Cheng Liqun, who had fainted, woke up to an empty space, cautiously taking a step forward, his surroundings instantly changed, what was originally an empty plane had morphed into a place that Liqun was very familiar with — his own room.
Liqun pondered for a good while, before finally deciding to push open the door," Anyway, at worst I'll just be transmigrated again.", Liqun comforted himself in his heart.
Upon opening the door, Liqun heard the sound of a dog barking.
"Another 10 time pull and maxed out the constellation already. Seriously, there's no gameplay at all, I saved up those primogems and didn't even get to spend it."
"Alright, it's decided, I'll go all in on this guy", Liqun cheerfully made his decision. Today whether unlucky or lucky, I will get one."
As if sensing killing intent, the person sitting in front of the computer calmly turned around
"You've come", "I've come", "You shouldn't have come", "Then should I leave now?", Liqun turned his back, acting as if he was going to leave.
"Tsk tsk tsk, leaving so quickly for what? Really, you have no sense of humor at all."
"Hey, although there's nothing to be proud of, using words that you can understand, I am the 'will' from your original world. If you would like to call me dad, I wouldn't mind. Afterall, you are all my children. " The World's Will lightly coughed and began to introduce itself.
Hearing its words, Liqun fell deep into contemplation. It's not that he doubted the other party's identity, but rather: "If you really are the world's will, why do you look exactly like me? If you didn't tell me that you were the world's will, I would've thought that you were another side of me buried deep in my mind. " Liqun raised his eyebrows, looking at it
Wearing a face of disdain, it looked at Liqun," Tch, little brat you're too narcissistic, everyone that looks at me would find a reflection of the appearance they perceive as the most perfect. You on the other hand... Ugh. " The World's Will made a disgusted expression.
"Why did you bring me here? Is it that I wasn't actually supposed to die, but was due to an error on your end that brought me there, and now you are preparing to send me back?" Liqun who got exposed, was slightly angered by the embarrassment.
"Ah right, you are correct about not suddenly dying, at that time it was like this. Before you fell asleep, you were raising your phone above your head, after falling asleep, it fell and accidentally smashed into your temple, causing a blood vessel inside your head to rupture. By the time the next day came, and your parents called for you to wake up, they finally noticed that you would never wake up again due to the excessive internal bleeding" The World's will could not contain its laughter, clutching its stomach and letting out loud laughter.
"Shut up —, I don't want to hear such a stupidly hopeless way to die", The more Liqun heard, the redder his face turned, in the end he could only cover his ears with his hands, desperately trying to forget such a disgraceful way to die. He would've rather died from staying up too late too much, rather than dying via a phone to the head.
The World's Will sneered as it walked over to Liqun's side. "Did you know that, when your parents noticed that you died, they thought that you were murdered and called the police. They investigated the scene a good number of times, before confirming that you were indeed killed by your phone(laughs)."
"Shut up!"
"Your achievement quickly spread around the entire police station, to the extent that there was even a special segment on the news warning people against raising their phone too high before sleeping."
"Shut up... AhhhhHHHH !!!"
"Using your own strength, you've proved that the probability of being killed by a phone falling from a height of ten centimeters is not zero."
Hearing that, Liqun finally couldn't hold it in anymore. "You dog, die for this uncle!!!", already completely forgetting the gap in strength between himself and the World's Will.
It only needed a thought, and Liqun was moved to the doorway. Liqun stubbornly rushed forwards again, only to get instantly moved back to the doorway again, after a few repeats, Liqun finally gave up, panting at where he was originally, Liqun — who was unwilling to give up — spoke," Then why did you call me here, don't tell me it was just simply because you wanted to taunt me."
"Of course not, I'm a nice person, here to give you a chance to go home. You only need to correct one mistake in the world's progression, and I'll let you return to the moment before your death."
"An error in the world's progression?", Liqun was quite confused by this.
"Huh, alright I'll explain a bit for you. So, long ago, a few of my friends, who are also wills of their respective worlds, had a get-together. However, perhaps because they were drunk, my friends decided to use some... interesting little gadgets. Causing them to fuse together, and now if they were to solely rely on their own strength, they can't be separated." the World's Will explained.
"Drank till they were drunk... fused... isn't that just impart ?" Liqun unwittingly blurted out.
It's face darkened, feeling like using its fists to hammer the head of the nonsensical human in front of it," What are you thinking about? We don't have a physical body, so we don't have the same practices as you humans. They just simply merged.
"And now, because of the chaotic mixture of various aspects of the worlds, the original path of each world has become completely different. Like for example, the version of FGO that you are currently in. Didn't you summon Elysia, the herscherr of human ego? That's because a part of FGO and Honkai have merged, and if the merging continues, the original wills of the world will have disappeared, forming an entirely new consciousness, an ego death of sorts" It continued explaining.
"Let's put aside the issue of the worlds merging first. I have a question, if your friend group doesn't invite you to a gathering they're having, does that mean that you've been kicked out?", Liqun noticed the blind spot.
"Cough, so what? I have stuff to do, can I not be a little late to join?", It seemed a bit embarrassed and angry, as though it had been hit with the truth.
"So as to say, I only need to fix the progression of a world, and I can go home?", Liqun not wanting to deal with anymore irrelevant matters went straight to the point.
"Yes, you only need to repair the progression of a world, which would allow that world's consciousness to wake up, which would let you go back home. I'm quite honest y'know.". It gave a thumbs up, confirming Liqun's answer.
"Hoo, then can I have a change of worlds? I feel that Honkai is a bit too much for me." Liqun inhaled sharply, asking tentatively.
"Of course, let me find what's available first.", it straight-forwardly promised.
Tilting its head down and tapping its knees with its fingers, there was a short pause before it lifted its head up and looked at Liqun — as if it had just confirmed something.
"There is still another world called Terra; do you want to go there?" Its gaze carried a hint of a smile as it asked Liqun.
"The Terra continent? The pure-blooded humans there are very strong. As long as I am able to find Rhodes Island, correcting the mistakes will be a piece of cake.". Liqun, upon hearing the name of a world he was familiar with could not help but feel quite excited.
It could not help but look at Liqun with a curious gaze, unknown to it was Liqun's reason for his sudden happiness.
"Who told you it was the Terra continent? It's the Holy Terra."
"That fucking Terra!?" Liqun having been doused by a bucket of cold water, quickly felt his excitement die out.
"Alright, alright, I'll try to fix the FGO world. After all, there are so many big shots in the FGO world. As long as I latch onto one of them, there's hope of defeating the Cocoon of Finality." Cheng Liqun waved his hand, seemingly disinterested.
"Oops, I forgot to tell you, but the cocoon of finality isn't the final boss you'll be defeating, according to my findings, your strongest foe appears to be Goetia who has received the gaze of the Aeon of Destruction." It calmly said.
Cheng Liqun laughed in anger, "Alright, alright. Being able to see the battle between the Destroyer of Fate, a pathstrider of destruction Goetia, and the Hersherr of Origin, Alicia, even if I die, it'll be worth it."
"What's the rush? It's not like I won't boost you a little." It said, as if there was nothing to make a fuss about.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! What kind of cheat are you going to give me? Unlock my limiter? Let me destroy stars with a single punch, or give me unlimited growth and an immortal, indestructible body. If that's not possible, telekinesis that can destroy planets with one hit will do!" Cheng Liqun eagerly looked at the It, hoping for some good gifts.
"Look at you, so impatient. I'm just the World Will of an ordinary world, where would I have those strange powers?"
"Ding ding ding! This is something I specially made for you, a golden finger that combines the powers of other World Wills. As for the name, to keep it simple, let's just call it 'System'."
Cheng Liqun was just about to take a good look at his golden finger when the World Will reminded him, "By the way, if you want to save the FGO world, you must obtain the source that supports the world's fusion. I believe you call it the Holy Grail, right?"
Having said that, an item that resembled the Holy Grail closely appeared in Its hands, before turning into a regular cup, before finally turning into a gold chalice that Liqun was very familiar with.
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[T/N: Turns out I didn't check properly and the OG version of this stopped uploading like, 1.5 months ago? It's currently at vol2. chapter 47 and last updated at 2025-02-28. For reference this is volume 0, which has 1 more chapter past this, and the entire fic isn't completed as well. Considering just dropping this one and moving onto another that's completed, should I? Also there will be a long period of time between uploads cus I kinda suck at translating(I heavily rely on chatgpt), mainly doing this to improve my Chinese so yeah, plus some real world commitments so don't expect too fast of an update schedule for anything]