Book 1: Chapter 21: Merlin’s Class Begins

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Book 1: Chapter 21: Merlin’s Class Begins

Iron Fist Teacher: +1

Efreet: +1

Umaru-chan: +1

Blank Never Loses: +1

Queen of Rhodes Island: +10086

[TL Note: +1 in chat means agreed, +10086 means greatly agreed for the Chinese community. It’s typically used in a more comical setting.]

Magus of Flowers: The newcomer finally shows up.

Efreet: The newcomer is probably someone with her own faction. It’s obvious from the display name.

Ding! Queen of Rhodes Island is renamed Kal’tsit.

[TL Note: Kal’tsit is from Arknights. Here is her profile: /wiki/Kal%27tsit.]

Kal’tsit: I’ve been busy lately. Rhodes Island’s Doctor is missing, and we are currently searching for the Doctor.

He Who Knows Fate: Do you need help?

Kal’tsit: Not for now.

He Who Knows Fate: I feel that I should complete some missions. I have too few points.

Efreet: The person who gained 12,000 by doing nothing is not qualified to say this.

He Who Knows Fate: Does the Ability Third Awakening not require points? I now have 11,200 points. After deducting 10,000 points for that, I only have 1,200 points left. Furthermore, I have an ability that requires fixing. It costs 100,000 points. My goodness!

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: What kind of divine ability is it to need 100,000 points?

He Who Knows Fate: Absolute Precognition.

Magus of Flowers: ...

Queen of Ice and Snow: ...

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: What’s wrong?

Magus of Flowers: Where did you get this ability from? It’s truly a divine ability. Furthermore, looking at the name Absolute Precognition, isn’t that in the style of our Type-Moon games?

[TL Note: Type-Moon is the Japanese game company that produced the Fate series and others like The Garden of Sinners. Here is the Wikipedia entry on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-Moon.]

He Who Knows Fate: Yeah, no kidding! It really is from Type-Moon. Have you seen The Garden of Sinners? That world crumbled, and I gained a gift from it.

He Who Knows Fate: That’s good, then. I’ve started to feel like a father since Sirin arrived. Is that my misperception?

Efreet: A 14 year old is already very mature, alright? Your Sirin can already take revenge on the world at the age of 14.

He Who Knows Fate: Huh? Take revenge on the world?

Efreet: I say! Haven’t you read the comics?

He Who Knows Fate: Erm...no.

Efreet: I don’t want to say anything more. Quickly read it. Then, determine how you want to educate Sirin.

He Who Knows Fate: Got it. Has anyone read it before? Can you give me a summary?

Umaru-chan: To use an animal as an example, a pufferfish.

He Who Knows Fate: Pufferfish?

Umaru-chan: That’s right. Repeatedly inflating. Every time she gets a new power, her ego inflates. Then, she gets beaten up. After that, she gets another new power, so her ego inflates again. Then, she gets beaten up. Lather, rinse, and repeat.

He Who Knows Fate: That’s enough. I’ll go and read now.

This child, Sirin, definitely has some problems. No. I have to read the comics.

Hence, Chen Heng opened the information pack that Umaru-chan sent him and started reading the comics.

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After reading the comics, Chen Heng closed the chat interface to digest the information he had just read. Sirin lived a miserable life. However, as he read, he felt like laughing a little for some reason. Her situation is clearly sad. Why?

However, calling Sirin a pufferfish makes sense. No, I have to guide her properly. She cannot go on like that. The most important thing in life is to be cautious. It is rare to see someone like Sirin, whose ego keeps inflating after she gets down so many times.

Chen Heng checked the time through the chat group. It was already nine o’clock. After reading the Honkai Impact 2nd comic, he felt interested in the Honkai Impact 3rd game.

Hence, he got the game.

He went to the association’s store and bought the game, spending one point. (Normally, he would not even need a point, but this version came with a gift pack.) He set his cellphone as the receiving end and downloaded the game. The download was completed in three seconds.

“Fight for all that is beautiful in the world!”

[TL Note: “Fight for all that is beautiful in the world!” is the slogan of Honkai Impact 3rd, and it appears on the game’s startup.]

“This is quite interesting. Let me try playing it for a while.”

After opening the game, Chen Heng did not bother changing his display name, leaving it the default string of random numbers assigned by the system.

“Is this a 3D hack-and-slash game? The mechanism is quite interesting. Dodge? Quick time event? The story is pretty good too. The models are very pleasing to the eyes. However, Kiana’s braids feel a little unnatural. This game can never have PvP, as the player who moves first would lose, right?”

[TL Note: Kiana is the main character of Honkai Impact 3rd. Here is her profile: /wiki/Kiana_Kaslana_(K-423).]