Ai's energetic and cute words, however, left the players completely unmoved.
Seeing this, Ai put on a slightly sorrowful look and tapped her red lips with her finger.
"It won't do to be so unenthusiastic. It seems I need to tell everyone some good news."
"So! Listen up, players! This game you are currently in, from the moment I appeared, is no longer an ordinary virtual reality game!"
"Think back carefully to the sword skills you've learned! See if you still need to strike a pose and have them release automatically, or if they just appear directly in your minds like muscle memory."
"There are also many beta testers who seem to have already leveled up to level three in a short time. Then try out your bodies and brains that have been enhanced by attribute points. Have they become more coordinated and powerful, rather than just a simple accumulation of stats?"
"You... have arrived in a real game world! Everything here is real! Including those NPCs! They have complete lives and complete memories!"
"Go play! Go clear the game! Then you will discover the truth of this world! And when you clear up to the 100th floor! You will receive a huge surprise!"
"That's all! Ciao~ (∠・ω＜)⌒★"
After acting cute one more time, Ai disappeared into the air, leaving behind the players who stood dumbfounded in place, shocked by her words.
...
After a long while, some players snapped back to reality. They silently felt their own bodies and discovered that they did indeed seem to have grown much stronger. Even their thinking had become more agile than before.
This feeling was exactly as if they possessed a real body, rather than a digitized one.
Subsequently, many players began to run various tests.
A beta tester who had already leveled up simply jumped and actually leaped directly onto a stone pillar over two meters high.
Some players took out their weapons, intending to strike a pose to release a skill, but subconsciously executed a whole set of moves directly.
Some players went straight to NPCs who were previously incredibly dull, only to suddenly find that the NPCs were now looking at them with dissatisfaction.
The various changes made the players briefly forget their current predicament.
Until an exclamation drew the attention of many.
"Hey! Is this for real?! Look at the new synchronization rate info on the status panel! This has to be a joke, right?!"
Hearing this, the players opened their panels one after another, and then saw an attribute that was definitely not there before—Synchronization Rate.
Everyone's synchronization rate was at 0%, but when they looked at the question mark next to it, a shocking description appeared.
Synchronization Rate: The synchronization rate between the player's in-game character body and their real-world body. The higher the synchronization rate, the higher the percentage of the game character's attributes that will be synchronized to the real-world body after clearing the game.
"How could... such a thing be possible..."
"It's absolutely fake, right?!"
"..."
At this time, Shinomiya Kaguya and Asuna were already somewhat bewildered. Only Eriri, who was beside them, was frantically @ing Chen Changsheng in the chat group.
[Kashiwagi Eri: @Innate Wife-Taking Physique, Brother Changsheng, is this the surprise you were talking about?]
[Innate Wife-Taking Physique: How is it? This surprise isn't bad, right? As long as you, Eriri, can raise your synchronization rate to 100% before the game is completely cleared, you will be able to bring all your in-game power back to reality. Not only that, players with a 100% synchronization rate also get a hidden perk, which is that you can bring all your equipment and items into reality as well.]
[Kashiwagi Eri: That's awesome!]
[Kashiwagi Eri: But will we really not die?]
[Innate Wife-Taking Physique: Yes, later I'll have Ai set up a hidden class quest for you guys. Work hard, Eriri. If you can raise your level to the maximum level of 100, plus the bonuses from a hidden class, your realm will be no less than the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage in the cultivation world.]
[Innate Wife-Taking Physique: @Tyrant's Eye User, and Rikka, you need to work hard too. Don't let Eriri outdo you.]
[Tyrant's Eye User: Hmph! A mere Eriri will absolutely not be a match for I, the Tyrant's Eye User, and my familiar!]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: ...]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Dammit! I'm so jealous! Getting stronger just by playing games is way too awesome, isn't it?!]
[Great Sage Kiana: I'm jealous too! If I could play this game, I'd definitely become super strong really fast, right?]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Kiana, don't be jealous. Your level in the chat group is already Tier 3. As long as you can master the power of the Herrscher of the Void, wouldn't you be dozens of times stronger than peak Foundation Establishment?]
[Great Sage Kiana: But no matter what I say, the Herrscher of the Void ignores me!]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Ignores you? Why don't you try seeing if you can sell her to the chat group?]
[Great Sage Kiana: ???]
[Innate Wife-Taking Physique: ???]
[Yunlan Sect Master: ???]
[God of Angels: ???]
[Emperor of the Ages: ???]
[...]
As question marks flooded the chat group, over in the Honkai Impact 3rd world, Kiana actually found the chat group's store option.
Then she saw all the various things she possessed.
Among them was a name—Authority: Imaginary Space.
It's actually there?
Kiana stared at the Imaginary Authority with a dumbfounded expression. Then she thought about the difference between herself and the Herrscher of the Void in the game. She was Sirin's clone, and at the same time, the personality belonging to this body born under Sirin's subconscious. Meanwhile, the Herrscher of the Void was the personality born from Sirin's power.
So, what if she sold this Imaginary Authority that represented power?
Thinking of this, Kiana was ecstatic and subconsciously clicked the sell option.
However, right after selling the Authority, she cried out in her heart that this was bad.
[Great Sage Kiana sold Authority: Imaginary Space, obtaining 2,000,000 chat group points.]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Wait? Kiana, what did you just sell?]
But at this moment, Kiana no longer had the time to answer her.
Inside her room, Kiana tightly hugged her head as a massive roar echoed in her mind.
"What the hell did you do, you idiot?! Where is the power?! Where is my power?!"
Sirin (referred to as Sirin from now on) roared madly in Kiana's mind. The emptiness in her body made her feel as if she had returned to her childhood, unable to change anything, unable to do anything.
Facing Sirin's fury, Kiana merely wore a sullen, miserable expression.
The Herrscher Authority was sold, but Sirin was still inside her body. What was she supposed to do now?
Then came something even worse. Having lost her power, Sirin no longer thought about lying dormant; instead, she started fighting Kiana for control of the body.
"Ahhh! What are you doing?! This is my body!"
"You fake! This is clearly my body! Hand the body over to me! You idiot who even lost the Authority!"
"I won't!"
Kiana fought back frantically, and Sirin, now stripped of her Authority, found herself genuinely outmatched for the time being. But she refused to give up. Even if she couldn't seize control of the body, she absolutely wouldn't let that idiot Kiana have an easy time! If she was going down, she was taking her down with her!
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
