The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 278: Sniper? My Indra's Arrow

"You can even choose humans? Isn't that too convenient?"

Emiya didn't mean to be envious. What he wanted to point out was whether the Dragon King's resurrection method was too convenient and shameless.

"No, it's not that simple," Xia Mi shook her head. "First of all, no matter which method you use to revive, the more you want to return to a 'complete' state, the longer it will take."

Xia Mi used the word "long", and it was obvious that the time scale she referred to was by no means comparable to the lifespan of an ordinary person.

The most typical examples are Fenrir and Leviathan.

Both possessed enormous dragon bodies, a result of countless years spent hatching from their cocoons to reach such size. Such dragon bodies, in terms of basic qualities and strength, far surpassed those of humans.

However, if one always takes human form to revive like Odin, it will obviously take much less time and the strength will decrease accordingly.

If we choose a ready-made human parasitic resuscitation, it might take less time.

Emiya understood a little bit, the so-called Dragon King's revival is mainly divided into several steps:

The first step is to prepare a "cocoon" for resurrection before death, or to select a human in advance as a container for resurrection.

The second step is to transfer your soul into the container at the moment of death.

The final step is resurrection, which takes an indefinite amount of time. The time consumed is proportional to the strength after resurrection.

"Isn't this still wrong?" Emiya raised a question:
"Let's assume Odin chooses Friedrich as the vessel for his resurrection. Then, he uses this time to select the next human vessel... In this case, even if he dies on the YAMAL, he'll still be able to escape alive... No, wouldn't that mean he can be resurrected infinitely and remain immortal?"

If this continues, wouldn't it be just like Roya in Tsukishima? Every time Elquet comes out and kills him, Roya just reincarnates into the next generation. Wouldn't this cycle of killing never end?
"Hey, it's not as outrageous as you think."

Xia Mi felt that Emiya was overthinking it. "Then let's talk about choosing humans as containers for revival. Although it takes less time, it is also one of the most troublesome methods."

"If Odin intends to be reborn through this, he must use his own dragon blood to transform this hybrid's body. Otherwise, its strength will be extremely weak, even much weaker than the humanoid body he hatched himself."

"Unfortunately, after the Dragon King parasitized the hybrid, its blood became extremely attractive to dragons, deadpools, and the like. If one isn't careful, it could easily be killed again before it even awakens. Therefore, when choosing a human container, one shouldn't just pick a rookie who's easily killed."

"Secondly, judging by his purpose in parasitizing Friedrich this time, Odin seems to want to manipulate the vast amount of experimental data from the Holy Grail War and then take that data away. This presents a problem."

Xia Mi gave an analogy:
"Originally, Odin prepared his own cocoon and resurrected into a humanoid form with a capacity equivalent to a swimming pool. But now that he's parasitized on a man over a hundred years old, the capacity of his body has suddenly shrunk to the size of a small water tank..."

"This brings up a problem. Not only has his strength dropped to a mere tenth of its original state, but his ability to manipulate elements and his understanding of the laws of nature have also significantly declined. These factors directly lead to difficulties in performing alchemy."

In reality, dragon alchemy isn't simply the same as human technology. To some extent, it's connected to the principles of word spirits, and it's a test of one's fundamental skills. Most hybrids can't reach higher levels of alchemy, largely because their human bodies, as a foundation, aren't as advanced as those of dragons...

Of course, a certain godslayer is an extreme case.

"If he needs to use space-opening methods to transfer a copy of that thing—"

Emiya continued, "The results of the experiment with the God of Celestial Operations and the Natural Environment Simulacrum."

"Right, right, right. If Odin wants to take this copy away as well, he'll have to pay a higher price...which also means further weakening."

Xia Mi explained.

Emiya slapped his head and suddenly realized, "So that's how it is..."

He looked at BB, "What is Friedrich's current whereabouts? Is he confirmed to be dead like the other Masters?"

"Hmm..." BB did not answer immediately, but waved his pointer and quickly read through the huge amount of virtual image data left by Vincent.

This scene appeared in the eyes of everyone as a super-fast-forwarded three-dimensional image that was dazzling to the naked eye. Countless lights and shadows seemed to have fallen into a vortex of time and space, transforming into tall, twisted lines that moved and rotated rapidly forward, backward, left and right.

The rapid forwarding of the video finally stopped at a certain moment, and BB said lightly:

"Fortunately, Friedrich has already died, just like the other Masters, due to the killing by the branches. But the bad news is that after he caused the Holy Grail War to get out of control and the Black King's will descended, he also took something away..."

"Of course, this is Vincent's perspective. Now, we can basically judge that the other party took away the experimental results he wanted..."

This action seemed to have caused Maria's body to irreversibly dissolve, and Vincent finally began to regret it. He completely understood that he had become a tool used by everyone, but he could no longer find the woman he once loved, only the madly running branch.

Emiya and the others saw the final scene of Vincent's life. It was a cloud of blood-red branches that rushed from the sky, like a surging red wave in the electronic world sweeping over tiny individuals.

This is the indiscriminate revenge of the natural pseudo-godlike organization against human beings without any intelligence.

The life of Vincent, an octogenarian, is not exciting, full of sweet talk and cowardice. He is like a degraded version of Herzog. Herzog manipulates his children, while Vincent manipulates his lover.

After he tricked the Saint Mary into his possession, he hid behind the scenes and continued to rely on her to gain benefits. In the end, he finally received a grand and cruel revenge from the woman he had harmed.

“Grandmother…” Tears welled up in Reggie's eyes. Only after witnessing this scene firsthand did she finally accept the tragic end of her last remaining relative. “…Please accept my condolences,” Emiya said, then fell silent.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"Senior, senior~, there is no time to mourn for Maria's death, we have to rush to the battlefield immediately!" The purple-haired girl spoke in a light and pure voice in the ear, as if warm lips were rubbing against the ear.

After a day's rest, Emiya discovered that his mobile phone had a new alarm for waking up. Well, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed like Baby was torturing people in a new way.

Fortunately, BB didn't have the nerve to turn up the volume and send the alarm voice through an external speaker in the middle of the night, otherwise Emiya would have to punish this annoying little devil.

"understood."

Emiya washed and ate with the help of Xia Mi's maid, and then asked casually, "The electronic domain we attacked before was called 'Asgard', right? So which two are the next ones?"

Didn't he remember that the World Tree connected the nine worlds? But they only had three roots to cut down?

"Hehe, it's recorded in Norse mythology that there are three thick roots beneath the World Tree. The first root penetrates deep into Asgard, but it has been handsomely taken care of by Senior!"

BB said cheerfully on the phone, "There's also the second root that goes deep into Jotunheim, the land of giants, and the third root that goes deep into Niflheim, known as the Land of Mist."

"The third tree root is the most special. Beneath it lies a dragon that constantly gnaws at it—"

Emiya's expression tightened when he heard this, "Black Dragon Nidhogg."

"That's right! Doesn't it feel like a lot of it matches up, Senior?" BB chuckled. "If we can't cut down all the roots of the electronic world in time and destroy the central structure here, we won't be able to stop the ritual, and the world will be completely destroyed."

"...You don't need to remind me of this, do you? Just look at that doomsday countdown you set up on that display screen, and you'll know."

There were so many of them. In the main hall, the dining room, the casino, and even in other cabins, every idle screen would be switched to a doomsday countdown. It was like a constant reminder to everyone who saw it: "Everything is about to end!"

"Hehe, it looks like the Doomsday Clock BB customized is a real success," BB said proudly. "If you like it, please remember to give it a three-star rating!"

"Who knows this?"

This countdown was quite intimidating, perfectly suiting BB's mischievous intent. Not only did it severely impact the mental state of the ordinary survivors on the cruise ship, but even Emiya, upon seeing the countdown, could associate it with something bad...

For example, the countdown to the exam.

Emiya shook off the random thoughts in his mind, turned around and instructed Xia Mi, "Tell Slude to get ready. We're about to set off."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

The brand new electronic realm "Jotunheim" seemed extremely vast. Even though Emiya strode proudly on the flat ground in the state of "Susanoo", he felt that the vastness of this place was on a different level than before.

"Strange, isn't the space stretching and expanding too much? Is it much bigger than before?"

BB sat on Susanoo's left shoulder. "Of course. As time goes on, the electronic field will gradually expand and erode the YAMAL. Although I gave a deadline of one week, if the situation is not resolved within three or four days, the electronic field will erode the survivors' base~"

Slud flew over Susano's right shoulder and said, "Warrior, be careful here. Jotunheim is the domain of giants. These giants are mythical creatures that evolved from the World Tree and are far more powerful than Servants."

"Yes, got it!"

Emiya stared at the huge figures running towards him from a distance. Some of the giants were khaki in color, which were mountain giants, and some were ice blue, which were frost giants.

In the worldview of Norse mythology, giants are the most primitive race. It is said that the most original life is the ancestor giant Ymir, and all gods, elves, dwarves, etc. are born from giants.

After her death, Ymir's body transformed into the sky, the earth, and everything else. Even the World Tree, which connects the nine worlds, was able to flourish thanks to the heart donated by the Founding Titan, Ymir.

Speaking of this, you may think of a certain "Attack on Titan", but unfortunately, the real Titan does not have such obvious weaknesses as the flesh on the back of the neck.

They are all tall, ferocious and brutal, with a high degree of mystery and thick skin and flesh. They are powerful and have strong resistance to attacks. They are natural tanks that are more resistant to attacks than servants.

If ordinary servants do not have good countermeasures, they can easily be suppressed by the giant's size advantage.

They don't even need to think about how to fight, they just need to step on the enemy and it's done.

But that kind of advantage does not exist for Susanoo, and Emiya's Susanoo itself is also a giant in size.

"Look here, big idiots, this is how you use the power of a giant!"

hula-

When he saw a group of mountain giants starting to throw stones, Emiya immediately operated Susanoo and drew his bow and arrow.

Sniper? My Indra's Arrow!
(End of this chapter)