As Giovanni's voice fell, a notification popped up in the game screen.
"Real Aether Spirits are now available. Players can obtain Stellar Jades and other rewards by completing challenges."
Right after that, the screen changed.
"Hm? A new game? And you support it too?" Silver Wolf glanced at Nero in surprise. "From that guy's introduction, this new mode sounds pretty challenging, and a lot more fun too.
"Good, I'm going to try the game now. But what I said to you before still isn't over. I'll get your contact info later. Your account has way too many rare Aether Spirits on it. I definitely need to borrow it and play around with them."
Silver Wolf still wanted to play on Nero's Aether Wars account, but right now, her attention had clearly been pulled away by the Real Aether Spirits.
"Let me see..." Silver Wolf's projection stood beside Nero and muttered quietly. "Oh, it's already updated on mobile. Mm, see you."
After casually saying goodbye, Silver Wolf's projection disappeared.
Nero didn't pay much attention to it and directly went to find Stelle and March.
"Silver Wolf said Real Aether Spirits is open now. Want to go check it out too?"
Neither Stelle nor March refused.
The three of them first returned to the Astral Express, then settled Bubble down in Nero's room.
"Wow, so this is Nero's room? It looks so plain. It's nowhere near as fancy as March's room." Looking at Nero's room decor, Siberian Duck commented like this.
Compared to March Seventh's room, Nero's room looked much simpler. There weren't many decorations or colors, and even the bedding was plain white.
If there was one eye-catching decoration in the room, it was probably the starry gradient wallpaper. The surroundings were all white, but gradually turned deep blue higher up.
In that "night sky" were celestial bodies of different colors giving off faint light, matching the deep space outside the train windows.
Nero's room was extremely tidy. Everything was neatly arranged and stored away. In one corner was the "bed" Nero prepared for Black Cutter, a huge wooden sword rack.
[Nero Is My Dad: Nero's room looks cleaner than March's room.]
[Master Fu Xuan Is One Meter: It doesn't look as flashy as March's room, but Nero's room has way more stuff.]
[Jump Slash Immortal: True. Nero even specially made a sword rack for Black Cutter.]
[Nero's Sword: Being Nero's weapon is seriously too blessed!]
[I Use Pantene: Let me see, there's the fried rice robot from Herta Space Station, plus a Wubbaboo; there's Chabro from Belobog, and a Preservation Aeon he somehow grabbed at some point, plus a cute snowfield bear; over here there are two Diting from the Xianzhou, one Skill Bird, one Thick Cloud Golden Toad, one Lampday Dragonfish, and there's even a gold automaton here!]
[I Use Pantene: Nero is basically robbing places. Every time he goes somewhere he takes something back. When did he even collect all this stuff?]
[Nero's Feet In My Mouth: Wow, so this is Nero's room? This place is overflowing with Nero's scent! My dick is already full of energy!]
[Nero's Feet In My Mouth: I'm going to roll around on this bed. Then when Nero lies down, it'll all smell like me. I'm going to j*rk off in this room, then when Nero enters he'll be surrounded by my scent. Ah~~ kimoji!!]
[Glue Man: Unreal Yellow Pee bro. You can still go crazy even in this situation.]
[Aha's Emanator: Ahaha, now I really want to know why Nero's room has so much stuff in it.]
[Belobog Savage: I know too. The fried rice robot scalds Yellow Pee bro, the Wubbaboo scares Yellow Pee bro, Yanqing annoys Yellow Pee bro to death, the Preservation Aeon smashes Yellow Pee bro, the snowfield bear and Diting bite Yellow Pee bro, the Skill Bird pecks Yellow Pee bro, and the Cloud Toad and gold automaton beat Yellow Pee bro up together.]
[Nero's Feet In My Mouth: What? Nero actually did all this for me? Everything Nero did was for my sake! I'm so happy!]
[Ice And Steel: Dear god, someone get an Argenti over here to take this guy away already!]
Yellow Pee bro's comments were honestly hard to look at directly. Siberian Duck didn't want to focus too much attention on that thing.
Even though reading Yellow Pee bro's comments every day was a kind of entertainment, you couldn't take too much of it at once.
For this kind of thing, the most fun came from stopping after just a little.
She quickly turned her attention back to the Aether Wars DLC. In the event menu, this was a completely new activity separated from Aether Wars.
Siberian Duck started following the mission guide and found the "Real Aether Spirit" function in the phone interface.
A subtle feeling rose in her heart. She was actually playing the DLC version of a fictional game that existed inside the game she was already playing.
After Siberian Duck followed the system prompts and clicked on Real Aether Spirits, the screen entered a cutscene.
As streams of data appeared, heaven and earth began forming in the screen. Then came another refresh, and vegetation appeared too.
During the third refresh, some animal figures hidden in the forest appeared before them, and animal cries began sounding in their ears.
Then came the fourth refresh. Three human figures appeared in this never-before-seen forest. After the fifth refresh, the sound of wind appeared around them, and the movement of the airflow could now be felt physically.
Finally, the three members of Seven-Star Fish opened their eyes.
"Wow! Where did we come to? Is this the... whatever Giovanni called it, Peak of Victory?" March widened her eyes and looked around curiously, crying out in surprise.
Meanwhile, Nero and Stelle beside her had already started moving their bodies around, swinging their arms, twisting their waists, shaking their legs, and jumping.
The two of them had both experienced the Simulated Universe before, so they were already quite used to this kind of "game."
"There doesn't seem to be any problem with the body. This system probably restored everyone's physical data to the highest degree possible."
As Nero moved his arms, he said, "Anyway, let's catch an Aether Spirit first. Even if it's DLC, the basic battle gameplay probably won't change."
"But if it's like this, we should be able to get Aether Spirits pretty easily. That's pretty good. No need to go through the trouble of setting traps anymore."
While speaking, Nero lightly stomped the ground.
The cracks spreading through the ground under Nero's feet were visible to the naked eye.
"If there weren't gameplay restrictions, Nero himself would be stronger than the Aether Spirits." March twitched her mouth and said.
"That's different. I'm not playing real-person combat." Nero argued back. "Fighting is bad. It's best not to fight."
Stelle and March said nothing. They just lowered their heads and looked at the ground.
It probably had no objections.