She has a name, Forgotten Returner. She doesn’t sound like a character bursting with flames in the middle of the battlefield, but like a traveler walking in the wilderness with his back to the world.
She is neither sharp nor hot. Her strength comes from slowness, loneliness, and silent resistance to fate. The 2.7 version of Star Dome Railway is just a time node. Her appearance is not arranged by fate, but more like a whisper after a long silence: “I’m finally ready, continue.”
You have to prepare all the materials for her. Not because you are eager to make her stronger, but because you understand that her willingness to appear by your side is a kind of trust in itself.
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**1｜On the meaning of “breakthrough”**
Her growth is the truth after peeling off layer by layer.
You need to collect:
* 15x Eternal Life Sprout
* 15x Eternal Life Heavenly Flower
* 15x Eternal Life Branch
* 65x Superheated Steel Blade
* 308,000x Credit Points
These names are not just items, but more like things left in her memory. She came out of the crater of a dead volcano, tempered by time, and reshaped by pain.
You need to go through six stages to push her to level 80. Each breakthrough is like a self-dissection. You peel off her defenses and see her true outline. She is not violent, but she is resolute.
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**2｜”Traces” is a hidden heartbeat**
The game calls it “traces”, you can call it “the story she refuses to tell”.
She has many abilities, but none of them is taken for granted. We don’t know what she has been through, we only see the materials she needs:
* 12x Infinite Fake Body’s Remorse
* 69x Spark Essence
* 139x Burning Sky Demon
* 18x Fiery Passion Spirit
* 41x Eternal Life Bud
* 56x Eternal Life Branch
* 58x Eternal Life Heavenly Flower
* 8x Footprints of Destiny
* 3,000,000x Credit Points
You don’t need to remember these numbers, you just need to remember: every time you upgrade her footprints, you are telling her, “You can be a little freer.”
Some people don’t need explanations, just stay with her.
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**3｜Ability is her way of protecting herself**
In this world, some people are born to use reason to build a barrier to protect their inner softness. She is the same.
You improve her attribute bonus and additional abilities not to make her perfect, but to make her less hesitant when facing the real world.
You will see many recurring names, such as the Fiery Spirit, the Sparkling Spirit, and the Burning Demon. All her strength is gained through repetition, practice, and polishing.
And these processes themselves are a kind of quiet proof of existence.
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**4｜”The long road will eventually lead to a return”, this light cone is her own shadow**
She has a special light cone, the name is so gentle that it doesn’t seem like a weapon, but like the last sentence written in a letter that has never been sent: “The long road will eventually lead to a return.”
It is not a light cone, but her shadow, another self outside of her body.
To prepare:
* 4x Fiery Spirit
* 12x Spark Essence
* 15x Burning Sky Demon
* 20x Eternal Life Bud
* 20x Eternal Life Heaven Flower
* 14x Eternal Life Branch
* 38,500x Credit Points
It is a weapon she forged in silence, no explanation is needed, no passion is needed, it just exists, until one day – she no longer needs to be on guard.
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**5｜Finally, about the role of “you”**
You are the one who helps her prepare everything.
You will not interfere with her past, will not question why she is silent, and will not urge her to grow up. You just stand beside her, open the material page again and again, calculate the quantity of each material, recharge on the Treabar, and send the resources to her little by little.
You are saying: “I don’t understand you, but I respect you.”
Not everyone has to rise in a high-profile manner, and not all characters have to exist in a spectacular way. She just wants to find a direction to go back. All you did was to keep the road open for her.
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**If you want, you can treat this as a game**
You can ruthlessly open the list and treat her as one of the items in the resource statistics. You can also turn off the device after collecting all the materials and think quietly – why are you willing to prepare all this for a silent character.
Maybe you are also waiting for someone to return. It’s just that she hasn’t arrived yet.