My Honkai: Star Rail System Arrived Early

My Honkai: Star Rail System Arrived Early

Author: White Hair Isn't a Net Trickster

Synopsis:

[Honkai: Star Rail] [System Bug] [Survival]

Ji Yuan transmigrated into the world of Honkai: Star Rail and obtained a system. However, his system seemed to have some issues.

It seemed to have come too early.

"You sparred with the Luofu Sword Champion and won! Reward: Divine Swordsmanship!"

Ji Yuan looked at the youthful Yanqing before him and silently sheathed his long sword.

"You defeated her in the Diviner's most proficient domain! Reward: Art of Fate Observation!"

Ji Yuan looked at Qingque, who had lost all her chips. He pushed the Jade Abacus in front of him and shouted, "Full House!"

"You defeated the Luofu General..."

Little Fu Xuan looked up with wide eyes.

"You taught one of the Ten-Lords from the Ten-Lords Commission."

Ji Yuan grabbed Huohuo, whose legs were trembling.

Finally, Ji Yuan punched himself hard.

"You attacked a corpse! Reward: Corpse Looting Experience +1!"

Volume 1

Chapter 1: A Corpse That Will Move in a Hundred Years

Yanqing felt like he was going crazy, actually looking forward to sparring with a Trade Official who was solely responsible for foreign trade review.

"Perhaps it's because that person's talent in the way of the sword is too high," Yanqing thought to himself.

Ten days ago, while he was wandering at the Flowing Cloud Ferry, a Trade Official from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs had actually sought him out for a spar.

A civil official responsible for trade negotiations wanted to spar with him?

Yanqing thought the guy must be crazy.

But holding onto the possibility that the other party might be a hidden master, Yanqing still fought the Trade Official seriously.

Then, He defeated the Trade Official in one move.

Huh?!

This exchange left him quite taken aback.

Before he could even recover, the Trade Official thanked him sincerely and left.

Seeing him leave, Yanqing didn't think much of it. While people who were unaware of their own strength and rashly challenged others were rare on the Celestial Arks, they weren't unheard of.

Just as Yanqing thought the matter was over, the same Trade Official found him again the next day, wanting another spar.

This is a bit much, isn't it?

Seeing the opponent he had defeated in one move yesterday seeking him out again on the second day, Yanqing felt a bit speechless.

Adhering to the attitude a swordsman should have, Yanqing still went to fight the Trade Official seriously.

The moment they clashed, He felt something was off.

The opponent he could defeat with just one move before could now block that move. Moreover, the swordsmanship used to block his move felt familiar to Yanqing.

Although he still defeated the person with the second move, improving so much in a single day was truly admirable to Yanqing.

The next day, the third day, this Trade Official came to spar with him again.

This time, he lasted three moves.

The fourth day, the fifth day...

He was making significant progress every single day.

Now, on the tenth day, Yanqing had come directly to the entrance of the Ten Ships Bureau to wait for the Trade Official to finish work.

He was looking forward to today's battle.

At precisely 5 PM Luofu time, Ji Yuan finally finished his work at the Trade Official's office at the very last second.

A Celestial Ark civil servant would absolutely not work an extra minute.

Lowering his head, Ji Yuan reached his hand under his desk and retrieved a finely crafted, four-foot-long box from the floor by his feet.

Inside were two of the latest swords crafted by the Artificer's Workshop, which he was going to gift to Yanqing later.

A few days ago, I was chatting with Yanqing and learned that he spends his money every month on purchasing weapons from the Artificer's Workshop, to the point where he's so broke by the end of the month that he has to freeload meals from the General.

"I'll buy these two swords for him. Hopefully, this month will be a little easier for him."

Jing Yuan thought to himself.

After all, he knew that constantly bothering Yanqing was a very troublesome thing to do.

But he had a reason he couldn't avoid it.

Jing Yuan punched his own arm hard, and a voice immediately sounded in his ear.

[You attacked a moving corpse, rewarding Corpse Looting Experience +1]

After the voice ended, a series of memories of searching corpses for loot on the battlefield appeared in Jing Yuan's mind.

As a transmigrator who had traveled from Earth to a Celestial Ark, he had become an orphan on the battlefield, been adopted, and lived for over a hundred years before finally obtaining a cheat.

One hundred years was a lifetime for humans of other civilizations, but for people of the Celestial Ark, he was not yet an adult.

Jing Yuan's system was very simple: as long as he had enough deep interaction with anyone, whether it was a long talk all night or a sparring match, he could earn skill points.

The specific ability depended on the identity, strength, and status of the person Jing Yuan interacted with.

However, While researching his system, he discovered a serious problem with it.

His system had arrived at the wrong time.

After chatting with several veteran Cloud Knights in his neighborhood for a few days and understanding his system's abilities, Jing Yuan, wanting to make money, directly found a wealthy merchant next door and planned to learn the art of business from him.

Because Jing Yuan's adoptive mother had some status in the Cloud Knights, the merchant patiently chatted with Jing Yuan for an afternoon. After the afternoon chat, Jing Yuan received the following prompt from the system.

[You interacted with a bankrupt merchant for an afternoon, rewarding Park Life Experience +1]

Jing Yuan was completely taken aback at that moment.

The merchant was doing perfectly fine, but the system was telling him that he had gone bankrupt.

What was going on?

Later, to verify what was happening, he sought out many other people.

After interacting with many people from outside the Celestial Arks, Jing Yuan understood what was wrong with his system.

It had come too early.

It had come about a century too early.

Not only did his time as an outsider on the Celestial Ark last less than a hundred years, but the achievements Jing Yuan gained from interacting with them were things like [Interacted with a corpse for an afternoon, rewarding Autopsy Experience +1], [Interacted with a corpse all night, rewarding Corpse Disposal Experience +1], and so on.

During that period, Jing Yuan felt like dismembering and disposing of anyone he saw.

After further exploration of the system, Jing Yuan discovered another way to use it.

The fate determined by the system was not set in stone; it could be changed if one knew the future. Jing Yuan had persuaded the merchant from before to abandon a risky investment. Then, when Jing Yuan interacted with him again, the achievement he received was [Interacted with a famous merchant from the Yaoging Starfaring Vessel, rewarding Commodity Trade Experience +1].

At that time, Jing Yuan was very proud of this ability and was preparing to make a grand debut on the Yaoging Starfaring Vessel. However, he accidentally injured himself while practicing swordsmanship.

Then he heard this message.

[You attacked a moving corpse, rewarding Corpse Looting Experience +1]

Jing Yuan's expression changed.

Was this a joke?

He tried a few more times and found that he hadn't misheard.

He could die at any moment in the next hundred years, without even the chance of becoming Mara-Struck.

Thinking about the Yaoging Starfaring Vessel, Jing Yuan realized that this situation was not entirely incomprehensible.

The Celestial Ark Alliance's attacks on Abundance Followers were calculated in years, but the wars on Yaoging were calculated in months. In a year with twelve months, at least ten months were spent waging war against the Abundance Followers.

Both his parents had died in the wars against the Abundance Followers, their remains lost without a trace.

It wasn't incomprehensible that his turn could come any day.

Especially since his adoptive mother also really wanted him to join the Cloud Knights and participate in the battles against the Abundance Followers.

To defy fate, Jing Yuan made a decision.

He couldn't stay on the war-crazed Yaoging Starfaring Vessel.

So, he left two letters for his adoptive mother, who was busy sweeping through Abundance Followers, and for his adoptive mother's daughter, his sister, who had been sent to a boarding school for remedial classes due to poor academic performance. Then, he took a star-skiff from the Ten Thousand Ships Bureau to the relatively peaceful Luofu Starfaring Vessel.

In his previous life, he had worked in international trade, and now he had gained a lot of experience as a merchant. Jing Yuan went directly to the Maritime Trade Bureau, which was responsible for foreign trade, and passed the examination to become a Trade Official.

In his previous life, it would have been equivalent to graduating and being admitted into customs, a proper Celestial Ark civil servant.

He was only trying to survive; he wasn't planning to sever ties with his adoptive family. With a civilian administrative position, how could they still expect him to return and become a Cloud Knight?

Jing Yuan thought to himself.

Just as he thought everything was stable, he punched himself hard again, and Jing Yuan still received the same achievement.

[You attacked a moving corpse, rewarding Corpse Looting Experience +1]

Chapter 2: When You See Familiar Faces, You Gotta Moach

Why? I'll still die even after arriving at the Luofu Starfaring Vessel?

Ji Yuan was utterly confused.

However, he knew that if he did nothing, he could die at any moment within the next hundred years. He might even become a corpse tomorrow from an attack of unknown origin.

Since avoidance was ineffective, Ji Yuan had to change his approach.

He would fight head-on.

To do this, he had to make good use of the system to find characters he could "moach" off of.

Unfortunately, although he knew about the game Honkai: Star Rail in his previous life, he hadn't had the chance to play it. He had only seen some beautifully rendered CG images online. He knew who the playable characters were, but he wasn't very clear on their specific details.

What's more, this was a hundred years in the future. No one could say for sure what would happen in those hundred years.

It was still unknown if the protagonist had even appeared yet.

But soon, Ji Yuan's first target appeared.

The disciple of the Luofu General Jing Yuan, the Cloud Knight Lieutenant Yanqing.

I saw his wallpaper before I transmigrated. He's definitely not weak.

His current official position isn't too high, so even if I shamelessly sought him out for a spar, nothing bad would happen.

So, the day Ji Yuan saw Yanqing, he shamelessly went to challenge him to a duel.

Although he was defeated in one move, Ji Yuan finally achieved a remarkable feat.