That is not even remotely the same concept! Fifty percent may not seem like much, but it is actually quite terrifying.
After all, Yun Ruoxi dared not even imagine what a fifty percent increase for a strong individual or a two hundred percent increase for a weak one would look like.
If this ability existed in the world and were exposed, just imagine how many people would fight over her spots for power enhancement.
If there truly were another star energy user in existence with this ability besides herself, a war spanning dozens of star systems would likely be inevitable.
“By the way, can the effects of this power enhancement be canceled?”
Yun Ruoxi curiously tested it and discovered that it truly was possible.
This power enhancement, as one of her royal authority abilities, worked like an invisible buff rather than a direct, permanent change to one’s bloodline.
Much like her own telekinesis bloodline, even after the enhancement, her bloodline remained A-Rank, while only the supernatural power itself was elevated to S-Rank.
Therefore, canceling the enhancement had no side effects; the person would only feel weaker when they used their power again.
Furthermore, there was only a range restriction during the initial casting: she had to have physical contact with the target.
To cancel the enhancement, she only needed to retract it with a thought.
While this was a method to control others, it also meant her plan to bestow the final enhancement spot upon the untalented Aili had fallen through.
Thinking of this, Yun Ruoxi suddenly remembered something else and narrowed her eyes.
“What a pity…”
Yun Ruoxi shook her head, preparing to test her other abilities, when she suddenly realized a problem.
In the original main storyline, Lin Zhen had a sudden burst of power at the critical moment. Was that due to the popularity system? So, did the “me” in the original story also possess the royal bloodline?
“Wait, is the only difference between me in the original story and the current me this power enhancement effect?”
The more Yun Ruoxi thought about it, the more plausible it seemed.
In the original story, she extracted all the metal from the meteorite to stop Xia Guang, allowing Lin Zhen in the spaceship to complete his warp jump.
The ultimate high point was undoubtedly Lin Zhen, the protagonist, having a breakout moment when facing Xia Guang, managing to withstand a planetary-level attack.
“That has to be it. Good grief, Lin Zhen, you leech, you even managed to take something from me before you left.”
Yun Ruoxi thought with a bitter smile.
The “her” without the system certainly could not have awakened her royal bloodline perfectly like she had now, so she likely used the power belonging to her royal bloodline in a moment of desperation while facing mortal danger.
She had bestowed a buff onto Lin Zhen without even knowing the truth, let alone how to control the authority or retract the enhancement from him.
“This means that in season two of the original story, Lin Zhen actually left with the enhancement effect still on him? My changes to the plot might be a bit too massive.”
Yun Ruoxi did not feel uneasy about this, nor did she feel the need to find an opportunity to apply the enhancement to Lin Zhen.
What is a protagonist? Someone with constant opportunities and heaven-defying luck is the true protagonist.
She believed that even without her enhancement, Lin Zhen would likely find other opportunities to make up for the loss.
Thus, as for this enhancement effect, she would wait until they reunited to give it to her dear little sister.
Everyone is just a supporting character, so they certainly have to look out for each other!
Once she had clarified the key points, Yun Ruoxi asked the system if she could hide her royal bloodline.
Upon learning that it only cost 100,000 popularity points to hide it so effectively that even an Overlord or scientific instrument could not scan it, she let out a sigh of relief.
It was only 100,000 popularity points; that was nothing!
The influence of her final curtain call, which she had plotted for 3 years, was still fermenting, and she was gaining popularity points almost every single moment.
As for her actual second supernatural power, her second life—World As Another Me—she did not directly add the popularity points to her panel.
Instead, she waited until she accumulated 500,000 to invest it all at once, just to make the calculations easier.
After deducting 100,000 popularity points, Yun Ruoxi excitedly began to test World As Another Me.
An S-Rank supernatural power was incredibly rare throughout the entire Star Sea. As long as they did not suffer an accident and fall, almost every user would grow into a titan who dominated the Star Sea.
And now, she had an S-Rank power too.
Wonderful, truly wonderful!
“Go forth, World As Another Me!”
Yun Ruoxi thrust her hand forward and activated the power in her mind.
…There was no reaction.
She tried it a few more times with persistence before confirming that this power could only be used in reality.
The consciousness of World As Another Me was solely her own, so it was impossible for another version of her to appear in the system space as a conscious state.
Moreover, World As Another Me started out as an ordinary person—a blank slate with nothing.
Whether it was awakening or getting stronger, it required her to put in the effort.
“So I have to start from scratch; it really is another ‘me’.”
Yun Ruoxi shook her head.
It seemed that World As Another Me was useless in the short term.
Furthermore, she did not intend to release this version of herself under the nose of the Saints’ hand society, but rather to place it in the Negative Universe.
Therefore, World As Another Me could only be utilized after she regained trust and was able to leave the Negative Universe.
But if that was the case, she did not have much time left to develop World As Another Me before the start of season two.
She would probably have to use the system to cheat once the time came just to join the main plot of season two.
“Perhaps then I can use World As Another Me to create a new persona in the show to harvest popularity, since I certainly won’t have the chance to appear in the first few episodes.”
After roughly planning the future developments, Yun Ruoxi began to prepare to spend a large amount of popularity points for exchanges.
Her recent series of operations—awakening, masking the activity, and hiding her bloodline—cost a total of 320,000 popularity points. She now had 3,460,000 points remaining.
“First, I am already a second-level star power user, so Second-Level Star Energy Control, Second-Level Brain Domain Computation, and Second-Level Physiological Breakthrough must be arranged.”
“Brain domain computation and physiological breakthrough can help me resist mind control, but to truly defend against these insidious means, I must upgrade my advanced neural isolation to ultimate neural isolation.”
Yun Ruoxi had long since drafted a plan for her current expenditure, and she upgraded to ultimate neural isolation without hesitation.
The cost was 1,200,000 popularity points, three times that of the advanced version.
But to prevent herself from becoming one of those characters in the spin-offs, this expense was undoubtedly worth it.
From now on, it would be difficult for anyone to use mind control or psychological manipulation against her.
Then there were the three skills: Second-Level Star Energy Control, Brain Domain Computation, and Physiological Breakthrough, which required 200,000, 160,000, and 900,000 popularity points respectively.
“I have exactly 1,000,000 popularity points left. Money really does flow like water!”
Although Yun Ruoxi sighed, she did not soften her hand when spending the points.
With these 1,000,000 points, she exchanged for a skill she had been eyeing for a long time—
[Advanced Energy Conversion: Significantly enhances stomach digestion capability, thereby increasing the efficiency of obtaining energy from food]
[Exchange Cost: 300,000 points]