Facing March's disgust, Stelle held the War-Flaming Lance high: "What do you know? This is a lance tip that has poked an Aeon's butt. Ordinary people wouldn't even have the chance to lick it if they wanted to."
Himeko: "In a certain aspect... Stelle isn't wrong..."
Compared to the fragments dropped after the Amber Lord Qlipoth hammered, a weapon like Stelle's that was truly stained with the color of Qlipoth's body really could attract IPC employees.
At least for so many years, no one in the IPC has been able to scrape something off Qlipoth and bring it back like Stelle.
Some dead skin falling off them versus actively poking something off them, those are two different concepts.
Listening to Himeko's words, Pei Guang touched his chin and thought seriously: "Theoretically correct? That means, theoretically, Aventurine would lick Stelle's War-Flaming Lance?"
Once this sentence was out, Stelle's eyes went wide: "What? No! This War-Flaming Lance, except for me, only Ah Guang can lick it! Others… no way."
Pei Guang: "I don't eat just anything... nor do I lick just anything."
Stelle turned her head: "Really? Licking this increases stats."
Pei Guang: "Really?"
Stelle: "Really, hehe!"
"Hehehe~"
Pei Guang and Stelle looked at the amber-colored lance tip, both revealing smiles scheming against each other.
Pei Guang: "You lick one first for me to see, let me witness how it increases stats."
"I've already licked it, licking it again is useless."
This was a lie. Stelle had never pervertedly licked the lance tip: she was just tricking Pei Guang into licking it.
However, looking at Pei Guang's current appearance, he wouldn't fall for it.
Pei Guang gritted his teeth and held down Stelle's head: "I'm the one who raised you, you think I don't know your little thoughts? Trying to trick me?"
When Pei Guang and Stelle weren't together, both could count as normal people, and their thinking was also considered normal.
But when the two got together, the already abstract two presented a geometric level of abstractness.
Firefly looked helplessly at Himeko and March 7th, while March spread her hands: "You'll get used to it. Ah Guang is a ruthless person who can swing a trash bag and fight the Antimatter Legion for eight hundred rounds. Now... this counts as normal..."
Firefly: "Hahaha..."
Firefly didn't dare to imagine what Pei Guang looked like fighting while swinging a trash bag. After all, the things Pei Guang did in Penacony with her, while abstract, hadn't reached that level of abstractness yet.
March 7th covered her head: "Don't laugh. I'm actually a bit worried about that guy named Aventurine now. You don't know, Ah Guang and Stelle have to play some trash strategies wherever they go. They haven't played yet in Penacony, so I'm suddenly a bit scared."
Himeko: "Is it that scary?"
Regarding Pei Guang's operations... she had only heard of them but never seen them.
March 7th: "Just don't be scared. Pei Guang's current operations... although abstract, haven't reached the level of being outrageous..."
Although Penacony had more moving trash cans, and summoned trash cans through trash bags, further strengthening stats.
But March 7th knew that Pei Guang had been hoarding all kinds of trash since the Herta Space Station.
Pei Guang used ordinary trash bags; the real top-tier ones were saved for the strongest enemies.
And you wouldn't believe it, March 7th felt a shudder just by roughly imagining the fiercest bags of trash Pei Guang was cultivating now.
She dared not imagine what kind of beautiful expression this new enemy would show when facing these beautiful things.
Listening to March 7th's words, Firefly shivered: "Is it... that scary?"
March 7th held Firefly's shoulder: "Very scary!"
Firefly: "I'm not afraid!"
March 7th: "Eh?"
Firefly: "I believe in him. No matter how scary the ability is, he won't use it on companions. I believe in him."
"Woah!"
March 7th gasped. She never expected that this girl, Firefly, could poke Pei Guang's weak spot so directly.
That's right.
In March's observation, the most lethal thing for Pei Guang wasn't love from others, but trust.
Thinking back on their journey, whenever someone gave Pei Guang a mission saying words like "I believe in you," Pei Guang would go all out to complete it.
While the group was joking and playing around here, Welt and Acheron also walked over from the other side.
Seeing Welt appear, Himeko greeted him: "You look like you're in high spirits. It seems you had a lot of fun~"
Hearing Himeko's question, Welt calmly pushed up his glasses. He had just briefly tried out the dungeon Ah Guang created.
It was quite interesting, and he strongly recommended that she try it later too.
"Oh? Made by Ah Guang and recommended by you? I'll try it after everything is over. By the way, you don't know what we are doing next, right?"
Welt nodded: "I don't know yet. Just now they left alone, saying they wanted to come here to play together, but I don't know why suddenly..."
March 7th caught the key information in Welt's words. She turned to look at Firefly and asked expectantly: "Eh? Is there anything fun in this Theme Park?"
Firefly: "There are very good movies, the kind suitable for couples. It's very atmospheric for two people to watch together."
March 7th: "Really? Then I'll have to try it later~"
While they were chatting on this side, Pei Guang, who was playing with Stelle on the other side, heard Welt's voice.
He stopped playing and came to Welt and Acheron's side, recounting what needed to be done next.
Pei Guang didn't conceal the matter regarding letting Aventurine die from Acheron.
Pei Guang: "Simply put, Aventurine wants to use your power of Nihility to die and go to the deepest part of Penacony, but I don't want you to do it. I have a good relationship with Something Unto Death, so I can ask it to help send Aventurine to the new world.
However, my plan isn't to use your power. If I remember correctly, the setting of Nihility in this world is quite strong, and this thing seems to be quite harmful, so it's better not to use it if possible."
Acheron: "The power of Nihility... it works?"
Pei Guang nodded: "Of course it does. What is Nihility? The opposite of existence. What is death? A return to Nihility. What is Something Unto Death? Obviously life heading towards death. What is life? Existence. What is death? Nihility.
So rounding it up, people killed by Something Unto Death are equal to people killed by Nihility. Aventurine's intel is theoretically fine, but as I said before, the power of Nihility is still quite scary. For you NPCs, it's better not to use it if you can."
Pei Guang didn't feel much about the power of Nihility. As he said, he was a player. Players didn't care how awesome the plot setting was.
In a player's hands, you were either a DPS, a support, a mascot, or a bench warmer.
But Pei Guang also understood that games would compromise for players, but not for NPCs. Just like some game skills that players cast freely, while the actual setting was that every time the skill is used, it's life-threatening.
Players wouldn't feel it, but in the real world, real people would feel it.
Pei Guang was indeed a player, but precisely because he was a player wanting a relatively perfect first playthrough, he still hoped that NPCs would use these costly or harmful abilities as little as possible.
Listening to Pei Guang's words, Acheron fell silent.
After a long silence, she slowly asked: "Then how would you use the power of Nihility?"
Just the dungeon Pei Guang created convinced Acheron that Pei Guang possessed the ability to shield against or even utilize Nihility.
Such a thing... was normally impossible. For the life in this world, Nihility was the ultimate destination of everything.
But there was one exception, and that was if Pei Guang was not from this world.
Meaning not just this planet, but this universe.
Do not underestimate human imagination. Those walking the Path of Nihility who haven't been swallowed are all thinking about how to resist Nihility.
Someone once proposed a possibility: "Nihility is the destination of everything in this world, so what if a person not from this world faces Nihility?"
Pei Guang's actions proved one thing: he was not from this world.
Various strange abilities, even being able to directly block the power of the Paths... If he wasn't from this world, Pei Guang indeed had the possibility of using Nihility.
But if something went wrong, she would be harming a life. To avoid the possibility of error, she needed to determine how Pei Guang would use the power of Nihility.
Listening to Acheron's question, Pei Guang suddenly blushed: "Do I really have to tell the honest truth?"
Acheron: "Feel free to speak."
Pei Guang: "I can say it, but I can only let you hear it alone."
Acheron: "Alright."
Pei Guang leaned in close to Acheron's ear.
Originally, everyone was waiting for Pei Guang to speak, but seeing him suddenly blush and hearing this request, March 7th gasped sharply.
"Oh no! Ah Guang's next words will definitely be astounding!"
And that was indeed the case. The moment Pei Guang opened his mouth, Acheron remained silent. Hearing Pei Guang's question, she even felt she had heard wrong...
"Actually, I'm very curious about what it would feel like if Nihility was made into a fleshlight. After all, the way Nihility is manifested right now is a black hole. That is a black hole, for crying out loud!"
At this moment, Acheron's pupils trembled.
Having lived for so many years, this was the first time she had heard such an answer from Pei Guang.
Although she knew this was just Pei Guang's fantasy, the person who could have such a fantasy... was truly a genius...