72: The grand spectacle in Shanghai has begun again, with anime goddesses descending into reality.

At that moment, the system's notification sound echoed in Jiang Ming's mind.

[Detected that the host's total emotion points has exceeded 100 million points.]

[Conditions met to unlock the eighth 'Destinys Triple Choice'.]

[Would you like to open it immediately?]

A choice worth 100 million emotion points.

Jiang Ming looked at the prompt but did not make an immediate decision.

Opening the choice would inevitably grant a brand-new, even more powerful ability, but one must take things one step at a time.

The cards currently in his hand were sufficient for now.

At least for this stage, there weren't enough characters on stage and the scene wasn't chaotic enough; it was far from the time he needed a new trump card to elevate himself.

The urgent priority was to get new characters onto the field as soon as possible, maintain the hype of this global grand play, and squeeze the audience's emotion points to the limit.

While pondering, Jiang Ming turned his gaze toward the report from mirror doll no. 2.

"A 370,000-fold explosion in search volume..."

Jiang Ming noticed a key point.

In this wave of transcendence he had single-handedly instigated, the first to understand the concept of the 'Holy Grail War' and proactively popularize the rules to the world weren't national think tanks or intelligence agencies, but the youth immersed in ACG culture.

They were familiar with the setting of 'Fate'; they had a natural affinity for terms like 'Heroic Spirit', 'Noble Phantasm', and 'command spells'.

At the same time, they were the most fanatical audience of this grand play and one of the highest-quality sources of emotion points.

The characters who had appeared so far all originated from history, mythology, or politics.

The stage was still missing an ultimate symbol that could directly link with the world's largest demographic of young people—specifically the ACG cultural circle.

"No. 2," Jiang Ming issued an order.

"Using 'Global Scope', 'ACG Culture', 'High Popularity', 'Dramatic', and 'Virtual Idol' as keywords, filter through all network data to find the target that best fits the criteria."

"Instruction received."

"Commencing execution..."

The entire process took less than 0.01 seconds.

In the air before mirror doll no. 2, a massive virtual light screen was projected out of thin air.

Vast amounts of data flowed like a river of stars, finally freezing on a character's splash art.

It was a silver-haired girl dressed in a magnificent blue gown and wearing an exquisite small top hat.

Her face carried a touch of perfect playfulness and pride, yet in those azure eyes, there seemed to be hidden an unspeakable loneliness.

On one side of the screen were the detailed information and keyword tags for this character.

[Target Locked: Genshin Impact]

[Character: Furina De Fontaine]

[Titles: Hydro Archon, God of Justice (False), Sinner of Fontaine, Endless Soloist...]

[Core Setting: To save the people of her nation, she deceived the world for five hundred years, playing the role of a 'deity' alone on the stage of the Opera House, enduring five hundred years of loneliness and curses.]

Jiang Ming looked at this data with great interest.

Hydro Archon, Judgment, Opera House, Actor, Performer of Five Hundred Years of Loneliness... this character herself was a massive collection of dramatic conflicts.

She was both god and human.

She was both judge and the judged.

Her very existence was a grand deception spanning five hundred years.

This was simply... perfect.

Her story was full of burdens, sacrifice, disguise, and ultimate self-reconciliation, encompassing almost all the classic elements capable of detonating an audience's emotions.

What kind of violent chemical reaction would be triggered by bringing such a 'fictional' deity into the real world?

When those hundreds of millions of players saw the character they had cried and laughed for appearing vividly before them, what kind of majestic emotion points would they contribute?

"It's her."

Jiang Ming made his decision.

He wanted to summon this 'superstar' of Fontaine to the even larger stage of reality.

Since he was going to create her, he had to make her perfect.

Jiang Ming closed his eyes and began to set the Noble Phantasms and skills for this new Caster in the Mirror Puppet ability interface, consistent with her background.

[Servant: Furina De Fontaine]

[class: Caster]

[Gender: Female]

[Source: Genshin Impact World - Fontaine]

[Region: Teyvat Continent]

[Parameters]

[Strength: E]

[Endurance: D]

[Agility: C]

[Mana: A+]

[Luck: B]

[Noble Phantasm: A+]

These frail melee stats, combined with A+ rank Mana and Noble Phantasm, perfectly matched her setting as a ritual mage and the 'Hydro Archon'.

Next were the skills.

[class Skills]

[Territory Creation: A]

[Effect: Capable of constructing a 'Tribunal' territory on the level of the 'Opera Epiclese'. Within this domain, all existences must accept the judgment of 'Justice', and all her magecraft effects receive a massive bonus.]

[Item Construction: C]

[Effect: Can produce Mystic Codes related to the Hydro element, but her primary abilities are concentrated on ritual magecraft requiring massive ceremonies and stage effects.]

[Personal Skills]

[Eternal Performance: A+]

[Effect: A transcendent level of perfect acting developed to maintain the illusion of being a 'deity'. Its rank has reached a point where she can even deceive herself. In battle, she can perfectly mimic the skills of other transcendent beings (power decreases based on compatibility and proficiency) and can even deceive the world itself for a short time, distorting physical rules in a small area.]

[Split Personality: B]

[Effect: As a product of the separation between the divinity 'Focalors' and the personality 'Furina', she possesses two independent yet closely linked consciousnesses. In moments of crisis, she can switch personalities to gain entirely different ability orientations and combat styles.]

[The Judge's Loneliness: A]

[Effect: Carrying the heavy destiny of a nation's expectations and sins, this five-hundred-year sense of loneliness has transformed into a tangible magical barrier. The more isolated, helpless, and misunderstood she is, the stronger her magecraft becomes.]

Finally, the Noble Phantasms.

[Noble Phantasm 1: End of the Comedy]

[Rank: A+]

[Type: Anti-World Noble Phantasm]

[Range: 1-99]

[Max Targets: 1000 people]

[Incantation: "When lies become truth, when performance becomes essence, when a false deity gains true faith—then, does this falsehood also become reality?"]

[Effect: Deploys a water-mirror Bounded Field covering the entire battlefield. Within this domain, the boundary between truth and falsehood is completely blurred, and all existences must face the deepest lies and sins within their hearts.

Enemies are forced to undergo 'judgment', and the hypocrisy and deception in their hearts are materialized as chains of water. The more they refuse to face the truth, the stronger the binding becomes.]

[Noble Phantasm 2: Eternal Theater]

[Rank: B]

[Type: Anti-Army Noble Phantasm]

[Range: 1-50]

[Max Targets: 500 people]

[Incantation: "Life is but a grand performance, and I have already forgotten how to take a final bow."]

[Effect: Summons a massive floating Opera House. Within this theater, Furina becomes the sole 'performer' and 'director'. All battles turn into a 'performance' carefully choreographed by her. She can reenact famous judgment scenes from history through 'performance' and summon water phantoms like the 'Salon Members' and the 'Singer of Many Waters' to assist in battle.]

Settings complete.

The emotion points to be invested was set at the new baseline: two million points.

As for the location of descent... the Magic City.

The place where the dream began.

China's second transcendent being, the 'Azure Lotus Sword Immortal' Li Bai, had severed the river with one sword there, pulling back the curtains.

Then, let this 'deity' from the virtual world also descend upon that city.

"Confirm creation."

Jiang Ming issued the final command.

[Caster-class Servant template confirmed.]

[emotion points consumed: 2,000,000 points.]

[Remaining emotion points: 108,347,210 points.]

[Constructing Caster-class Servant: Furina De Fontaine...]

The moment the command was confirmed.

In the air of the Rome hotel penthouse suite, a crystal-clear water droplet emitting a pure blue shimmer condensed out of thin air.

Immediately after, the droplet began to vibrate violently, as if containing the weight of an entire world.

It rapidly spun, stretched, and expanded, transforming into a magnificent vortex of countless water currents and light particles that spiraled upward...