"Welcome back, Noah."
"Hmm, I'm back, Lissandra." Noah nodded, then opened his quest panel and clicked to settle the quest.
[Quest Complete, Settling... Gained 2500 essence (2000 base + 500 for destroying drones)]
"Destroying drones added 500 points? Not bad."
Noah looked at the system's settlement notification. Those 500 points were enough for him to do C-rank quests for five days. But calculating it this way, it seemed he could do a ten-pull again.
"Checking my essence points, I have 7300 now."
Noah looked at his inventory; his essence was already enough for a ten-pull.
Noah first took a shower, then washed his face. He felt this would make him luckier. This was the great art of metaphysics.
Stepping out of the bathroom, Noah evaporated the remaining Water on his hair and skin with magic. Ever since he gained magic, Noah felt that magic had many uses: it could attack, defend, provide energy, and even act like telekinesis. Noah used magic to wrap around a Water glass from a distance and bring it over. After taking a sip of Water, Noah looked at the magic swirling in his hand.
Although there was no mana bar limit in Reality like in the game, Noah noticed the change in his body's magic after summoning several heroes. The superposition of several hero templates allowed Noah to store more magic and improved the quality of his magic. If something originally required two points of magic to accomplish, now it only required one point, and the effect was even better than before.
Recalling his magic, Noah believed that in the future, after drawing more heroes, his speed of becoming stronger would be unimaginably fast. And there was also something like the World Rune. After summoning three heroes, Noah already felt the power of the Resolve Rune growing stronger and stronger. Previously, because Noah's strength was insufficient, to prevent Noah from being deluded by the Rune's power, the system had limited the Resolve Rune's energy. However, as Noah grew stronger, the Rune's restrictions were slowly being lifted.
"Let's do the draw first." Noah opened the system panel and clicked on the ten-pull summon.
A vortex effect appeared, then ten light spheres and treasure chests flew out. Noah skillfully opened all the light spheres. This time, no light rushed towards him, which proved he hadn't drawn a hero this time. Noah was a bit disappointed.
"Let's see what I got."
However, Noah wasn't discouraged. He had experienced non-guaranteed draws many times in some games he played in his previous life. He calmed his mind and looked at the summoned items, hoping this summon would give him a surprise.
[Cloak of Agility][Long Sword][Chain Vest][Corrupting Potion][vision ward][Stopwatch][Cloth Armor][Shard: Jhin, the Virtuoso][Shard: Ekko, the Boy Who Shattered Time][health potion * 2]
"Is today an equipment special? So much equipment, and two shards too, not bad."
Looking at the summoned items, Noah was quite satisfied: five pieces of equipment and two shards.
Noah took out the two hero shards and thought for a moment, realizing that both hero shards were very useful. Ekko was also a research-type hero; in Ekko's background story, he learned to assemble machinery before he even learned to crawl as a child, truly a genius. And later, he even used Hextech Crystal to create the Z-Drive, which could control time.
As for Jhin, although he could defeat Zed and Akali in some stories, he was ultimately just a mortal. However, Noah felt Jhin had great potential, not his hero body, but his skins.
Jhin has Dark Star series and Shan Hai Scrolls series skins, Dark Star Jhin and Shan Hai Scrolls Jhin. The background strength of these two skins is extraordinary. Dark Star has Galaxy-level strength, and Shan Hai Scrolls Jhin, his description involves the multiverse, so his starting strength should be at the individual level.
After pondering the backgrounds of these two heroes and their various skins, Noah began to absorb the power of these two shards.
A moment later, Noah shook his dizzy head. Absorbing two heroes' memories at once, even if not complete memories, was still quite a strain.
The Jhin shard brought Noah some combat techniques, while the Ekko shard brought him some of his innate energy and some invention experience. Noah felt his mind had become much clearer. Some things he hadn't understood in his experiments two days ago now made sense. Noah felt that although this draw didn't yield a hero, it was still very worthwhile.
"There's also the treasure chest."
[Gained 2000 essence][Gained Skin Shard: Brolaf]
"Another skin shard."
Noah looked at what came out of the treasure chest; it was a pleasant surprise.
After organizing these items, Noah looked at the equipment he had drawn. As for the equipment synthesis formulas, Noah didn't really remember them well, but he felt that these pieces of equipment should be able to synthesize into one complete item.
"Let's take them out and see."
Noah placed all the component equipment in front of him and began to recall the in-game equipment.
"Two Long Swords and a Dagger, synthesize into Noonquiver." Noah placed the three pieces of equipment together, and then a flash of light enveloped them, emitting a blacksmithing sound.
The light dissipated, and the three pieces of equipment had synthesized into one item: a yellow metal quiver.
"And then it's..." Noah stroked his chin, thinking about how to combine the equipment next. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of an orange arrow with lightning, and a flash of inspiration went through his mind.
"That's right, Electrocution Blade!"
Noah suddenly remembered the synthesis method for a piece of equipment. As soon as Noah saw the Kircheis Shard, he recalled the Static Shiv, or Electrocution Blade, synthesis formula.
Noah placed the Cloak of Agility, Kircheis Shard, and Noonquiver together. The three pieces of equipment emitted a light, a much brighter light than when the Noonquiver was forged just now. The sound of a blacksmith forging rang out again. After the light dissipated, a crackling sound of electricity was heard, and Noah looked at the center where the light had faded, where a White metal sword appeared.
This sword had an overall metallic White texture, and the crossguard above the hilt was made of rings of electric current. Noah looked at the weapon and asked with some confusion, "Huh? Is this the old version of Electrocution Blade?"
Noah remembered that in his previous life, the Electrocution Blade had been remade and re-released, and its illustration had also changed. As Noah thought, he took the Electrocution Blade in his hand.
"Zzzzzzz~"
As Noah held the Electrocution Blade, the blade part sparked with yellow lightning, crackling in the air. After feeling it for a moment, Noah channeled his magic into the Electrocution Blade.
"Zzz~ Bang!"
A bolt of lightning shot out from the Electrocution Blade, hitting the wall in front of Noah, turning the pristine White wall instantly black.
"I only put in a little magic, and it can emit lightning. What if I put in more?" Noah thought, about to inject more magic into it.
"Noah, please don't do these things in the living room." Lissandra suddenly appeared, staring at Noah and calling out.
"Ahem, I forgot for a moment, haha." Noah was a bit embarrassed, having once again displayed his house-wrecking tendencies.
Noah tightened his grip on the hilt. He had just discovered a new function of the Electrocution Blade. Noah injected magic into it, and then the Electrocution Blade was enveloped by a ball of lightning. After the lightning dispersed, the form of the Static Shiv changed.
The Static Shiv transformed from its old sword form to its new lightning form.
"It looks a bit like Zeus's divine weapon."
Noah held the lightning in his hand, gripping the golden handle in the middle of the lightning. Both ends of the lightning crackled with electricity, as if demonstrating their extraordinary power.
Noah came outside the room this time and threw the lightning towards the sky. With a whoosh, the Electrocution Blade flew out quickly. Noah felt he could control its trajectory. With Noah's will, the Electrocution Blade traversed the sky, then flew back, returning to Noah's hand.
"If I use magic, its power will be even greater."
Saying that, Noah injected magic and threw the lightning out again. This time, he felt a strange connection between himself and the Static Shiv in the air. He could transmit magic into it from a distance. Noah tried it, and large bolts of lightning directly burst out around the Static Shiv in mid-air.
Retrieving the Electrocution Blade, Noah felt that this piece of equipment was very good; it looked great and had strong output.
"Ugh~ Time to get to work."
Noah put away all his things, then stretched, preparing to go to the laboratory to work. He needed to accelerate the research on Lissandra's body.