The Dimensional Codex of Destruction Chapter 42

Theresa circled Qin Mo a few times, frowning as she looked at him, seemingly trying to figure something out, but she quickly gave up.

However, it didn't seem like she gave up completely. Whenever Qin Mo was typing in his room later, Theresa was by his side, resting her head on her hand, lost in thought.

Qin Mo couldn't be bothered to pay attention to her. As he typed on the keyboard, he opened the System in his mind and submitted the tasks. After placing the Tree of Harvest and the Beauty Hot Spring, the completion level of this area had also reached a very high standard.

[Task Complete: Received 700 Crystals]

Looking at the results after the System submission, Qin Mo mused that to reach 1000, he'd probably need to gain complete control of St. Freya Academy.

But now that he had become a teacher here, he had a portion of the authority. Coupled with the only villa in the academy and a 700 rating, it was about enough.

Chapter 15: Hot Spring

As a melodious bell rang out amidst the girls' joyful laughter, the Valkyries of St. Freya concluded their day's lessons.

"Finally, class is over. I'm exhausted. Mei, Mei, what are we eating tonight?"

As soon as class ended, Kiana was practically hanging off Mei.

"Tonight, we're having Kiana's favorite fried chicken wings. I've already asked Qin Mo to buy the ingredients when he was home."

"Yay!"

Bronya, holding a Mr. Tomato plushie with a Mr. Tomato backpack on her back, watched Kiana and silently commented, "Lazy Kiana, you were sleeping the entire class."

"What are you talking about? I only slept for a little while. History class is just too boring."

The three of them walked out of the classroom, chatting casually.

"Why are there so many people at the door?"

As soon as they exited the classroom, the three of them saw many students gathered at the classroom entrance.

"Why are there boys here?"

"Is he a new student?"

"So handsome."

Hearing the students' murmuring, Kiana and the other two realized what was happening. They squeezed through the crowd and ran over, indeed finding Qin Mo standing by the roadside, reading a book. Qin Mo didn't seem to pay any attention to the other Valkyries who were watching him.

"Qin Mo, why are you here?"

Kiana almost lunged forward, but seeing that there were other students around, she stopped herself.

"I'm here to pick you up. Your new residence is ready."

After looking at the three girls in front of him, Qin Mo added, "Himeko has already gone ahead. Speaking of which, she really doesn't act like a homeroom teacher at all. The students haven't even finished school, and she's already run off to drink. So, she took all your luggage with her. You don't need to go to the dorms."

"Really? That place is already built?"

On the first day they went to collect their textbooks and uniforms, they had seen the villa under construction. They had mentioned it to Qin Mo when they returned, and Qin Mo had praised Theresa's efficiency. But now it seemed Theresa herself was also in a hurry.

"Kiana, Raiden Mei, Bronya, this is... do you recognize anyone?"

As the four of them were talking, a voice came from outside.

"Ah? Class monitor, why are you here?"

Kiana looked at the gray-haired girl walking through the crowd.

"I saw many students gathered here and was worried something had happened."

As she spoke, she turned her gaze towards Qin Mo.

"My name is Qin Mo, and I'm also a probationary teacher at the academy."

Hearing Qin Mo's words, Fu Hua sized him up and adjusted her glasses. "You're the teacher for the two new courses?"

Fu Hua nodded and didn't say anything further. "I misspoke."

"What is she doing here?"

Kiana scratched her head curiously, watching Fu Hua walk away after saying a few words.

"The class monitor is looking out for everyone and also preventing any accidents."

Mei gave an awkward smile.

"More importantly, Bronya wants to see the new house quickly."

"That's true. Follow me."

He led the three of them back to the villa. Himeko was already drinking in the living room, while Theresa was sitting nearby, reading a manga.

"Oh, you're back. Let me tell you, this place is so much better than the dorms. It even has a hot spring."

Himeko waved her beer can at them, looking like she was already drunk in the middle of the day.

"Hot spring! Where, where?"

Kiana became excited as soon as she heard "hot spring."

"I'll show you. This hot spring is very good for the skin. Soaking for thirty minutes every day will take effect and can solve minor skin problems."

"A hot spring... I feel like it's been a long time since I last soaked."

Raiden Mei, who was originally the young lady of ME Corp., naturally frequented hot springs. However, after Raiden Ryoma was imprisoned, she hadn't been able to go anymore. So, when it was mentioned, she felt a sense of longing.

"Bronya has never seen a hot spring before."

The three of them were very excited upon seeing the hot spring. Kiana even ran over to play in the water, exclaiming, "It's so warm! Is this a hot spring? Where is it heated? Is there a furnace underneath?"

"Silly Kiana, hot springs are heated by natural energy."

Bronya also dipped her hand into the hot spring. "According to Heavy Tank Bunny's analysis, the water temperature is stable at 37℃, but Bronya doesn't think St. Freya Academy's location should have hot springs."

"Well, as long as we know it's a hot spring, that's good enough," Mei said with a smile, looking at the surrounding environment and then at Qin Mo. There was a hot spring in the courtyard, and no supporting facilities around it. No matter how you looked at it, it was abnormal, but having grown accustomed to Qin Mo always producing strange things, she wasn't surprised.

"However, are we not planning to separate for mixed bathing?"

Since the hot spring was newly built by Qin Mo, there were no partitions. When Mei mentioned mixed bathing, she blushed and looked away.

Kiana instantly realized this too, her face flushing, her twin braids seeming to stand on end. But before she could say anything, Qin Mo glared at them with dead fish eyes and said, "How could that be? Theresa, that woman, even assigned my room to the corner. There's no way anything like that would happen."

"Alright, you guys should pick your rooms quickly. There are five bedrooms upstairs and five downstairs. My room is the one closest to the door in the corner. Theresa and Himeko are both staying upstairs, so you guys should stay upstairs too. That way, Theresa won't say I saw something I shouldn't have and come to lecture me." Mei gave an awkward smile. Kiana was more straightforward, "I don't want to live on the same floor as Himeko. Qin Mo, you don't know, Aunt Himeko often comes to my room when she drinks at night."

A "roar" from Sister Himeko echoed from the living room, and then there was silence.

"Alright, alright, it's getting late. After picking rooms, we should prepare dinner. We'll talk about the hot spring tonight."

The hot spring had Kiana very excited. Although Bronya maintained a cold expression, everyone could clearly feel her anticipation. After all, she wasn't in her previous state of emotional damage; she was merely suppressing her emotions to a certain extent for her "mission."

As a result, that night, neither of them even played their usual games. After all, it was a housewarming, plus the anticipation for the hot spring in the evening...

"Oh! Hot spring!"

Kiana shouted in the living room. Theresa, however, looked towards Qin Mo, "Boys shouldn't come and peek, or I'll tie you up with Judah."

"Am I that kind of person?"

Qin Mo glared with dead fish eyes and said, "I'm going back to my room. The textbooks for Ripple are finished, and I still have some for Haki. Let me know when you're done."

Chapter Sixteen: The Evolution of Heaven's Gate

Although he said he was going back to his room to write textbooks, Qin Mo had no interest in typing. Besides, he couldn't type much at night.

Since he was busy with moving into the new house in the afternoon, he hadn't really studied the System's matters after completing the main mission. Now, he finally had free time.

The first thing was the dungeon that was locked by the main mission, and the new changes after the main mission was completed.

As a result, even though the main mission was completed, the dungeon was still locked. However, there was a percentage below the dungeon option, and the percentage had now reached 31%.

"Is this the progress of absorbing Honkai Energy?"

Qin Mo hadn't forgotten that the first time he opened the dungeon, it was because he had absorbed a large amount of Honkai Energy, even passively absorbing the Honkai Energy of a Herrscher.

Looking at it this way, the charging speed was quite fast. Qin Mo hadn't come into contact with large amounts of Honkai Energy during this period, nor had he actively absorbed any. He had only passively absorbed the scattered Honkai Energy in the surroundings, which couldn't compare to the absorption speed of a Herrscher.

However, the Honkai Energy content in the air within St. Freya Academy wasn't high. He didn't know how long it would take to reach 100%. But he could roughly estimate it by observing the progress tomorrow.

Putting aside the dungeon for now, he opened the mission panel. After the main mission was completed, no new missions appeared. Perhaps new missions would only appear tomorrow, or perhaps they would need to be triggered by special circumstances as before. However, triggering the main mission in Chang Kong City in less than a day had no reference value.

After crossing out the mission panel, Qin Mo looked at the most anticipated character cards.

After all, it was related to the growth of his Stand. If possible, he didn't want to go around plundering DISCs in his White Snake state. Moreover, there were no Stand users in this world, and he didn't know if he could plunder them.

But if he could create Stigmata to serve as nourishment, it would be much easier. Although it would cost some Crystals, Qin Mo believed he would eventually achieve Crystal freedom. After all, the main story hadn't started yet, and having too many character cards was useless.

"Let's try King Crimson first."

He didn't know yet if ordinary characters converted into Stigmata would work, so Qin Mo first chose a Stand of the same origin. Moreover, Qin Mo wanted his Stand to gain multiple Stand abilities. The abilities of other characters might not be compatible with his Stand.

After spending 100 Crystals to convert Diavolo's character card into King Crimson's Stand Stigmata, Qin Mo materialized it.

Although Stigmata could only be installed by him through the System, it could be materialized.

The figure of Heaven's Gate also appeared beside Qin Mo. He took the red Stigmata from Qin Mo's hand and then opened its mouth.

"Can this mouth actually open?"

Qin Mo was surprised when he saw the mechanical-like face open its mouth, and he was even more surprised to see Heaven's Gate eat the Stigmata, even chewing it a couple of times.

Then, the display screen on its forehead showed the image of King Crimson.

"It succeeded!?"

Qin Mo naturally chose to absorb its abilities and successfully obtained King Crimson's abilities. After trying it out, Qin Mo found that King Crimson's abilities had undergone a certain degree of mutation in Heaven's Gate.

Qin Mo took out the paper slip from Laplace and looked at the new abilities that appeared on it. Although cracks had appeared, it could still be identified. As expected of a high-level Gift.

The epitaph that could glimpse the future had disappeared, but the Time Erasure ability had evolved. In addition to the normal usage of Time Erasure, it also had an additional ability for individual time jumps. The reason it was called time jump was because this ability was even more unreasonable than time deletion.

Although the scope of Time Erasure was the entire world, and Qin Mo's main body would not be affected by the outside world during this period, the movements of other people and objects would not be affected and would continue according to their original trajectories.

If, during the process of Time Erasure, they were hit by attacks launched by others, they would still be hit. However, during this period, everyone was unconscious and would only continue their previous actions. In essence, it was equivalent to everyone losing the memory of those few seconds after their actions ended.

But the Time Jump ability was released on individual other entities. For example, when facing an attack, the attacked person could directly jump forward a few seconds to dodge the attack. During these few seconds, although it was said to put the other person in the same state as Qin Mo's Time Erasure, it was actually equivalent to directly arriving in the future a few seconds later, and the time in between was completely detached from the river of time.

It could be considered to have its pros and cons.

However, Qin Mo's main focus was not on King Crimson's abilities. This was just a trial. What he valued was the ability of another Stand.

Qin Mo spent 500 Crystals to convert the S-rank character card named The President into a Stigmata.

500 Crystals was enough to summon a new S-rank, but it was meaningless to summon more character cards; they were a waste if they couldn't be equipped. However, if Heaven's Gate could grow...

After watching Heaven's Gate consume the Stigmata of D4C, Qin Mo felt a strange power envelop him and his Stand.

"This power!"

Qin Mo saw King Crimson, which had originally occupied the forehead of Heaven's Gate, move to his left shoulder, while the image of D4C appeared on the screen above his head.

Not only that, but Qin Mo also felt that all of Heaven's Gate's abilities had been enhanced, not just precision and destructive power, but even its range had increased.

And the new abilities had become more complex.

D4C: Can observe adjacent worlds and send people or objects to them by performing a "grab" action. It can also bring people from other worlds out. This ability can only be used in worlds with a multiverse concept. If there are no parallel worlds or adjacent worlds, the ability cannot be activated.

Love Train: Connects you and me with love. It can connect two or more people or objects. Those connected can transfer power, damage, stamina, and energy without condition or time delay.

The abilities had changed, and changed a lot!

Qin Mo had never used the original D4C, so he wasn't sure how its parallel world abilities worked, but in its current version...

After activating the ability, Qin Mo clearly saw...

The Imaginary Tree and the Quantum Sea!

But it was only a fleeting glimpse; under the protection of the Stand's power, both completely disappeared. The only things remaining in his sight were the dense points of light, like stars in the universe, which were World Bubbles.

"Does dimness mean a World Bubble is about to disappear?"

Every moment, dim points of light completely lost their radiance, but new points of light also appeared.

For the Imaginary Tree, these World Bubbles were merely test subjects. World Bubbles that failed the trials were quickly discarded. After losing the energy supply from the Imaginary Tree, they were completely eroded by Honkai Energy and disintegrated.

Not choosing to look into other World Bubbles, Qin Mo deactivated the ability, looking at Heaven's Gate, which had now acquired four Stand abilities