The two immediately joined forces. Seele transformed into a Phantom as Bronya's bullets arrived alongside her!
"Don't let any opening slip by."
"Try this on for size!"
After they dealt with the elite enemy, the final massive Outer Void Flame boss appeared!
"Looks like this is the last straggler."
The camera slowly zoomed in. Seele and Bronya stood on either side, their gazes fixed on the camera!
"Upper District girl, don't hold me back here."
The two unleashed their Ultimates together. In the end, their images overlapped as they both raised their hands and pointed forward!
"Disappear with the butterflies, Phantom of the past!"
Beneath the blood-red moon was Seele's butterfly-like figure. Her crimson eyes flashed, and countless Phantoms appeared amid streaks of blade light!
The screen exploded as the Honkai: Star Rail logo appeared. The PV ended!
After watching Seele's PV, Pela's expression turned inexplicably excited.
Alright, alright, half of Seele's PV was Bronya footage. So that counted as marital property, huh!
The official account had personally confirmed the ship!
My Seele Loves Coffee?
As Seele's PV ended, a flood of discussion began appearing beneath the video!
"Is it here? The first Limited Character banner!"
"Waaah, it looks so good! I finally got to see Seele from the story too!"
"What an awesome entrance! Quantum Specter!"
"The official team's technical skills are insane, especially that 3D-to-2D segment in the middle. The transition was so smooth!"
"Bronya actually appeared in the PV too! I can smell the yuri vibes!"
"Especially the afterimages during their Ultimates! The official team really knew what they were doing!"
"She should be a Main DPS, right? I wonder what fun mechanics Limited Characters will have!"
"Please don't make me lose the 50/50! I want Seele even if I play until the servers shut down!"
"It's over, I dumped all my Stellar Jade into the Standard Banner! Now I can't even squeeze out a single pull!"
"Restart your account."
"Hurry up, hurry up! When does the banner update?!"
However, not long after Seele's Character PV was released, the official account posted another game announcement!
[Dear Trailblazers:] [Following a short maintenance update for Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.0, a limited-time Warp event will begin.] [During the "Butterfly on the Blade's Edge" event, Star Rail Special Tickets may be used to Warp.] [During the event, the Warp success rate for the limited 5-star character "Seele (The Hunt · Quantum)" will be increased for a limited time. The Limited Character will not be added to Stellar Warp.] [During the "Flowing Light Fixed Shadow" event, Star Rail Special Tickets may be used to Warp.] [During the event, the Warp success rate for the limited 5-star Light Cone "In the Night (The Hunt)" will be increased for a limited time. The limited Light Cone will not be added to Stellar Warp.] [The limited-time Stellaris Gift Sign-in Event has begun.] [During the event, Trailblazers can log in daily and check in for seven days to receive a total of 10 Star Rail Special Tickets.]
Besides the standard Limited Character banner, players never expected that they would also receive a free ten-pull!
And it was a ten-pull that could be used for Limited Characters!
Counting the twenty pulls from the launch mail, the forty pulls and 1,600 Stellar Jade from level-up events, plus these ten pulls from the sign-in event, the official team had already given out eighty pulls!
"? Am I seeing this right?! The event is giving out Star Rail Special Tickets!"
"My god! They're actually giving us more?"
"And they're Star Rail Special Tickets too. This is ridiculously generous!"
"This game's official team is way too generous. If they give away this much, will players even spend money? Won't they lose so much they'll have to take the bus?"
"The official team is incredible! These ten pulls are definitely getting me Seele!"
"I was worried I wouldn't be able to gather enough Star Rail Special Tickets before, but now I'm set!"
In addition to the in-game event updates, Lin Guang also rolled out the incentive program he had arranged with the video streaming platform!
[The Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.0 Creator Incentive Program is now live!] [Submit content under the topic #HonkaiStarRailCreatorIncentiveProgram#, or livestream in the Honkai: Star Rail section. Meet the relevant requirements to share in hundreds of millions in creator incentive rewards and generous in-game prizes~]
Everyone thought the events were over after reading the earlier announcements, but they immediately lost their composure again when they saw the incentive program!
"Holy shit, creator incentives? The official account pays me for making videos?"
"What a huge move. I remember Yuan Nong Zhou ran similar events when it launched. I didn't expect the Honkai: Star Rail team to be this loaded too!"
"Yes! The Credits I earn from making videos can go right back into pulling!"
"Great, I'll just spend it all again!"
"This is what playing Honkai: Star Rail does to you!"
As a streamer, Lao Mu was delighted to see the livestream incentive program. Not only could it increase his income, but it also offered plenty of Stellar rewards!
Once the game updated and he logged back in, a red dot appeared on the Warp button. Seele's Limited Character Gacha was now open!
"Pela, hurry up and top up some Credits! Pull my character so we can see what her skills do!"
When Seele saw that she herself was the banner character, and saw how dazzling she had been in the PV, she could not help getting excited. She urged Pela to spend money already!
"Uh... I haven't checked the price of pulls in this game yet. This should be reimbursed, right?"
Pela looked at her phone awkwardly. How had she suddenly gone from working normally to paying to work?
On the Star Rail Express.
March 7th used the Star Rail Special Ticket she had just claimed after logging in and opened the banner. The girl prayed.
"Please, please, I only have one pull left! It has to happen! Seele, come back to the Express with me!"
Her finger slowly approached the button. The pitch of the background music gradually rose, and a golden flash streaked across the screen!
"Ah! I got it! I got it!"
An excited March 7th sprang up from her bed, but before she could celebrate, the Erudition icon flashed by, and a coffee-loving Seele appeared!
The girl collapsed.
Star looked at March 7th lying motionless on the bed, rubbed her chin, and thoughtfully pulled the blanket from her feet up over her.
At Herta Space Station.
Arlan looked at the image on Miss Asta's phone and asked in confusion.
"What's wrong, Miss? Aren't you pulling for Miss Seele? If you're tired, I can do it for you."
Asta was currently reading through Seele's character description in the announcement. She shook her head and replied.
"No. I'm assessing her strength by observing her mechanics. Don't think I'm the kind of fool who mindlessly maxes out every character the moment they release. I'm a rational meta player!"
"Then how much are you planning to pull this time, Miss?"
Asta suddenly seemed to remember something and added.
"Oh, right. Remember to record the pulling video for me. I want to see how this official Creator Incentive Program works. Sorry to trouble you, Arlan!"
"...Yes."
Among all the players, some were celebrating getting gold on a single pull, some got two five-stars in one ten-pull, and some had even pulled a Seele with dragon horns!
Lao Mu's pulls went smoothly. He got Seele in sixty pulls and her Signature Light Cone in fifty, without losing the 50/50 to anything else.
"Here we go, here we go! Let the streamer test how Seele feels to play for everyone!"
After adding Seele to his team, Lao Mu immediately tested her Technique.
"Holy crap, invisibility!"
Seele's entire body transformed into a blue-violet afterimage. Even when she walked right beside enemies, they could not detect her!
"Completely overtuned, totally overtuned! Now I won't have to worry about getting attacked by enemies while exploring the overworld for treasure chests!"
Once the character entered battle, Seele defeated an enemy and immediately triggered Reprise, gaining an extra turn that consumed no buffs at all!
She defeated another enemy during the Reprise turn, her energy filled up, and she unleashed her Ultimate: Chaos Butterfly!
"This will set you free."
"Disappear with the butterflies, Phantom of the past."
Seele and her scythe seemed to become a single straight line as she launched herself toward the target!
Afterimages lingered around the target before slashing out all at once, shattering space itself!
The Ultimate killed the enemy and triggered Reprise again!
She attacked again during the Reprise turn!
My turn, my turn, still my turn!
What kind of Trisolaran nonsense is this?!
Four actions in a single turn with ease. Was this the strength of a Limited Character?!
Svarog Feels So Hot
The mechanics and power of the Limited Character Seele clearly left the viewers stunned!
"Oh my god, this character is way too strong! Her mechanics are completely maxed out!"
"So this is the strength of a Limited Character? She's practically a Trisolaran!"
"Exactly! I feel like Seele is strong enough to use until the servers shut down!"
"Seriously. Compared to Seele, my Himeko feels like a caveman!"
"The stats from her Signature Light Cone are generous too. It just gives 18% Crit Rate for free, plus damage and Crit DMG bonuses. That's absurd!"
"Not really. My Seele's damage doesn't seem that high. She can't kill anything, and getting hit makes her lose buffs!"
"Bro, your Seele isn't Ice-element, is she?"
"I can't take it anymore. I can feel my wallet stirring!"
"It's over. I put all my Stellar Jade into the Standard Banner. Now I don't have a single drop left!"
"There seem to be plenty of exploration rewards on the map, but I wonder if there are any Walkthroughs!"
"Yue Ma, save me!"
With the Limited Character Gacha now open, the game's popularity surged once more!
Combined with the creator incentives, huge numbers of Honkai: Star Rail-related videos began appearing across online communities!
For now, most of those videos were simply players' pull recordings or story mission footage, but there were just too many of them!
No matter what kind of videos you watched, after a few clips, you would inevitably end up heading in the same direction—Honkai: Star Rail!
It was practically a cyber ghost loop!
Many people who normally did not play games clicked download after seeing related videos, for one reason or another!
Riding this wave, the game began breaking beyond its usual audience, no longer confined to gaming communities!
Back in the game.
Since everyone was still in the early exploration stage, Lao Mu had no plans to run character-pulling services. Instead, he continued with the Main Story first.
After Seele appeared and rescued Bronya, it was clear that Seele was unhappy with Bronya from the Upper District. She had acted more to teach those Wanderers a lesson.
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