Chapter 51: The Moment to Witness a Miracle!

Physical constitution: extremely poor.

He was born frail; whether it was static strength or dynamic strength, he lagged far behind ordinary people.

Reaction speed: extremely slow.

This meant that his nervous system was innately sluggish in transmitting signals, making it difficult to produce any explosive force. Even basic coordination was affected, let alone the highest level of reflexes.

Ability to benefit from training: Compared to the previous two, this was the most fatal flaw.

As the saying goes, failure is the mother of success; or as the motivational quotes put it, every setback is a kind of growth, every blow a step toward maturity.

But for Ye Chao’s body, mothers, growth, and maturity were all meaningless concepts.

He ran three kilometers today, three kilometers tomorrow, and three kilometers the day after that. He ran three kilometers every day for a month, yet his results remained unchanged—utterly unimproved.

He worked on strength today, tomorrow, and the next day. He trained his strength every single day for three years, yet he remained as weak as ever.

His body was this peculiar, as if cursed—like the wind passing without a sound, or water flowing without a trace. No matter how much effort he put in, not a single mark was left behind.

With such hopeless innate hardware, what use were things like combat state, stress response, or fighting intuition? Even if he possessed them, what difference would it make?

“A few days ago, I finally found the true direction of my abilities and even leapt from one star to three stars in one go. I thought there was hope, but…” His new ability still had nothing to do with fighting, so Ye Chao gave up once again, in secret.

Staring blankly at the sky, looking utterly defeated, Ye Chao’s dejection even softened the heart of the Calculating Princess.

She had once hoped he could earn money, become a billionaire, and live the life of an Iron Man, Batman, or Carnegie.

With his talent, even if you handed him an Iron Man suit, the best he could do is play the tank—a tank that would be beaten badly and never able to hold the aggro.

Still, the truth was too cruel, so Alpha Princess held her tongue.

At least his favorability score was no longer at the level of disgust; he could even look at her without gagging.

“You say your new ability isn’t suited for combat, but I disagree! You know, the classic cell phone can be used as a brick for self-defense, the Nokia can crack walnuts, the Samsung can serve as a grenade, and the Huawei is bulletproof. Are you aware of these?”

“Are you serious?” For the first time, some light returned to Ye Chao’s eyes.

Well… perhaps it was a bit exaggerated.

“But that’s not the point! The point is, your ability isn’t completely useless in a fight! And compared to others, you have one major advantage when you play Iron Man—do you know what it is?”

“What advantage?”

“You have me! Iron Man is only truly Iron Man with his Jarvis. Otherwise, he’s just a pile of scrap metal.” Alpha Princess gestured wildly, racking her brain to comfort him, even casting herself as Jarvis without a second thought.

And what was wrong with Jarvis?

After all, in the end, he became Vision—the ultimate winner of life, winning the heart of the beautiful Scarlet Witch and making a solid investment for three years.

“So, the biggest problem right now is that the Iron Man suit isn’t so easy to make…” Alpha Princess genuinely considered turning Ye Chao into Iron Man and had even drafted several gigabytes’ worth of plans.

“Iron Man suit?” These past few days with Alpha Princess, Ye Chao had gradually learned about Marvel and the concept of superheroes.

In fact, he already knew a bit; you could hardly avoid it these days. Everyone’s hard drive had a few of those movies, whether they were PG-13 or NC-17…

“Actually, making an Iron Man suit isn’t that hard in theory.”

“What did you say?” Alpha Princess was taken aback, doubting her ears.

Did he think making an Iron Man suit was like a senior project, something one could just slap together?

“Come with me.”

Of course, they weren’t actually moving. Ye Chao didn’t have the energy for that, and the bald supervisor would never allow it.

Alpha Princess, curious, followed him into Ye Chao’s workspace within the imaginary space.

After she had furnished a grand palace for herself, Ye Chao had also set up a workspace over the past few days for his own experiments.

“I’ve discovered the greatest use of the imaginary space.” Standing beside the workbench, holding a tablet, Ye Chao’s eyes sparkled—so different from his lifeless self outside.

“Cut!” The tablet, perfectly intact, was suddenly sliced in two.

The cross-section was so smooth it seemed the word “incomplete” had never existed.

“Paste!” The severed half reappeared a short distance away, forming another tablet.

“Copy!” Tablet. Tablet. Tablet…

“Restore!” Tablet.

“Enlarge!” A liquid crystal monitor.

“Shrink.” A cell phone.

The imaginary space was that powerful; Ye Chao could manipulate objects at will, and most importantly, it cost him almost nothing.

“With this ability, creating an Iron Man suit isn’t hard, is it?”

“That… seems right…” Watching Ye Chao’s not-quite-practiced but clearly effective operations, Alpha Princess simply materialized an Iron Man suit. “But what’s the point?”

In this space, she and Ye Chao were absolute rulers, godlike beings. They could do as they pleased, but so what? It wasn’t real.

“Of course it matters!” Ye Chao grinned. “It’s time to witness a miracle!”

With a wave of his hand, the same tablet was cleaved, split, and abruptly vanished.

Did he think he was a magician? Alpha Princess was about to make a snide remark when she suddenly froze.

Why?

Because…the tablet had appeared in reality!

And it was a real tablet!

This was no ordinary tablet conjured by Alpha Princess in the imaginary space—it was real, bearing the mark of transformation. Now, there it was: two halves, cleanly separated, lying quietly in the real world.

A moment later, the tablet vanished, reclaimed by the imaginary space.

Seconds after that, the two halves were glued back together, and the tablet was whole again—even able to start up and function normally.

Alpha Princess felt dizzy. She just wanted a moment of peace.

So, the imaginary space could actually process marked equipment?

And it was this effortless, this outrageous?

She knew the transformation process was called “phantasmification,” but those items were originally real—they weren’t fabricated out of thin air.

Alpha Princess had previously tried everything—punching, kicking, whatever she could—to influence reality, but to no avail. Who could have guessed the solution was so simple?

“Actually, it’s not so strange. Rapid repair and phantasmal modification can be done at three stars. Turning one weapon into two, three, or even four, and scaling them up or down at will, is a four-star ability…”

As for the imaginary space, legend had it only super experts of seven stars or above could awaken it—so these feats were just basic maneuvers.

What was truly strange was how Ye Chao had awakened the imaginary space to begin with!

It was as if, in today’s novels, the protagonist’s golden finger just wasn’t enough anymore—it had to be a system, something bordering on the absurd.

The Calculating Princess eagerly began experimenting herself.

However…