Chapter 198: Online Help
Emiya Household.
Due to the exhausting night, everyone fell asleep easily. Even Sakura who was left here got surprised when everybody skipped dinner and showered before going to their bedrooms immediately.
Heck, even Castoria experienced mental fatigue while controlling the city-wide arrays and readying her [Magecraft] just in case of any emergencies. Hence, she's now cuddling Shiro like a pillow while sleeping with a sheepish smile.
"Hm..?"
Shiro was about to sleep when he saw a black-gold panel in his sight.
[Welcome back, <Shiro>. Due to the inconvenience, you will be compensated with the following: 1 [UR Ticket], 1 Million Points.]
[Chat Group]
[Private Messages]
[Store]
[Missions]
"Eh..?"
He was surprised when he saw the chat group panel appearing once more. He thought that it might take a while before he could use it, though he never expected that it would suddenly pop up like this.
Furthermore, it even gave him compensation for something that he caused in the first place!
[Points: 3,200,990]
"..." He fell silent as he recalled the missions that he completed in Madoka's world. "I'm so damn rich?"
His eyes landed to his dreaded [Random Spins] which is still under the [Store] tab. It's on the top-right, taking the attention of every single members.
Clicking it, he found another window present before him.
[As you are now categorized as a <God>, the God-level Random Spins is now open to you.]
[Random Spins (God)]
1 Spin/1,000 Points | 11 Spins/10,000 Points
Note 1: A guaranteed SR would appear every 10 pulls.
Note 2: The items received would be more beneficial towards God-level existences.
"...Let's try it."
In the end, he succumbed to his curiosity and tried his luck in this.
[Confirm x11 Spin?]
[Y/N]
Pressing "Y", a purple cube appeared. It has darker purple lines surrounding it. Then, the cube opened from the lines; the pieces of the cube separating before it turned into white particles of light.
What was left are eleven colorful spheres. None of them have the rarity below color blue, with 6 Purples and 5 Reds appearing.
Swiping through them, Shiro found out that he gained 3 [Restorative Potions (SSR)], 1 SSR-rated [Ability], 1 [Persistence (SSR)], and the rest of SR being items.
Interestingly, the SSR-rated ability turned out to be useful to the current him.
[Salted Fish (SSR)]
Details: The strength of the user would automatically increase as the time passes by. The current multiplier is related to the "inactiveness" of the user.
Current Multiplier: 10x (Max)
Simply put, it encouraged him to be lazy so he would gain immense power.
"It's quite useful." He commented. "Still, it's inevitable that I'll always move, so it might only activate in my rest days."
After all, his <Body> and <Mind> are continuously improving even without this new ability.
Ding-!
[You have a total of 999+ unread messages.]
Shiro's attention was brought back to the chat group. Opening it, he saw a conversation that was done 30 minutes ago.
"New members, alright."
He called out for the member list before seeing 5 new members in the Chat Group. One of them is Cardinal, but the remaining four are unknown to him.
===Members===
[Savior of the World]
[Training Maniac]
[The True Protagonist]
[Ghostly Girl]
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Since their real names can only be seen in the conversations, he could only guess their personalities from the names alone.
"[Savior of the World] is someone with firm ideals. [Training Maniac] should be someone that is determined to achieve a goal..?" He paused as he looked at the third nickname. "This [The True Protagonist], he should be someone who thinks he's an extra. As for the last one, a girl who haunts others?"
Suddenly, he saw a new message pop up in the chat group.
Lelouch: "Quick question. Is there a way to catch a cat with more than 100m of diagonal displacement? It would be better if it's in an instant."
"A cat? A [Talisman] should do the trick."
Since he had just went online once more, he's in a good mood to help the others. He took out one of his items from his [Dimensional Storage] before clicking [Gift] on Lelouch's name.
Shiro: "Use this. Take note, you should tear the talisman in half while you already have your target destination. That, and it would prevent you from teleporting yourself into solid spaces."
[You have gifted [Space Talisman (R)] to <Lelouch>.]
Shiro: "I'll be sleeping, so do tell the outcome tomorrow. Good night~"
Shutting the panel down, he enjoyed his sleep after this long day.
*****
Ashford Academy.
Moments ago, Lelouch is taking CC's three boxes of Pizza Hut. However, he was stunned to see that his silver briefcase was open, revealing Zero's outfit. Even worse, his helmet has gone missing!
Immediately, he dropped off the pizza in his bedroom before he hastily went outside their manor. Thanks to his improved physique due to [Mana] and [Aura], he was able to run for five minutes continuously.
Just as he passed by the sports field, he saw a black cat sprinting through the roof. Though, what was more noticeable there is the fact that the cat is wearing Zero's mask.
"Damn it..!"
He didn't expect that leaving the suitcase, which was definitely locked at that time, would trigger in such disaster for him.
"If everything ends because of a cat..." Lelouch muttered with resentment as he chased the cat, only to see that it was about to be visible to the cafeteria in less than 15 seconds. What's more, there are nearly a hundred students dining there, so everything would turn out for the worse if it becomes visible to others.
No matter how fast he is, he wouldn't be able to catch the cat alone.
In the end, he asked for some advice to the chat group. They had helped him with some problems a few months ago, so he's close with some of them. Still, he formed some contingency plans if the mask gets revealed to the public.
"Huh? Someone replied?"
Before he could react, a silver talisman appeared on his hand. An intricately drawn magic circle is in its center, having a total of 8 layers. The runes drawn are so small that they could be mistaken as mere letters, but the power that it possesses is enough to twist the space around them.
Pssssh-!
Without hesitation, Lelouch tore off the silver talisman in the middle. He felt himself "floating" for a second before he found himself right behind the black cat.
Seeing it, he swiftly grabbed it and took back the mask that it wore. He proceeded to cast a [Light] spell where it turned the mask invisible, saving him from the imminent disaster moments ago.
"That person... I haven't seen him before." Lelouch thought of Shiro whom he hadn't met since he joined the chat group. "Wait, there seems to be an offline member for months..."
For a while, Lelouch was puzzled by this member called [Shiro].
A/N: It should be Christmas Eve or Christmas by the time this gets uploaded. As a Christmas present, there will be two chapters today! Also, there would also be a special Christmas Omake that will be uploaded by the time every part of the world is on Christmas Day.
Merry Christmas, everyone! Hope you have a nice holiday!