Miraculous Forging from Honkai

"Who are you looking at? Keep staring, and I'll die right here on the spot and spray blood all over your faces. Believe me?"

"Um..." After Chen Li scared off everyone who had been looking their way, Kevin, who had been following behind him, seemed hesitant to speak.

"Here, iced watermelon juice. Thanks for the school uniform." Chen Li handed the drink he had bought to Kevin, who had just finished playing basketball.

"Oh, no problem," Kevin said cheerfully.

Kevin, leader of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers of Moth Chasing Flame, bearer of the Deliverance insignia, and Dr. Mei's lover. He was also humanity's strongest warrior!

But compared to the Flame-Chaser of the future, cold and nearly inhuman in his fight against Honkai, Kevin was still a sunny, cheerful young man.

A transfer student, handsome, sunny, cheerful, fond of basketball, athletically gifted, and even helpful.

People like that were often extremely popular on campus.

Seeing the cheerful Kevin before him, Chen Li had a bold idea.

"That dean looked pretty fierce. You did me a huge favor, so I've decided to give you a little extra compensation," Chen Li said.

"There's really no need." Kevin refused repeatedly.

"Complete Collection of Love Confessions That Can Win Any Girl." Chen Li pulled a rather strange item from his collection of transmigration goodies.

"Huh? Really?" Kevin froze for a moment, seemingly tempted.

"Look at you. You obviously have someone you like. Love at first sight?" Chen Li asked with a smile.

"Emmm..." Kevin looked a little awkward.

Click!

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Taking a picture. Here. Youth needs to be recorded, especially innocent feelings like these." Chen Li handed Kevin a photo that had instantly printed out.

At the same time, the instant camera had stored the negative of that photo.

Later, he could ask Kevin how much he was willing to pay to buy the photo back.

Wouldn't buy it back? Then Chen Li would spread that photo throughout Moth Chasing Flame!

"Oh, thanks." Kevin blankly accepted the photo.

"This photo, plus this collection of love confessions, will be the winning weapon I'm giving you," Chen Li said with certainty.

"Will this really work?"

"Relax. Listen to me, and you definitely won't mess up. But in exchange... next time we meet, how about giving me your baseball bat?" Chen Li pointed at the section of baseball bat sticking out of Kevin's backpack.

Playing baseball after basketball? You sure were busy hopping between sets.

"Sure, but what do you want it for?" Kevin asked curiously.

"You'll find out next time we meet."

Looking at the Hero tag that had already begun to take shape on the baseball bat, as well as the Deliverance tag still developing, Chen Li almost wanted to toss Kevin into a pack of Honkai beasts and have him fight them.

Appraisal—the special reward Chen Li had obtained after completing the Novice Task (I) series, and also a class skill.

After Chen Li touched an item, he could inspect the tags contained within it.

Even without touching it, he could vaguely sense from afar whether it possessed any valuable tags.

Now, Chen Li no longer had to wait until the Miracle Fire burned out to determine whether an item had a certain tag.

"Su, I'm over here." Just as Chen Li stared intently at the baseball bat, Kevin seemed to spot someone and waved as he shouted.

A handsome, somewhat delicate-looking young man walked over.

Su, Kevin's closest friend.

Other than Mei, he was the friend closest to Kevin.

Thinking of Su reminded Chen Li that Su had once said he had seen a female version of himself while observing other worlds.

Then he wondered whether Mei could really compete with Su if Su were a girl.

Starstones: 210 (+100000)

The Miraculous Forging Guide suddenly popped out and flipped open to the balance page.

Seeing the somewhat illusory yet red-highlighted balance of 100,000, Chen Li was startled.

He did not even dare think too deeply about what it meant, afraid he would fail to resist temptation and actually dump something like Spring of Drowned Girl water on Su.

Considering that he had been gone for a while and Elysia might be looking for him, Chen Li chatted briefly with these two future heroes. After agreeing with Su that he would return the Barefoot Doctor's Manual Chen Li had lent him the next time they met, Chen Li took his leave.

If there were no tags, then cultivate them.

After this book, which condensed a civilization's warmest memories and most basic medical knowledge, fell into Su's hands, Chen Li saw two tags developing upon it.

Bodhi, Medicine

These tags needed to be infused with enough time and fate before they could truly grow.

Perhaps that was Appraisal's true purpose—judging a person's fate, giving them an appropriate item as a vessel, and cultivating fitting tags.

For Chen Li, who walked through time, time was something he never lacked.

Novice Task (II):

Forge three Miraculous Items (2/3)

Forge 30 Miraculous Item Embryos √

Complete three Miracle Check-ins (1/3)

Completely clear one Serendipitous Encounter World (0/1)

Add one friend (0/1)

Sitting in a wheelchair, Chen Li stared at the five new Novice Tasks and fell into thought.

Chen Li was currently on his way back to Moth Chasing Flame.

Moth Chasing Flame was located in a remote area. To maintain secrecy, Chen Li could not take a taxi to the Moth Chasing Flame base, and buying a car would be wasteful, so he simply bought a wheelchair from the roadside.

And because Chen Li had been busy smithing, he was still not proficient with the Herrscher of the Void's abilities, so he did not dare use them.

But this wheelchair had opened up a whole new world for him.

Because Chen Li discovered that tags stored in Crystals could be plugged in and used immediately.

For example, Chen Li had placed the Wind Riding tag onto the wheelchair, and now it sped along like the wind.

Doing so did not consume the Miracle Power of the Crystal storing the tag, but placing the Crystal out in the open on the wheelchair increased the risk of it being stolen, which was dangerous in itself. And besides... the effect was terrible.

This wheelchair could not even fly! One-star review!

Although no one else could use Miracle Crystals or tags, having to spend one Starstone to retrieve the Crystal later was still a loss.

So this dangerous method could only be used when Chen Li could ensure his own safety.

"These local gangs are seriously rude!" Chen Li, tied to a chair, glared furiously at his wheelchair, which had been smashed to pieces.

"Enough yelling. Even if you scream your throat raw, no one's coming to save you." The person standing before Chen Li tossed a palm-sized Crystal in her hand as she studied him with interest.

"Remember that you owe me a wheelchair," Chen Li said darkly.

"Sure, sure. I'll get you a wheelchair later. So can we talk about this Crystal first? And... what exactly is this organization called Moth Chasing Flame?" After dragging a chair over and sitting before Chen Li, she crossed her legs and asked.

"What you're doing is a crime, you know," Chen Li said.

"I think you're the criminals. What exactly does Moth Chasing Flame do? What is your relationship with the disaster called Honkai? Why do you show up wherever Honkai occurs?" Vill-V asked, slapping the armrest of her chair.

The girl seated opposite Chen Li wore a hat adorned with a complex arrangement of gears and mechanical decorations, while every inch of her body was filled with mechanical and gear-like elements.

Her pink eyes were full of suspicion.

Elysia would definitely be interested in this genuine beauty.

"...Tch."

If the other party had not been Vill-V, Chen Li would have summoned Argenti and skewered her with a spear long ago. And Chen Li would not have deliberately let himself get captured.

It was a little absurd, but getting captured by Vill-V had actually earned him Starstones.

This once again proved that acquiring Starstones had never depended on whether Chen Li acted deliberately or accidentally. As long as he disrupted the original fate, he received them.

Combined with how Chen Li always passively ended up entangled in all sorts of trouble, it could be said that as long as he transmigrated to another world, he could obtain Starstones endlessly.

The premise was that Chen Li survived those troubles.

"Do you want to know every secret?" Chen Li asked after a long silence.

"Oh? Have you come around?" Vill-V asked, pinching her chin.

"But before that, I really want to know how you came up with the idea of kidnapping me."

"It's simple. The card you used is a special card exclusive to that organization, and its signal is special as well. So all I had to do was pay a 'little' attention." Vill-V held a pink payroll card between her fingers.

"Sounds like I didn't lose unfairly."

"You can only say you were unlucky. I only confirmed where Moth Chasing Flame's headquarters was today, yet you not only used that card, but were also heading toward the headquarters and happened to pass by the 'base' I had just built," Vill-V said with a sigh.

Vill-V had originally planned to use miniature robots to scout Moth Chasing Flame headquarters tonight, and having an insider should make things go much more smoothly.

It was practically as if this person had delivered himself right to her doorstep.

"..."

"What? Feeling discouraged?" Vill-V poked Chen Li's cheek.

"I am a little discouraged. But I'm not necessarily the unlucky one."

"What do you mean?" Vill-V regarded the young man before her warily.

Or rather, Vill-V had never lowered her guard.

Though she was self-taught, any organization capable of trading blows with her on equal footing could not possibly be ordinary.

"Did you know? I've always had terrible luck. I'm always getting dragged into strange troubles."

"Like... getting caught by me?"

"No, that's just one part of my bad luck. I mean... like the two of us being targeted by the Herrscher of the Void's accompanying Honkai beast. It was originally only targeting me, but now it's targeting both of us. Why do you think I insisted on running somewhere remote?" With his entire body tied up, Chen Li could only tilt his head helplessly.

"Huh? Don't try any tricks. This base may be temporary, but it's still sturdy, and I have weapons on hand." Vill-V frowned tightly.

"Sturdy?"

The instant Chen Li asked that question, an enormous, razor-sharp claw smashed straight through the base-slash-shelter.

"Cough, cough!"

Coughing came from within the dust.

"What is that thing?" After the dust settled, Vill-V, who had been tightly hugging Chen Li, climbed off him and asked.

"Honkai is a disaster that grows alongside the development of civilization. That disaster gives rise to divine apostles called Herrschers. Those divine apostles then spawn monsters known as Honkai beasts. And the Honkai beast before us is the Second Herrscher's accompanying Honkai beast—the strongest Honkai beast beneath a Herrscher, a Judgment-class Honkai beast." Chen Li did not care whether Vill-V understood; he simply explained the existence of the Honkai beast before them.

"And Moth Chasing Flame is an organization that fights Honkai. It operates under the United Nations. They often conceal Honkai phenomena from the public by passing them off as natural disasters."

"What do we do now?" Vill-V asked worriedly as she looked at the thin barrier that had suddenly appeared before them.

"Don't you have weapons? Hit it," Chen Li said, raising his chin toward it.

"Me? Fight that Honkai beast? Are you serious?" Vill-V glanced at the gun beside her and the reconnaissance drone by her feet, then looked at the dragon-shaped Honkai beast dozens of meters tall.

"Then why haven't you untied me yet?"

Whoever tied me up should untie me!

"Oh. But how long can this barrier last? What is this forge that suddenly appeared for? Do you have any other backup? Are we going to die here?" Vill-V asked curiously as she helped Chen Li untie his bindings.

"The barrier will remain until I finish forging. And that forge is obviously for forging," Chen Li said.

When Chen Li conducted Miraculous Forging, he could choose whether to summon the barrier.