The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

"Going back will probably take some time, because I don't have any artifacts that record the world's coordinates, and crafting an artifact that allows me to travel through time is too expensive. So I plan to wait a bit longer. Besides, Yakumo Yukari, can you please have some shame? Who are my family members now?" Houraisan Kaguya said bluntly.

The dilemma Chen Li faced was never that he couldn't do it, but that he didn't have the money.

"Kaguya, if you put it that way, you're being too polite. Anyway, I'll be waiting for your good news." Yukari Yakumo wasn't angry at all.

On the contrary, Yukari Yakumo would be happier if Kaguya Houraisan could vent her frustrations.

This wasn't because Yukari Yakumo had awakened some kind of masochistic constitution; it was mainly because during the two weeks that Kaguya Houraisan disappeared, Eirin Yagokoro's rather unusual behavior had been making Yukari Yakumo somewhat uneasy.

However, if the relationship is to fully recover and return to normal, Yukari Yakumo will need to provide some assistance in helping Kaguya Houraisan return home.

Yukari Yakumo doesn't care about Eirin Yagokoro, but she can't help but care about the damage Eirin Yagokoro can cause to the Great Barrier.

Yukari Yakumo never underestimated Eirin Yagokoro, the Sage of the Moon, after all, she was one of the few old guys who had caused her to suffer a crushing defeat.

"Hmm?" Yagokoro Eirin suddenly turned her head to look at Yakumo Yukari.

Eirin Yagokoro always felt that the person next to her was talking badly about her.

"Anyway, it's good that there's news. Alright, Yukari Yakumo, your curiosity should be satisfied now, right? You can go back." Eirin Yagokoro gave the order to leave.

“Okay.” Yukari Yakumo took a step back, stepped into the open gap, and disappeared into Eientei.

"..." Yagokoro Eirin didn't say anything, but instead punched into the void.

"How stingy." Sitting in her own home, Yukari Yakumo, who had originally planned to peek through the gap to see what would happen next, was quite disappointed.

Could strange objects be related to miracles?

It's not that Yukari Yakumo is overthinking things, but rather that Kaguya Houraisan disappeared because of a miracle.

As a sage among youkai, Yukari Yakumo possesses the admirable quality of questioning everything.

"Alright, Princess. I've dealt with Yukari Yakumo's spying. Please continue with your conversation," said Eirin Yagokoro.

"From now on, Eirin, you must keep this communication artifact with you. No matter what happens, don't let go of it, and don't be surprised. I will explain everything to you."

“Okay.” Yagokoro Eirin had her doubts about whether this Houraisan Kaguya was a fake, but although the nature of the Eternal Power on the paper cup had been altered by some force, the part that belonged to Houraisan Kaguya could still be seen.

Trusting Kaguya Houraisan, even as a ghostly blue flame instantly ignited on the paper cup and enveloped her as well, Eirin Yagokoro did not release the strange object.

"Here it comes again." After being engulfed in blue flames, Yagokoro Eirin sensed an even sharper gaze coming from behind, so she turned her hand into a blade and slashed at the tiny "gap" (crevice).

"What is that?" The Miracle Flame spurred through the gap and burned towards Yukari Yakumo, who was intently spying.

Subconsciously using her power to extinguish the flames, Yakumo Yukari unexpectedly found herself engulfed in flames as the flames burned even brighter.

"No, what's wrong?"

Chen Li stared into deep thought as a large number of entries suddenly appeared in the flames of the forging table.

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Chapter Sixty-Four! Yakumo Yukari requests to join her WeChat Moments.

"Flaws are fleeting!"

Let us become nourishment for wondrous things together!

Seeing all the strange and unusual entries that appeared in the Miracle Flame, Chen Li swung the hammer so hard it was practically smoking, just to avoid wasting it!

[Communication], [Transmission], [Realm], [Existence], [Subversion], [Creation], [Movement], [Negation]...

These are all good terms.

……

[Moments on WeChat]: We're all brothers under the same sky! If we've met, we know each other; if we know each other, we're friends. If you're a friend, come and help me take a hit on Moments!

Effect 1 – Communication: Each friend in the friend circle has a daily quota of 5 minutes for face-to-face communication via simulated projection. Information exchange and online communication are unrestricted. If both parties possess the rare item, the simulated projection communication time is unlimited.

Effect 2 – Carrying Goods: You can send goods to friends, with the goods serving as payment. Transfers within the same world will deduct up to 10% of the goods' value, while transfers outside the world will deduct at least 50%. If both parties possess rare items, transfers within the same world are free, while transfers outside the world will deduct up to 20%. (Payment can be made by contributing energy equal to the value of the goods or through some other means.)

Effect 3 - Friends: When a user encounters danger, the Moments feature will activate an automatic defense function. The higher the level of connection between the user and their friends in the Moments feature, the better the defense effect. When the opponent's attack breaks through the Moments feature's defense, one "connection" (i.e., "friend") can be sacrificed to avoid this damage.

P.S.: This is a genuine WeChat Moments post.

(Miracle: Speaking of which, if you, Master, confessed your love to a girl with a sincere lie, was it possible to have a harem of wives and concubines? Or would you be torn apart by five horses?)

"Wait a minute. Who would treat a friend like a consumable?" After listening to Chen Li's introduction of the completed artifact in front of her, Houraisan Kaguya stood up, moved to the side, and sat down again, looking at Chen Li in shock.

"Oh, don't misunderstand. It means sacrificing a friend's contact information to exempt them from this harm, not sacrificing a friend outright. Don't be afraid," Chen Li said, waving the circle in his hand.

"That's outrageous. Is that how you use 'friend'? I've heard that investigators like to use friends as scapegoats. I didn't believe it before, but now I do," Kaguya Houraisan retorted.

"I'm not an investigator."

"But your parents are investigators, and legendary ones at that."

"What does this have to do with my parents?"

"Anyway, keep this circle away from me," Kaguya Houraisan said warily.

"Tch, look at you, such a coward. Besides, even if I move this ring far away from you, as long as you still have your phone, you're still my friend." Chen Li tossed the gold-colored metal ring with strange patterns engraved on it aside.

After being released, the metal ring floated above Chen Li's head and then expanded until it reached a radius of about two meters, eventually enveloping Chen Li.

The metal ring split into countless afterimages, and the numerous afterimages began to slowly rotate in different directions. Chen Li seemed to be trapped inside the Rasengan, completely protected by the afterimages of the metal ring.

Even though Chen Li was sitting on the sofa, the ring ignored the sofa's volume and passed straight through it, as if the two were not on the same level and had no collision volume.

As Chen Li snapped his fingers, the layer containing the Moments feed seemed to be hidden, disappearing in an instant.

"May I touch you?" Kaguya Houraisan asked curiously.

"I know what you want to ask. Don't worry, my WeChat Moments won't affect my normal life. You won't be bounced away if you touch me; it will only defend against attacks against me," Chen Li said.

"How strong is the defense?"

"It depends on the number and quality of my friends. Right now, I only have two friends: you and Yagokoro Eirin. Although my connection with Yagokoro Eirin isn't very close, my connection with you is very close because you signed a contract of servitude. So, my defenses should be quite strong right now."

"..." Kaguya Houraisan's face darkened.

Can you please stop bringing up the indenture thing with me?

Just then, Kaguya Houraisan's phone vibrated. She opened it and saw a message from Eirin Yagokoro.

"Chen Li, something's happened."

"what's up?"

“Yukari Yakumo also wants a cell phone,” Kaguya Houraisan said.

"Mobile phone" is one of the forms of expression for WeChat Moments, and also the medium through which WeChat Moments communication functions are used. It is also the true form of "friend".

After the attackers successfully breached Chen Li's defenses, this was the thing that sacrificed itself to shield Chen Li from the attack.

When Chen Li used the original artifact to forge a new artifact, the two paper cups each turned into a cell phone, one going to Kaguya Houraisan and the other to Eirin Yagokoro.

The phone is linked to Chen Li's friends, so it won't be lost and can be hidden.

“Yukari Yakumo…” Chen Li stroked his chin.

“I can have Eirin help you refuse,” Kaguya Houraisan said.

"Forget it, no need to refuse. Give her one. After all, she helped a lot in this forging process."

If the statement "[Yukari Yakumo was ignited by the Miracle Flame, and the other party's entries could naturally be extracted, so Chen Li just casually took an entry]" is considered helpful... then Yukari Yakumo's help to Chen Li was indeed significant.

What Chen Li took was actually the small gap that Yakumo Yukari had used to spy on Yagokoro Eirin.

Chen Li used several keywords to create this peculiar thing called "Friends Circle"—"Communication," "Transmission," and "Contact."

The first effect of Moments comes from [communication], and the second effect comes from the [transmission] and [connection] between gaps.

Of course, the initial brightness of the words extracted from the gaps is naturally not as high as the brightness of the more fundamental words extracted from Yakumo Yukari.

Yukari Yakumo can teleport instantly from anywhere through spatial rifts, or even move parts of her body to other locations. Moreover, she can move not only in physical spaces, but also within paintings, dreams, and stories. This is the origin of the term.

The terms "communication" and "connection" seem to be a perfect match and are attracting each other, so Chen Li strengthened the term "connection".

[Friends Circle] consumed a total of 36 crystals. 5 crystals were consumed for Miracle Flame, 15 crystals were consumed for strengthening [Connection], 3 crystals were consumed for strengthening Teleportation, and 13 crystals were consumed for increasing the amount of artifacts that can be stored.

It's possible that the high cost of teleportation is due to the low brightness of the "Teleport" attribute.

"I spent 36 crystals on you this time, so remember to produce more fake medicine when you have time," Chen Li said to Kaguya Houraisan.

"Yes, yes, I understand. I can never repay your kindness, so I will repay it slowly." Kaguya Houraisan rolled her eyes at Chen Li.

Kaguya Houraisan believed that Chen Li was partly acting for her sake, but even more so for his own.

Of course, Kaguya Houraisan is a person who knows how to be grateful.

Isn't it just fake medicine?

Let's just rub it then.

No money anyway.

"Contact Eirin Yagokoro and ask her what kind of communication device Yukari Yakumo wants," Chen Li said.

"Huh, you can choose the style for communication tools?" Kaguya Houraisan was taken aback.

"You can choose the style of the communication tool, and then print it out using [Moments]." Chen Li waved his hand, and one of the many illusory metal rings that suddenly appeared on Chen Li's body flew out, landed in Chen Li's hand, and transformed into a solid metal ring.

3D printing?