After assigning everyone their living quarters, Theresa departed. With the outbreak of the Third Honkai Impact, a mountain of issues required her personal attention and oversight as the leader of the Far East Branch.
There was the migration and resettlement of the population, the assessment of urban losses in the wake of the eruption, the reorganization of transportation routes, and the potential disappearance of specialized resources.
She even had to review the Honkai statistical data and combat reports that would serve as study materials for future generations.
Hua Yi, meanwhile, began to inspect his new home.
The layout was similar to Murata Himeko's place, featuring a spacious four-bedroom, one-living room arrangement that could only be described as luxurious. The living room was furnished with a sofa, tables, and chairs.
One of the rooms was set up as a bedroom with a bed and a desk, while the remaining space felt quite empty. It was clear that Theresa or someone else had arranged everything in advance; these pieces of furniture had been moved in specifically for Hua Yi's arrival, as the unit would have originally been vacant.
On the bedside table in the bedroom sat a small note.
"If you want to exercise, go to the specially built training room in the academy. In addition to various equipment, there are high-tech Virtual Battle Rooms that ordinary people can't access I'm sure you'll be satisfied. It wouldn't be wise for you to keep sneaking off to do over-intensive training like before. Besides, your body hasn't fully recovered yet, so behave yourself."
Who had left this note? Theresa? Murata Himeko? Or perhaps one of the medical staff?
Regardless of who it was, the gesture felt quite heartwarming.
Hua Yi curled the corner of his mouth into a faint smile. Instead of tossing the note into the trash, he tucked it into a drawer, treating it as a pleasant gift.
Unlike Himeko's messy residence, Hua Yi's room was clean and tidy a given, since no one had lived there before.
It seemed he would need to purchase some daily necessities later. When they left the Honkai-stricken Nagazora, neither Hua Yi nor Kiana and the others had carried any non-essential luggage.
Lying down on a bed that was far softer and more comfortable than the one in the Tachikawa Academy dorms, Hua Yi let out a soft sigh. He closed his eyes, reflecting on everything that had happened since he arrived in this Honkai world.
From the moment he entered St. Freya Academy, he was destined to leave the life of an ordinary person behind. In the future, there would be many more challenges to face.
A moment later, Hua Yi opened his eyes and summoned his virtual interface.
In the Friendship Points column, the number had reached six hundred.
Counting the half-day he had spent unconscious from exhaustion and the full day of fighting in Nagazora before that, he had earned six hundred points in nearly two days. Without a doubt, it was a handsome harvest.
In addition to Raiden Mei and Kiana, who were his original primary sources of Friendship Points, the arrival of Bronya, Theresa, and Murata Himeko seemed to have contributed a significant amount. Their attitudes toward him clearly went beyond those of mere new acquaintances.
Hua Yi didn't plan to investigate the specific amount each person contributed. With this many Friendship Points, the only thing to do was pull from the supply.
As a result, he obtained six gold coin items.
It was exactly what he expected. Since his current Stigmata hadn't been reinforced to their limits yet, obtaining gold coin items was still a good result.
Combined with his existing gold reserves, Hua Yi could now reinforce a 2-star Stigma to its maximum level. However, just as he was about to confirm the reinforcement, he hesitated.
He recalled seeing a reinforcement button appear on his virtual interface when he looked at Kiana's Artemis' Guardian twin pistols. His gold coins should be able to reinforce weapons and Stigmata that already existed in this world.
Murata Himeko the Valkyrie who had undoubtedly used Artificial Stigmata and was now suffering for it what state was she in now?
Hua Yi remembered clearly that Himeko's Artificial Stigmata were the type with extreme side effects, leading to a drastic reduction in lifespan. At this point in time, she likely only had a few years left to live.
This didn't mean Hua Yi could afford to spend those years slowly accumulating gold coins to solve her problem at the very last minute. Heaven only knew if reinforcing the Artificial Stigmata could erase the side effects, or if Himeko's lifespan would return to normal once she was no longer plagued by them.
He couldn't let time slip away and wait until the end; he had to take action as soon as possible.
However, Stigmata generally manifested on a Valkyrie's back. Given his current relationship with Himeko, if he directly asked to see her Stigmata, wouldn't that cause a massive misunderstanding? Though, to be fair, he did have designs on her.
Hua Yi fell into a brief silence, then decided to set those thoughts aside for the moment. He turned his gaze to another section of the virtual interface.
*[Emergency Mission]:* End the Third Honkai Impact.
*Reward:* 280 Crystals.
This was a feature of the virtual interface that functioned like a quest system, and the reward was incredibly generous. As a former player, Hua Yi knew that even clearing an entire story chapter or finishing a week's worth of adventure commissions rarely yielded such a high reward.
The Emergency Mission had appeared while Hua Yi was fighting Honkai Beasts on the outskirts of Nagazora. He hadn't paid much attention to it then, knowing that staring at the interface wouldn't grant the reward until the mission was actually finished.
Two hundred and eighty Crystals exactly enough for one pull from the Focused Supply. It guaranteed a minimum of a 3-star item, with the possibility of a 4-star.
If everything went as expected, once he obtained the Crystals, the Focused Supply option would appear just like the Friendship Supply had. If he could pull a 4-star Stigma or weapon, Hua Yi's strength would take another leap forward.
Now that Raiden Mei the Third Herrscher along with Kiana and the others had entered St. Freya Academy, and since he had personally eliminated the vast majority of Honkai Beasts and cleared most of the Zombies in Nagazora, Hua Yi had assumed the Emergency Mission was already finished.
However, as he looked at the unclaimable reward, Hua Yi's brow furrowed deeply.
If the mission wasn't complete, did that mean the Third Honkai Impact wasn't over yet?
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