Honkai Double Transmigration, Taking Xilian to Honkai Impact 3rd

...Probably?

In any case, Jiang Cheng successfully entered the room.

He was greeted by a luxurious interior that blended modern aesthetics with classical elements, and that soft, already-warmed bed.

Haa...

He took off his coat by himself.

Before he had entered the room, Raiden Mei had been whisked away by Xilian, who had used that natural, guileless tone of hers to ask, "Could you show me around here?"

Mei had originally wanted to have another servant take her place, but before she could even decline, Kiana had accidentally tripped and tumbled down the stairs, causing several servants to shriek and chase after her to help.

In the end, Raiden Mei had no choice but to go herself, leaving him with no servants at his disposal.

...That was fine, too.

Jiang Cheng didn't need servants to wait on him. It was like how one judged a person's nobility: by whether they felt shame exposing their body in front of servants.

He was clearly not noble.

He would likely feel ashamed if someone stared at his body—no, he would definitely feel ashamed.

Compared to being served while going to sleep, it was more important to check the system again—

Earlier, he seemed to have heard a system notification.

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51. System Panel, The Bug in the Dream

However, was Kiana really that clumsy? This wasn't the period three years in the future where she had been "raised into uselessness."

In his memory, an image surfaced involuntarily—

That cool posture of her swinging a baseball bat, cold and clear as moonlight for a fleeting moment.

By comparison, was she being a bit too ditsy right now?

Perhaps her "Paramecium" mode had been triggered.

Jiang Cheng didn't dwell on it.

He simply changed into his pajamas—the fabric was extremely soft, feeling almost weightless against his skin, as comfortable as being wrapped in a cloud.

Jiang Cheng opened the system.

Scrolling from bottom to top, he could see his various rewards, which seemed unable to be claimed due to a lack of energy.

Scrolling a bit higher, he immediately saw the prompt requesting energy.

Jiang Cheng calculated the time; it was right around when he had stepped onto the Path.

He had originally thought the system required more high-end energy, but it turned out Imaginary Energy worked too?

"Then use it, grant the request. But before that, you need to explain—will extracting this energy have any impact on me?"

[It will not.] The cold, mechanical voice echoed deep within his consciousness. [The energy will not be extracted from the host's body. Instead, using the host as an anchor and utilizing the host's authority—the Traces stepped upon the Path—it will be extracted from the Path itself.]

"Is my current energy enough?"

[Estimated: Sufficient to support the activation of minimum functions.]

"What are the minimum functions? And how much energy is needed to unlock the next level of functions?"

[The host's personal panel and the reward-claiming function.]

[Taking "The Hunt" as an example, it requires enduring three more arrows. The host has currently endured three arrows.]

Jiang Cheng recalled the three streaks of light he had seen earlier.

If enduring nine arrows was enough to become an Emanator and wield Divine Might, then having been struck by three, he must have already traveled a fair distance along the Path.

However, there was no professional quantification of strength there yet; there wasn't even a rough ranking like the various levels of Valkyries, and the strength of a General provided no necessary reference.

He would still have to wait for the panel to unlock in a moment, and for the testing room Raiden Ryoma was preparing for tomorrow.

Regardless, with this level of strength plus his Third Generation Battlesuit, he could already fight his way in and out of Schicksal seven times over.

Jiang Cheng prepared to claim his rewards. With his current physical constitution, setting a three-hour alarm and forcing himself to wake up would be simple.

Then, he sank into a brief rest.

A long while later, prompted by the strength he had prepared in advance, Jiang Cheng opened his eyes amidst a hint of chill.

His first instinct was to look out the window—

A breeze happened to drift past the window, blowing the curtains into a free-flowing shape, fluttering gently in the night.

The tranquil night air seeped in from outside. The wind chimes hanging from the eaves rang with a "ding-ding" sound; they were made of glazed material, yet they were coated in a layer of bright moonlight.

The dreamlike, exquisite moonlight, along with the world visible through that faint clarity—a world different from reality.

The cold night wind brushed against the greenery in the courtyard, and the naturally chiming bells seemed to gain an extra touch of etherealness from this absolute silence.

Everything he could see was blurred.

Only the silver light spilled leisurely from the sky, as if glazing everything in the world with a thin, translucent layer.

Jiang Cheng could not even help but reach out his hand, wanting to see how that bright moonlight would paint itself upon his skin.

[Basic functions restored.]

A cold, lifeless mechanical voice reached his ears.

Coupled with the cold, bright moon before him, it gave him a strange sensation of stepping into an inhuman world.

"Open personal panel."

Jiang Cheng issued the command deep within his mind.

Watching the panel that seemed to be projected directly into the depths of his consciousness, just as described in countless novels, it slowly emerged—

[Name: Jiang Cheng]

[Gender: Male]

[Race: Semi-electronic lifeform]

[Abilities held: None.]

[Ability patches: Path of Destruction, Path of The Hunt, product of Path of Remembrance, product of Path of Erudition. Dual-path resonance.]

[Strength assessment: S-rank Valkyrie—Peak.]

Jiang Cheng's gaze lingered on the words [S-rank Valkyrie—Peak] for three seconds.

"I'm glad you can apply patches, but isn't your strength assessment a bit too sloppy?"

[This world lacks specific criteria for assessing strength. The host does not utilize Honkai Energy levels; instead, the assessment is based primarily on the Imaginary Energy of the Paths, with Honkai Energy as secondary. Judgment: Adopting Valkyrie assessment standards is reasonable. If dissatisfied, please seize sovereignty of the world yourself to change the combat power evaluation method.]

"...Fine."

"Then send me the rewards I can claim first."

Jiang Cheng did not waste too much time on this matter.

He was still quite interested in the gift pack provided by the Valkyrie Strategy System.

A system capable of tearing through the barrier of Omphalos and transporting him completely to another universe must surely offer extraordinary rewards.

He could not help but rub his hands together, looking at the panel deep in his consciousness with eyes full of anticipation.

And then.

[Location of the Seven Thunders of Retribution: World Serpent Third Base. Enter from the entrance, turn left and walk straight for 300 meters, turn right and walk straight for 700 meters... Kill the patrol, sever their fingers and heads, use their irises and fingerprints to open the three blockades ahead, skip the security mechanisms by jumping in the sequence of up-down-right-left-up-up-up, and use your height to... jump over the infrared beams. Enter the room and stun Natasha to obtain it.]

[Warning: This mission reward is not compatible with the host. Recommended target for equipment: Herrscher of Thunder, Raiden Mei.]

--???

Staring at the system panel, Jiang Cheng, who had been sitting leisurely in place preparing to receive a weapon, widened his eyes.

"What do you mean?!"

[Mission reward has been issued. Please claim it.]

He checked the system panel repeatedly, confirming he had not misread a single character; every word before him was precise. Then, his expression turned directly to one of disdain.

"Good grief. Your 'claim reward' function just marks the location and tells me to go get it myself?!"

"--What kind of system is this lazy?!"

[Under conditions of sufficient energy, the system will, with permission, temporarily take over the host's body to emergently increase combat power, ensuring absolute seizure... acquisition of the reward. Kill on sight.]

The mechanical voice explained steadily.

[However, due to massive energy loss, auxiliary support cannot be provided. But as long as energy is sufficient, the loss from portals within a single universe will be minimized, allowing for constant intra-universal travel. Time will not be wasted on pathfinding. Estimate: If the system takes over, the reward can be obtained in three to seven minutes; if the host acts personally, it will take thirty minutes to one hour and twelve minutes.]

Kill on sight...

What a "kill on sight."

Jiang Cheng felt he was almost at a loss for words.

There was truly nothing to complain about regarding this purely mechanical system panel; it didn't even have a complaint button.

He suddenly remembered the beginner's gift pack that was marked as claimable only after entering Nagazora, and which had specifically stated it could not be claimed due to the lack of energy.

"So, what you said about... the beginner's gift pack?"

[The system will drive the host's body to the Yae Village Ruins, install Stigmata, and simultaneously unlock the first instance outside the main storyline: Sakura Samsara. As well as the first capturable Valkyrie: Yae Sakura.]

--I see.

Jiang Cheng took a deep breath; he had completely surrendered.

If explained using system logic, this beginner's gift pack was indeed quite generous. It allowed him to instantly possess Stigmata while enabling him to nurture a Valkyrie very rapidly.

After clearing the instance, he could also obtain the Key of Corruption—

The Divine Key that theoretically possessed the highest potential, strongest output, and most excellent technology.

And the difficulty was actually not that high.

Yae Sakura would not harbor malice toward the innocent who stumbled into her domain, or at the very least, she would not harm them.

Trapped in an eternal cycle of reincarnation, she would return to the time surrounding Yae Rin's death—her most fragile mental state—which was the perfect opportunity to exploit.

Or rather, to play the hero saving the damsel.

Once her favorability was high enough, given the nature of this system, he guessed the reward would likely be the Key of Corruption.

A system without energy shortages would truly crush Lin with an efficiency of three to seven minutes. The weakened Lin that followed might even be captured as a bonus Valkyrie.

Compared to that, the Nagazora instance—

Tsk.

It was practically a death wish; if he weren't greedy for the Key of Corruption, he wouldn't go there even if he were dead.

"Can I provide you with energy using Honkai Energy?" Jiang Cheng suddenly wondered. Honkai Energy was easy to come by in this world, far better than his one-and-only Path energy.

[Honkai Energy is only a one-time supply. If you rely on a Herrscher Core to extract Imaginary Energy, it may cause the Honkai of the current civilization to strengthen rapidly. Judgment: Interfering with the Path and extracting from it is simpler.]

...Fine.

Whatever happens, he would wait until tomorrow, after testing his own strength and formally determining his pros and cons.

If he were strong enough and his abilities were perfectly balanced, with no gaps in his Path caused by the Cocoon of Finality's blockade, he could act even more recklessly. He would first have Raiden Ryoma get him a male-style Valkyrie armor, then go retrieve the Key of Corruption, and once fully equipped, he would immediately storm the Schicksal Floating Island to hack Otto to death.

If he were not strong enough, he would temporarily hide within ME Corp, stay with Raiden Ryoma to develop and train his strength, find an opportunity to claim his beginner's reward—Yae Sakura—and then figure out a way to storm Schicksal.

[Yae Village Ruins: Depart from the empty valley to the right...]

He closed his eyes and slept very comfortably this time.

There was none of the cliché drama Jiang Cheng had expected—the kind where a hot-blooded manga protagonist, after their first rampage or gaining power, is inevitably dragged into a consciousness space during sleep to be beaten up by a complete stranger or someone who looks exactly like them, or forced to endure a soul-searching interrogation.