“Rise!” Jianxin let out a crisp shout as green light surged wildly around her, her fist winds cutting like blades.
“Argh!” Golden light and green luminescence clashed across the open clearing of Taoyuan Village.
“Stillness!” Jianxin barked again, her fist speed abruptly accelerating.
“Argh!” You Luoming’s eyes widened as Jianxin struck his chest with a palm, sending him staggering back several steps.
Before he could even exhale the stale air trapped in his chest, her next attack was already closing in.
“Clarity!” “Argh!” Formless green Qi was guided by Jianxin, circulating steadily around her body as the immense energy within teetered on the verge of erupting.
“Intent and Qi endure!” “Wait, wait, wait!
Don’t use your ultimate!
I surrender!” Recognizing that Jianxin was preparing to unleash her Resonance Liberation, You Luoming dropped to his knees right on the spot and threw up his hands, staring intently at the Tacet Mark on the back of his right hand in complete disbelief.
Having acquired the Rover’s combat techniques and Resonance ability, he had clearly felt a comprehensive boost across the board—in stamina, vision, and reaction speed.
Yet unarmed, he couldn’t even beat Jianxin in a hand-to-hand spar.
Did he pull a fake five-star character or something?
Seeing You Luoming’s existential crisis, Jianxin reined in her aura and smiled faintly.
“In our spar just now, I felt that the Resonance ability you awakened is indeed extraordinary, Young Hero.
Even I had to go all out.” Listening to her words, You Luoming looked up with a clear, inquisitive gaze, showing a genuine eagerness to learn.
Jianxin shook her head slightly.
“When I unleash my full power, my fist speed is so fast that an ordinary person’s naked eye cannot even track it.
Yet you were able to clearly perceive it and react.” “Unfortunately, your strength and speed fall far short.
You could barely manage to block, but couldn’t fully parry.” “If you had sufficient strength and speed, I might no longer be a match for you.” At this point, even Jianxin couldn’t help drawing a sharp breath.
She had spent over a decade bitterly cultivating Fengyiquan and could confidently claim to be among the strongest Resonators in all of Jinzhou.
Yet You Luoming was just an ordinary person who had newly awakened his Resonance ability, yet he had gained such a massive boost—and possessed potential far exceeding her own.
It truly was enough to make anyone envious.
“Still, congratulations, Young Hero.
As a newly risen Resonator, the ability you awakened is not only powerful, but also remarkably stable, with almost no risk of losing control.” “Thank you for the guidance.” You Luoming forced a bitter smile and slowly stood up, staring at the back of his right hand in deep thought.
So he lacked strength and speed…
but how was that possible?
He had clearly awakened the Rover’s combat techniques and Resonance ability.
He closed his eyes briefly, and with a thought, called up the game interface.
Sure enough, a new “Resonators” module had been added to the center of the display.
Now there were six modules on the panel: Convene, Quests, Mail, Exploration, Inventory, and Resonators.
Without hesitation, You Luoming tapped “Resonators,” and the stats belonging to the “Rover” appeared before him.
HP: 10,631 ATK: 446 DEF: 1,276 Energy Regen: 100% Crit.
Rate: 5% Crit.
DMG: 150% Looking at these atrociously low stats, You Luoming swallowed hard, a faint realization dawning on him.
He decisively checked the other options under the character stats.
Level: Max Level.
Weapon: None.
Echoes: None.
Resonator Chain: 0 Chains.
At least his skill tree was fully maxed out.
“Case closed!” Without stat bonuses from weapons and Echoes, of course he couldn’t beat Jianxin.
But if he pulled weapons, farmed Echoes, and built up to a fully min-maxed end-game setup, his power would reach the true level of the Rover!
For a moment, You Luoming felt a mix of absurdity and grim logic.
Before transmigrating, when he played *Wuthering Waves*, he had to farm Echoes every day to boost stats.
Now that he had transmigrated into the world of *Wuthering Waves*, he *still* had to farm Echoes to boost stats!
Wait…
if that was the case— If he later pulled limited banner characters—like top-tier main DPS units like Jinhsi, Camellya, or Carlotta—and built them up to god-tier stats, wouldn’t his power end up even higher than the Rover’s?!
At this thought, You Luoming’s eyes lit up.
This plan had serious legs!
“If the roster powercreeps, so do I!
Character stats work on me!
If they get nerfed, I don’t care, we’re not the same, I swear!” “Little Daoist, over here!” A shout snapped You Luoming out of his thoughts.
He turned to see a Taoyuan Village resident waving at Jianxin.
Seeing this, Jianxin cupped her hands to You Luoming and apologized politely: “This little Daoist must take her leave for now.
Young Hero, feel free to explore your Resonance ability on your own.
If you have any questions, you can find me anytime.” “Sure thing.” As Jianxin’s figure receded into the distance, You Luoming strolled through Taoyuan Village, pondering where he should go to farm Echoes.
Currently, he possessed the Spectro Rover’s Resonance ability, so the most suitable Echo set was naturally “Eternal Light.” However, that Echo set required traveling outside of Jinzhou to Rinascita.
For now, he could only settle for the second-best option: collecting the “Celestial Light” set.
And that Echo set was easy to farm around Jinzhou.
With a clear direction, You Luoming felt surging determination.
Earlier he was full of anxiety because he was just an ordinary human.
But now, he was a cheater player who could gain the abilities of other powerful figures through Convene!
With that in mind, You Luoming opened the game interface again to inspect the other functions.
He opened Mail.
Empty.
He opened Convene.
Seeing he had 10 pulls left, he tossed them directly into the standard weapon banner, pulling a 4-star purple Sword, “Commando of Conviction,” along with nine 3-star blue weapons of various types.
The good news: all weapons came instantly max-leveled, saving him the trouble of upgrading them!
With a thought, You Luoming opened the Resonators interface and equipped the “Commando of Conviction” onto the Rover.
Although the Sword “Commando of Conviction” was only a 4-star purple weapon, it provided a high ATK stat bonus, making it perfect as a temporary transitional option.
The moment he equipped Commando of Conviction, You Luoming felt surging strength course through his body, and a sword materialized in his hand instantly.
“So that’s how it works…
the character’s ATK stat corresponds directly to my physical strength.
In that case, what kind of enhancements would Crit Rate or Crit DMG bring?” You Luoming murmured softly, quickly setting the question aside.
With a slight pulse of his mind, the Commando of Conviction vanished from his hand, returning to the game interface’s inventory.
“Handy.” You Luoming let out a light chuckle, then tapped the “Exploration” module in the center of the screen.
Currently, the Exploration module had only unlocked the “Sensor” function.
Whenever he wanted, he could use it to sense information about the surrounding world.
In the game, the Sensor was mainly used to find chests and clues, but right now, it was like rendering a 3D model of the surrounding world inside his mind.
Through the Sensor, everything in the world was laid bare in exquisite detail, far clearer than what the naked eye could see.
Deactivating the Sensor, You Luoming clicked the final function on the interface—”Quests.” [Main Quest: “Utterance of Marvels – Part I” unlocked.] [Quest Description: The Tacet Discord’s sound has echoed…
Following its guidance, you will seek your lost past and embark on a brand-new, unknown journey.] [Completion Rewards for Main Quest “Utterance of Marvels – Part I”: Radiant Tide × 20, Lustrous Tide × 10, Astrite × 1,600, Shell Credit × 100,000.] “Main Quest?” You Luoming was stunned for a moment.
His instincts as a professional power-leveler caused him to subconsciously recall the whole sequence of this quest.
In the game *Wuthering Waves*, Yangyang and Chixia find the amnesiac Rover in the Gorges of Spirits, then prepare to bring the Rover back to Jinzhou.
On the way, they encounter Baizhi testing a newly born Tacet Field, defeat a sudden attack by the Waveworn-class Tacet Discord, Crownless, and receive an invitation from the Magistrate of Jinzhou City.
That was the complete plot of the first main quest, “Utterance of Marvels – Part I.” “This quest is unlocked…
Does that mean…” You Luoming’s eyes suddenly glowed, and he clapped his hands together: “Does that mean the main storyline of Wuthering Waves here has progressed to the launch day plot?!”