The Dimensional Codex of Destruction
Author: Taxue
Synopsis:
Qin Mo transmigrated.
Good news: He had no attachment or lingering feelings toward his old world.
Bad news: He had transmigrated into the Honkai world.
Good news: He had a system.
Bad news: He had written the system himself.
As an ordinary person who had arrived in Chang Kong City, where the survival rate of ordinary people was infinitely close to zero, Qin Mo faced a major choice in life.
Should he flee Chang Kong City before the Third Eruption, live out his life as an ordinary person in constant fear, and wait for the Protagonist Group to solve everything?
Or should he personally throw himself into the Honkai, interfere with the main storyline, and use his own strength to seize a chance at survival?
Qin Mo chose the latter. For a young man with no attachments in this world, his only reason to live was simply to keep living.
Volume One
Volume One: To Survive the Honkai, He Could Only Cling to Raiden Mei
The Disturbance at Senba Academy
"Quick! That guy ran east!"
"Damn it, he's not here!"
"Watch the trees! That guy likes hiding in trees!"
"We have to catch him today!"
The once peaceful Senba Academy became lively again, but many people had already grown used to it. After all, something like this happened almost every day.
A group of security guards searched the campus in impotent fury, but since the students here did not come from ordinary families, they did not dare conduct a full-scale search.
As for the young ladies attending the academy, they found this little drama quite novel and watched with relish.
"Your Majesty, let me throw these flowers away for you."
Near a garden some distance away, several girls stood together. The girl in the middle held a bouquet of roses in her hands.
Do not misunderstand. She had not intended to give them to anyone; someone had just forcefully shoved them into her hands.
Looking at the flowers, Raiden Mei nodded and handed them to the person beside her.
Raiden Mei had gradually become accustomed to this. There were thirty days in a month, yet the flowers showed up with clockwork regularity even on weekends. What else could she do but get used to it?
Though she was a young lady from a wealthy family, Raiden Mei was not spoiled. Instead, she remained kind toward others.
However, the people around her did not see it that way. Although he had never done anything excessive, merely attempting to confess to the famed Queen Raiden was something they could not tolerate.
Meanwhile, elsewhere...
"Catch me with just that many people?"
Dressed in casual clothes, Qin Mo strolled along the platforms outside the classroom windows where air-conditioning units were installed. With a few practiced jumps and climbs, he successfully reached the top of Senba Academy—literally.
Looking at the four missions he had completed in one go on the system interface, Qin Mo opened the system and took a look.
"Forty-nine crystals. Just one more and I can do another ten-pull."
Looking at the crude system before him, Qin Mo felt a complicated mix of emotions and could not help recalling his previous life.
Calling it a previous life was not wrong. Qin Mo was a transmigrator, and the trigger for his transmigration had been a power outage at home. Taking advantage of it, he dismantled his computer for repairs without unplugging it first.
Unexpectedly, the power that had supposedly needed two hours to return suddenly came back in less than half an hour. He had been betrayed by the power grid and electrocuted. It was quite dramatic, really.
While being electrocuted, he did not know whether he had triggered something or simply died from the shock. In any case, he transmigrated, arriving in a new world and obtaining a system.
After gaining a basic understanding of this world, his emotions had gone through a dramatic roller coaster.
Qin Mo's original family had not been good. He had grown up without a mother, and his father was a gambling addict. He had finally relied on his excellent grades and income from work-study jobs to escape that place without a single good memory by attending college.
So even transmigrating had not cost him much.
But after figuring out what world he had transmigrated into, his emotional ups and downs went like this:
Good news: He had transmigrated.
Bad news: He had transmigrated into the Honkai world.
Good news: He had a system.
Bad news: The system was an unfinished game program he had written himself.
That was right. Qin Mo's system was the game program he had been writing on his computer before transmigrating. He had originally hoped to make a third-rate mobile game and earn some money to improve his college life.
Since he had been working alone, the game system had preset story modules, mission modules, a main storyline, gacha mechanics, and other features. Oh, and a backpack for storing the things he pulled.
However, he had only finished refining the gacha system himself, and he had not put many things into the banner. Still, they were all top-tier items. After all, when anyone started designing something, they would naturally design the strongest items first. Who would deliberately put trash into the banner to annoy themselves?
Good news: The cards he had put in were all top-tier items.
Bad news: He could not spend money to pull them.
Then, after twenty-four hours of scanning and self-improvement... at least, that was what the system said.
This system, called the Dimensional Codex, automatically filled in all its modules using endless dimensions.
Since Qin Mo himself had not created a main storyline for the mobile game, it would automatically explore the main plot and protagonists of the world it was in. As long as Qin Mo participated in the main plot and formed connections with the protagonists, he could obtain crystals as rewards.
The banner that had originally contained only premium items was also filled with trash from endless dimensions.
Calling them trash was not exactly fair, but compared with the things originally in the banner, they could only be considered trash.
At present, the Dimensional Codex had two main functions. One was the mission system. Once Qin Mo entered the main storyline or encountered a protagonist, it would issue missions. After completing one main mission, he could immediately accept the next, while daily main missions were basically daily tasks related to the protagonists. Only five were issued per day, and the reward was the most basic one crystal.
The gacha system was divided into a character banner and an item banner.
Aside from consumables and strange materials, the character banner contained character cards. Character cards could be used on the player, and multiple character cards could be equipped at once, but only within the player's capacity—that was, cost. A level-one player only had five cost, with one additional point per level.
Items were much less restrictive. The initial item bar had three slots, with one more added every five levels.
Furthermore, items could still take effect even if they were not placed in the item bar. They were simply less convenient to use than when equipped.
Today was the thirtieth day since Qin Mo had started pulling cards. Once he completed today's missions, he could do his third ten-pull.
A ten-pull guaranteed an A-rank or higher character or item, while one S-rank or higher item was guaranteed after a cumulative hundred pulls.
The two banners were counted separately.
Therefore, Qin Mo chose to do one ten-pull in the character banner and one in the item banner.
Because an S-rank character card required seven cost, while a level-one player could only use character cards totaling five cost. Even if he pulled an S-rank, he would not be able to use it.
And in the month since the system had appeared, it had not given him a single mission that could raise his player level. He seriously suspected that leveling up required getting deeply involved in the main storyline.
After taking some time to confirm that this was Honkai Impact 3rd, Qin Mo let out a sigh of relief.
Although Qin Mo had skipped through the story while playing Honkai Impact 3rd, he still knew that the Great Eruption would occur in Chang Kong City.
Of the three protagonists of Honkai Impact 3rd, Kiana was still wandering around and impossible to find, while Bronya was still in Siberia. The only one whose location he knew was Raiden Mei, who was still a young lady at the moment.
After the Great Eruption, the three of them would go to St. Freya Academy. If he did not make contact now, he would have no chance in the future and could only fade into the crowd.
In Honkai Impact 3rd, ordinary people knew practically nothing about the Honkai. They could be killed by it at any moment without even knowing why.
As the saying went, fortune was found amid danger. Qin Mo chose danger, but the correct choice: coming to find Raiden Mei every day to grind missions and pull cards.
His first A-rank character card came from one of the protagonists of a game called Assassin's Creed.
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Changes in the Raiden Family
Eagle of Florence (A) Skills: Assassin Master: A legendary assassin who had not become famous through any single ability. He was proficient in stealth, climbing, assassination, swordsmanship, and a whole series of other techniques. Eagle Vision: Though called Eagle Vision, it was essentially a sixth-sense talent. Even without relying on sight, he could identify his targets. Leap of Faith: A technique for dispersing force in midair, allowing one to fall straight down. If there was a haystack or water beneath the landing spot, it negated fall damage. Description: A legendary Assassin Master whose fame came from far more than just his skills.
This was also why he could so easily avoid all the security guards. At first, in order to complete the daily missions that refreshed with tasks such as giving flowers to Raiden Mei and confessing to her, he had practically racked his brains every day to climb over the walls and enter Senba Academy, avoid the guards, finish the missions, then immediately begin a marathon chase with the security guards.
The item from the second ten-pull was much worse.
Tiger Tally (A) Effect: Yin-Yang Balance Description: A talisman that held the power of yin-yang balance. It allowed its holder to possess different powers without conflict, and could also split the holder into yin and yang.
After obtaining this item, Qin Mo had not dared take it out. His current situation was troublesome enough already. If he failed to control it properly, it would only bring him even more trouble.
However, items from the banner were not limited to character cards and item cards.
Apart from consumables, Qin Mo had pulled a legal identity in the Honkai Impact 3rd world from the character banner. At least he no longer had to worry about being treated as an undocumented person.
The extra thing he had pulled from the item banner was money, something he could not do without.
Thinking back to when he had first arrived in this world—undocumented, penniless, and still having to find flowers to give Raiden Mei while confessing to her—it felt like yesterday.
The flowers he had originally picked from flowerbeds in the park had now been replaced by bouquets bought from flower shops.
Seeing that the security guards below had mostly dispersed, Qin Mo performed a Leap of Faith from the rooftop and landed in the bushes around the academy, leaving Senba Academy.
It had to be said that Leap of Faith was already a skill bordering on a rule-based ability. Even if it was not from a great height, normally falling into bushes would leave someone scratched and injured. Yet under the effect of Leap of Faith, he had not suffered even the slightest injury.
Using Eagle Vision, Qin Mo caught a thief in Chang Kong City and sent him to the police station, completing his final public safety mission. Then he returned to his tiny twenty-square-meter home.
This address had come bundled with his legal identity, and aside from this house, he practically owned nothing.
Still, having somewhere to live was enough for him.
After bathing, changing clothes, burning incense, and praying with utmost ceremonial seriousness, Qin Mo opened the gacha interface.
Qin Mo opened the gacha interface.
Others could see the gacha interface after it was opened. Although he could operate it through his thoughts alone, that would have no sense of ceremony at all.
He expanded the gacha panel until it was as large as a bulletin board, lit incense and bowed to it, then pressed the ten-pull button.
Congratulations, you obtained: Sweet Flower Brewed Chicken
The first thing to appear was a blue glow. Qin Mo had originally thought consumable food items were just scam filler, but unexpectedly, they all had special effects.
Sweet Flower Brewed Chicken (B) Consumable Effect: Restores a certain amount of vitality after consumption. Description: Three Sweet Flower Brewed Chickens. Do not fail to appreciate the favor.
Though the description was vague, it was clear that it could be consumed as a health potion.
Most blue items were consumables, while white items—the lowest tier—were generally materials. He had pulled diamonds, bloodstone shards, gold, and even straight-up yen.
On the ninth card, a purple glow appeared, and an ornate scythe appeared on the screen.
Reaper's Breath (A) Effect: Greatly increases attack damage. Attacking also consumes the user's vitality. Description: Rumor had it that this was the weapon the Reaper used to harvest life, whether the enemy's or its wielder's.
"..."
If you said this thing was weak, you would be talking nonsense with your eyes open. But if you said it was strong, Qin Mo did not dare use it.
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