Miraculous Forger Starting from Honkai

"That's right, I introduced him." High-level Official #2 gritted his teeth and shot High-level Official #1 a glare.

No wonder that bastard had been so kind. He'd been setting him up!

"Then that's perfect. The other party is High-level Official #3, so arrange a meeting immediately." Chen Li nodded.

The other guy was practically offering himself up to die. How could Chen Li refuse?

As for whether the other party might be innocent?

Chen Li would sooner believe Sparkle was hugging Robin's leg and shouting that she was her fan than believe that guy was a good person.

Why had Chen Li stayed in the Previous Civilization all this time? Wasn't it to take control of all the Previous Civilization's resources and make saving the world more convenient?

Defeating Honkai was indeed a major issue, but in Chen Li's view, defeating humanity itself was no less important.

Whenever he imagined saving the world only for these parasites, cowards, and oppressors to remain high above everyone else, Chen Li wanted the world to end immediately.

"But he wants twenty Longevity Pills."

"No problem. I have as many of these fake medicines as he wants." Chen Li waved a hand.

Once the items reached his hands, they would still end up being Chen Li's in the end.

Besides, at most, Houraisan Kaguya would suffer a little.

Come to think of it, Chen Li had only brought fifty fake pills this time, and half of them were already gone. It was about time he went back.

"Fake medicine?" High-level Official #2 froze, then, after realizing what that meant, wanted nothing more than to kill High-level Official #1 on the spot.

"Forget that. Tell me the second matter." Chen Li said.

"The second matter is that we have clues about the Kalpas you were looking for." High-level Official #1 said respectfully.

"That fast?" Chen Li was somewhat surprised.

"We hadn't expected it to be this fast either, but... someone was selling Divine Blood."

"What?"

"It is said that drinking it guarantees immunity from all illnesses. According to our investigation, they seem to have encountered Honkai beasts, yet they know little about Honkai itself. After being bribed, one villager said that one day, He fell from the sky..."

"The stars and moon brought forth God's daughter?" Chen Li could not help adding.

Wasn't that line about Elysia?

"Ahem. That villager said that a god descended from the heavens and defeated a giant monster attacking the village, so the villagers worshipped him as a deity. But because there were rumors that the god's blood could ward off that strange phenomenon... Honkai, that is... they imprisoned him and bled him. That villager was short of money, so he planned to exchange the Divine Blood for cash." High-level Official #1 said.

"Hmph. They only dared do this because Kalpas is too honest! They not only drew his blood, but even sold it? I can't tolerate this at all! Let's go! Take me to that village." Chen Li slapped the table.

He could not tolerate such vile villagers in the slightest!

That was why Chen Li said they had to think about defeating humanity itself before thinking about defeating Honkai.

An Honest Kalpas and Slimes

"Hey, hey, hey!" Chen Li kicked open the door of an enclosed stone house.

"Hiss." He had used too much force and ignored the sturdiness of the stone door. Instead of standing backlit with a majestic silhouette, Chen Li hopped on one foot.

That hurt a little.

Chen Li felt that even with the Allocation Skill, he ought to improve his physical attributes. Otherwise, he would not even be able to show off properly.

Chen Li's slowly developing physical abilities were becoming increasingly mismatched with his rapidly improving skill levels.

The hardware could not keep up with the software. This would cause major problems eventually.

Perhaps he should forge a dedicated Miraculous Artifact.

Not one that gave him immense power, but one that allowed him to rapidly acquire immense power.

After all, bonuses brought by Miraculous Artifacts were not included in the allocation list.

"Who are you?" A hoarse voice sounded.

Inside the stone house, a figure hid in the shadows. Looking at the man who had suddenly appeared, whose entire bearing was utterly unlike any villager he had ever seen, the figure found him almost painfully dazzling.

"Me? A kind-hearted traveler passing through, looking for a companion." Chen Li said after putting down his foot.

"A traveler? A companion?" The figure's voice, which had originally been as still as dead water, involuntarily rose, gaining a trace of life.

"As the saying goes, alone in a foreign land, one misses home all the more during festivals. I could tell at a glance that, like me, you don't belong to this world. So... want to save the world together? Of course, before saving the world, we need to save you first." Chen Li took two steps forward and extended a hand toward the figure wearing a rough mask.

Kalpas had forgotten how long it had been since he had last seen sunlight.

Kalpas was not usually lonely, since the people guarding the stone house would speak to him from time to time, checking whether he was dead yet.

Thinking of that, Kalpas looked around, but he did not see any guards. In fact, the entire village had fallen into a deathly silence.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Kalpas had just turned to ask Chen Li about the village when he realized Chen Li was staring at him without blinking.

"I was thinking about what you look like under that mask." Chen Li answered quite honestly.

Had Kalpas developed that annoying habit of wearing masks this early?

Hearing Chen Li's words, Kalpas could not help touching his mask again.

What was this man trying to do?

"Did you... destroy this village?" Kalpas's voice carried extremely complicated emotions.

"What? You've grown attached to this village? If you ask me, they only bullied you because you're too honest, Kalpas. If it were me, I would've scattered their ashes long ago." Chen Li said with his arms crossed.

This village had indeed been bullying Kalpas. He was an honest man, and Chen Li had not been wrong.

At first, Chen Li had feared the story he knew might differ from reality, so he captured a villager for questioning. He then discovered that the villagers truly had not been wronged.

Since their sins had already been accounted for, Chen Li would not hold back.

Actually, for Kalpas himself, escaping this village would have been quite easy. Chen Li had just personally watched Kalpas tear apart the iron shackles binding him with his bare hands, then smash the stone house apart with a single punch.

Seriously, if Chen Li had Kalpas's strength, he would have become the village tyrant ages ago, okay?

"Are they... all dead?" Without receiving a direct answer from Chen Li, Kalpas drew the wrong conclusion, and an indescribable emotion rose within him.

Kalpas truly could have left this stone house that imprisoned him long ago, but... where else could he go?

Just as this so-called companion beside him had said, he was a foreigner.

He could simply stay wherever he was allowed to remain.

"Oh, don't misunderstand. They aren't dead. Labor should not be wasted like that. I sent some villagers into the Human Emperor Bow for labor reformation, while the rest were made to work in the village." Chen Li said.

"Work?" Kalpas looked around. He could not hear even the slightest trace of human activity.

Oh, no. There was some movement.

Kalpas's gaze suddenly locked onto the corner of an alley. Three seconds later, a round thing rolled out from it.

"What is that?"

"These are the villagers whose sins were relatively minor. I turned them into Slimes to clean the filth from this world. Once they finish their labor, they can turn back." Chen Li explained.

Then Kalpas watched as the creature Chen Li called a Slime swallowed a bag of trash beside a garbage bin in the corner.

Inside the Slime's body, the garbage was continuously broken down and melted until it became slime secreted by the Slime, left behind on the ground it traveled over.

"This creature called a Slime can break down filth in any form, then transform it into nutrients to give back to the world. That slime is nutritional matter." Chen Li continued.

This was the punishment Chen Li had devised for villagers whose sin values had not reached the standard for execution, but whom he still found extremely unpleasant.

They could escape death, but not suffering.

Chen Li's achievement in clearing out an Earthbound monster was enough to turn every person on Earth into a Slime!

As for those who had reached the standard for execution?

Forgiving them was God's business. Chen Li was only responsible for sending them to meet God.

Their souls would be continuously drained within the Peaceful Longbow, contributing to the miracle that could be achieved during the next Cleansing Moment.

After using the Peaceful Longbow yesterday and exhausting all the Wicked Souls inside, it was time to replenish it.

"..." Kalpas's gaze toward Chen Li became even more complicated.

Was this guy really, like him, a foreigner?

"I told you, they only bullied you because you're too honest, Kalpas."

"Shut up. You're annoying." After saying that, Kalpas fell silent again and began observing the village.

"Now that's more like it." Chen Li nodded.

Chen Li was a little unaccustomed to a hot-tempered big brother who was not hot-tempered.

Chen Li also remembered why he instinctively felt that Kalpas should be tied to a pillar. Back when he played Honkai Impact 3rd and challenged Kalpas in the Land of the Past, the deepest impression Kalpas had left was of him holding a pillar and smashing people with it.

Chen Li did not disturb Kalpas. Instead, he accompanied him as they walked through the entire village.

"Alright, Kalpas, stop reminiscing. You may not have this home anymore, but you still have me. Stick with me, and you'll eat nine meals every three days. Let's go." Chen Li patted Kalpas on the shoulder and walked straight toward the vehicle in the distance.

Chen Li did not force Kalpas to come with him, because he knew Kalpas had nowhere else to go.

Who could have imagined that Kalpas, the hot-tempered big brother, was arguably the easiest Flame-Chaser to satisfy?

All he needed was somewhere to live. More accurately, he needed a "sense of belonging."

In other words, a "home."

Whether it was that stone house just now, the sanatorium on Dusk Street, The Depths—the prison—or Cocoon, the shadow organization of Moth Chasing Flame, it was all the same.

And that hot-tempered personality of his had probably been shaped by the bizarre events he experienced.

Imprisoned and bled dry right from the start—if that was not a hellish opening, what was?

If Chen Li had been in his place, Chen Li would have been hot-tempered too.

But if it really had been Chen Li, he would have wiped out this village long ago.

And just as Chen Li had expected, Kalpas followed him, following this temporary companion who claimed to be a fellow foreigner.

"So... you really won't let me see what you look like beneath the mask?" Chen Li leaned closer again.

"..." Kalpas answered with silence.

If not for the fact that Chen Li was also a foreigner, Kalpas would have given anyone else only one word.

Get lost.

"Fine, then keep it on." Upholding the principle that if he could not see it, no one else should either, Chen Li began encouraging Kalpas.

Maybe he could even obtain a new Attribute from it.

Thanks to Pixie's spoiler, Chen Li had learned what the profession skill reward for Novice Task Four was.

Extraction.

By then, Chen Li would not only be able to Extract Attributes from items, but also from events.

Items could carry many meanings, but they were ultimately limited.

Events were different, because events that happened in reality were often more outrageous than fictional events in novels.

Novels needed logic, but reality did not.

I'm really looking forward to it. Chen Li's heart was filled with anticipation.

He became even more motivated to complete Novice Task Four.

Novice Task (Four)

Forge 10 Miraculous Artifacts √

Forge 100 Miraculous Artifact Embryos √

Complete seven miracle check-ins (5/7)

Raise profession level to lv3

Raise renown to lv2 √

Kalpas looked out the window at the rapidly receding scenery and began contemplating where his future home would be.