When an enemy affected by [Illusory Dream] attempts to inflict a Damage-over-Time debuff on an ally, the ally reflects that debuff back to the enemy.
This reflection does not consume [Illusory Dream].
“In this game, Damage over Time is abbreviated as DoT.”
“So on the surface, Lingzhou’s E6 basically says…”
“As long as Illusory Dream is on the enemy, they can’t apply DoTs to us?”
“A-Xian! Go find something that can apply DoT and test it!”
A-Xian looked awkward.
“I can’t remember which enemy on the Space Station has DoT.”
“…I don’t think any of them do.”
“We’ll probably have to reach Jarilo-VI.”
“Fine.”
“We’ll leave that for later.”
“Let me calculate Lingzhou’s rotation.”
In front of both streams, Katya dragged open a spreadsheet.
Then she started muttering numbers.
“Lingzhou’s follow-up frequency is high.”
“Let’s lowball it at three triggers per cycle.”
“That’s fifteen Energy.”
“Skill-Basic-Basic rotation costs no net Skill Points and generates two points over three turns.”
“Energy from actions: seventy.”
“Ultimate gives five.”
“Total: 15 + 5 + 70 = 90.”
“Energy Regeneration Rate Rope gives 19.4%.”
“90 × 1.194 ≈ 107.5.”
“He’s missing less than three Energy.”
“In actual combat, if he gets grazed by literally one AoE, he can consistently Ultimate once every three actions.”
“In certain environments, his follow-up frequency will far exceed three per cycle, because both teammates and enemies can help generate debuffs.”
“Basically, with a five-star Energy Rope, there’s no Energy problem.”
“And if he equips a two-piece Sprightly Vonwacq?”
“He gets a guaranteed three-action Ultimate even without being hit.”
“Stable rotation.”
“Plenty of healing.”
“Excellent Skill Point economy.”
“Crowd-control immunity.”
“Damage support.”
“Lingzhou is absurdly comprehensive.”
“Unless the designer made some massive balancing mistake, he was almost certainly a five-star that got downgraded.”
“Then again, you can look at it another way.”
“Genshin has evergreen four-stars like Bennett, Xiangling, and Xingqiu.”
“Star Rail obviously needs its own evergreen four-star too, right?”
“Protecting the baseline experience of non-paying players is extremely important for player retention and acquisition.”
“And in a turn-based game, sustain is a critically important role.”
“So Lingzhou is very clearly a mandatory investment unit designed to secure that baseline.”
A lot of players took Katya’s explanation seriously.
Without realizing it, they added Lingzhou to their internal list of characters they absolutely had to build.
Only a tiny minority were exceptions.
These were usually players who simply didn’t build male characters.
As long as they didn’t jump into other people’s faces and act obnoxious about it, nobody cared how they played.
The majority of players still belonged to the simple camp of—
Build.
Katya struck while the iron was hot.
“Once today’s stream ends, I’m immediately grinding out an early Lingzhou guide.”
“An early guide will be enough for now.”
“A proper guide needs the character at max level.”
“Heroes, don’t worry.”
“I’m buying full Trailblaze Power refreshes every single day.”
“That’s basically everything for Lingzhou’s character analysis.”
“We can finally go back to progressing the story.”
A-Xian interrupted.
“There’s still his four-star Light Cone.”
“It gives Energy.”
“And it also looks ridiculously busted.”
Katya slapped her thigh.
“Oh, right!”
“How did I forget that?”
She opened the wiki’s Light Cone tab and filtered to Abundance.
The first image immediately caught her eye.
Lingzhou’s card.
He was simply too handsome to miss.
The composition was also rather novel.
Only Lingzhou’s upper body was visible.
But from the frame around the edge, one could tell he was inside March 7th’s camera viewfinder.
The Astral Express formed the background.
That completely confirmed that he was a new member of the Express in the launch version.
“Ahhh, I’m dying.”
“My husband is smiling at me!”
“He has me in his heart!”
“You asked me to inspect the Light Cone stats,” Katya said helplessly.
“Why are you generating electricity again?”
Still—
That smile really was nice.
His facial structure was firm and masculine.
Yet the slight curve of his lips carried a trace of lazy casualness that created an appealing contrast.
Unless a girl’s tastes were extremely niche, it was difficult to resist Lingzhou’s face.
Or his smile.
Give the artist a bonus.
The modelers get full marks.
A-Xian:
“I’ll generate electricity if I want!”
“Husband, hurry up and use your huge thick leg to kick me hard in the ass from behind!”
[HEAVEN-DEFYING MASOCHIST WOMAN!]
[…Huge thick leg? I am now deep in thought.]
During chat’s ridicule, Katya suddenly unleashed a profanity so loud it instantly pulled everyone’s attention back.
In an MMO, it would’ve been enough to hard-taunt a raid boss.
“WHAT THE HELL?”
“THIS LIGHT CONE IS FOUR-STAR?!”
“I thought Dance! Dance! Dance! was already the king of four-star Light Cones!”
“Turns out there was an even greater master!”
Level 80/80
Base ATK: 423
Base DEF: 396
The following effect only applies to characters on the Path of Abundance.
Superimposition 1/2/3/4/5
Increases the wearer’s Outgoing Healing by:
12% / 15% / 18% / 21% / 24%
When the wearer’s follow-up attack inflicts a debuff on an enemy, restores Energy to all other allies equal to:
2% / 2.5% / 3% / 3.5% / 4% of their Max Energy
Katya collapsed into her chair.
For a long moment, she couldn’t speak.
As someone who had participated deeply in all three closed betas, how could she possibly fail to understand how terrifying this Light Cone was?
Yes.
It was extremely specialized.
Other than Lingzhou, basically nobody could use it.
Among current Abundance characters, Lingzhou alone possessed follow-up attacks.
And merely having follow-up attacks wasn’t enough.
Those attacks also had to inflict debuffs.
But this was percentage-based Energy restoration.
No matter how large future characters’ Energy costs became, the proportion restored would remain the same.
Assume Superimposition 5.
A character with 100 Max Energy gets 4 Energy per Lingzhou follow-up.
A character with 200 gets 8.
If they relied solely on his follow-ups—
Both required twenty-five triggers to refill from zero.
Obviously, twenty-five follow-ups sounded unrealistic.
But characters had their own Energy generation.
A Basic usually restored 20.
A Skill usually restored 30.
An Ultimate usually restored 5.
Some characters had additional special Energy mechanics.
The true significance of Lingzhou’s Light Cone was that it had a high probability of saving his teammates an entire action that would otherwise be spent generating Energy.
His follow-up frequency was already high.
Five triggers restored twenty percent of everyone’s Energy.
For a 100-Energy character—
That was equivalent to one Basic Attack.
For anyone above 100—
It was already better than a Basic.
Once Katya calmed down enough to explain everything to both livestream audiences—
The chats exploded with shock and praise.
“Terrifying Follow-Up Man.”
“I regret to announce that every content creator who made a pre-launch character guide has officially become a clown.”
“Yes.”
“That includes me.”
“I can declare this directly.”
“The crown of strongest launch four-star belongs to Lingzhou.”
“No contest.”
“As long as you’re willing to invest in him…”
“He’ll give you returns far beyond the cost.”
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