Give Elysia a Little Taste of the Shock of Too Much Information / Elysia Is Soft and Fragrant-Hehe

"Hmm? Copying Miss Fairy's physical data was one thing, but you even wanted to greedily take her emotional data? That's so mean."

In the data space, Elysia discovered that this sneaky thief had actually set its sights on her emotional data as well. She puffed out her cheeks in displeasure.

"Let me see just who's bold enough to do this..."

Separating off a wisp of consciousness, Elysia carefully attached it to the copied data and watched it flow along with vast amounts of appearance data.

However, a few minutes later, Elysia noticed something was wrong.

"Wait, the direction this data is heading..." Elysia's lips parted slightly. In her perception, this portion of data was not flowing toward any of the Herrschers. Instead, it was slowly leaving the Elysian Realm.

"It leads outside?" Elysia blinked. "Well, well. I seem to have stumbled upon a huge secret... But Mobius absolutely cannot find out about this."

"As for who exactly is behind this..." Elysia focused on the wisp of consciousness she had separated. "Let me see what you're trying to accomplish by stealing this data, shall I?"

When she opened her eyes again, Elysia discovered that her wisp of consciousness had arrived in a space that was unfamiliar yet strangely familiar.

Its layout was identical to the Elysian Realm's reception hall, but Elysia could clearly sense that this was definitely not the Elysian Realm.

As she continued expanding her senses, Elysia discovered that the wisp of consciousness she had sent out was "trapped" inside a body sculpted from her copied data.

Clearly, though, this thief was not very skilled at character creation. At the very least, Elysia could tell that although she could speak, she was limited to the preconfigured voice library. She also seemed unable to move freely.

"Elysia?!"

"Ah?"

Only then did Elysia notice that, at some point, two "guests" had appeared in the reception room.

And from the looks of it, these two beautiful girls seemed to know her?

But who were they?

Within the Elysian Realm, Elysia carefully searched through her memories. She could guarantee that she remembered every passerby and every encounter in her life, yet she truly had no impression of these two girls at all.

Why not test them? Elysia pulled up her voice library, made a selection, and spoke.

"Why are you still awake so late? You were thinking about me, weren't you?"

Give Elysia a Little Information Overload

The test was clearly quite effective. Both girls jumped in fright at her sudden words, and the smaller black-haired girl practically sprang to her side, staring fixedly at her with black eyes that seemed ready to shine.

"Say another one?"

Another one? Elysia looked through her voice pack and said gently, "Have you finished all your tasks for today? So good. Let me praise you, okay?"

The two girls seemed to have figured something out and turned together toward a glowing screen floating in midair... Their synchronization was strangely high. Even their little movements were identical. And that screen could talk too?

Then Elysia heard an explanation that even surprised her somewhat.

Host? Data? Trial Elysian Realm?

Goodness, from the sound of it, she seemed to be inside someone's training device right now?

And what did Mascot Girl mean? Oh, it looked like it meant she was the face of the Elysian Realm. Well then, that was fine.

After listening for a while, Elysia realized that these three people(?) did not seem to bear any ill will toward her or the Elysian Realm.

These two girls appeared to be her... admirers? No, perhaps even more fanatical than that. Their attitude toward Elysia was practically undisguised adoration.

As for that mysterious glowing screen, it seemed to obey this girl completely. It looked like an artificial intelligence similar to Prometheus.

In the Elysian Realm, Elysia stopped in her tracks just as she was about to visit Vill-V.

"Since they're my admirers, I should be more tolerant of them~ Besides, they haven't done anything to harm the world yet. I'll observe the situation for a while longer before deciding how to deal with it."

Elysia continued focusing on that wisp of consciousness, listening intently to the three of them talk.

Then she noticed that the taller blonde girl had run over as well and carefully poked her cheek.

Hmm... This truly was a strange experience. In the past, she had always been the one teasing others. Now, the teased person was herself, and she could not even move. This novel experience caught Elysia somewhat off guard.

Still, this girl seemed like the easily embarrassed type too. Why not...

"When you're alone with a girl, you should make sure to look into her eyes properly, you know?"

Oh my, she covered her face and ran away in an instant. What an adorable expression. Was Miss Fairy really that devastating? Elysia admired Flame Willow's expression and thought contentedly.

But after being embarrassed, she immediately came close again. And in this girl's eyes... besides joy, there was also some sadness? Did she share some sorrowful past with Miss Fairy? But I truly do not remember who you are.

Enjoying Flame Willow's pokes with some confusion, Elysia continued eavesdropping on Xia Ling and the glowing screen nearby.

A transmigrator? Did that refer to the Sea of Quantum? That did not seem quite right either. But this girl said she had not intended to hide it from me... Hmm, I definitely need to ask her in person if I get the chance.

And, as expected, these two girls were the same person. I knew they gave me a feeling similar to Vill-V. Still, their situation did not seem entirely the same. Their overlap was just too great. It felt more like our memory forms, with almost one hundred percent similarity to the original body?

Sigh, they had never even met me, yet they trusted me so much? It almost made me embarrassed... They were not deliberately saying this for me to hear, were they? It seemed I would have to resolve this matter on my own too. After all, I could not let down a young girl's trust and expectations.

Although Elysia on the sofa showed little change in expression, her thoughts were exceptionally active. In just a few sentences, Elysia's mind had turned several times. Then the petite black-haired girl suddenly grabbed the other girl and pulled her up.

"Heroes fall for beautiful women, you know. You can't get lost in Elysia's beauty. It's my turn... No, it's time to do the trial!"

"Fine, fine... As if you aren't the same..."

Oh? They were going to attempt this so-called Trial Elysian Realm? Elysia immediately perked up. She wanted to see what interesting thing this so-called "system" could piece together from scraps of Elysian Realm data.

After Flame Willow tapped the screen a few times, her figure immediately vanished from the reception hall.

Then, in the center of the reception hall, a gigantic glowing screen appeared from thin air. On it, Flame Willow appeared in a place that looked extremely familiar.

(Isn't that the Elysian Realm's outer area?)

"Isn't that the Elysian Realm's outer area?" Xia Ling blurted out.

(Eh, so this child knows what the Elysian Realm looks like inside too?)

Elysia was stunned when she saw Xia Ling raise the exact same question she had.

Host, watch your surroundings. Enemies are about to appear.

As soon as the system finished speaking, several zombies appeared around Flame Willow.

At the same time, beside the system's screen on Xia Ling's side, a smaller screen split off and began displaying Flame Willow's status, as well as the health bars, statuses, and descriptions of several zombies.

(Flame Shadow Reed Grass/Xia Ling? Are those their names? And those zombies beside them... I don't think I've ever seen them in the Elysian Realm. Also, why do their status bars have something called Bloodline?)

"Of course. I knew this wouldn't be easy." Xia Ling already looked pained. "The Bloodline enemies are already here. System, it's hard to imagine what nonsense you'll pull later."

There was no helping it. Simply increasing their health bars would not be enough to raise these zombies' combat ability, so buffs had to be stacked on them. But this was only the Elysian Realm's easiest Safe difficulty. At Dangerous difficulty, ordinary enemies might have seven or eight statuses stacked on them.

"Speaking of which, system, you still haven't explained how the Elysian Realm trial's rewards and difficulty are divided."

As for that, the system had simplified the Elysian Realm trial's difficulties somewhat. The Elysian Realm now had only three difficulty levels: Safe, Normal, and Dangerous.

Clearing Safe difficulty would grant a total reward of 6 Originium Ingots and 3 Hope. The rewards would be distributed in three stages, once after each boss.

After passing 17 nodes, you could choose to challenge the Herrscher Trial on the First Floor. Clearing the Herrscher Trial would additionally reward 1 Originium Ingot. Yes, this should be the same as the Elysian Realm you know.

After that, Normal difficulty's rewards would be double those of Safe difficulty, while Dangerous difficulty's rewards would be triple.

"That sounds like... a little more than Sami's Integrated Strategies?" Xia Ling pondered. "Anyway, let's first see how far Flame Willow can get this time."

(By the way... what are Originium Ingots and Hope? They seem to be some kind of currency they use to exchange for things?)

(And this system mentioned the Elysian Realm she knows. It looked like this child named Xia Ling had visited or learned about the Elysian Realm for some reason before. That was not strange, though. Miss Fairy's charm being a little greater was perfectly normal, wasn't it?)

Elysia, Soft and Fragrant, Hehe

While Xia Ling was still standing beside the glowing screen and discussing rewards with the system, Flame Willow had already finished her battle.

Although the Bloodline buff was indeed disgusting, this was still only the First Floor of Safe difficulty. Flame Willow had not even revealed her horns or tail. Even in energy-saving mode, she had easily dealt with three waves of bizarre zombies.

Flame Willow's abilities also leaned more toward area attacks. Against a few fragile zombies, Bloodline only made them die faster.

After successfully clearing the three waves of enemies, three different portals appeared before Flame Willow.

"Unexpected Encounter, Combat, Combat. Uh, system, care to give me a tutorial?"

It was exactly what it sounded like. Since this simplified Trial Elysian Realm did not have a Signet system, battles could not provide any effective attributes.

However, that did not mean you would need to rely entirely on your own strength throughout the whole run. At certain special nodes, you might have a chance to obtain some unusual assistance.

If you chose Unexpected Encounter, you might face a more troublesome battle, skip a battle entirely, or receive some assistance. In short, the choice was yours, Host.

"If this were high difficulty, I might hesitate. But since it's Safe difficulty..." Flame Willow walked into the portal representing Unexpected Encounter without hesitation. "Then I'm definitely choosing the fun route."

After stepping through the green portal representing Unexpected Encounter, Flame Willow discovered that she had arrived in a strange area.

A great number of rocks, mechanical fragments, and monster limbs floated here, making it look like some kind of junkyard.

At that moment, the words on the glowing screen in the Elysian Realm reception hall changed again.

Beside the screen showing Flame Willow's perspective, lines of text began appearing in the area displaying the status panel. Paired with Flame Willow's third-person view on the left, it gave Xia Ling a strange sense of familiarity.

Unexpected Encounter

In a wave of dizziness, you were teleported to a wonderful place. Everything here was chaotic and disordered, seemingly filled with confusion.

At this moment, a green-haired armed puppet appeared beside you. She called herself an Elysian Realm equipment maintenance worker, and said this was the Elysian Realm's abandoned data deletion zone. She requested your help in clearing out some disobedient data here.

Help her with all your strength (Gain Klein's gratitude, and may alter the course of later events)

Help her half-heartedly (Gain Klein's gratitude)

What does this have to do with me? Leave immediately (May alter the course of later events)

"Good grief, is the very first event already this ridiculous?" Xia Ling's eyes widened. "And this event UI is pretty good. It has that flavor."

(This is... Klein? Why is she involved too? And why does this event seem so familiar? I think Klein once asked me to do something similar as well.)

While the two were thinking, Flame Willow had already made her choice.

"Alright, Klein. Just stay by my side and leave it to me." Flame Willow revealed a "healthy" smile. "Burning trash? I know that one well. It's right up my alley!"

At the same time, as Flame Willow made her decision, the first option on the screen was automatically locked in.

Seeing your confidence, Klein was deeply comforted and directly removed the permission locks on all garbage data here. You watched the various limbs and fragments floating in the air rapidly revert into their original data streams and combine with one another. Then, several large monsters appeared before you.

Enter battle (Encounter a difficult battle)

Inside the trial, just as the screen described, several bizarre-looking monsters had already formed around Flame Willow.

"Good grief, a Thorn-class Honkai Beast, Machina Bardel, and several Imaginary Skeleton family packs... This really is a monster hodgepodge."

Host, you should know that a data junkyard like this has incredible diversity. The monster types inside are like impurity bottles in a laboratory. You never know what they might react with.

"That's a very vivid analogy."

Flame Willow sighed. A wave of fire erupted from her body and spread outward, forcing back all the approaching monsters. The dragon horns on her head and the large tail burning with flame appeared as well. Clearly, faced with this so-called emergency battle, Flame Willow did not dare take it lightly.

She shielded Klein behind her with one hand, while a staff formed from flames instantly appeared in the other. The little flame on her tail also began dancing restlessly.

In an instant, the battlefield turned into a sea of fire.

"Whoa, that effect is so cool. And the way the flame on her tail got bigger—this is Flame Willow's third skill, right?"

Yes. Strictly speaking, it should be called Life Ember. But nobody seemed injured here, so there was no chance for her Curse Healer traits to shine.

"Injured? Isn't Klein the only teammate here?"

As she spoke, Xia Ling shuddered. "Then let's not. If Klein gets hurt, I'm afraid Serpent will be waiting at the next node to block the door. By the way, if we choose to leave Klein to fend for herself here, we'll probably run into Serpent later too, right?"

That will be for Host to explore on your own.

The two chatting so happily did not seem to notice that Elysia, seated on the sofa nearby, looked as though light might burst from her eyes.

(Such beautiful horns! And that tail! I really want to touch them and see how they feel. I'm so curious, so curious~ Little Flame Willow's power is fire, so her tail and horns must feel warm too, right? Hehe...)

(Serpent? That should mean Mobius, right? Hahaha, what an adorable nickname. I've decided. When I get back, I'll use my little loudspeaker to spread that nickname around.)

(Still, Little Xia Ling knows the Elysian Realm so well... No, haven't I had this thought many times today already? I should probably raise my expectations a little higher. Otherwise, Miss Fairy might not be able to sleep tonight~)

However, while Miss Fairy was still agonizing over the texture of Flame Willow's horns, Xia Ling, who seemed to have grown tired after standing for so long, looked around and turned her gaze toward Elysia on the sofa.

(Hmm?)

"Hehe, I've wanted to do this for ages!" Xia Ling cheered, then pounced over and sat on Elysia's lap. She curled herself backward at the same time, nestling into Elysia's embrace.

Although Elysia was not particularly tall, Xia Ling was only a little bigger than Duck Duck, with a build somewhere between a child and a young girl. She fit perfectly in Elysia's arms.

"Ah~ As expected of Elysia, she's so soft and comfy to hold~"

Xia Ling narrowed her eyes and let out a blissful, comfortable murmur.