Chapter 46
by GideonChapter 46: The End of the Hotel Instance
Every single one of them was caught. Before the instance’s countdown could reach zero, the Puppeteer effortlessly tracked down everyone, including the staff members who knew the truth.
The dolls danced in his hands before he returned them to their own independent theatrical space.
At the same time, as the instance’s countdown finally reached zero—
“I will find you—”
Those were the last words Qing Guizhu left behind.
And when Night Jiujui raised her eyes again, she had already returned to her little shop.
【The current instance has ended. System calculating…】
【Dear Miss Night Jiujui, congratulations on successfully surviving the current instance!】
【You will receive the following instance rewards: 400 points (Basic clearance reward: 200 points; four players eliminated, earning a total of 200 additional points).】
【You have received a hidden reward: One random draw. Would you like to draw now?】
Looking at the lottery screen that popped up…
Night Jiujui decisively pressed the draw button.
After a dazzling flurry of colors flashed across the screen… the interface finally burst into brilliant golden light.
【Congratulations! You have obtained the skill: Space!】
【Below is your updated status panel:
Name: Night Jiujui
Background Classification: Modern World
Overall Personal Evaluation: S- (You possess intelligence, extraordinary beauty that is practically a weapon, and… now that you’ve synchronized your strength with your puppet alternate self, you seem to have gained a little ability to protect yourself.)
All Instances: The Nonexistent Doll Is Everywhere
Instance Rank: S+
Skills:
Puppet赋 (Lv. 9): Any being whose level is lower than or equal to yours has already become something in the palm of your hand. As long as you wish, you can mark and convert them into your puppets at any time, anywhere, and in any form.
As for beings whose level is higher than yours… your mark will act as a curse against them, potentially turning corresponding parts of their bodies into puppets according to the difference in strength.
(As long as the host remains alive, any of your puppets can be fully repaired by paying an equivalent amount of resources.) 【Conditions for reaching maximum level: ???】
Painted Faces and Costumes [Max Level]: You can create puppet alternate selves and assign them corresponding character profiles. For a certain period of time, they will possess all the abilities specified in their profiles.
(Ability specifications cannot be repeated. For example, if your previous template was assigned the ability of invisibility, and its manifestation fails, the invisibility ability will be permanently disabled.)
Within the designated time limit, as long as the puppet alternate self does not break character and living beings develop sufficient awareness of its assigned persona, once that awareness reaches 30%, the puppet alternate self will successfully manifest. It will then be permanently retained, and its abilities will synchronize with the original self.
(Note: When using a puppet alternate self’s character template, only the abilities specified in that particular template will be retained.)
Silken Thread Manipulation (Lv. 9): You can completely control beings whose level is lower than or equal to yours, and exert corresponding influence over beings whose level is higher than yours. 【Conditions for reaching maximum level: ???】
Space (Lv. 1): One cubic centimeter? One cubic meter? Well, all right. Perhaps possessing this skill means you have an infinite storage space after all. (Note: Living beings cannot survive inside this space.) 【Upgrade conditions: ???】
Trait: Every one of your puppets can be your true self, and your true self can also be any one of your puppets. In fact, as long as even one puppet you’ve imprinted still exists somewhere in the world, you will never completely disappear.
Points:】
Night Jiujui carefully read through the description of her new Space skill.
Living beings couldn’t survive inside the space?
Didn’t that mean that if an enemy approached her next time, she could simply put them inside her space?
Night Jiujui pondered for a while… and finally reached a conclusion.
As it turned out, single pulls really could work miracles!
“More importantly… can you still sense that player?”
Since the Puppeteer had entered the instance through Night Jiujui as his point of connection, he had naturally been sent back to the little shop along with her when the instance ended.
He sat casually on the counter, picking through the dolls he’d brought back from the instance and tossing the ones he didn’t like into Night Jiujui’s instance. At the same time, he casually ruffled the little head of the teddy-bear puppet sitting on the counter.
“Even if he cleared an S-rank promotion instance, his rank should still fall within the S- category. According to your skill, as long as you’ve imprinted him, you should be able to convert him into one of your puppets.”
You know what? That actually made some sense.
Night Jiujui’s eyes lit up.
She tried to reach for that faint connection. In the end, she did manage to find it, but she couldn’t convert Storm into a puppet.
“It should be because Storm successfully cleared the instance after obtaining my imprint earlier. As a result, my imprint on him has been reduced to its sensing function alone.”
But—
“I think I can use Storm as an anchor to connect the passageways between the two worlds?”
Now that was something worth getting excited about!
The Puppeteer’s eyes shifted.
“Shall I go explore the other side?”
Hmm… That should be fine?
After all, following his several appearances in the instance, the Puppeteer’s manifestation progress had already reached 30.324%. His template had been permanently retained. She should also start thinking about creating a third template…
Night Jiujui pondered for a moment. Seeing the barely concealed eagerness in the Puppeteer’s eyes, she ultimately decided not to stop him.
The Puppeteer was already a mature template. He should learn to find ways to increase his own manifestation progress and then feed that strength back to his original self—in other words, her!
And so—
With Night Jiujui’s assistance, the Puppeteer successfully descended from the game world into the world where Storm was.
At dusk, warm golden sunlight spilled into his eyes. The Puppeteer tilted his head slightly, his eyes filled with curious amusement and a faint, fragmented smile.
“So this… is Blue Star—”
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