Because the Ark was extremely important in her life, she had developed an instinctive attachment to it.
As a result, she had now become the Ark's ship girl, much like an artifact spirit, becoming its core.
As its core, she could modify the Ark in all sorts of ways, just like the Homeland System in a game.
This system had been born for that very reason.
Through the system's screen, she could see—
Her own figure appeared there from a first-person perspective.
She had light blue long and short hair, tied into two adorable ponytails. A light beret rested on her head.
Her bright eyes were like gemstones.
She wore an off-shoulder dress.
It gave her an air of pure, beautiful innocence.
She wasn't wearing any shoes.
However, unlike in the original work, when she went outside, she wore adorable foot-covering socks.
Each toe was plump and smooth, like a pearl, lustrous and translucent.
They looked delicious at a glance.
She seemed delicate and adorable.
With a casual swipe and a thought,
the first-person view as a human was switched away, and what appeared in its place was an overall view of the Ark.
Even if it was directly enhanced, evolved, expanded, and remodeled,
it was still being developed according to Verne's original design.
It was all very familiar, not at all strange.
At first glance, there wasn't much difference. It was simply more enormous.
The Ark as a whole looked like a gigantic key filled with a futuristic, high-tech style.
A dark trail lingered behind it as it flew.
Only the section at the Ark's rear, seemingly suspended by magnetic levitation, with no connections at all yet still embedded within it, was the most important.
It wasn't the command section.
But it was still the core.
Because that was where the Ark existed as a source of power.
The changes there were also immense.
"...Honkai Energy has become Imaginary Energy..."
So that was how it was...
Little Griseo could sense it.
The original Ark had used Honkai Energy to travel.
But things were different now.
As the Ark's ship girl, she was actually the Ark's deity. Her ascension had brought changes to the Ark.
The Ark no longer needed to use a Honkai Energy reactor to generate Honkai Energy as its power source.
It—or rather, Little Griseo—
could directly connect to the Imaginary Number World from the surrounding space, drawing Imaginary Energy from it to supply its own consumption.
Perhaps you might think—
Wasn't this just like a Herrscher?
It also connected to Imaginary Space.
And it could also obtain energy from it!
The only difference was that what a Herrscher obtained was Honkai Energy.
Honkai Energy should be equivalent to mutated Imaginary Energy, right?
Wasn't that basically the same?
In fact,
that wasn't the case!
To use an analogy,
Little Griseo's current state should be comparable to an Aeon on the Star Rail side.
Perhaps even more than that, with a higher status.
First of all,
the Ark was merely an appendage.
But she herself could also obtain energy from Imaginary Space.
That was something no Herrscher, Pathstrider, Aeon's Emissary, or even a weaker Aeon could compare to.
That was the difference in their upper limits.
An upper limit represented capacity!
Even if both could draw in power endlessly, at most, they would only be equivalent to an inexhaustible power bank.
Once they reached their upper limit, they could no longer charge.
How much they could expend at once was also related to that upper limit.
Furthermore,
a Herrscher's upper limit was not the only thing inferior to Little Griseo's.
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