In Nagazora City, the golden pillar of light finally began to slowly dissipate after a few seconds. The dazzling, sun-like golden pillar vanished... and Nagazora City returned to its calm.
"This is a whip?!..." Li Xuan said, speechless, as he looked at the weapon he had eagerly pulled from the golden pillar, 'Queen's Wrath'.
All this time, most of the weapons that appeared from the Gate of Vows were firearms; high-grade melee weapons were rare... But Li Xuan had never expected... that the Divine Weapon from the Gate of Vows this time would be a melee-type weapon!
'It must be powerful, right?!...' He gazed at the five-star Divine Weapon 'Queen's Wrath' in his hand, with its red and black handle and yellow and purple lash, and thought. Since it was the first melee weapon to appear from a wish, it couldn't be too bad, logically.
'However...' Li Xuan frowned, staring at the coiled 'Queen's Wrath' whip in his hand. This weapon gave him a strange sense of déjà vu...
"..." Li Xuan shook his head, closed his eyes, and began to quietly read the information about the weapon 'Queen's Wrath' in his mind.
'Hmm... attack power of 367 is a bit low, relatively low damage...' This attack power really wasn't high. Any of the previous Divine Weapons he took from his ring would be stronger... 'Skill is... Kiss of Agony.' Upon hitting, the enemy enters a state of agony, taking 34.7% increased damage from this weapon, stacking up to four times, with the pain lasting for two seconds....
"...Thud!" The Queen's Whip, which he had treasured just a moment ago, slipped from Li Xuan's hand and fell to the floor....
'This is what you call a Divine Weapon?!...' Li Xuan was devastated. The 'Queen's Wrath' was probably the most useless Divine Weapon he had ever seen... bar none! Moreover... Li Xuan looked down and studied the 'Queen's Wrath' on the floor, and the more he looked, the more familiar it seemed...
"This... Isn't this the kind of whip used in adult films?!" Li Xuan recalled with a shocked expression... the so-called whips, candles, ropes... wasn't that the S&M stuff from porn?! The thought of him running around hitting Honkai Zombies and Honkai Beasts with a whip, the 'smack! smack!' of the whip hitting the female-form Honkai Zombies' bodies...
'That image is too beautiful for me to imagine...' Li Xuan clutched his aching head. That scene was too terrifying; he didn't dare to even picture it.
And he believed that the agony effect from 'Queen's Wrath' probably wouldn't be very effective against Honkai Zombies... After all, most Honkai Zombies had lost their sense of pain; otherwise, there wouldn't have been cases where a Honkai Zombie had half its body blown off by a gunshot but still charged at him full of vigor. As for Honkai Beasts... the pain would probably just make them go berserk and increase their destructive power... It would be like shooting himself in the foot.
So... this thing was completely useless! It might be very effective against humans... but where would he find any humans in a godforsaken place like Nagazora City.
"Master, you dropped your thing~" The dutiful maid, Liv, gently picked up the Queen's Whip that had fallen on the floor, a sweet smile on her delicate little face as she spoke.
"Huh?..." Snapping back to his senses, Li Xuan saw his maid smiling sweetly at him while holding a whip...
"..." Without a word, Li Xuan snatched the Queen's Whip from Liv's hands and, without a second glance, tossed it into his ring. When he looked up and saw Liv just now, he thought she had gone S&M... It really gave him a scare. It was best to seal away the 'Queen's Wrath' for now...
"Master?" Liv was startled by Li Xuan's somewhat rough action and looked at him with a wronged expression.
"Sorry, Liv... I didn't mean it just now." After tossing the Queen's Whip into the ring, Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and comforted Liv, reaching out to pat her head.
"Mhm!~" Liv was very content and smiled sweetly again.
"Li Xuan-kun!" Yae Sakura suddenly spoke up. "The golden pillar of light is so beautiful~" She pointed a finger at the golden pillar of light on the Gate of Vows.
"Yeah..." Li Xuan turned his head to look at Yae Sakura and smiled slightly. Of course it was, this was the light of a Divine Weapon...
"Wait..." Li Xuan's eyes suddenly widened. His gaze followed Yae Sakura's finger towards the Gate of Vows.
"A, a... second golden light!!" Li Xuan felt like he was having trouble breathing. He never expected two consecutive golden flashes!... This meant another Divine Weapon was about to appear!
Just as Nagazora City, which had become a little noisy due to the attention from Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies attracted by the single golden light, had returned to its usual peace, another golden pillar of light appeared....
The plants that had once appeared due to Li Xuan's wishes had long since died, unable to adapt to the Honkai energy reaction... But with this golden pillar of light, life appeared once again amidst the withered plant remains. Even if they died, they would leave behind a so-called 'Seed of Hope'...
Countless plants appeared from the earth again. Perhaps many would die this time as well, but there would always be some trees that would remain and truly adapt to the Honkai energy environment...
"This is..." Li Xuan stared at the golden pillar of light before him... The golden pillar dyed his eyes a beautiful, dazzling gold.
Within the golden pillar of light, a round object was faintly visible.
And at the same time... the Honkai energy in the air of Nagazora City began to transform. The concentration of Honkai energy began to increase, slowly but surely...
(End of Chapter)