My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 44 - 35 Celestial Driver

Japan time 07:30 AM, Harbor District, Shiba Park, Tokyo. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

If the Tokyo City at night is like a glamorous seductress, posing under the spotlight of neon lights, then Tokyo in the early morning is like a pure and bright girl washing clothes by the stream.

Beautiful as it is, comparatively it lacks the magic power that makes people want to stop and watch.

Ji Minghuan halted in front of the traffic lights, with the red indicator shimmering hazily through the rain curtain.

He raised his arm to shield his head from the drizzle and glanced at the message on his phone.

[Anonymous User: Waiting in the third booth of the underground bar at 5th Street, Harbor District, Tokyo City.]

Once again amazed by the system’s sense of humor, Ji Minghuan sighed, closing his phone muttering, "Please... when will my character memory be complete? Or do I look like someone who understands Japanese?"

The next moment, a notification panel popped up before his eyes.

[System Notice: Loading memory of character number two, countdown of five seconds begins, the memory of the game character "Xia Pingzhou" will be injected into your mind, please be mentally prepared.]

As the notification sound dropped, Ji Minghuan’s mind seemed to be playing a slideshow at a hundredfold speed.

In a moment, he had gone through the nineteen years of Xia Pingzhou’s life memory.

What impressed Ji Minghuan most, naturally, was the scene from half a year ago: when Xia Pingzhou came home to see his family’s dismembered bodies hanging on the balcony. The city in the distance was ablaze with lights, bathed in a warm glow. The night wind from the city brought the smell of blood to Xia Pingzhou’s nose.

He stared blankly at the bodies of his family, for a long time, retreated backward until he hit the wall with no way to go, then slowly slid to the ground, silently screaming.

Much later, Xia Pingzhou learned that his family might have just been chatting on the rooftop at the time.

They happened to see "Jack the Ripper" passing through the alley downstairs, and with just a few more glances at her, they were casually sliced into pieces and hung on a clothes hanger for display.

It was also in order to track down this evil exorcist codenamed "Jack the Ripper" that Xia Pingzhou joined the White Crow Travel Brigade. Although he currently didn’t know much about the members, he was confident that ten out of nine times, Jack the Ripper was hiding among them.

And today is the day he would meet a member of the White Crow Travel Brigade for the first time.

The message he just received was sent by a group member, which was the location of their meeting.

Because Xia Pingzhou had studied Japanese for a while before, after loading his memory in his mind, Ji Minghuan was no longer confused when he looked at the Japanese on the neon sign.

And in Xia Pingzhou’s memory, besides the scene where his whole family was dissected and hung on the balcony, another scene that deeply impressed Ji Minghuan was when Xia Pingzhou awakened his "Celestial Driver" for the first time.

At that time, Xia Pingzhou was watching a game of international chess on television.

Suddenly, a black-and-white intertwined halo surged from within him, irresistibly engulfing his entire body. Moments later, the halo gradually encircled him with chess pieces from the game, as if a satellite revolving around him as the center.

Xia Pingzhou ended up with four chess pieces in total: the King, the Queen, a Soldier, and a Rook.

After awakening the Celestial Driver, whenever he willed it, these four pieces of chess species would arrive as scheduled, wrapped in black and white flowing light, slowly revolving around him.

Plucking a piece out from among them allows him to summon the corresponding chess troop to reality, and they completely obey his commands.

Not long after that, the people of the Exorcist Association traced the energy fluctuations that spread when the Celestial Driver awakened and found the then 17-year-old Xia Pingzhou, inviting him to become a member of the association.

Due to being forced to drop out of school and scratch out a living in a strange city because of poverty, Xia Pingzhou gladly accepted the high salary invitation offered by the association.

It was through a series of memories from Xia Pingzhou that Ji Minghuan finally completed his understanding of "Celestial Driver" and the term "Exorcist" itself as mentioned by the exorcists.

......

Two years ago, Xia Pingzhou demonstrated his "Celestial Driver" ability to the staff of the China branch of the Exorcist Association.

As they believed the unique value of his Celestial Driver was not to be underestimated, the head of the China branch of the Exorcist Association came personally to meet him, and the two had a long conversation.

"What exactly is the Celestial Driver?" Xia Pingzhou asked.

"Every exorcist has their own unique ’Celestial Destiny Weapon.’ Another name for this weapon is the ’Celestial Driver.’ Those qualified to become exorcists will develop a prototype of the ’Celestial Driver’ during their growth." The head said, "The Celestial Driver can be a gun, a sword, a bow and arrow, or various weird objects like glasses, brooms, razors. What it specifically turns into depends on the ’inner shape of the exorcist.’"

"Are there different levels for Exorcists?" Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment and asked.

"Exorcists are divided into three tiers. Each time they advance a tier, they can sign a contract with a demon. Upon signing the contract, the demon merges into their ’Celestial Driver’ and becomes a component of the weapon."

"Then what is the role of an Exorcist?"

"The work of an Exorcist is exactly as the name implies: to expel demons."

"And what exactly are demons?"

The president chuckled and said, "Each country has different feng shui customs, so ’demons’ have different names in different places. For example, in ancient China, local Exorcists were often called ’Daoists,’ and local ’demons’ were often referred to as ’Ghost Souls,’ ’Qi Mei Wang Liang,’ and so on. In Japan, they’re called ’monsters,’ and only Americans call them ’demons.’"

He paused for a moment: "Later, Exorcists from different countries began to interact and discovered that they called demons differently from one another. So, to facilitate communication, Exorcists worldwide gradually reached a consensus to draft a set of naming standards—no matter the country, those who hunt demons are collectively known as ’Exorcists,’ and demons are collectively known as ’demons,’ saving the trouble of differentiating."

"Then why did you seek me out?"

"When your Celestial Driver awakened, the ability fluctuation it emitted reached ’Double S-level,’ which is extremely rare globally."

Saying this, the president’s tone grew more serious: "We need you... If you persist on this path, you are destined to become a legend unparalleled in the world, perhaps even the leader of the entire association."

Not long after this, a mishap occurred in Xia Pingzhou’s team, and exhausted mentally and physically, he refused the association’s repeated pleas and chose to return to an ordinary life.

However, this peaceful life didn’t last long, as his family encountered "Jack the Ripper."

To seek revenge on the Ripper, Xia Pingzhou once again pursued the quest for power and began investigating the "White Crow Travel Brigade."

Unfortunately, without exacting revenge, the timing coincided precisely with Xia Pingzhou boarding a plane to Tokyo, Japan, about to meet with the White Crow Travel Brigade, when Ji Minghuan’s consciousness was loaded into this game character’s body.

Subsequently, he took over all actions of Xia Pingzhou.

.......

"Compared to the previous character, is it necessary for this character’s backstory to be so dark? Going through these memories... It feels like I’m about to develop depression."

Ji Minghuan scratched his head, secretly thinking.

Certainly, no matter how complex the character background is, it merely serves the ’main quest’ that emerges, it has no significance to emotionally invest him.

Ji Minghuan cared more about this character’s potential and the development value of its skill system, given that the Black Cocoon skill system leans towards "reconnaissance" and "support," it doesn’t seem capable of acting as the main battle force.

If this second character’s system is suitable as the main battle force, then naturally it would fill in his shortcomings.

Thinking this way, Ji Minghuan brought up Xia Pingzhou’s "Skill Tree System."

The next moment, the outline of a giant tree popped up before his eyes, with three branches extending upward.

He glanced at it, only to see that the skill tree’s overall shape was similar to the "Black Cocoon," just with minute color differences: the branches and background color of Xia Pingzhou’s skill tree were "black and white intertwined," whereas the Black Cocoon’s skill tree system was "red and black."

Ji Minghuan looked up at the details of the skill tree.

[Branch One (Group): Recruit Soldiers (Requires consuming ’1’ Skill Point to learn) → Unknown → Unknown...]

[Recruit Soldiers: Obtain two ’Soldier Chess Pieces.’]

[Branch Two (Brave): Chess Species Evolution (Condition: Requires consuming a total of ’3’ Skill Points in other branches before being allowed to learn this skill) (Learning this skill requires consuming ’1’ Skill Point) → Unknown → Unknown...]

[Chess Species Evolution: All your Chess Species undergo evolution. This evolution will elevate your chess piece from ’Black Iron Body’ to ’Silver Body,’ and the basic attributes of the Chess Species will be comprehensively enhanced.]

[Branch Three (Soul): Demon Hunter (Requires consuming ’1’ Skill Point to learn) → Unknown → Unknown...]

[Demon Hunter: After the chess pieces participate in killing demons, you have a chance to obtain a unique related chess piece. (This chess piece can only be "Materialized" once, and once destroyed, it cannot be reborn like normal Chess Species)]

Early on, Ji Minghuan, skilled in various RPG role-playing games, naturally saw the positioning of this character.

"This is a summoning type..."