After assigning everyone their living quarters, Theresa left. With the outbreak of the Third Honkai Eruption, matters such as population migration and resettlement, assessing the damage to the city where the Honkai erupted, changes in transportation routes, whether certain specialty materials would disappear as a result, and even compiling Honkai data statistics and combat reports for future learning—all these things required Theresa, the leader of the organization managing the Far East, to personally handle and review.
Evan, meanwhile, began to examine his new residence.
The room layout was similar to Himeko Murata's place, a four-bedroom, one-living-room apartment that could undoubtedly be described as luxurious. The living room had furniture like sofas, tables, and chairs. One room had a bed and a desk, presumably the bedroom, while the remaining space appeared empty. Undoubtedly, Theresa or someone else had arranged everything in advance; this furniture had been moved in because of Evan's arrival, as the place was likely an empty room originally.
There was a note on the bedside table in the bedroom.
"If you want to exercise, go to the training room specially built in the academy. Besides various equipment, there are also virtual combat rooms, high-tech products inaccessible to ordinary people, which will surely satisfy you. If you continue to secretly perform overload training like before, it won't be a wise move. Also, your body hasn't fully recovered yet, so behave yourself."
Who left this note? Theresa? Himeko Murata? Or the medical staff responsible for his treatment earlier?
Whoever it was, it felt quite heartwarming.
Evan curled the corners of his mouth slightly. Instead of throwing the note into the trash can, he put it in the drawer, treating it as a nice gift for now.
Unlike Himeko Murata's messy residence, Evan's room appeared very clean and tidy, which was natural since no one had lived there before.
It seemed he would have to purchase some daily necessities later. When leaving Nagazora City where the Honkai erupted, neither Evan nor Kiana and the others had brought any non-essential luggage.
Lying on the bed, which was softer and more comfortable than the one in the Tachikawa Academy dormitory, Evan let out a light breath and closed his eyes, recalling everything since he came to the Honkai world.
From the moment he entered St. Freya Academy, he was destined to break away from ordinary life. In the future, there would be more things to face.
A moment later, Evan opened his eyes and called up his virtual interface.
In the friendship points column, there was a high number: six hundred.
Counting the half-day he fainted from exhaustion, plus the whole day fighting in Nagazora City before that, gaining six hundred friendship points in nearly two days was undoubtedly very lucrative.
Besides Raiden Mei and Kiana, who were originally the main sources of friendship points, the appearance of Bronya, Theresa, and Himeko Murata seemed to have contributed a considerable amount of points. Their attitude towards him was not limited to just newly acquainted friends.
Evan didn't plan to investigate the specific value contributed by each person. With so many friendship points, of course, he would draw directly.
So he harvested six gold coin items.
It was expected. Since the existing Stigmata hadn't been strengthened to the limit yet, obtaining gold coin items was considered quite good.
Adding the original gold reserve, Evan could now strengthen a two-star Stigmata to the max level again. However, just as he was about to confirm the strengthening, he hesitated slightly.
Evan remembered the scene when he saw Kiana's [Artemis' Guardian] dual pistols and the enhancement button appeared in the virtual interface. His gold coins should be usable to strengthen some weapons and Stigmata that originally existed in this world.
Himeko Murata, the Valkyrie who undoubtedly used artificial Stigmata and was burdened by them—what was her state now?
Evan clearly remembered that Himeko Murata's artificial Stigmata was a type with extreme side effects, causing a significant reduction in lifespan. At this point in time, she seemed to have only a few years left to live.
This didn't mean Evan could use these few years to slowly accumulate gold coins and help Himeko solve the problem at the end. Heaven knew if strengthening the artificial Stigmata could eliminate the side effects, and whether Himeko's lifespan could return to normal without the trouble of artificial Stigmata side effects.
He couldn't let time pass and wait until the end; he should take action as soon as possible.
But Stigmata seemed to exist on the back of Valkyries. With his current relationship with Himeko Murata, if he directly proposed to check her Stigmata, would it cause a misunderstanding? Although he did have ulterior motives towards her.
Evan fell silent for a moment, then temporarily put aside these thoughts and looked at another part of the virtual interface.
[Emergency Mission]: End the Third Honkai Eruption.
Reward: 280 Crystals.
This was something like a mission system that appeared in the virtual interface. The reward was very generous. At least when Evan was originally a player, it was difficult to get such a generous reward even after clearing a chapter of the story or completing a week's adventure commissions.
The emergency mission appeared when Evan was fighting Honkai Beasts at the edge of Nagazora City. At that time, he didn't have the mind to pay much attention to it. In fact, before completing the task, staring at the virtual interface wouldn't get him the reward.
280 Crystals, not more, not less, exactly enough for one Advanced Supply drop—the kind with a minimum of three-star items and a possibility of four-star items.
If nothing unexpected happened, as long as he obtained Crystals, Advanced Supply would also appear just like the initial Friendship Supply. Once he could draw a four-star Stigmata or weapon, Evan's strength would leap again.
Now that Raiden Mei, the Third Herrscher, and Kiana and the others had all entered St. Freya Academy, and the vast majority of Honkai Beasts in Nagazora City had been eliminated by him, with most zombies also cleared, Evan thought this emergency mission was already completed.
However, looking at the unclaimable reward, Evan frowned deeply.
The mission is not completed... Does it mean the Third Honkai Eruption has not ended?
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