Starry Night Dancer

The moment Nyx spoke those words, a virtual panel appeared out of thin air before Lin Qiye's eyes.

Nyx's Treatment Progress: 3%

Reward requirements met. Randomly drawing a Divine Personality Ability from Nyx...

Immediately afterward, a virtual prize wheel appeared and began spinning at high speed!

Lin Qiye could see that the wheel was divided into at least twenty sections, each roughly the same size. In other words, the chances of drawing any of these Divine Personality Abilities were equal.

"Nightfall Descent, Dim Eye, Thousand Stars Fall, Star Splitter, Night Flicker, Children of Darkness, Extraordinary Procreation..."

The abilities flashing across the spinning wheel made Lin Qiye dizzy, but he felt as though something strange had been mixed in...

What the hell was Extraordinary Procreation? That counted as a Divine Personality Ability?!

If he drew that ability, would he not even need to find a wife and be able to give birth to a whole bunch of godchildren himself?

Hm? That didn't actually sound too bad...

At the same time, Lin Qiye noticed that in one corner of the wheel, there was a narrow black section unlike the others, taking up roughly 1% of the total area.

The name of that Divine Personality Ability was "Unknown."

Unknown? What did that mean?

But that wasn't important. Lin Qiye trusted his goddamn luck—he probably wouldn't draw that "Unknown" even if he tried a thousand times.

Lin Qiye took a deep breath and stared fixedly at the wheel before him. With a thought, the wheel began to slow down!

The pointer swept past one ability after another before finally stopping on a section.

"Starry Night Dancer..." Lin Qiye sighed helplessly when he saw those words.

Judging by the name, this ability seemed far inferior to things like Star Splitter and Thousand Stars Fall. Still... at least it wasn't Extraordinary Procreation.

With luck like this, it was only fitting for me.

The instant the pointer stopped, the wheel before Lin Qiye gradually dispersed. Only the four words "Starry Night Dancer" remained suspended in the air, their color growing ever deeper.

Lin Qiye reached out and grasped them!

The four words immediately transformed into a streak of black light and poured into Lin Qiye's body!

Lin Qiye only felt a mysterious energy rapidly transforming his body. His entire being, from soul to flesh, seemed to have been cleansed, leaving him incomparably comfortable!

The sensation was truly marvelous.

This state lasted for about five seconds. Once it completely faded, Lin Qiye could clearly feel that his body had changed.

Several more lines of small text slowly appeared before his eyes.

Starry Night Dancer:

In darkness, your speed, strength, endurance, and recovery ability are all five times their normal level;

In darkness, your presence is difficult to detect;

In darkness, you possess greater intimidation toward other creatures;

You have gained the ability to communicate with other nocturnal animals.

Lin Qiye could not help but gasp when he saw this!

This ability, which seemed low-key at first glance, was actually absurdly powerful... To say nothing of the rest, just having his speed, strength, and endurance multiplied fivefold was already downright monstrous!

Even with his utterly ordinary physical condition, if he entered something like a triathlon at night, he would definitely set a Guinness World Record with ease!

A fivefold boost could bring his body directly close to the limits of humanity!

And that was only under the condition that his own physical attributes were ordinary. If he underwent systematic training, Lin Qiye did not dare imagine what heights he could reach.

Not to mention the stealth and the ability to communicate with nocturnal animals. Those had already completely surpassed the realm of humanity.

Lin Qiye suppressed the excitement in his heart and took a deep breath.

He truly had no intention of joining the Night Watchmen, nor did he want to fight those Mythical Creatures. But he was still just a high school student. It was impossible for him not to yearn for supernatural powers.

Besides, only by becoming stronger himself could he better protect his family.

Lin Qiye finally calmed down and turned his gaze toward Nyx before him.

Nyx was looking at him tenderly, gently stroking his hair as she murmured to herself, "Danaus, where have you been these three thousand years? Do you know how much I missed you..."

Lin Qiye sat there silently, his gaze toward Nyx filled with complicated emotions.

Just as he had guessed, to the current Nyx, she could not even distinguish her own child from a vase. How could she possibly recognize that Lin Qiye was not her child?

Driven ill by longing, she imagined everything around her as her child. But... those bottles and jars were not truly human. They could not respond to Nyx.

So when Lin Qiye—a person who could breathe, move, and call her Mother—appeared, Nyx seemed to come back to life at last, finally finding an emotional anchor!

This was the first step in getting her to open up, and the reason Treatment Progress had jumped straight to 3%.

"Danaus, do you know how much your little brother misses you? Hurry and give him a hug." Smiling, Nyx held the vase up in front of Lin Qiye.

Lin Qiye: ...

Left with no choice, Lin Qiye took the vase and pretended to stroke it.

Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed Nyx's arms and saw his other "little brothers and sisters"...

His entire body jolted!

In Nyx's arms were several bottles and jars with labels on them, each a different color.

On one of the bottles, Lin Qiye clearly saw a line of large print.

—Haloperidol (For Gods).

Lin Qiye stared at it fixedly, his mouth slowly falling open...

Haloperidol? Why did that name sound so familiar?

Wasn't this one of the medications the psychiatrist had listed for him earlier that day? And there were two more words after it... For Gods?

In that instant, Lin Qiye seemed to realize something, and he suddenly became excited!

He handed the vase back to Nyx and hurriedly said, "I'll be right back!"

Then, like a gust of wind, he raced up to the second floor of the Psychiatric Hospital and found a room at the end of the staircase.

Medicine Storage Room.

The door was open. Nyx must have come in earlier, or she would not have taken so many of her "little brothers and sisters" away.

Lin Qiye quickly entered and searched around before finally stopping in front of a huge metal cabinet, the light in his eyes growing brighter and brighter.

Before him was an entire wall of medicine!

There were all kinds of medications, most of them used to treat mental illness, including the Haloperidol and Chlorpromazine he had just seen, as well as a large quantity of sedatives.

The words "For Gods" had been added after every one of these medications.

A smile appeared on Lin Qiye's lips. He should have thought of this sooner! This was a psychiatric hospital for treating gods. Since it was a hospital, of course it would have a room for storing medicine—and the medicine inside was specially designed for divine constitutions!

He could not bring medicine from reality into the hospital, but he could find equivalent medication here that worked on gods!

With that, things seemed to have become much simpler.

Lin Qiye picked out several bottles of the medication the doctor had listed earlier that day, then ran downstairs to Nyx's side.

"This one, take it once a day, two pills each time... And this one, three times a day, one pill each time... Make sure you remember to take them!"

Nyx watched Lin Qiye intently, as though there were a flower growing on his face. She seemed not to have heard a word he said.

"Ah... forget it. I'll come feed them to you every day when it's time." Seeing Nyx's reaction, Lin Qiye sighed helplessly.

Expecting someone with severe mental illness to remember to take her own medicine really was asking too much of her.

At Lin Qiye's words, a smile immediately blossomed across Nyx's face.

She smiled very happily.