After learning that Primogems could not help him level up, Zhong Baiye had no choice but to pin his hopes on the gacha feature.
He silently commanded, Top up Primogems.
A flash of white light swept past, and all the Primogems in his pouch vanished.
[Top-up successful. Current balance: 160 Primogems.] [Perform a ten-pull? Guaranteed to receive at least one purple item.]
Zhong Baiye had always been a hopeless gacha addict. Now that he had a balance to spend, he could not resist the temptation and immediately gave the command in his mind.
Start the ten-pull.
Zhong Baiye seemed to see ten shooting stars hurtling toward him across the sky.
Among them was something glittering with golden light.
A golden flash swept past.
[Congratulations, host. White items obtained: coconut milk ×1, cola (canned) ×2, Beginner's Spear ×2.] [Blue items: Harbinger of Dawn ×1, Adventurer's Experience ×3.] [Gold item: Herrscher of Thunder Trial Card ×1.]
Zhong Baiye recognized all the other items he had pulled, but what the hell was this Herrscher of Thunder Trial Card?
This was Teyvat, not Honkai Impact 3rd.
He immediately focused his attention on the Herrscher of Thunder Trial Card he had pulled. According to the usual transmigrator conventions, that should let him see the item's detailed functions.
Sure enough, Zhong Baiye's experience reading novels had not failed him.
[View detailed information? Cost: Mora ×1,000.]
But was this system made by Tencent or something? It even charged him to inspect the things he pulled.
If it were anything else, Zhong Baiye could have experimented with it himself. But this was a trial card with only one use, so he did not dare mess around with it.
Fortunately, during his earlier tour of the Jade Chamber, the secretaries had given him not only some Primogems but also a fair amount of Mora.
Otherwise, he really would have had to figure it out himself.
Confirm.
As Zhong Baiye gave the command in his mind, his money pouch suddenly grew lighter. He opened it and found that, sure enough, 1,000 Mora was gone.
If this gold item turns out to be useless, I'll have taken a huge loss. X﹏X
[Herrscher of Thunder Trial Card: gold item. After use, you can become the Herrscher of Thunder for 10 minutes and possess all her abilities. Teyvat will suppress a portion of the Herrscher of Thunder's power.] [Warning: the Herrscher of Thunder is extremely powerful. Use with caution.]
Those few short sentences had cost Zhong Baiye 1,000 Mora.
But he did not feel he had gotten a bad deal.
Gold items really do live up to their rarity. A fully powered Herrscher of Thunder could destroy the world in the Honkai universe. Even with her power weakened a little in Teyvat, she should still be on par with a god.
Originally, Zhong Baiye had not been confident he could resolve this incident perfectly. But with this ultimate weapon in hand, no matter how much he stirred things up, there should not be any major problems in the end.
Hmm? Wait, I haven't checked the other things yet.
Imagining how cool he would look after becoming the Herrscher of Thunder, Zhong Baiye stood there grinning foolishly for a long time before coming back to his senses.
The other things are straightforward enough, but what does this Adventurer's Experience do?
Zhong Baiye checked his system inventory and decided to take out one Adventurer's Experience to try.
He figured that, since he could not use Primogems to level up, the system would surely give him another way.
In the original game, Adventurer's Experience was used to level up characters. Perhaps the ones he had pulled could level up his Vision.
He mentally commanded the system to take out one Adventurer's Experience.
A moment later, a piece of parchment card stock with a red cover appeared in his hand.
Some unfamiliar designs were drawn on it, with a sentence written in English beneath them.
"Each man is the architect of his own fate."
Zhong Baiye had at least been a college student before transmigrating, so he immediately translated the English sentence and read it aloud.
"Everyone is the architect of their own destiny."
The instant he finished saying "architect," his Vision suddenly blazed with light, which swept over the card in his hand.
The Adventurer's Experience instantly turned into a streak of blue light and was completely absorbed by his Vision.
At the same time, he felt as though both his strength and his skills had improved a little.
If his strength had been 10 before, then after absorbing one Adventurer's Experience, it was now roughly 12.
Zhong Baiye then took out the remaining two Adventurer's Experience cards.
He discovered that these Adventurer's Experience cards were not identical. Aside from sharing the same outline, their designs and text were all different.
One even had a line written in Chinese: "With my blade held crosswise, I laugh toward heaven; those who leave and those who stay have hearts as steadfast as the Kunlun Mountains."
Whether he read the contents aloud in English or Chinese, his Vision would immediately absorb the experience as long as the meaning was correct.
He had initially worried about what would happen if he encountered writing he could not read. But when he focused on the words for more than ten seconds, he intuitively understood their meaning.
Next, Zhong Baiye took out the Harbinger of Dawn to test it.
The Harbinger of Dawn came with a scabbard, not just the sword itself.
When Zhong Baiye drew the Harbinger of Dawn and held it in his hand, he felt his strength increase a little. His powers of observation also seemed to improve, letting him vaguely sense the weak points of the objects in the room.
The sensation was a little like Shiki's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, but far hazier. He could only make anything out by concentrating intensely.
And that was only for inanimate objects. He tried looking at a crane flying outside the window, but no matter how hard he concentrated, he could not see its weak points.
He could only barely sense a few weak points in the birds perched on the Jade Chamber, resting.
According to the game's mechanics, the Harbinger of Dawn's special effect increases the wielder's critical hit rate when their health is above a certain threshold. Being able to see these weak points must be thanks to the Harbinger of Dawn.
Zhong Baiye immediately decided to make the Harbinger of Dawn his main weapon for now.
He was not worried about being unable to use a sword. When he had obtained his Vision, he had also gained master-level martial skills. Whether wielding spears or blades, or even manipulating the elements to attack, he was thoroughly familiar with it all.
He took out the remaining items he had pulled and inspected them one by one. Aside from the cola, which he drank on the spot, none had anything special about them.
As for the coconut milk, it had no labeling at all. It was simply a glass bottle of fresh milk, giving off a rich, milky aroma.
He took a small sip. It tasted like sweet milk, so he put it back in his system inventory.
Not far away, a certain Wang Xiaomei suddenly felt a wave of awkwardness, as though something had just happened. But when she looked around, there was nothing there.
Then Zhong Baiye lay down on the comfortable bed, bringing this extraordinary day to an end.