Chapter 37
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Chapter 37: No Real Progress
Have you ever drawn cards in a game?
What’s your opinion about drawing cards? For hope? Despair or merely emptiness?
Bai Yan believed it represented the temporary activation of the human fluke mind.
“If I can…”
“I’ll get it next time…”
“I’ve invested so much…”
These thoughts make it difficult for many people to control themselves.
The more people fail to draw cards, the more they want to invest! In theory, a truly rational person wouldn’t consider sunk costs, but who can be completely rational?
Drawing cards may not bring happiness, but controlling the urge to draw cards will make one irritable.
Finally, Bai Yan accumulated enough energy points for a new ten summon.
He rose slowly to leave. The waiter stopped him. It turned out that Alan had left without paying the check.
“God.”
After settling the bill, Bai Yan exited the restaurant with his mobile phone and took a deep breath.
He felt sacred at this moment!
Originally, he wanted to find a more suitable place to draw cards. For instance, in front of the sculpture of Herendor University’s founder.
However, Bai Yan was too tempted by the game. He wanted to draw cards immediately.
“Do it.”
One summon or ten summon.
Ten summon!
Bai Yan promptly pressed it, and instantly, flashing pictures appeared in the gray fog.
“Operator fragment — Cybertyrant × 1”
“Relic Fragment — Blink Blade × 1”
“Tactics — Collective speed-up × 1”
Bai Yan was stunned. Unexpectedly, he obtained a tactical card. It could provide significant help while carrying out key tasks.
“Operator fragment — Queen of the Scarlett Moon × 1”
“Operator fragment — Queen of the Scarlett Moon × 1”
“Operator fragment — Girl Psychic Elene × 1”
“Relic — Nyx’s cover × 1”
That was it!
Unfortunately, there were no core operators. But a relic was also acceptable.
“Operator fragment — Queen of the Scarlett Moon × 1”
“Sacred Rune — Athena × 1”
“Operator fragment — Ninetales Aision × 1”
Bai Yan’s eyes lit up, and he trembled with excitement. One more operator fragment!
Although he failed to summon a core operator, obtaining two precious relics made it worthwhile.
Unfortunately, he still hadn’t gained the Queen of the Scarlett Moon.
However, this time, he gained three fragments of her, bringing his total to five fragments.
It was equivalent to having obtained half of the Queen of the Scarlett Moon.
Bai Yan’s spirits lifted.
Operator fragments appeared as pixel avatars. Now, Bai Yan possessed five avatars of the queen.
“That’s good. Both Nyx’s cover and Athena were valuable assets.” Bai Yan contemplated how to distribute them.
Bai Yan was lost in thought. Many materials he had obtained earlier remained undistributed. Now was the appropriate time.
The Nightsaber and Psychic Dancer needed further strengthening.
Although their strength had improved rapidly, they were still far from being capable of saving the world. They needed to become stronger.
He scrolled through his cell phone and quickly reviewed the materials he had accumulated thus far.
“Mystical Power — Unlimited Ammunition”
“Mystical power — Praise the Sun”
“Relic — Enchanted Pistol”
Bai Yan pondered briefly, then made a simple distribution according to the core operators’ nature.
First, he assigned Nyx’s cover to Nightsaber.
Nyx being the goddess of night meant the relic had high compatibility with Nightsaber.
Then, he gave the Sacred Rune — Athena to Psychic Dancer. Athena’s power suited her abilities’ further development perfectly.
Bai Yan tapped his mobile phone to give them their new relic and Sacred Rune, respectively.
“Hmm, I wonder what their expressions will be?”
The leaves continued falling in the yard.
This ancient and dilapidated villa maintained a different time and space rate than other places in Tatsumi City, having always been hidden in the border arranged by the hunter family.
Mu Ling practiced swordsmanship calmly and meticulously, as usual.
After acquiring the self-healing ability, she began studying new tactics that were more intense, fierce, and closer to death.
The ability change expanded her fighting mode significantly!
“Boom!”
The black bastard sword swept down heavily and suddenly halted a centimeter above the ground. Mu Ling had set up an imaginary human-shaped enemy before her and swiftly attacked it.
Mu Ling had practiced this way for a long time and gradually began to sweat.
Huo Xin stood by again.
He frowned, concerned about his young lady. During this period, she seemed driven and desperately tried to strengthen herself daily.
It was as if someone had given her a death order.
“Who changed her?”
At that moment, Huo Xin sensed a familiar and frightening atmosphere.
Black fog materialized out of thin air in the yard and rushed toward Mu Ling.
Huo Xin was surprised but didn’t rush forward again, knowing this was the mysterious Babel Tower’s doing.
“My lady?”
Mu Ling gazed into the dark fog’s depths. She didn’t retreat but stood firmly as if awaiting heaven’s mercy or fury.
[Nightsaber, this is your reward.]
The indifferent voice resonated through her mind once more.
A black cloth belt emerged from the black fog and slowly descended into Mu Ling’s hands.
She lifted the black belt and examined it.
The belt felt smooth. Its surface appeared no different from ordinary black cloth, but the inside shimmered with dark malevolence, as if containing a galaxy within.
It possessed a thrilling, strange charm! Mu Ling couldn’t look away!
“Nyx’s cover! The civilization-level relic.” Huo Xin’s shocked voice broke through.
He stepped forward quickly, studied the black cloth belt with a complex expression, and said urgently, “It’s impossible. How can it be… Miss, what is Babel Tower’s origin?”
“This belt is an important relic lost by your ancestor’s legendary hunter!”
Mu Ling nodded gently. She knew this fact and was equally surprised.
Nyx’s cover originally belonged to Mu Ling’s ancestors, but the ancestor accidentally lost this relic to the outside world during battle with the evil god’s son.
So how had Babel acquired it?
But since it was the Savior, Mu Ling wasn’t entirely surprised. Such a great existence could obtain anything.
Mu Ling’s tolerance had increased significantly after several encounters with the Savior’s shocking acts.
“Perhaps the Savior and my ancestor share some special connection, which is why he approached me.”
Mu Ling thought calmly before wrapping the black belt around her beautiful face to cover her purplish-red eyes.
At that moment, her presence transformed completely.
Mysterious, dark, noble… more so than ever before.
Mu Ling perceived a new world!
Even with the black cloth’s protection, she could clearly see everything before her while simultaneously observing countless faint lights flickering!
These faint lights were the universe’s negative energy.
Nyx’s cover: Wearers gain the ability to manipulate the universe’s negative energy. Each use of negative energy to harm others, create illusions, or heal others costs sight and life force.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this…”
Mu Ling attempted to manipulate the negative energy mentally, imagining its use.
This strange energy behaved sensitively, like mercury-like liquid moving along everything’s edges. To her amazement, it responded to her thoughts obediently.
She easily directed the negative energy to create a black cat illusion.
The black cat rolled on the ground and dozed off.
Huo Xin also witnessed this lifelike illusion, displaying evident surprise.
Ordinary people with superpowers typically needed at least a year to master illusion magic of this caliber!
For humans, manipulating negative energy was theoretically impossible.
Such was the power of a civilization-level relic.
The next moment, Mu Ling felt something within her diminish – presumably a fraction of her lifespan.
“I’m not strong enough.”
A civilization-level relic’s power required Apocalypse level superpower for full control. When fully unleashed, it could easily devastate a city.
She understood clearly that in the Air Alliance or any country, a civilization-level relic represented a strategic-level weapon of utmost importance.
Yet the savior had casually bestowed it upon her!
Mu Ling felt slightly dizzy.
“Savior, I shall never disappoint you.”
Within half a month, he had granted her the Outer God’s power, a civilization-level relic, and even helped her achieve complete revenge against Black Star. Mu Ling wondered if the Savior might be her resurrected ancestor.
Why else would he give her so much?
Mu Ling inhaled deeply and removed Nyx’s cover. She decided she should wear it only during combat.
Mu Ling yearned to see the Savior again! Simply to express her gratitude and loyalty once more!
“Huo Xin, I’m leaving.”
