Chapter 456

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【Counterattack successful. Fate Red Thread intercepted. Quartet Ashelia successfully bound to the host. Fate Power and Night Power feedback initiated; please prepare to receive, Host!】

While Moonlight Bird Zero was conversing with Antoneva and the others, Lu Li also received the notification from the system.

Bound to Ashelia, and there's feedback of Fate Power?

Lu Li was bewildered by this sudden system notification.

He wasn't surprised that the system could successfully counterattack, but he hadn't expected the counterattack to be so thorough—directly intercepting the Fate Red Thread and following the vine to the melon, forcibly binding Ashelia to him.

There was even feedback of Fate Power and Night Power.

To say nothing else, Fate Power sounded extremely high-end and prestigious; Lu Li even speculated that this might be a type of Ultimate Power.

Otherwise, the system wouldn't have specifically reminded him to prepare to receive it.

Besides Fate Power, there was also Night Power. For the system to specifically group them together, this Night Power might be on the same level as Fate Power.

If that were truly the case, that would mean two types of Ultimate Power!

Thinking of this, Lu Li couldn't help but gasp, simultaneously sharpening his focus to the utmost.

An Artifact User who was only equivalent to an eleven-star Magic Card Spirit, yet controlled two types of Ultimate Power—this was a bit absurd.

One had to know that in the Magic Card civilization, everyone he had encountered who controlled Ultimate Power only mastered one type.

And these people, without exception, were all Supreme Realm Magic Card masters; converted, they were definitely stronger than an eleven-star Magic Card Spirit.

Lu Li truly couldn't understand why two types of Ultimate Power existed within Ashelia.

Even if the other party was an Artifact User and not a Magic Card Spirit, he hadn't seen other Artifact Users control Ultimate Power—let alone two types!

But that wasn't the point; the point was that these two types of Ultimate Power were now coming straight for him.

Before this, although he already possessed Sun Power and Faith Power, these two types of Ultimate Power were not controlled by him personally.

Now, with Fate Power and Night Power following in succession, it seemed he had to receive both of these Ultimate Powers himself, which was truly unexpected.

However, he couldn't worry about that for now; at this moment, Lu Li mobilized all of his own strength.

859. New Ultimate Power, Contracting Ashelia

The profoundly mysterious Fate Power and the obscure, difficult-to-understand Night Power descended the next moment. Lu Li could feel Fate Power and Night Power surging into his body along the Fate Red Thread entangled between them. Information regarding Ashelia's life also flashed through Lu Li's mind like a horse passing a flower.

As Finish Finish Time passed, after viewing Ashelia's entire life, Lu Li's eyes were filled with gravity.

If the system forcibly binding Ashelia to him was already beyond his expectations, then Ashelia's life—or rather, the origin of her appearance—was the second surprise.

Although she was an Artifact User, she did not come from the Boundary City; or rather, she was not a native born and bred in the Boundary City like other Artifact Users, but an outsider like himself.

He came from the Magic Card civilization, while Ashelia came from a powerful civilization whose level of civilization reached that of the Magic Card World. She was even a descendant of two gods: Fate and Night.

And the strength of the two gods of Fate and Night, converted to the Magic Card civilization, was equivalent to Supreme Realm experts!

As a descendant of the twin gods of Fate and Night, Ashelia similarly inherited the power of Fate and Night!

The civilization where Ashelia originally resided was also once at its peak, but in the end, it was destroyed by what were called Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons—which, in essence, were the Extraterrestrial Beasts in the mouths of Magic Card masters.

As the twin gods of Fate and Night, although they fell during the initial war of world destruction, they sent Ashelia away, though Ashelia lost this part of her memory as a result.

The former daughter of Fate and Night eventually, by chance, became the butler of the White Night Pavilion's owner, Xia.

And now, she was directly bound to him.

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【Quartet Ashelia】

Race: Artifact User

Grade: Mythical

Level: Eleven-star

Equipment: Sewing Needle Clotho's Needle (Artifact), Night Butterfly (Exclusive Shadow Equipment)

Skills: String Shield, Trembling Dance, Shining Heavy Strike, Puppet's Symphony, Fate Red Thread (Artifact Skill), Nyx's Blessing (Exclusive Shadow Equipment Skill), Awakening

String Shield: Condenses silver threads to apply a shield that absorbs damage. While the shield exists, the user is immune to control. After the shield breaks, the user's attack speed increases by 50% and begins to repair, gaining a full shield after 20 seconds.

Trembling Dance: Slides backward to charge, simultaneously summoning 2 clones to deal damage to the target and enemies around the target. During skill release, the user is immune to control and takes no damage. After releasing the skill, gain 1 Shining Heavy Strike charge.

Shining Heavy Strike: Consumes one Shining charge and swings the blade in hand at the target area, dealing three consecutive stages of defense-ignoring deepened damage to all enemies in the target area. Each attack reduces the enemy's healing effect by 20%, lasting 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Gain one Shining charge every 5 seconds, storing up to 5 times.

Puppet's Symphony: Clears all control on self and rapidly approaches the target. After a brief charge, deals damage to the target and stuns for 1 second. After retracting the blade, deals secondary damage to the target and nearby enemies, and summons puppets to use the Fate Red Thread to connect the target and up to four friendly units for 5 seconds. While the target exists, connected friendly units take no damage, and received damage is transferred to the target at ten times the amount.

Fate Red Thread (Artifact Skill): During the release of Puppet's Symphony, all friendly units' damage increases by 25%. After being killed, consumes magic stored in the artifact to restore self to peak state, storing up to 2 times; or releases all magic in the artifact at once to gain the authority of the God of Fate for a brief Finish Finish Time, rewriting the fate of a selected target.

Nyx's Blessing (Exclusive Shadow Equipment Skill): Each Finish Finish Time Ashelia releases a skill that deals damage, she gains 1 charge, storing up to 15 charges. Can consume charges to increase attack power; or consume all charges at once to summon the descent of Night. During the duration of Night, Ashelia can briefly manifest as the Goddess of Night, Nyx.

Awakening: Upon activation, level and grade both increase by one tier.

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Having gained a deeper understanding of Ashelia's existence and cognition, Lu Li simultaneously obtained more data on Ashelia, seeing the detailed introduction of her skills, artifacts, and shadow equipment abilities.

Of course, no matter how formidable Ashelia's background was, she was now bound to him and could not harm him.

"So, this is the origin of the artifact Clotho's Needle and the skill Nyx's Blessing?" Recalling, the Goddess of Fate and Goddess of Night from certain myths in his previous life did indeed have names like Clotho and Nyx.

Of course, having seen Ashelia's memories, Lu Li also knew that she had no connection to the goddesses from the myths of his previous life other than the names.

"However, if things continue like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on for long." Knowing Ashelia's origin and understanding that she was the reincarnation of the goddesses of Fate and Night, Lu Li could accept why she could simultaneously control two types of Ultimate Power: Fate Power and Night Power.

After all, Ashelia inherited the abilities of both the twin gods of Fate and Night, so naturally, she mastered these two types of Ultimate Power, and these two types of Ultimate Power would not conflict within her body.

But Lu Li was not Ashelia, and he was not a Supreme Realm Magic Card master right now, but merely a Sovereign Realm Magic Card master.

A Sovereign Realm Magic Card master could be considered the backbone of the Magic Card civilization, but unfortunately, Ultimate Power was still not something a Sovereign Realm Magic Card master could control.

Having been infused with Fate Power and Night Power for so long, the fact that Lu Li could persist until now could only be said to be truly beyond the perspective of an ordinary Magic Card master.

But this did not mean he could withstand the infusion of these two types of Ultimate Power indefinitely.

Should he open the Eternal Land?

If things continued like this, he would definitely be crushed by the two types of Ultimate Power: Fate Power and Night Power.

Although these two types of Ultimate Power would not harm him after Ashelia bound to him, if he were crushed because he couldn't withstand the power, that would be his own problem.

The first solution Lu Li thought of for the moment was to open the Eternal Land, using the Eternal Land to contain the feedback of Fate Power and Night Power.

860. Second Contracted Artifact User! Balance of All Things!

The Eternal Land had now been promoted to the level of a micro-world; using the energy of a micro-world to carry Fate Power and Night Power was actually feasible.

But there was also a problem: there was no suitable carrier for Fate Power and Night Power within the Eternal Land.

For example, Sun Power had the Eternal Sun and the Sun God Xihe as carriers, while Faith Power had Celestin and Tiamat, these two world pillars, as carriers.

Introducing Fate Power and Night Power into the Eternal Land would certainly perfect the rules of the Eternal Land to a certain extent, but if there were no carriers capable of bearing these two types of Ultimate Power for a long Finish Finish Time, it might instead cause harm to the Eternal Land.

Furthermore, these two types of Ultimate Power originally came from Ashelia; whether she could absorb them if he found other carriers was also a question.

The Magic Card Spirits within the Eternal Land did not have candidates capable of bearing Fate Power and Night Power, and in terms of affinity, there were no suitable ones either.

Just as Lu Li was considering whether to use another method, a gentle figure rushed into his arms, bringing a maiden's faint fragrance.

At the same moment, the system also sent another notification.

【Moonlight Bird Zero actively binds with the Host. Congratulations to the Host for contracting Moonlight Bird Zero!】

【Moonlight Bird Zero actively shares her own Origin Power. Congratulations to the Host for obtaining a special blessing from Moonlight Bird Zero—Balance of All Things!】

【Balance of All Things: An origin ability possessed exclusively by Moonlight Bird Zero, who transformed from a Living Corpse state, possessing the power to regulate the balance of all things.】

Wait, the problem of Quartet Ashelia hadn't been fully resolved, and now another Moonlight Bird Zero?

Weren't you pouring out sisterly love with Antoneva and Amusa and the others? Why did you suddenly run over to me?

Looking at Moonlight Bird Zero in his arms, Lu Li truly felt that although both were called Zero, the gap between this "Big Zero" and "Little Zero" was truly an unignorable difference.

"I can feel that I can help you as you are now." Raising her head, Moonlight Bird Zero looked at Lu Li with her heterochromatic eyes, a trace of shyness within them. This was the first Finish Finish Time he had such intimate contact with the opposite sex.

But she didn't hate this feeling.

Could help him as he was now? Hearing Moonlight Bird Zero's statement, Lu Li thought of the system's notification just now.

After Moonlight Bird Zero bound with him, although he didn't get feedback of Ultimate Power like Ashelia, he did obtain a new blessing: Balance of All Things, possessing the ability to regulate all things.

The ability to regulate all things—did that include Ultimate Power?

Thinking of this, Lu Li directly activated this newly obtained blessing; he chose to believe Moonlight Bird Zero's words.

Moreover, there wasn't much Finish Finish Time left for him to waste.

The ability of Balance of All Things was activated. The next moment, within the Eternal Land, the Sun Power held by Xihe and the Faith Power held by Celestin and Tiamat directly connected with the Fate Power and Night Power fed back into his own body.

At the moment of connection, the quantity of Ultimate Power between them changed. The most obvious Fallen Fallen Mode Fallen Mode Change was that the Fate Power and Night Power fed back from Ashelia, no matter how much they increased, no longer gave him the feeling of being crushed.

Under the effect of the Balance of All Things ability, the Fate Power and Night Power that Lu Li couldn't withstand were converted into Sun Power and Faith Power, further increasing the quantity of Ultimate Power held by Xihe, Celestin, and Tiamat.

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