Aboard the Schicksal aerial battleship 'Hyperion', not far from Nagazora City…
"Principal… stop eating cake… you're going to turn into a ball," Major Murata Himeko said maliciously, her arms crossed. In truth, she was quite envious of the principal for being able to eat cake… However, because she had recently participated in the Nexus Project, she hadn't been able to eat properly…
Was this the price to pay for power? Himeko thought self-deprecatingly, touching her flat stomach.
"Hmph~ This is dessert!" Sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling tempered glass windows, illuminating the rosewood desk. A little loli in a black and white nun's habit was taking small bites of a strawberry cake from a small dish with a pink spoon, her exquisitely carved face beaming with happiness…
"Alright, Principal Theresa," Himeko couldn't bear to watch her blissful cake-eating expression any longer. She picked up a stack of reports from her side and tossed them onto the nun's desk, saying in an annoyed tone, "This is the anomaly report just detected by the Honkai detector."
"Oh oh~" Theresa, with the small spoon still in her cherry-like mouth, reached out her delicate hand to pick up the report and read it slowly. But soon, her expression began to turn serious.
"That suspected Herrscher's Honkai energy fluctuation has appeared again?! And it seems to have been concealed by some power?!" Principal Theresa said, her cute brows furrowed.
"If that Honkai energy detector isn't broken, then that's the case…" Major Himeko shrugged, crossing her legs nonchalantly.
"Hmm… in that case, let's have the Hyperion go to the location of the fluctuation to investigate… Himeko, pass down the order," Theresa said, her face buried in the A4-sized report paper she held up with her small hands, addressing Murata Himeko opposite her.
"…Hmm, Himeko?!" After waiting a moment and getting no response, Theresa lowered the report. What she saw was… Himeko taking large bites out of her beloved cake…
"Himeko!!" The furious voice of the esteemed Principal Theresa echoed throughout the Hyperion.
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Meanwhile… in another direction.
"Commander, this is the warship's main computer's decryption of Bronya's confidential files…" a capable-looking young woman in a green military uniform stood ramrod straight, handing the classified documents to the woman before her.
"Hmm…" The woman in a military uniform with wavy, light blonde hair took the documents from the young woman and began to read them carefully.
"Interesting… A man with a Stigmata?! Also one of the chosen? And he has the ability to create weapons?…" A curve formed on the woman's cold, beautiful face.
"It would be a great pity not to recruit such a talent into Anti-Entropy…" the woman said as if to herself.
"I need to think this through carefully…" The woman sat in a leather chair. The faint glow from the computer was the only light in the room. The woman closed her eyes, her cold face filled with an emperor-like majesty.
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"This is?…" The golden light in front of Li Xuan slowly faded, revealing the object within.
"A box…?!" Li Xuan looked at the object on the Gate of Vows with surprise. The things he had been wishing for recently were truly bizarre… there had been a gun, a guitar, a stone… and now it was a box with a clown pattern on it…
"…" Although Li Xuan was internally complaining about the Gate of Vows, he didn't hesitate to reach out and grab the handle on the box.
The next moment, a flood of information exploded in his mind…
Five-star equipment - Seele's Toy Box, a deployable weapon. When opened, the box can transform into a turret of the same star level for automatic attacks. The type of turret can be freely chosen. Currently available options are: Horn of Heimdall, Scarlet Prison: Autonomy, Mystletainn - Fission, Dione's Blizzard, Judah's Oath… Each form can last for a maximum of ten minutes. The form can be changed at will during use. After ten minutes of use, it requires a ten-minute recharge before it can be used again, and the attack power of the transformed weapon is increased by one hundred and sixty percent…
"This… this feels like I'm about to ascend to the heavens and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun…" Although Li Xuan didn't know about the so-called transformed weapon forms, his gut feeling told him that this Divine Weapon was incredibly powerful.
"Hmm?!…" Li Xuan's brows suddenly furrowed. He didn't examine the weapon he had wished for—Seele's Toy Box—but instead picked it up and stored it in his ring with a flip of his right hand.
"Friend… shouldn't you come out now? You've been watching for so long…" Li Xuan turned around. A faint golden-hued, azure shield appeared over his Xuanyuan Festive Garb, which was embroidered with golden dragons.
"Hehehaha~ I've been found~" A girl's voice came from the darkness.
(End of Chapter)