Mei and Bronya went to the kitchen together to cook, preparing some of Kiana's favorite dishes from before.
Now alone in her room, Kiana began to study the changes in the system and herself.
Slowly closing her eyes, with a single thought, her vision instantly reached beyond the sea of trees system.
A giant phantom of Kiana appeared outside the sea of trees system, holding the world of the sea of trees system in her hands.
She clearly felt that her status was already higher than a single system world, higher than the multiverse.
As for exactly how high, Kiana hadn't encountered a practical target for comparison yet, so it was hard to say.
A faint light flickered in Kiana's eyes, and in just an instant, she knew the information of countless worlds within the sea of trees system.
This included the Honkai: Star Rail Universe where she was currently located.
After so many years, the changes in the universe weren't too significant.
Aside from establishing diplomatic relations with Wangshu, other major factions were developing normally.
Because of Wangshu's strength, the Followers of Abundance were now fleeing everywhere, actively avoiding the Xianzhou Alliance.
Some among them couldn't take the pressure and surrendered to the Xianzhou Alliance, applying to join and become a part of the Xianzhou.
However, the Xianzhou did not accept all of them; they only took in a portion after screening.
The rest were Followers of Abundance with impure intentions, and they were imprisoned in the Extreme Cold Ice Prison and the Shackling Prison respectively.
There were some other interesting things in the cosmos, but she wouldn't mention them for now.
Wangshu had undergone quite a few changes over these years.
Besides becoming more prosperous and having most of the vacant Delve filled, there was also an improvement in combat power.
Those who cultivated Kiana's breath now possessed extremely formidable combat power, with even the weakest being close to the level of an Aeon.
Furthermore, Elysia had blazed a Path of 'Truth,' becoming the Aeon of 'Truth'.
The Pathstriders of the 'Truth' Path left Kiana a bit speechless; there were those born wicked, and those born saints.
They were all people who had awakened to their true essence; the evil were evil to the end, the good were good to the end, and the neutral just didn't care to the end.
They were all people who understood how to play at showing their truest selves.
Aside from the increase in combat power, there were also Kiana's family businesses: Wangshu Inn and the game 'cosmic calamity'.
Wangshu Inn was booming all day long; one even had to make a reservation far in advance just to eat there.
cosmic calamity had become one of the mainstream games in the cosmos. Some illegal hackers tried to break into the game to obtain cheat permissions, but they were all blocked by 'Bonnia' outside the firewall.
Therefore, not a single cheating player had appeared in cosmic calamity so far, making its gaming environment the best in the universe.
Even the world-renowned hacker, the Stellaron Hunter Silver Wolf, couldn't break through cosmic calamity's security system.
By the way, Silver Wolf was an Emanator of Truth. She had been noticed by Bronya years ago and was adopted as a younger sister before she even joined the Stellaron Hunters.
So, Silver Wolf attacking her own family's game firewall was purely a matter of a genius hacker's pride.
The leader of the Stellaron Hunters, Elio, was also working hard to research interesting scripts because of what Kiana said back then.
But because he was dissatisfied with the scripts, Elio kept modifying and revising them.
The discarded scripts he modified were picked up by Kafka, edited into books, and even published.
As a result, Elio's identity as an author was now quite famous in the universe.
The famous director, Director Hua, even expressed her desire to meet Elio to discuss interesting scripts with him.
Besides these, some members of the three Aeon factions—'conquest', 'Truth', and 'Truth'—were stationed in Wangshu.
Some factions even treated Wangshu as their headquarters.
But since they had good attitudes, Bianca didn't suppress them too much, instead leasing some vacant land to them.
This also led to Bronya, Mei, and Elysia being frequently harassed by believers, which was very frustrating.
That's all for now; other changes will have to wait until Kiana encounters them later~
Kiana withdrew her vast divine sense and looked at her fair palm.
"Just by merging back such a small amount of soul fragments, I've reached this level. Then how deep must the complete me be..."
Kiana murmured softly, her tone full of shock at her own strength and curiosity about her identity as a complete being.
Also, why would her soul be shattered into so many pieces? Did she split it herself out of boredom, or were there enemies?
Kiana didn't know, but as long as she kept collecting fragments, the Truth would eventually come to light.
After studying her current strength, Kiana opened the system interface.
The system was still the same system; the interface was still clean, without a single change.
"So, the system upgraded for nothing?"
Kiana's face was covered in black lines. She searched for a long time but couldn't find what had been upgraded.
[World traversal will no longer be obstructed. The system's emotional module and the quality of the roulette gacha have been improved, changing from one draw per attempt to five attempts per draw.]
[Ah, the number of people joining the group chat at once has increased to four.]
[Bug Tavern has also been upgraded from v1. to v2., with some expansion, and the Kianas can now invite others into the Tavern.]
[The traversal function now allows carrying multiple people instead of just one, which is much more convenient.]
[All items drawn from the gacha can be transferred, but items that have already been used cannot be transferred anymore.]
[Also, the time acceleration for the current world has been restored and synchronized with the time of other worlds.]
"You updated for 18 years for just these few features?"
Kiana crossed her arms, her eyelids drooping slightly as she spoke speechlessly.
[Isn't the improvement in gacha quality enough?]
"I think I know what you mainly upgraded. Your emotions seem to have become much richer, little system..."
Kiana noticed that the system's way of speaking wasn't as robotic as before; it seemed a bit more humanized now?
[The previous me was incomplete. Of course, the current me is too. Host needs to work hard.]
"???"
Kiana's face was written all over with bewilderment.
She was being treated as a workhorse by the system!
"So your upgrades were basically all used to upgrade yourself!"
Kiana finally understood. No wonder there were no changes to the system's functions; this fellow had secretly used the materials to strengthen itself.
What's the difference between this and the Cabbage Head stealing electricity from the Hyperion!
She suspected the system was actually the Cabbage Head!
Of course, Kiana had completely misunderstood the system. How could she be the Cabbage Head?
In the deepest part of Kiana's soul, a girl with white loose hair, whose face was very similar to Kiana's, was watching the scene on the screen in front of her.
The scene showed the Kiana outside.
"If I were to be called by the names you gave the other Kianas, I... should be called System Na, or perhaps ■■ Na."
System Na's tone was indifferent as she gazed at the Kiana on the screen.
The main point of this upgrade was to use Kiana's soul power to completely activate her.
She was no longer that cold, robotic system intelligence... "Sigh, even the gacha has become more expensive. The 12 draws I saved before are only enough for two now..."
Kiana looked at the Roulette Gacha *12 in the warehouse and sighed deeply.
Now these 12 were only enough for two draws. She'd better keep saving... Closing the system page, she opened the group chat. At this moment, the people in the group chat seemed to be discussing her?
[Herrscher of Flamescion Na: @Phainon, go to Wangshu to investigate the Group Owner's situation. I'm preparing to go into seclusion to merge the Essence of the Abyss and the God Ki.]
[Group Owner Na: @Herrscher of Flamescion Na, why are you suddenly so diligent?]
[Kevin:!!!]
[Little Moonlight:!!!]
[Human Emperor Na:!!!]
...[Gojo Kiana:!!!]
[Special Ops Na: You... you finally spoke. I thought you were dead...! (Crying.jpg)]
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