[Second Brother is fine! Congratulations!]
[Since that's the case, does that mean Second Brother will enter the banner too?! I need to start preparing!]
[Every unreleased Liyue character seems designed to empty my wallet. I want them all.]
[Now I finally understand why Boss Jun opened Fengdeng Lou—this is our backup hidden energy source!]
After receiving the weapon from Jun Bai's hand, this legend quest came to an end.
Firefly called Stelle and March 7th over, then opened her inventory and found the newly obtained weapon in the weapon list.
[Name: Shadow Scarlet Sky]
[Weapon Type: Sword]
[Rarity: 4-Star]
[Refinement Rank 1]
[Base ATK: 42]
[CRIT DMG: 12.0%]
[Sparkling Flame: CRIT Rate increased by 10%. Normal Attack and Charged Attack DMG increased by 20%. Additionally, when the wielder uses their Elemental Skill, the attack range of Normal Attack, Charged Attack, and Plunging Attack is increased by 200% for 10s. This effect can be triggered once every 15s.]
"Because it's a replica, the rarity was downgraded from 5-star to 4-star?" Stelle pondered whether trading a 5-star quest item for a 4-star weapon was a losing deal.
"It looks pretty strong." March 7th didn't quite understand but felt it was impressive.
Firefly focused on the weapon stats: "I remember Silver Wolf taught me that from the initial base ATK value, you can roughly calculate the level 90 base ATK and substats."
"This weapon's final stats are 510 base ATK and 55.2% CRIT DMG."
"Just don't know if this passive has any special name. I'll wait for Silver Wolf's guide to check."
[As always, three people, three different focuses.]
[Increased attack range… Noelle would love an effect like this. Then after her burst, she could spin through the entire Abyss.]
[If it were a claymore, Noelle would be ecstatic. Too bad it's a sword. Right now no sword character can make use of it.]
[The person above said "right now." Just because no one can use it now doesn't mean no one will later. Once a main DPS sword character comes out, we'll know this weapon's true value.]
The legend quest completion screen appeared. The livestream of Stelle, March 7th, and Firefly also came to an end.
—Teyvat
Fengdeng Lou, third floor.
Jun Bai lay on the bed like a dead fish: "System, give me a bottle of happiness water. Haven't had one in a while—kind of miss it."
[300 popularity points please.]
"Take it from my account."
As soon as Jun Bai spoke, a bottle of chilled cola appeared in his hand. He instinctively pulled the tab.
One sip, and Jun Bai let out a contented groan.
[Even though you're on vacation now, you're getting way too degenerate. Have you forgotten you're supposed to become the number one most popular character? Jun Mo Li is almost overtaking you!]
"You call a half-gap 'almost overtaking'?"
Jun Bai pointed out—don't think I haven't checked the popularity share. Right now I have 45%. Only Zhongli can compete with me.
"And thinking about work even on vacation? System, you don't think I'm some innate workhorse constitution, do you? Or have you never experienced 996?"
"Anyway, I'm on vacation now. Don't even think about making me work." Jun Bai said, pulling the blanket over his head to take a nap.
All plot content related to Jun Bai in version 1.1 has been recorded. Version 1.2 is the Dragonspine-related side story—Jun Bai has no reason to be involved.
So the latter half of version 1.1 and the entire version 1.2 have nothing to do with Jun Bai.
On the other hand, the system has work in version 1.2 because it needs to arrange for Xuanjian to enter the banner and record his legend quest.
Meanwhile Jun Bai… until the Lantern Rite in version 1.3, this is all his vacation.
The system was dissatisfied with this arrangement where only it had to work overtime, but this was work it had taken on itself. No place to complain.
That's why the system was now urging Jun Bai to get back to work.
But Jun Bai said that before he transmigrated he was just a wage slave—he wasn't familiar with voluntarily working overtime.
[…]
Seeing it couldn't convince Jun Bai, the system fell silent.
After a long while, the system asked:
[Host, spending 100,000 popularity points to convert Jun Mo Li into a Hero of the Hall of Heroes—doesn't that hurt?]
"Hurt? No. Popularity points are meant to be spent. In fact, reviving Second Brother for only 100,000 popularity points is pure profit."
Jun Bai shifted to a more comfortable position and answered without hesitation.
If possible, he would even use popularity points to revive Skybracer, revive his mother, revive those who sacrificed in Khaenri'ah 500 years ago.
Unfortunately the system wasn't omnipotent.
It could convert Jun Mo Li into a Hero because the feat itself was feasible.
Those 100,000 popularity points were used to resolve side effects and raise the success rate from 60% to 100%.
Unfortunately, some regrets in this world are permanent.
For those who died of old age or whose consciousness could not be gathered, even the system had no way to revive them.
Jun Mo Li was only possible due to a fortunate coincidence.
If Osial hadn't emerged and disrupted the ley lines of Qingce Village, allowing Jun Mo Li's soul to reappear from the ley lines—and if Jun Bai hadn't had the Hall of Heroes—Jun Mo Li would have had no way to return to this world.
"Sigh… better not talk about this kind of thing."
"Where's the drama you cached for me? I want to watch now."
[Permission granted. Go browse yourself—I've got things to do.] The system left those words, and a semi-transparent screen appeared in front of Jun Bai.
No matter how Jun Bai asked afterward, the system didn't respond. It really had gone off to work.
So Jun Bai reached up and operated the screen.
Soon the screen connected to the parallel world's local network.
Before starting his drama binge, Jun Bai deliberately searched for Genshin Impact secondary creations under his parallel-world miHoYo director identity.
The latest video was Silver Wolf's guide—about team compositions for Jun Bai and Yiya, and her thoughts on Shadow Scarlet Sky.
"This weapon—if the stats weren't a bit underwhelming—I think it should have been 5-star."
"If Shadow Scarlet Sky can continue to be refined later, it will become one of the top 4-star human-rights cards. Surpassing Wolf's Gravestone wouldn't be a problem."
Jun Bai: "…"
The data panel the system generated based on Shadow Scarlet Sky's properties seems pretty strong.
Maybe later he could run an event to let everyone's Shadow Scarlet Sky reach max refinement? Hm… feels like pushing it further isn't impossible.
Feels feasible!
After coming up with the next welfare distribution idea, Jun Bai bought a bag of chips from the system screen and began hesitating between rewatching Kyoryuger or ToQger.
Both are masterpieces—hard to choose.