Dao Of Heaven

Chapter 10: Miss Vela Has No Desire to Be a Legend

Night blanketed the city. Neon lights shimmered.

At 12:07 AM, Miss Vela ended her day of work.

Vmmm... Vmmm...

A Rayfield Excalibur floated smoothly from the dark hangar of Arasaka Tower.

Its exterior shimmered with a special coating usually reserved for top-tier supercars—dark-toned, radar-absorbing for a degree of "stealth," polished yet subdued, luxurious yet understated.

Black base, white accents, adorned with the aRaSaKa insignia and Arasaka's ico...

Chapter 9: Cyberspace and Vela-Style "Training"

Cyberspace.

Simply put, it could be considered the open-source internet of the past.

Why of the past? Because someone blew it up.

That's why cyberspace is now more often referred to as the Old Net.

Countless gradients of green, blue-white, and deep red 1s and 0s formed matrixes that resembled a navigable space. As her data-consciousness stabilized, Vela observed the ghostly realm of information just outside Arasaka's secure network.

Chaotic and disordered. Twiste...

Chapter 8: Is Vela a Polymath?

Not until dusk had fully swallowed the city—when dazzling neon lights replaced the last of the warm sunlight—did Vela finally lift her head in the lab codenamed "Umbrella." Tired, she rubbed her temples and stopped writing the synthesis program at her workstation.

In the cyberpunk world of 2074, nearly every piece of electronic equipment had a hacker interface.

Programmable, connectable, controllable...

With neural-computer synchronization, even technical research was no...

Chapter 7: Vela's "Life" and "Hobbies"

Persona, something I desire; gratitude, also something I desire.

This time, Vela stood with her spine perfectly straight, her body held upright, and bowed her head deeply. It was a formal bow, expressing her thanks to the Arasaka Memorial before her—or more precisely, to the names of her birth parents etched upon it.

...

Someone still believes in that kind of thing in Night City?

Passersby near the memorial looked on, surprised. A drunk sprawled in the grass...

Chapter 125: Kevin—If I Trust You Again, I'm a Frozen Fool!

"You want the beacon for the Cosmic Juggernaut—don't tell me you're planning to head for the Imaginary Tree?" Kevin asked, furrowing his brow in surprise.

The Second Divine Key, the Cosmic Juggernaut, could open a gate to the Imaginary Tree. At zero-rated output, it was even capable of creating a passage directly into it.

But mortals—no, even Herrschers—had only one fate in the Imaginary Tree: death. Kevin looked at the ever-optimistic, energetic Elias and found it hard to b...

Chapter 707: Reunion with Robin

What entered her sight was a gloomy sea. The sky was covered with dark clouds, dim and lightless. The sea was calm, glimmering with scattered light, and a chilly breeze blew steadily, carrying a subtle, bone-chilling cold. Looking out into the distance, the water's surface was littered with the wreckage of broken, sunken ships, gently swaying with the waves.

Where is this place?

Kaguya descended from the sky and landed on a wrecked, rotting ship. The decaying planks seemed ready t...

Chapter 431: Is the Queen of All Females Physique About to Backfire?!

"If you two had taken even a few more minutes, you really would've missed the closing ceremony. I should've just called you earlier," said Eiren Kanagawa as she started the car and took the shortcut toward the art museum. As was her habit when driving, she popped a mint into her mouth.

"Sorry, Professor Kanagawa," Kotomi Izumi said apologetically, pressing her palms together in a gesture of sincere regret.

Eiren, of course, wasn't actually upset. In fact, if Kotomi and Mashiro had...

Chapter 519: The Optimal Solution?

Bzzzz—!

Golden magical light blotted out the sun, covering Selene's entire field of view. From the rift torn in the sky, the vast cosmos came into view, twinkling with countless stars.

At the very center of that starry expanse shone the most brilliant star of all.

Just one glance was enough. Its concept flashed clearly in Selene's mind.

The Morning Star.

The brightest celestial body in Earth's sky aside from the sun and moon. A constant, ever-present s...

Chapter 449: Fujino Sawamura

Fujino Asagami didn't doubt Eriri's words. All she wanted now was to go back a few days to when her father was still alive—to question him, to demand why he had treated her the way he did.

Of course, that was just a passing thought. Not only was it impossible for her to go back in time, but even if she relied on someone like Eriri to do so, she doubted she would be able to say a single word when faced with her father.

"What should I do..." she murmured quietly, still nestled in ...

Chapter 204: Girls, Tanks, and Starships

When Setsuna returned to the capital once again, he had a dazed, swirly-eyed dragon girl slung over his shoulder like a trophy.

Elma's strength was on par with Tohru's, but facing a 3-on-1, she barely lasted a single round.

"Oh?"

"Commander, you went back to Tohru's hometown and brought another dragon girl with you?"

"Uh, no—you tied her up and brought her?"

Gudako stared curiously at the purple-haired dragon girl.

"Just need to go grab Ilulu next and we'...

Chapter 203: I Want to Be Queen—Let All the Nobles and Knights Lose Their Jobs

The instant Felt met Noah's gaze, her consciousness was struck with a dizzying jolt—as though invisible hands had seized her soul and hurled it into the cosmos.

"Ah!"

Panicked, Felt thrashed like someone drowning, glancing wildly about.

She had suddenly arrived in a space beyond her understanding.

A vast darkness surrounded her, filled with countless "suns." Around each sun spun entire worlds, and around each world orbited a glowing sphere.

Then, those "suns" b...

Chapter 6: "Persona"

"Arasaka Academy, 2074 Freshman Entrance Ceremony. A speech, huh."

Vela laid the opened invitation flat on her desk, lighting a premium women's cigarette with a hint of self-satisfaction, her fingers tapping idly on the armrest of her chair.

She hadn't smoked in the past, but the grueling self-imposed study regimen at Arasaka Academy, compounded by the internal pressure of working at Arasaka, had worn her down over time. She picked it up without realizing it—product of her envir...

Chapter 5: A Company Dog's Day

Corporate Plaza, Arasaka Tower Underground Parking Garage.

Accompanied by the muffled hiss of noise-suppressed brakes, a vehicle bearing the Arasaka Security Division's internal recognition signal came to a smooth stop.

After passing security verification, and following the routine salutes from the guards and netrunner agents stationed at the entrance, Vela opened the door and stepped out. Once the vehicle was handed off, she led the two personal bodyguards assigned to her directl...

Chapter 4: The So-Called "Divine Gift"

"..."

The vehicle glided smoothly through the air. Vela lay back on the soft rear seat, quietly watching the world outside the window, eyes half-closed in feigned sleep, seemingly contemplating the contents of an upcoming work meeting.

In a dimension unnoticed by the two Arasaka bodyguards, Vela's eyes suddenly shone like stars—brilliant, sharp.

It wasn't the gleam of a cybernetic implant.

From Vela's perspective, time around her seemed to pause.

Everything nea...

Chapter 124: Kevin—What? Griseo Got Caught by Sa?

"Power's coming back—slowly, but enough."

Kevin nodded in satisfaction after absorbing the last of Chiyou's energy. At this point, forcefully breaking out of the Sea of Quanta was no longer a real challenge.

But without coordinates for the real world, such a gamble would be unwise. Who knows what kind of weird place he'd end up in?

"Hm? You're done absorbing it? Then come slurp noodles already—if you wait any longer, it's gonna turn into mush."

"I'm coming."

...

Chapter 706: Toy for Playing House

"Pacifistas," Kaguya said coldly and with disdain, "just a pile of scrap metal, yet you praise them like they're something grand. Vegapunk is overrated."

"Don't you dare speak of him that way!" Sentomaru's eyes blazed with fury. "His brilliance is far beyond what ignorant people like you could ever comprehend! Get her, Pacifistas! Tear this woman to pieces!"

"Yes."

The Pacifista let out a metallic response, raised its hand, and suddenly its fingers emitted a blinding light. ...

Chapter 430: Her World Is Small, But She Wants to Share It All With You

After making sure everything was in place, Kotomi Izumi started typing.

Although she had already sent several volumes of Sword Art Online's manuscript to Haruno Yukinoshita, and didn't need to worry about deadlines in the short term, this time Dengeki Bunko had decided to publish volumes 2 and 3 together.

That meant two volumes of content were consumed at once.

Of course, releasing two books at once would result in a higher royalty payout—but if they kept publishing them i...

Chapter 518: Solomon, Go!

"Senpai!"

"Master!"

"Fujimaru!"

...

Everyone was calling his name, but Fujimaru Ritsuka barely heard them. Confronted by that mocking, crimson gaze—and the deathly black light that tore through time, space, and the protection of countless Servants to reach him—he could only stare wide-eyed, his teal irises reflecting the shocked, fearful faces of his companions.

His arms, raised instinctively to shield himself, and his Chaldea-issued Master Mystic Code, gave ...

Chapter 448: Fujino Asagami

Whether it was Eriri's suggestion that moved Artoria, or the heartfelt persuasion from Irisviel and the others that took effect, it was hard to say.

But after nearly ten minutes, Artoria finally gave a slow nod.

She then removed the gauntlet from her right hand and gently raised it to rest atop Eriri's hand, which was still tenderly caressing her cheek.

"Eriri, thank you. Thank you for bringing everyone here to find me. From now on… I'll be in your care."

"That's mor...

Chapter 203: Inheriting the Chaos Throne, and Taking Another Dragon Girl Home

"Oooohhhhhh—"

The Eternal Snowfall burst through the clouds and soared upward, soon breaking through the atmosphere and entering outer space.

Looking down from above, the planetary structure here looked quite different from the solar system.

Both the orbits and the number of planets varied greatly.

The Emperor of Demise sat in Setsuna's control room, eyes wide as he tried to appear calm, though his face betrayed his astonishment.

Since they were already here, i...

Chapter 202: Re:Zero Campaign

The world annexation process automatically began.

There was no need for the system to run an analysis.

A world without magic offered little in terms of additional "World Power" or new "Rules" to the current Teyvat Universe.

While not entirely insignificant, its contribution was minimal.

For any annexed world that contributed less than 1% to the universe's growth, no full system analysis would be initiated.

However, a notification would still appear in the Cosmic ...

Chapter 3: Never Such a Wonderful Start

Night City, Westbrook.

Corporate Housing, Unit 414, Russell Residence.

Just before dawn, Vela woke up from a deep sleep and slowly sat up in bed.

"Ugh... not even a day off. What a bunch of vampires."

A soundless murmur. Rubbing her drowsy head—groggy from shutting off her health monitor—Vela held her forehead and gave it a shake. Her indigo cybernetic pupils cleared in an instant.

She had only just returned from Rio de Janeiro the night before, been pulled i...

Chapter 2: The So-Called Vela Adelheid Russell

Northern California, Night City.

City Center, Corporate Plaza.

Gray-white clouds clustered loosely in the sky. Under the clear heavens, a colossal 140-story building stood silently in the heart of Night City like a pitch-black tower.

Compared to the neighboring Militech Offices and Kang Tao Building, its design was conservative and lacked personality. Composed entirely of black reinforced glass curtain walls and steel, it gave off an oppressive sense of chill and ruthlessnes...

Chapter 1: In Arasaka, A Corporate Dog

Noisy, clamorous.

This was a city full of charm and vitality. At least it once was…

Wooo… wooo…

Under the blazing sun, in broad daylight, flames and smoke rose in bursts amid the sirens of martial law, erupting in the bizarre corners of the metropolis.

The air was extremely hot. It was filled with an indescribable stench—like the foul smell of protein meat clumps being smoked and roasted without being bled or gutted, mixed with the acrid odor of burnt ...

Chapter 123: Kevin—You’ve Got the Nerve to Mention Noodles?

Sunlight shone down on the girl.

Ji Xuanyuan's eyes welled up with tears. After five thousand years, this long-lost warm sunlight felt like salvation.

But soon, Ji Xuanyuan realized she was wrong. It wasn't the sunlight that had saved her—it was the boy beside her.

If not for the miracle Elias had performed, she never could have regained her lost humanity or restored vitality to her body.

"Thank you for redeeming me, Elias."

"Isn't that only natural? Alright, t...

Chapter 705: Pacifista

After transforming into Black Saber, Kaguya had lost her once-proficient Riding Skill. It was like she had gone from driving a BMW or Benz to clunking along on a hand-pulled tractor—and not even the kind with a trailer.

Thankfully, the mount card she drew came with a Riding Skill. The only downside was that it only worked with the Fenrir Wolf mount. Riding anything else was likely off the table.

So riding Sea Kings? Out of the question.

But then, an idea suddenly struck Ka...

Chapter 429: Strike the Snake at Its Weak Spot

Just as Eiren Kanagawa was about to leave, she noticed a man in a suit, name badge pinned to his chest, hurrying over in a sweaty panic. It was obvious without even looking closely—this was the manager of the five-star hotel's lobby.

"Hello, hello! I'm the lobby manager. My name's Mori. May I ask what kind of dispute occurred here for it to escalate into physical violence? Meeting is fate—let's not let things get ugly."

The manager wiped the sweat from his forehead with a hand...

Chapter 517: Hang in There, I'm About to Exit

It is well known that gods cannot become Heroic Spirits.

Because they have not perished—they simply departed.

Since the end of the Age of Gods, the connection between heaven, earth, and the human world has been severed. The same applies to beings like fairies, spirits, phantasmal beasts, and dragons—creatures born of nature's power. They either migrated to higher dimensions or retreated into the Inner Sea of the Planet (Reverse Side of the World).

In short, the era of th...

Chapter 447: The Doomed Britain

At around 9 a.m. the next morning, a white car came to a smooth stop in front of the hotel where Eriri and the others were staying.

Riding in the car were Rin, Sakura, and Aoi Tohsaka. The three had departed from the Zenjou residence early that morning and had just arrived in Fuyuki City.

However, their first destination upon returning wasn't the Tohsaka household—it was straight to see Eriri.

Having learned all about the Holy Grail War from her daughters the previous day,...

Chapter 202: The Emperor of Demise: You're Seriously Too Extreme

Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—

The group didn't stay long in the human city.

Tohru transformed back into her dragon form and carried the others as they flew toward dragon territory.

Along the way, Setsuna marveled at how fascinating this world truly was.

Not only was there human civilization, but also settlements of demi-humans, beastmen, merfolk, and other races.

The forests, seas, and skies were teeming with strange and exotic creatures—

Sea monst...