Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

15. Father Jacques

Lu Mingfei felt something was not right.

The main problem was not that he couldn't understand the explanation of the evil alchemist Prelati, but quite the opposite - Lu Mingfei felt a little incredible that he actually understood it.

During a similar long lecture on culture, Leonardo Da Vinci often knocked on Lu Mingfei's brain, saying that he dozed off and fell asleep again while listening.

But this time it was also a new occult knowledge point, but he surprisingly understood the principle of the 'evil dragon phenomenon'.

I always feel like something is not quite right.

But I can’t tell clearly.

As for the origin of Janet's identity and why she was also rejected by the villagers, Prelati's explanation was quite simple.

"Because she also looks very similar to Joan of Arc. After the once highly praised saint became a witch, isn't it normal that people who have some relationship with her will be ostracized and persecuted?"

The explanation is very simple, it seems as if it has not been said.

"She was discovered by Gilles and me when we were hunting down churches and noble strongholds where Joan of Arc might be imprisoned, and then we brought her back and gave her a child to be raised by Jacques and Isabella - rather, if it weren't for the fact that she had grown up with Joan of Arc, So much like that, we won’t bring her back.”

Lu Mingfei: "."

It seemed reasonable at first, but Lu Mingfei just felt something was wrong - why did a similar or fake Joan of Arc appear a month after Joan of Arc died?

I don't know, I thought it was mass produced.

Even if Lu Mingfei continued to ask Janet's questions, he was fooled by Prelatti, who clearly didn't want to say anything.

Then Prelatti put it aside and continued to seduce Lu Mingfei. It didn't seem to be called 'temptation'. Lu Mingfei always felt that if he lay down and took a nap, this guy would definitely divide three times and five times by two. Strengthen yourself.

Although Prelatti was indeed cute, Lu firmly chose to refuse.

Seeing that Lu Mingfei could not be 'strong', Prelati urged him to quickly defeat the Jealousy Witch and free Dongremi from the nightmare.

Lu Mingfei glanced at the patients lying on the bed in the ward. They didn't know if they could even get a complete body together, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet.

Prelati said that although this place is a nightmare fantasy, as the evil dragon phenomenon becomes more and more serious, no one knows what the consequences will be if the dragon curse continues to expand.

Although Lu Mingfei didn't believe Prelati, under the current situation, he had to at least see the jealous witch with his own eyes before making a judgment, right?

Lu now feels that he is super brave, not only with the heroic soldiers who are against magic EX, but also with fourteen times of summoning little devils to cheat!

There is nothing to be afraid of anymore, let’s start taking action!

Lu Mingfei temporarily reached a cooperation with Demon King Prelaty and accepted the commission of "Crunting the Jealous Witch". As part of the deposit, Prelaty gave Lu Mingfei a set of hunter equipment used by the church to fight against monsters. .

The Warcraft leather jacket looks very stylish and cool. The only problem is that this set of equipment was originally for women, so Lu Mingfei had some patches on it when he put it on, making it look a bit loose.

Weapons are also chosen by Sui Lu Mingfei in the workshop. Prelati said that the equipment here are all alchemy weapons. At the same time, they have been blessed and baptized by the church. Mithril bullets and blades have been soaked in 'holy blood (wine)'. Can cause powerful real damage to vampires.

Lu Mingfei was too lazy to complain about the so-called dragon transformation curse that sounded more and more like a vampire.

Perhaps, just like Joan of Arc is the 'evil dragon' born in a hundred years of war, there is some unique connection between vampires and evil dragons in mysticism, right?

Lu Mingfei always felt that if he pressed the question, Prelatti would accuse him of being ignorant and incompetent, and then start a new round of annoying cultural lessons, so he didn't ask in detail.

In terms of weapons, Lu Mingfei saw a lot of gadgets that could be called black technology in this era.

For example, there are alchemical weapons that can transform from meat saws into battle axes, and there are also things that look like long sticks, but the top can rotate and cut enemies like a chainsaw. I don’t know what to call them.

There's even something similar to Gatling.

According to Prelati, these are the anti-personnel weapons developed by the Holy Church in this era specifically for the Dead Apostles.

Dead Apostle? Vampire? Dragon disease? Dragon?

The exclusive nouns that kept popping out of Prelati's mouth made Lu Mingfei, a layman, confused.

"Temple Church, master the core technology!"

Lu Mingfei sighed, then picked a large shotgun and a long knife that looked a bit like a samurai sword.

In the end, he didn't choose any of the bells and whistles.

But before setting off, Prelati helped him clear a pit - maybe it should be said that it was Lu Mingfei's luck, right? When Lu Mingfei asked Janet about the effect of the command spell, Prelaty scratched her head in confusion.

"Command Seal? What is that? You mean the one on Janet's chest? That's just a sign of a contract with you as an angel."

Lu Mingfei: "."

If you think about it carefully, the Command Seal and the Heroic Spirit Summoning System in Fuyuki City were both developed by the Matou (Makiri) family of the demon god Barbatos' lineage. The Matou family officially participated in the development of this system, which is the Renaissance. period - that is, 1500 years later, nearly a hundred years ago.

It is indeed impossible for Prelati in 1431 to conjure such a thing out of thin air.

But when it comes to command spells, Lu Mingfei still has three in hand - he replenished them as soon as he returned to Chaldea after the battle with Fuyuki - although he couldn't contact his servant Chu Zihang, But Lu Mingfei vaguely felt that in addition to using this command spell to replenish his magic power, it might also be able to force Chu Zihang over.

However, there are no more supplementary methods now, so we can’t use them in a hurry.

Prelati continued to urge Lu Mingfei to leave.

Lu Mingfei ignored this guy who rubbed his hands like flies from time to time. No matter how she showed off her beauty with her beautiful skin, Lu Mingfei ignored her.

Lu Mingfei planned to get familiar with the newly acquired weapons, and take a look around Prelati's clinic to see if there were any other strange things, such as a hidden evil laboratory.

Lu Mingfei was still worried about Prelatti.

But no matter how much he searched and wandered around, and touched everywhere, he still couldn't find anything suspicious. Lu Mingfei looked at the [Lucky A+] on his data page. If the data was not wrong, it would be Is there really no problem here in Prelati?

However, Prelaty saw that she could not seduce Lu Mingfei, so she began to treat him with Janet. Prelaty said that Janet was almost exactly the same as Joan of Arc when she was a child. Rounding it off, she could be considered a saint, or something. Aren't you interested in being certified by an angel?

"She's still a child!"

Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded when he looked at the old witch Prelati who looked like a madam.

Then without saying a word, he beat the scumbag woman again.

Lu Mingfei tried all kinds of tricks, but couldn't find any clues to prove that there was something wrong with Prelati. In desperation, he decided to set off to meet the jealous witch.

As a result, the cute little Janet ran out jumping up and down at this time. She was holding an unfinished rose wreath in her hand. She came close to Lu Mingfei and asked him to lower his head. Then the little girl took the wreath. He gestured to Lu Mingfei's head.

"What is this?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"It's a thank you gift. Isabella's mother said that when you receive help, you should give a gift in return. Ah Fu, you saved me, so I will give you a gift in return."

Then, Janet reluctantly put down the unfinished garland and placed it on the table next to her.

Then Janet patted her cheek, looking like she was cheering herself up.

"Okay! I'm ready too, let's go! I'll give it to Ah Fu when I finish it when I come back tomorrow!"

"Who said they would take you there?" Lu Mingfei didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Looking at the various red spots on the girl's hands that were pricked by the thorns of the rose vines, Lu Mingfei felt a little distressed for some reason. He didn't know why. Seeing this situation, he suddenly thought of his aunt's house when he was a child, and her aunt asked him to clean it up. There were fragments of plates on the floor, leaving a sad scene of himself pricking his hand.

The dinner plate was obviously broken by Lu Mingze (not the little devil), but he was blamed for it.

"Where I'm going is in danger for you."

"No, she's going too."

Before Lu Mingfei finished speaking, he was interrupted by Prelatti.

"Without Janet who looks exactly like Jeanne, the Jealousy Witch won't show up, besides."

Prelati said in a teasing tone.

"You are so worried about me, is it really okay to leave her alone with me?"

Lu Mingfei was speechless.

This atmosphere somehow feels like a family of three whose parents have a bad relationship.

Sighing, Lu Mingfei told his cute master: "When the time comes, follow me closely. Don't get lost, don't run around, and hide behind me."

Janet nodded seriously: "I will come back alive to help Ah Fu make gifts!"

"Bah, bah, bah! Unlucky!" Lu Mingfei scratched Janet's nose, "Why did you come back alive? Don't say such unlucky things! This is called setting a flag!"

Janet tilted her head: "Flag? Flag? Does Afu want me to make a flag of the Knights?"

"Uh, let's just treat it like this." Because he was too lazy to explain what Flag was, Lu Mingfei dealt with it vaguely.

Lu Mingfei took a final inventory of the equipment in his hand.

Shotguns, mithril bullets, mithril knives, wound medicine, exorcism crosses, alchemical incendiary bottles - hey, don't mention it, Prelati has quite a few things.

Before leaving, Prelati also gave Lu Mingfei a box, saying that it might be useful then.

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Lu Mingfei took Janet and followed a black cat towards the place where the Jealousy Witch was.

This black cat was Prelati's familiar. While leading the way, Prelati kept talking and chatting through it. Unfortunately, Lu Mingfei was not interested and kept speeding up. He soon reached his destination. land.

A cemetery located in the center of the village of Donremi.

Janet grabbed Lu Mingfei's clothes in fear and hid behind him. Lu Mingfei touched the girl's long, almost white, light blond hair while comforting her.

Lu Mingfei suddenly realized something: "Is Joan of Arc's body buried here?"

The black cat shook his head, and Prelati's voice came from his mouth:

"Those British people and the church who were busy solving the evil dragon phenomenon were not kind enough to leave the corpse. They burned Joan several times, and the internal organs that were too wet to burn were burned to ashes, and all the ashes were scattered into the river. "

"This" Lu Mingfei hesitated, "Have they reached this point? Why and how do they do it?"

"In order to prevent the 'sacred relics' she left behind from being worshiped as saints and used as weapons to attack the authority of the church, after all, they have established many 'true saints' themselves, but there is a saying that it is Joan of Arc. The heart was secretly kept and became a collection. Maybe it will become a precious material in the hands of a certain magician. After all, it is the heart of an evil dragon born in a hundred years of war."

Lu Mingfei didn't know what to say.

Maybe this is human nature.

".Here we come." Prelati said suddenly.

The atmosphere in the cemetery changed. The temperature suddenly dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Lu Mingfei's breath turned into white mist.

--Then

Click, click, click

Lu Mingfei suddenly heard a strange sound. It sounded like someone was digging a grave with a shovel in the cemetery, and then the shovel kept colliding with the tombstone.

Soon, Lu Mingfei saw a figure in the cemetery shrouded in thick fog.

It was a tall man. The man was tall, but his body was stooped, his beard was unkempt, and he looked particularly tired.

He was waving the shovel with difficulty, repeatedly digging and filling the grave, as if he was looking for someone buried here.

"Is he a priest? A hunter from the church?" Lu Mingfei asked Prelaty subconsciously.

The reason why Lu Mingfei asked this was because the other party was wearing the same Church hunter's clothing as he was wearing now. According to Prelati's introduction, this was the standard equipment used by the Church's agents in this era to defeat the Dead Apostles. .

Prelaty didn't answer.

But Janet’s hand holding Lu Mingfei’s clothes became stronger.

".It's Jacques," Janet whispered.

"Jacques?" Lu Mingfei thought for a while, "You seem to have mentioned it before. Is this Father Jacques your father?"

"No, Jacques is different from Isabella's mother. He doesn't want me to be his child."

Lu Mingfei planned to continue asking some questions, but Prelatti once again manipulated the black cat to sigh.

"Hey, why don't you even know this? You are a poor student even though you have that kind of blood. Why are your grades in culture classes so bad?"

Lu Mingfei was a little speechless: "Is this Father Jacques still a celebrity?"

At this moment, the priest seemed to notice the traces of Lu Mingfei and others. He stopped searching for someone's body in the cemetery that could never be found. He put down the shovel and pulled it out from the ground beside him. A long-handled battle axe.

Lu Mingfei originally planned to say hello to this 'fellow', but he noticed the other person's scarlet eyes and the roar of a beast that was threatening its prey coming out of his mouth.

Obviously, this Father Jacques has also been infected with the Dragon Transformation Disease.

"Jacques of Donremi, he is the tax collector of Donremi and a warrior who protects the village. He was originally a mediocre man, but because of his daughter's special status, he was granted the power to fight against monsters by the Holy King and became a A hunter of the church.”

The daughter has a special status.

In the cemetery of nightmares, I search in vain for the body of someone who does not exist here.

In this way, even Lu Mingfei knew the identity of the other party.

"Jacques D'Arc, he is the father of Joan of Arc."

The spiritual energy in Lu Mingfei's body made him prepare to punch, but looking at the opponent still maintaining a partial human form, looking at the sadness on Janet's face, and thinking about the opponent's tragic identity, Lu Mingfei's fist was always a little raised. Can't get up.

Maybe it was hypocrisy, maybe it was hypocrisy, maybe it was to avoid something, Lu Mingfei pulled out his sword this time.

The Heroic Spirit's Iron Fist Holy Judge will destroy the opponent's body. At least using a sword, you can try to leave him with a whole body, right?

Thanks to the powerful spiritual foundation of an unknown heroic spirit, Lu Mingfei was able to think about these things even if he was just a heroic spirit soldier.

Father Jacques approached Lu Mingfei step by step.

With every step he took, his body swelled a little, becoming taller and stronger, and losing his human shape more and more. Finally, with his black hair and thin and long claws, he looked more and more like a legendary werewolf.

Sure enough, there is a connection between werewolves, vampires, and dragons in the West in this world, right?

"This is his struggle." Prelati said, "Dragon is evil in Christianity and a symbol of demons and demons, so his soul is resisting the body's dragon transformation, so it becomes such a low-level A beast, but sooner or later he will be unable to hold on and become completely corrupted."

Lu Mingfei didn't know what to say, so he could only raise his long knife and said, "Let me free him. I'll try my best to leave his body intact."

"No, there is no need to do this. After all, I am an acquaintance with him. He is a kind hunter."

Prelati instructed Lu Mingfei:

"Please take out the box I gave you, place it on the ground, and then step back."

Lu Mingfei didn't know what Prelatti had planned, but he still did as she said. After placing the box on the ground, he pulled Janet back and forth.

The black cat familiar was squatting next to the box, watching helplessly as the werewolf-turned-father Jacques walked up to him.

What's incredible is that Father Jacques' eyes were fixed on Lu Mingfei and the girl behind Lu Mingfei, as if he didn't see the black cat at his feet at all.

As for the black cat, when the other party came to him, he used his paws to depress a certain mechanism on the box, and then ran back to Lu Mingfei in a hurry.

After the mechanism was activated, the box was opened, and the sound of music that came out was the acapella of a certain girl.

"What is this?" Lu Mingfei asked the black cat running back.

"I told you, Giles and I are Joan of Arc's partners."

The black cat licked his paw.

"This is when I was taking a break while marching with Joan of Arc, and I heard her humming a song while taking a bath. Don't ask me what it meant, I don't know. It was probably a nursery rhyme or something like that? I recorded it because I thought it was interesting. I'm here. Oh, by the way, I still have a collection of photos of girls. As long as you have sex with me, how about I give them to you?"

"Don't say such things that ruin the scenery at this time." Lu Mingfei sighed. She is obviously a beautiful girl, but why does she have a mouth?

Joan of Arc's humming seemed to have an effect. Father Jacques, who was seriously ill, stopped. He squatted down, listened to his daughter's voice, and carefully touched the box twice with his paws, as if touching something fragile. of treasure.

"Is it useful?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Not sure, let's see the effect. If it doesn't work, try again." Prelatti was also very straightforward, with an attitude of "I've done what I can."

Lu Mingfei also couldn't understand the meaning of Joan of Arc's singing. The translation machine couldn't accurately translate it. Maybe it had no meaning in itself? Or maybe only the girl and her family know?

The emotion contained in the song is gentle and soft, like the wind blowing over the wheat fields in autumn, with the simplicity of a farm girl looking forward to the harvest.

Father Jacques' turbid eyes were fixed on the music box.

——[‘Crazy Qi Erosion’: 1D100=81]——

——[‘Singing Feeling’: 1D100=86]——

——[86\u003e81]——

Muddy tears flowed down.

Lu Mingfei watched the ferocity and struggle on Father Jacques's beast's face several times. Whenever he thought Father Jacques was going to go berserk and destroy the palm-sized music box, the moment the beast's claws touched the music box, it stopped again. .

Even in such a terminally ill state, he seemed to instinctively understand that if he did this, the remaining singing voice of his deceased daughter would disappear.

"Okay." Prelati said, "Give him some relief."

Lu Mingfei was silent and took Janet to the back of Father Jacques. Under the command of the black cat familiar transformed by Prelati, he raised the mithril sword in his hand and pointed it at Father Jacques's hand. heart--

penetrate

Father Jacques' beastly body gradually relaxed and lost his voice after struggling like an electric shock.

He didn't know if it was an illusion or Lu Mingfei's emotion, but he always felt that Father Jacques seemed relieved because of this, as if he was finally free.

"Even though he was cursed, he still persisted in hunting monsters."

Prelaty said suddenly.

"Even after he lost his humanity, he was still doing it. Objectively speaking, this is because he kept hunting and absorbed blood unconsciously, so he was qualified to evolve in a more advanced direction, so rationality remained. Of course. "Compared to such objective things, I prefer to believe that this is his love as a father and the bond between a father and his daughter."

The black cat transformed into a human being in a burst of distortion. Prelati was now wearing a nun's uniform, and her usual madness seemed to have subsided. Lu Mingfei didn't know whether she was pretending or really feeling something.

Prelati held the silver cross with one hand and caressed Father Jacques' beastly head with the other.

“Please give me the courage to accept the things I cannot change, the strength to change the things I can, and the wisdom to distinguish between the two.

Every day is different and every moment is worth remembering. See suffering as the only path to peace. Like you, restore the world as it is without imposing your own ideas on it. I believe you will take care of everything if I follow your wishes.

Then I will live a happy life without any hesitation. And walk with you in the next life.

——Amen. "

←to be continued

It’s okay if we don’t start fighting.