Chapter 293
Therefore, while negotiating with Kyubey on the other side of the video, from Kyubey's perspective, Homura Akemi was casually abusing Kyubey, completely unafraid of torturing it to death.
"Is there such a setting?" Homura Akemi was taken aback.
"Yes. Although a decrease in loyalty won't cause a captured Pokémon to escape, it might make it uncooperative. In that case, you can only get its body, but not its heart." Chen Li nodded.
In other words, you can control him to fight, but you can't control him to reveal information.
"But I'm sorry, I can't be nice to Kyubey or anything like that." Homura Akemi shook her head.
"Don't feel guilty, because I can't do it either. Why do you think Kyubey's loyalty has become so low since he came into your hands?" Chen Li blinked.
Yes, it was Chen Li who did it.
Once any creature is captured by Poké Ball, its loyalty will be at least 60. If a special Bond event has occurred, the initial loyalty will be even higher.
However, when Kyubey was handed over to Homura Akemi, his loyalty had already dropped to 30.
Why be so kind to Kyubey? He'll just be used as material to forge Miraculous Item sooner or later anyway.
"..." Homura Akemi looked at Chen Li with admiration.
If you want to mess with Kyubey, then you're a good person.
This time, trust was the right gamble!
"And don't worry if you didn't get an SSS rating this time, just try again a few more times, right? Here are the Starstones I promised you." Chen Li took out 100 Starstones and handed them to Homura Akemi.
"Go, and let this cycle of reincarnation begin again," Chen Li encouraged.
"Okay. But before that, let's go catch Kyubey. One Incubator Civilization probably isn't enough for you, is it?" Homura Akemi put Kyubey back into its Poké Ball and tossed it back to Chen Li, then clutched the bag containing one hundred Starstones tightly.
Homura Akemi had never fought such a costly battle before.
Homura Akemi has discovered that the Starstones can enhance her Time Abilities.
For example, one can restart the cycle at any time, returning to where the dream began, or even to an earlier point in time.
Ten Starstones are enough for Homura Akemi to easily reincarnate once, but 100 Starstones...
"That's exactly what I was thinking... Pardo, accompany Homura Akemi on this trip."
"Okay, boss." Pardo directed the Canned Food to disappear into the shadow beneath Homura Akemi.
"Let's try using Poké Ball made of Soul Steel this time. Let's see if we can catch Kyubey with a Miracle Crystal. If not, we'll add another Crystal in the next cycle." Chen Li handed a Poké Ball and a Crystal to Pardo.
"Okay, I'll give it a try." Pardo nodded.
Chen Li only has one of these super-advanced Poké Balls, which are made from planets.
But Chen Li needs more than just one Kyubey.
The job skill unlocked in the sixth Novice Task is [Stacking], which allows you to stack entries from the same source to increase their brightness.
Although the conditions are very strict, the Kyubey in different reincarnations definitely meets these conditions.
Because they are all from the same Kyubey.
Kyubey is amazing!
"Speaking of which... is anyone interested in fusing with Kyubey?" Chen Li suddenly asked.
Chen Li had just realized how useful Kyubey, with so many abilities and practical applications... Why not try fusing Kyubey?
Moreover, if you're fusing with Kyubey, you don't have to worry about wasting any entries, because you can capture many Kyubey.
"..." Everyone fell silent after Chen Li said this.
Merging with Kyubey? Are you serious?
While fusing with Kyubey might grant multiple lives, allow the inheritor of Kyubey's technique for converting emotions into energy, enable the creation of Soul Gems to turn others into Magical Girls, and even make one of the next pyramid scheme leaders, but...
Hmm, thinking about it that way, it doesn't seem so bad.
"I'm going to find Kyubey." Homura Akemi wasn't interested in the topic.
Even if I, Homura Akemi, had died in Walpurgisnacht's mouth and jumped off this floating island of Destiny Headquarters, I would never have been able to fuse with Kyubey!
After that, Homura Akemi was guided into the world of Magical Girls by Kyubey through the Miraculous Forging Guide.
[The Princess Who Ran Away in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost]: Suitable for Otto.
After Chen Li shared this idea in the group chat, Houraisan Kaguya gave a very fair assessment.
[Blue Chicken Hair]: Forget it, two scourges together will become an even bigger scourge.
This is actually Tesla's account, which deliberately chose this username to humiliate Einstein, but Welt is speaking now.
[Former Archbishop of Schicksal]: Oh, my friend, it's truly heartbreaking to hear you say that. I have never done anything to deceive an innocent young girl...
[Bianka]: Your Excellency, why did you suddenly stop talking?
[The Great Herta]: It's probably because Otto just discovered that he had indeed done these things.
[Goddess of Water]: Alas, I have a plan...
[Dad]: Stop with your little schemes!
[Goddess of Water]: Let me finish. What I'm thinking is, what if Otto fused with Kyubey to show everyone Resurrection Card ads...? Because there are countless Kyubeys, the efficiency of watching ads would be countless times that of an ordinary person!
[17-year-old beautiful girl]: So here's the question, why not just let Kyubey watch the ad?
[Goddess of Water]: Your question hits the nail on the head. Next is the most brilliant part of my plan—Can't Theresa increase Work Efficiency by sacrificing relatives? Sacrificing one Otto each time is too conservative. If the efficiency increase can be stacked, wouldn't it be even more efficient to kill hundreds of Otto at once?
[Former Archbishop of Schicksal]:???
[Blue messy hair]: I have no objection (adjusts glasses. jpg)
[I really want to drink bitter melon juice]: No! Grandpa!
"Sometimes Aqua's flashes of inspiration can actually be helpful!" Chen Li was greatly impressed by the advice Aqua provided.
In a sense, Kyubey and Otto were indeed very compatible.
Kyubey seduced naive girls, and so did Otto.
Kyubey can turn girls into Magical Girls, and Otto can turn girls into Valkyries.
Kyubey uses Magical Girls as tools, and Otto uses Valkyries as tools as well.
Besides, neither of them are good things!
Otto is stronger than Chobi because... Otto has a weakness!
And this weakness is in Chen Li's hands.
Otto, you don't want your Saintess Kallen either...
However, Kyubey also has a fatal flaw: because Kyubey has no emotions, it may not really want to revive someone, which may cause the Resurrection Card to fail to trigger.
Otto was different; Otto was not only emotionally rich, but also had many enemies.
"But then again, since this idea was proposed by Aqua, it means it absolutely cannot be used!"
Chen Li was not so arrogant as to believe that Otto had absolutely no chance of giving everyone a big surprise.
Therefore, the choice of someone to merge with Kyubey needs to be reconsidered.
Once Otto has collected all the Resurrection Cards to Resurrection Card, he can rest easy and just serve as a sacrifice for Theresa once in a while.
"Ding! Four thousand Starstones have been credited to your Forging Guide account." Chen Li's Miraculous Forging Guide made a sound, attracting everyone's attention.
"What's going on? Chen Li, have you found a new way to get rich?" Vill-V asked Chen Li.
"No, that's not it... it's the reward for capturing Kyubey. It seems that Pardo has successfully captured the [Incubator]."
Since disrupting the original rules of development can yield Starstones, capturing the entire Incubator Civilization would naturally cause even more intense disturbances.
Chen Li captured Kyubey for the first time and instantly obtained 8,000 Starstones, which is why Chen Li is so envious of Kyubey.
If capturing Kyubey in every cycle yields such high returns, then Chen Li will spend his entire life in this cycle, waiting until he has farmed up all the Starstones before moving on to the next step!
Even if I need to cling to Homura Akemi's leg, I'll make her reincarnate thousands of times first!
"Unfortunately, the earnings this time are only half of what they were last time... Last time it was 8,000 Starstones, but this time it's only 4,000." Chen Li said with some regret.
If nothing unexpected happens, there will probably be even fewer next time.
Is there an upper limit to the amount of Spacetime Energy that can be absorbed within a given time period?
I hope I haven't exhausted all the Spacetime Energy.
"Boss! I'm back!" After using the Twin of the Other Shore Miraculous Item to switch places with the Canned Food that was licking its fur, Pardo walked towards Chen Li with Poké Ball in her hand.
"Success? It seems that one Crystal is enough to help you create the Miracle of capturing the entire Incubator Civilization using the Soul Steel Poké Ball." Chen Li looked at the familiar words on the new Poké Ball and nodded in satisfaction.
The incubator captured this time has almost the same brightness as the incubator captured in the last cycle.
After confirming that drawing just one Crystal and adding a Poké Ball made of Soul Steel would be enough to catch an Incubator, Chen Li decided not to further reduce the requirements of this setup.
While it's nice to have card-equipped items in the map, Soul Steel isn't exactly a rare material anyway.
Although there isn't much Soul Steel in the First Civilization Era, there is still a considerable amount of Soul Steel unearthed through archaeological excavations in the Second Era.
One generation plants the trees, another enjoys the shade!
A short while later, Homura Akemi, who had reset this cycle, returned to this place again.
Homura Akemi easily took the Miraculous Forging Guide from Chen Li's hand.
[Exist?]
[Exist!]
The familiar cycle begins again.
Looking at Kyubey, who looked bewildered but spoke with respect on the other end of the video, Homura Akemi smiled again.
It feels so good to have an absolute information gap.
Homura Akemi gradually began to experience Kyubey's joy...
"I think the live stream shouldn't be called 'Kyubey Must Die' Live Stream. It should be called 'I've Reborn! Reborn as the Agent of the Great Mister Miraculous Forger! In my past life, the inherently evil Kyubey brat tricked me into becoming Magical Girl by exploiting information asymmetry, and I witnessed my lover die tragically in my arms. In this life, I will make Kyubey pay the price he deserves - Act Two! V50, watch my revenge plan live!' Live Stream." Chen Li, hiding to the side, said, looking at the only live stream currently running on his Friends Circle Moments.
"But the live streaming function in Friends Circle only allows a maximum of 10 custom characters," Pardo said.
"What? Just 10 characters? Are you kidding me? If the other chat groups find out, they'll think the Miraculous Item Group can't afford a server! What kind of title can you write with just that many characters? Give me another 100!"
[... You think you're so great, so high and mighty? Do you know how many bugs a simple change to the custom title feature might create? 50! A full 50!]
"Are there really that many?" Chen Li was startled by the Pixie.
Just kidding, okay, it's fixed, just copy it.
"..." by Chen Li.
After glancing at the subtitle, Chen Li copied and pasted the Source Text given by the Pixie into the editing interface of the Friends Circle Terminal.
Managing your Friends Circle is like this: Pixie only needs to write out the complex code, while Chen Li needs to press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.
It still requires too much skill to master.
Because the name of the live stream was too abstract, and because Chen Li uploaded the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica to the group's files to popularize knowledge about Magical Girls, a large number of group members who were very interested in Kyubey flocked to the live stream.
[17-year-old beautiful girl]: I have a question, Chen Li, how much did you give Homura Akemi in exchange for her going to such lengths to help you exploit Kyubey?
[Dad]: Oh, there's no kickback? I haven't even talked to her about this yet.
[17-year-old beautiful girl]: Hmm?
[Dad]: I originally wanted to tell Homura Akemi that if she helped me reincarnate a dozen times and capture a dozen Kyubeys, I could help her forge Miraculous Item or something. But before I could say it, Homura Akemi automatically entered a state of mind after seeing the Kyubeys and volunteered to help me.
[Imperial Jade Pillar of Shame Master]:... It's hard to imagine that someone would work for free, and with such enthusiasm.
[Unfailing Eye of Law]: Perhaps she has the insight to judge people and can tell at a glance that Chen Li will not let anyone who has helped him suffer, so she works hard?
[Jing Yuan]: Just like when Chen Li forged Miraculous Item for the Luofu Xianzhou and even the entire Xianzhou Alliance, he didn't mention charging any compensation. It's common knowledge that what's free is often the most expensive. Hmm, a very clever psychological tactic.
[Dad (high-quality imitation)]: No, I think you're all overthinking it. Homura Akemi is simply enjoying herself.
[What kind of bad intentions could a cat have?]: Who is upstairs? Why is he using the same profile picture and username as Chen Li? And why does he have the exclusive title "High-Quality Imitation"?
[The Princess Who Ran Away in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost]: How dare you assume that Homura Akemi is enjoying herself?
[Dad]: That's Aha, don't worry about him.
[The Princess Who Ran Away in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost]: Oh, then it's alright.
[Spring Spirit]: Houraisan Kaguya, stop spamming the chat and hurry to help. Kiana can't hold on any longer. Keeping a fixed World Bubble might still be too much for Kiana.