102: Chapter 102 Six Billion, and the Arrow of the Substitute

The video of Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan twisting off President Long Zaiyuan's head had been looping across the entire internet for an entire morning.

Su Bai sat in the living room of his newly moved-into mansion, holding a cup of black tea that he had refilled with hot water three times already, and finally set it down when he watched it for the tenth time.

Kyubey was squatting on the armrest of the sofa.

[Su Bai, you have already watched it ten times.]

"It's good to watch."

[What are you focusing on?]

"Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's transformation design is really well done." Su Bai said seriously, "I was actually quite worried that the skirt with the dark gold flame pattern would be too gaudy when I designed it, but now it looks like the effect is just right."

Kyubey's tail flicked.

[Aren't you interested in the sales figures?]

"Haven't checked yet, how much is it?"

[Six billion.]

The teacup in Su Bai's hand paused in mid-air.

[First day. The military added an order of eighty thousand cards. War God Temple and Frost Throne simultaneously retracted their boycott statements last night. The president of Blade of the Polar Night personally called Lins Chamber of Commerce to say that it was a misunderstanding before. Also—your personal account.]

Su Bai lowered his head to take a look at his phone.

On the homepage of the banking app, the original eight-digit balance had ballooned to ten digits. The number on the far left was still jumping upward at the frequency of a heartbeat.

He put down the teacup.

"Holy crap!"

Then Su Bai stood up, paced around the living room twice, sat back down, and then stood up again.

[Your heart rate—]

"I know."

[Is even faster than when you were fighting the Shadow Demon.]

"Because this number is different." Su Bai stared at the phone screen and took a deep breath, "Last time on the Monthly Exam stage, when I said no one understood spatial theory better than me, the whole class thought I was showing off. Now, hehehe, hahaha, I can finally call myself a rich kid!"

He opened the internal forum of the Sanctuary.

The first hot post was hung with an eye-catching title: "Forbes Dragon Kingdom Rich List Real-time Update—Su Bai enters the list for the first time, ranked 43rd."

The poster was the official account of the Sanctuary Intelligence Department. The body of the post had only one line: [The youngest TOP 50 billionaire in the history of the Card Creator Association. Level 19, Tier 2. Of course, Su Bai himself has now broken through Tier 2, and his specific strength has not been updated in real-time.]

The comment section had completely lost its sanity.

[Level 19, Tier 2, Forbes top 50, this is too perverted, could it be that turning into a Magical Girl really opens up some weird switches?]

[You above are behind the times, that cat of his can really grant wishes! Many people have already bought a Kyubey Card, and their first wish was to become filthy rich, and the success rate is basically 100%! In other words, buying a Kyubey Card now is actually equivalent to free!]

[Huh?? Is that wish-granting function for real? Doesn't that equal free money?]

[That's why it's called a Rainbow Card, this situation is indeed rare.]

[Holy crap, no wonder the orders suddenly soared to six billion on the first day, this data has already crushed the annual revenue of the Li family during their peak period.]

[The Li family is probably finished, haha.]

[Someone has already started a betting pool on when Su Bai will rush into the top ten!]

[I bet three months!]

[I bet by the end of the next National Competition!]

Su Bai finished scrolling through the comment section and was just about to send a message to Lin Xiao to ask about the shipping situation at Lins Chamber of Commerce.

Then his vision exploded.

Not figuratively.

It exploded literally.

A golden beam of light slammed down from the ceiling, dragging his consciousness directly from the living room into a void composed entirely of data streams. All around him were dense golden runes, each one flashing at high speed, the frequency of the flickering too fast for the human eye to keep up with.

[Detected that the host's cumulative fame value has exceeded the carrying capacity limit of the primary prize pool.]

The system's mechanical voice exploded in this void. It was not quite the same as the usual cold, business-like tone—if the system had a tone, Su Bai always felt that there was a trace of imperceptible excitement in this prompt.

[Primary concept prize pool: Overflow. Forced settlement in progress.]

[Automatically unlocking: Intermediate concept prize pool.]

[Intermediate prize pool unlocked content: High-level law-type concepts, cross-worldview system cards, causality-level weapon blueprints.]

[Current remaining points: 3,472,000.]

Su Bai blinked in the void.

"3.47 million points? How much was it before? That's not right, it seems like there wasn't this option before, it completely popped out of thin air..."

[Last query: 8,200. Because the host activated the system for the first time, the points were not displayed.]

[Increase: Approximately 423 times.]

[Source analysis: Fame value conversion. Every time a holder of a magical girl card experiences an emotional fluctuation—including but not limited to shock, fanaticism, shame, despair, and hope—the host will receive corresponding point feedback. Within the past thirty-six hours, the number of intense emotional fluctuations accumulated by card holders is approximately—]

The number jumped out in front of him.

[6,800,000,000 times.]

"…6.8 billion times."

[Yes. The number is still growing. It is recommended that the host consume points as soon as possible. The point storage limit of the intermediate prize pool is five million. The excess part will be automatically cleared after twenty-four hours. (Note: You can use a large number of points to exchange for a super draw opportunity.)]

Su Bai didn't wait for the system to finish, and directly pressed the draw button with his thought.

"Exchange half of the points for a super draw, and save the rest."

[Confirm: Consume half of the points to exchange for a super draw. Warning—this operation will clear half of the host's points. Confirm?]

"Confirm."

The golden runes in the void stopped flashing simultaneously.

Then the entire space began to rotate. All the runes turned into a golden vortex, flowing crazily around Su Bai. Each rune was a phantom of a conceptual blueprint—the hilt of a Zanpakuto, the armor plate of a Gundam, the cover of some black notebook emitting an ominous aura—and then all the phantoms were drawn into the center of the vortex, compressed, fused, and compressed again.

Finally, a blinding golden light exploded.

It was not the pink-black color of strawberry milkshake mixed with abyss mud from before. It was pure, scorching, like someone had stuffed an entire star into an arrow—gold.

The light dissipated.

A blueprint hovered in front of Su Bai.

The blueprint depicted an arrow. The arrow body was made of gold, and a beetle carved from an unknown metal was embedded on the shaft, with two tiny rubies inlaid in the beetle's eyes.

The barbed design of the arrow tip was extremely bizarre—it did not resemble the weapon style of any known civilization, because its barbs were not used to tear flesh. They were used to tear souls.

[Blueprint: Stardust Tarot · Stand Arrow]

[Rarity: Cannot be rated (Cross-system core card)]

[Description: Ghost Ripple—also known as Stand—is an invisible guardian spirit condensed from the user's Mental Power. It does not exist in the physical dimension and is not affected by any known means of attack. Only a Stand User can harm a Stand.]

[Rule Correction: In this world, it is the manifestation of Mental Power, and only non-physical attacks can harm a Stand. Moreover, the invisible characteristic of the guardian spirit only applies to those with weak Mental Power.]

Su Bai stared at this line of description.

He was silent for a long time.

It was not a silence of confusion.

It was the brain of a creator deducing at a crazy speed—how much of an impact this card would cause to the existing combat power system if it were encapsulated and formed.

[In other words.]

He looked at the blueprint over and over again three times.

[I can use this thing to make a large number of people awaken a Stand... A new system card? By the way, I can directly create a specific Stand for a specific person, right? Because the concepts are the same, as long as I have obtained the concept of a Stand, I can specify the specific Stand ability and then create it, just like how I can customize a magical girl card, rather than being limited to wishing to Kyubey.]

[Yes.]

[And, I can also make Requiem abilities?]

[Yes.]

[Heaven Over Heaven is also possible?]

[Yes. When unlocking the Stand concept, the design blueprint already included everything, but the premise is that you need sufficient materials.]

Holy crap!