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"I was asleep? Why didn't you remind me!" When Xilin opened her eyes again, it was already the morning of the next day.
The first thing Xilin did wasn't to reflect on why she was able to fall asleep, but to pat Chen Li's stomach and shift the blame to Chen Li.
"..."
"Please speak."
"Didn't Your Majesty tell me not to speak?"
"you……"
"Besides, I saw that Your Majesty was sleeping so soundly, so I didn't have the heart to wake you."
"..." Celine had to admit that she hadn't had a proper night's sleep since she arrived at that lab.
The thought of that laboratory made Celine furious.
"If you don't mind, Your Majesty, could you show me your experience of becoming a Herrscher? I'd like to know more about your experiences in this cycle of reincarnation," Chen Li suddenly said.
“…Here.” Xilin didn’t seem to care that her past was known to her family. Instead, she used Feather Dust to condense a dream bubble and threw it to Chen Li.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Chen Li made a heart shape with his hands.
Chen Li pressed the dream bubble into his body, then watched as the extraction progress of the entry above his head rapidly increased.
Extracting the entry for "[Second Collapse]"...
Progress: 25/100 (Completing the entire second Honkai Impact 2rd event from any perspective will increase progress)
Feather Dust is really useful!
Different terms use different methods to increase the extraction progress.
This time, the extracted terms perfectly matched the descriptions of Yu Duchen.
After 5 years of preparation, the entries on Yu Du Chen are exceptionally vivid.
Even a single feather is enough for Chen Li to craft an exquisite artifact.
Indeed, the old folks are the best!
"Come on, Celine, breakfast is ready~" Cecilia pushed open the door and entered, holding a freshly made sandwich in her hand.
“It’s the weekend, and Kiana and Siegfried are both obsessed with DS4 (no typo), so Sirin, why don’t you come shopping with me?” Cecilia stood behind Sirin, her hands on Sirin’s shoulders, and said gently but firmly.
"Go shopping...?" Sirin asked in a panic.
This word had never been vivid in Celine's memory, because Celine's childhood consisted only of her seriously ill, bedridden mother and the experiments in the Tower of Babel.
"Sigh, he really is someone who's bad at saying no." Chen Li, who was leaning against Xilin's bed like a giant, sitting Hoomu doll, sighed as he watched this scene.
Although Sirin tore apart the heart of a human when she awakened as a Herrscher, it does not mean that Sirin completely became a different person.
Becoming a Herrscher means being transformed into a puppet without emotions by the Honkai, a bad habit of the previous civilization.
A more accurate description of Celine's situation is that she suffered a major setback that drastically changed her personality, leading her to decide to live the rest of her life driven by hatred.
The old Sirin is dead. You chose her, idol!
Sirin, caught between the human and the Honkai factions, decisively chose the Honkai due to the instigation of the humans... but Sirin still retains her emotions.
All of this is, of course, thanks to the humanity that Alicia bestowed upon all Herrschers.
Alicia endowed all Herrschers with "humanity," giving them the opportunity to choose between the Honkai and the human camp, but fate (humanity) chose to push Sirin into the abyss forever.
Her father died young, her mother was seriously ill, her friends died, and she was broken.
Putting yourself in Xilin's shoes, if Chen Li were Xilin and had experienced what Xilin went through, Chen Li would never have thrown those pillars made of soul steel from the moon back to Earth, causing damage to the planet...
Chen Li will throw the moon directly at Earth.
Originally, Chen Li only wanted to be a quiet observer, severing the connection between the current civilization and the original civilization before slipping away. He sat on the bed, watching through the Feathered Dust as Cecilia dragged her shopping. Although she was unwilling, her face was full of happiness. He fell into deep thought.
This is what cause and effect is all about. The best solution is to avoid getting involved. Once you're involved, it becomes very difficult to resolve.
"Tsk." Chen Li curled his lip and then looked away.
Although Xilin had Chen Li monitor her movements in real time through Yu Duchen and was required to rush to her side to provide support at any time according to her instructions, Xilin probably didn't have time to bother him right now.
What's more important right now is to finish reading the user manual for the Wanxiang Judgment tool that I obtained through "Then Let Me Ask You".
The Myriad Cuts is a strange object that can cut anything, and after cutting, one can choose to sever or piece it back together.
"Hmm, I see. There's a price to pay for using these scissors to cut anything..." Chen Li gradually understood everything.
Strange things are not such inconvenient things.
Imperial Arms: Severing All Things is known in the world of Akame ga Kill! as being able to cut through anything, and it has no cost to use.
If even cutting a hair requires a price for the one-star artifact that Chen Li painstakingly created, then this artifact is far too weak.
This cost actually occurs in two phases.
When you cut something and choose to sever it, you only need to pay a small price if the thing you cut is of a very high level, because simple destruction is easy.
However, if you choose to cut and then piece things together, no matter what you piece together or how you piece them together, you will have to bear a certain degree of corresponding cost.
For example, if you cut off someone's hair and attach it to a bald person's head, you will have to bear the cost of losing hair, but usually you only need to give up a few or a dozen hairs.
Saitama's case is a separate matter.
This cost is not equivalent, but it is reasonable.
I don't have any rare items, so it's one thing to bear the cost of equivalent exchange. But now that I have rare items, and they're even one-star rare items, why should I bear such a high cost?
"Let me see what it would take to sever the connections between civilizations in the cycle of reincarnation..."
"Hmm... If you choose to sever it, you only need to pay 10 years of 'time,' which is 10 years of lifespan. That's a pretty good price to pay." Chen Li was somewhat surprised by the criteria the one-star artifact used to judge the act of cutting off the cycle of time.
Is this all it takes to make?
"But if I choose to splice... erase cause and effect? Erasure of my causal anchor in this world? Make this world forget me?" Chen Li was greatly shocked when he saw the cost of splicing.
In other words, the consequences of Chen Li's intervention during the second Honkai Impact 2rd still exist, but no one will remember that Chen Li was the one who intervened.
Good news: This erasure is based on the amount of time spent. If Chen Li has created too much karma through interference in this world, he may only need to pay off his causal anchor points in the second collapse, without affecting Chen Li's affairs in the previous civilization.
The bad news is...
Well, no bad news.
"Isn't this all good news? In other words, even if I cause a lot of trouble during this second Honkai Impact, no one will remember that it was me who did these things?" Chen Li's eyes lit up.
"Is it appropriate to eat and take things at the same time?" Chen Li felt a little embarrassed when he saw the price he had to pay.
How do you say that?
If I could marry Alicia, I would gladly have Sakura as my royal bodyguard, Hua as my personal bodyguard, Aponia as my lap pillow, Eden to lull me to sleep, Velvet to perform close-up magic for me, Pado as my cat to be teased by me, and Mebius to give me a back massage!
Grayshu?
Uh... Chen Li is afraid of being shot by the Moth Chasing the Flame.
I feel the side effects of this strange artifact shouldn't be calculated that way. Making a hero bleed and weep is itself a form of punishment.
"But this strange object can erase the bad reputation I gained after causing trouble."
[...But is it really okay to just abandon the goodwill and trust you've painstakingly built up with Xilin like this? And Cheng Lixue will forget the life-saving grace you gave her.]
"Hey, what did I think it was? They forgot? They can just repay the debt of saving their lives again later, right?" Chen Li waved his hand dismissively.
Chen Li could have saved these people from their predicament once again.
You ask where the water and fire come from?
That's none of your business.
"I feel like these scissors are reminding me that I can let loose during the second Honkai Impact," Chen Li said, stroking his chin.
I don't think that's what it meant.
"If you don't believe me, we'll ask it tomorrow!"
That's really unnecessary.
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Chapter 138 Walter: The fictional historian who constructed the groove is still chasing me!
[Dad]: Your Majesty?
[Queen of the Sky]: Here.
[Queen of the Sky]: But don't feed me for now, because there's just too much, I can't possibly finish it all.
The Queen of the Sky seemed to have gotten used to feeding Chen Li whenever he called her.
[Dad]: I see. How is your physical condition?
[Queen of the Sky]: Still the same as before, struggling to survive.
Hearing this, Chen Li actually admired Kiana quite a bit.
When she was 12 years old, her father left her, and she mustered up the courage to embark on a journey to find him.