Miraculous Forger Starting from Honkai

"Elysia, do you know something?"

"Know what?"

"In life, you can't casually eat things strangers give you, because they might drug them. But you can snatch food from strangers, because they won't have time to drug it." Chen Li spoke while eating a lollipop.

"...So that's why you refused to eat the candy from the tray Mobius brought over, insisted on snatching Gretel's candy instead, and ended up making her cry?!" Elysia raised her voice.

"It's Mobius, after all. It's normal to be cautious." Chen Li spread his hands.

"..." Veins bulged on Mobius's forehead.

She had rarely taken the initiative to bring this major sponsor some candy because of the budget he had allocated, yet he was looking at her with such malicious suspicion?

Honestly, why was he speaking such obvious truths?

Still, Mobius had not gone too far. She had merely added a little cold medicine. It would only affect the taste.

She certainly could not drug her biggest sponsor unconscious and drag him into the lab for experiments. Where would the budget come from then?

But she could observe how people from different worlds reacted to ordinary medicine and study the differences in their constitutions.

Mobius had just created a document on her computer called Outsider Observation Diary.

"Besides, there's no need to worry. Gretel hasn't cried yet, has she?" Looking at the blue-haired little girl who stood frozen after having her candy snatched away, Chen Li stuffed a gold coin into her hand just before she could start crying.

On the glittering gold coin was a little figure giving a thumbs-up, with a set of scales behind it, seemingly symbolizing something.

"What is that? A Miraculous that can stop a crying child from crying?" Elysia curiously examined the golden coin Gretel was happily playing with.

"How could there be such a strange Miraculous? It's called... Approval of Noble Morality. Consider it a gift for little Gretel," Chen Li said.

At the same time, he was testing the item's effects.

The effects were obvious. Look, wasn't no one accusing Chen Li of snatching little Gretel's candy now?

Approval of Noble Morality—could even be used to do things that morality did not permit.

Using this coin over snatching Gretel's candy was indeed overkill, but it was also genuinely a gift.

Normally, Approval of Noble Morality would disappear after being used. But because what Chen Li had done was not immoral enough, only a tiny bit had been consumed, and the rest could go to Gretel.

"With this coin, Gretel can avert disasters and solve troubles. It's absolutely perfect as a protective charm," Chen Li said.

"I..."

"You're not thinking of snatching something from a child, are you?" Before Mobius could finish, Chen Li cut her off and looked at her with contempt.

"I merely want to understand the principle behind it. Lend me one, and I'll return it later," Mobius said.

"I'd like to borrow one too." Elysia raised her hand.

"Though I don't think you'll be able to research anything from it, I can't crush your enthusiasm like that. But I won't give it to you for free."

"What do you want this time? I don't have much left to give you," Mobius asked.

"Relax, I don't want anything valuable. Mobius, you have a Moth Chasing Flame Medal No. 1, right? The one honoring your status as Moth Chasing Flame's first member."

"..."

"..."

Once Chen Li brought up the subject, Mobius and Elysia simultaneously fell into an odd silence.

"It was swindled away." Only after a long while did Mobius slowly speak.

"Hahahaha!" Chen Li laughed without restraint.

"Child, that isn't funny."

"Exactly, exactly. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes." Elysia nodded repeatedly from the side.

"Mobius, you truly do bring me joy. Here, I'll lend you one, and you one as well." Chen Li lent one Approval of Noble Morality to each of Mobius and Elysia.

Of course Chen Li knew that Elysia was the one who had swindled Mobius out of her Medal No. 1. He merely wanted an excuse to laugh at Mobius.

Who told Mobius to put cold medicine in the candy?

Chen Li could inspect an item's attributes. When he had touched the candy earlier, he had seen two unnecessary attributes on it: cold treatment and sleep aid.

They were faint, extremely faint, but they were definitely there.

Though he did not know why Mobius had put cold medicine in the candy, he would laugh at her first and ask questions later.

"Is this thing very valuable?" Elysia asked.

If it was valuable, Elysia would need to consider trading something for it.

"If you feel bad about it, just help me prepare more Crystal Flowers. I might be able to sell them for a high price when I go to another world. As for this gold coin... its value mainly lies in how it is obtained," Chen Li said.

As long as one helped an old lady cross the road, one could obtain fragments of Approval of Noble Morality. But as a form of merit, it was also something countless people dreamed of obtaining.

"So you're a forger who moonlights as a shady merchant?" Mobius said.

"You can't put it that way. Every Starstone I earn comes from hard work. Crossing worlds costs money too," Chen Li complained.

Crossing worlds once cost ten Starstones. That was not cheap.

But then again, leaving aside the three hundred Starstones he had obtained when he gave Mobius the scalpel, merely transporting the demon flesh and blood had earned Chen Li thirty Starstones.

It was clear that demon flesh and blood was not particularly useful for Mobius's research, but it was useful enough.

And just like that, Elysia believed Chen Li's nonsense and gave him ten Crystal Flowers.

"You two chat. I'm going to run some experiments." Mobius chose to take her leave.

"I should get back to work too. I'll finish all one hundred thousand backlogged weapon orders in one go." Chen Li stretched lazily.

Chen Li was still the Engineering Department Head, and he had an agreement with Moth Chasing Flame's higher-ups to exchange weapons for Soul Steel.

Although he now had Higher-up No. 1 as an undercover agent, Chen Li also craved merit.

Chen Li made weapons, people used those weapons to eliminate Honkai beasts—how was that not merit?

It was truly difficult to find creatures like Honkai beasts, which came with an innate villainous nature.

"Then I'll go with you." Elysia patted Gretel's head and chose to accompany Chen Li.

"Goodbye, Uncle Li." The obedient Gretel also waved goodbye.

"Call me brother." Chen Li could not hold himself back.

"Goodbye, Brother Uncle."

"...Is Gretel deliberately messing with me?" Chen Li turned and asked Elysia.

"Well, who knows?" Elysia lightly scratched her cheek with a finger.

Elysia could hardly tell Chen Li that she had taught Gretel to say that while Chen Li was forging a Miraculous for Mobius, could she?

"By the way, how is Vill-V doing?" Chen Li asked while they were walking.

"Vill-V... She escaped from five prisons in three days. Apparently, the furious Moth Chasing Flame higher-ups have now locked her on an unnamed island. But after I argued my case, the higher-ups seem to have decided to give Vill-V another chance. A chance to be recruited. However, it seems the authority to evaluate Vill-V is in Dr. Mobius's hands," Elysia said.

Elysia had pried this information out of Mobius. Her recent daily visits to Mobius's laboratory had not been in vain.

"I see... How about we bribe Mobius later?" Chen Li suggested.

"Do you miss Vill-V?" Elysia asked.

"Yes. I miss those days when we fought side by side."

"But Vill-V told me that she tied you into five different positions in three minutes." Elysia tilted her head.

"Let's bribe Mobius later... and have her keep Vill-V on that miserable island forever."

"Ahem, don't get so worked up. Let's talk about that white-haired young lady who slayed the dragon before I reached the battlefield." Elysia steered the topic toward something that interested her more.

Matou Zouken? Old Bastard, You're Finished!

"Sunday, what kind of package did you send your sister? Why is it taking so long?" Chen Li asked Sunday through the Miraculous Forging Guide as he lay on the sofa.

Chen Li was waiting. He was waiting for Robin to obtain communication access, so he could speak with her and find a way to reach the Honkai: Star Rail world.

"I personally dispatched someone to deliver it."

"No wonder it's so slow..."

"Be patient... By the way, have you forged any Miraculous today? Have you collected Miracle Power?"

"Beep beep..."

"Hm? He hung up again? Looks like I pushed him too hard." Sunday, sitting in the reception room, frowned slightly.

"You nag me to work every day! You should just change your name to Weekday." Chen Li complained with a headache.

Still, Chen Li was working. He was watching his Synthesis Table combine various weapon materials into actual weapons.

At the same time, he was welcoming the arrival of merit.

"Approval of Noble Morality... Hehe, Approval of Noble Morality..." Watching the gold coins continuously increase, Chen Li was practically falling in love with this world.

The facts proved that forging weapons for Moth Chasing Flame truly could earn merit.

Moth Chasing Flame was a United Nations organization dedicated to fighting Honkai. Other United Nations organizations might do bad things, but Moth Chasing Flame, which only dealt with killing Honkai beasts, was clearly relatively cleaner.

But the bad news was that Moth Chasing Flame was not currently receiving enough resources from the United Nations, so Chen Li did not have that many weapons to forge.

"But with this much Approval of Noble Morality, I should be able to do quite a few immoral things, right? Then... it's time to visit another world." Chen Li opened the Miraculous Forging Guide.

Chen Li understood one thing: saving the world, creating miracles, and being moral had absolutely nothing to do with each other.

An immoral way of saving the world was still saving the world, and it was often much faster.

The miracle Pixie had taught Chen Li that.

The Pixie had also left a note in the scalpel Miraculous—an answer to Chen Li's question of whether Welt Yang would still exist aboard the Astral Express if What If changed the fate of the Previous Civilization.

The Pixie currently could not determine what type of world the Honkai world was, so she could not judge.

In some worlds, even if fate changed, it would eventually repeat itself along the trajectory arranged by the world. Other worlds had open endings.

The Pixie's assessment was: There was no need to concern himself with the connection between the Previous Civilization era and the official storyline of Honkai Impact 3rd. As long as Chen Li did not break the world beyond repair, there would still be room to salvage things.

Miraculous could solve every problem.

Just save up Crystal Flowers, and leave the rest to miracles.

The Pixie's final words were: When you have the chance to make a choice, do not leave yourself with regrets.

"Save up Crystal Flowers, save up Crystal Flowers..."

With a wave of his hand, Chen Li scattered five Crystal Flowers to capture Miracle Commissions.

When Chen Li's Novice Task reached a deadlock, he could capture Miracle Commissions to seek opportunities for himself.

Novice Task (3)

Forge five Miraculous √

Forge 50 Miraculous prototypes √

Complete five miracle check-ins (4/5)

Add three friends √

Raise reputation to lv1 √

Chen Li now only lacked one miracle check-in.

Very soon, five new Miracle Commissions appeared before Chen Li.

Invisible Boundary Line: Travel to the far side of the Invisible Boundary Line in a parallel world and find your father.

Posted by: Rikka Takanashi

Reward: 1–10 Crystal Flowers

Risk: Low–Unknown

The first commission that appeared nearly made Chen Li lose his composure.

Rikka Takanashi, from Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions. She was also the female lead.