Soon, Kanna had chosen several very beautiful gifts and happily packed them away.
With Carmen's endorsement, the vehicles quickly left the border of Iberia.
The moment they crossed the border, the system chimed, indicating that the mission was complete.
After turning in the mission, Kanna looked at her newly acquired skill. She was quite curious what an enhanced skill was.
Extreme · Divine Transformation · Evil Star Opening (Enhanced, Skill Source: Genshin Impact Raiden Shogun): Kanna tears through the void, summoning distant thunderous power to deal Electro damage to surrounding enemies, and bestows the Thunder Punishment Evil Star Eye upon all nearby teammates (friendly units as recognized by Kanna). When a teammate with the Thunder Punishment Evil Star Eye deals damage to an enemy with their attack, the Thunder Punishment Evil Star Eye will perform a coordinated attack.
Enhancement Effect — All Evil Must Be Slashed: Kanna can choose to condense a teammate's Thunder Punishment Evil Star Eye into an Electro Seed, which can be carried by the individual. Teammates carrying an Electro Seed can destroy it by any means to summon Kanna's phantom to battle. The phantom can use all skills except Pray for Rain. The phantom's combat power and duration are determined by the Electro power stored within the Electro Seed. While the phantom is battling, the main body can observe the surrounding environment through the Thunder Punishment Evil Star Eye behind the phantom, and actively perform one attack. The Electro Seed's maximum preservation time is one week. After use, it will have a minimum of one percent of the main body's strength and a one-minute duration before being defeated.
This long string of words almost made Kanna's eyes glaze over.
First, the original skill effect was very simple: it would unleash a bolt of lightning to deal damage to the surroundings once, and summon an eye to assist in attacks. In the game, it could also provide energy recharge, but this effect was not present in reality.
The most important thing was the subsequent enhancement effect, which truly lived up to being a dedicated enhancement for this skill. It directly condensed the Thunder Punishment Evil Star Eye of teammates into a seed, which could then be used at any time within a week to summon a clone of Kanna. Although its strength was not comparable to the main body, its actual effect would be terrifying.
Because Kanna's base strength was very high, even one percent was not something an ordinary Operator could handle. Moreover, there was no limit to the number of these, it only mentioned "nearby" without specifying how far "nearby" was. Coupled with no cooldown and a sufficiently long preservation time, all Operators who moved with Kanna could enjoy the feeling of having a super-strong fighter with them at all times.
Before, Kanna had actually thought about how to ensure everyone returned safely when they went to Chernobog later. However, the conclusion was that unless she disregarded the safety of all residents in Chernobog and directly turned the area into a disaster zone during the operation, forcing Reunion to retreat or hide, she simply couldn't ensure everyone's safe return with her current strength.
And this skill made her see hope again, a hope that everyone could come back alive.
"Kanna! Kanna!" Just as Kanna was drooling over the skill, Kal'tsit's voice brought her attention back.
At this moment, the vehicle had stopped at some point. Outside the car, Kal'tsit and Skadi were exchanging words. Kanna poked her head out, puzzled.
Skadi waved at Kanna, "We're already some distance from Iberia. It seems they really did agree to let you leave. I still have things to do, so I won't be returning to Rhodes Island with you all."
Kanna nodded. Just as Skadi was about to leave, she suddenly jumped out and stood beside Skadi, asking quietly,
"Skadi, there's something I've always wanted to ask you."
"Speak!" Skadi said with a serious expression.
"Um, it's, well, if you make a mistake, how do you choose to apologize?" Kanna stared wide-eyed at Skadi.
Skadi tilted her head, a bit confused, "Just say sorry!"
"Is that all?" The Young Dragon was unwilling.
"That's all!" The Orca was puzzled.
"Oh! Then it's nothing, goodbye Skadi!" Not getting the answer she had imagined, Kanna seemed a little disappointed.
"See you next time, Kanna!" Skadi slung her greatsword onto her back, waved to Kanna and Kal'tsit in the car, then decisively walked into the distance.
"What did you just ask?"
"Nothing! Let's go! I'm hungry!" Kanna changed the subject.
Kal'tsit stared at Kanna for a moment, then looked at the departing Skadi, and finally shook her head. She wasn't one to pry into others' affairs, but Kanna often did some baffling things, which was why she asked. Since Kanna didn't want to answer, she wasn't bothered to press further.
Half a month later, the two finally returned to Rhodes Island.
As soon as they entered the main gate, Kanna, who had been cooped up in the car and howling, didn't even wait for the car to stop. Like a released husky, she darted out of the vehicle.
On guard at the gate were ACE and his Squad again.
The others hadn't even reacted, only seeing a silver-white blur shoot out of the car and appear before them. Kanna crashed into ACE's leg, "Uncle ACE, I missed you all so much!"
"Ouch! Kanna, you didn't miss me, you wanted me dead!" ACE let out a heart-wrenching scream from the Young Dragon's pounce, landing on his backside on the ground.
"Heh heh!"
Kanna, climbing off ACE, finally had her excitement of returning home somewhat lessened.
On the corridor, Popukar and the others looked up at Kanna and waved.
Kanna waved back at them, then jumped onto the car to retrieve the souvenirs she had brought back.
Just as she was about to leave, clutching the souvenirs, Kal'tsit grabbed her and pulled her back.
"What's the rush? Don't forget you still need to go through a decontamination process before you can leave. And after you deliver your weapon to the Engineering Department, you'll need to go to the Medical Department for a physical examination. You can only go play after all those things are done."
Hearing Kal'tsit's scolding, Kanna, with her tail drooping, jumped back into the car to retrieve her weapon.
After a simple cleaning, Kanna, carrying her greatsword and hugging a gift box full of souvenirs, walked onto the corridor.
"These are the gifts I picked for you all in Iberia. This one is Popukar's, this one is Amiya's, this one is Rosmontis's, this one…" This time, Kanna had brought a gift for almost everyone she knew. Most were various strange and colorful conch shells, and everyone who received a gift thanked her happily.
Kanna, carrying a large gift box, finally arrived at the Engineering Department.
"Yo! Kanna!" Cerberus was seen waving at her from afar.
"Cerberus, this is the gift I brought for you!" Kanna called out to Cerberus, holding an orange-yellow disc adorned with beautiful patterns.
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