Chapter 350

"Hey, Sampo, I'm all set to go, and I have a plan that will definitely send that Acheron utterly defeated!" After returning to her own world, Sparkle smiled and dialed a friend's number.

"Oh... no need to come."

"What do you mean?"

"It's getting late."

"But it's only morning now."

"What I mean is you're a bit late. The daylilies are almost cold."

"It's almost cold, but it's not cold yet, is it? As long as I make a move, I will definitely make that Acheron suffer a crushing defeat! Besides, you have no right to refuse," Sparkle sneered.

"Oh, so confident?"

"Of course, because I have mastered Acheron's fatal weakness!"

"No, what I mean is, are you so sure I don't have the right to refuse?"

"Of course."

"What will you do if I hang up the phone now?"

"Well... take a look behind you."

"Sparkle, that trick is outdated. We're all seasoned Masked Fools now, don't play these childish tricks."

"Really? Sampo. There's an old saying in Xianzhou: 'A scholar should be looked at with new eyes after three days of separation.'" Sparkle put her hand on Sampo's shoulder.

"!!!"

"Sparkle, what happened to you...?"

"Why am I so good-looking? It's because I'm naturally beautiful."

What I mean is...

"Alright, enough of that, take me to meet that Acheron." Sparkle couldn't help but smile with Elation.

"Captain's supplies are not guaranteed, but all Captain's dungeons drop them!"

"Captain's supplies are not guaranteed, but all Captain's dungeons drop them!"

"Captain's supplies are not guaranteed, but all Captain's dungeons drop them!"

"... Does this really work? It seems like Chen Li has gone mad. Theoretically speaking, isn't it only necessary to craft Two-star Artifact 200 Crystals? I remember Chen Li saying that." Looking at Sakura, who was wearing fox ear ornaments and standing on the round platform that Chen Li had crafted, repeating strange words over and over again, Elysia was a little worried.

"Theoretically, this is the most unreliable thing. Theoretically, if many monkeys randomly banged on a typewriter, they might eventually write all the books in the museum... That's true, but the number of discarded drafts would be countless times more than the finished product." Vill-V shook her head.

"That's true. After all, it's Chen Li's first time, so it's normal for Chen Li be nervous. But won't Chen Li be even more nervous with so many people watching?"

"Probably not, otherwise Chen Li wouldn't have invited us to come and tour freely. But... the word 'captain' sounds quite interesting. I once turned my Second God Key into a locomotive, should I turn it into a flying ship this time? Or maybe a roller coaster?"

Vill-V felt as if a door to a new world had been opened for her.

"I'm the one who should be worried more, Sister Elysia! Sister Vill-V!"

When you feel that some doors to new worlds shouldn't be opened, that's a distress signal from Pardo.

Pardo, covered in strange little trinkets, sat to Chen Li's left, staring at the flames that began to leap inside the Miraculous Forging Platform. She had a feeling that if Chen Li failed to forge the artifact, she might burn herself!

Don't we often see those kinds of scenarios? You just can't seem to craft an item no matter what you try, so you sacrifice someone... and then, lo and behold, it works!

Two-star Artifact might actually need a spirit.

In such situations, it is usually the lucky ones who are sacrificed, and Pardo happens to be one of them.

"What are you panicking about? I'm here with you, aren't I?" Kiana, who was lying on the carpet to Chen Li's right, propped her head up with one hand and held a potato chip in the other, comforted him.

As one of the two luckiest players Chen Li could think of, Kiana was naturally among them.

Although Chen Li personally believes that "luck can't save you from bad luck, and spending money can't change your fate," What if it happens?

Meanwhile, Chen Li was immersed in creating the Miraculous Item.

The Friends Circle was slowly engulfed by the Miracle Fire. As the related terms appeared, Chen Li could also see the brightness of the "Contact" term, indicating significant growth...

These are all proof of Chen Li's Friendship and Bonds!

In theory, it's possible to nurture an entry in this way: forge the entry into Miraculous Item, frequently use the Miraculous Item to create Miracles, causing the entry's brightness to increase dramatically in a short period, and then dismantle the entry to forge other Miraculous Item...

Chen Li already had similar ideas and planned to put them into practice.

Once all the entries have appeared, it means the reforging of the Miraculous Item can begin.

Depending on the brightness of the affixes, appropriately increase the brightness of certain affixes, then use some Crystal flowers to increase the cost of the Miraculous Item, and then add an "Overlimit" affix...

Chen Li has some very new ideas and needs this over-limit entry.

Fortunately, this "Exceed Limit" entry was taken from the Imperial Arms Romantic Turret Pumpkin, which has been passed down for thousands of years, so the brightness itself is already quite sufficient.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Li pulled out the Miracle Card, "I'll Help You".

Chen Li had never understood how Miracle Cards could be used to create Miraculous Item. Although they could be directly broken down into different attributes, it seemed like a huge waste.

Until Chen Li mastered the skill of using the Wondrous Brush.

When Chen Li threw the Miracle Card into the Miracle Fire, the Miracle Card gradually began to distort. Then, the words contained on the Miracle Card appeared. Chen Li ignored the words and used his Wondrous Brush to turn all the words into dye, which he then applied to the Miraculous Item.

The Miracle Card, "[I'll Help You]", was transformed into a special icon and printed on the Miraculous Item itself. Chen Li paid three Crystals for it.

What effect this Miracle Card will produce after being fused with this Miraculous Item is still unknown. This is the result of merging the entire Miracle Card... Creating Miraculous Item is inherently random, but at least it will be a positive outcome.

Integrating the entire Miracle Card into Miraculous Item has another advantage...

That means that after awakening a new professional skill in the future, you can use that skill to retrieve the Miracle Card by spending Crystals.

[It's somewhat similar to the Command Emblem in Fate/Grand Order. Attaching Miracle Card to Miraculous Item requires Crystals, and removing Miracle Card from Miraculous Item also requires Crystals.]

"Next comes the final step... add some [Elation]!"

Now comes the part that Chen Li is most excited about!

[...]

You can Elation, who can have Elation than you?

Another advantage of reforging Miraculous Item is that as long as you don't completely disassemble and reassemble all the entries on the Miraculous Item, the entries added later will not affect the Miraculous Item 'Miraculous Item previous functions, but only the functions added later.

Just like the Miraculous Item of Sparkle, even after being reforged, they still possess functions similar to the Fun Radar.

Chen Li created the Miraculous Item for the Sparkle to verify this effect.

With all the entries integrated, Chen Li began the final forging, the sound of hammering echoing throughout the room.

[Friends Circle] (Two-star Artifact)

"How was it? Did it work?"

"It's a success."

What new features have been added?

"I've already posted it in the announcement, you can see for yourselves. In general, there are two new features added... or you could say three," Chen Li said.

"Let me see... The first overlimit function allows users of Friends Circle to borrow the abilities of users with Exclusive Professions in Friends Circle Terminal, and temporarily overlimit the strength of that skill to the level of a novice Miraculous Item. That's awesome? Doesn't that mean having one Miraculous Item in Friends Circle is equivalent to having dozens of novice Miraculous Item?" Houraisan Kaguya.

"There is a line of smaller text following this... This function is only available to Miraculous Forger."

"Tch, what a waste of time."

"But this [Overlimit] can also be used on users of the Friends Circle Terminal, temporarily boosting their strength to the Novice Miraculous Item level, but the cost is... consuming a friend? Does this consumption refer to actual death, or only consuming the Friends Circle Terminal?" Yakumo Yukari turned to look at Chen Li.

"It's real death, and the friend who sacrificed himself is yourselves, so before using this ability, please make sure you have enough Resurrection Cards." Chen Li nodded.

"Then what's the use of this function? Even if you use it to win the Revival Match, if you die again after using it, won't you have to play the Revival Match all over again?" Aqua asked. "This function can be used when you have to do certain things yourself, or when you need to do it personally," Chen Li explained.

Aqua couldn't understand the ingenious use of this function, but Chen Li thought it made perfect sense.

After all, it's Aqua.

"There are many applications. The simplest one is... you can use this function to scam a wave of Path Blessings in the Honkai: Star Rail world and then run away."

"...That makes sense! Then I have a plan!" Aqua's eyes lit up.

"Shush, don't force me to hit you when I'm happiest!"

"... They meant well." Aqua pouted.

"And please note that whether I use this function myself or I use it for you, the cost is that your chat history will be completely wiped. The more chat history you have, the stronger the [Overlimit] ability will be when you use it. Remember to chat in the group often!" Chen Li, the Chatting Assistant, reminded everyone.

"Let's take a look at the second feature. What does 'invite a friend to cut the price' mean? Has the Miracle Card 'I'll Help You' become a shared card?"

"By being summoned by the other party and continuously helping them in battle, you can increase that character's Bond level with you and the corresponding Friendship Points. After increasing the Bond level, you can unlock the other party's learnable skills in stages, and you can use Friendship Points to purchase skills, but... to become the other party's support character, you need to draw cards? And drawing cards requires Friendship Points?"

Why should I have to pay for his help?

"In other words, if you want to get Friendship Points and Bond Points from someone, you need to first draw that person so that they have the right to ask you for help. But the problem is that right now no one has Friendship Points, so we can't draw that person and unlock their right to summon us... Isn't this a vicious cycle? Where's the starting capital? Where's the newbie gift pack?"

In other words, you're playing a game where you control a character to defeat monsters. Only by defeating monsters can you earn chances to draw cards, but it doesn't give you any trial characters or an initial character...

Everyone looked at Chen Li.

"Ahem, you can also use Starstones to draw cards."

"Starstones again? Starstones again?!"

"Drawing Starsea Trove requires Starstones, enhancing your own Exclusive Profession's attributes requires Starstones, and now drawing support characters also requires Starstones. So, give me a way to obtain Starstones!" Houraisan Kaguya was getting a little frustrated.

Besides the three situations mentioned above, Houraisan Kaguya also enjoys eating Starstones.

"It's worth mentioning that What If A keeps asking B for help, causing B's Bond level with A to reach the maximum level of 10, then you can obtain an exclusive costume," Chen Li said.

This is the function that Chen Li mentioned, which can also be considered the third function.

What's great about this assist feature is that it can be used independently of the Friends Circle Terminal – one login, permanent access.

"What's the use?"

"That represents your Friendship and Bonds, that this sincere friendship will always remember you, and that it reflects part of your value in life. The exclusive outfit will also bestow upon you a corresponding gift."

Speak like a human.

"It's equivalent to adding Eidolon or a Fate Constellation. It might grant you some pretty good special effects that can be used to assist you."

"...Damn it!" Houraisan Kaguya felt herself being attacked by something familiar.

Drawing from the Starsea Trove is equivalent to drawing from Exclusive Weapon, such as the skill of the jar for Pardo.

Increasing the brightness of an entry is equivalent to increasing "Traces," which is the level of a branch skill.

Drawing a support character and maxing out their Bond is equivalent to drawing a constellation.

"Why don't you go Holy Relic or relics again? Come on, come on, I'm fearless now!"

"Kaguya- sensei, please don't be like this. Calm down."

"Calm down? How can I calm down? I need to draw cards, but I don't have Friendship Points!"

"Then let's draw a support character," Chen Li said.

"But drawing characters requires Friendship Points!"

"Then let's go earn Friendship Points!"

"How am I supposed to pull characters without any Friendship Points? And I don't have any Starstones either!"

"Well... don't you all have a default role?" Chen Li reminded him.

"You mean... you? Oh, so this support character isn't just mine, all the other sisters have it too," Houraisan Kaguya said resentfully.

"... If you keep being sarcastic, I'll block you."

The original purpose of the "I'll help you" message was to ask Chen Li for help, which is probably why Chen Li became a free character.

Similar to... Mash? Even though it costs 0 mana!

"I'm sorry, I was wrong. But do you really need our help? Didn't the announcement say that you can't get effective Friendship Points without substantial help?" Houraisan Kaguya asked.

The "help" mechanism in Friends Circle is strange. Having this "help" means that the other party can summon you, rather than you being able to summon the other party.

It's like spending your own money just so you can help others; nobody can stand that.

But it gave so much.