea... seemed to be not at all easy to find.
"Forget it."
In any case, the item was in his hands now. There would be plenty of time to study this function later. If all else failed, he could try to manually craft a few things himself once he mastered quantum energy.
For now.
Lu Xing needed to study its "Evaluation"—
Swoosh.
Besides the [Quantum Energy Usage License], three other items appeared in Lu Xing's hand at the same time.
The Link Core, Transformation Core, and Modification Core.
These were the system rewards Lu Xing had obtained from the "Destruction" series of missions.
Aside from the spherical Link Core, which had holes on its surface, the other two newly obtained items, the Transformation Core and the Modification Core... were almost identical in shape to the [Quantum Energy Usage License] he had just received!
Click.
Clack.
After assembling them like building blocks around the Link Core...
"It's still missing a part."
That's right. If the [License] was counted as a piece of the puzzle, then this tetrahedron was only missing its final corner.
"?"
But even at this stage, Lu Xing still couldn't understand the meaning of this item in a literal sense. Composed of parts of different qualities, what would the final tetrahedron be, and what kind of function could it perform?
Considering the "Destruction" series of missions had already reached the "Civilization" level, and the reward was only a Herrscher Core, the final step of this puzzle clearly needed to be discovered by Lu Xing himself. All its mysteries could only be explored without any system prompts.
"Perhaps..."
"The answer lies within this World Bubble."
As the saying goes.
Things one can't figure out can be set aside for a while.
In any case, these four items were already in his four-dimensional pocket; there was no way they could run away. If it weren't for the small matter of the hybrid Herrscher, Lu Xing would have already arrived at his intended coordinates.
No...
Arriving a little later seemed to be fine too.
After all, Lu Xing was currently witnessing a grand spectacle:
On the side completely opposite his direction of travel, as the distance between them shortened, Lu Xing began to sense more and more auras belonging to quantum monsters. Their scale was even greater than the quantum legion on the Mu Continent; it was a veritable "sea" of them in the truest sense!
"..."
He took back his previous statement.
Saying their numbers were 'greater' was a gross understatement. When Lu Xing was less than half a minute's flight away from his target destination, the number of quantum monsters he perceived was already ten times that of the ones he had burned away with a single fire on the Mu Continent!
Moreover.
Among the quantum monsters (hereafter referred to as quantum beasts) captured by his Super Perception, entities like the "Shadow of Rebirth" that he had previously crushed with one punch were now appearing in plural. In just a few seconds, the number of these "Quantum Emperors" Lu Xing had detected was approaching thirty. More importantly, the auras they displayed were all a uniform Lv.75!
As for the leader of this quantum beast legion—
Name: Tonatiuh, Shadow of the Sun-Eater
Level: 80
Abilities: Piercing Light, Starfall, Dark Current, Collapse, Hidden Slash, Assassinate, Sun-Eclipse, Godfall, Godfall · Blade
Equipment: None
Attack: 320
Speed: 320
Constitution: 320
Evaluation: Quantum Lobster
"Such high stats."
This was the first time Lu Xing had seen a hostile entity with all stats exceeding 300. Even the Herrschers he had met did not have such strong panel stats. Although stats didn't represent everything, having all stats over 300 at least indicated that this lobster-like quantum beast crushed a large number of Herrschers in terms of raw power.
Even if he were to take action himself, it wouldn't be a simple matter to take down this lobster in a short time, let alone now when his Honkai energy was not at its peak.
But!
The civilization... that's right, the side fighting against the quantum beasts was clearly the remnant civilization of this World Bubble. Although their numbers were not large (compared to the quantum "sea"), they were truly holding back the wave-after-wave assault of the quantum beasts from the front.
The reason for using "it" to describe them...
Was because the "old guard" of the civilization left behind in this World Bubble probably no longer resembled their forms from when they first departed.
Lu Xing, high in the sky, could not sense the aura of a single carbon-based life form.
The ones fighting the quantum beasts were...
A hybrid of machinery and Honkai Beasts!
That's right!
Neither the creators of the civilization nor simply the civilization's creations, but a hybrid of the civilization's creations and Honkai Beasts!
Lu Xing had thought "hybrids" were a rare existence, but from the names of these "Honkai Beasts" below, he received a brand new answer:
"Hybrid · Chariot-class"
"Hybrid · Temple-class"
"Hybrid · ...Honkai Emperor!"