: Private Chat

After returning home, Mu Ming ignored his empty stomach and began searching on the system.

But after searching for a long time, he still couldn't find the hidden function he was hoping for that would allow him to rise to the top in one step.

He possesses an additional [absorption] ability compared to ordinary magical girls, which correspondingly eliminates his ability to grow stronger through emotional outbursts.

Although the path to becoming stronger is clearly visible, seeing Li Huanhuan still causes an unbearable wavering.

"Perhaps... we just happened to bump into a genius..."

"Other magical girls aren't like this..."

Mu Ming muttered a few words, already considering whether he should find a way to help Li Huanhuan accelerate her breakthrough to the fourth rank, so that she could help him deal with the troubles after the countdown ended.

However, such thoughts were quickly forgotten.

Relying on magical girls cannot bring you a sense of security.

If the magical girl were reliable, he wouldn't have been driven to such a desperate situation by the monsters, to the point where he had to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

"You still have to rely on yourself..."

I don't know how many times I've encouraged myself like this.

Mu Ming took a few deep breaths to calm himself down and reopened the panel.

[Magic Points: 842]

[Accumulated Corrupted Magic Power: 388 points (Rank C Disaster Beast)]

For a moment, he had the idea of ​​devouring the filthy magic power; perhaps that way, he could become a third-tier being.

But then he thought about it again, and realized that what he lacked most right now was not strength, but the speed and efficiency boost to acquiring corrupted magic.

Although Li Huanhuan is rebellious, at least she wouldn't actually think about hurting herself.

[Current efficiency bonus: 69%]

Although it's not far from 100%, it's actually becoming increasingly difficult to achieve in the current situation.

Mu Ming is in an awkward middle period. Taking the next step would open up a whole new world, but that step is too difficult to take—the efficiency boost that can be obtained in a short period of time is temporarily gone.

"Huh... how did it become 69%?"

Mu Ming remembers that it used to be 62%.

[Li Huanhuan: Tier 3 (10%)]

In the [Leader] tier, Li Huanhuan provides an additional 5% bonus.

This left Mu Ming with mixed feelings, and he continued to search for the source of the extra 2%.

The results are in the "Real Name Display" section.

【Li Huanhuan: An extremely loyal partner (7%)】

Or is it her...? Where is her loyalty...? And the prefix is ​​so exaggerated...

If it weren't for the system on him, Mu Ming would have suspected that Li Huanhuan had bribed the system and conspired with Li Huanhuan to murder him.

Well, maybe my suspicions about Li Huanhuan were a bit unreasonable—who told her to be so eager to ride on my head as soon as she got stronger?

After ordering takeout, Mu Ming sat down at his computer, logged onto the Bureau of Statistics' official website, and pondered whether there were any skills he could learn.

The first and second tiers have the fewest skills, and in terms of attack power, they are not necessarily comparable to the light cannon, making them not very practical in battle.

Speaking of practicality, Mu Ming thought of Li Huanhuan's spatial abilities. If he had them... how convenient it would be to directly extract the Heart of Calamity from a C-rank calamity beast...

Why bother weakening the monsters first and then looking for an opportunity to attack them?

Mu Ming wanted to find a skill with strong single-target attack power, preferably low energy consumption, and strong penetration.

But at his current level, he cannot find such an ability.

So he clicked on the third-tier skill pool.

[The Sith System is confirming with you: Have you reached Tier 3?]

【whether】

"..."

Mu Ming silently clicked "Yes".

Anyway, they were just asking and didn't have any other malicious intent.

If he wants to see something, he can see all the skills up to the sixth tier.

The number of third-tier attack skills suddenly increased, and he was so overwhelmed by the sheer number of them that he couldn't find a skill he liked, so he had to give up for now.

dong dong!

"Your takeout order—"

Mu Ming took the takeout and put the dinner on his computer desk, intending to clear his head. So he opened the Xiaohai Forum and looked at the newly posted thread.

[Views: 344]

[Reply: 27]

To be fair, the copywriting Li Huanhuan prepared was effective. Although it only took about half a day, its popularity was several levels higher than before.

Mu Ming shoveled rice into his mouth while checking the replies.

Half of them said he was an amateur scientist, and others came from the previous post to scold him for harming people; the remaining half were people who replied with "+3" to gain experience and just watched.

Mu Ming didn't know what the use of the forum's ranking system was.

Pretending to be a senior professional?

The remaining small group are the ones who are trying to follow along:

[I'm not deaf: It feels weird, but it definitely doesn't hurt anymore. But is it really just that I've gotten used to the stinging pain from so many times?]

[Qingyao's Rising Star: It feels okay, but it's a real time killer. I kept falling asleep while practicing. What should I do next?]

[Don't Insult the White Mask: After trying it, my magic seems to have become more solid. If I keep practicing, I might be able to easily defeat magical girls of the same level.]

Mu Ming replied to each of the "Baby is awesome" messages and provided answers to the magical girl's questions.

"We still don't have enough people... Hopefully, there will be more people by the time all the guides are released."

Mu Ming wasn't sure how much of a boost this "online friend" level relationship could provide, but even taking the minimum boost as an example, it would take at least thirty magical girls to achieve his goal.

You have a new private message.

Mu Ming paused in his action of closing the webpage and opened the private chat interface.

The girl with the ID "Xiao Hei" just messaged him privately.

【Mr. Hakimi the puppy, I apologize for the intrusion.】

[I read your previous post and have already completed the practice.]

[I recall you mentioned that this is only the first half of the tutorial. May I ask what the second half of the tutorial is like?]

What kind of effect can it achieve?

Somewhat surprisingly, someone actually finished practicing the tutorial. Mu Ming had thought Xiao Hei was a charlatan.

Just like in the novel author forum, whenever a new author posts their first chapter, there are always people who, without even reading it, immediately comment "Platinum talent" or "Update soon, I can't sleep at night."

Although it doesn't have much of an impact and can often amuse people, what Mu Ming needs now is a real trainee.

Only in this way can Mu Ming connect with them across the screen.

The effect of fully mastering the technique is that the magic power enters a state of automatic circulation, requiring no control, and will continue to circulate normally even while sleeping.

After careful consideration, Mu Ming decided to reveal the truth:

[Currently, apart from myself, I haven't seen any other magical girls achieve automatic magic regeneration; they're just moving in that direction.]

Logically speaking, Mu Ming posted with the intention of deceiving people if he couldn't fool them, and shouldn't have revealed the truth.

However, since the other party is a magical girl, as long as I don't show obvious malice, it won't be a problem.

Magical girls are kind-hearted and generally don't think badly of people.

Li Huanhuan was lazy and had practiced [Natural Cultivation] for longer than him, but still hadn't succeeded.

Since this Xiao Hei is so diligent, it wouldn't be bad if she were willing to put in the effort to help me verify whether it would work out.

"Do you want to give it a try?" Mu Ming asked.

It would be an honor to have you inform me.

Xiao Zhongjie speaks in a very literary style. I feel like I've seen this way of speaking somewhere before, but I can't quite place it.

Mu Ming hasn't prepared the second half of the strategy yet.

But to put it simply, this part is about "forcing the seed of the heart to pump like a heart, even while sleeping."

After organizing his thoughts, Mu Ming sent the method to Xiao Hei.

I'm not afraid of plagiarism or anything like that. Magical girls are unreliable in many ways, but their character is definitely good.

Compared to the first half, the second half is surprisingly concise.

Mu Ming noticed the hesitation in her words, after all, the "automatic" stage of [Automatic Cultivation] sounded too simple.

"The main problem lies in the first half," he replied.

Thank you for your understanding, and I am extremely grateful.