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Chapter 216: Asta Feels Like Her Brain Capacity Isn’t Enough · Oct 08, 2026

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201 Chapter 201: Yae Miko: ’Oh No… The Fire’s Burning Me Now!’ 2026-10-08
202 Chapter 202: Yae Miko Shifts the Blame 2026-10-08
203 Chapter 203: Let Ei Learn to Cook, and Have Yae Miko Be the Taste Tester 2026-10-08
204 Chapter 204: Making Little Kokomi Call Him ’Master’ 2026-10-08
205 Chapter 205: A Yae Who Doesn’t Want to Die, and a Ningguang Who’s Talking Big? 2026-10-08
206 Chapter 206: Raiden Makoto Gets a Little Jealous 2026-10-08
207 Chapter 207: Preparing to Give Ningguang Some Guidance 2026-10-08
208 Chapter 208: Asta’s Guarded Vigilance 2026-10-08
209 Chapter 209: Asta’s Anger Gradually Turns into Awkwardness 2026-10-08
210 Chapter 210: Ningguang Is Stunned by Asta’s Extravagance 2026-10-08
211 Chapter 211: Herta Completely in Su Ran’s Grip 2026-10-08
212 Chapter 212: Herta: ’You’re Not a Fictionologist, Are You?’ 2026-10-08
213 Chapter 213: Raiden Makoto Is Frightened by an Aeon 2026-10-08
214 Chapter 214: Ningguang: ’Could Asta Be Herta’s Anti-Fan?’ 2026-10-08
215 Chapter 215: Did Asta Catch Feelings? 2026-10-08
216 Chapter 216: Asta Feels Like Her Brain Capacity Isn’t Enough 2026-10-08
217 Chapter 217: The Melancholy Herta Immediately Perks Up 2026-10-08
218 Chapter 218: Herta: ’Your Sugar Mommy Is Broke, But You Still Have Me!’ 2026-10-08
219 Chapter 219: Herta: I Really Am a Genius! 2026-10-08
220 Chapter 220: When Ruan Mei Gets Thoroughly Cornered by Herta 2026-10-08
221 Chapter 221: Ruan Mei: Helpless, Speechless, and Anxious 2026-10-08
222 Chapter 222: Ruan · Mei Nearly Lost an Arm 2026-10-08
223 Chapter 223: Shattering Ruan · Mei’s Understanding 2026-10-08
224 Chapter 224: Herta: ’I Don’t Want to Become Madam Niu!’ 2026-10-08
225 Chapter 225: Herta and Ruan Mei Learn to Meow Like Cats 2026-10-08
226 Chapter 226: Raiden Makoto: ’I Don’t Understand, But I’m Deeply Shocked!’ 2026-10-08
227 Chapter 227: Ruan Mei’s Disappointment, Promise, and Final Request 2026-10-08
228 Chapter 228: Yelan: ’There’s an Old Liyue Saying—Those Who Know the Times Are Heroes!’ 2026-10-08
229 Chapter 229: Keqing Wants to Take Her Place 2026-10-08
230 Chapter 230: Jade Arrives at the Space Station 2026-10-08
231 Chapter 231: Jade Is Terrified by the Propagation Emanator 2026-10-08
232 Chapter 232: Herta: ’I Haven’t Even Gotten on the Ride Yet!’ 2026-10-08
233 Chapter 233: Jade Ends Up Slapping Her Own Face 2026-10-08
234 Chapter 234: Even Herta Finds This Absurd 2026-10-08
235 Chapter 235: Asta Gets Bullied 2026-10-08
236 Chapter 236: Raiden Makoto Tries to Stay Tough, Then Immediately Backs Down 2026-10-08
237 Chapter 237: Jade: ’It’s Just Me Here.’ 2026-10-08
238 Chapter 238: Topaz: ’Isn’t This Attack Range a Bit Too Long?!’ 2026-10-08
239 Chapter 239: Jade: ’I’ll Be Relying on Lady Topaz from Now On.’ 2026-10-08
240 Chapter 240: Keqing: ’I Just Want to Make Progress!’ 2026-10-08
241 Chapter 241: Keqing Plans to Resign from Her Position as the Yuheng Star 2026-10-08
242 Chapter 242: Zhongli: I Just Skipped Work and Got Rehired? 2026-10-08
243 Chapter 243: Keqing: ’Zhongli, Can’t You Be a Bit More Ambitious?’ 2026-10-08
244 Chapter 244: Keqing: Exasperated at Hu Tao for Failing to Live Up to Expectations 2026-10-08
245 Chapter 245: Dottore Becomes an Experimental Subject 2026-10-08
246 Chapter 246: Nahida Has Been Captured 2026-10-08
247 Chapter 247: Nahida’s Shock 2026-10-08
248 Chapter 248: Ningguang: ’The God of Wisdom Has No Wisdom’ 2026-10-08
249 Chapter 249: Raiden Makoto: ’You’re Turning the Order of Heaven Upside Down!’ 2026-10-08
250 Chapter 250: Hu Tao and Keqing, Afraid of Herta’s Retaliation 2026-10-08

Chapter 216: Chapter 216: Asta Feels Like Her Brain Capacity Isn’t Enough

”Oh, right! Mr. Su Ran— you requested another batch of materials for space station construction. Are you planning to expand your own station again?”

Thinking about how Jade would soon be arriving with a shipment of materials, Asta couldn’t help but ask what Su Ran was planning this time.

It wasn’t that she lacked money—

But constantly supplying materials like this was starting to stretch her limits.

Asta was wealthy, but not wealthy enough to casually purchase a full batch of space-station-grade materials every single month.

It wasn’t that she couldn’t afford it—

The problem was that all these materials were Herta’s personal requests, which meant Asta had to pay out of her own pocket.

Thankfully, there was no requirement for her to participate in construction itself, otherwise labor costs alone would’ve been another astronomical expense.

She could afford to buy a planet-destroying battleship, sure—

But she couldn’t sustain monthly bulk purchases of massive construction materials.

On the surface, it looked like Su Ran was spending Herta’s money.

In reality?

He was burning through Asta’s allowance.

Without realizing it, she had become Su Ran’s sugar mommy.

Sure, as a top-tier CP sponsor, spending money to support her ship was perfectly normal—

But this was asking for way too much.

If this kept up, she’d be forced to return home and inherit the family business.

Otherwise, she simply wouldn’t be able to keep up.

”Oh, no. I’m not expanding my space station,” Su Ran replied.

”I’m planning to build a Stargate.”

”...But don’t you already have that teleportation device?”

”Wouldn’t this be redundant?”

Asta didn’t understand why he’d do something so seemingly pointless.

A Stargate—no matter how useful

Couldn’t even transport a star.

More importantly, building a Stargate required an entire space station’s worth of materials.

Yet Su Ran could build his teleportation device using scraps found inside a space station.

The cost-performance difference was absurd.

From her perspective, this was pure waste.

Asta couldn’t stand this kind of extravagant spending—

Especially when it was her money being wasted.

And after seeing Su Ran casually build better devices by scavenging trash—

She felt even more like a complete sucker.

”No, no. The teleportation device is private,” Su Ran explained.

”I don’t plan to open it to the public. Right now, only Herta and I can use it.”

”If I started distributing access rights, I’d be the one losing out.”

Even though Su Ran wasn’t a ruler or a merchant, he understood one thing very clearly—

Advanced technology should always stay in your own hands.

That level of tech was absolutely not something outsiders should use.

Herta was the sole exception, because she had helped him immensely—and he trusted her.

But others?

No.

Even Asta.

Not because she was untrustworthy, but because behind her stood the Interastral Peace Corporation.

Giving her access wouldn’t be a gift—

It would be a poisoned chalice.

The IPC would stop at nothing to squeeze information out of her.

Asta simply couldn’t withstand that kind of pressure.

”She’s not Herta.”

”The Stargate is lower-tier technology,” Su Ran continued.

”I can allow broader access. As long as they pay, they can use it.”

Asta understood the words—

But not the logic.

”Then why does inferior technology cost more?”

Shouldn’t advanced technology be more expensive?

Why was Su Ran doing everything in reverse?

Was he taking advantage of her lack of technical knowledge?

”Because Stargates are larger,” Su Ran said matter-of-factly.

”So they consume more materials. What’s wrong with that?”

He looked genuinely confused by her question.

Wasn’t this basic common sense?

”....”

That completely natural response made Asta even more speechless.

At this moment, she suddenly felt that Lady Herta was incredibly normal.

Because who on earth judged the cost of technology by physical size?

Bigger = more expensive?

Smaller = cheaper?

The technological gap between Stargates and teleportation devices was astronomical.

If the IPC had the chance, they’d happily pay billions of Stargates’ worth of money just to acquire Su Ran’s teleportation device.

That gap wasn’t thousands of times—

It was incalculable.

Transporting stars alone was a technology that had never existed in the universe.

It was something people only speculated about.

No one believed it could be achieved in this era.

Yet someone had done it.

And the device itself was smaller than many supercomputers.

”Mr. Su Ran... may I ask you something?”

”Does your ability to invent... have no ceiling?”

Asta seriously suspected that Su Ran’s technological level was tens of millions of years ahead of the current universe.

That was the only explanation for why his understanding of technology was so fundamentally different from everyone else’s.

”Probably,” Su Ran nodded.

”I feel like even a miniature universe is doable—if I have enough time.”

He openly agreed with her suspicion.

He didn’t even know where his upper limit was.

If he ever got his hands on a living Aeon, mass production might not even be out of the question.

”I understand now!”

Asta took a deep breath.

She was unusually calm.

Maybe it was resignation.

Maybe acceptance.

But she finally understood how terrifying the man before her truly was.

He seemed more approachable than Lady Herta—

Yet in reality, he was far more distant from ordinary beings.

Is this what a genius among geniuses looks like?

Even after hearing the story of Cecilia, Asta had never felt someone so absurd.

This felt like witnessing in real life.

Geniuses shattered expectations with miracles.

deus ex machinaSu Ran shattered worldviews with divine intervention.

No wonder Lady Herta openly admitted inferiority.

”But Stargates would need to be deployed across the entire universe, wouldn’t they?”

”I can’t possibly fund that. Even the IPC couldn’t.”

How many civilizations existed in the universe?

No one could count them.

And Stargates couldn’t be few in number.

The universe was vast.

Sentient beings were minuscule.

Even traveling one-billionth of the distance between stars was an impossible journey for most species.

To be practical, Stargates would have to be everywhere—

To the point where even the IPC couldn’t afford the construction cost.

For a moment, Asta even thought—

If Su Ran truly connected the universe through Stargates, he’d become the next Aeon of Trailblaze.

But was that even possible?

Even with the technology, who could pay the cost?

”No need to worry,” Su Ran said calmly.

”One Stargate’s worth of materials is enough.”

”Do you know the law of conservation of energy?”

”I do... but when you say it, I suddenly don’t feel like I do anymore.”

If there was anyone capable of breaking the law of conservation of energy—

Asta would nominate Su Ran without hesitation.

He’d been breaking common sense nonstop.

”Then you understand equivalent exchange, right?”

”That, I understand.”

”Good.”

”If there exists a machine capable of performing equivalent exchange, then by investing a fixed cost, I can convert it into whatever I need.”

Asta could only sigh at his naivety.

”But such a machine doesn’t exist.”

The theory aligned with conservation laws

But reality didn’t.

”How do you know it can’t be built if you don’t try?”

Su Ran smiled mysteriously.

”....”

Asta:

I truly cannot understand why the universe allows someone like Mr. Su Ran to exist.

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