Chapter 161: Cyberpsychosis?

As expected of a Purple Champion-grade painting, it is terrifyingly powerful.

Just by binding with the painting, one can directly gain +30 Max HP and +2 Resilience.

Plus the attributes she just gained from leveling up.

At this moment, Yun Mu's Max HP has reached a terrifying 98 points! My goodness~ With this much health, even a class specialized in tanking couldn't compare to her.

Yun Mu silently opens the attribute panels of Scarlet Knight and Dabai.

Scarlet Knight is lv22 with 65 Max HP; Dabai is lv20 with 58 HP.

Is that it?

Yun Mu is only level 18.

And while Scarlet Knight and Dabai are higher level than her, they also have the +30% Max HP provided by the 【Leader】 trait.

Yet their HP is still not as high as hers was before binding the 【Mechanical Heart】 painting.

Who exactly is the melee class here!

"Who needs teammates? I can steamroll a Dungeon all by myself," she mutters while looking at her attribute panel.

Should I say as expected of the game I made myself?

Sure enough, the stats and such were all filled in haphazardly.

The gap between the player and the teammates is just too big.

If this continues, the only use for Lucy and the others will be to add buffs and heal her, then sit back and wait for her, the main damage dealer, to one-shot all the enemies with a single blast.

What kind of "one carries three" team is this?

"Well, actually, isn't that pretty good?" Yun Mu thinks to herself.

The stronger she is, the easier it is to clear Dungeons, and the more loot she will harvest at the same time.

This is another world; she doesn't need to worry about things like game balance.

"Ahem, I'm going to start experimenting with the new painting, the effects of the Mechanical Heart," she says with a light cough, looking at Brenna sitting across from her.

"Mm," Brenna nods, looking slightly nervous.

The effects of the Mechanical Heart involve whether Elena can be revived, so it is only natural for her to be nervous.

Yun Mu thinks to herself.

"Snap."

With a light snap of her fingers, she makes the 【Mechanical Heart】 painting float behind her and injects Spirituality into it.

"Ugh."

A sharp, throbbing pain shoots through her brain; she stayed up all night without resting, so her Spirituality hadn't fully recovered.

Coupled with the fact that she consumed quite a bit of Spirituality while painting the 【Mechanical Heart】, Yun Mu doesn't have much left now.

Moreover, the Champion-grade painting consumes much more Spirituality than she had anticipated.

About 0.35 units, perhaps?

Having leveled up twice in a row, her Spirituality increased and recovered quite a bit, so she can barely manage to release it.

I shouldn't pass out, right? Yun Mu thinks, feeling somewhat uncertain.

"Hmph!"

As a large amount of Spirituality is drained from her mind, Yun Mu lets out a muffled groan.

"Miss Yun!" Brenna is startled, hurriedly walking to her side to help her up.

"I'm fine, it's just that my Spirituality was over-consumed," Yun Mu says stubbornly, trembling as she is helped up by Brenna.

"You should rest for a moment," Brenna says, relaxing as she sees Yun Mu still has the energy to be stubborn.

Hearing her say this, Yun Mu simply lies down on the sofa, resting her head on Brenna's white-stocking-clad thighs, and asks, "How do you feel now?"

"Mm."

Brenna touches the area below her left chest with her hand, her expression somewhat strange, and says, "It feels a bit heavy, and there's a very uneasy feeling."

"My chest feels a bit congested, but this isn't a performance issue with the Mechanical Heart."

"It's because I suddenly can't perceive my heart, so I subconsciously feel uneasy." "Is this what it feels like to wear Mechanical Viscera?"

Although she says it's a bit uncomfortable, Brenna is still very earnestly experiencing this rare sensation.

"If more parts of the body are replaced, will humans develop Cyberpsychosis because of it?"

Yun Mu suddenly asks, recalling the Cyberpsychosis that often appeared in a cyberpunk-themed game from before she transmigrated.

"Of course they would," Brenna answers without hesitation.

"I once saw some people in Anluosai Castle in Winter City who had experimental mechanical prosthetics installed; at first, they all found it difficult to adapt to living with those prosthetics."

"Many of them even had nightmares in the middle of the night."

"Just replacing one of the four limbs has such an impact; it's hard to imagine what would happen if other parts of the body were replaced."

"However, that is for ordinary people; if it were a Transcendental with a firmer will, this impact should be reduced."

"Anluosai Castle?" Even in her headache-ridden state, Yun Mu still catches the key information.

"Anluosai Castle is the name of a research institute in Winter City; the Energy Towers were designed and developed by them," Brenna explains to her.

"Oh," Yun Mu understands.

She rolls over slightly and then pats Brenna's thigh with her hand.

The smooth white stockings feel cool to the touch, and Yun Mu involuntarily gives them a firm squeeze.

Feels good~ "Don't touch randomly," Brenna says, her face turning red, though she makes no move to swat her hand away.

"Help me brush my hair, and I'll stop touching," Yun Mu suggests.

Perhaps because she left in such a hurry this morning, her hair is a bit messy, and she now feels an inexplicable itch on her scalp.

But with her Spirituality completely drained and a headache, she really doesn't want to get up to fix her hair.

Hmm. If it were any other time, she would just grab it with her hand and be done with it.

But now, since Brenna happens to be right beside her, why not take this opportunity to—ahem.

Yun Mu quietly opened one eye and snuck a peek at Brenna's expression.

However, to her surprise, the other person actually had... a look of kindness on her face?

Forgive Yun Mu, but she truly could not think of a suitable word to describe it.

In that instant, it was as if she were seeing her own long-deceased mother.

"Alright, I will comb your hair for you." Brenna took a rather old-looking comb out of her Storage space, then gently helped Yun Mu straighten out her slightly messy hair.

"Tha, thank you." Yun Mu said, feeling a bit embarrassed.

"You're welcome."

Brenna chuckled softly, a look of nostalgia appearing on her face as she said, "When I was still young, my mother would often dismiss the servants and comb my hair by herself."

"Back then, I only knew that my mother's health was poor, but I didn't understand that she was sick."

"It wasn't until two days after she passed away from her illness that I realized that gentle mother would never come to comb my hair again, and only then did I start to wail."

"I, I see."

Yun Mu didn't know what to say for a moment, so she could only close her mouth and enjoy Brenna's lap pillow and hair combing.

However, what she never expected was that when Brenna finished combing her hair, a line of prompts suddenly popped up on her interface.

【You have calmed your wild impulses, your Path of the Cat points +1.】 "Hmm?"

Upon seeing this message, Yun Mu was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized what it meant.

She is not a cat! And that behavior just now was not petting a cat!

PS: That comb is a memento of Brenna's mother.

It is also the tool her mother used to comb her hair when Brenna was a child.

Brenna has kept it well-maintained.

(End of chapter)