Harnessing Rain Lord

In the early morning, birdsong woke Chen Xi from her bed. Out of habit, she sprawled out like a starfish and stretched.

Good. Wu Xin hadn't killed her.

It was only when her right hand touched Lin Yue's forehead that Chen Xi suddenly realized someone was still sleeping beside her.

Lin Yue's brows were tightly furrowed, and her forehead was covered in cold sweat. She was most likely having a nightmare.

Chen Xi simply shook her awake.

"Ah!!!" Wrenched from her nightmare, Lin Yue let out a shriek as miserable as a marmot's.

Her body trembled before she abruptly opened her eyes.

When she saw Chen Xi still beside her, the girl's restless heart finally settled down.

"Awake?" Chen Xi asked with concern.

"Mm, I'm awake," Lin Yue said softly.

Chen Xi put on a stern face. "If you're awake, get out of bed already."

"No." Lin Yue's attitude was somewhat "firm."

After what had happened last night, how could she not know that Chen Xi had a sharp tongue but a soft heart?

To put it plainly, she was a tsundere—thirty percent prickly, seventy percent sweet.

Ignoring whatever nonsense Lin Yue was up to again, Chen Xi stepped past her and went to the bathroom to wash up.

Seeing Chen Xi relent, Lin Yue also grabbed a new set of toiletries.

After washing up, the two casually ate some breakfast and began discussing their next move.

"There's absolutely no information related to her."

Lin Yue was sitting at the dining table, wearing a pair of thick-framed black glasses she had scavenged from Chen Xi's drawer.

Her fingers rested on the keyboard, tapping at times and pausing at others.

"Could Wu Xin be a ghost?" She took a sip from the coffee beside her laptop.

"No." Chen Xi shook her head. "The information just can't get out."

"Targets watched by Wu Xin can't ask others for help. To the Federation and other Transcendents, she is practically invisible."

The two had actually been deliberately gathering information about Wu Xin since last night.

"The key is that her current appearance is most likely just someone else's skin."

"White hair, a First Rank Transcendent, a beautiful young woman, Tianhai City."

"I used those keywords and found her identity."

Chen Xi sent the file from her computer to Lin Yue.

Looking at that identical face, Lin Yue read out her codename.

"Snow Woman, Zhang Ruojun."

"Her last appearance was two weeks ago."

Thinking about how the original owner had already been replaced while Wu Xin swaggered about everywhere in her appearance, Lin Yue couldn't help but feel a chill rise in her heart.

Chen Xi said, "Wu Xin most likely can seize some of the abilities of the people she transforms into."

"I can't think of any way to win..." Lin Yue held a lollipop in her mouth, looking dejected.

Even with Lin Yue's ability to regress time, she could see no hope of victory in the short term.

Chen Xi's expression remained indifferent. "That's why I told you to go to the Countermeasure Bureau yesterday. You didn't need to worry about me."

"Those are two different things!" Lin Yue said solemnly. "Something being difficult doesn't mean I plan to give up."

"Whatever." Chen Xi turned her gaze back to the screen.

Hearing that, Lin Yue instead began to entertain a few little ideas.

Right. She could survive first, raise the Shadow Dweller's Legend Degree to a certain level, then regress time and deal with Wu Xin.

But would Wu Xin really give her that chance?

Putting herself in Wu Xin's shoes, she would keep a close watch on herself at all times.

And that was indeed the case. Whatever the two of them did was most likely being watched by Wu Xin.

Besides, Lin Yue seriously doubted the strength of Tianhai City's Countermeasure Bureau.

No one had dealt with the Stitched Monster at the school. It was still there, eating at the buffet.

If they were truly left with no other options, then they could consider that plan.

"How's the harnessing of Rain Lord going?" Lin Yue asked.

"It should be fully harnessed by five this afternoon."

After saying that, Chen Xi asked, "What about you? After Rain Lord was eliminated, how much did the Shadow Dweller's Legend Degree increase?"

"15%." Lin Yue scratched her head awkwardly. "I didn't contribute much, so the Legend Degree didn't increase by much."

For Transcendents in this world, the way to grow stronger was to eliminate wild Legends.

Not only that, but unseen rules would also determine how the Legend Degree was distributed.

The greater one's contribution in a battle against a Legend, the more Legend Degree one could obtain.

Although the person who personally killed a Legend would receive some extra distribution weight, it would at most increase their share by twenty or thirty percent.

"15%..." Chen Xi fell into thought.

"Looks like there's no way to improve that aspect in the short term."

Where were they supposed to find so many Legends to kill? Encountering Rain Lord and the Shadow Dweller within two days was already luck at work.

Chen Xi recalled the Legends related to Tianhai City that had appeared on the forum over the next few days in her previous life. She seemed unable to find even any information on Rain Lord.

Their account levels were too low. To put it bluntly, lv.1 was just visitor mode.

"I have an idea!" Lin Yue, who had been browsing information on her phone, suddenly declared.

"The Shadow Dweller might appear at the school in the middle of the night."

Her eyes were fixed on the page on her phone.

[Director: Tonight, 11:45...]

The message Chen Xi had sent last night when she found time to avoid exposing herself now instead reminded her of it.

Chen Xi pretended to look confused. "How did you know?"

Without changing expression, Lin Yue made something up. "Maybe my Shadow Dweller is a little special. It can sense the presence of other Shadow Dwellers."

"Once you've completely harnessed Rain Lord, we'll set out tonight."

[Rain Lord (First Rank) Legend Degree: 0%]

[Abilities Held: Water Control, Monarch, Pure Water Body, Rain Disaster]

[Water Control: Gain the ability to manipulate water currents]

[Monarch: After activating this ability, ring-shaped currents of water surround the user, greatly enhancing the ability to manipulate water currents]

[Pure Water Body: Ring-shaped water currents can be consumed to repair one's injuries]

[Rain Disaster: Domain ability. Destructive raindrops will fall upon the area the user is in, and the rainfall will gradually intensify over time]

Water currents swirled around Chen Xi's body. With a wave of her hand, a thin jet of water burst forth and effortlessly shattered a flowerpot placed in the distance.

Not bad. While it was nowhere near as sharp as Rain Lord's own water currents, which could tear off flesh with even a graze, it was enough to deal with Wu Xin.

And most importantly, there was the ability Pure Water Body. Only with this ability did she and Lin Yue truly gain some capital to resist.

Lin Yue was filled with envy at the sight before her.

"Your abilities feel way stronger than mine."

Chen Xi experienced the changes in her body, her eyes half-closed. "That's normal. The Shadow Dweller is just a common Legend."

"After all these years, no one has developed it to Third Rank."

"Rain Lord is different. Among its harnessers who are still alive, there are records of Third Rank users."

Chen Xi controlled herself and prevented the Rain Calamity from descending, since that trait was far too obvious.

"Try hitting me. I want to see how much magic power it takes to heal an injury," she called to Lin Yue.

The two tested their abilities on the rooftop terrace. Few people lived in the old residential complex to begin with, and it was questionable whether even a single household lived in each building, so they did not need to worry about anyone hearing the commotion.

"Okay." Obediently, Lin Yue gathered her tentacles together, forming them into a sharp spike before violently thrusting it toward Chen Xi's heart.

The shadow tentacle sank into Chen Xi's chest, leaving behind a hole the size of a thumb.

Enduring the pain, Chen Xi used her ability to repair her heart.

Water flowed from her chest, while flesh buds grew at a visible rate. In less than a few seconds, Chen Xi's chest had returned to normal.

"Not bad. It only consumed around one-tenth of the ring-shaped water currents."

Replenishing the water currents rapidly drained Chen Xi's magic power, and cold sweat continuously appeared on her forehead.

Wu Xin's threads merely stirred her heart, far less severely than a wound that pierced straight through it.

She could probably maintain combat strength for one minute while repairing her body with magic power under the interference of the threads.

Magic power was the Spark Federation's collective term for the strange energies of Legends. Other Federations naturally had terms such as mana and divine power.

But in the international world, magic power was still the most recognized and widely used term.

"Let's go. We're heading to the school."

A gentle breeze blew past, and the two unconsciously looked toward the distant Sunset.