The Gamer who traveled to Honkai: Star Rail

"This is too inefficient," Pei Guang finally said. "Okay, I'll set you up with mining machines that speed things up—don't worry, they won't ruin your progress. They'll just boost efficiency."

Pei Guang's words reassured March 7th, who continued managing her growing empire, excited to see what the upgraded machines could do.

While they were talking, fifty cube-shaped mining machines, each the size of a star, appeared in March 7th's control system. Looking at the names of the machines, March 7th instinctively read them out loud.

"Star-Eaters? These are mining machines?"

Pei Guang nodded. "Yep, highly efficient mining machines. Each one can quickly harvest resources from an entire star system. Just take a look at any system—if you like it, keep it. If not, mine it dry."

March 7th hesitated. "Doesn't that feel… kind of inhumane?"

Pei Guang thought for a moment. "You've got a point. Alright, I'll add a few support units for you. Here, these are called Colossi, and I've equipped them with Global Pacifiers. While mining, you can activate the Global Pacifiers to protect the planets. This way, any lifeforms on them will be safe. Look at it this way—weak planets can be shielded, and you won't even have to worry about invasions from the antimatter legion."

March 7th reviewed the data Pei Guang sent over. After reading through the details about the Global Pacifiers, she nodded in approval. "Alright, let's go with this setup!"

Even though it was just a simulated universe, the high level of realism made March 7th hesitant to go all out. On the other hand, Stelle had fully embraced the simulation and was already deep in character.

Unlike March 7th, Stelle wasn't much of a builder, so Pei Guang had started her off with three hundred 100k fleets to roam the universe, fight enemies, and flex her power.

Now, though, Stelle's fleet was in ruins. "Ah Guang! I need more units!"

Pei Guang replied, "Ask March for some."

Stelle protested, "March's production lines aren't ready yet. I can't use her forces for now."

Pei Guang raised an eyebrow. "I gave you three hundred 100k fleets, and you lost all of them?"

Stelle nodded without shame. "Yeah! The antimatter legions charged at me with a Lord Ravager and wiped out a tenth of my fleet in one go. Then three of them attacked together, and poof—my fleets were gone. Ah Guang, hurry up and give me some invincible ships! I'm going to wreck them!"

She was fuming. Just moments ago, she had been having the time of her life—cruising around with her fleets, forming alliances, bullying isolated antimatter groups, and even protecting weaker civilizations.

Whenever she was in a good mood, she'd randomly toss a few thousand resources onto some underdeveloped planets like she was their god of fortune.

Wasteful? Not at all. March 7th's production efficiency was ridiculously high, so there was no shortage of supplies.

But then, she triggered hostile status with the antimatter legion. Surrounded, her fleet was completely wiped out. She wasn't about to let that slide.

In reality, Stelle might have accepted the loss, but this was a simulation universe—and with Pei Guang here acting like a walking cheat engine, there was no reason for her to hold back.

The only reason she hadn't been kicked out of the simulation yet was because Pei Guang had buffed her stats so much that she could withstand devastating hits. Otherwise, she wouldn't have had time to even ask for reinforcements.

Pei Guang listened to her complaints and laughed. "Hold on a sec. I saw a bunch of cool stuff in the console earlier. I'll tweak some mods and get you new fleets."

He started browsing the options again and found even better gear. Pei Guang quickly edited a new mod, customized the units, and deployed them to Stelle's command.

This time, instead of ordinary fleets, he gave Stelle ten advanced fleets equipped with new mods.

But that wasn't all—Pei Guang followed up by adding fifty more fleets, this time modeled after the Xianzhou Alliance.

These weren't just ordinary ships. Each fleet was equivalent to a complete Xianzhou Alliance, not limited to the usual six ships but expanded to nine.

Stelle's eyes lit up as she saw the reinforcements arrive. With a grin, she clenched her fists and declared, "I'll make those antimatter bastards regret ever messing with me!"

Meanwhile, each of the ships was equipped with a special weapon Pei Guang had unexpectedly discovered—the Imaginary Graviton Cannon.

Cooldown: 0.1 seconds

Hit Rate: 100%

Tracking Damage

Armor Penetration

Shield Penetration

Imaginary Energy Attack

Imaginary Observation Matrix:

Capable of scanning and detecting up to sixty star systems.

Imaginary Hypercomputing Chip:

Attack Speed: +100%

Range: +100%

Quantum Shield:

Blocks 99% of imaginary energy attacks.

Aside from these, Pei Guang also found a variety of ships and equipment labeled with prefixes like "Imaginary" and "Quantum," so absurdly powerful that he couldn't help but applaud. But as he always said, since they were here to test and play, they might as well have fun. Stelle had already been bullied—there was no way he was going to let that slide.

With her new fleet equipped and ready, Stelle cheerfully set off to get her revenge

So, Pei Guang enjoyed tinkering with his bug armies, March 7th happily focused on resource management and colony expansion and Stelle ran wild across the simulation in endless battles.

They were having the time of their lives. Outside the simulation, however, Herta and the others were losing their minds.

What had they just witnessed? After capturing the Aeon of Propagation Tayzzyronth, Pei Guang immediately weaponized it, using its endless spawn of bugs to occupy planet after planet. That alone was shocking enough, but Herta tried to rationalize it—perhaps the Propagation path had simply been absorbed by Pei Guang.

But then, they saw what he handed to March 7th.

Planet-killing ships? And not just any ships—these were star-destroying dreadnoughts! And what were those other ships? How did they have weapons capable of wiping out entire star systems in one shot, with no cooldowns?

The most terrifying part was the strange shielding technology. It rendered their fleets completely impervious to Destruction Path attacks. No, not entirely impervious—attacks registered but were neutralized by a bizarre force.

And this energy? It didn't belong to any known Path. It felt like it came from outside the universe itself…

Even that could be overlooked, but within forty years of simulated time, Pei Guang, Stelle, and March 7th had built an empire spanning over ten thousand star systems, using the Herta Space Station as their starting point.

If it were just a massive empire, fine. But this empire's loyalty levels were off the charts. Every single unit was absolutely obedient to Pei Guang, Stelle, and March 7th. Even more unsettling, despite its seemingly totalitarian structure, every single planet under their control reported sky-high happiness levels.