Chapter 1

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【System activated successfully! The Strongest Puppet System serves you!】

Lin Cheng, who was washing clothes, looked at the system interface in his mind with surprise.

【Strongest Puppet System】

【Host: Lin Cheng】

【Puppet: None】

【Emotion Value: 0】

【Skills: Puppet Summon, Puppet Recovery (no cooldown for close-range recovery; 72-hour cooldown for long-range recovery.)】

【One initial Puppet draw opportunity granted.】

Although he had known for a long time that he possessed a golden finger.

And he had also known that one day his golden finger would eventually activate.

But when it truly activated, Lin Cheng still felt a surge of excitement.

Lin Cheng was a transmigrator who had already spent one year in the Tail World.

Before transmigration, watching anime was one of Lin Cheng's few hobbies.

Lin Cheng had been following the anime Fairy Tail since his school days and knew it extremely well.

The time point Lin Cheng transmigrated to was one where the main plot of Fairy Tail had already begun.

Unlike the feudal atmosphere of four hundred years ago, the current era in the Tail World had already become a near-modern society with rapid information dissemination.

Thus, Lin Cheng easily learned the information about the world he had transmigrated into.

Fairy Tail.

A world that, when viewed only through anime, was filled with friendship and innocent romance, deeply desirable.

The gallant Erza, the lively Lucy, the delicate Wendy.

The sly Mirajane, the pitiable and regrettable Mavis, Valkyrie Ailin…

Each had their own story, each tale capable of moving one to tears—perhaps "moved to tears" was an exaggeration, but Lin Cheng truly poured his emotions into them.

Watching from a god's-eye view alone, Fairy Tail was indeed a splendid story.

Only when Lin Cheng personally entered it did he realize how terrifying the Tail World truly was.

When he first transmigrated, Lin Cheng had no golden finger and was utterly unfamiliar with everything—he truly struggled to take a single step.

Even without transmigration, if you were simply dumped into a foreign country with nothing given to you, it would still be brutal.

The Tail World was not a safe world at all.

Otherwise, Erza would never have been captured and enslaved as a child.

"Lin Cheng, finished washing?"

"If you're done, come eat right away."

Before Lin Cheng could continue thinking, a slightly crisp voice came from behind him.

A girl with light brown long hair, dressed in garments with an ancient aura, stood behind him, beside her a small chicken with a large head and tiny body.

"Haha, almost done, almost done."

Lin Cheng smiled at the girl and the peculiar chicken beside her and said: "This is the last piece of clothing—Valkyrie Ailin and Mengmeng, go eat first."

The girl's name was Valkyrie Ailin; the peculiar chicken's name was Mengmeng.

Having watched the Fairy Tail movie, Lin Cheng knew that Valkyrie Ailin and Mengmeng were the female lead and key character from the movie "The Witch of the Phoenix."

They were among the few figures from four hundred years ago who still existed in the present world of the Tail World.

Mengmeng was a special creation born from Valkyrie Ailin's loneliness, a sentient being with a soul, crafted using her unique ability.

A year ago, when Lin Cheng was at a loss, it was Mengmeng, created by Valkyrie Ailin, who invited him—and ultimately, Valkyrie Ailin took him in.

"Let me help Lin Cheng wash."

Upon hearing Lin Cheng's reply, Mengmeng flapped her tiny wings and flew before him, helping him wash the clothes.

Over the past year, Lin Cheng and Mengmeng had developed a very smooth relationship and become good friends.

As for Valkyrie Ailin, it was only average—merely an acquaintance.

Due to past experiences, Valkyrie Ailin did not particularly wish to make new friends; having achieved immortality, she no longer wished to endure the pain of gaining and then losing precious companions.

This was why, despite living together for a full year, Lin Cheng and Valkyrie Ailin's relationship had made almost no progress.

"Alright, I'll go back first."

"When you finish washing, come quickly to eat."

Valkyrie Ailin watched Lin Cheng and Mengmeng playing together; her expression changed little, she said nothing more, and turned away directly.

"Sorry, Lin Cheng."

Mengmeng, watching Valkyrie Ailin's decisive departure, smiled apologetically at Lin Cheng and said: "Valkyrie Ailin is always like this…"

"It's fine."

"Haha, no matter what, Mengmeng and Valkyrie Ailin are my saviors."

Lin Cheng, seeing Mengmeng's apologetic expression, didn't mind and smiled: "If Mengmeng and Valkyrie Ailin hadn't taken me in back then, I don't know what state I'd be in now."

A familiar yet alien world, penniless, with an incomplete legal system.

Lin Cheng truly had no confidence he could survive until the moment his golden finger awakened.