The sky trembled slightly as an equally dim, black moon slowly appeared at the other end of the heavens.
It was as if some supreme force had turned the sun and moon into the eyes of an indescribable horror.
When the "four eyes" met, a horizon radiating dazzling light appeared once more in this long-dried-up world.
It was a trace of a smile from the final Evil God, who had already won every God War, yet brought about the world's end ahead of time and fallen into blind idiocy, as though she had seen something delightful.
But that trace of a smile seemed to squander this world's last warmth. The world began to collapse and disperse, until all its "shells" fell away and the true Evil God broke free from her cocoon.
At this moment, she was both an Evil God and the world.
The Final Evil God—the World
"Hee hee hee hee!" Strange laughter echoed endlessly, making the worlds not far from the Evil God World tremble one after another.
Earthquakes and natural disasters erupted within those worlds.
The Evil God, whose laughter alone caused countless tremors, paid no attention to any of it. Instead, she reached toward that gaze...
"Hey, are you okay?" Tonghua's voice rang beside Chen Li's ear.
The painted scroll began to close, and the real world appeared once again. Chen Li saw Tonghua looking at him with concern.
"If you don't want to forge a Miraculous Item for me, just say so. Don't scare me like that." Seeing that Chen Li seemed awake, Tonghua complained.
Snap! Chen Li snapped his fingers.
The Miracle Barrier instantly enveloped Chen Li and Tonghua, cutting off all harm and causality.
"What, did you change your mind? Are you going to forge a Miraculous Item for me now? But do you even have the materials?" Seeing the forging furnace appear, Tonghua was overjoyed.
"Let's put forging Miraculous Items aside for now. May I ask something presumptuous? Among all the Evil Gods in your world, Tonghua, are you not considered particularly strong?"
Chen Li could see the Narrator while watching the prophecy, which was why he asked.
"That presumptuous question of yours is really presumptuous." Tonghua looked at Chen Li unhappily.
The Ward Is Not Allowed to Talk Back to the Guardian!
Who were you calling weak?
"Answer me. This is important."
"...Fine, fine, I am relatively weak. So what? Is that my fault? Didn't Tonghua come into being only recently in the Middle Ages?" Tonghua said helplessly, hands on her hips.
But what was wrong with being a little weaker? A weaker Evil God was still an Evil God.
Born from the blessings of heaven and earth, they were immortal and indestructible. The only thing that could make them perish was a God War.
In other words, Tonghua truly was an underage Evil God, because she had been born too late.
Of course, even the weakest god was still a god.
Just as no matter how pathetic a dragon was, it could never be solo-killed by an ant.
However, after absorbing countless fairy tales in this world and gradually expanding her Fairy-Tale Authority toward Story Authority, the Tonghua Evil God was confident that once she returned to her own world, she could rise from the lower-middle ranks to the middle ranks among the Evil Gods.
"Is there a possibility that once any one of your Evil Gods defeats all the others and devours every Authority, they will transform into a mindless final Evil God known as the World?" Chen Li asked.
That was precisely why Chen Li had deployed the Miracle Barrier.
No curse of time, space, or fate could be imposed upon Chen Li.
But Tonghua was not immune.
Chen Li was afraid that while discussing this, Tonghua might suddenly go mad.
"How could... What did you see?" Tonghua instinctively refuted him, but after freezing for a moment, her expression gradually darkened.
Chen Li's words seemed to have made Tonghua realize something ominous.
"Take my advice. Stop touching God Wars and run while you can." Chen Li patted Tonghua on the shoulder. He said nothing more and turned toward the forging furnace.
Although Chen Li was mentally and physically exhausted, he could still forge a Miraculous Item that was as simple as it could possibly be.
A moment later, a vivid rose was presented before Tonghua.
"For me?" Tonghua forced out a smile.
"It's for Argenti, but you can use it first. To form a friendship bond, the other party has to possess at least one Miraculous Item. I'm afraid that while I'm out wandering around, you'll suddenly get dragged into a God War and kick the bucket, so I'm giving you a trump card to save your life," Chen Li said.
This was the Eternal Rose.
Eternal + Scattered
Forging this Miraculous Item had cost Chen Li only 2 Crystals. As for the rose, Chen Li had asked Tonghua for it earlier.
Profession Experience +2.
"...Would it kill you to lie to me for once?"
"I'm very honest. Don't try teaching me how to lie." As Chen Li denied Tonghua's accusation, he formed a friendship bond with Tonghua, who held the Eternal Rose.
"Alright. If anything really happens in the future, text me. I'll summon your true body into another world as soon as possible," Chen Li said.
According to the intelligence obtained from the 20 Starstones, even the weakest Evil God was necessary to a world.
And Evil Gods were mutually attracted to one another; they possessed a tendency toward unity.
But Chen Li refused to believe that if he took Tonghua to another world, the fate of unity could still catch up to her.
One world differed from another.
Chen Li's world and Tonghua's world were worlds under the same Worldview.
But Chen Li's world and the world of Honkai Impact 3rd... In other words, they did not even belong to the same dimension.
Go ahead, chase her! Chase my ass!
"Then will you still forge a God-Slaying Miraculous Item for me?" Tonghua continued asking.
Ever since Chen Li's warning had seemingly made Tonghua understand some hidden truth, she had constantly felt that she could barely protect herself.
She also understood why Chen Li had summoned the Miracle Barrier.
"You still want to participate in a God War?"
"I was thinking I'd only slay half the Evil Gods. Just half, then I'll immediately elope with you," Tonghua promised.
"Do you even know how to use words? What do you mean, elope? Leaving that aside for now, what I need to tell you is that every Evil God in your world represents a rule. The more rules you devour, the more of yourself you will lose, until you completely ascend into an Evil God and emerge from the cocoon called the World. If you devour half the Evil Gods, you'll lose more than half of yourself," Chen Li warned.
That was also what the Narrator had said.
"Tsk, who would have thought God Wars had such a huge trap? No wonder some powerful Evil Gods rarely finish off their mortal enemies, no matter how hard they suppress them." Tonghua covered her forehead and sighed.
"Evil Gods who have lived long enough will always notice some clues. Only a reckless Evil God like you, who knows nothing, would want to kill every single Evil God," Chen Li mocked.
"Then what do we do now? Are we really going to elope now?" Tonghua asked anxiously.
"I said, it's not eloping. But you don't need to worry too much. Even if Evil Gods tend toward unity, you're so weak and you're in another world. No one will treat you as their first target. While we have time, I'll help you find a suitable world," Chen Li said.
"That's the only way..." Having suddenly learned the truth of God Wars, Tonghua now only wanted to expand her Fairy-Tale Authority into Story Authority as quickly as possible, then run away.
"Oh, right. Settle the payment, please." Chen Li held out his hand toward Tonghua.
"Payment? What payment?"
"The payment for forging a Miraculous Item for you."
"Isn't the Miraculous Item you gave me supposed to be for Argenti?" Tonghua was stunned.
"Don't worry about who it'll ultimately go to. Just tell me, was I forging that Miraculous Item for you just now?"
"Wow, you're awful. Let me warn you, although I'm not one of the stronger Evil Gods in my world, I can still punch ten of you to death."
"The ward is not allowed to talk back to the guardian," Chen Li said casually.
"You..." Tonghua flew into a rage.
But because of Chen Li's Guardian Authority, Tonghua, who had committed such an unfilial act, truly had no way to refute Chen Li.
I might not be the strongest in my own world, but no one bullies me there. Yet after coming to this world, you bully me every day. Did I come to another world for nothing?!
"Alright, I forged four Miraculous Items in one day. I feel like I'm about to drop dead. And it's already past two in the morning. I'm going to sleep first. Take your time thinking about how much payment you should give me. Remember to lock the door when you leave my house." Chen Li yawned, got to his feet, and headed upstairs.
There was still much to do tomorrow, such as researching the merit obtained from the world of Inuyasha and paying a visit to... Houraisan Kaguya.
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Seriously? Does a Savior Have to Go to School Too?
After forging four Miraculous Items in a single day, the exhausted Chen Li slept soundly.
But in his hazy state, Chen Li felt as though something heavy was pressing down on him, making it impossible for him to get up.
Could this be sleep paralysis?!
Chen Li struggled to open his eyes, then saw Tonghua sitting on his stomach, bent forward with her knees drawn up, her right hand supporting her chin as she meditated in the classic Thinker pose.
Scared me to death. It's not sleep paralysis, it's just Evil God paralysis.
"Tonghua, are you sick?" Chen Li irritably punched her on the head.
Tenderness toward women? Not a chance.
"I thought about it all night and came up with a plan that gives us the best of both worlds." Tonghua ignored Chen Li's excessive action and spoke excitedly.
"What plan? Before you reveal your earth-shattering, ghost-weeping plan, could you get off me first?"
"Since having you forge God-Slaying Miraculous Items for me so I can harvest Evil Gods might cause me to lose myself, why don't you just create another Miraculous Item that lets me retain my sense of self?" Tonghua paid no attention whatsoever to Chen Li's words.
"You needed an entire night to think of that plan? Get the hell off my bed."
"Oh." When Chen Li invoked his Guardian Authority and stopped negotiating, the ward could only obey obediently.
"So, what do you think of my idea? You help me forge two Miraculous Items." Even after Chen Li chased her off the bed, Tonghua remained excited.
"Not much."
"How could that be? Look at the commission risk assessment and reward in your Miraculous Forging Guide. The former has to be low, and the latter has to be high."
"Mm, that's true." Chen Li glanced at the Miraculous Forging Guide floating before him and nodded.
Risk: Danger—Low Reward: 30—150
"So?" Tonghua stood beside Chen Li's bed and looked at him expectantly.
"It's not completely impossible. Go figure out how to obtain the Affixes needed for those two Miraculous Items. I'll judge their quality. If they're good enough, it might work." Chen Li nodded.
"Quality?"
"The brightness of the Affixes. In other words, the materials must be high-quality. The God-Slaying Affix needs to be very bright, because that one is essential. As for an Affix that lets you retain yourself, something passable will do."
"Why is the latter merely passable?"
"A God-Slaying Artifact needs enough power, because it might have to kill all sorts of strange gods in the future. So the God-Slaying Affix can't be sloppy. The Miraculous Item that preserves your sense of self can only be used by you, and its range of application is narrow, so passable is enough." Chen Li threw back the blanket and replied casually.
"Oh... Wait, no, hold on. Why is something only I can use good enough? And are you saying you'll lend that God-Slaying Artifact to other people later?"
"Yep." Chen Li nodded honestly.
That was how forging Miraculous Items worked. Tonghua only had to issue commissions, while Chen Li had far more to consider.
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