Mission Complete

Let's do a hundred-pull...

He had plenty of crystals now. If Qin Mo did not care about the mission rating and simply completed the mission, he could obtain enough crystals for two hundred-pulls.

Qin Mo had gotten used to saving one hundred-pull for Kiana whenever it was needed, hoping to obtain something that could handle the current situation.

Since he had extra crystals now, he decided to do a pull himself and see what he got.

He did not choose the character pool, instead selecting the item pool.

After clicking ten times in a row for ten-pulls, Qin Mo watched the gold finally appear at the end and felt somewhat helpless.

"So is my luck just terrible, or is there something wrong with this system?"

Speaking of bad luck, Qin Mo thought of Kiana, that absurdly lucky girl. He also vaguely remembered hearing someone mention that Fu Hua had terrible luck. Could he and she be on the same level?

As usual, he opened the S-rank card first.

Dragon Talisman (S)

Effect: Can unleash powerful explosions. When used together with Fire Demon Qi, its power can be multiplied.

Description: One of the Twelve Talismans.

The description was plain and unadorned, but the effect was extremely powerful. It was also one of the components for an SS-rank fusion item. Although Qin Mo's current cost did not allow him to equip an SS-rank card, and he was still one level short, he was nowhere near collecting them all anyway.

The nine purple items were: Contract Document, Laplace's Paper, AZOTH Sword, Black Key, a Dragon Tooth Soldier's dragon tooth, Lancelot's helmet, Teleportation Potion ×10, Exploding Talisman ×10, and Wind Demon Shuriken.

To make them easier to identify, Qin Mo arranged them according to their respective origins. He discovered that this draw involved another new work—or rather, another world. At first, he had not realized where the Contract Document came from, but the moment he saw Laplace's Paper, he understood.

Contract Document (A)

Effect: An essential item for holding a Gift Game. Once the organizer, game rules, victory conditions, punishment clauses, failure conditions, and participation requirements are recorded, a Gift Game can be created. There is no limit to the number of times a Gift Game may be held, but its contents cannot be altered.

Description: Those who violate the rules shall be punished by the rules.

Laplace's Paper (A)

Effect: An extremely high-grade card known as a Gift Card. It is part of omniscience and can connect with the soul, contain abilities possessed by its holder, and reveal their true nature. One card can only contain one ability.

Description: Since it is merely part of omniscience, it cannot analyze Gifts with ranks that are too high.

Qin Mo felt that only three of the items he had drawn this time were particularly useful. Apart from those two, there was also Lancelot's helmet from Type-Moon. Though Qin Mo felt that the original helmet should not have possessed this ability.

Lancelot's Helmet (A)

Effect: Once worn, it can conceal one's appearance and prevent others from identifying one's true identity.

Description: A helmet that gained a trace of power due to the influence of Lancelot's Noble Phantasm, though it can only prevent identification.

After putting the other items away, Qin Mo took out Laplace's Paper. He had no use for either the helmet or the Contract Document right now. After all, a Gift Game was not something that could be held on a whim. He would wait until he needed them.

Qin Mo had wanted to use it to appraise his system, but after thinking it over, he gave up. Wouldn't it be a waste if it failed to appraise it?

Gift Cards were not particularly precious in Little Garden, but Qin Mo only had this one.

After some thought, Qin Mo chose to place his only special ability, his Stand, inside for appraisal.

Stand: Heaven's Gate

A special energy lifeform with a humanoid appearance, connected to its user's body. It possessed extremely high potential for growth.

It could grow by devouring pure spiritual power.

Current abilities: White Snake, Killer Queen.

It was just as he knew. But Heaven's Gate devoured spiritual power? DISC was the manifestation of spiritual power, then. But where was he supposed to obtain spiritual power besides DISC? Feather Dust?

Before Qin Mo could finish thinking, another line of text appeared on the Gift Card, seemingly answering his question.

Can devour Stigmata... bzz... bec... bzz...

Before the final line could fully appear, cracks suddenly spread across the Gift Card, and it stopped displaying text.

Qin Mo saw the last word that had appeared.

"Stigmata?"

Qin Mo stared at the final information and the cracks on the Gift Card, deep in thought.

Stigmata existed in this world, but they were all on people's bodies. Qin Mo could not exactly strip them off.

Although artificial Stigmata existed, Qin Mo did not think those mass-produced products contained any so-called spiritual power. Perhaps that was why artificial Stigmata had side effects.

No...

He still had a method capable of creating Stigmata...

Perhaps the Gift Card had collapsed because it had involved the system?

If that was the case, it was fortunate that he had not used Laplace's Paper to appraise his system.

Otherwise, it would have been wasted for nothing. It might not have displayed anything at all, and instead of merely cracking, it might have shattered completely.

Mission Complete

The fifth day after arriving at St. Freya Academy...

Qin Mo was typing away in the dormitory. On the second day, after undergoing a series of physical examinations, they had finally officially settled into St. Freya Academy.

Starting on the third day, Mei and the others had begun attending classes and formally getting to know their classmates. Qin Mo's classes were scheduled for next week, since this was not merely a new course, but an entirely new system.

Qin Mo was currently writing simple teaching materials. Although both Hamon and Haki were mostly taught through direct instruction, that approach was far too old-fashioned for people of this era.

Furthermore, St. Freya Academy's simulation system had no way to simulate the effects of Hamon and Haki using Honkai Energy.

So Qin Mo could only write the teaching materials himself.

"Qin Mo! Get out here!"

With a loud bang, Theresa kicked the dormitory door open.

"Huh? Theresa?"

Poking his head out, Qin Mo watched Theresa, dressed in her nun's outfit and carrying Judah on her back, swagger into the dormitory.

"If it's about the teaching materials, I'm still missing some things."

"That stuff can wait. Even without teaching materials, you still need to teach properly!"

Theresa spoke irresponsibly without the slightest concern. "Didn't you want a villa? It's already built!"

"Oh! It's finished already? Then let's go, quickly!"

As they walked, Qin Mo noticed that Theresa looked extremely happy.

"Did something good happen? You seem so happy."

Theresa had been hopping along in front of him. Upon hearing Qin Mo's question, she stopped.

"Hm? Of course I'm happy. We're moving into a new house."

"Wait, you said a new house..."

Qin Mo thought carefully. "Wasn't that villa supposed to be for us?"

"Yeah, us. Didn't we agree that I'd supervise you?"

Qin Mo understood in an instant, and understood even better when he saw the villa. Theresa had used his name to build the villa, then used the excuse of supervision to move in.

"Does this count as abusing your authority for personal gain?"

Qin Mo said that, but after seeing the luxurious villa, he did not care much anymore.

Perhaps because Theresa herself wanted to live there as well, the villa was exceptionally large and luxurious. Qin Mo knew it had Schicksal's technology behind it, but building something like this in five days was still astonishing.

"This is the principal's room!"

The moment she entered, Theresa ran to the second floor, leaned half her body over the railing, and shouted down at Qin Mo.

"Sure, sure... Then I'll stay..."

Qin Mo glanced around the nearby rooms. Just as he was about to choose one, Theresa jumped straight down from the second floor and pointed at a room in the corner.

"You'll stay here!"

"Why?"

Theresa crossed her arms and said matter-of-factly, "As the principal, it is my duty to ensure the students have healthy lives!"

"As the only male here, isn't this perfectly normal?"

Qin Mo nodded at Theresa's confident expression and opened the corner room's door. "Yes, yes, you're right."

"Oh, not bad..."

Although the room was rather remote, tucked away in a corner, it was spacious inside. It even had its own bathroom and shower.

"Of course. That way, we can avoid any situations that might arise. Besides, this principal isn't trying to make things difficult for you. It's simply the practical arrangement."

"Fine, let's leave it at that. But I want to add two more things."

The current arrangement was acceptable, and nothing was particularly inconvenient, so Qin Mo did not mind.

"Add two more things?"

"Is there something that hasn't been prepared yet?"

Theresa followed Qin Mo outside. "This principal's preparations should be quite thorough. Even the pond and rockery in the garden, ahhhhh! What are you doing?!"

Theresa watched Qin Mo grab the rockery and forcibly pull it out of the ground.

"Ahhh, look what you've done!"

After casually setting the rockery aside, Qin Mo said, "Can't be helped. Only this spot is suitable. Didn't I say before that I needed an open space?"

"Isn't this open enough? I thought it was too empty, so I added those things."

So you were doing it for my sake?

Qin Mo walked over to the pond. The rockery could be moved, but there was nothing he could do about the pond.

"What are you doing?"

After watching Qin Mo pull out the rockery and then stand there blankly for a long time, Theresa asked curiously.

Just as battles between Stand users looked incomprehensible to ordinary people, Qin Mo's use of the system within his consciousness looked equally strange.

"I got it!"

After confirming the item, Qin Mo suddenly spoke.

"Got what?"

Theresa had followed Qin Mo over and watched him inexplicably pull out the rockery, stand there blankly for ages, suddenly announce that he understood, then squat beside the pond and start doing something unknown. It was really...

Before Theresa could figure out what was happening, steam began rising from the pond, which had originally been filled with clear water.

"Huh?! Did you boil the water?"

Seeing steam rising from the pond, Theresa was glad she had not stocked it with fish yet. Otherwise, they would probably have been cooked by now and turned into a huge pond of fish soup.

But where she could not see, the pond's internal structure had also been completely transformed.

"It's not boiling. It's a hot spring."

Qin Mo stood up beside the hot spring. He had just discovered that this item could actually merge with an existing pond, provided the pond was not too large.

"A hot spring? You can't just heat up a pond and call it a hot spring. Besides, there aren't any volcanoes beneath St. Freya Academy, so how could there be... It really is a hot spring?!"

Theresa walked over, scooped up a handful of water, and sniffed it. As a Fusion Warrior, her sense of smell was extremely sharp, and she could clearly detect the scent contained in the water.

"Of course. From now on, we can soak in hot springs in the courtyard. And..."

Theresa turned around and discovered that a large tree had been planted where the rockery had originally stood.

"But aren't there already plenty of trees in the courtyard?"

"My tree is different. You'll find out tomorrow."

Theresa racked her brains but could not think of what was special about this tree. Then she realized something. "Come to think of it, where were you hiding all this? Forget the hot spring—where did you get that tree?"