The morning in Nagazora City was still quiet...
"Let's go, Liv," Li Xuan said, a slice of bread hanging from his mouth as he bent down to sling a backpack over his shoulder. Although he had a spatial ring, carrying a backpack was for appearances. After all, Li Xuan wasn't just going out to fight Honkai Beasts today; more importantly, he was going to make another wish.
After several days of crazily hunting Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies, Li Xuan had been lucky enough not to encounter any unexpected situations, like a high-level humanoid Honkai Beast or a Honkai Zombie horde. He had smoothly gathered the required Honkai energy Crystals. Two thousand eight hundred Crystals lay quietly in the small silver ring on his right hand.
"Yes, Master~" Liv, still in her black and white maid uniform, said respectfully with a slight bow.
"Let's hurry while Kiana and the others are still asleep," Li Xuan said, quickly heading for the stairs. Liv quickly followed, also curious about what her master would wish for this time.
The sound of their fading footsteps echoed in the quiet stairwell...
Just after Li Xuan and Liv went downstairs, three girls suddenly appeared in the stairwell...
"Kiana, are we really going to follow Li Xuan?!" Raiden Mei seemed a bit embarrassed. As the young lady of Japan's largest company, ME Corp, she had received a strict education and upbringing from her father since childhood. Things like tailing people were something her subconscious resisted.
"Ahem... Raiden Mei! Don't you want to know why Li Xuan has been so desperately fighting Honkai Beasts lately? And... aren't you curious where he gets all those weapons we've never seen before?" Kiana said with a powerful tone.
"We're just doing this to understand Li Xuan better~ Even if we see something... we're partners. We can just keep it to ourselves and not say anything!" Kiana continued to persuade Raiden Mei.
"...Alright, fine," Raiden Mei sighed, finally agreeing to Kiana's idea. In truth, they really didn't know much about Li Xuan. He was like someone who had suddenly appeared in this world. They didn't know his past, his hometown, and even Bronya Zaychik, who could be considered an omnipotent computer, couldn't find any information about him... yet they had been relying on his strength all this time.
Yes, Raiden Mei was very curious about this boy who seemed to be submerged in water, his full picture impossible to grasp.
"Yay! Bronya, take that thing out!" Kiana raised her fist excitedly, turning to the expressionless Bronya Zaychik.
"Mm..." Bronya Zaychik pulled out an object resembling an Apple tablet from her backpack. Her expression unchanged, she pressed the power button, and the previously dark screen lit up. A simple map appeared on the screen, with a flashing red dot slowly moving on it.
"This, this is...?!" Raiden Mei looked at the screen in surprise. Anyone could see what it was... it was clearly a tracker!
"Hmph~ I got this from Bronya Zaychik in exchange for a lot of snacks! The tracker is in Li Xuan's bag!" Kiana said proudly with her arms crossed.
"With this, we don't have to worry about losing him," Kiana said with the air of a master strategist, her head held high, almost looking down her nose at them.
"...How unexpected. I can't believe Kiana thought things through so well before we set out?!" Raiden Mei covered her mouth with her hand, looking at Kiana with some surprise.
"..." Kiana felt very conflicted...
"Hah~ It's time to start again," Li Xuan took a deep breath. It was time for another wish, and what he would get was completely random... he hoped he was a 'European' and could draw a good Divine Weapon...
"Good luck, Master~!" Liv, squatting beside him, said encouragingly, raising her cute little fist.
"Alright~" Li Xuan said with a smile. He casually put the backpack on the ground into his ring and took out the Honkai energy Crystals stored inside. The azure Honkai energy Crystals reflected a blue glow under the sun. It was hard to imagine that these ordinary-looking crystal-like objects contained enough energy to destroy the world... beautiful and deadly.
"..." Li Xuan calmly placed the Crystals one by one into the exquisite golden door in front of him. The mirror-like surface, as clear as a lake, seemed like a bottomless pit, swallowing the Crystals without refusal.
Soon, all the Honkai energy Crystals had been thrown into the Gate of Vows. The intricate runes carved on the gate seemed to come to life, glowing with flowing light. A layer of light appeared on the Gate of Vows... the wish had begun!
The white light on the Gate of Vows suddenly turned purple... The first pull—purple light! In the purple light, an emblem appeared... a five-star emblem! 'Nan'gong's Trial'!
Li Xuan didn't pay too much attention to the first emblem that appeared, because in his mind, only the weapons that appeared with a golden light were truly powerful, the so-called Divine Weapons.
Second pull, blue light—Warrior MS-F1 Military Axe. Third pull, blue light—Seven Star Meteoric Iron Saber. Fourth pull, blue light—Inner Lotus. Fifth pull, purple light—M84 Flashbang. Sixth pull, blue light—V-Type Prototype Chainsaw. Seventh pull, purple light—Void Greatsword...
Li Xuan was stunned when he saw the third and seventh pulls, especially the weapon from the seventh pull. It looked a lot like the sword of the main character's sister from a certain Japanese anime...
The wishing continued. Eighth pull, blue light—V-Type Prototype Grenade. Ninth pull, blue light—V-Type battlesuit: Ranger...
At this moment, the Gate of Vows began to emit a faint golden light, which gradually grew stronger and stronger...
The mirror surface of the Gate of Vows, originally as clear as lake water, was now suffused with gold. The next moment, a dazzling pillar of golden light shot up into the sky, like a pillar supporting heaven and earth...
Faintly... Li Xuan heard a girl's singing in his ears.
"Strange! What's going on?" Kiana looked anxiously at the tracker, where the little red dot, which had stopped moving, suddenly disappeared. It was Li Xuan's tracking marker. Kiana wanted to smash the tracker right now.
"Bronya~ Didn't you say it would work for sure?!" Kiana said, glaring.
"Yes, Bronya confirmed there were no issues..." Bronya Zaychik remained calm in the face of Kiana's exasperated expression.
"Then why...?!" Kiana pointed at the unresponsive tracker and asked.
"It's not Bronya's fault..." Bronya Zaychik replied, looking at Kiana with the same expression one would have on their ID photo.
"Alright, alright... stop fighting. If we can't follow him, we'll just stop~" Raiden Mei once again played the peacemaker, her tone surprisingly relaxed.
"Hmph..." Kiana puffed out her delicate cheeks and turned away with her arms crossed.
"Beep beep... Bronya has detected a strengthening reality-warping field... A space-time anomaly is occurring." Bronya Zaychik, who had remained expressionless even when facing Kiana, suddenly turned a little pale. No one knew better than her what this meant...
"Direction determined... northeast..." Bronya Zaychik suddenly pointed to the northeast.
"What are you talking about?! Shorty..." Kiana, who hadn't caught on yet, said with confusion, looking in the direction Bronya Zaychik was pointing.
"That's..." Raiden Mei looked on in shock.
A pillar of golden light shot up from the ground, instantly connecting heaven and earth. A faint, ethereal song seemed to echo in everyone's ears...
(End of Chapter)