Chapter 1701: line with translation of chapter title

NO．316：The test was also quietly set up.

Gatanjeer, hardly used by Aomo but already so familiar that no further explanation is needed, is a well‑known monster.

Standing at the peak of physical Hei'an, it is also the manifestation of countless victims' fear; placed in Lindun's office, it once was a powerful card hard to ignore, occupying the position of an elder brother.

Therefore, its transfer should have been the subject of utmost careful thought, but in practice it looks more like Aomo lent it out simply because Chazuo had a high sync rate.

Is that reasonable?

That is quite reasonable.

After all, Chazuo of Manchester City is not only highly synced with Gatanjeer; since meeting Aomo, she has constantly lingered at the edge of his sight, actively contacting her own horse girl from the activity room, training, and holidays.

In other words, she has always been under the observation of Aomo Lindun.

A stable observation point, a good interference point, and a not‑short proportion of time—thus Aomo naturally has full confidence managing all conditions of Manchester City Chazuo in storing, practicing, and actually using the Gatanjeer card, and her performance afterwards further proves this.

Aomo trusts her.

Even if she once resonated with the card to the point of losing control, she still harmed no one around her and could even be pulled back by Aomo—this in itself indirectly shows she won't be devoured by the card beyond recognition, just as the old Spider‑Man lets you know that Peter Parker's performance after darkening is still that, thereby giving you twelve‑fold trust in his goodness and restraint.

Aomo's trust in Chazuo is exactly this kind of trust.

Even if her adaptability to the Gatanjeer card has already become overclocked, he still does not intend to reclaim the card.

Because he himself is a case in point.

At the same time, he also believes Chazuo has this ability.

After all, to be frank, although overclocked adaptability is extremely rare in the whole monster‑card circle, even those who call themselves professionals among professionals in Gui Yuan Zhi Tang cannot find a second such achievement.

But its value is still somewhat inflated.

In reality, many such scientific problems have existed—just because the right method wasn't found, a threshold that stumped an entire era's sages, when actually it's a small achievement achievable by a very simple method.

Overclocked yet still stable adaptability is just like that.

It is actually not a pure cultivation difficulty; it is a small topic in the matching field.

Everyone's heart in the world can be subdivided into countless detail‑branch differences, which is why there are so many hearts that cannot understand each other, seeming alike but not.

You really can't find two worldviews that are exactly alike, let alone two hearts that are completely identical—so can you confidently say it's impossible?

The monster‑card circle is just like that.

It's not that it can't be done; rather, because most people haven't done it, they conclude that 'this situation absolutely cannot happen—once overclocked, one will inevitably lose oneself and become a monster,' and through word‑of‑mouth and mutual agreement this becomes the 'truth' of the circle.

Such a truth leaves no room for someone like Aomo Lindun, an outlier; yet the outlier is trying to summarize a new truth that refutes them, and has already seen initial success.

Although perfectly identical hearts are hard to see, nowadays the number of sentient beings not limited to human statistics is enormous; using bases of trillions, quadrillions, quintillions, etc., to filter out two identical hearts is no longer unthinkable.

All one can say is that I didn't draw a card that could be called pool poison, but don't say there isn't any.

Aomo not only can draw Mefilas himself, but also, through further processing of Shintei's model and the compatibility tester remodeled by Shintei and Suzi using the technology base of the Land of Light, he pursues the same effect from different angles.

Strictly speaking, he himself has drawn it only once; besides that, only Chazuo and Suzi are high enough, but they are still some distance from a true draw.

Bourbon and Aizhi are merely suitably good, not outstanding.

But obviously, he is not satisfied with this result and has made efforts toward it.

So he succeeded.

Because the human heart changes.

Even if a person's original intention remains unchanged and interests stay the same over the past ten years and the next ten, one can still see an understanding of changing times in one's views and attitudes toward some things.

These are precisely the changes.

Some may seem trivial to the person involved, but for monster‑card pairing they are especially important changes.

They are more detailed than so‑called mindset, more general than so‑called will, and can be called a match of the entire heart pattern.

Such a match, as long as the core standard draws near, even if innate endowment is lacking, can acquire postnatal correction and alignment, thereby becoming a strong monster‑card with overload adaptability.

Then what is the cost?

The cost is that changes driven by desire are hard to reverse; if you fall short of your expectations, you should blame the monster cards for harming people and corroding your mind.

But if you follow that path by your own will, as the master of your own mind there is no irreversibility, nor is it easy to be imprisoned; you merely might lose the strength you originally held when your mind changes again at some later point.

Just like that, if Trexis one day also lost his self‑doubt and his obsession with destruction and rebirth, he would also struggle to reach the height he now holds with the variant Bahamut.

——But it's okay!

Because this refers to the original monster cards.

Monster cards researched and analyzed by Aomo's hand can now have their internal information operation logged by demons during use, solidifying past proficiency.

Just as the meridians widened in Dongyan martial arts resist wrinkling and thus have the highest save file.

But this is a high‑quality remake for someone like Aomo Lindun who uses many monster cards, whose mirror‑like correspondence yields rich thoughts and character desires, yet precisely because of being too multifaceted finds it hard to reach the extreme.

By contrast, pursuers like Manchester City Chazuo who are still exploring the extreme and have not yet settled need not employ that technique.

They are still in the rising phase and have not yet reached the point where they need to preserve peak‑period data.

And precisely for that reason, Aomo does not reclaim the cards they hold even in his everyday life without matches or danger.

Let them handle it themselves, let them choose for themselves.

Every minute and second of carrying monster cards is cultivation; he always looks forward to their cultivation results, to how their spirit will turn into an unstoppable posture, yet he cannot deny that this spirit is not confined to the Saichang.

Even because they hold monster cards, if they are inclined to ponder and explore its usage techniques, they will eventually learn skills that ordinary monster‑card users never know.

Telepathy, card summoning, card resonance, and so on—only by mastering these can one be said not to set up a dangerous wall; it can be called professional, and at the same time it makes it easy to find oneself.

And now, having experienced this himself, he faced this unexpected performance, was briefly stunned, then responded with a relieved smile.

「What rapid growth, Chazuo。」

After careful thought, the teammate most likely to reach this level quickly, aside from Suzi, is Chazuo.

Innate high adaptability is both a talent and the practice of a will whose spirit has already developed in this way.

If nothing unexpected happens, she won't stop; if nothing unexpected happens, it is a smooth‑sailing path all the way here, and only a sudden excess of stimulation could possibly let her leap up as last time, forcing Aomo to intervene.

Such a mistake, if it occurs even once, will leave a deep impression; the true smooth path actually begins from this point.

"…?"

It seemed the black-haired horse girl didn't understand what the trainer was praising; she just tilted her head, causing the rectangular earring on her ear to sway slightly.

In Hei'an, a misty radiance shimmered like the moonlight great sword of old.

"Trainer… aren't you going back?"

"Do you want to go back? Chazuo." the trainer asked, but didn't look at her, instead continuing to gaze into the distance at the sea surface that seemed to reflect light.

"…"

Silence was an answer, and the trainer facing it merely added:

"Want to go together?"

On a small path far from the light of civilization.

"Mm… okay."

The black-haired horse girl answered crisply, her low voice slightly rising in tone.

Of course, just looking at her upright ears you could tell.

She was very happy.