Ilyena took a deep breath.
She reached inside her robe and pulled out three metal spheres, their surfaces covered in intricate red alchemical runes.
Without the slightest hesitation, Ilyena solemnly placed the three Alchemical Bombs-enough to level half a street-into the hands of Jiahao and his two companions.
"I'm entrusting these to you."
Ilyena took a step back. For the first time, a beautiful, heartfelt smile appeared on her delicate face.
She folded her hands over her chest and bowed deeply to the three players before her.
Her slightly husky yet incredibly gentle voice drifted through the chilly night breeze:
"May the Weeping Madonna... bless you."
Stripped of her earlier obsessive madness, Ilyena seemed surrounded by an indescribable sacred radiance. She was breathtakingly beautiful, as if a true saintess had descended upon them.
"Holy shit..."
Beside the haystack, Lu Ziye's eyes instantly went wide!
He swallowed hard and frantically poked Ma Lou beside him. "Did you see that? Did you see that?! Now that's a fucking Wasteland dream girl!"
"That face! That lighting!"
"I hereby declare that, starting today, she's my one and only designated wife in this game!"
"Fuck off! What do you mean, your wife? She's obviously my destined first love!"
Ma Lou was also staring dreamily at Ilyena, his grin almost reaching his ears. "Absolute perfection. Seriously, absolute perfection..."
"Just for that smile from our lovely sister, I'm charging into the square today and giving every one of those Cultists two good slaps!"
The two bickered back and forth over their "cyber wife," coming close to drawing their Stone Spears for a duel right there.
Meanwhile, Jiahao said nothing. He just kept taking screenshots...
The instant Ilyena finished speaking.
Lu Ziye, Jiahao, and Ma Lou saw a flash before their eyes as three beams of pure white