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Part 2
At the time, Yun Yingzhi thought of General Yun and Mrs. Yun, who had always rejected source weapons.
After a moment of hesitation, he shook his head and said firmly: He didn’t want to.
He didn’t want to anger his parents in any way.
Alvin gently stroked his hair and praised him as he always did. “Then… I’ll let this weapon appear in the Empire under the name of my mysterious apprentice, alright?”
Yun Yingzhi nodded obediently. He didn’t care about fame; these things were fine either way.
The only thing he had ever wanted to fight for was the love of his family.
Alvin said, “Zhizhi baby.”
At that age, Yun Yingzhi felt the nickname was a bit embarrassing, but he still loved to hear it. He didn’t even want to pretend to tell Alvin that he was grown up and shouldn’t be called that.
He thought: What if Alvin actually stopped calling me that?
He gave a soft reply.
“Zhizhi baby, you are to me—and to the Empire—the most brilliant starlight in the galaxy of ten thousand stars. Let’s send this weapon out under the name ‘Starlight,’ alright?”
Being praised, Yun Yingzhi covered his tiny mouth with both hands, his eyes curving as he replied, “Mm!”
Since then, every weapon Yun Yingzhi made was published under the name Starlight.
In the projection, Wang Rong said, “Of course, that’s not to say low-grade weapons aren’t worthy of these complex inscriptions. It’s primarily because they are extremely difficult, and only a small fraction of creators can achieve them.”
“In the weapon in my hand, there are seven primary inscriptions and… three passive inscriptions.”
Following his introduction, more and more people flocked to the stream. Even though 10:00 PM wasn’t prime time, the traffic hit a peak.
Wang Rong said, “I can roughly sense what the seven active skills are. As for the passive skills and their trigger conditions, I think I need the creator’s notes to be certain.” He paused, then added, “It’s not that I can’t explore them through practice, but I’m worried there’s no way to let everyone know its true merits that way.”
“As a source weapon warrior, I am deeply in love with this weapon,” Wang Rong said, looking directly at the commentator. “Can we contact the creator of this weapon?”
The commentator said, “Please wait, I’ll try to make contact now.”
Yu Feiwen had a dazed face.
Ji Xiaobo and Jing Haomiao had shocked faces.
It was far too unexpected!
As if remembering something, the three turned their eyes to Yun Yingzhi in unison, their eyes filled with wonder. When on earth had he met such a powerful creator?
Yun Yingzhi felt their gazes and looked back. In his mind, he was thinking about the inscriptions he’d added when making Yu Feiwen’s weapon.
His thoughts had been a bit chaotic lately, his head full of various inscriptions.
His memory was a bit fuzzy.
Yun Yingzhi minimized the live stream and opened his design blueprints.
It was at this moment that Yu Feiwen received a call request from the Source Weapon Association.
From the other end of the stream, the commentator’s voice came through.
“Hello.”
Yu Feiwen was a bit nervous.
He was nervous partly because he realized he was about to own a very special weapon, and partly because he was currently on a live stream.
Why was the Association contacting him?
At this moment, Yu Feiwen could hear his own heart pounding. He said, “Hello.”
Commentator: “It’s like this: you may be watching our appraisal stream. The ‘Unadorned’ you sent us is currently being appraised.”
“I-I know!” Because of his nerves, his voice was a bit shaky.
Commentator: “Could you please explain the effects of the seven active skills and the trigger conditions for the three passive skills?”
Without realizing it, Yu Feiwen instinctively looked at Yun Yingzhi.
In the stream, Wang Rong’s voice came through: “Also, does this weapon have any requirements for the ability warrior? Such as attribute requirements?”
The commentator repeated Wang Rong’s words.
By this time, Yun Yingzhi had opened his blueprints. He replied, “One of the passive skills must be used in conjunction with the ‘Aura Capture’ active skill.”
“It’s generally suitable for team battles.” After a pause, Yun Yingzhi added, “I think—no, the creator I know thought—that when the military is in battle, there are often warriors with powerful abilities, especially group attack skills. Once used, there’s a risk of friendly fire. Although people try to minimize this, they either feel constrained during combat or mistakes still happen. Therefore, he thought: wouldn’t it be great if all attack skills could ignore teammates? In his inscription, the weapon can capture auras and calculate them by zone. After successfully capturing an aura, the weapon will automatically avoid warriors marked with that aura when releasing attack skills.”
Yu Feiwen blinked his large eyes. His thoughts were heading in a completely different direction from Yun Yingzhi’s.
Because Yun Yinghui was a soldier, the primary target of every weapon Yun Yingzhi made was always the needs of the military.
Given the same skill effect, what Yu Feiwen was thinking was: “Meaning, if we have a final exam that requires a 20v20 group battle, I can use any skill I want without hurting my teammates, right?”
Yun Yingzhi nodded. “Theoretically, yes.”
On the other end of the call, the commentator was reeling.
In all her years working at the Association, this was the first time she’d heard of such an inscription.
The moment she announced the two skills, the chat was flooded once more.
Different people had different ideas, but many shared Yun Yingzhi’s vision.
If this skill were applied to star wars, it would definitely be one of the god-tier group combat skills.
The next question was: is the skill stable? Will it fail?
Amidst the overwhelming questions, Yun Yingzhi continued with the second passive skill.
“The second passive skill is ‘High-Speed Evasion.'”
Yu Feiwen: “A dodging skill?”
Yun Yingzhi nodded. “It has trigger conditions. Feiwen, your attributes are Wind and Thunder, both related to speed. Although you are already fast, this passive skill was added just in case.”
“According to the weapon’s settings, it absorbs Source energy. The storage pool within the inscription can lock a portion of energy based on the user’s intent. When a high-energy impact is sensed, the second passive skill will activate, performing a short-burst high-speed movement—the speed is like teleportation.”
Yu Feiwen repeated the second passive skill in a daze.
In the projection, everyone heard the commentator gasp.
The current situation was that the commentator could hear Yun Yingzhi’s voice through the call with Yu Feiwen, and Yun Yingzhi’s group could hear the commentator through the stream, but the viewers in the chat couldn’t hear Yu Feiwen or Yun Yingzhi.
After the commentator repeated Yun Yingzhi’s words, the chat was submerged again.
Someone even commented that if everyone on the battlefield had such a weapon, their survival probability would surely be much higher!
Think about it: if every warrior on the field had this passive skill, they could perform precision dodges.
Yu Feiwen asked, “One of the trigger conditions for the first passive is the capture skill.”
Yun Yingzhi nodded.
“And the trigger condition for the second passive is a pre-set damage threshold, right?”
Yun Yingzhi nodded again. “Correct.”
“And the third passive skill?”
Yun Yingzhi: “…”
“What’s wrong?”
Yun Yingzhi felt a bit guilty.
Yu Feiwen grew anxious. “What’s wrong?”
Yun Yingzhi paused, looked at the inscriptions in his blueprints, and said, “…Well, the third passive skill is also a life-saving skill.”
Yu Feiwen: “…Mm?” A life-saving skill?
Yun Yingzhi felt that when he set up the weapon, he hadn’t considered that Yu Feiwen didn’t actually need these kinds of skills. He’d just inscribed them casually. Now that he was explaining them one by one, he realized the illogical parts.
They were just military students, not frontline soldiers. Their lives were currently devoid of any danger.
Yet of the three passive skills, two were life-saving skills.
Though the skills were powerful, the truth was they were “useless” skills.
Under Yu Feiwen’s urging, Yun Yingzhi continued, “This is a passive skill independently designed by… cough, by that creator. When a cataclysmic disaster is sensed, the wind accelerates and thunder reflects, creating eight ‘Thunder Shadows.’ Then, movement is performed based on whether the energy in the storage pool is sufficient.”
Yu Feiwen had a bewildered face.
After a pause, Yun Yingzhi said in an even softer voice, “The third passive is a true passive skill—an inherent setting of the weapon. It doesn’t require any skill pairing or specific trigger conditions. It only relies on its own sensing, and…”
Yun Yingzhi and Yu Feiwen’s eyes met, Yu Feiwen’s pupils shaking.
“Once activated, the user can only specify a general direction. The high-speed movement cannot be stopped until no pursuit is sensed or the energy in the pool is completely depleted.” This was a truly imperfect passive skill.
The three roommates stared at Yun Yingzhi with expressions that said their entire worldview had been shattered.
Yu Feiwen’s eyelids twitched as he looked at the commentator on the screen.
In the stream, the commentator, having heard the conversation between the two, was equally dazed.
Yun Yingzhi felt a bit embarrassed. “Feiwen, I’m sorry. When that creator was making the weapon for you, he probably didn’t think about the fact that you don’t need these skills. How about this: I’ll have him change it for you.” Thinking back, he hadn’t been in the right state of mind at all that day. He only knew he had to finish the weapon; he didn’t have much of an impression of what kind of weapon he’d actually made.
Yu Feiwen instantly snapped out of his shock and lunged to hug Yun Yingzhi’s leg.
Yun Yingzhi was startled and looked down at him.
Yu Feiwen’s voice trembled as he said, “No! I don’t think there’s any need to change it! This one is great! It’s perfect! It suits me perfectly! It’s exactly what I need!”
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