"OK, let's take a final look at the Light Cone."
[May Return While Scenery Unchanged]
Rarity: ✦✦✦✦✦
Level: 80/80
Base HP: 952
Base ATK: 274
Base DEF: 795
The following effects only take effect for paths of [Harmony]
Overlay 1/2/3/4/5 levels
Ι Born from Heaven and Earth, How Dare I Retreat
Increases the wearer's SPD by 18%/21%/24%/27%/30%.
When the wearer's SPD is greater than or equal to 200, allied targets who enter an extra turn through the wearer gain the following effects.
When attacking, reduce the DEF of enemy targets by 20%/22%/25%/27%/30% for 2 turns.
After the extra turn ends, advance their next action by 25%/27%/29%/31%/34%.
"…Oh my god."
"If he has his signature Light Cone, big Leon won't have any SPD pressure at all. Even with less than 5 SPD in each relic slot, he can still reach 200."
"Calculating the DEF shred benefit against a level 95 enemy, the talent's 20% DEF shred provides an 11.98% increase."
"Adding the Light Cone's 20% brings total DEF shred to 40%, with an overall increase rate of 27.22%."
"The increase in damage output is only this much. If other characters in the team can also provide DEF shred, the higher the shred value, the greater the Light Cone's increase rate becomes."
"If the team's total DEF shred reaches 80%, the total increase rate is 74.8%. Adding the Light Cone's 20% reaches the 100% cap, and the total increase rate from DEF shred reaches 115%, That is very exaggerated.
"This also demonstrates the true value of Honkai: Star Rail's only reverse dilution scaling zone. The closer the number gets to 100%, the greater the increase rate per point of DEF shred."
"The final effect is also very strong, essentially giving the main DPS a permanent Dance! Dance! Dance!"
"To put it in the simplest terms, 4 extra turns allow the main DPS to gain one additional action out of nowhere."
"It's not actually that simple, because there are also true Dance! Dance! Dance! or action advance methods like the Eagle set."
"When multiple action advance methods are combined, the resulting interaction is difficult to measure with simple arithmetic. In short, it's extremely powerful."
"The Light Cone's substats relieve relic pressure and increase Leon's action count. The latter two properties serve the main DPS entirely."
"Overall, it's a support Light Cone whose increase rate far exceeds its text description. Highly recommended to pull for."
...
Meanwhile, in another livestream, Ah Xian was also looking at Leon's limited signature Light Cone.
However, she was currently looking at the Light Cone story.
"So the dialogue from the preview came from this."
[Only us left, Leon.]
[Yeah, only us left…]
[Take care. If I don't make it back, I'm leaving the future to you.]
[Okay…]
[May the body perish while mountains and rivers remain.]
[…May Return… While Scenery Unchanged.]
Before the stele inscription amidst the sea of flowers, she spread her wings and soared away into the sky.
The appointed time for their meeting arrived, but she did not return.
Before the stele inscription amidst the sea of flowers, only he remained, speaking in solitude.
[The cold stele inscribes old vows; once more, I see the place of parting.]
He was the final witness to the promise.
He was also the final oath taker.
He knew that no one would ever erect a stele for him in the future.
He knew even more—
THAT ONE would never return, never.
Did everything the Sky Haven Clan do truly have meaning?
He could not stop any of this.
He could not speak words of persuasion.
He was left with only an empty shell.
How he wished that, in the future, someone could say this blessing to him—
May Return While Scenery Unchanged.
May when you return, this sea of flowers still blooms as before.
May when you return, all beauty has not faded with the wind.
"The Light Cone illustration still shows the sea of flowers, meaning the timeline is before boarding the Express. It's unclear exactly how long before."
"She spreads her wings and leaves, indicating that the person speaking with Leon should also be of the Sky Haven Clan."
"As for 'THAT ONE will never return'…"
Ah Xian fell into deep thought, her voice dropping half an octave.
"Currently, in the writing, the pronoun 'THEY/THAT ONE' is basically always used for Aeons, with very few exceptions for non-human Emanators."
"Could it be that Leon's past truly was—"
She looked utterly stunned, murmuring: "An Emanator of a deceased Aeon…"
"That would also explain why he can fight against Emanators of Destruction."
"But, even if an Aeon dies, THEIR Path still exists. Can Emanators continue to be born?"
"If he was already an Emanator before the Aeon died, would he lose part of the Emanator's power after death?"
[I've read Uncle Toby's comprehensive analysis and research on Emanators. Your doubts don't have a clear answer.]
[But one thing is certain: in Himeko and Welt's eyes, Leon doesn't have the Imaginary fluctuations of an Emanator. Does that indicate something?]
[Still hard to say. Emanator-level Imaginary fluctuations can most likely be hidden. There's no reason an Emanator's identity could be casually seen or detected by anyone.]
"Never mind. It should be revealed slowly. It's still unclear exactly what the Sky Haven Clan is doing."
"Judging by the description, it's very dangerous, to the point of completely losing one's life. And Leon can't stop it."
"Based on his five-star character profile, does it relate to duty and destiny?"
[Strange, why isn't Ah Xian slurping noodles anymore?]
"Bro, I just got stabbed by a massive knife with Six Souls. Compared to that, the Light Cone story is just a small pencil knife."
"Anyone who gets frequently stabbed by knives knows that after getting used to it, the short-term threshold rises quite a bit."
[Got it. The effect of continuous knives gets worse and worse.]
"Isn't that obvious?"
Ah Xian rolled her eyes.
"Which feels more intense, having hate-sex once a day for five days, or having hate-sex once after five days?"
"Don't you understand the saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder'? Not just regarding the threshold, but the sense of novelty is also very important."
"The damn screenwriters aren't stupid. Even delivering knives needs to be gradual, with a balance of tension and release."
"If every story beat and plot progression is a knife, people will get sick of it."
[Do, do what?]
[Moderator speaking! Asking if you've turned red yet. Sister 8K, the great ability of the doujinshi world and the livestream world who walks by the river, deeply understands the literature of antonyms.]
[Moderator: Already red.]
[Haha, really red?]
"Tch, handling a little moderator is simply too easy. Going to listen to our husband's voice lines."
[First Meeting]
I am the Sky Haven Envoy, Leon. Heaven's mercy be pitiful; may you never encounter the time of ██.
[Greeting]
Wishing you all the best.
[Farewell]
Wishing you sweet dreams and a bright tomorrow.
[About Self · Duty]
The Sky Haven Clan exists because of ██. I shall act on THEIR will until my mission ends.
"Hmm?"
"There's actually still information that needs to be hidden. These should be the name or Path of that deceased Aeon, right?"
[Why does it feel like Order?]
[I don't think so. Beauty seems more likely.]
[About Self · Creed]
If the heavenly way is truly meant to be without emotion, then why does it bestow compassion?
"Stop guessing. It can't be any currently known Aeon. This creed alone doesn't match."
"The most similar concept would actually be Abundance. But if it were Abundance, wouldn't Jing Yuan and Phantylia have noticed? They fought so intensely."
Ah Xian analyzed this way.
[About Self · Wings]
Blessed by the grace of ██, the only weakness of the Sky Haven Clan is their wings, and thereafter, the wings are no longer a weakness either.