Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

6. The Devil’s Bizarre Adventure

Subtitle: There are really not many chapters left, the next chapter will be connected

——Speaking of which, have you ever been troubled by one thing?

Is there really a necessary connection between singularity and human incineration?

It can be said that there is.

It can also be said that there is no.

The ratio between yes and no is probably 1:9.

In order to initiate the incineration of human psychology, you don't actually need to create a singularity, and creating a singularity doesn't necessarily require changing history. You only need to throw the Holy Grail at certain historical nodes, which contains huge human magic. Just energy props.

Therefore.

The fact that "history has been changed" actually happened after the "incineration of human nature".

There are other 'prerequisites' for activating 'Human Incineration'.

Let’s not talk about what this ‘prerequisite for initiating the incineration of human nature’ is.

In short, the existence of the singularity itself really has little to do with Goetia. As long as the Holy Grail made of human energy is thrown, all kinds of strange and weird things will naturally be attracted, and history will naturally follow. Be twisted.

That is to say.

The thrown Holy Grail will cause 'space-time distortion' the moment it is thrown.

Then, beings attracted by the distortion of time and space caused by the thrown Holy Grail will use the Holy Grail to 'distort history'.

So, sure enough, the argument was successful,

The "distortion of history" is what happens after the incineration of human psychology, and after the birth of the singularity.

Just as Leonardo da Vinci told Lu Mingfei, it is not necessary to correct history. It is best to be able to correct it. Even if history cannot be corrected, as long as the Holy Grail is recovered, the Demon King is defeated and the occurrence of the Incineration of Humanity is negated. , time and space will still stabilize, and human logic will return to stability - it's just that history has changed.

After all, once history has changed, it is impossible to change it back. The best Chaldea can do is to minimize the scope of the change as much as possible.

So, a problem arises here.

What is the connection between the demon gods and the singularity?

In principle, Goetia hopes that every singularity will be operated by a demon. In the process of this operation - of course, it is not to set up levels specifically for Chaldea to fight monsters and level up. Chaldea's existence is closely related to Chaldea's existence. The restoration of humanity was not part of Goetia's original plan.

Goetia allocates singular points to many demon gods for operation, just to allow the demon gods to 'level up'.

In essence, the demon gods are more like AI. If you want to level up, it is nothing more than constant trial and error, and continuous collection of data in the process of trial and error. Anyway, you can still die in the 'spring'-that is, the Grand Temple of Time. Resurrection.

As for whether the resurrected Demon God is still the original Demon God? Does this matter?

Anyway, neither the Demon God nor the Demon King thought it was important.

There are many large and small singularities. In fact, there are far more than the seven that Chaldea has designated as the 'main line'. The demon gods are basically sent by Goetia to run leveling and collect data.

How did Goetia dispatch the demon gods to the singularity?

There are two situations here.

One is the demon god who will go out and act on his own even without Goetia's order. Typical representatives of this are the book demon Danterian (Dalian) and the stargazing demon Lawrence (Leif).

The other is all the other demon gods. As the current leader of the Crown Time Temple, Goetia can naturally perform 'divination' to a certain extent. The demon gods will be assigned to the ones that are most suitable for them. Go to the singularity site.

What kind of suitable method is it?

Actually, Goetia doesn't know the specific details.

Mainly, he actually doesn't care about this. It doesn't matter if the demon gods die. Anyway, they will be resurrected in their own spring and will inherit all the memories from the last time. He will just report it later. If anyone has not shown his face for a long time, master it. The nine Goetias in the Supreme Lord of the Rings can remotely cause it to self-destruct and then block the spring to resurrect and ask what happened.

Goetia has always been indifferent.

This indifference is an almost 'detached' attitude.

But there will also be some problems with doing this -

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The demon in charge of the North American Singularity—Harpas.

[Harpas’ ‘Spiritual Gender’]

【1. Male】

【2. Female】

【3. Genderless】

【1D3=3】

Very troubled.

The time point of the North American Singularity is 1783 AD, which is the end of the American Revolutionary War. Later, the predecessor of the United States of America was about to become independent from its status as a British colony.

North America is a place that lacks mystery, so no demon is willing to take the initiative to come. In the end, it was assigned to Harpas through divination - but Harpas doubted that this was really the result of 'divination'. Or is it just a very irresponsible way of drawing lots and you were chosen?

Harpas, also translated as 'Hampa', has the exaggerated title of 'Military Demon' among many demon gods. If you insist on saying so, he should be regarded as an existence like 'Armor Demon God'. right.

But because of this, many people have some misunderstandings about Harpas because of the name of this ‘military demon’.

Harpas is a military demon, and his personality is indeed very warlike, but the paradox is that Harpas is not good at initiating wars - more precisely, Harpas is not good at being the offensive party in wars.

He is a military demon, one of the few armored demon gods who is responsible for combat functions. He is also very warlike, but he is not good at attacking.

This contradictory setting even made Harper wonder if his father had typed the wrong word or missed a negative word when he was compiling the source code for himself.

Although Harpas is aggressive, he is not good at being an attacker - to be more precise, he is good at being a 'defender' and 'fighting to protect something'.

In the American Revolutionary War, if you insist on saying that, which side of the U.S. military is considered to be the side that protects its own land? Are the British troops considered colonial invaders?

No, no, of course it can't be calculated that way, but if Harper is forced to choose one of the two, then he will naturally choose the US military side.

It’s impossible to let Hapas go to the Native Americans, the Indians, right?

Although it's not impossible to think about it this way.

But there is still a problem. It is difficult for a demon to act independently. It must have a host and a user. When Harpas first arrived, there was no shadow of Fujimaru Ritsuka, and the Gundam skeleton naturally did not exist.

He had to find a suitable host. Compared to ordinary humans, it was of course better to choose one from a heroic spirit, but it was too difficult to find a heroic spirit among the Indians who could withstand it. Anyway, Harpers didn’t know where to look, so he couldn’t look for the original Indian beliefs, such as ‘soul fire’ or something like that, right?

But it is impossible for Harpers to really go to the US military side, because the US military's victory over the British army is the correct history. Although the change of history has nothing to do with the Demon King, isn't this the position?

Harpers really doesn't understand how this unique point 'fits' with him.

If that doesn't work, just really go find the Indians to cooperate in fighting the US military.

With such thoughts in mind, Harper took a piece of commission, flapped his wings, and as a gray-black dove, flew to the North American Singularity.

Anyway, go check out the situation first. If it doesn't work, you can just be a hands-off shopkeeper yourself.

Although I don't know what I should do, finding the Indians is the next best option. Anyway, the demons are immortal, and they can return to the spring water to resurrect after death, so it doesn't matter if they wander around.

But then again, by this time in 1783, the War of Independence was actually over. The coalition forces led by France that declared war on Britain defeated the British army. The battle was actually over, and all it took was a piece of paper " The Treaty of Paris was signed, and only some sporadic exchanges of fire remained.

Now that we've reached this point, what do you want me as a 'military demon' to do?

Goetia himself didn't even glance at the situation here.

With such a subtle mood, Harpas arrived at the North American Singularity. Although it was basically aimless, as usual, the gray dove flapped its wings, intending to first look for the people who had been thrown out by Goetia in batches. Holy Grail - Find the Holy Grail that fell at this singular point in North America.

But as soon as he arrived, Harpas discovered something was wrong.

The acrid smell of gunpowder smoke in the air almost choked the fat gray-black pigeon.

What the hell?

The real war that was promised has ended long ago, and there are only sporadic exchanges of fire left?

Harper looked at the beacon that almost ignited the entire North American continent with some confusion.

Ah this? I, the devil, haven't even finished causing trouble yet, so why did I end up like this?

Although the Holy Grail can chain-summon some weird things, these things are basically related to 'geography' and 'era background', but what kind of thing can be summoned in North America to cause trouble? Ship girl?

With such a confused mood, the gray pigeon flapped its wings and randomly found a place where the noise of the firefight was the loudest, intending to get closer to see what was going on.

After actually seeing it, Harper's pigeon eyes became even more confused.

On the North American battlefield in 1783, Harpers saw a group of canned mechas fighting in full swing. The firepower of heavy machine guns was so dense that people who didn't know it thought this was a battlefield in World War I.

"Cuckoo???"

No, what does this mean? As a devil, I haven’t done anything yet!

Harpas immediately planned to dial the communication to contact Goetia, but when he wanted to do so, he was shocked to find that the communication was interrupted for some reason.

"I am a devil and not the master of Chaldea——"

A stray bullet flew past, and Harpas felt his eyes go dark, and then he fell downwards.

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But the story isn't over yet.

When Harpas opened his eyes again, what he saw was not the Grand Temple of Time, nor Goetia, nor his fellow book demon Danterian who often visited the Grand Temple of Time, but a picture of an exquisite and beautiful girl. Face.

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Harpas subconsciously wanted to flap his wings and fly to distance himself from the face of the girl in front of him, but he failed. He fluttered twice and did not fly up. Instead, he fell to the ground - to be precise, he fell. On the table.

Harper glanced at the bandages wrapped around his body.

"Gu"

Harper lowered his dove head in despair.

Well, the situation is obvious now. The connection with the Demon King was interrupted for some reason, and he was scratched by a stray bullet when he was unprepared. Without the host spiritual base and the servant of the contract, Harpas is basically equivalent to An ordinary gray dove, the body of the Demon God Pillar was naturally not brought from the temple - without the summons of the servant, the thing could not leave the temple in the first place. This was also set up by 'father' at the beginning. limiter.

Harpas felt that he was very embarrassed. The most embarrassing thing was that he didn't even die. Judging from the situation, it should have fallen and was picked up by the girl in front of him. Then the wound was bandaged and revived.

If this person dies, he can be resurrected at the Temple of Crown Time and report the mutation at the North American Singularity to Goetia. Obviously, the mutation level at the North American Singularity is no longer what a "poor and mysterious" region should have. It is twisted. The rating should be upgraded to A+.

In stark contrast to Harper's loss, there was a beautiful face in front of him - a girl with delicate and dignified features that seemed a little inhuman, and the heartfelt cry of joy.

"Bless me, madam! I didn't expect this little trick of mine to be really useful!"

Harper looked at the girl in front of him speechlessly. The reason he didn't die on the spot due to a stray bullet from the mecha was naturally due to luck, but there were also other reasons - for example, the girl in front of him was a magician. No, sir, judging from his appearance, he must be a mage (a person who uses magic).

Harpas set aside a simple magic array composed of several runes under his body.

The magician would not be happy because he saved a life. At the same time, as a researcher of magic, it was impossible for the magician not to be aware of Harpas' identity.

But the girl in front of her just regarded Harpas as an unlucky guy.

Doesn't look very smart.

Harpas ignored the girl who was dancing with joy. He only felt that he was too embarrassed to even fly. He could only move his lower limbs vigorously, lamely imitating the movements of an ostrich and started running. After a short acceleration, After that, Harper ran to the table and kicked off his legs! Just like that, he flew out——

Aim at the sharp protruding part of the wall.

Instead of being embarrassed like this, I might as well just crash to death!

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Harpas still didn't die. When he opened his eyes again, he saw the distressed unknown girl who was helping him treat his wounds. She was still crying while treating the wounds - in order to prevent Harpas from committing suicide again. , and put a bone 'helmet' on its head.

Not to mention how ridiculous this look is.

Harper, who gave up her heart, could only stay with the girl like this. Perhaps it was because Harper's act of committing suicide made her misunderstand something. From then on, she never let Harper out of her sight, even with the girl. It was the same when the adults - a strange combination of Westerners dressed as priests and nuns, and a few Native American Indians - acted together.

From their exchanges and the girl's soliloquy, Harpas roughly knew what happened in this singularity, and also knew that this had saved him. Obviously, he did not intend to ask Harpas's permission to kill Harpas. The identity of the girl that Paz regarded as his pet.

The girl is Irish, and her mother's ancestors seem to be primitive religious shamans or bards. She knows some lost rune skills, but she is not a magician. However, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the world has changed. The situation became more and more confusing. Her mother died when she was very young. Then she was adopted by her kind-hearted adoptive father. The adoptive father joined the British army. As the adoptive father was dispatched to the garrison regiment of the British North American colonies, the girl also followed. Arrived in the New World.

Because she has a face as delicate and beautiful as the legendary elf, the girl was named after the elf queen who appeared in William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"—it is also the name of the patron saint of girls in ancient Irish legends.

Maeve

It's not a rare name these days.

The girl carefully took off Harper's bandage, fearing that it would commit suicide again accidentally. She originally wanted to change the bandage, but was surprised to find that Harper's wound had healed.

The girl immediately started dancing with joy, and even cried, as if the one who was saved was not Harper, who had no hope of being saved, but herself.

After calming down, Harpas no longer persisted in committing suicide and returning to the spring water.

Thinking carefully about the current situation, it is too embarrassing. If it is so embarrassing to return to the Temple of Time, where will the name of Military Demon be placed? Isn't it even more embarrassing than that Danterian! ?

no!

At least find out who is really behind this North American singularity.

Can't act without a servant?

Just right.

Harpas looked at Maeve in front of him.

You are the one who has magical powers and looks silly!

——to be continued!

A slight adaptation has been made to round out the shortcomings in the character design of Maeve and the Mad King in the original North American Singularity of FGO.

As we all know, the Mad King is not Cu Chulainn, so by analogy, it is normal that Maeve is not actually Maeve ()

In fact, the different versions of Maeve’s characters are quite separate. I’ve added a little bit of content here to facilitate the distinction.

Just refer to the relationship between Jeanne d'Arc and Leticia, the girl Jeanne d'Arc relies on. The general plot has not changed.