Esper X Family – Chapter 548 – New World-Destroying Ability Modifiers

Inside the painting scroll of the parallel world.

Ye Yao quickly checked the system interface to see if any new upgrade modifiers had appeared for her world-destroying ability.

Upon closer inspection, something new had indeed appeared!

Her line of thinking had been correct.

As her base mental power increased, more of the system’s functions would unlock.

The system’s suppression of her world-destroying ability would also grow stronger.

Turning it into a cup was just around the corner!

“Let me see what these new things are.”

Ye Yao focused her gaze. Three brand-new traits had appeared on the ability panel.

【Cause and Effect】

【Symbiosis】

【Awakening】

“Interesting.”

Just the names alone looked promising!

Ye Yao concentrated and began to study them.

【Ability: Fission.

The following traits can be activated:

4. Cause and Effect: Strengthens the connection between oneself and all things in the world, accelerating the occurrence of significant events (Cost: 100 attribute points)

5. Symbiosis: Upon death, the world-destroying ability will carry the soul and be reborn in another world (Cost: 150 attribute points)

6. Awakening: Grants conscious awareness to the world-destroying ability (Cost: 200 attribute points)】

“Hiss—”

Ye Yao sucked in a sharp breath.

These new traits offered no numerical boosts, nor any additional techniques or maneuvers.

All Ye Yao could read between the lines was pure targeting.

【Cause and Effect】was highly abstract. It was impossible to tell what specific effect it would have.

【Symbiosis】, on the other hand, was just outrageous.

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It meant that even if she suddenly died, the world-destroying ability would reincarnate along with her.

A true case of living and dying together, with no need to worry about the ability seeking out another unfortunate soul.

【Awakening】was even more abstract.

What did it mean by granting consciousness to the world-destroying ability?

Was the “ability avatar” actually going to become real?

Which family’s ability could talk?

It would be like a sword that had accompanied you for years suddenly manifesting a sword spirit!

Absolutely bizarre!

“So weird. Let me take a closer look.”

Next came the upgraded effects of the traits.

These upgrade effects weren’t necessarily useful.

Anyway, Ye Yao had no plans to activate【Assist MAX】yet. There was no need to fission the attributes of non-family members, and it would just waste attribute points.

【Cause and Effect MAX: Causes future events to occur rapidly. For example, the Vengeful Spirit seeking revenge will tear through space and arrive not intermittently, but as a single, all-out vengeance battle (Cost: 200 attribute points)】

Ye Yao: “?”

Going that big?

So you mean that kind of cause and effect!

The world-destroying ability had spawned a vast number of Vengeful Spirits.

The remnants of those civilizations would, over time, gradually find their way to the world where the world-destroying ability resided and attack.

To be honest, Ye Yao found these things that kept popping up and disturbing her relaxation quite annoying.

They showed up every now and then, at completely irregular intervals. It was endless!

But【Cause and Effect MAX】could directly trigger the final battle and wipe out all Vengeful Spirits in one go?

“Found Family System, just how many surprises are you hiding from me?”

For an ordinary person, summoning all their enemies to gang up on themselves would be suicidal.

But who was Ye Yao?

Throughout Heaven and Earth, I alone am the honored one!

The Vengeful Spirits usually target world-destroying ability hosts who hadn’t fully developed yet.

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But she was already fully developed.

What was there to be afraid of?

She could go all out with 1 billion mental power and obliterate everything. Plus, she had her family as backup hidden energy reserves.

Let them all come at once.

The only problem was the lack of spare attribute points at the moment.

Now for the others.

【Symbiosis MAX: Immortal and indestructible (Cost: 300 attribute points)】

“Haha, I am not a god.”

Originally, there was still the concept of death and reincarnation. But now, it was straight-up immortal and indestructible. It wasn’t even pretending anymore.

【Symbiosis MAX】was brutally straightforward.

What about the remaining【Awakening MAX】?

What kind of formidable feat would it be?

【Awakening MAX: Custom Life Creation (Cost: 400 attribute points)】

“Is it the kind of life creation I’m imagining?”

Ye Yao’s pupils dilated.

She had only been joking before.

How was it actually starting to look like she could turn the world-destroying ability into a cup?

So, when was turning the system into a cup going to happen?

“But why is it so expensive!? 400 attribute points? This is highway robbery!”

Ye Yao grumbled.

It seemed like it was out of reach for now.

The attribute point shortage was a huge problem.

She had originally thought that after becoming invincible, she wouldn’t need to frantically farm attribute points anymore.

Who knew the shortage would still be so severe!

This damn system is totally unreasonable!

Now, she really had no choice but to turn it into a cup.

After reading the new traits, Ye Yao fell into deep thought.

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These new traits didn’t give her more mechanisms.

But they were all fierce.

For Ye Yao, they were incredibly useful. They were exactly what she needed.

She was already annoyed by the supposedly endless stream of Vengeful Spirits.

Being able to lure them out early would be great, wouldn’t it?

“Decision made! I’ll save up a batch of attribute points first and activate【Cause and Effect】. The others can wait.”

Ye Yao’s plan was simple.

Perhaps she could activate 【Symbiosis】, but 【Symbiosis Max】 would require some thought.

Who knew if immortality would be a curse?

At least for now, she still had plenty of time to fool around.

She hated those debates about lifespan.

As for the【Awakening】trait…

Honestly, Ye Yao was very tempted.

According to Tu Sheng, the world-destroying ability【Fission】had never developed consciousness. It destroyed worlds purely based on underlying logic, sweeping through everything like a natural disaster.

But what would happen if she gave it consciousness?

It felt a bit like the classic “suicidal experiment” scene in movies.

Still, this ability came from the system. With the system’s backing, there probably wouldn’t be a bad ending.

So, Ye Yao decided.

She would skip【Symbiosis】for now. After activating【Cause and Effect】, the next would be【Awakening】!

“The only issue is the amount of attribute points needed.”

Ye Yao did a quick calculation.【Cause and Effect】required 100 attribute points, while【Awakening】needed 200.

300 attribute points in total.

Back in the original timeline, saving that many would have taken forever.

Fortunately, the parallel world still had many undiscovered treasures.

She just needed to mine hard!

Ye Yao’s consciousness returned to the painting world.

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“Kids, the situation is urgent. Let’s go to the Yunited States and kill Byron and his little bastards!

The Sanctuary is probably gone anyway. Keeping him alive won’t bait out anything else. Let’s just go kill him first!”

When Ye Ge was in the Yunited States, she had only destroyed the Sentinel Organization. She hadn’t dealt with the other capitalist scumbags.

Now that she was short on attribute points, it was time for the world line to converge.

Meanwhile.

At the Countermeasures Bureau headquarters.

Parallel Lou Wei and parallel Fu Qi were still focusing their efforts on Magical Girl Lullaby.

The girl’s goodwill was obvious. At the very least, she seemed easier to talk to than Ye Ge.

After all, when parallel Lou Wei was defeated, she had sent him back to the country.

Even if it was as an “unidentified flying object”, she hadn’t just left him there.

In that regard, Lullaby’s character was trustworthy enough for them to take a gamble.

“A week has passed. Still haven’t had enough fun?” parallel Fu Qi sighed softly.

He had originally wanted to wait for the three magical girls’ activities to calm down before inviting them.

The goal was to avoid spoiling their fun and lowering the favorability of key individuals.

Unfortunately, there was no sign of them calming down.

“Maybe there are just too many scoundrels on the island nation.”

“Why don’t you secretly accelerate the cleanup a bit, Lou Wei?

Transform into a fourth magical girl, hide your identity, and use that to get close to them.”

Parallel Lou Wei: “?”

It seemed that even the Countermeasures Bureau director had finally cracked under the pressure.

Author Note

Since exams are approaching, does that mean summer vacation is almost here?

Text: Ah? Is that so?