Nanook: It Takes Seven Aeons to Beat Me? I've Been Set Up by Capital! (11K1 “Are You Ready?”) (Continued)
"Have you seen the entries in this book?" Bookshelf
"I looked when I came across it. It had entries like chaos, mutation, proliferation, growth, and encyclopedia. It didn't look like anything good." Chen Li nodded.
"This book is called the Book of All Things. Open its cover, and you'll see the outline of a palm. Place your hand on it, and you can become the book's owner. Its effect is to record every life-form the user has seen into its encyclopedia and make the owner desire to complete it." Bookshelf
"And the way to complete the encyclopedia is... eating. Once an entry is completed, you gain some of the target's traits and seize all of their characteristics. The user cannot choose which traits they acquire." Mobius narrowed her eyes.
"You can't choose whether to turn off that desire, nor can you choose which life-forms get recorded in the encyclopedia?" Chen Li asked.
"That's right."
"No wonder it has the entries chaos, mutation, and proliferation." Chen Li looked thoughtfully at the book that Mobius had pinned in place with a scalpel and nodded.
"The reason I say this item suits Kevin is because Kevin himself is the perfect host for the Chimera Project. Doesn't Aqua have a theory? Could the causality of all Honkai beasts of the same type be concentrated in a single Honkai beast?"
"But if we adjust this item's skill tree and install it in Kevin, letting him acquire the traits of every type of Honkai beast, then graft the causality of every kind of Honkai beast onto Kevin! And if he can continuously complete new encyclopedia entries and record the various races of the Honkai: Star Rail world... that causality would be enough to create an Aeon, or even... a Law!"
"Oh." Chen Li nodded with a