“Mr Ye Chui, you, you…” Fiore looked at Ye Chui, tears welling in his eyes, full of indescribable grievance. This big brother was too mean. Not only had he made him wear girls’ clothes before, but now he had completely turned him into a girl.
If his sister Kerrigan had not been standing beside him, holding him, he would definitely have rushed to Ye Chui without restraint to pour out his complaints.
Ye Chui turned away with a guilty expression, wiping sweat from his forehead. He said, “I’ll change you back right now.” Flames burst from his hands as he prepared to reshape Fiore’s body again. But at that moment, the flames in his hands flickered as if running out of fuel and suddenly went out.
“Eh?” Ye Chui was stunned.
“What’s wrong?” Kerrigan asked urgently.
“Well, my life power is insufficient,” Ye Chui explained with a guilty look.
When Jarvis entered the Eternal Heart to activate it, he had also absorbed a massive amount of power from it. However, Jarvis had not yet returned to his divine body. His current form came from Ye Chui’s Heroic Spirit summoning, which had limits on the power it could bear. Using this power to condense a flesh body was the most consuming task. Human bodies were far more complex than puppet tribe bodies. Ye Chui had already used too much of this power just now. He probably lacked enough to reshape Fiore’s body again.
It is worth mentioning that although Ye Chui had condensed a girl’s body for Fiore, that body was not designed consciously by Ye Chui. The Eternal Heart contained life power, a powerful rule-based force once controlled by the gods. It represented the rules of growth and reproduction for all things. These rules inherently included various characteristics of human life, akin to the concept of DNA. Once activated, it could form a living body on its own.
All Ye Chui had to do was make simple settings for height, age, gender, and the like.
“What do you mean you can’t use it? Does that mean, does that mean I have to live as a girl from now on?” Fiore said in a tearful voice.
“Can’t you draw more power from the Eternal Heart?” Kerrigan also questioned.
Ye Chui looked towards the Eternal Heart. The towering pillar of fire from the volcano it had formed had already extinguished. Even the flames emerging from the crater now seemed much sparser. Ye Chui shook his head. “The Eternal Heart has been activated. It has returned to this body. External forces can no longer draw power from it.” He quickly added, “But don’t worry. Once Jarvis regains control of the body, he can help you remodel your body again.”
“Mr Ye Chui, you’re not lying to me, are you?” Fiore wiped the tears from his eyes and asked pitifully.
“Ye Chui definitely won’t lie to you. Rest assured. Even if he doesn’t want to, we won’t allow it,” Debbie assured him at that moment. She had already taken a pile of clothes from Ye Chui and said somewhat sheepishly, “Fiore, you should put on some clothes first for now. Otherwise, Green and the others will be back soon. Um, since you’re a girl now, let’s start with these girls’ clothes.”
Kerrigan also persuaded her brother, now sister. “Fiore, no matter what, you’re still my little brother. We have terrifying enemies to face right now. Don’t worry about gender for the time being.” She glared fiercely at Ye Chui. “If he doesn’t change you back, I definitely won’t let him off!” Saying this, her tone suddenly shifted. She picked up a few pieces of clothing Debbie had brought. “That said, these clothes are really pretty. I’ve always wanted a little sister. Fiore, hurry and try this one. No, no, this one instead…”
Fiore: “”
Sister, why do you seem to be enjoying this?
By the time Green, Guni, and the others had gathered back all the puppet tribe bodies, Fiore had changed into a fresh set of white-and-red shrine maiden outfit. He had already looked very cute in this outfit before. Now, after Ye Chui’s accidental complete transformation into a girl, wearing it naturally made him even cuter. When Green and the others heard from Debbie about what Ye Chui had done, Green looked at Ye Chui incredulously. “President, I didn’t expect you to be this kind of person!”
“Piss off. Believe it or not, I’ll turn you into one too,” Ye Chui snapped irritably.
He walked to the pile of puppet tribe remains and began activating the remaining Eternal Heart power within him to revive these puppet bodies. Reviving the puppet tribe with the Eternal Heart was much easier. The power left in him was sufficient to restore all one hundred plus puppets. At the same time, he could perform some minor modifications.
About an hour later, Ye Chui, panting heavily, returned from Divine Guardian Armour mode. The flame effects on Jarvis had disappeared. The power he had drawn from the Eternal Heart was completely exhausted.
Before him, over a hundred, precisely one hundred and thirteen, puppet warriors had all been resurrected. Since these puppet warriors no longer used their original names, Ye Chui had specially assigned numbers to each for easy identification.
Number One was the puppet elder.
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These puppet warriors curiously examined their brand-new bodies.
“Huh? What’s wrong with my back?” one puppet said in surprise. A pair of strange wings extended from his back with clicking sounds. With a bang, flames spurted from beneath the wings. The next moment, the puppet shot into the sky, flying around chaotically while screaming “Ahhh!”
“Flight? We can fly now? How do I do it?” another puppet asked curiously, twisting his body to see his back. But with clicking sounds, his arm transformed into a long sword. “My arm turned into a sword!?”
“Can my arm turn into a sword too?” another puppet shouted in surprise, looking at his own arm. This time, however, his arm became a cannon barrel. “Boom!” Flames erupted from the barrel, directly covering a nearby puppet in fire.
That puppet yelled loudly.
“Wait, I feel like I can use magic now,” another puppet exclaimed. Magic runes appeared on his palms. Then a mass of cyan liquid materialised in mid-air. The puppet was delighted and said to his burning companion, “I’ll save you right now.”
The liquid splashed onto the burning companion. Ye Chui saw this and hurriedly shouted to stop it, but it was too late. “Wait, that’s not water. It’s alcohol for banquets…”
Boom!
The burning puppet immediately burned even more fiercely.
The puppet warriors had all received certain modifications from Ye Chui to varying degrees. Most of these so-called modifications involved fusing Flying Demon vehicles that Ye Chui had redeemed into their bodies to enhance their power. Under the Eternal Heart’s power, achieving this was effortless. Of course, it had also cost Ye Chui over ten thousand points to redeem various magical creations for the modifications.
But Ye Chui felt it was worth it. Although these puppet warriors had been utterly crushed by the ghost-faced puppets earlier, that was mainly due to attribute restraint. Their own strength was still very powerful. If they followed his commands, Ye Chui would undoubtedly gain a formidable army. While modifying them, he had also quietly set a safeguard mechanism in their bodies. He could instantly paralyse all their functions to prevent them from opposing him in the future.
However, it seemed the puppet tribe would need time to master their new abilities. For a while, the scene was chaotic and utterly disorderly.
At this point, the female puppet, the puppet elder’s daughter, approached Ye Chui. She was Puppet Number Two. She seemed very curious about the new abilities Ye Chui had given her. After examining herself for a long time without discovering any new power, she asked curiously, “Mr Ye Chui, why can’t I activate my new ability?”
“Hehe, Number Two, I knew you’d ask me. Your ability is the most important one,” Ye Chui said with a profound expression.
“Really?” Number Two immediately showed a delighted look. The others and the puppets also looked over curiously. Number Two continued, “Then what exactly is my ability?”
Ye Chui chuckled. He reached out to a tiny protrusion on the female puppet’s right arm and gently pressed it. Immediately, upbeat music began playing!
As the music started, all the puppets suddenly lost control. As if in a flash mob popular in Ye Chui’s previous world, they quickly stood together and began dancing to the rhythm.
Several puppets even involuntarily burst out fireworks from their bodies, blooming in the air.
The upbeat music was a lively song called “YMCA”. It was a cheerful tune featured in many films and shows. Though the song itself was a gay anthem, its essence was joyful and catchy. It was the kind of song that made people want to move their bodies the moment they heard it.
Of course, the music coming from the female puppet was purely the tune, not Ye Chui’s BGM. But the other puppets had been programmed by Ye Chui to involuntarily start dancing upon hearing this song. The atmosphere at the scene instantly became indescribably lively.
Debbie, Green, and the others all watched in stunned silence!
At that moment, Bart leaned close to Evans and whispered, “Little brother, have you noticed? Everyone who gets involved with Ye Chui or the Random Magic Guild ends up becoming abnormal.”
“Big brother, you’re right. The two of us aren’t exactly normal anymore either,” Evans nodded in deep agreement.
