"Aha stood up for you! After kicking his ass, I drew soap and a clown mask on his neck with an ink pen. Hahaha!"
Ye Yan said nothing. Aha had had his fun, doing whatever he pleased, but that bastard had used his goddamn face! He had dumped all the blame on him!
"I even thoughtfully destroyed all the surveillance data and left behind the soap the church often uses!"
"A whole bathtub full!" The mask laughed smugly, pestering Ye Yan nonstop.
"Don't you think it's hilarious? Aha!"
Ye Yan shook his head. "Just wait until Oswaldo Schneider wakes up. I'll dress up as an Elation follower and beat him up again. Then I can pin the blame on you."
"Oh~ That sounds absolutely delightful! Why don't we go do that right now? I think that human could provide us with plenty of amusement."
"Alas, a fanatical follower of Preservation, willing to use any means to achieve his ends. How could someone like that be a Nameless?"
"You're one to talk." Ye Yan's mouth twitched. Aha's exploits hardly needed him to list them.
"That's right, Aha is the worst Nameless! Boohoohoo~ Wait, no, now you're the worst Nameless! Aha! I pinned the blame on you!"
"Even Aha feels a little sorry for you. You got framed again yesterday! You aren't so angry that all you can do is cry, scream, and roll around on the floor throwing a tantrum, are you? Boohoohoo, how pitiful~"
Ye Yan: ...
"Get lost."
He swatted the mask away. He had planned to slack off for a few days before the Antimatter Legion arrived, but Aha had ruined everything.
Still... Oswaldo Schneider wouldn't wake up anytime soon, and Ye Yan wasn't worried. He had an alibi.
Knowing Aha, after impersonating him, he would probably have revealed his identity on the spot and told Oswaldo Schneider to make absolutely sure he remembered that face.
Oh~ You damned god of amusement, you'd better not let me find you, or I'll stuff socks into your mouth and give your ass a good kicking!
He opened his phone and found a god in his contacts with a centaur avatar.
[Ye Yan: Send me a cloud-piercing arrow. Urgent.]
Five minutes later.
[Lan: One moment.]
[System notification: Light Arrow charging...]
[Ye Yan: Stop!]
[System notification: Light Arrow charging stopped.]
[Ye Yan: Use the teleportation device I gave you before. Don't shoot through this entire star system.]
Another five minutes passed.
[Lan: All right.]
Yep, peak bot behavior.
A flickering digital gate appeared, with nothing but darkness visible inside.
Whoosh!
A light arrow containing immense Imaginary Energy shot out. Ye Yan caught it just in time, holding it under control in his hand.
Good grief, if I hadn't caught that, the space station would've exploded.
In return, Ye Yan thoughtfully tossed a bar of soap through the gate.
[Ye Yan: You can use it when you bathe.]
Ten minutes later.
[Lan: Mm.]
After ending the conversation, Ye Yan looked at the light arrow struggling incessantly in his hand. This shot should have been aimed at Yaoshi the Abundance, but now it was in Ye Yan's hands.
He actually enjoyed modifying other people's weapons. It was just that Cloud-Piercer had only one spearhead and no spares, or Ye Yan would have turned it into an automatic machine gun in minutes.
Years ago, he had helped Lan modify his weapon. With the power of Finality, it required no coordinates, only his own conviction, to cross time and space and automatically seek out enemies.
Eternity and Finality were such a perfect match. Unfortunately, Ye Yan had never met Terminus in all those millions of years. This ability had come from the system.
[Eternity · Finality]: Allows the target to travel through any time and space, to any location.
Whether Lan's original light arrows could pursue targets across time and space didn't matter to Ye Yan. In any case, he had given Lan another upgrade. Before, coordinates had been necessary. Now, a silent thought was enough to rain meteors down on someone.
But that wasn't the skill Ye Yan intended to use now.
Holding the light arrow in one hand, he opened a video app with the other, selected the Xianzhou Luofu channel, and entered a livestream.
"Livestream assistant: Welcome, annual member Koushi Chishui Chu, to the livestream."
In the livestream, an orange-red-haired girl was stretching, with an iron hammer set beside her. The brown-haired girl next to her had just carried over a huge rock.
"Come take a look, everyone! Today, Little Gui is bringing back the long-awaited chest rock-smashing act! There definitely won't be any mistakes this time. Right, Sushang?" She patted the girl beside her, who was taking deep breaths.
"Welcome to the livestream, Boss Ye!"
Guinaifen looked up and happened to see the assistant's message.
"Uncle Ye? Didn't he go traveling?"
"Oh, Sushang, who says he can't watch Little Gui's livestream while traveling? What would you like to see this time, boss? Just say the word! Little Gui can definitely do it!"
"Livestream assistant: Koushi Chishui Chu gifted Reignbow Arbiter's Light Arrow x999. You are now number one on the popularity ranking, hourly ranking, and Xianzhou ranking!"
"Livestream assistant: Congratulations on breaking the all-time record for the fastest climb to the top. Keep up the good work!"
"Wow, Boss Ye, what's all this? So many cloud-piercing arrows again! You really love Little Gui!"
"Koushi Chishui Chu: Look up. I'll show you a lone shooting star you only see once in a century."
Guinaifen and Sushang did as instructed and looked up at the sky.
"My old friend, are you ready to receive a cloud-piercing arrow?"
Energy surged around Ye Yan as he infused the light arrow with Imaginary Energy a second time.
[Eternity · The Hunt]: Designate a target for the Hunt. Attacks will automatically track the target and are guaranteed to hit!
(System notification: I'm about to unleash a badass attack!)
"This is our blood-pumping combination move!"
"Target of the Hunt: Aha the Elation!"
"Cloud-piercing arrow, coming right up~"
He stepped back and hurled the light arrow into the digital gate. As the gate closed, a violent sonic boom resounded throughout the universe.
Keeping track of the time, he silently counted down:
"Ten... nine... eight..."
The light arrow streaked through one star system after another at transcendent speed, heading straight for a certain location.
Aurum Alley, Xianzhou Luofu.
"Wow! Sushang, look, there really is a shooting star! But why is there only one?"
Guinaifen even took out a telescope, but unfortunately, the shooting star flew past so quickly that she couldn't get a clear look.
"Th-that doesn't look like a shooting star..."
Sushang swallowed. She still hadn't recovered from that tremendous boom just now.
What kind of shooting star was pitch-black?! That was a little frightening.
"Seven... six... five..."
The pitch-black light arrow kept racing past planet after planet, Imaginary Energy spilling out in full.
Freezing snow blanketed the entire planet. This was the Astral Express's next destination after leaving the space station: Jarilo-VI.
In Kliperburg, Supreme Guardian Cocolia watched the black shooting star streak across the sky, her gaze complicated.
[Cocolia... Cocolia... remember our plan... rebuild this dying world...]
The strange voice in her mind abruptly stopped. Her mind suddenly went blank, sending Cocolia straight to her knees, gasping for breath as her chest heaved.
In the sky, the escaping Imaginary Energy seemed to develop a consciousness of its own. It all sought out Cocolia and drifted into her mind, bringing another bout of intense pain.
"What's happening..."
Unable to endure it any longer, Cocolia's vision went black, and she fainted.
"Four... three... two..."
Somewhere in the universe, an elven girl holding a magic staff looked at the Antimatter Legion's wreckage strewn across the ground, feeling nothing.
"Boring." She kicked aside the Doomsday Beast's head. Even vacationing here, she had run into the Antimatter Legion rushing over. There wasn't a moment's peace.
There had also been a Lord Ravager leading them. What was his name, Zephyro?
It didn't matter. Once he learned that she came from the Church of Eternity, he had attacked her without another word.
No wonder that great one hates you so much. Lunatics like these, with nothing but violence and destruction in their heads, don't deserve to join the Church of Eternity.
After she showed that Lord Ravager the gap in their strength, he had simply abandoned this bunch of Antimatter Legion troops and run away.
"I gave you the option of joining Eternity, but unfortunately, you don't understand elvish."
Funnily enough, the girl had originally wanted to visit Pier Point yesterday and spread the beauty of Eternity there, but unfortunately, something had already happened by the time she arrived.
Never one to mind things getting worse when there was a spectacle to watch, she had looked into the details. Apparently, some big shot from the Marketing Development Department had been attacked.
In the girl's view, that fellow must have been beaten because he didn't believe in Eternity. If he had become THEIR follower, would there still have been so much trouble?
Without faith in Eternity, your life was destined to be a failure.
"Why hasn't Lord Ye... ahem, Lord Yite cast his gaze upon us these past few centuries? Is Paradise not being managed well?"
HE had said not to expose his alternate identity.
Whoosh!
The pitch-black light arrow grazed her cheek and vanished in the blink of an eye.
The girl froze, touching the hot blood flowing down her face. She closed her eyes to sense the lingering energy.
"Are you calling..." She looked in the direction the light arrow had come from, irrepressible excitement filling her eyes as HIS words echoed in her mind:
[Little Fu, there's a saying from the Galaxy Rangers I really like: The Reignbow actually travels at light speed... no, that's wrong. One cloud-piercing arrow, and thousands of troops come to meet you!]
[Galaxy Rangers... cloud-piercing arrow?]
The girl had pondered it back then and come up with a good idea:
[Then from now on, we'll use cloud-piercing arrows to assemble too!]
[Huh? We don't need to... assembling like that is pretty chuuni. Never mind, let's talk about another organization, the Masked Fools and the Mourning Actors...]
Even now, the girl still remembered that scene from years ago.
"A thousand years have passed, and your message has finally reached my ears!" The girl's chuuni soul was burning!
"One..."
As the countdown reached zero, Ye Yan snapped his fingers.
At that same moment, elsewhere in the universe.
"Owww~!!!!"
A dark figure wearing an Elation mask clutched his backside and let out a scream that rang throughout the universe.