"Buzz!~" In the dim underground laboratory, Li Xuan stared intently at the 'Gate of Vows' before him, which emanated a faint glow. A thin layer of white light once again appeared on its grayish surface.
'Oh god... please don't give me anything weird... anything will do...' Li Xuan thought as he knelt on the ground in a superstitious prayer, silently watching the Gate of Vows. He was already exhausted by the previous three wishes...
Under Li Xuan's prayers, the 'Gate of Vows' once again bloomed with light.... a blue light...
".Phew~" Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, feeling as if he had just escaped some curse...
"What's this?..." Li Xuan reached out and grasped the object within the blue light. The sensation in his hand was a familiar cold touch... 'Is this a sword?!' Li Xuan was a little surprised... The swords he usually wished for were the common 'Yamamoto Night Shadow Katana', but the feel of the hilt in his hand now was different from the uneven, rough texture of a katana... instead, it was smooth.
The blue light on the Gate of Vows slowly faded... He saw the sword in his hand clearly, and at the same time, a piece of information was transmitted from its hilt...
Four-star weapon [Demon Blade Amemura]... When it slays, the blade glistens with dew, as if water flows from the edge to wash away bloodstains. Perhaps it is the blade's lament, washing away its own sins...
"Demon Blade... Amemura?!" Li Xuan looked closely at the tachi in his hand... Its snow-white blade had a layer of blue ripples resembling ocean waves, and the hilt was also azure. Even just holding the hilt, he could feel waves of coldness emanating from the blade.
"Looks... not bad?!" Li Xuan felt this sword seemed pretty good... but its star rating was a bit low. A four-star weapon... it could probably only cut through the gray shell of an ordinary Honkai Beast with ease. Dealing with high-level Honkai Beasts would still be somewhat difficult, requiring multiple strikes to inflict damage.
"Buzz~..." The Gate of Vows trembled slightly again. Streaks of white light once more covered its surface... and then an azure light appeared again...
"What is it this time..." Li Xuan casually placed the tachi in his hand into his ring and shifted his attention to the blue light on the Gate of Vows. He couldn't even make out the silhouette of the item within the blue light...
"This is?... A material?!" Li Xuan reached out and grasped the item in the blue light. Then he saw it clearly... It was a crystal-clear, crimson crystal flower...
Four-star material [Scarlet Sakura's Will]... Honkai source energy emitted during a B-level Honkai on a Fire Day, crystallized into the shape of a sakura flower. Within the crystal, one can seemingly see falling sakura petals... Effect unknown.
"..." Effect unknown again... Li Xuan felt helpless... What was wrong with today? He kept wishing for all sorts of materials... It used to be all kinds of weapons, but this time was completely different... Materials were one thing, but he didn't even know how to use them. He couldn't do anything about it. If he carelessly used a strange material again, heaven knows if he would suddenly summon two gods to fight to the death like last time. St. Freya High School was not a place like Nagazora City.
"Buzz!~" The Gate of Vows trembled again... A layer of snow-white light covered the grayish surface... and a purple light was once more released from the Gate of Vows.
"Purple light at the beginning... and now purple light again..." What on earth is wrong with the Gate of Vows... Li Xuan raised an eyebrow, feeling that things weren't that simple...
"Forget it... as long as it's not some random junk..." Li Xuan muttered. As he reached out to grab the item in the purple light, his words came to an abrupt halt as something unexpected happened...
The Gate of Vows, which had just bloomed with one purple light, unceasingly bloomed with another... The purple radiance quickly faded, and two strange objects fell from above the Gate of Vows into the hands of Li Xuan, who stood there stunned with his palm outstretched.
At the same time, two pieces of information were transmitted from the items in his hand... Five-star material [White Thought]... White is the beginning of birth... Effect unknown; Five-star material [Black Curse]... Black is the end of all things... Effect unknown.
"..." What's this now?... Li Xuan silently looked at the two strange things in his hands: an irregularly shaped white crystal, and a circular object with a dark blue bead inlaid in the center, with four protrusions forming sharp spikes.
'.Alright, two more useless things...' Li Xuan felt like he was having a heart attack... Although the descriptions sounded impressive, what was the point if he didn't know their use?!
"..." Speechless, Li Xuan casually tossed the two unsightly trinkets into his ring and raised his head to silently look at the Gate of Vows before him...
The next two pulls finally didn't yield any more strange materials... The eighth was a blue light, a four-star item [HECO-V3 First Aid Spray]. The ninth was also a blue light, a four-star item [MK2A1 Grenade].
"Finally, some slightly useful weapons..." Li Xuan sighed, placed the equipment from the Gate of Vows into his ring, and then awaited the long-anticipated golden light of the tenth guaranteed pull...
"Give me a super strong Divine Weapon!..." Li Xuan roared in a low voice. His luck was so bad that he had wished for a pile of useless materials, or rather, materials he didn't know how to use. As an Unlucky Scrub, he could only hope that this golden light would grant him a good weapon...
After a brief pause, the patterns on the golden Gate of Vows slowly lit up again. A brilliant golden radiance, so bright it seemed tangible, crept along the peculiar patterns on the Gate of Vows like a crawling turtle... The grayish surface was no longer covered in white light, but in an extremely brilliant golden glow...
As if in the span of a single breath, the Gate of Vows, completely enveloped in golden light, suddenly erupted! A glazed, golden pillar of light shot up from the Gate of Vows, piercing through the laboratory ceiling and shooting straight into the sky as if ignoring time and space...
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At the same time... in the Divine Land, in a certain sea to the south...
"Gurgle!~" Bubbles surged up from the eternally dark depths of the seabed... A faint Honkai energy reaction was once again transmitted from the depths of this sea. The fluctuation was very weak, very weak... but it seemed to carry a tenacious life force.
In the pitch-black depths of the sea, two beams of purplish-black light suddenly lit up beneath a small mountain that had existed for several hundred years, only to be extinguished unwillingly the next moment...
The schools of fish swimming around the small mountain fled in all directions as if startled... Even with their limited intelligence, they had felt it in that instant... a gaze that seemed to come from an ancient leviathan...
(End of Chapter)