The Heroic Spirit Summoning succeeded. As white light surged forth, a tall figure appeared beside Lin Xiaoran. It was none other than Marine Admiral Fujitora Issho!
"This is..."
The newly appeared Issho froze in confusion, but soon, information about the National Fortune Survival Game and Heroic Spirits began automatically loading at high speed, allowing him to understand the current situation.
Outside the game instance, when everyone in Country L saw Issho appear, their hearts, which had long been hanging in suspense, finally died completely.
[Seriously, he's blind?]
[Do you even need to ask? Whose Heroic Spirit doesn't open their eyes after appearing?]
[It's over! It's already a fog instance that affects visibility, and now her Heroic Spirit is blind too! Is Lin Xiaoran's luck really this awful?!]
[Xiaoran! Boohoo!]
[Classmate Lin, you have to turtle up and survive! Even with an ordinary Heroic Spirit, as long as you find treasure chests, you still have a chance to survive to the end!]
[Are you Lin Xiaoran's classmates?]
[Yep!]
[Treasure chests? Don't get your hopes up. Every chest is guarded by ferocious beasts. Who knows whether an ordinary Heroic Spirit could even beat them!]
The bullet comments were full of doom and gloom. Although Lin Xiaoran's Heroic Spirit looked tall and was no spring chicken, being unable to see was an inherent disadvantage!
He would probably even need Lin Xiaoran to guide him around!
An eighteen-year-old high school girl and a blind man-no matter how you looked at it, they had no chance of winning the game!
Country R: [You're screwed, hahaha!]
Country R: [Our Tanaka Ning is eighteen too, and she summoned Kuchisake-onna!]
Country L: [Get lost!]
Country L: [You make yourselves sound so impressive, but we didn't see you win the last round either!]
The U.S.: [Hilarious. A bunch of bottom feeders mocking one another.]
E Country: [Heh, you're not much better yourselves, losers!]
The U.S.: [You got lucky last time. That might not happen this time!]
Inside the game instance, Lin Xiaoran's newly acquired system prompted her again:
[Ding! Host may randomly draw one of Fujitora Issho's abilities. Draw now?] [Ding! Congratulations, host, on receiving a beginner's gift pack. You gain one additional draw and may specify the ability. Would you like to draw?]
Lin Xiaoran's eyes lit up. "Do the random draw first!"
As expected of a system-it really was powerful!
After all, challengers who became Masters did not share their Heroic Spirits' abilities after summoning them and remained ordinary people. Lin Xiaoran's system, however, broke that restriction, giving an ordinary person like her the chance to become an ability user!
An extremely powerful ability user, at that!
After all, if she could draw one ability from one Heroic Spirit, what about ten?! A hundred?!
Most importantly, the Heroic Spirits summoned by the [Strongest Summoning System] came from fictional worlds! These included anime, film, television, novels, and more!
If she got a powerful character, like a god or something, Lin Xiaoran could ascend to heaven in a single step!
[Ding! Congratulations, host, on successfully drawing an ability. Acquired: Advanced Observation Haki!]
"Fantastic!" Lin Xiaoran was delighted!
In a world of fog, the most frightening thing wasn't the monsters inside it, but the tension and fear of being surrounded by fog without knowing when or where a monster would appear!
The unknown was the most terrifying thing!
It was like certain horror movies. Even though everyone in them was human, the terrifying atmosphere was so powerfully crafted and immersive that viewers' hearts involuntarily rose into their throats as they watched.
But now that Lin Xiaoran had Advanced Observation Haki, things were different!
After all, although Fujitora Issho's Observation Haki might not be as badass as the Voice of All Things, when it came to range, Issho was absolutely number one!
Issho was, after all, a powerful character who could use his Observation Haki in combination with his Press-Press Fruit ability to pull down meteorites from over ten thousand meters up in the sky!
Besides that, Issho could also use Observation Haki to "see" objects' shapes and enemies' movements, sense malice and goodwill, and so on.
As the ability loaded, Lin Xiaoran's sensory world underwent an earth-shaking transformation!
She was no longer "blind" in the thick fog. Not only could she clearly sense the locations, heights, shapes, and other details of the surrounding buildings, she could also "see" the powerful ferocious beasts roaming through the dense fog!
Thanks to Observation Haki's exceptionally vast range, Lin Xiaoran even sensed other Masters and their summoned Heroic Spirits!
"This feels incredible!"
Lin Xiaoran exclaimed excitedly.
No wonder humans yearned for superpowers, immortal arts, Daoist techniques, and eternal life!
The feeling of acquiring these things was simply too wonderful, leaving Lin Xiaoran immersed in it, unable to pull herself free!
"Right, there's still the beginner's gift pack-one extra chance to specify an ability!"
"System, I want to specify Issho's Press-Press Fruit ability!"
[Ding! Host's specified draw succeeded. Acquired: Press-Press Fruit ability (Issho's developed version) (version without side effects)!]
"No side effects?" Lin Xiaoran asked in surprise.
[Yes, host. Because you did not obtain the ability by directly consuming a Devil Fruit, you do not have a Devil Fruit's side effects.]
"Awesome! Good system!"
Lin Xiaoran gave it a thumbs-up!
Beside her, Issho finished receiving the information, turned toward Lin Xiaoran, and said, "I look forward to working with you, Master~"
Having gained a deep understanding of the National Fortune Game's power, Issho did not look down on Lin Xiaoran for being young. Instead, he was very respectful.
"Uncle Issho, sorry for the trouble this time!" Lin Xiaoran said with a smile.
"Leave it to this old man. I shall do everything in my power!" Issho said with a smile.
"I believe in you, Uncle Issho!" As far as Lin Xiaoran was concerned, who else could she trust if not him? She was merely a frail, beautiful girl without the strength to truss a chicken.
[What's he saying? Everything in his power?]
[Looks like this uncle has plenty of ambition, even if he isn't very capable!]
[But why does Classmate Lin look like she's already got victory in the bag? Does this Heroic Spirit have some special ability?]
[Exactly! We can't see the Heroic Spirit's detailed information, but the Master knows! If this blind man... ahem, sorry, if this Uncle Issho didn't have any special abilities, Lin Xiaoran would surely be panicking by now!]
[Let's get our hopes up one more time!]
[You can do it, Lin Xiaoran! Give us a surprise!]
Although the viewers couldn't directly obtain information about Heroic Spirits, they had developed an eye for things after watching so many livestreams and could roughly glean something from the Masters' expressions.
"Then, Master, where shall we go next?" Issho asked.
With his Advanced Observation Haki, Issho had also sensed the surrounding situation. As for the fog, he didn't take it to heart at all. Since he couldn't see anyway, whether there was fog made no difference to him.
"With Uncle Issho here, we definitely have to earn more points!"