For now, players could only see the story scene.
A high-tech spaceship hovered amidst a cosmic storm.
A voice spoke:
"Don't stop me! If I don't chew that dog of a man out, all my game accounts will be banned in the future!"
"Just seeing his face makes me… ugh, so mad!"
"Hmph, SAM, if you weren't holding me back, I'd use Aether Editing to show him some color!"
Players instantly recognized the voice as Silver Wolf's.
They couldn't hold back their laughter.
So impatient, even calling him a "dog of a man."
"…Calm down, Silver Wolf. What do you want to do to him?"
Hearing a mechanical male voice, players guessed this was likely the SAM Silver Wolf mentioned.
[New Stellaron Hunter member!]
[That voice sounds weird, not human… like a robot?]
[Belobog and the Luofu have robots, so it's not surprising.]
Silver Wolf: "I'll throw all the monsters within a ten-kilometer radius of Cloudford right in his face."
Ah Xian chuckled.
"Leon's not even fazed by a million Breach monsters attacking a city. A few kilometers' worth of monsters? Barely enough to fill his teeth."
SAM: "…"
The perspective returned to the Luofu.
"Not bad composure."
Getting no response, Leon smiled faintly and continued forward through the cargo lane.
"Goods flow like rivers, treasures weave clouds. Welcome to Cloudford Transport Hub. Wishing you a pleasant workday."
Leon: "…Seriously? No identity check at all?"
As soon as he spoke, an AI alarm blared.
"Detected: You do not possess a pass, and no authorized personnel accompany you."
"Please leave within ten seconds, or you will face Imaginary Pulse…"
Out of nowhere, players saw Leon kick the detection system, short-circuiting it.
The alarm stopped abruptly.
[Laughing my head off!]
[Something feels off. Imaginary Pulse sounds high-tech. Would the Luofu install lethal weapons here?]
Out of the blue, Leon muttered:
"Imaginary Pulse? Who're you trying to scare? Gotta be Aha's doing."
[WTF? How's this about Aha now?]
[Elation above, this is peak chaos energy.]
[Aha: Just slapping the blame on me? Aha's got some face.]
The story retained its familiar space-comedy vibe.
Many thought Leon's storyline, being solo, would be dull.
They were proven wrong.
And the real fun was yet to come.
As expected, a battle was inevitable first.
Ah Xian prepped for combat, but instead of a fight, the game transitioned to a cutscene.
Leon tossed a packet into the air, where it exploded, the powder blown by wind toward incoming Mara-Struck.
Every unit touched by the powder dropped instantly.
"Mara-Struck…"
"So many here, likely elsewhere too. Seems the Stellaron's chaos on the Luofu is bigger than expected."
Leon looked down at the fallen targets, pondering for a few seconds before searching them, finding several badges.
"…Cloud Knights' badges."
"It's unlikely the Cloud Knights all fell to Mara at once. Must be some unknown method triggering it."
"The energy in a Stellaron is terrifying, but it doesn't directly induce Mara. Strange…"
Leon stood, saying no more.
Ah Xian controlled the character to move forward.
After turning a corner, she noticed two glowing spots on the ground or near cargo crates.
Assuming interaction would yield info, she approached without hesitation.
But she never expected they'd be imported books.
Even less expected: each was heavier than the last.
[Reborn as a Foreign Princess After a Gender Swap, My Former Brothers Fell for Me]
From her perspective, this one was just quirky in theme, not too bizarre.
So she moved to the second glowing spot and pressed F.
[The Strongest Paladin's Restarted Life: I Seek Revenge on Bad Men!]
As a veteran otaku and doujin artist, Ah Xian quickly pieced together the reference.
"Restarted life, paladin… outrageous!"
"It's hard not to make random connections…"
"The first book's theme is child's play compared to this one."
She kept reading.
[No doubt, this is a light novel.]
[The story begins with the male protagonist, persecuted to death by a group of bad men in his past life, reborn before becoming a paladin.]
[In his restarted life, the paladin takes a dark path, mercilessly seeking revenge on his former enemies.]
[The novel's content is gripping, but it clashes with the 12+ rating.]
[Oh, Elation above, there's an abyss ahead. You can't keep reading.]
"Pure chaos. Is the Elation faction really behind this?"
"I'm reading it, so what?"
[One more reminder: that's an abyss. Abyss, abyss, ABYSS!!]
[You really, really, REALLY can't keep flipping, or you'll hit the jackpot.]
"Cursed writing. If I don't read to the end, I'll write my name, Jiang Wuxian, backward."
[Hahaha, you fell for it, you fell for it.]
[Gotcha! There's nothing more to read. I'm not the Elation god either, heehee~~]
"Damn it!!"
Ah Xian couldn't hold back a curse.
"Curse you, Aha! Curse you, Elation!"
[Since you flipped to the end, I'll let you in on one more thing~]
[Only half of what I said earlier was true~~]
The content ended, and an achievement popped up.
[Heal! Soul-Soothing~]
[Find and read a specific light novel.]
Ah Xian's eye twitched hard.
Writing team, you're unstoppable.
Next, she headed to the mission marker, triggering the Alchemy Commission Cultivator segment.
The entire sequence filled the stream, inside and out, with joyful chaos.
[Laugh it up, I nearly lost a tooth.]
[I get it now—Leon's storyline is tied to the Alchemy Commission, filling in 1.0 gaps.]
[Sure, Father's outsmarting them with pure brainpower, but honestly, these Alchemy Commission folks are a bit unhinged.]
[Just say it: isn't it fun watching Leon toy with them?]
[Not fun enough—give us more.]
"General Jing Yuan, oh General Jing Yuan, have you made too many enemies, or are you blocking someone's path?"
Hearing Leon's words, Ah Xian couldn't stop laughing.
"Didn't expect the Alchemy Commission to plan Jing Yuan's assassination. Bold."
"A full-blown Path of the Hunt Emanator, and you think you can assassinate him?"
"Some of 1.0's vague foreshadowing is clicking now. The Ambrosial Arbor's revival was indeed the Alchemy Commission's doing, and the delve they went to was where the Arbor is."
"Hmm? Sounds of fighting."
Heading to the next mission point.
A white-haired woman stood with her back turned, several Mara-Struck corpses at her feet.
[Jingliu!]
[What Jingliu? That's my wife!]
[Thigh-high boots—her jade feet must be divine!]
[…]
"…You're not from the Luofu."
"So?"
"It's not safe here. You should leave quickly."