In the world of “Star Dome Railway” full of metal sounds and starlight fragments, people rush back and forth, busy with card drawing, upgrading, breakthrough and fighting. However, sometimes, the appearance of a character seems to make the world pause for a moment. Big Black Tower-her name is not loud, nor is there much legendary color, but from the silhouette in the trailer, she has planted a seed in the depths of people’s hearts with quiet power.
This seed is called “company”. And to make this seed bloom, you need to pay a lot of effort. It is not a slight leap, but a long-term irrigation. The cultivation materials of the Big Black Tower are like those seemingly ordinary but indispensable spring rains.
She needs to extinguish 56 pronuclei, 71 glimmering pronuclei, and 73 moving pronuclei. You have to walk into the fictional “Dream Hotel” for her, repeatedly challenge the stagnant phantom, and collect the 65 refrigerated dream boxes. These dream boxes are the shells of the story, containing her unfinished experiences. You won’t see her become stronger immediately after winning the battle, but please believe that every action is quietly shaping her appearance.
Her exclusive light cone is called “Towards the Unquestionable”. Does it look like a child’s thoughts? The less you ask, the deeper your emotions are. This equipment requires prokaryotic materials, line drawings and 385,000 credit points to reach the maximum level. It is a slow-cooking tea-like investment, just like a person taking several months to sew a piece of clothing for another person.
Her breakthrough is also a long road. From level 20 to level 80, you need to prepare 65 refrigerated dream boxes, 15 of each of the three types of prokaryotic cells, and nearly 300,000 credit points. She doesn’t rush you, she just waits for you. Sometimes you don’t have time, sometimes you are irritable, she still stands quietly in the corner of your character list, not grabbing or making trouble. Only occasionally, when you see her, a gentle sense of responsibility will surge in your heart.
And her path is the trajectory of her soul. From messy sketches to exquisite line drawings, behind every small material is a story. She is not a character who only relies on skills to deal damage, she is someone you need to “understand”. Her attacks, talents, and finishing moves, every improvement is like writing a diary – “Today, I understand her a little more.”
139 exquisite line drawings, 69 dynamic line drawings, 18 messy sketches, 8 footprints of fate, 12 pieces of good fortune, and more than 3 million credit points are required. These seemingly complicated and trivial material configurations are actually like a pen, a scarf, and a fever in a child’s growth process. You can’t measure them with “useful” or “useless”, you can only look back in time and find that everything is necessary.
Her skill names are very special. Not the common “flame impact” or “lightning raid”, but “hungry landscape”, “letter from outside the horizon”, and “indifferent honesty”. These words hide poetry and loneliness. She is not as flamboyant as other characters. She just stands there, waiting for you to approach slowly.
You have to defeat “Flying Shadow” to get a piece of Jiguang, and brush the simulated calyx to get the sketch. All of this is not easy, but it is not despairing. It is this “not easy” that makes people willing to cherish. You won’t pull her to the full overnight, but you will get closer to her little by little in many days and nights.
In the world of “Honkai: Star Dome Railway”, you actually have thousands of reasons to ignore her. But you don’t. You are willing to collect materials and exchange embers for everything she needs in the store. Not for the improvement of combat power, but because in a corner of your heart, you hope that this girl who doesn’t talk often and is not good at expressing herself can also have her own power.
She never forces you to cultivate her, just like many people who appear in our lives, and never ask us to respond to their kindness. But if you are willing to invest slowly, she will repay you in her own way. It’s not the high damage, it’s not the brilliant light, but the sentence she whispered in the team: “Thank you.”
This “thank you” will not appear on the screen, but you can feel it. You will see her figure in the morning of a certain game, and hear her voice in a certain battle. At that moment, you will understand: this companionship is worth it.
She is a slow time left in the fast-paced game world, and a proof that you have devoted your heart to a trivial character.
I hope that in the process of cultivating the Big Black Tower, you can also regain the warmth and patience that have been abandoned in the corner. Because her growth is not to become powerful, but to tell you: In this seemingly cold interstellar world, there is another person who will no longer be alone because of your efforts.