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Serve for life, never betray.
But the possibility doesn't just refer to his plans.
Rather, it was his pride that wouldn't allow anyone to treat him as a substitute for someone else! Even if he won Kiyohime's true love through obedience, and then made the virtuous wife-like Kiyohime change her mind, deep down she would still see the "one" she had fallen in love with.
As a substitute for Anzhen.
Nobody's crazy. Why should Kiyohime, who became a Heroic Spirit, fall in love with the Master who summoned her for no reason? Ultimately, it's about making up for regrets from her previous life.
Therefore, even if her Master and Anchin are not alike, she will not care what kind of person her Master is. As long as her Master can satisfy the part of her heart that is lacking, she can deceive herself into loving her Master.
Without stopping because of Kiyohime's words, Aizen simply smiled and said indifferently, "Each of Kiyohime's words will change her expression drastically."
"Regret and resentment are all meaningless."
"You cannot be deceived by lies from others, but you cannot escape the deception of yourself."
Just as the sky is colorless, it is only your eyes that deceive you.
"You should understand your situation now. Although you are a Servant, you are no longer related to the Hall of Heroes."
You don't need your Master to provide you with magic anymore.
This is no longer your world. Dwelling on past failures and tragedies, this is all you can ever go on.”
"Embrace your new life, your new existence, and rediscover the meaning of your being in this unfamiliar world."
Until then, you will temporarily become my subordinate.
Having said that, Aizen said no more.
Seeing Qing silently contemplating like a normal girl, Ran knew she needed to give her time and space to get used to it.
In comparison, Aizen seemed to care more about Kiyohime's attributes.
Kiyohime's strength without Noble Phantasm: Strength with Noble Phantasm: Basic attributes: Strength, Endurance, Agility, Magic, Luck. Abilities: Berserk, Fire Dragon Transformation+, Tracking, Flame Kiss, Noble Phantasm Reincarnation: Fire Samadhi... Does the Noble Phantasm have a significant impact on Kiyohime's strength?
They're not even up to the level of the Grim Reaper's vice-captain.
Moreover, given her pathetic attributes, she wouldn't even qualify if it weren't for her ability to transform into a fire dragon.
Unfortunately, the foundation is too weak.
Furthermore, her dragon transformation was essentially born from unrequited love and delusion. Even if this low-level dragon bloodline could transform into a dragon, its strength would not necessarily be very strong.
Moreover, she herself lacks combat experience, so even if she encounters a highly experienced opponent, there is a high probability that she will be defeated.
Her Noble Phantasm is quite powerful, comparable to the burst damage of some +2 powerhouses, but if it misses, it's not very threatening.
Based on these considerations, even though Kiyohime was evaluated at full strength.
But in Aizen's eyes, he was just at the bottom level.
Because someone like Byakuya Kuchiki in the future, or Toshiro Hitsugaya, would never be foolish enough to take Kiyohime's ultimate attack head-on.
Just as Kiyohime was lost in confusion and self-doubt, Aizen continued browsing the system shop that had been refreshed after the second mission.
"Spartacus, Price: 5."
"The Phantom of the Opera, Price: 1"
"Nezha, Price: 36" "Holy crap!"
Aizen was startled and almost blurted out a classic Chinese curse.
He ignored the first two.
The third one is Nezha! That... the Third Prince who wreaked havoc in the East Sea, killed a dragon, pulled out its tendons, returned his bones to his father, and cut off his flesh to return to his mother! This is a kind of sentiment that no other character can match.
Among the younger generation of characters in various versions of Chinese mythology, Aizen's four favorites were Nezha, Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, and Zhao Gongming, who was a generation older than them! If he had to give them a ranking, Nezha would be first, Zhao Gongming second, Yang Jian third, and Sun Wukong last.
The price is a bit unreasonable. The Servant Nezha's stats are quite average, and his Noble Phantasm isn't particularly strong either. This price is a bit excessive.
That price is enough to buy two Shuten-dōji.
While from a mythological perspective, Shuten-dōji, who is one of the three great demons along with Tamamo-no-Mae, is really no match for Nezha with one hand, from the perspective of heroic spirits, it's hard to say who is stronger.
"Just a reminder to the host, Tamamo-no-Mae is the one-tailed incarnation of the goddess Amaterasu, and her status as a Heroic Spirit Servant is a demotion in terms of strength."
If the average stat of a first-class Servant is 100, and Tamamo-no-Mae is 9, then Tamamo-no-Mae with two tails would be 81, and with three tails she would be 729. The limit of a class is three tails.
Tamamo-no-Mae possesses a nine-tailed form, and her power is 9 to the power of 9. If her true form were to descend, even Gilgamesh, the so-called ceiling of Heroic Spirits, with his countless Noble Phantasms, would not be able to defeat her.
"Compared to Tamamo-no-Mae, Shuten-dōji is just a demon, but he is one of the three great demons of equal renown."
Shuten-dōji's true form possesses top-tier strength among Heroic Spirits, while Nezha, similarly a deity who has been demoted, could easily sweep away even the so-called top-tier Heroic Spirits if he appeared in the divine form of the Great God of the Three Altars and Seas.
The system suddenly spoke up and began to explain to Aizen.
However, this explanation clearly did not satisfy Aizen.
Because "after all that's been said, whether it's a pure Heroic Spirit or a Heroic Spirit who has been demoted from a god, you still need to add points to become stronger."
The prices are all standardized, so what's the point of Nezha being so expensive?
I had some things to do tonight, so the update is a little late. I'll write the next update later.
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"Okay, there are some things I can tell you in advance."
"Um."
Aizen remained calm, showing no surprise at the system's sudden revelation.
In fact, he himself was well aware that it was impossible for Nezha to be so much more expensive just because of his identity.
Although there is such a thing as sentimentality, he is now a pragmatist. If there are no other factors besides the fact that the price-performance ratio of this kind of Servant far exceeds the normal price, he will definitely buy it.
Okay, sentimentality is indeed quite important.
He has been Aizen ever since he came into this world. Hundreds of years have passed, and he can't even remember his mediocre life in his previous life without careful recall.
But he didn't want to easily abandon everything from his past life, so these things held a different value for him.
"Heroic spirits are not perfect beings; they have their own unique limits."
Or rather, many systems have their own limits, and to continue to grow stronger after reaching those limits is a leap in the level of life.
"continue."
"Therefore, when a Heroic Spirit reaches its limit and wants to continue to become stronger, it cannot evolve by upgrading a single point; it must be strengthened in all aspects."
In the Type-Moon universe, once a Heroic Spirit is strengthened to its limit, it will inevitably transform into a god, regardless of whether it originally possessed divinity; it will definitely acquire divinity afterward.
"As expected, then."
"Therefore, this transformation requires a considerable price to pay, which is beyond your current reach; you are far from reaching that level."
However, since they are already deities who have been demoted, they can skip that... step. Although the initial purchase price is higher, the later troubles and investments are far less."
Having explained this much, the system will not elaborate further.
He's said pretty much everything he needed to say.
It's still a long way off before Aizen can force Servants to undergo a transformation; he'll naturally face the specifics in due time.
However, the system's explanation always gave Aizen a strange feeling.
This made him feel like it was a pay-to-win scheme in some mobile games, where you invest money upfront to buy a fund, and the diamonds or points you get back later are much more than if you recharge directly.
Aizen made up his mind to shake off this strange feeling.
No, or rather, he had already made up his mind long ago.
The reason I'm asking these questions is simply to know more detailed information.
"Save money to buy Nezha!"
With this belief in mind, Aizen completely ignored The Phantom of the Opera and Spartacus.
Actually, the other two are also quite valuable.
The Phantom of the Opera offers excellent value for money. A Phantom of the Opera with a value of 10,000 is more valuable than the newly summoned Okada Izo. Spartacus's abilities are also quite good. As the leader of a slave rebellion and a gladiator idolized by the great Marco Polo, Spartacus possesses strong willpower, combat prowess, and the ability to turn the tide. It's only his intelligence and compatibility issues that significantly reduce his value.
Nezha may seem expensive, but for Aizen, it's actually not that bad.
Two missions with rewards equivalent to those of Madara Uchiha, plus a half-price coupon, are enough.
With 17 points left in his "Actor Value" rating, Aizen thought for a moment and decided to consider boosting the attributes of Okada Izou and Kiyohime.
However, seeing Kiyohime's increasingly volatile emotions, Aizen added fuel to the fire.
Make a decision sooner rather than later.
You now see the gap in our strengths. With my current abilities, there's practically nothing you can do to help me.
"Is it to give up and return to that false self-deception a second time, or to choose to see a completely new world and find new meaning in life? It all lies in that choice."
"I, I"
A struggle and pain flashed across Kiyohime's beautiful face, but in the end, she seemed to let go of something, and her whole body felt much lighter: "I understand. Please take care of me from now on, Lord Aizen."
"Anzhen" was no longer used.
The way they address the summoner doesn't reveal any emotional attachment to them.
At this moment, Kiyohime simply stared intently at Aizen with her crystal-clear eyes, bowing slightly in submission.
"However, I have one more request."
Kiyohime playfully covered her mouth with her folding fan and said with a sly look in her eyes.
Aizen paused slightly, then raised his hand and said, "Tell me."
I can ignore adults deceiving others
However, I still strongly dislike deception.
Moreover, I can see through all lies.
Therefore, I hope that Lord Aizen will at least stop lying to me.”
"Can."
This time, Aizen agreed very readily.
He had taken this into account when he bought Kiyohime.
This isn't about whether he's willing to tell the truth or not; it's that it makes no difference whether he tells the truth or lies to Kiyohime.
Unaware of any deception, Kiyohime immediately revealed a simple and adorable smile: "Then thank you very much, Lord Aizen."
At this point, Kiyohime had truly submitted to Aizen.
However, Aizen didn't notice that Kiyohime, who had finally faced the past, confronted the tragedy, and accepted severing all ties, had a strange glint in her eyes as she looked at him.
Seeing this, Aizen also began to try to improve Kiyohime's stats.
The amount of "Actor Points" consumed is very small, only one hundred points.
Her actual attribute values are also very low. If Kiyohime's attributes weren't so low, it wouldn't give people the illusion that improving her base attributes is very cheap.
Kiyohime's base attributes are Strength, Endurance, Agility, Magic, and Luck! Upgrading all of them consumes 400 Emperor Points.
The consumption was also acceptable, only 100.
Upgrade all to the maximum level, consuming 400 Movie Star Points.
At this point, 440 points of "Actor Value" have been consumed. To continue increasing them proportionally, each subsequent level up of each attribute will cost 500 points, and for now, there isn't enough money.
However, Aizen calmly added one level to Kiyohime's Agility stat.
On the surface, luck stats seem unimportant, and it seems that no one except Servants has such a stat, but Aizen felt that it had quite an impact.
It seems that Okada Izo and his group encountered the Nura Clan as soon as they arrived in the modern world, met the Maoshan Taoists when they went to China, and always ran into trouble when they went to other countries. It is likely that Okada Izo's influence played a significant role in this.
Kiyohime's base attributes are now Strength, Endurance, Agility, Magic Power, and Luck.
And that's not all.
Kiyohime's abilities are currently limited by her level 1 Noble Phantasm, and even if she could add points, it's unlikely she could level it up.
However, Aizen still wanted to upgrade his fire dragon transformation ability, as his dragon bloodline was too low, and it was a very low-level "Oriental" bloodline at that.
The upgrade prices for the following abilities marked with a plus sign will be halved.
However, the cost of abilities is not uniform like that of attributes.
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