"I never thought Ye Yan was hiding so much. He's actually a secret tycoon!"
Thinking it over... it did make sense. After all, Ye Yan had lived for at least several thousand years. It was perfectly reasonable for him to have a little extra money.
"Enough about that! Let's have a pillow fight!"
"Great minds think alike."
Stelle rolled up her sleeves. Ever since Ye Yan had won with overwhelming strength that time, she had been reflecting on her performance and constantly practicing.
Now, Stelle had mastered the art of pillow fighting and had even sought out Ye Yan specifically to put her skills to the test.
Unsurprisingly, Ye Yan had shown her what despair meant.
The Galactic Baseballer had encountered an opponent with both talent and mechanics, as monstrously powerful as they came, and could not win even after giving it her all.
After enduring trials and hardships, Stelle had undoubtedly become the strongest beneath the gods. Now, she was going to make March 7th experience exactly how she had felt back then!
"March, are you ready?"
"Hmph! Before you and Ye Yan boarded the Express, I held an undefeated record as the Express's number one pillow fighter!"
March 7th planted her hands on her hips. Since no one had been willing to play pillow fights with her back then, she had naturally been number one.
"Bring it on!"
After an intense pillow fight...
March 7th sat back on her heels on the bed, unable to accept her crushing defeat.
"Before [Eternity], you have no chance of victory."
Stelle followed his example, imitating Ye Yan's tone as she radiated the aura of a pillow-fighting powerhouse.
"Nothing special. Just practice." Stelle smacked her lips and patted March 7th on the head. "Ah, keep at it, March. I look forward to the day you can defeat me!"
"One more round!"
"Anytime."
Meanwhile, in an inconspicuous corner, Silver Wolf's holographic projection was recording the scene with her phone.
Meanwhile, in Dan Heng's room
Listening to the fierce sounds of battle coming from next door, Dan Heng sighed softly, showing a trace of helplessness and gentleness.
His expression held a measure of tolerance as he silently accepted the joy amid the commotion. March 7th radiated unfettered vitality, but unfortunately, Dan Heng could not experience it.
"LMAO, these two are having so much fun they haven't noticed me at all!"
At that moment, Ye Yan was sitting at the desk, modifying Cloud-Piercer for Dan Heng while listening to Silver Wolf's live broadcast through his earphones.
"If you want to play, you can join them." Ye Yan opened team voice chat with Silver Wolf.
"Huh? I'm not a kid. I'm not doing something that boring. I'm going to record this and send it to Kafka."
Dan Heng watched Ye Yan work so intently on improving Cloud-Piercer, moving so fast that he could not make out his hand movements at all.
A quarter of an hour later, as the battle in the next room ended once more, Ye Yan stopped working as well.
"All done!" He held Cloud-Piercer out to Dan Heng. The spear's appearance had not changed much, though its overall lines were more balanced than before.
"Here. Now Cloud-Piercer really can break through the heavens and pierce the clouds. This is a huge improvement over last time! I gave it a lot of thought, and magnetic attachments are too traditional. We need innovation!"
After removing the detachable spearhead, a tap of the button on the shaft would retract it. Now Dan Heng would never have to worry about retrieving his spearhead again.
"A short press is single-shot, and a long press is rapid-fire mode... Hmm, it's not convenient to demonstrate here. You can find a training ground and try it out."
"Rapid-fire?" Dan Heng was puzzled. Cloud-Piercer had only one spearhead. He had assumed it could only deliver a single killing strike, but now it seemed... his knowledge was still too limited.
"Oh, right, there's also a combined spear-and-staff mode! Now you won't have to worry about running into someone powerful one day and getting the shaft broken."
Ye Yan gripped Cloud-Piercer firmly at its center, applied a little force with his fingertips, and casually pulled.
Cloud-Piercer Spear abruptly split in two, revealing a sturdy iron chain in the middle of the shaft that securely linked the two sections.
The chain swayed slightly in the air with a low metallic clinking, vast Imaginary Energy radiating around it.
An excellent modification that solved the problem of being unable to use a ranged weapon in close combat.
"Flexible and sharp. My craftsmanship is still top-notch~"
Unlike the forging techniques of the Xianzhou Zhuming, what Ye Yan did was entirely modification, though the foundation remained unchanged.
For personal reasons, Ye Yan had also engraved a line of text on the shaft.
[Within immortality, you shall witness Eternity]
"Sorry for the trouble."
"No need to stand on ceremony with family. We're companions who've faced life and death together! Master Ye's craftsmanship is trustworthy!" Ye Yan did not forget to put in a sales pitch. To him, this was a perfect modification.
Still, this was only an appetizer... Once they reached the Silvermane Guard Restricted Zone, the main event would begin!
Ye Yan returned to his room. Having finished watching the pillow fight, Silver Wolf was leaning by the window, playing on her phone.
"Technology advances so fast these days. Holographic projections look just like the real thing."
"Ha, the real me is lying in a nice ice-water bath right now... It's pretty comfortable."
"Then I won't disturb you. Goodbye."
Ye Yan tactfully withdrew, giving Silver Wolf plenty of privacy.
Silver Wolf: ???
"Hey, the one standing in front of you is just a holographic projection!"
Silver Wolf chased after him. After switching to a mode where only Ye Yan could see her, she walked out of the Goethe Hotel with him.
"By the way, how come I haven't seen that blue-haired guy? Where did he run off to?"
"He might be in jail, or he might be in the Underworld. Who knows?"
Belobog's guards alone were nowhere near capable of keeping Sampo locked up.
The quiet of late night was the perfect time for Sampo to escape from prison. For all they knew, he might be eating in Boulder Town right now.
"LMAO, he got locked up again."
After hearing Ye Yan's explanation, Silver Wolf clutched her stomach and laughed.
"How about we break him out and become Belobog's five-star upstanding citizens?" Silver Wolf started coming up with strange ideas.
"There's really no need. With his abilities... it'd be strange if he couldn't escape."
After joining the Stellaron Hunters and completing her beginner mission, Silver Wolf had been seized by guards and taken to a dungeon while sightseeing at a church, for certain reasons that could not be openly discussed.
As for those reasons that could not be openly discussed, she had actually sprayed Punklorde-style graffiti on a statue of the Aeon [Eternity] and been caught.
After being taken to the church and meeting the presiding bishop named Chair Blake, Silver Wolf's heart had already sunk halfway.
She had taken things too far. This presiding bishop was actually an Emanator, even though she clearly had not detected an Emanator-level Imaginary reaction.
Even more absurdly, he actually knew her!
That wasn't right, was it? Silver Wolf had only completed one mission, and she was already this famous? Chair Blake was pretty quick at keeping up with the gossip.
She had thought she would be handed over to the Interastral Peace Corporation, but Chair Blake had merely made her copy the first eight pages of the Book of Eternal Virtues ten times as punishment, then taken her to the dungeon on the charge of blaspheming the Aeon [Eternity] and locked her up for a day.
Then... she had seen Sampo, who had also been locked up there.