Some people are destined not to belong to the crowd, nor to the torrent of time. She stands there, the big black tower, like an existence with an ambiguous relationship with the world. She is not a high god, nor a mortal dragged by fate. She is a still life made up of memory fragments, data ashes, and residual dreams. She is an extension of a fictional tower and a kind of echo you hear in the middle of a sleepless night.
She is coming, appearing in a certain version update. Like a mirror image of the old black tower, but she is not a replica, she is the evolved silence, the trance between gentleness and determination. You say she is a five-star character, but I think she is more like an unfinished inner monologue, hidden in the most secret place in your heart, waiting to be awakened.
So you start to prepare. Prepare those mechanical things called materials, as if to use them to fill some unspeakable gaps. Extinguished pronuclei, glimmering pronuclei, and agitated pronuclei… These names are like attempts to name chaotic life, just like you have tried countless times to sort out the past, but in the end you only have rows of numbered boxes.
56 extinguished pronuclei, 71 glimmering pronuclei, and 73 agitated pronuclei. As you count, you feel empty. As you move forward, you feel futile. Her exclusive light cone is called “Towards the Unquestionable Place”, which is so ironic. The closer you want to get, the less you can reach it. Just like those things you thought you had caught, in the end they were just phantoms left by fate.
Her light cone also needs materials to grow. Extinguished pronuclei 20, glimmering pronuclei 20, agitated pronuclei 14, and various sketches and credit points. You are building a weapon for her, but it is also like building a logical system of thinking for her. You say it is a combat configuration, but I think it is a proof of how a person finds a way out in loneliness.
Refrigerated dream box, this name reminds me of a place you once dreamed of but can never wake up again. This material is the most special among her breakthrough materials. You need to collect 65 copies and obtain them from the dream of “Daydream Hotel”. You are like salvaging the breath of a sleeper, and every challenge is an “unrealistic” collision. You are not fighting monsters, but running in a dream, and building a way back for her in the story you have constructed.
Credit points, you need 3.88 million. This means how many missions you have to go through, how many failures, how many times you have to stand at the end of the map, looking at the stars but having nothing to say. You are willing to do these, not because she is strong, but because you think she is worth it. This kind of worth is sometimes like falling in love with someone you don’t really understand when you were young, just because her silence evokes all the unnamed pain in your heart.
Her traces are the most poetic part. 8 footprints of fate, 12 pieces of good glimpses, and 139 exquisite line drawings make up her consciousness. You defeated “Flying Shadow” from the “Battlefield of Heart Beasts”. That is the self that you cannot face in your heart, and it is the enemy she needs to defeat. The closer you get to the truth, the colder you feel. It turns out that becoming her also means going through yourself.
Her abilities – “hungry landscape”, “letters from outside the horizon”, “indifferent honesty” – these words are too much like the cracks and blind spots in a person’s heart. You use materials to support her growth, but in the end you find that you are actually repairing yourself.
Advancing the trail requires various drawings: messy sketches, dynamic line drawings, and exquisite line drawings. These materials are like letters you wrote late at night but never sent out, a bunch of silent words, waiting to be heard by someone. Her growth path is not a straight line, but a circle of self-approach around the core problem. You ask: “Who is she?” You ask: “Is she worth it?” You ask: “Why do I have to complete this period of cultivation?” But there is no answer to the question, and the answer is just the beginning of another question.
The path to obtain the material is clearly written: phantom, simulated calyx, ember store. But you know, this is not the point. The point is whether you are really willing to invest this time and emotion in her, and whether you see some possibility of yourself in every breakthrough of her.
You know she is not an upgraded version of the Black Tower, she is an independent fragment of consciousness, a cry against “repetition”. She is not a tool, she is an image. She symbolizes a kind of unyielding tranquility, a kind of loneliness that sees through but is still gentle.
The name of the Big Black Tower hides the silence of an entire city. She is not a noisy character, she will not shine in your strongest lineup, but she will leave an echo that cannot be ignored in the softest part of your heart. She stands on the top of the tower, not for conquest, nor for glory, she just wants you to see – outside of a game world, there is a kind of emotion that can be unnamed but really exists.
You have finished reading this development guide. But her story has just begun.