Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

45. I call myself

Should it be said that two flowers bloom, one on each side?

During the eight-hour retreat, in addition to the heroic spirits and mortal legions who were active on the surface, the actions of some people were also going on secretly.

Francesca Prellati

As promised, the evil magician cooperated with Ophelia to try to restore communication with Chaldea when other heroic servants stepped onto the battlefield.

Originally, this was almost impossible to do due to the influence of a certain position of the Mobile Holy Capital that covered almost the entire continent. However, the Witch of Despair brought a turn of events, and the shielding ability of the Holy Capital was greatly weakened.

Simply put, it was impossible to secretly restore communication with Chaldea without being monitored by the Holy King.

Although it is still very difficult.

The main reason is that the Mobile Holy City, this Noble Phantasm, can be said to have almost all its properties except for the 'frontal duel'.

In Qidian's online novel, this Noble Phantasm alone can be used as a plug-in for the protagonist who travels to another world.

However, it's not just the Holy King's side that has cheats, there are also cheats on the Chaldean team.

——The evil eye of procrastination

The most advanced level of causality interference is theoretically enough to allow Ophelia to forcibly prevent the arrival of a doomsday-level crisis as a mortal.

"Rather, if the Witch of Despair hadn't broken the situation, even with this magic eye, it wouldn't have been able to forcibly connect to Chaldea. Why is the Holy King's mobile Holy City so unreasonably strong?"

Regarding Prelati’s complaints, Lu Mingfei, who was commanding the troops to retreat while fighting, said:

"This Mobile Holy City may be a growth-type base Noble Phantasm. It only has a rough shell, but the technology tree inside can be continuously upgraded. The Emperor must have accumulated technology points for a long time."

"Although I don't understand what you are talking about, now I can understand what you want to express, my devil."

Prelati was unexpectedly optimistic, and he also prepared a communication device, a box-shaped alchemical product that looked a bit like a small mobile base station, with a huge tree-like antenna on the top.

"In short, if you can't successfully contact me, then use Miss Ophelia's magic eye to force the connection." Prelati said.

Ophelia had no objection: "The top priority is to get the help of Leonardo da Vinci. If we want to crack the secret of this singularity, we must have her wisdom. But because we don't know why the holy king's treasure is so powerful, so I When using the magic eye to determine 'reality', the coverage will be quite wide and the pressure on me will be great."

Su Xiaoqiang interrupted: "This is the price of missing the pre-plot, right?"

Prelati began to fiddle with the machinery, filling the ruby ​​​​that had been filled with magic power into a groove-like place, and started the alchemy equipment.

If the connection cannot be made smoothly, the only option is to use Ophelia's magic eye to cheat. The price is that Ophelia will fall into a state of exhaustion for a period of time and will no longer be able to use the magic eye to assist in a short period of time.

Prelati manipulated the device, but what she was thinking about was the power of Ophelia's magic eye.

The glow of magic power swayed as if echoing the master's mood.

Will it go well?

——Disagreement · Emergence——

[Prelati is playing with the alchemy equipment and trying to contact Chaldea]

[If it fails, Ophelia can only use the magic eye to forcefully break the situation, but that will have to pay the price of being temporarily unable to use the magic eye, then]

[What is the result of Prelati’s action? 】

【1~6, failed】

[7~9, immediate success! 】

【10. Super expansion of chaos】

【1D10=3】

☆The dividing line of the story☆

--Failed

Chaldea could not be contacted directly.

Although failure was expected, Ophelia looked at Prelati who smiled and put his hand on the back of her head. This guy clearly looked like he didn't try hard at all, and he failed, but he didn't do it at all. Frustration means.

"Are you really trying hard?" Ophelia couldn't help but mutter.

"It's not that our army doesn't work hard, but the Holy King has Gundam." There was no sign of reflection on Prelati's face.

"You and Lu Mingfei learned some strange vocabulary."

Miss Magic Eye User could only sigh. Well, sigh.

Now that we have come to this point, it is impossible to turn around and express surrender to the Holy King, and then ask him to close the firewall and let them build a ladder to contact Chaldea, right?

If you don't plan to surrender to the Holy King, but want to form an alliance with the Holy King, it is necessary to bypass the Holy King's Noble Phantasm and establish communication with Chaldea.

Just do it.

Ophelia took off the eyepatch that was used to cover and seal the gem-level magic eye.

Observe the future.

Anchor, fix—

"Ich will es niemals glnzen sehen (I, will not see its shining glory)!"

The most powerful observation-type future-seeing magic eye.

Prelati activated the communication device again, and Ophelia observed the 'successful future' and then fixed it to stabilize various uncertain factors to achieve the desired result.

This is a power that can be called the incomplete Eye of God.

Prelati was smiling, but she was thoughtful in her heart. She seemed to be vaguely aware of how Lu Mingfei made her choose to surrender in the first place.

but.

The truly terrifying thing about this ability is that even if he figured it out afterwards, the outcome had already been decided. Prelatti did not change his mind about surrendering to Lu Mingfei during this journey.

To put it bluntly, Ophelia's magic eye had a flaw that wasn't really a flaw.

She can decide the result she wants, but even she herself doesn't know exactly why this result is achieved.

Lu Mingfei used this power to make Prelaty surrender to him, and achieved the result of the other party obeying him, but he did not know the details of how Prelaty came to this conclusion.

Prelati has her own little calculation. She is looking forward to something, some kind of pleasure.

Ophelia's efforts were of course successful - after all, this was her ability.

The key lies in the price Ophelia paid to achieve this goal, which is the 'backlash' that feeds back to her own soul level after using the magic eye to distort cause and effect.

——[Ophelia suffered the backlash of the evil eye.]——

——[Severity: 1D70+30=43+30=73]——

Blood overflowed from Ophelia's right eye socket. Saber Dion, who was responsible for protecting her, immediately stepped forward to help her. However, he still could not stop the girl from violently coughing up blood. Even the right half of her face appeared to be broken. Glassy cracks.

——The magic eye is not a flaw.

When carrying out this kind of interference, because it was not clear "how much things must be twisted to reach the target", a large-scale distortion had to be carried out. Therefore, Ophelia herself did not know the coverage of this distortion before taking action.

Fortunately, Ophelia is not a pampered princess, and the magic potion for healing and alleviating injuries has long been prepared. What's more, she is not an ordinary person now. In order to obtain a foundation that can support the full use of this magic eye, she is Using his own body as a container, he performed a 'spirit' on the original witch.

Prelaty looked at Ophelia's tragic situation, and was not shaken at all. She just thought thoughtfully: "Even if you have obtained Lamia, you will have to pay this level of effort if you want to interfere with the Emperor's Noble Phantasm. What’s the price?”

Although Ofelia's right eye was not damaged, her body's self-protection mechanism still caused both of her eyes to enter a state of pseudo-blindness.

The actions of 'seeing' and 'observing' are enough to pose a life threat to the original witch.

However, because of this ability, it was impossible for Ofelia not to consider the condition of blindness. Dion immediately wiped the girl's blood and took out a magic gift in the shape of a metal eyepatch that could seal vision and amplify other senses. , put on Ophelia's eyes.

Let’s not mention when it will be restored.

The real focus now is that Chaldea's communications have been restored.

The Chaldean headquarters, which had been offline for a long time, finally came back online. Roman's voice of joy had just left his mouth - and then he was stunned by the current situation of the French singularity projected on the big screen.

"Oh my God!"

Roman's mouth was full of Chinese with perfect accent.

"What the hell? Is this France in 1431? Not a set like Resident Evil or Warhammer Star Wars?"

It was too late to even think about "Why is Ophelia here?" After a brief exchange and confirmation that Lu Mingfei, Su Xiaoqiang and Lucy were all fine, Dafen, who was full of curiosity, At Qi's urging, the command, which had been waiting for a long time, began to conduct data analysis.

With Chaldea's logistical support, especially after being able to use the super computing power of the Laplace Computer Demon, Kadoc successfully parsed many secrets into results, and then handed them over to Su Enxi to analyze and organize into documents and sent them to In front of everyone.

But compared to those, it was Leonardo da Vinci and Roman. After learning Prelatti's name - Francesca Prelatti through self-introduction, the acting commander and his assistant cut off communication in unison. , then looked at each other, with a surprised and uncertain tone, and said in unison:

""This is not the legendary infamous one.""

Neither of them said anything.

Others may not know it, but Leonardo da Vinci is famous for being well-informed, and Roman also has his own special channels, so he naturally knows about some extremely dangerous monsters hidden deep in the human mind.

Prelati is such an existence.

In the world of ordinary people, he is a funny clown and an evil alchemist who deceives noble lords.

In the world of magicians, she is notorious, a madman who completely ignores the rules of hiding and mystery and spreads disasters everywhere.

Such a super villain who can even be said to be a legend, and whose existence is not even clear, should logically be an enemy even if he appears on the scene, right?

What did Lu Mingfei go through to get her to join here?

Moreover, this singularity has a strong religious atmosphere (mainly Christianity). There are some bad rumors about this Prelati. Although they are just rumors, it is said that he has a very complicated relationship with the Phoenician gods, and even There is a saying that he is the 'Prime Minister of Hell (Beelzebub)'.

Although it is just a rumor, it is not certain whether it is true or a misinformation from later generations, but this is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous person, and he is not a good person no matter what kind of rumors he is.

For Roman and Da Vinci, who had just come into contact with the information about the French Singularity, in their view, Lu Mingfei and others' actions of abandoning the Holy King and instead cooperating with the Demon King were outrageous.

"Can you lend me the information on the Heroic Spirit Summoning Technique? Although I have never encountered a being that can truly 'kill' me, I am very curious——"

However, Prelati didn't seem to care at all about how suspicious she was, and she made no secret of her curiosity and desire for Chaldean technology.

She smiled and narrowed her eyes. After leaving Lu Mingfei's side, her usual carelessness and frivolity disappeared without a trace, replaced by morbid rage.

"Oh, don't worry. Even though I'm talking nonsense, from a standpoint we are really on the same side! I won't lie to you either - I just want to try to summon 'myself'."

As we all know, the heroic spirit summoning system cannot summon the living.

But as we all know, in the long history of time and the world, there are always many special beings who can become regular exceptions and find loopholes.

The atmosphere was a bit stiff.

At this time, the person who stood up to speak for Prelati was actually Chu Zihang.

He had just been flipping through information about Prelati and closed the copy of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" he was holding as a reference.

This book, written in 1665, records the story of an angel who ruined a major event because of delicious food, even cursed Christ, and eventually fell into hell.

"Cooperate with her. She wants to try to regain her status as an 'angel' through this method." Chu Zihang pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, perhaps because he felt that he looked more knowledgeable. , analyzed expressionlessly.

Prelaty just smiled casually: "I don't remember that I insulted Christ as an angel - oh, people mean, I don't remember when I became an angel."

Roman frowned. The more he looked at this guy who always called Lu Mingfei "my devil," the more displeased he became. However, Da Vinci handed over the information smoothly.

Da Vinci also looked very interested: "I also want to know what will happen if I summon myself. Oh, don't worry, what I gave you is the original version, not our Chaldean Heroic Spirit Summoning Technique."

Roman: "."

In this case, it's hard for Roman to say anything. I hope these crazy researchers don't get away with it.

Prelati's incident was a minor episode. Among the support provided by the Chaldean Command, the most important thing was that when the Heroic Spirits and the Holy King Army worked together to fight against the dragons, Kadok and Su Enxi finally The analysis report on Emperor Karl was taken out.

The truth of Emperor Karl's Noble Phantasm - [Mobile Holy Capital] was finally revealed in front of everyone.

This Noble Phantasm is not a physical Noble Phantasm. The city walls, floating fortresses, sentry guns, robots, and even the equipment of the Holy King Army that can be seen so far are obviously not in line with the technology and alchemy of this era. Mix and match, heavy firepower equipment that looks very steampunk——

All of these are not the [Mobile Holy City], but the by-products of the [Mobile Holy City].

This Noble Phantasm is not a physical Noble Phantasm, but a Noble Phantasm that has been sublimated from a concept. As the father of Europe, Charles the Great was not the founder of the Frankish Empire that quickly fell apart, but because of his unification of Roman Catholicism and other actions, which allowed He formed the basis of the 'European Middle Ages' that followed his death.

European civilization, even the civilization after the Middle Ages and the Age of Discovery, is based on an extension from the Middle Ages.

The Great Emperor created a foundation, and thousands of years later, countless types of civilizations and cultures were born.

The Noble Phantasm that was sublimated from this concept is the Mobile Holy City. The initial form of this Noble Phantasm should be something like a base vehicle in a strategy game such as "Red Alert". It has a huge energy furnace and is equipped with the original self-disciplined production and construction workshop.

The construction workshop can automatically build more production lines, and in addition to some of the black technologies related to Christianity that are produced - after all, religion has always mastered core technologies - other things produced rely on the designs of designers.

In other words, the city walls, fortresses, robots, etc. that followed were all created by the Emperor after he captured and controlled a large number of magicians and asked them to cooperate with the church to continuously design, manufacture and improve them.

In layman's terms, it means climbing the technology tree.

Even computers and computer AI (mysterious version) that functioned similarly to computers of later generations were designed by him and then manufactured and implemented in the production workshops of the Mobile Holy City.

In addition, the emperor himself has a skill called [Ceremonial Reform A]. The effect of this skill is that as long as he exists, it can greatly accelerate the development of the culture around him.

Lu Mingfei's previous complaints were actually correct. Because of the Noble Phantasm of [Mobile Holy Capital], Emperor Carl meant that every time he appeared in the world, it was like starting a new real-time strategy game.

Relatively speaking, although the Emperor himself can be regarded as a first-class heroic spirit, he basically does not have the support of frontal combat type Noble Phantasms and skills. Everything about him is not designed around 'war', but around 'civilization'. It was designed because in the face of the coming disaster, it is inevitable to focus on the development of war-related military technology.

How can I say that if Emperor Carl is drawn in a normal Holy Grail War, I really don’t know whether to cry or laugh, because a normal Holy Grail War only lasts seven days, and there is no time for the Emperor to farm, and the Magicians Association and the Holy Church cannot let the Emperor’s exaggerations go. The noble phantom is so grandiose and large-scale construction.

Two more things.

First, Charlemagne already knew this, that is, as the de facto spiritual leader, the Emperor alone shouldered fifteen million for the entire territory of France - to be precise, it was the burden of all those who were willing to follow him. The erosion and impact of 'despair'.

But this is not the only thing the Emperor really does.

One more thing is strange.

That is the Great Wall that suddenly rises from the ground - it is not impossible for the mobile Holy City to do this kind of thing, but no matter how it is produced and constructed, there must be a basic method. The energy furnace core of the Holy City itself is equivalent to the level of the four Holy Grails, but after all It's not the real Holy Grail, it's just an energy furnace, and the process of building it cannot be made disappear.

In other words, it is impossible for a continent-sized city wall to suddenly appear out of thin air.

But he did.

How?

the answer is--

"He summoned himself."

Da Vinci couldn't help but marvel.

This statement sounds very Riddler-esque, but the actual content is even scarier.

The Emperor made use of the concept that he was the father of Europe and the founder of the Middle Ages, and coupled with the fact that although 1431 came to the end, it was still the Middle Ages, he conceptually defined himself as the 'Middle Ages' era itself.

Then, he summoned his own ‘Proof of Existence’ on the Heroic Soul Seat.

"Generally speaking, most of the heroic spirits are just records on the Throne of Heroes, and their appearances in the world are just clones or reincarnations. But Emperor Carl. In order to create a great wall that can protect everyone, he placed himself on the Throne of Heroes." The proof of existence was assumed to be the 'Middle Ages', and after being summoned, it turned into a city wall to protect everyone."

Let’s just talk about the results.

Normally, even if a heroic spirit dies, it will just return to the Throne of Heroes. Now that the human mind is burned, there is a high probability that it can be summoned again with the memory of the last time. But the current emperor is different.

".If he fails, if he can't hold on anymore and reaches his limit, then he will completely disappear and no one can call him again, because...he is here to 'save everyone' ', burning his own 'existence' as firewood!"

←to be continued!

"I am my father, and I should protect everything." - Emperor Karl

By the way, this is really not a whitewash. After all, this is the kind of person he is. It’s just that Lu Mingfei didn’t join the Holy King route, so he didn’t know many things before.