"I got another Talent Cube, but... memories?"
Ye Qiyan opened the Talent Cube.
What lay hidden inside was revealed.
Apart from the Talent itself, which could be used ten times, there was an unremarkable-looking stone, even stained with a little black soil.
"Uto City is also a city of Homecomers. In other words... this stone is a real object from memory, materialized by this Talent's owner from their memories. Sure enough, Ascension isn't the only way to improve oneself. Other Talents might also be upgraded through certain means."
He hefted the stone in his hand.
In a sense, this stone inside the Cube that WALL-E had deemed the most precious object might have accounted for some of its value.
Although the stone was worthless to him, for those Homecomers...
"Interesting. Looks like I'll have to find a suitable time to visit Uto City. Uto... Utopia? Tsk, that name~"
Ye Qiyan chuckled despite himself. He was about to put both the Talent Cube and the stone into his Storage Unit when something suddenly occurred to him.
He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. After a long while, he murmured to himself:
"Come to think of it, if the Talent called Memory can construct phantoms of the past world, then... could my Exclusive Authority... Beacon of Memory do something similar?"
His home in his former world surfaced in his mind.
At his chest, the little Dream Eater slowly crawled out, as though sensing something.
"What is it, little one?"
The Dream Eater waved its feelers and gently rested them against his ear, rubbing it softly with a slightly damp touch.
The next instant, the [Talent Cube · Memory] in Ye Qiyan's hand began to shine.
The surrounding space transformed.
In an instant, the turbulent world of hyperspace became somewhere familiar, yet very unfamiliar.
His