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Victor came with Cassius. Knowing that Caelan's parents were home, he even went over to greet them, which made Caelan's parents a little flattered. After all, his two friends, both in terms of clothing and aura, clearly didn't look like they came from ordinary families.
Caelan had a different opinion on this. Clothes aside, as for aura—Cassius was barely acceptable, but Victor had no aura whatsoever.
After some flamboyant drawing, Victor presented his masterpiece.
Cassius leaned over and glanced at it with Caelan. Both of them showed disdain.
Caelan: "You drew it very well. Don't draw again next time."
Cassius: "Look at this yourself. Is this even a drawing?"
Victor said without changing his expression: "I haven't studied drawing. I'm just making a framework. The specifics still need Caelan's Illusionist skills to help complete."
Caelan pointed to the left shoulder position (if what he drew was a person) and asked, "What is this? A carrot?"
Victor: "What carrot? Caelan, what kind of eyesight do you have? This is a Cyan-Patterned Fox! There's a Cyan-Patterned Fox-shaped shawl on the left shoulder."
Caelan was speechless and quickly constructed a Cyan-Patterned Fox shawl in his mind.
Cassius said faintly: "Is it possible that Caelan's eyesight is normal, and something else isn't?"
Victor: "Go watch from the side. Don't interrupt randomly."
Caelan deliberately pointed again: "What is this? Why is there a dot in the middle of a circle? Is it a target?"
Victor: "Target your head! This is a belly button! The lower abdomen is exposed—it looks good this way."
Caelan: "Chun-Li's belly shouldn't be this round..."
Cassius: "Who would want to see a belly this round exposed?"
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After some discussion, Caelan finally created the clothes. But it still looked very awkward. After more modifications, Cassius and Victor also offered suggestions from time to time. Finally, at Victor's strong insistence, a white flame symbol appeared on the cyan clothes—the pattern of Victor's family, House Blazeheart.
Cassius: "Victor, this counts as promoting your family."
Victor said proudly: "Of course! And don't you two feel a sense of familiarity with the outfit I designed?"
Cassius looked at it. "It does feel a bit familiar."
Caelan also felt familiar. After checking his mind palace, he finally understood: "Damn, isn't this the outfit described for Lady Jadeblossom in the erotic novel 'Lady Jadeblossom'?"
Cassius said speechlessly: "Is that all that's in your head?"
Victor said disdainfully: "Don't pretend. If you hadn't read that book, how could you feel familiar?"
The three were silent for a moment, then all showed lewd smiles.
Caelan unceremoniously accepted the twenty gold coins "gifted" by Victor and uploaded this costume. The price was also set at 30 gold crowns.
For a time, host and guests enjoyed themselves.
"By the way, what are your plans for the three months after the holiday?" Caelan suddenly asked.
Cassius said: "Victor and I decided to form an adventure team. Do you want to join?"
Caelan asked curiously: "Where are you planning to adventure?"
Cassius replied: "First, to the Eastern Mountains of the Brownridge Province, near the border with your Westriver Province."
"Mainly to catch some Lightning Rats. How about it, do you want to come along?" Victor interjected.
"My actual combat strength is probably only Second Circle. What would I do there? Be a burden?" Caelan stated that he was a weakling and very afraid of death.
"Oh, it's fine. We won't go to places with too much danger, and your magic power isn't low. I'll lend you a few life-saving runestones then." Victor said.
Cassius also said: "When we take you, we'll just wander around the periphery, not go deep, and not stay too long. Three days at most—after all, you still have to engrave the consoles."
"Let me think about it. I'm currently pondering a new game. If I don't have anything else to do, I'll go out and play with you." Caelan was a little tempted.
"Oh?" Hearing about a new game, the two adventurous youths immediately became energetic. "What new game?"
Due to their habit of Caelan releasing a new game every few days, both of them and the people of this world had become accustomed to it—completely unaware of how outrageous this speed would be on Earth, so much so that no one would believe it if told.
"I'm still considering it, meaning I haven't decided yet." Caelan waved his hand.
Victor nodded, then suddenly asked: "Caelan, how do you encounter the seventeenth person in Street Fighter?"
Caelan thought for a moment. "To be fair, I think it's better not to say it. I also want to see how long it takes for someone to be able to encounter him."
Victor rubbed his face. "It seems the conditions must be very strict. It can't be a one-life clear, can it? Meaning you can't lose a single round."
Cassius said from the side: "Impossible. At least it can't be just this one condition, because someone has already tried it."
Victor: "The guy who beat both of us?"
Cassius nodded.
Looking at the two engrossed in their research, Caelan's heart remained calm.
The condition of six full-health kills on Nightmare Difficulty was not that easy to achieve, especially as the enemy AI got higher later on.
Just as he was thinking, Caelan's pretentious aura suddenly faltered—because just as he was lamenting how long it would take for Akuma to appear, at this very moment, someone had actually met the conditions.
Dark Ice Tornado felt that his touch and state were excellent today. When challenging the Nightmare Difficulty Illusionist AI, his combo operations were incredibly smooth—even defeating opponents without taking damage several times. This made him sigh, thinking that if he had been in this state when he played against Garlos's Holy Sword before, he might have won the championship.
"Tiger Ascent Dragon Break!"
Good opportunity! The Forum said: If the Dragon Ascent misses, the consequences are severe.
← Charge → ← → + Punch!
"Electric Light Poison Dragon Drill!" (Mental Critical Hit)
Balrog, dressed in an enforcement officer uniform, was enveloped in terrifying lightning. He drilled fiercely into Sagat, who was still stiff in the air, immediately defeating him.
Very good. He won. Next, Balrog VS Balrog.
Although the Nightmare Difficulty Illusionist Balrog was strong, Dark had defeated him before. And with today's state and touch, Dark was very confident he could defeat him and clear Nightmare Difficulty again.
In front of the giant bronze bell, Dark's enforcement officer Balrog and the red military uniform Balrog stood opposite each other.
Red-clothed Balrog: "Despicable impostor, who gave you the courage to impersonate me?"
Enforcement Balrog: "Impostor? Today I will let you know who the impostor is!"
Both sides took their stances, ready to start. Dark also placed his hand on the buttons, ready to fight—but then saw a figure flash past his side at extreme speed. Several afterimages followed the figure. The figure flashed in front of the red-clothed Balrog, grabbed him, and suddenly the screen went black. Incredibly dense hitting sounds came out. The screen lit up. Balrog lay on the ground, his fate unknown, and the figure stood with his back to the screen, the character "天" appearing on the back of his clothes.
Dark was utterly bewildered. The man in front of him had blood-red hair, a small braid tied on top of his head, and his whole body exuded a blood-red aura. The way the aura rose didn't look like flames at all, but rather like cold air.
In an instant of bewilderment, the screen began to return to the combat interface, and the combat countdown began.
"The seventeenth person! This is the seventeenth person of Street Fighter!" Dark immediately reacted. Before he could get excited, the battle had already begun. Dark had no time to think, controlling Balrog—he intended to knock this guy named Akuma to the ground.