Nolan and Vita spent one or two hours searching in the "Sea of Quanta" and discovered several world bubbles.

However, Vita’s affection toward him was still at level 3, and it would take another hour or two to reach level 4.

Since the time was about up, Nolan made plans with Vita to search for world bubbles together again next time, then returned to the Wonderland Space.

By now, Seele and Natasha had already gotten along quite well with everyone.

In the following days, Nolan naturally stayed on Jarilo-VI, going on dates with Bronya, Seele, and Natasha while also finding opportunities to continue raising the affection of other girls.

His main targets were Pela and Serval. Once he maxed out their affection, all the girls he knew on Jarilo-VI with golden potential would have reached maximum affection.

Nolan was very enthusiastic about this kind of thing, so he found various excuses to get closer to them.

This wasn’t particularly difficult, especially since he had helped Belobog a great deal and had a good reputation, combined with the fact that both of them already had a favorable impression of him.

Using reasons such as wanting to understand the power of Pathstriders or exchange and learn skill-related knowledge, he approached Pela and Serval, both of whom responded enthusiastically.

Thus, Nolan gradually began raising their affection. During one visit to see Pela, he encountered her close friend Lynx.

She was also Serval and Gepard’s younger sister, and unexpectedly, she too had golden affection potential. Naturally, Nolan included her in his plans as well.

Since Lynx was Pela’s close friend and Serval’s younger sister, Nolan had plenty of opportunities to interact with her. As time passed, the affection of all three girls steadily increased.

After about half a month, Nolan finally maxed out the affection of Serval, Pela, and Lynx.

The main reason it took longer was that Serval and Lynx didn’t start with particularly high affection, so the early stages required more careful planning. Otherwise, it would seem too deliberate and risk revealing his intentions.

After maxing out their affection, Nolan also successfully obtained their corresponding affection skills.

First was Serval’s music-related affection skill:

[Lightning Flash Rock: Activates background music, randomly playing songs composed by Serval. Different songs grant different buffs to allied units who hear the music, with no limit on the number of affected targets. At the same time, ignores "the sum of both parties’ levels" percent of the enemy’s defense and all types of resistance.] 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

This was an area-wide buff ability that also weakened enemies, making it extremely effective in combat.

Combined with similar debuff-type affection skills he had obtained from other girls before, he could easily reduce a target’s defense and resistance to negative values.

Even Aeons were no exception. Essentially, whenever Nolan fought any target, they would have no defense in front of him, and even a casual attack would deal true damage.

Next was Pela’s affection skill:

[Innocent Friendship: Forms "Friendship Contracts" with up to "the sum of both parties’ levels" individuals, allowing them to share certain abilities (customizable, up to three). While cultivating shared abilities, both parties gain improvements, and receive a "the sum of both parties’ levels" percent increase in cultivation speed.]

Pela’s affection skill was also extremely powerful. It allowed Nolan to share his abilities with the girls, while also gaining access to their abilities in return.

In this way, while strengthening them, he could also acquire a wider range of skills.

For example, he could directly borrow Mona’s profound hydromancy. With his own immense power applied to divination, he might even be able to locate Earth itself.

Whether it would actually work or not would have to be tested first.

Finally, Nolan looked at Lynx’s affection skill:

[Polar Exploration: When traveling to places that can be called "polar regions," "danger zones," or "forbidden lands," all environmental hazards and negative effects are reversed into beneficial buffs. Additionally, any rewards obtained during exploration are enhanced. Items below gold quality have their quantity multiplied by "the sum of both parties’ levels," while gold-quality and above items have their effects increased by "the sum of both parties’ levels" percent.]

Turning environmental dangers and negative effects into positive buffs, while also amplifying rewards gained during exploration, it was clearly an ability perfectly suited for adventuring.

...

Over these past dozen days, aside from finding ways to raise the girls’ affection, Nolan had also been searching for new world bubbles to improve his cultivation progress.

During this time, he traveled together with Vita multiple times and successfully raised her affection toward him to level 8, not far from the maximum.

At the same time, the world bubble he cultivated in the "Sea of Quanta" had grown to over three hundred layers, meaning more than three hundred world bubbles had been fused together. Its spatial size had now surpassed that of an average stellar system.

It was roughly the size of five or six solar systems. Even with the guidance of the Sweet Flower Merchant Association, it would still take considerable time to develop to the point where one could freely traverse within a stellar system.

When they eventually reached the limits of what a world bubble could achieve, Nolan planned to have the Merchant Association open a passage between the "Sea of Quanta" and the "Galaxy," allowing interaction between the two.

After all, the speed at which Nolan could expand world bubbles might not necessarily keep up with the rate of development of those civilizations. Connecting the world bubble with the "Galaxy" would solve that problem.

This would also attract people from the interstellar society of the "Galaxy" to enter the world bubble and cultivate the "Power of Accursed Moon," allowing Nolan to gain more cultivation progress.

After all, it now took over 300 billion Adventure EXP to level up once. Having a large number of people participate would greatly accelerate his leveling speed.

Over these days, he had already advanced from level 220 to level 226, which was quite a decent pace.

The main reason was that, in addition to searching for world bubbles, he had once again asked Asta and the others to help locate areas similar to Stellaron-contaminated zones where large amounts of Adventure EXP could be farmed.

Perhaps because his actions in clearing these contaminated zones were too conspicuous, they attracted the attention of some Aeons.

Aside from the familiar "Destruction" Nanook, whom he had already encountered once, there was also a Aeon who loved excitement and entertainment, the Elation Aeon, Aha.

That fellow secretly possessed a Denizen of Abundance. When Nolan reached its location while clearing, it suddenly enlarged, causing the creature to unleash power comparable to an Aeon.

It tried to use this to toy with Nolan, but Aha hadn’t expected that he had already been discovered. With a single slap, Nolan killed it instantly just like an ordinary Denizen of Abundance, not giving this trickster any chance to amuse himself at his expense.

However, that fellow seemed to find even his own instant defeat amusing, laughing happily, his laughter echoing across the entire "Galaxy."

(End of Chapter)

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