Shaya

Biodata

Background / History

Survival and Imprisonment

Shaya entered the Wasteland twenty years before meeting Ye Qiyan. She was not among its earliest survivors: numerous batches had arrived before hers. She describes herself as his senior and possesses extensive knowledge of conductors, Modules, and the worlds connected by stations 28 29.

She spent fifteen years sealed in Miling Town over a fragment of the Blasphemy Card. The person responsible erased the station from the route, preventing her former companions from reaching her. High-level trains could not locate it, while low-level trains ordinarily lacked the qualifications to enter 28 30 31.

Meeting Ye Qiyan

When Ye Qiyan reached Miling Town and defeated her puppets, Shaya intercepted his escape and disabled his train’s Security Device with black chains. She brought him back to the church, introduced herself, and forced him to accept her one-third fragment of the Blasphemy Card 28.

Shaya correctly inferred that his talent had enabled his unusually low-level train to reach the erased station, although she never learned what that talent was. She warned him to conceal both his abilities and the card: talented survivors attracted jealousy, while possessing a Blasphemy Card could invite death or imprisonment like her own 28.

She subsequently answered his questions about earlier survivors and the structure of train survival. With the world opened through his arrival, she prepared to leave, revealing that the church was her locomotive and Tina was one of her puppets 29.

Release and Revenge

Before departing, Shaya urged Ye Qiyan to complete the Blasphemy Card, gave him supplies, and allowed him to salvage the town’s houses, which were carriages she had made. She asked him to burn Miling Town afterward, declaring that she would never return. She then departed aboard the Dark Night Angel 30 31.

Once back in the wilderness, Shaya contacted an unnamed acquaintance and announced her intention to settle old grievances. During their exchange, she learned that the Heavenly Realm Organization—whose inspectors she had expected to monitor beginner platforms—was gone 31.

Appearance

• Hair: Blonde 27.
• Build: Voluptuous, with long, fair legs 28.
• Clothing: An elaborate black-and-white nun’s habit and small black boots 28.
• Other distinguishing detail: Ye Qiyan notices a delicate floral fragrance when she stands close to him 28.

Personality

Shaya combines a kindly, religious manner with teasing intimidation. She insists that a “kind nun” would not hurt anyone, then crushes a puppet’s skull to discourage Ye Qiyan from discarding her gift. When irritated, she quickly abandons her serene expression and handles him roughly before resuming her benevolent demeanor 28.

She is intensely curious about Ye Qiyan’s talent, rare carriage, and blessed fruit, but ultimately refrains from forcing him to explain them. Her help is practical as well as playful: she provides survival warnings, scarce upgrade materials, and powerful healing items, then tells him to upgrade and stay alive 28 30 31.

Her imprisonment leaves her determined to sever ties with Miling Town and pursue revenge. She gives away the fragment for which she nearly died, reasoning that Ye Qiyan’s rapid acquisition of another fragment makes him more deserving of the completed card 30 31.

Abilities & Skills

Chain Module

Shaya identifies her chains as a conductor Module 29.

• Materializes black chains in midair 28 29.
• Blocks the barrels of Ye Qiyan’s Security Device before it can fire 28.
• Joins chains into railway tracks, including tracks laid ahead of her departing train 29 30.

Puppet Creation and Control

Shaya creates puppets ranging from the townspeople of Miling Town to the remarkably lifelike Tina 28 29.

• Townsfolk Puppets: Possess skulls tough enough that Ye Qiyan needs level 3 bullets combined with his pistol’s armor-piercing enchantment to penetrate them 28.
• Tina: Shaya calls her finest work. Her movements and behavior are virtually indistinguishable from those of a living little girl 29.
• The method by which Shaya makes her puppets is not explained 29.

Physical Strength and Sudden Movement

• Crushes durable Townsfolk Puppet skulls with one hand 28.
• Appears in front of the fleeing Ye Qiyan without warning; he interprets the movement as teleportation 28.
• Overwhelms his available defenses so completely that he doubts even Gunfire Judgment would allow him to win 28.

Healing Lollipops

Shaya produces level 8 Healing Lollipops, described by the item system as her masterpieces 31.

• Form a protective barrier against external damage when consumed.
• Continuously restore stamina and treat injuries within the barrier.
• Restore Ye Qiyan’s stamina from 89 to 100 in approximately one second during his Ascension experiment 31.

Survival Knowledge

Shaya supplies Ye Qiyan with information unavailable to most newcomers 28 29 30.

• Survivors arrive in batches every three years.
• Conductors ordinarily travel through separate wildernesses.
• Modules provide a major means of increasing a conductor’s personal power.
• Fifteen years earlier, platforms, buildings, items, and treasure chests capped at level 12; conductor levels did not share that cap.
• A gray friend-list avatar indicates that the conductor’s train has been destroyed 29 30.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Dark Night Angel — Her level 57 train, predominantly black with white lines and angel motifs. It has eighteen luxurious carriages, and its locomotive can take the form of a church with an interior far larger than its exterior suggests. Its angel decorations animate during departure 29 30.
• Black-covered book — Held during the church gathering and retrieved from the prayer stand while speaking with Ye Qiyan 27 28.
• Blasphemy Card fragment — The one-third fragment associated with her imprisonment. She transfers it to Ye Qiyan and insists that he keep and synthesize his fragments 28 30 31.
• 2×2 Safety Box, level 9 — Given to Ye Qiyan as a reward. It has four storage slots, cannot be broken into or forced open, and can only be moved by the person who places it 29 30 31.
  • Contains one Flame Stone, ten kilograms of gold, ten kilograms of mithril, and three Healing Lollipops.
  • The upgrade materials are intended to help him cross the level 3-to-4 threshold; Shaya explains that Flame Stones are exceptionally difficult for newcomers to obtain 31.

Relationships

• Ye Qiyan — Her rescuer, junior survivor, and recipient of her Blasphemy Card fragment. Their initial encounter is coercive, but she becomes a valuable source of guidance and supplies. After making him accept her friend request, she claims she can find him wherever he goes 28 29 30 31.
• Tina — Her puppet and self-described finest creation. Tina calls her “Sister” and accompanies her departure from Miling Town 29 30.
• Former companions — Unable to rescue her because the station’s erasure prevents their high-level trains from reaching it 28.
• Unnamed correspondent — An acquaintance she contacts after escaping. They discuss her release, her decision to surrender the card fragment, and the disappearance of the Heavenly Realm Organization 31.
• Unnamed captor — Sealed her in Miling Town and erased its station from the route 28.

Notable Quotes

“The same goes for that card. Never, ever let anyone know you have a Blasphemy Card, not even the person closest to you.” 28

“I’m never coming back here again.” 30

“Repay vengeance with vengeance, and grievances with grievances.” 31