Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 45
Chapter 45: Elysia: I can use it too!
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Saving the world, such a laughable idea is undoubtedly nothing but wishful thinking.
After all, how could the power of one person possibly change the world?
But—
In Jiang Qiao’s eyes, saving this world was not just an illusion.
For example, the most feasible plan — doing nothing at all.
Easy and achievable. He just needed to do nothing, find an absolutely safe place to hide, and wait for the original plot to unfold. This world would inevitably be saved through the efforts of many people.
Taking unnecessary actions would only create variables in what was already a settled outcome.
If there hadn’t been that fateful encounter with Elysia, Jiang Qiao would probably have chosen this approach.
He could just find opportunities to build up affection with the girls along the way, and when the grand finale arrived, he could live a peaceful life holding them in his arms.
But this was just an “if.”
The encounter with that Pink Elf truly changed his rational, pragmatic way of thinking.
“Since Elysia can selfishly use my frail body to save Nagazora City, then why can’t I similarly be selfish and choose to use Elysia’s body to save the world?”
Just as Elysia had said, being selfish is a girl’s privilege, so now he could exercise that same privilege, right?
After all, that Pink Elf had done it first, he was merely doing the same thing.
Jiang Qiao was quite vindictive, after all.
Since he had the ability, he absolutely wouldn’t sit idly by and let everything proceed exactly according to the original course.
He would save and change the world in his own way, save… both worlds!
“Elysia, you should now be able to use that power to some extent.”
Pleased with Raiden Mei’s decision, Jiang Qiao seemed to remember something and reminded Miss Elf accordingly.
“Huh?”
Miss Elf was a bit slow to react, but then it dawned on her.
“Is this the power you call Origin?”
Looking at the mysterious light in her palm and feeling that power, Elysia’s eyes widened.
I see, so it wasn’t that she was too useless.
This so-called Origin power actually belonged to Jiang Qiao!
That made sense now, that made sense.
It was perfectly normal that she couldn’t use Jiang Qiao’s power with her own body, right?
Miss Elf subconsciously ignored her previous experience of using this body when it was still in its default state.
“Ahem.”
Jiang Qiao’s expression was somewhat strange.
What Elysia was using was indeed the power of Origin, but what she was using was the baby Origin power that he had obtained through something like copy-paste.
Although part of it had transferred with him during the body swap, there was still a portion remaining in his own body.
Though it was quite weak, it was precisely because of this that Elysia, this weakling who rejected her Herrscher identity, could use Origin power.
How should he put it?
The actual Herrscher of Origin couldn’t use her authority in her own body at all and had to be in someone else’s body to barely use the leftovers… If Elysia knew this cruel truth, Miss Elf would probably be quite devastated!
After much consideration, Jiang Qiao decided against telling Miss Elf, who was having so much fun playing with the scraps, this harsh reality.
Considering that his remaining time was limited, he needed to complete what he had to do with this body 50,000 years in the future.
“Mei, Kiana, come closer to me.”
“?”
Though somewhat puzzled, the two of them silently walked over.
Hey, you know what?
Even though they knew the “driver” inside this【Elysia】was originally the male Jiang Qiao, neither of them felt any psychological resistance. Kiana even couldn’t help but take a couple of deep sniffs.
Ignoring this small action, Jiang Qiao raised two index fingers and pressed them against each of their foreheads.
The close distance made both Kiana and Mei blush slightly.
But then—
“Look into my eyes, don’t look away~”
The next moment, the originally captivating azure eyes turned into divine pink, with divine patterns glowing brilliantly within them.
—The authority of Origin activated at this moment.
“?!”
Kiana, who was startled all over, was the first to show problems. The originally confused girl’s one eye instantly turned into a divine orange-yellow filled with bone-chilling coldness and murderous intent.
Little sister, I’ve been waiting for you!
The next moment, a crystal flower pattern gradually formed and covered her eye.
Between her eyebrows, a faint small crystal flower also gradually faded away.
“After this, you won’t need to worry about that problem you’ve always been concerned about, at least for now.”
The girl’s slightly weary voice reached Kiana’s ears, making her pupils contract as she stared at Jiang Qiao in disbelief. However, the latter had no intention of explaining anything and directly left a similar mark on Raiden Mei as well.
Those were the marks of Origin.
By consuming massive amounts of Honkai Energy, he directly used Origin’s authority to leave a “shackle” on each of these two.
Their purpose was to prevent these two from causing any trouble when he wasn’t around 50,000 years in the future.
“Doing this kind of thing is really tiring.”
Having completed what he needed to do, Jiang Qiao sighed.
This was more exhausting than when he had previously used Origin’s authority to extinguish all the Honkai sources in Nagazora City with a single arrow.
To prevent his identity from being exposed, he actually stored very little Honkai Energy in himself.
That earlier arrow had relied heavily on the Honkai Energy from the large Honkai energy reactor that Cocolia had left behind.
Clenching his fist and feeling the emptiness of this body, the pink girl shook her head.
The feeling of draining himself was really unpleasant…
“…Those two?”
Having watched the entire process, Elysia obviously noticed something was wrong and quietly asked Jiang Qiao.
Even though she wasn’t sensitive to Herrschers now, Miss Elf couldn’t possibly miss Kiana’s brief abnormality — she wasn’t blind, after all.
“I’ll tell you later. Elysia, you must stay in Nagazora City using my body for a while.”
“Why?”
Miss Elf was somewhat confused by this requirement.
Although she figured she probably couldn’t leave Nagazora City for a while anyway, why did Jiang Qiao specifically need to remind her of this?
Looking at her somewhat dull self, Jiang Qiao felt speechless. His body was at least that of a top student, how did it seem like a fool when it got into this Pink Elf’s hands?
Suppressing his feeling of embarrassment, he patiently explained:
“Although I extinguished all the Honkai sources in Nagazora City with one arrow, the Honkai Energy that Cocolia released earlier won’t just disappear into thin air.”
Even the Herrscher of Origin couldn’t directly eliminate the Honkai Energy from an entire region.
That was the domain of the Herrscher of Binding and the Herrscher of Finality.
Also, due to miHoYo’s twisted sense of humor, Nagazora City was the place in reality closest to the Imaginary Tree.
If he didn’t spend time clearing out the Honkai Energy that Cocolia had already released in Nagazora City.
Then even if he prevented this incident, the city would still experience a Honkai eruption due to naturally accumulating Honkai Energy.
Originally, this task had to be done by him personally using Elysia’s body, spending a considerable amount of time.
But not only did the time-limited commission not support this, the【Elysia】of the Previous Era absolutely could not disappear for so long.
The current Elysia was no longer a delinquent who could run around freely, but a registered soldier of Fire Moth, even a hero who had defeated the 2nd Herrscher. If she disappeared for too long, the consequences were obvious.
The girl’s slightly hurried voice reached her ears, with a hint of gloating:
“Since you can use that power now, the safety of this city is in your hands, Elysia.”
“My time is almost up, bye-bye~”
— The Nagazora City that follows won’t be peaceful.