In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

Lu Mingfei silently rolled his eyes at the web interface. He had lost all interest in complaining about such trivial matters.

He was more concerned about two things:

First, he upgraded his Card Crafting skill while creating this card, but the card's prototype had already appeared by then. At this stage, what can the Card Crafting skill do to the card? Was the card's current form already determined at the very beginning of its creation?

Secondly, he used almost the same materials, and the array diagram and magic power were almost the same as before. He only added some spiritual feelings to the second set, so why were the final results so different?

"Although this is how card crafting works according to the common sense of this world... I think we definitely need to figure out the meaning behind it." Lu Mingfei placed Luo Tianyi's card in front of him, examining the girl with gray hair and emerald green eyes:

Luo Tianyi

【✪】【100/100/100】

Race: Human; Attribute: None

[Special Move: None]

No attributes, no special moves—this means that Luo Tianyi is treated as an 'ordinary person' within Saint Marian's system.

Like Miyamoto Musashi, like the swordsman summoned by Sargent, they all possessed an attribute characteristic beyond their race. Lu Mingfei couldn't explain what this characteristic meant, because it wasn't written in the library. However, it did record the circumstances under which an attribute might be absent:

"Only the most ordinary beings will have no attributes when they are created—"

In other words, she's just an ordinary person? But how could an ordinary person have their own unique name on the web interface, and even have such effusive praise in the photoshopped text?

Putting all that aside, she does have special characteristics. Does that mean every card has special characteristics?

Lu Mingfei pondered for a moment, but couldn't find any key point, so he raised his hand and summoned her.

The scene was no different from any other summoning scene: a magic circle flickered on the ground, and the phantom of the summoned person appeared and materialized within it, eventually becoming a reality.

However, the appearance of this summoned person actually added a lot of charm to this unchanging scene:

Her sky-blue skirt fluttered in the air, and her hair, tied in a figure-eight style, stood up neatly with a sky-blue ribbon. The stockings, one high and one low, made her thighs appear snow-white, and the knees were so exquisite that Lu Mingfei could hardly find any wrinkles on her skin at a glance.

She wore an off-the-shoulder outfit with exceptionally wide sleeves, likely modeled after Hanfu. However, the central part covering her body was quite fitted—though her skill in this area was probably similar to Liu Miaomiao's; it had curves, but didn't give off an urge to stare intently…

"No matter how you look at it, she's just an ordinary person." Lu Mingfei circled around Luo Tianyi, scrutinizing her, while she secretly pouted and ruthlessly covered Lu Mingfei's eyes with her hand:

"Stop staring! It's very rude to look at girls like that!"

"Oh, oh, I'm so sorry."

—If she hadn't covered her face, Lu Mingfei wouldn't have realized she was a girl.

The main problem is that when Lu Mingfei saw her, all he could think about was researching magical spirits; he couldn't even imagine that he was looking at a girl.

Wait, isn't something wrong?

Lu Mingfei's expression slowly turned serious. He stood up again and circled around Luo Tianyi, scrutinizing her. Watching Luo Tianyi's expression shift from confusion to shame and indignation, Lu Mingfei took a step back and stopped observing her before she could erupt again.

"But that alone doesn't prove anything... How about we do a comparative experiment?"

Lu Mingfei summoned Jing Shu and began circling her, scrutinizing her. Jing Shu only glanced curiously at Luo Tianyi upon landing, then allowed Lu Mingfei to do as he pleased.

He gazed at her, reached out to touch her, and even lifted her skirt—

"Hey! What are you doing!"

Luo Tianyi immediately rushed over, trying to push away Lu Mingfei's wicked hand and protect the white-dressed girl she didn't know.

But Jing Shu was even faster: her dragon wings spread out almost instantly, pushing forward and enveloping Lu Mingfei, while keeping Luo Tianyi out.

Although Lu Mingfei couldn't see it, he could almost imagine that Jing Shu had definitely revealed her dragon claws in an attempt to intimidate Luo Tianyi.

"Okay, let me go—I was just conducting an experiment, she meant no harm."

After a chaotic scene, and with Lu Mingfei struggling to organize his thoughts and explain, Luo Tianyi finally accepted the fact:

"You mean, she's a...magical spirit you created and summoned?" Luo Tianyi picked up Tiandian, her brows furrowing deeply to show how difficult it was for her to accept this fact. "I'm a magical spirit too? Tiandian is too?"

"How could that be? I was clearly..." Luo Tianyi was about to start speaking, but the words caught in her throat. The city she used to live in? The environment? The news? She wanted to give examples, but at this moment she couldn't think of a single one.

"Right! Yan He! If I was summoned by you, how come I have memories of playing with Yan He in my head? And Yue Zhengling, Zheng Yu Moke, Yue Zheng Longya, Hatsune Miku..."

Before Lu Mingfei could explain anything, Luo Tianyi realized something was wrong: all she could think about were the faces and voices of these people, and the memories of playing together. But what did they play? What was really worth being happy about?

Can happiness without any cause and effect be true happiness?

Thinking of this, Luo Tianyi fell silent, shrinking to the ground and burying her face in her hands. Tian Dian jumped around her, occasionally trying to put its microphone-like tail into her hands, but she refused to hold it, so it just fell down on its own.

After a moment's consideration, Lu Mingfei asked, "Is it possible that your companions are actually real people, just like you?"

Luo Tianyi looked up at Lu Mingfei, waiting for him to continue:

"Perhaps in their minds, you are just a memory of your voice and smile, without any other proof of your existence—but just as you could be resurrected through my hand, perhaps they can be resurrected in the same way?"

"If we can find a way to bring them all here, then you can all live together, right? The happy memories from the past are just illusions, so let them remain there, and create new happy memories with your friends in this world, can't you?"

Luo Tianyi's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and she finally nodded emphatically, then hugged Tiantian tightly in her arms again.

"Then, how do I wake Yanhe and the others up?"

Lu Mingfei pondered for a moment and began to explain: "The method I use is called 'Card Refining'—well, I can't explain the principle to you clearly, after all, I only have a vague understanding of it myself, but..."