Examining the items obtained through hard labor, Fuli truly felt like he had struck oil in his backyard; it was beautiful beyond words.
With a wave of his hand, the whistling Trailing Shadow Swords carried the gem and the core to him.
After all, he had played with Miss RIN's feelings for so long.
Naturally, Fuli had to take responsibility to the end.
And continue to play with her body (physically/materially).
"I apologize for not letting you enjoy yourself to the fullest."
He smiled and mocked a couple of sentences, regardless of whether RIN inside could hear them.
Then, he conveniently threw the four-tailed demon fox's Honkai Beast Core into the system for the weekly single draw.
[Finality Coordinator System Exchange/Lottery conditions met. Does the host wish to reward himself now?]
Reward himself? Good, good, good. Even though she's asleep, the recorded voice left behind is still so cheeky!
Fuli muttered and selected confirm.
[Meta-Morph Factor 'Fuli' activated. Multi-Dimensional Otherworld Resonance 0%—100%. System searching...]
As soon as Prometheus's recorded voice fell, Fuli's vision was covered by the familiar white brilliance.
A moment later, a grim and majestic iron one-eyed mask appeared out of thin air in his hand.
[Name: God King Mask]
[Rank: A]
[Type: Item/Consumable]
[Effect: One-time use item. A peculiar one-eyed mask.
Upon wearing, enter the "Transformation · King of the Wild Hunt" state. This state can significantly enhance the wearer's basic attributes and grant the ability to manipulate causality to a certain extent. The transformation lasts for at most one battle.]
[Note ①: One battle means one battle. Any bug-exploiting behavior will be borne by the user.]
[Note ②: The blood of kings must end by the sword!]
First of all, it must be stated that among items of the same rank, the performance of consumables often exceeds that of regular items.
The reason is simple: the more restrictions, the stronger the ability.
Comparing a regular item that can be used indefinitely until damaged and a consumable with a clear number of uses, there is no reason for the latter to be weaker than the former.
Just like the God King Mask, a rare A-rank consumable. Based on Fuli's experience, once worn, it would be normal for his strength to skyrocket to that of an extremely strong Critical-class entity.
As for the ability to manipulate causality to a certain extent, he would have to wait until he wore the mask in a life-or-death situation to comprehend that skill.
Given the high-end and impressive performance of the term "causality" in major works, it presumably wouldn't disappoint the user.
"Sauce! Wuwuwu! Sauce!"
Wailing from behind interrupted Fuli's joy.
Playing with the Gem of Corruption and the God King Mask, he turned around to look at the white-haired girl sitting on the ground in a duck sit (W-sit), crying while holding the dog's wreckage.
It was true weeping and wailing, snot and everything flying everywhere, not at all like "pear blossoms bathed in rain" (beautiful crying).
Her small face was already dirty enough, and with this mess, she basically turned into a coal ball.
Only those azure eyes remained bright. Big teardrops washed away the dust inside them completely, making them clean like two sapphires.
Fuli put away his treasures, walked over, and waved his hand in front of her eyes.
"Hello? Moshi moshi?"
"Annoying! Don't bother me! Wuwuwu Sauce..."
Glared at fiercely by Kiana-Kitty-Cat!
"Then look at what this is?"
"!!!"
The object in Fuli's hand instantly perked Kiana up. She wiped the tears from her face indiscriminately and grabbed his hand tightly with both hands. "Th-This is! —What is this?"
"A disc recording your dog's AI and memory data." Fuli expressed that she was getting so excited without knowing what it was; was she sick in the head? "When I have time, I'll find you a mechanical dog of the same model, and you can just install it."
Kiana's grand entrance did disrupt his plan, but she also helped save the heaven-defying life-saving item, the Flying Raijin Kunai. Rounding it off, it was definitely a profit.
Moreover, this girl ran over to help out of kindness. For someone who disregarded their own safety to help with good intentions, even if she messed up, Fuli wouldn't sting on praise.
He added, "And your dog is indeed loyal."
At that time, Sauce could have totally spat out RIN's wrist to dodge the attack. But to give Kiana more reaction time, it still allowed its body to be kicked to pieces.
"Of course! Hmph, look who raised it!"
Knowing her fur baby could be saved, Kiana lifted her chin, putting her hands on her hips triumphantly.
Immediately after, her gaze shifted to the fingernail-sized Gem of Corruption in Fuli's hand.
Scrunching her small face, she asked nervously, "This thing, is there any risk of her being cured (resurrected/breaking free)?"
"Emotionally stable before the deceased's grave." (Implying: She's dead/stable as a corpse.)
"That's good."
The girl breathed a long sigh of relief.
Then, as if suddenly remembering something, she took a big step back.
She narrowed her cat-like eyes, turning into a radar to scan every detail on Fuli's body, as carefully as a young wife checking her husband after he returned from a night of debauchery.
Now that the battle was over, it was time for Kiana Kaslana to seek answers!
What must come will come.
Facing the aggressive white big cat with a stern expression, Fuli felt a headache internally but looked righteous on the surface. "I haven't even asked why you came!"
Turning the tables, as it were.
"This Miss suspects you were possessed by someone!"
Such words blurted out without going through the brain; one could only say this was very Kiana.
"I told you not to read too many trashy novels."
Fuli brushed it off verbally but secretly ridiculed in his heart.
Idiot's intuition really works; the answer is actually quite close to the truth.
"Then how do you explain all this?"
Kiana crossed her arms, pressing step by step.
"And, and personality..."
This wasn't pressing anymore. A lovely blush appeared on her cheeks, and her gaze unconsciously shifted to the right.
Fortunately, her face was smeared like a calico cat, so no one could tell.
Fuli knew what she meant.
Two days ago, he was whispering sweet nothings and proposing to her, and today he had suddenly seen the light and cut off worldly ties. This change in mindset was indeed abnormal.
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