"Buzz!"
A sound like a mosquito flying entered Chen Li's ears. He rolled to the side, dodging a ghostly attack that nearly sliced off his arm.
"Hmph." The Herrscher of the Void, slightly disheveled but with few injuries, sneered.
Chen Li looked warily at the rushing Honkai Beast (a mosquito-like Honkai Beast) that had missed its attack and quickly retreated. Then he looked at the Herrscher of the Void, who was dragging the body of another rushing Honkai Beast as she flew into the air, finally sitting atop a tank-class Honkai Beast's head.
Chen Li had not succeeded in killing the Herrscher of the Void in a short amount of time. He had suddenly realized he'd overlooked one issue. The Herrscher of the Void wasn't skilled in hand-to-hand combat and lacked the fighting experience of the trained Chen Li, but after being baptized by Honkai energy, her physical fitness was very strong, her strength was immense, and her reaction speed was very fast. She was like an untrained Valkyrie, but her raw physical stats were on another level.
The moment a human became a Herrscher, their race had already evolved. How could an ordinary human survive in a vacuum? The fact that Chen Li could even inflict small wounds on the Herrscher was a testament to his fighting skills.
Furthermore, once the Herrscher of the Void realized that only her Herrscher authority was sealed, not her use of Honkai energy, it was Chen Li's turn to be wary. Although a Herrscher's Honkai energy existed in Imaginary Space and required the Herrscher's core to open it, there was still a small amount of Honkai energy within the core itself. The Herrscher of the Void couldn't use her full authority, but she wasn't completely powerless.
However, once the Herrscher of the Void realized this, her Honkai Beasts also arrived, and she was too lazy to fight by herself.
"Human, I'm waiting for my small Honkai Beasts. What are you waiting for?" The Herrscher of the Void sneered, looking down at Chen Li.
"I'm waiting for..."
"Are you waiting for me?" A pleasant voice entered Chen Li's ears, and a figure as bright as a blooming flower entered his sight.
A magnificent crystal arrow flew in, pinning the Honkai Beasts that were closing in on Chen Li one by one.
"Hey, kid, need some help?" The pink-haired beauty slowly walked over to Chen Li, much to the Herrscher of the Void's gritted-teeth expression.
"..." Chen Li was taken aback.
Holy smokes, the time I arrived was indeed right before their big battle.
"Although I'm a bit late, it seems I wasn't too late," Elysia said confidently.
"No, it's already too late," Chen Li said, shaking his head.
Because after putting some distance between herself and Chen Li, the Herrscher of the Void had started flying again.
"Hmm, why can she fly again?" Elysia asked curiously.
"That's not important. What's important is that she looks like she's about to run," Chen Li said, looking at the wary Herrscher of the Void, who seemed poised to leave.
"Oh, that's a problem," Elysia frowned.
Elysia was confident she could defeat the Herrscher of the Void, but she wasn't confident she could catch her. If the Herrscher of the Void's ability was used for running away, it would be extremely effective.
"Sigh, I have a plan," Chen Li said, holding up a finger.
"Huh?"
The Herrscher of the Void, now floating in the air, was hesitant about the current situation. When these two were separated, the Herrscher of the Void wasn't afraid at all. She didn't believe Elysia could kill her, and Chen Li's attacks were weak. But if one of them suppressed her abilities while the other attacked her, she would be finished.
Logically, the Herrscher of the Void should run now, but she was extremely uneasy about Chen Li, who could suppress her abilities.
"Plan failed! Retreat separately!" Just as the Herrscher of the Void was hesitating, she heard the two who had been together shout this before instantly running away in different directions.
"Huh?" The Herrscher of the Void was confused.
Although Chen Li couldn't suppress her ability when she was a certain distance away from him, and he indeed had no chance of killing her, wasn't running so decisively a bit too rash?
Although she had many doubts, the Herrscher of the Void couldn't suppress her murderous intent toward Chen Li. She directed most of the Honkai Beasts in the entire city to chase Elysia, while she took a hundred Honkai Beasts to chase Chen Li.
The Herrscher of the Void had seen many humans, but she had only seen this one who could counter her abilities. Now that he was separated from his companion, it was the perfect time to kill him.
If this person didn't die, the Herrscher of the Void wouldn't be able to sleep! A hundred Honkai Beasts were enough to crush him.
Chen Li didn't run very fast, so he was quickly surrounded by Honkai Beasts. But being surrounded by Honkai Beasts didn't make Chen Li panic at all.
"You asked me what I was waiting for just now, right? I was waiting for the cooldown!" Chen Li looked up at the Herrscher of the Void in the air.
Countless massive shadows loomed over Chen Li!
But when the Herrscher of the Void commanded the Honkai Beast swarm to disperse to see if Chen Li had been successfully killed, what met her eyes was Chen Li, securely protected by a circular shield about five meters in diameter. In front of Chen Li was also a hammer and a forging platform.
[Miracle Forging Table]
"Phew..." Chen Li breathed a sigh of relief. After getting Miracle Power from chasing the Herrscher of the Void, Chen Li, as a Wondrous Item Forger, could now forge wondrous items. But Chen Li was also waiting to accumulate more Time-Space energy (Star Stones), because he discovered that his Star Stones were replenished quickly when he performed actions that did not align with the original timeline's fate (like beating up the Herrscher of the Void).
This shield was a protective barrier formed to prevent the forger from being disturbed while forging wondrous items. It was the same type of shield the little fairy had used to trap Chen Li. As long as the attack power didn't break a certain threshold, the Miracle Shield would not break. At least, the Herrscher and the Honkai Beasts in front of him couldn't break the threshold.
Ignoring the enraged Herrscher of the Void, Chen Li took out the only two relics he had.
[Call to a Distant Place] and [Knight's Broken Sword].
Although the effects of these two relics were greatly diminished due to the different worldview, they were still excellent materials.
The first true wondrous item forging... begins!
Although putting two items together and adding an appropriate amount of Miracle Power before hammering could also form a wondrous item, the results were not as controllable as a refined forging process. So Chen Li chose to do it manually.
Two blue crystals appeared in Chen Li's hand. These were the crystallized forms of Miracle Power. It wasn't for nothing that Chen Li called them "Crystals."
The two crystals were thrown into an entrance beside the forging platform, and a miracle fire suddenly ignited on the flat platform.
Chen Li threw both relics into the fire. As time passed, the two relics gradually became dim. Soon, countless words of varying brightness began to rise from the flames.
[Knight], [Call], [Forced Transaction], [Justice], [Price], [Communication], [Heroic Spirit], [Return]...
These were the source words representing the essence of the two relics. Now they were waiting for Chen Li to choose. Only the words chosen by Chen Li would be forged into "entries," and the unchosen ones, which were not worth using Miracle Power to materialize, would end up in the forging platform's recycling bin.
Refining the entries was essentially making these source words approach the domain of "rules" through "Miracle Power," which was why the miracle fire was needed. These [Entries] had positive, negative, and neutral effects, and their brightness represented their priority. A prominent example was that even "guaranteed hit" and "guaranteed hit" had differences. Some "guaranteed hits" would definitely hit, while others could be dodged with enough luck and skill... you'd agree with that, wouldn't you, Cú Chulainn?
The brightness of the entries was determined by two factors: the quality of the item providing the entry, and the meaning endowed upon it by time and fate. The dimmer the entry, the worse the effect. While it was possible to increase the brightness of an entry with the miracle fire, the cost was extremely high.
Chen Li's job now was to select the appropriate entries, combine them, and forge a wondrous item. Chen Li's supply of crystals was not abundant, but the good news was that these two relics themselves carried power from rules, so they could be used with only minor changes, which would greatly reduce the consumption of miracle fire. This was another major factor in the consumption of the miracle fire, besides adjusting the brightness of the entries.
In short, the worse the quality of the forging material, the higher the price for creating a "miracle."
Miracles are never free.
And for the base, Chen Li chose the [Knight's Broken Sword], which had already become somewhat corroded.
Chen Li, who had long since figured out how to forge this wondrous item, quickly gathered the necessary entries and raised the Miracle Forging Hammer to "temper" and "forge" these source words into true entries, hammering them into the base.
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
The crisp, pleasant sound of hammering echoed throughout the ruins.