Miraculous Forger of the Collapse Chapter 42

Only after another Karma Coin vanished did the activity finally cease.

Only then did Chen Li feel at ease.

Chen Li was a moral Miraculous Forger, and keeping his clients' secrets was also a reasonable part of after-sales service.

Besides, Chen Li had gained hundreds of thousands of "Approval of Noble Morality" in one go. This little expenditure was well within normal limits.

The Karma Balance was such a useful miraculous item.

"Thank you!" Miko, suddenly feeling as though both body and mind had relaxed, let out a long breath.

"Want me to send you back?"

"Huh, can you?"

"I have a spatial teleportation skill. It isn't very accurate, but you're holding Karma Coins, so at worst you'll fall from about a meter up. You won't get hurt," Chen Li said.

Chen Li had already recorded the Herrscher of the Void model, but he had never practiced with it. Still, he believed in the effects of Karma Coins!

"Then forget it. I'd better just ride my bike home... Wait, where's my bike?"

"It should have made a return in the physical sense. Are you sure you want to walk back?"

"You should just send me home," Miko said dejectedly.

Walking home from here would probably break her legs, wouldn't it?

"Alrighty, it's my first time using this skill too! Sit tight and hold on! We're departing! Remember to text me once you arrive safely!"

"Departing from where?" Miko looked around in panic, failing to notice the pitch-black hole that instantly opened beneath her feet.

"Ahhh!"

"Is she really going to be okay?" Kikyo asked with some concern after watching Miko get swallowed by the hole.

"Don't worry. Karma Coins can avert disasters and solve problems. They're very useful. Oh, look, she texted to say she's safe. She said that although she fell from two meters up, she luckily landed in a huge pile of cardboard boxes, so she wasn't hurt," Chen Li said as he looked at Miko's reply.

Meanwhile, Chen Li's proficiency with the Herrscher of the Void's abilities rose from 2% to 2.3%.

"That's good, then."

"Alright, it's time to say goodbye. Take these two Karma Coins back with you. One for you and one for your little sister. Consider them souvenirs."

"...Thank you."

Although Kikyo often failed to understand why Chen Li was so accepting, she respected and understood his actions.

At the very least, he was trying to make this world better, even if his methods were a little extreme.

"You're welcome. Let me know when you run out."

Only after Chen Li returned the Peaceful Longbow to Kikyo and personally watched her get sent back through the Friends function did he look up at the sky of this world again.

Chen Li could also gain karma by using Karma Coins to save people. He had given away thirteen just now, yet he had already regained five.

If Chen Li had not been so generous, he could have completely broken even.

But Chen Li was not worried, because giving Miko Karma Coins would definitely pay for itself.

Although Chen Li had killed who knew how many ghosts, he definitely had not wiped them all out.

Just as good people could turn bad, good ghosts could become bad ghosts, and this world was still constantly producing ghosts.

So the trash in this world could never be completely cleaned up.

Given Miko's terrible luck, along with the fact that her best friend had a strange spirit-attracting constitution, there would be plenty of chances for the Karma Coins to take effect. When that happened, Chen Li could gain new Karma Coins again.

"I'm suddenly a little regretful." Looking at the devastation all around him, Chen Li's heart suddenly ached.

He had just wiped out so many ghosts in one go. Who knew how many of them had rare traits?

Maybe there had even been ghosts with Divine traits.

"Next time, either I won't use the Peaceful Longbow, or I absolutely have to forge a miraculous item that can collect loot! Otherwise, I'm seriously losing out." With a pained expression, Chen Li summoned the Door of Return and stepped through it, leaving this world completely.

However, after cleansing the world with the Peaceful Longbow once more, the Peaceful Longbow seemed to have become a little more handsome, faintly showing the potential of a sacred relic.

Miraculous items could achieve miracles and receive enhancements.

Everything seemed perfectly reasonable.

Chen Li: Elysia, You Could Have Just Broken In!

Crystals: 151

Starstones: 1722

During this trip, Chen Li gained 70 Crystals after the Miracle Card appeared. This was the commission that had earned him the most Crystals at once.

At the same time, his Starstones had increased by 600.

His Approval of Noble Morality had increased by more than 100,000 coins in one go.

How many immoral things would that be enough for Sparkle to do?

More importantly, Chen Li's Novice Task had been completed!

He successfully obtained a new class skill—Allocation

Its full name should have been Redistribution. Its approximate effect was to allow Chen Li to fine-tune the brightness of modifiers, thereby controlling the effects of the final forged artifact more precisely.

For example, he could redistribute the Ghoul Attractor artifact.

The Attract modifier actually had two effects. One was like the Ghoul Attractor, which drew all ghouls toward this place—like cats smelling catnip.

The other directly forced the target to be pulled over, like a vacuum cleaner sucking up dust.

When Chen Li forged artifacts, the modifiers' tendencies were somewhat uncontrollable.

While he could solve the problem either by investing more crystals so that both tendencies of a modifier manifested, or by adding more modifiers to guide its effect, neither option was very cost-effective.

Redistribution, however, could lock in the tendency a modifier displayed.

"I knew it. Modifiers couldn't possibly be that inconvenient." Chen Li was fairly satisfied with this new class skill.

But Chen Li had never liked anything beyond his control.

Chen Li did not like gambling. He only liked guaranteed wins.

Moreover, this Redistribution skill could be used not only on modifiers, but on Chen Li himself as well.

Chen Li could redistribute his own aptitudes—or rather, Skill Points.

He could sacrifice Strength to increase Speed, sacrifice Agility to increase Defense, or even lower the levels of skills he did not currently need in order to raise the levels of skills he did need.

For example, Chen Li's Cloud Knight Sword Technique was currently lv6, and he also knew many other strange skills. He could first reset those skills to level zero, then pour all their accumulated experience into the Cloud Knight Sword Technique.

If Chen Li learned enough things, then in theory, he could break through the limits of a certain skill.

However, the conversion rates differed between different skills.

Redistributing the different tendencies of a modifier was unaffected, because they had originally been part of the same whole.

But converting experience from a lockpicking skill into experience for the Cloud Knight Sword Technique would definitely be less effective than converting experience from something like a Tai Chi Sword Technique into Cloud Knight Sword Technique experience.

The more unrelated the two skills were, the lower the conversion rate.

This kind of redistribution could be either permanent or temporary, making it extremely convenient.

"If I combine this class skill with the Miraculous Forger class effect, where higher class levels let me learn low-level skills faster, then theoretically, I could become a master of everything. Got it. I'll go learn archery from Elysia, medicine from Mobius, painting from Gretel, quantum mechanics from Mei, prayer from Aponia, and catwalks from Pardo!"

This was true versatility in every sense of the word.

"This skill kind of feels like Emperor's Privilege from the Moon World. I wonder whether I can learn this Inherent Skill from an Imperial-type Knight Heroic Spirit." Chen Li rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

Emperor's Privilege was a skill that was practically omnipotent in the Moon World. So long as its user wished it, they could temporarily gain skills they did not originally possess during battle.

"Or... I could just forge an artifact. My current crystal reserves are enough to forge a One-star Artifact." The thought tempted Chen Li.

But just as Chen Li was tempted, the Miraculous Forging Guide suddenly popped up.

"Let's see what new message I got... Damn, my reputation suddenly increased by so much. Looks like I really made an impression!"

Whenever the Miraculous Forging Guide appeared before Chen Li in a translucent state to display a page, it meant that some value had changed or a new message had arrived.

This time, the change was in his reputation.

Reputation: Lv1 (33/100) → Lv1 (70/100)

Chen Li's reputation changed every time he completed a Miracle Commission, but this was the largest increase he had ever received.

The last time Chen Li cleared demons and monsters in Kikyo's world, he had only gained 21 Reputation.

Once Chen Li submitted the Infinite Delicious Instant Noodles commission, his reputation would increase some more. He would not be far from Reputation Level 2 then.

"I just don't know whether this reputation is positive or negative..." Chen Li was somewhat concerned, but quickly cast the worry aside.

Chen Li did not think he had done anything wrong at all.

If someone—or a world—knew the full truth of what he had done and still believed his actions were improper, then the world was wrong, not Chen Li.

Those worlds ought to line up on their knees and let him mow them all down!

Extreme? How was that extreme? Haven't us saviors been saving worlds like this for years?

If you think it's extreme, look for the problem in yourself. Maybe you're blind?

"Besides, I basically gave that world a full-body massage. At least, that's how it was for Earth. I hope the world knows how to be reasonable, or I'll have to switch to my main account!" Chen Li clenched his fist.

Although Chen Li did not really have a main account, the Miraculous Forging Guide did.

Even now, Chen Li still had a usable title that he had never activated—"World Destroyer."

World Destroyer: When you designate a world as your target, no matter how insignificant your actions may be, they can gradually cause that world to fall into the irreversible Abyss of destruction.

It was nearly impossible for an ordinary person to destroy a world, but with this title, as long as one lived in that world long enough, even a pig could theoretically destroy it.

After sorting through the gains from this trip, Chen Li stood up and used his Redistribution skill for the first time.

"Let me think. Do I need invincible strength, or invincible intelligence?" After thinking for a moment, Chen Li immediately chose invincible intelligence.

Because Chen Li felt that he should become a little smarter before deciding which option suited him best.

After selecting himself as the target of Redistribution, Chen Li saw all his aptitudes and skills transform into an extremely abstract form of "points" floating before him.

Stamina: 42
Agility: 33

Spirit: 78

Chen Li once again saw his stat growth in the most direct way possible. It had not even been ten days since he became a Miraculous Forger, yet his Stamina was already close to doubling. His Spirit was growing quickly too, with Agility being his weakest stat.

Beyond those basic attributes, Chen Li could also see all sorts of hidden attributes.

Intelligence, reaction speed, willpower, luck, appearance, health, sanity, inspiration, comprehension, soul strength...

Countless attributes, some Chen Li had seen before and some he had not, were all laid out before him. Many of them even seemed somewhat redundant to him.

What surprised Chen Li most was that he seemed to be... "very" talented at cultivation.

But none of that mattered now.

Super Intelligence! Activate!

"Cough, cough!" Chen Li could feel his thoughts becoming far more active the instant he finished allocating the points, but his body had also turned into something he barely recognized. The overwhelming fatigue made him collapse straight onto the sofa.

However, after putting all his points into Intelligence, the result was nowhere near Chen Li's imagined scenario of his IQ instantly increasing by dozens of times. His mind had merely become much clearer and more rational, as though he had entered Sage Time.

Even knowledge he had once forgotten returned to Chen Li's mind...

Snap! Chen Li snapped his fingers. The water cup some distance away from him suddenly floated up, wobbling as it flew toward him, until Chen Li reached out to catch it steadily...

Looking at the cup that had fallen to the floor after completely missing his grasp, Chen Li realized just how much trouble the imbalance between Intelligence and Strength could cause.

And rather than his IQ rapidly increasing, his current change felt more like his brain had been developed, allowing him to gain the ability to interfere with the outside world using his Spirit. Its current outward manifestation was telekinesis.

Chen Li could also "see" why he had changed this way.

On the light screen before him, his Intelligence value had indeed increased. But once it crossed a certain threshold, all those values turned red.

That represented a warning.

It meant those values could be used, but he had to decide for himself whether to activate them.