Why is my anime art style so weird?

What! You're asking about Erina and the piglet? Aren't they a daughter and her pet?

Out of curiosity, Xu Ming casually asked the system how many Weird Points he would need to sign a contract with his sister.

The system responded quickly.

—Target Soul Level: 5!

—Soul Potential Level: 6 stars!

— 10000 Mystery Points required to sign a contract with this target!

Great, now I don't need to make excuses and I can't sign a contract with my sister.

However, it must be said that she truly lives up to her older sister's reputation; she always manages to exceed his expectations. Her growth rate is simply terrifying.

Xu Mingyuan thought he had obtained divine equipment and was already on a winning streak.

He never expected his older sister to fly faster and more fiercely than him.

He's just on an airplane, but my dear sister is on a rocket!

My dear sister, you are terrifying!

As expected of a unique limited UR!

Xu Ming then checked the points required to upgrade each piece of equipment.

First, there's the Holy Sword of Physics; the price for upgrading from 4 stars to 5 stars skyrocketed from 1500 to 5000.

Xu Ming currently only has 4775 points of strangeness. Although he is very envious of the 5-star Physics Holy Sword, he can only put it aside for the time being.

Then Xu Ming looked at the spirit-capturing phone.

Currently, the highest attribute level for a mobile phone is only 3, but there are enough points to upgrade the phone, and even more to spare.

After thinking it over for a while, Xu Ming temporarily put aside the idea of ​​upgrading his phone and instead opened the shikigami interface.

Chapter 287 The Hall of Offerings, 64th Floor

Asagami Fujino, who has the highest rank, has already reached number 1.

Xu Ming, however, looked at the attribute panels of the little piglet and Erina.

Perhaps because they followed Xu Ming on his campaigns and eliminated many strange creatures, the number of strange creature points required for Little Piglet and Erina to level up was greatly reduced.

The cost to upgrade a piglet from level 3 to level 4 has been reduced from 2000 to 500.

Erina's score dropped from 3000 to 1000.

After a moment of contemplation, Xu Ming quickly made his choice.

First, he upgraded the phone camera's 'purification' and 'evil-repelling' abilities to level 4, spending a total of 1000 + 2000 = 3000 points.

Then I upgraded both the little piglet and Erina to level 4, spending a total of 1500 points.

In this way, he used up all the remaining strange points he had.

It has to be said that while it's difficult to accumulate Weird Points, they can be spent incredibly quickly.

As the difficulty of the tasks Xu Ming encountered increased, Little Piglet and Erina went from being key players to being mere bystanders.

Therefore, Xu Ming decisively upgraded their levels.

After all, Xu Ming needs people who can help him, not useless cannon fodder. (See reference "Sustainable Development of Tool People")

So, the attribute panels for the little piglet and Erina became—

slightly.

Besides the change in rank, the system's descriptions of the two characters' abilities have also changed.

The piglet's 'flying' ability has changed to: no cost, slightly increasing flight speed.

Iron Head Kung Fu has evolved into: concentrating all energy to deliver a devastating impact to the enemy with a sturdy head.

The piglet's two most important attributes, speed and power, have both been improved to varying degrees.

As for Erina, her 'elemental control' has become: the ability to precisely manipulate elements within a certain range, centered on herself.

That's right, at first glance it just adds the word 'precise'.

Don't underestimate this prefix.

Only with this prefix can one be considered a mage.

No, it was just a firecracker that was randomly throwing bombs.

This is a comprehensive upgrade for Erina.

As for her other ability, 'Master of Cooking', it also improved, from the 'Top Ten' level to the 'Top Ten Graduate' level.

Foodie Xu Ming gave this a thumbs up.

Finally, he opened Asagami Fujino's attribute panel.

Name: Asagami Fujino

Contractor: Xu Ming

Category: Shikigami (Monster)

Soul Level: 4

Soul Potential Level: 6

special power:

Distortionary Eyes – This ability activates a rotation axis using one's gaze, distorting the object being observed. However, this ability can only destroy matter, not conceptual things, and cannot distort things that one believes are absolutely undistortable.

Although Asagami Fujino only has one ability, it is equivalent to ten ordinary abilities!

After making thorough preparations.

Xu Ming slung his backpack over his shoulder and was about to head out when Sister Shiyu suddenly called out to him.

"Little brother~"

Xu Ming stopped and turned around.

"What is it, sister?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha's expression was so complicated that Xu Ming couldn't quite understand it.

She slowly walked up to Xu Ming and reached out to straighten his collar.

"If you have any troubles, remember to tell your sister~ Your sister will always support you."

Xu Ming was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and nodded.

"Okay, I understand, sister."

Watching Xu Ming's departing figure, Kasumigaoka Utaha's ruby-like eyes gleamed with an enigmatic light...

Soon after Xu Ming set off and met up with Ryougi Shiki, he went directly to Ogawa's apartment.

Under the cover of night, Xu Ming remained silent as he gazed at the straight, cylindrical building.

Ryougi Shiki glanced at him indifferently and walked directly towards the apartment.

Xu Ming shook his head with a wry smile.

Since things have come to this, we can only face it bravely.

Soon the two entered the lobby on the first floor of the apartment.

The gleaming marble floor reflected the figures of the two people, and the overhead lights, after reflecting several times, illuminated the entire hall exceptionally brightly.

Just as Xu Ming was surveying the scene in the hall, Ryougi Shiki suddenly bent down slightly, swung her arm, and a dagger slid into her palm.

Seeing that Ryougi Shiki was on guard, Xu Ming quickly grabbed his phone, pulled out a crowbar from his backpack, and summoned all of them at once: Little Piglet, Erina, and Asagami Fujino.

His posture, which resembled a group fight, even made Ryougi Shiki look back at him with a strange expression.

Just then, a bald thief dressed in a priest-style black outfit, with a black seaweed-like hairstyle and a bitter face, slowly emerged halfway out of the wall like a slime.

He looked down at the two of them from his high position, his voice as deep and dull as stone.

"Ryougi Shiki? I haven't even looked for you yet, and you've already delivered yourself to my door. How foolish!"

A sharp, murderous glint flashed in Ryougi Shiki's eyes.

"I've come to kill you, Araya Sōren."

Her words were incredibly sharp.

Faced with Ryougi Shiki's provocative words, Araya Sōren's expression remained unchanged, as if he were an adult coldly watching a brat baring his teeth and claws in front of him.

"Ryougi Shiki, I'll be waiting for you on the top floor."

Then he slightly adjusted the angle of his head and looked at Xu Ming and the group of shikigami surrounding him.

"Xu Ming, it's you again!? As expected, you are the obstacle to our great cause!"

A rare hint of raw killing intent surfaced in Araya Sōren's voice, a tone that was as unyielding as a stubborn rock.

Clearly, Xu Ming's repeated sabotage of his plans had stirred up a nameless anger within this man, who was almost devoid of emotion and resembled an ascetic.

'What? Does this bald thief have someone else backing him?'

Xu Ming remained outwardly calm, but secretly he remembered his words.

At this moment, Araya Sōren looked at Asagami Fujino, who stood behind Xu Ming with a cold expression.

"Asagami Fujino has already been tamed by this man..."

Fine, now that you've entered the apartment, don't even think about leaving alive.

Welcome to my altar, which is named—the Sixty-Fourth Floor of the Offering Hall!

Araya Sōren's voice immediately echoed throughout the entire apartment lobby.

With this loud voice, an invisible ripple suddenly appeared in the void, and the world gradually began to change.

At the apartment door, the air seemed to distort, and then the entire door vanished before everyone's eyes, transforming into a wall.

"This is my mental landscape, my world. Here, I am the only God."

Ryougi Shiki, I'll be waiting for you on the rooftop, if you still dare to come.