How does it feel to fight a boss with y-nine hp bars?

  This question summed up everyone’s experience while fighting against Aleph. Aside from the huge pits and craters, they were left with questions on how someone could be that strong.

  Evehe sed round began, to whina joihey were still beaten up. Worse, they could tell that Aleph wasn’t even serious when fighting them. The farthest they forced him was when he used his secutive Bck Fsh and Ratio Teique to shatter Anna’s icebergs.

  This kind of mock battle tinued for three more days before everyone disbahese three days were far more ‘exg’ and ‘productive’ than fighting against an emperor-css honkai beast—since Aleph was far strohan it.

  ‘Hm. These rewards…’

  Aleph stared ily at the prompts. He already went through the rewards several times, though the uses of the two rewards she got from the major achievements he got after pleting the limited instance.

  [Albion’s Remains: tains the remains of the true dragon Albion. This reward makes up the rest of the unobtained fragments.]

  [Star Rail Special Pass: A mysterious ticket that allows for someoo ride along the star rail train built by the Trailbzing Aeon, Akivili.]

  ‘Star Rail Pass… seriously?’

  Aleph recalled the Trailbzers he knew. Eae of them had their special circumstances, with one being more mysterious thaher. There was also Welt Yang, one of Current Era’s First Herrschers, who was among them.

  He stared at his chest. Unlike before, the darkness tained within his Sephira Crystal could no longer be described as ‘bck’. It was more appropriate to describe it as a tainer of nothingness.

  Subsequently, Aleph felt that the feedback of Albion’s powers increased at a fast rate. He still had debts during his one-week period of fighting against emperor-css honkai beasts si was ‘downed’ when Kurumi uionally took it to recover.

  Add to that his ret battles, Aleph vaguely felt something taking shape.

  ‘Other than it…’

  He opehe notebook on his desk. A handwriting filled the pages. Each of them was written iern Characters. He seriously read its tents while standing.

  ‘Bde Mantra.’

  It was the teique developed by Hua during the Current Era. It was a teique created to allow humans to harness honkai as their own.

  The sylbles pced in the “Bde Mantra” would allow someoo enter a state simir to Aponia’s Disciplihus f the body to adapt to the honkai.

  It has four stages, namely:

  Absolute Calm.

  Fwlessly .

  Clear Mirror.

  Taixuan. (Grand Void)

  Emihe stro move out of them all, could only be learned ohey have passed through Taixuan.

  ‘...I’m not mistaken. It really had simirities with No Sed Strike.’ Aleph thought. ‘Zhou Tian…’

  Zhou Tian, ic Orbit, involved taking in the surrounding energy, more known as qi. Ohey are taken, they could be trolled by the user to engulf his surroundings in it, thus f an area where ‘metaphysical pressure’ exists. It was the same move Aleph used to scare the deformed humans in the Shibuya Station.

  If Juezhao verged for one point, No Sed Strike verges both the ford qi at one point, causing indescribable damage to one’s oppo.

  Emihe final move tained in the Bde of Mantra, used the same cept but with honkai energy. That was the reason why the four stages ial dition were required—honkai o be reined in, uhe qi in Li Shuwen's world.

  While Aleph was deep in thoughts, a pair of slender arms came from behind him. Two huge mountains were pressed on his back.

  Aleph immediately knew who it was.

  “Mei.”

  “Mn.”

  Mei stuck her fa his back. These acts froze Aleph. All sorts of chaotic thoughts started entering his mind.

  ‘This…’

  Mei pyed with his hands at first. Later on, she became aced to hugging his arm. Now, she no longer had any reservations and hugged him. It was just as stimuting as when he woke up to Kurumi by his bedside. It did not help that he occasionally had chaotic thoughts due to his MANTIS surgery.

  If not for his self-trol, he would have…

  ‘No amount of Heart Sutra save me.’

  While Aleph was somewhere between heaven and hell, Mei enjoyed every bit of his rea.

  ‘Cute.’

  She noticed hoh jolts whenever she hugs him from behind. Seeing him flustered was one of the new joys she discovered.

  ‘He’s different from before… He’s more serious…’

  The Mei from two years ago would not have expected that a serious guy like Aleph would be lighthearted now, more so to be such a ‘cute boyfriend’.

  It remained like this for a while until Mei let go of him.

  Aleph turned around and faced her. He took several steps before he took the initiative to hug her.

  It was Mei’s turn to be surprised. She looked up at him in a daze, only to her lips to be pressed against his. Aleph anticipated her gsses, in turn avoiding the awkward bump.

  When Aleph’s head moved away, a smile could be seen on his face.

  “I finally got you once.”

  Mei responded with a ‘slight’ pout. She did not talk to him, instead bringing her face closer to his.

  They kissed for a sed time. It took more than ten seds before they separated.

  Throughout the entire process, Aleph was the one who was startled.

  “Are you sure about that?”

  Mei rhetorically asked with a teasing smile. Her big chest was still pressed onto Aleph. The bination of the two was enough to make his face turn visibly red.

  She slowly went out of the embrace before holding his hand. She walked in front of him, to which he followed.

  Soon, they reached the small sofa in the office. Aleph looked at her silently. She responded by looking into the sofa.

  He immediately knew what she wao do.

  ‘She’s envious… of what Kurumi did before.’

  The past few days—the beginning of their days as romantic partners—were spent on subtly feeling each other’s thoughts.

  Aleph sat on the sofa obediently. His heartbeat was faster pared to before. His face, though the redness slowly disappeared, threateo e back. His ned ears were already red from the mixed sensations he received—be it embarrassment, shyness, or arousal.

  Time opped moving.

  Aleph felt Mei’s softness on his p. It was far more drastipared to Kurumi. The feeling of touch was enough for Aleph to envision what was beyond her usual office skirt. Another fragrance akin to a vender assaulted his nose.

  His accelerated thoughts and split minds did not help either. The more they processed these sensations, the more overwhelmed Aleph became.

  ‘...I’m done for.’

  Aleph bnked out.