You Can Call Kafka Mom and Still Date Firefly

He had crossed over to Douluo Continent and gained not only the Escort System, but another cheat as well:

Every time he obtained a Soul Ring, he could unlock a Myriad Worlds Clone.

Each Myriad Worlds Clone came with its own secondary panel, landed at random in a city on Douluo Continent, and had an escort agency of its own.

Each clone inherited a certain measure of his strength, so they were all powerful.

He could pull up detailed panels for every clone. The weakest was level 93, and the strongest was level 97.

But those were only their base forms. Every one of them could unleash an ultimate move that increased their power tenfold. The numbers were absurd.

The clones could take escort jobs and earn Escort Points upon completion, then use those points to redeem characters from their respective worlds.

Lin Chen was now a three-ring Soul Elder and had unlocked three clones.

Their three worlds were the Starry Sky World from Honkai: Star Rail, the Honor of Kings World, and the Outcast World.

The three agency heads were Phainon, Zhao Huaizhen, and Zhang Chulan.

His clones had been building their agencies for years, but Lin Chen had never made contact with them.

After all, "the vassal of my vassal is not my vassal." The clones redeemed by his clones weren't his clones. Who could wrap their head around that?

Lin Chen could control only the three clones with panels. The rest were beyond his control.

They had been redeemed by his clones, after all. Strictly speaking, they had little to do with him.

Honestly, he could call Kafka Mom and then date Firefly.

After all, both of them had merely been redeemed by Phainon with Escort Points.

They could each do their own thing. He had the system and his points, so he could redeem his own clones while his clones redeemed clones of their own.

It was better when nobody bothered anybody else.

Who knew? One day, his Impure World Reincarnation clone army might even fight them.

He had redeemed quite a few interesting characters over the years, too.

With clones of his own to call on, he had even less reason to deal with the ones his clones had redeemed.

He had not even contacted his three original clones. He did not want to dampen their enthusiasm for earning Escort Points.

So to this day, none of his clones knew they had a master.

They all believed they had suddenly descended upon Douluo Continent from other worlds and would eventually have to fight the other escort agencies.

That was why they worked like mad every day, taking jobs and redeeming teammates from their own worlds.

The clones from the three worlds had already tested one another, and all three agencies were wary of their rivals.

That was exactly the momentum Lin Chen wanted.

Competition brought pressure, and pressure drove them to take jobs and earn Escort Points like mad.

After all, "half for whoever shows up." The system was ruthless about that: Lin Chen could take half the Escort Points his escort clones earned outright.

Those points worked just like the ones he received from daily check-ins and his own jobs. He could spend them on all kinds of items in the system shop.

But those were basic Escort Points, earned from basic jobs.

The job Lin Chen had taken for Huo Yuhao was a Fate Escort, which rewarded High-Tier Escort Points.

He could spend those in the High-Tier Shop on high-tier items.

Only he could take a Fate Escort, and whether one appeared was entirely random.

That was what "fate" meant. The system detected the needs of people nearby and posted Fate Escorts.

The difference was that the system issued one kind of job on its own and rewarded High-Tier Escort Points, while clients commissioned the other kind for basic Escort Points.

Huo Yuhao, a child of destiny, was worth 100 High-Tier Escort Points even if Lin Chen only helped him obtain a Hundred-Year Soul Ring.

Getting in on that was pure profit. Lin Chen was sold.

As he pondered this, a red light suddenly flashed on his panel.

Oh? The Starry Sky Escort Agency had another job. A big one, with a 100,000 deposit: go to Shrek Academy and kill Zhou Yi.

Were they already moving up to the big leagues?

Interesting. What kind of sparks would fly when they ran into the King's Escort Agency in Shrek City?

The plan was still being worked out. It seemed the client was still deciding how Zhou Yi should die.

She really was detestable. Killing her would count as ridding the people of a menace.

The Starry Sky Escort Agency would be doing a good deed for once. He had better hurry, or he would miss the show. Things were bound to get lively.

"Brother Lin Chen, the fish is ready." Huo Yuhao's call pulled Lin Chen from his thoughts.

He closed the panel, looked over at Huo Yuhao, and took a bite of the grilled fish Huo Yuhao handed him.

"Mm. I can always count on your grilled fish. How do you make it taste this good?

"Why can't I manage it?"

Huo Yuhao was delighted to hear that. It was the highest praise Lin Chen could have given him.

"Then have some more. I can grill plenty."

Huo Yuhao was very fond of Lin Chen.

He knew Lin Chen's background: he was an employee of Everywhere Express.

Everywhere Express was the most famous escort agency in the Star Luo Empire, a major force. That made Lin Chen someone Huo Yuhao could trust.

Lin Chen had also helped him often over the past year, and Huo Yuhao was deeply moved by it.

Besides, Lin Chen was a good person. Huo Yuhao knew Lin Chen had never intended to charge him and was not merely going the same way.

Lin Chen was worried about him. He wanted to help him obtain his First Soul Ring for free and had asked for a token payment of a hundred fish only to preserve Huo Yuhao's dignity.

How could Huo Yuhao not grill the fish properly for him?

Huo Yuhao was the sort of person who would give his life to someone who treated him well.

"By the way, Brother Lin Chen, how did you catch those fish just now?

"You only drew your sword and gave it a little swing, and every fish in the water teleported onto the bank."

"That was my Soul Skill. I got a Thousand-Year Soul Ring for my First Soul Ring, so the skill is pretty powerful."

"Oh, right, Brother Lin Chen, you have two Thousand-Year Soul Rings and one Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.

"Can you really absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as your First Soul Ring?

"And a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as your third?

"Why is that different from what I've seen other people do?"

"Of course it's different." Lin Chen waved a hand. "I'm cheating. Don't try to copy me."

But inwardly, Lin Chen grumbled:

You're about to start out with a million-year ring, damn it. Why are you jealous of me?

He had not cultivated his rings himself. He had redeemed them directly from the system.

The skills of each of his three Soul Rings were incredibly complicated.

For instance, his first Soul Skill was called Flash Step · Flash · Six Styles: Shave · Flying Thunder Slash!

It was quite the jumble of ingredients. That single skill had cost him a full 4,000 Escort Points.

Flash Step from Bleach and Six Styles: Shave from One Piece had cost 2,000 Escort Points between them, a thousand each.

Then came the Flying Thunder God Technique from the world of Naruto, which cost another 2,000 Escort Points.

Once all those disparate elements were fused together, the ring's age naturally increased as well. He could not control that.

A thousand Escort Points, mind you, could redeem an entire character.

But it did not matter. His clones were tireless beasts of burden. They could take jobs, earn Escort Points, and redeem more clones for him.

The process did not matter. The result was what counted.

Spending his own Escort Points on himself felt pretty good, too. The whole point was to have fun.

Lin Chen put on a serious face and began spouting nonsense to Huo Yuhao.

"Yuhao, my rings look outrageous, but they're really nothing special.

"All you need to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring is a strong body. Plenty of people can absorb one as their First Soul Ring nowadays.

"Take the Soul Masters of the Body Sect. They basically all start with Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

"I admit a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring for my third is a bit much, but my Martial Soul suppresses souls.

"So a Soul Beast's spiritual shock has little effect on me, and naturally I can absorb the ring.

"But don't try to copy me. With your physique, the absolute most you could absorb for your First Soul Ring is a three-hundred-year ring."

Lin Chen's words left Huo Yuhao thoroughly dejected.

Just then, two figures followed the aroma over.

"Wow, that smells amazing!"

They were Thunderbolt Bei Bei and Tang Ya.

At that moment, Lin Chen's long-quiet system sounded again:

[Fate Escort detected within one hundred meters: Tang Ya longs to gain power, avenge her parents, and restore the Tang Sect.

Help her gain power. Initial completion reward: 100 High-Tier Escort Points.]

[Fate Escort detected within one hundred meters: Tang Ya longs to become an Evil Soul Master, avenge her parents, and restore the Tang Sect.

Help her become an Evil Soul Master. Reward: 100 High-Tier Escort Points.]

Oh? A multiple-choice question.

Lin Chen paused. Helping her grow stronger was too vague; there was no clear standard. Making her an Evil Soul Master was another matter.

Her Martial Soul was already an Evil Martial Soul. As luck would have it, he was an undercover agent in the Holy Spirit Cult and had access to the Evil Transformation Technique. Turning her into an Evil Soul Master would be a piece of cake.

Lin Chen chose the second option without hesitation.