Regarding Silver Wolf's parting words just now.
Sylvia wasn't sure what to make of them.
Why specifically mention Elio? And why say it didn't matter whether she went or not?
Was it because things would proceed smoothly even without her, making her presence merely a nice bonus?
But then, right at the end, she specifically suggested Sylvia get acquainted with Kafka.
Basically leaving her with no real choice, wasn't it?
Kafka only showed up at Herta Space Station and the Xianzhou in the story, and even then, her appearances were brief.
Missing those chances would make her incredibly hard to find.
Just because Silver Wolf enjoyed gaming with her didn't mean she'd drag Kafka along to befriend her.
Mature adults didn't do such pointless things.
Sylvia had a serious craving for Kafka's Spirit Whisper ability.
The gacha results always had some connection to the target, however tenuous. Maybe, just maybe, by pulling from Kafka's reward pool, she could get some other voice-related power.
Besides, going to Herta Space Station wasn't just about meeting Kafka. It was also a chance to get to know Herta and Asta themselves, both of whom were characters you could build affinity with through the gacha.
In the future, characters like Screwllum, Ruan Mei, and even Duke Inferno would frequent the space station.
Getting involved in the Herta Space Station incident seemed like a pretty good deal.
So, even though Elio said 'it's up to you,' Sylvia figured that in the future he foresaw, she must have gone.
Sylvia sat back down on the sofa.
Her greatsword dissolved into flames and vanished. Just as she was about to start dealing with the music, the system notification popped up:
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[Target: Silver Wolf (Corrected)]
[Favorability: 65 (Satisfied)]
[Relationship: Father-Daughter (Role Reversal)]
['While not entirely unexpected, your complete lack of shame is nevertheless impressive. Still, congrats on preserving the father-daughter bond. Huzzah, huzzah.']
['Considering this particular relationship is quite rare, I'll bump your reward up a tier. You're welcome.']
[Reward: Purple Pull x1]
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Sylvia's eyelid twitched.
This system… it felt both incredibly useful and utterly useless at the same time.
Call it useless? Yet the gacha coughed up all sorts of random things, and they were all highly effective. It never lacked for any function, necessary or otherwise.
But if you asked Sylvia to call it competent… she just couldn't bring herself to say it. After all, it couldn't even display the target's true identity properly, refusing to update until she figured it out herself.
"Whatever… at least it's a purple."
This was only the second purple pull she'd gotten since arriving in this world. The first one was when she tricked Acheron into that marriage.
If she hadn't pulled a Herrscher Core from that pull, she'd probably still have no decent combat ability to speak of, just mooching off Acheron.
Thinking of that, Sylvia couldn't help but feel a spark of anticipation for this new pull.
What if she actually got something good this time!
Sylvia rubbed her hands together slightly and mentally called out—
Draw!
Whoosh—
A purple light flashed before her eyes, then solidified around a skill name:
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[Ether Editing: Press B to Teleport v1.01 (Intelligently Optimized Edition)]
['Punklorde tech is generally incomprehensible, so I just yoinked the most practical bit for you. Simply find a B button, activate the skill, press it, and you can teleport anywhere in this universe you've been to.']
['Gave you a free update, fixed the issue of needing coordinates to teleport. But the fix introduced a new bug: now, even if you have coordinates, you can't use them to teleport.']
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"...Fine. Whatever. I'm used to it."
Sylvia was almost becoming desensitized to the fact that every skill came with a few lines of commentary that served no purpose other than to mess with her.
As for that coordinate-based teleportation ability…
She did have some impression of it. Silver Wolf had demonstrated something similar during her first appearance.
Whether her own version was an upgrade or a downgrade, it was definitely convenient.
After all, Sylvia had no idea how to even determine a spatial coordinate within a universe.
In her understanding, nearly every planet, every star system in the cosmos was in constant motion.
Figuring out precise coordinates probably wasn't something you could just do on a whim.
So, upgrade or downgrade, it was definitely more usable for her.
It's just the activation condition was a bit… abstract.
Press B to Teleport. No matter what kind of button, it had to be a 'B'?
A puzzled look on her face, Sylvia activated the skill, then pulled up her phone's keyboard and pressed the 'B' key on the touchscreen.
A teleportation wormhole, filled with a pixelated art style, silently materialized in front of her.
The choppy, distorted, spinning pixel vortex inside looked utterly game-like.
Sylvia tentatively lifted the sofa, poked it into the vortex, and pulled it back out. Finding the fragile sofa completely unharmed, she finally grabbed her sword and stepped into the pixelated portal.
Amidst similarly pixelated teleportation effects, her vision swam and then cleared.
Sylvia found herself standing in the very ruins where she and Acheron had held their wedding ceremony.
The abandoned room was now a mess, but the grimy items on the floor were still recognizable as the makeshift props she and Acheron had used.
"It actually worked…"
Surveying the drafty room, Sylvia felt a mix of nostalgia and amusement.
Abstract activation condition aside, the skill was genuinely useful, and its energy cost was low. For Sylvia, powered by a Stellaron, energy consumption wasn't a concern at all.
With this skill, couldn't she just pop back to the Xianzhou anytime she wanted a tasty snack?
Though, using teleportation like this… did it count as smuggling?
As she bent down to pick up and tidy the used props from the floor, Sylvia pondered whether teleporting directly back to the Luofu for future visits would be considered illegal entry.
In the game, the protagonist zipped all over the Xianzhou and Herta Space Station via teleportation all the time without getting arrested.
Who knew if there were specific regulations about it?
After quickly tidying up, she teleported back to her residence on the Xianzhou.
Sylvia pulled out her phone and sent her question to Tingyun, Yukong, Qingque, and Fu Xuan simultaneously.
They were pretty much the only people she knew on the Xianzhou, so they were her only options for asking.
Replies came quickly.
Qingque sent back a single question mark, seemingly asking what nonsense she was spouting now.
Fu Xuan told her to go ask the Divination Commission, as they handled such trivial matters, and also warned Sylvia to be vigilant against the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus in the coming days.
Yukong asked curiously what kind of spatial teleportation ability it was, adding that if Sylvia could provide a detailed description, she could help ask the General about it.
And Tingyun replied with a playful message, hoping her 'benefactor' would teleport to her room right now to let her witness this miraculous teleportation ability firsthand.
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T/N: Tingyun a freak
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