The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

After the Miracle Card left Chen Li's hand, it grew larger and larger, flew higher and higher, and became more and more transparent until it merged into the world.

Miracle Card: [The Beacon Fire Plays with the Lords]

As Chen Li's civilization points rapidly decreased, an invisible force began to quietly envelop the entire empire.

Because Chen Li didn't gain much civilization points from this crucial juncture, the collective consciousness that appeared only had basic functions. It required choosing a civilization development strategy at the start of the game, and changing it later would be very troublesome.

This is why Chen Li didn't use these civilization points on the previous civilization.

Because the civilization value is too low, it is insufficient to awaken a collective consciousness with a sufficiently advanced level, and the basic influence on the people is not high enough. At the same time, only a maximum of three advanced characters with the "Destiny" attribute can be born at the same time.

Rather than calling it a collective consciousness, it's more accurate to describe it as a kind of "luck".

"Hmm? It seems like something has been created." Many group members who came to participate in the prize draw looked up at the sky, seemingly sensing something special.

“Look, this is another drawback. Because we don’t have enough civilization points, the awakened collective consciousness is easily detected in the early stages. But it’s limited to those with special abilities.” Chen Li pointed to the group members who were exclaiming in surprise and said to Najenda.

“Esdeath?” Najenda instinctively thought of someone.

Esdeath inflicted a tremendous amount of psychological trauma on Najenda.

"That's not necessarily true. Esdeath is just a reckless woman. What does she know about fortune? Or rather, in this world where everything is about blood and blades except for the somewhat magical Imperial Arms, no one could possibly discover this situation." Chen Li shook his head.

“That’s all right now. So what should we do now? Wait?” Najenda asked.

“Theoretically, we can continue to wait, but we might as well take the initiative. You guys, stop slacking off and want to try out the Civilization Flying Car?” Chen Li shouted at his group of friends who had invited him to just get a participation prize and then slack off.

"Civilized Flying Cars?"

"After I awakened the collective consciousness, I still have a little civilization value left. I can accelerate the civilization's timeline, which means treating civilization like a game and skipping directly to the next plot point. I can also bring people along. Who wants to experience the Civilization Flying Car?" Chen Li explained.

"Time travel? Interesting. Count me in."

"I want to try too."

"Oh no, skipping the plot this time is like skipping through life!"

"Can I go?" Najenda pointed to herself.

“Yes. When accelerating the civilization timeline, you can freely choose whether to join the script or not… Let me explain it this way. Imagine you are facing an exam. If you choose to join the script, you will instantly arrive at the end of the exam and receive a test paper that you have painstakingly completed. Choosing not to join the script is equivalent to skipping the exam.” Chen Li nodded.

The former is similar to the time deletion in King Crimson, where the process is deleted and only the result remains.

But if the topic turned to King Crimson, Najenda might be even more confused, so Chen Li changed his approach.

“What about the memories from this period?” Najenda asked.

"It will generate a compressed file and put it in your brain. When you need these memories, they will automatically pop up," Chen Li said.

"Hey, doesn't that mean I can borrow a Miracle Card from you, Chen Li, before going to school and fast-forward to the end of the school day so I can go home and play games?" Gabriel's eyes lit up.

"...Go to school properly! You're not supposed to waste your civilization points like this!" Chen Li roared.

"Oh."

“Apart from Najenda, everyone else should choose to step out of the script, right?” Chen Li said with a smile.

“Um… how about I take the trouble to join the script? I can act as a control group and collect whatever everyone wants, okay? But I'll have to charge a little money.” Yukari Yakumo raised a small objection.

"..." Chen Li looked at Yakumo Yukari, and the two began to stare at each other.

This is Chen Li, the master craftsman of rare artifacts. Staring at him for 30 seconds is equivalent to staring at him for 30 seconds!

"I'll give you 200 star stones to do me a favor." Chen Li finally spoke first.

"No problem, what can I do for you?"

"Help me collect information on the Imperial Arms other than those from the Revolutionary Army. I've already sent you the relevant information via private message," Chen Li said.

It doesn't matter what Yukari Yakumo wants to do in this world. Yukari Yakumo is a smart person and knows her limits, unless she doesn't plan to go to other worlds in the future.

Furthermore, allowing Yukari Yakumo to remain within the script allows us to see what benefits Chen Li can gain from bringing a visitor from another world to another.

“Then I can also join the script and make money,” Kaguya Houraisan said.

“You can’t do it, because even if you join the script, the character in the script will just stay in one place and won’t be doing any work.” Chen Li shook his head.

“Hmm…” Kaguya Houraisan felt that Chen Li’s words made sense.

Kaguya Houraisan thought that exhaustion belonged to the Kaguya Houraisan in the script, but forgot that the Kaguya Houraisan in the script was just like her.

"Furthermore, you can submit any requests you have to Yakumo Yukari. I can reimburse requests up to ten star stones," Chen Li said.

"Really?" Kaguya Houraisan's eyes lit up.

"But I will reject unreasonable requests. In short, don't you dare to exploit my bugs."

"Oh, that's okay."

"I want some dangerous species."

"I also want some dangerous species."

"Help me with my homework."

"Hey, can you do my homework for me? How about math homework?"

"Could you help me find the lost methods for forging Imperial Arms?"

The initial request was normal, but it became increasingly strange, leaving Yakumo Yukari completely bewildered.

Why are there so many homework-writing services now?

And the lost method for forging Imperial Arms... Do you think I'm some kind of turtle in a wishing well?

"How about... we bring in a few more people as a control group?" Yukari Yakumo asked tentatively.

Yukari Yakumo does want to earn Star Stones, but she doesn't want to work herself to death.

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Chapter 209 Esdeath: I'm fighting the Void Star God? Really?

"Wow!"

"Help!"

"too frightening!"

"Monster!"

When Chen Li led the group, who had just finished riding the Civilization Flying Car, to the gates of the Imperial Capital to welcome Esdeath after the campaign against the northern barbarians, they were met with a cacophony of surprised and panicked voices.

Civilized Flying Cars are real flying cars!

[Star Stones +2000]

"..." Chen Li heard the sound of the star stones increasing, but he was not happy at all.

"Eight! Cloud! Purple!" Chen Li's roar echoed throughout the entire capital.

"Here she comes." Suddenly, a gap opened in front of Chen Li, and Yakumo Yukari calmly walked out from the gap.

If Yukari Yakumo had chosen to join the script during the Civilization Acceleration process, she would indeed have ridden the Civilization Car with Chen Li and the others. However, for some reason, Yukari Yakumo did not intend to use the Civilization Acceleration effect and instead planned to explore the world herself.

Considering that there was no difference between the two, Chen Li agreed, but what appeared in front of Chen Li was a completely chaotic scene.

"What is this?" Chen Li asked, pointing to a steel giant that was over a hundred meters tall and placed at the main gate of the capital.

"Guardian Machine God - Supreme Throne. The Imperial Arm you wanted. Let me tell you, it took me a lot of effort to dig this Imperial Arm out for you. In order not to hurt ordinary people, I practically dragged him out of the ground and threw him over my shoulder, bringing him here." Yukari Yakumo said while rubbing her shoulder.

"..." In a sense, it must have been quite a feat for Yukari Yakumo to dig this so-called "Supreme Imperial Arm" out of the ground.

Moreover, judging from Yakumo Yukari's tone, she tried her best to avoid affecting ordinary people, which can indeed be described as hard work and great achievements.

"But why was this Imperial Arm dismantled?" Chen Li asked, looking at the dismantled steel giant.

"Don't ask me, ask Vervie, she's the one who demolished it." Yukari Yakumo pointed at Vervie.

“Oh, right, I dismantled it, but don’t worry, I’ve almost figured out how to manufacture an Imperial Arm by studying this steel giant. I even made a small modification to it, so now anyone can use this Imperial Arm.” Velvet said, raising her hand.

Originally, this Imperial Arms could only be used by those of the Emperor's bloodline.

Vervi also chose to join the script because she said that for researchers, time is money, so she didn't want to skip over her own life.

"Then what is this?" Chen Li pointed to another terrifying behemoth, much larger than the Guardian Divine Machine, displayed at the entrance of the capital.

"I didn't do this. It was Mebius and Ruan Mei who went to the East China Sea Cloud Sea and captured the Super Special Dangerous Species... I just sent them there and was responsible for bringing the item back. You can ask them yourselves if you don't believe me." Yakumo Yukari pointed to Mebius and Ruan Mei behind Chen Li.

“That’s true.” Ruan Mei nodded.

"Perhaps I should strengthen my combat abilities," Mebius mused.

These two individuals also form the control group; they chose to enter the script during the acceleration of civilization.

The main reason was that the budget for the two of them to capture the dangerous species exceeded 10 star stones, and Chen Li would not reimburse them, so they had to do it themselves.

"I remember now, the threads on Lubbock's Thread-type Imperial Arms are made from the body hair of the legendary super-dangerous creature that dwells in the clouds of the East Blue. Isn't that right?" Najenda realized.

"If nothing unexpected happens, yes. This little thing is quite resilient." Ruan Mei nodded.

"Then what is this?" Chen Li continued, pointing to the blue-haired figure that Yakumo Yukari had just thrown out of the gap, which was bound into a caterpillar and wriggling on the ground.

"The Imperial Arm you requested, Esdeath," Yukari Yakumo explained quite honestly.

Chen Li roughly understood Yakumo Yukari's thought process.