A Psychiatrist's Bizarre Game Journey / Dream of the Mist

Shimizu Ken was stunned by Zhou Ke'er's opening move of unleashing a series of magical cannon attacks. He was stunned for a moment before reacting, looking at Zhou Ke'er with a puzzled expression. After considering his words carefully, he asked, "You... really don't know? That shouldn't be the case. Besides, I'd like to ask you, why are you worried about encountering other Servants?"

"what?"

Zhou Ke'er clearly sensed something was wrong, blinked in confusion, but still stubbornly said, "Don't answer questions with questions, Kora!"

"...That's right, because servants naturally have a relationship of mutual assistance."

Shimizu Ken looked at Zhou Ke'er with a strange expression. "How could you not know? You should have known this information when you were summoned."

The servant is a heroic spirit summoned to eliminate these "Void Beasts" that occupy and destroy the city.

Furthermore, we summoners are originally members of the same dispatch team; we're only temporarily separated due to the limitations of the summoning conditions—a fixed amount of mana within the same area can only withstand one summoning ritual.

"???"

Something's wrong with you, my dear friend.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ke'er's eyes widened slightly. Perhaps she had misheard or misunderstood, so she carefully recalled the details and double-checked that the mission description did indeed say to kill or defeat other Servants.

Is there something wrong with this world, or with the mission, or is it that Ken Shimizu has something wrong with his brain?

"But... as far as I know, the Servants are summoned to fight each other until a final victor emerges, winning the Holy Grail for their Master..."

To be honest, when Zhou Ke'er saw the design of this module, she immediately thought of a series of anime from the old era. This kind of scene was probably going to be called the "Holy Grail War"? At first, Zhou Ke'er thought it was a complete rip-off, but she didn't expect it to have its own original design?

However, speaking of which, from the very beginning of this module until now, Shimizu Ken has never mentioned anything like the Holy Grail, even though it is mentioned in the mission description.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Upon hearing this, Shimizu Ken was somewhat surprised and scratched his head in confusion. "I don't know either... However, I have a teammate who is knowledgeable about these strange tales and legends. She might know what's going on with you. Let's go find her now."

"it is good...."

Before Zhou Ke'er could finish speaking, she heard a whooshing sound and a female voice from not far away.

"No need, you've been dawdling too much, and there were explosions coming from here, so we've already arrived."

Zhou Ke'er quickly turned around and looked in the direction of the sound. She saw a man holding a long spear with a long-haired woman under his arm flying towards her in a manner that defied Newtonian mechanics.

"Tsk tsk, that's truly terrifying power. This single attack is enough to evaporate a whole group of [Void Beasts] in one go, and you just casually used it for at most one or two?"

The man glanced at the marks on the ground and the amount of ashes left by the monster, estimating that it was at most the remnant of one or two Void Beasts. He couldn't help but ask Zhou Ke'er in a flippant tone, "Isn't this level of attack quite taxing for you?"

It consumes a huge amount of energy! Absolutely ridiculously much! We're using this move because there are no other spells suitable for this situation!

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but secretly complain in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She just squinted at the two of them and smiled, "You two seem to have heard everything. You were just standing there? And now you've specially gone to fly over from a distance? That's quite interesting."

"How could you think that? As a Lancer, isn't it perfectly normal to be able to hear you talking from such a short distance?"

The man gently landed on the rooftop with the woman. After setting her down, he looked at Zhou Ke'er, shrugged, and replied, "If I'm not mistaken, judging from these magical traces, you should be this Caster. Hmm... let me guess which great mage you are. As for women... could you be Medea?"

"Oh dear, unfortunately, the answer is wrong. Shouldn't you state your own name before asking someone else's name?"

Zhou Ke'er covered her mouth and chuckled, but her words were not exactly friendly.

"...You just said that too, but you still haven't told me your real name."

Upon hearing this, Shimizu Ken suddenly exposed the truth, then turned to the newcomer and continued, "Kaoru, although it sounds unbelievable, and I don't know if this guy is playing a trick on me, do you know what's going on here: the summoned servants have forgotten their real names and believe that the servants were summoned to kill each other and seize something called the Holy Grail."

Before the girl called Kaoru could answer, the talkative Lancer replied with a surprised look, "This is the pattern from a long time ago, the Holy Grail War... But even in that situation, shouldn't they have remembered their true names? Could it be that something went wrong with the summoning ritual, causing the Heroic Spirit's memories to be distorted?"

## Chapter 283, Section 278: The Battle for Zhou Ke'er (Part 3)

"How could that be?! You're kidding, you have to believe in my summoning skills, okay?!"

When Shimizu Ken heard Lancer's question, he felt offended and immediately retorted in a very unpleasant manner.

"..."

Kaoru glanced at Shimizu Ken with great suspicion, her eyes full of disbelief.

As for Zhou Ke'er...

He had just discovered a somewhat strange-looking skill in the spellbook—[Soul Summoning]. The skill's effects were clearly displayed in the skill name.

He thought for a moment, and while listening to Shimizu Ken's conversation, he casually threw this skill at the Void Beast that he had just blasted into dust with a magic cannon.

[Target souls are gathering, please wait...]

"Well... even though you don't remember your real name, you must still remember what you're good at, right? Oh right, you're a Caster, right? So what are some of your signature spells? And... what is your Noble Phantasm?"

Suddenly, Xun asked Zhou Ke'er, who was a little distracted.

"Huh? Oh..."

Zhou Ke'er snapped out of her daze upon hearing this, lightly touching her lips with her fingertip, tilting her head as if deep in thought, while watching the skill's progress bar and stalling for time, "Let me think about it~ Don't be in such a hurry. Haste makes waste~"

Xun narrowed her eyes as she looked at Zhou Ke'er, seemingly lost in thought.

"This unreliable caster doesn't seem like a ruthless character with some kind of tragic backstory."

Lancer looked at Zhou Ke'er and was also a little confused. He couldn't think of any caster who fit this personality and appearance.

"Ah, I've got it! I've got it!"

Seeing that the progress bar was almost finished, Zhou Ke'er immediately moved closer to Xun, reached out her right hand to lift Xun's chin, and before they could say anything in surprise, Zhou Ke'er turned Xun's face to face the remaining ashes of the Void Beast, her red lips parted slightly: "Look carefully there, sister will show you a magic trick~ three, two, one, done~"

Upon hearing this, everyone temporarily suppressed their astonishment and looked in the direction Zhou Ke'er indicated.

That's right, Zhou Ke'er was going to pretend this spell was his signature skill. After all, most of the ten skills he randomly received at the start were amplification skills, nothing special. And the only offensive skill was the Magic Cannon. But since Xun and the others didn't treat Zhou Ke'er's move as his special ability, it meant that this move was probably quite common. After thinking it over, he could only pretend it was his current functional skill.

If the skill is refreshed when you need it later... then just insist that the skill has a long cooldown.

As Zhou Ke'er finished speaking, the skill casting bar also ended. Immediately, everyone saw a cloud of gray-black smoke mixed with gray-white smoke rise from the remains of the Void Beast. Echoing in the smoke was a chant that sounded otherworldly, like a strange song from the abyss, or perhaps the sound of red spider lilies swaying in the wind along the way when a soul returned from the underworld.

"What's going on? A mutated Void Beast?"

Shimizu Ken couldn't help but frown and ask a question.

"My dear master, if you don't use your brain, I suggest you donate it to someone in need."

Upon hearing Shimizu Ken's question, Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but doubt his intelligence, and immediately mocked him mercilessly with a sarcastic tone, although she still had a smile on her face.

"Is this your special magic?"

Xun stared at the cloud of smoke, unsure of what Zhou Ke'er was trying to do. "What effect will it have?"

"Little girl, don't be in such a hurry."

Zhou Ke'er actually didn't know what the effect of this spell was, so she could only casually reply, "As for what the effect is, you'll only know when you see it for yourself. It wouldn't be fun if I revealed it beforehand."

As for Lancer, who had previously been flippant and talkative, he was surprisingly quiet now, staring intently at the cloud of smoke, lost in thought.

Before long, the black mist gradually solidified, actually revealing a human-like shape. The grayish-white mist mixed in with it gradually dissipated, and the human-like shape became clearer, even seemingly revealing blurry facial features.

Just then, Lancer's expression suddenly changed drastically, looking panicked and incredulous. He glanced quickly at Zhou Ke'er, and then, with lightning speed, hurled the spear in his hand at the humanoid figure.

Seeing this, the humanoid figure seemed to want to block it, raising a thin wisp of black mist in its hand to block in front of it, but unfortunately, before it could take shape, it was pierced through by the spear thrown by Lancer.

As the humanoid shape was pierced, it disintegrated into a cloud of black mist once more, never able to coalesce again, and drifted away in the wind.

"Hey? Are you provoking me? Are you targeting me?"

Just when they were about to find out exactly what the soul of that Void Beast was, Lancer inexplicably interrupted them. Zhou Ke'er glared at Lancer, extremely annoyed, and demanded, "Want to fight? Fine, I'm ready anytime!"

"...No, what exactly are you? You're not an ordinary Heroic Spirit!"

Lancer didn't answer Zhou Ke'er's question. Instead, he frowned and said in a serious tone, "Do you know what you just did?!"

"Don't answer questions with questions, you bastard! I'm questioning you! Don't give me any more questions! F*** you, do you hear me? F*** you!"

Hearing Lancer's tone, Zhou Ke'er became even more annoyed and immediately retorted angrily.

"..."

Lancer was silent for a moment, then took a deep breath and said with a very serious expression, "Although I don't know if you did this on purpose or if you didn't know it would lead to this result, I have to tell you... you just summoned... another Lancer through the corpse, or rather, the ashes, of that Void Beast."

"This is impossible! How could a Heroic Spirit summon another Heroic Spirit? Furthermore, that Void Beast doesn't even have a summoning array; it's simply impossible for it to do such a thing!"

Upon hearing this, Xun immediately retorted.

"Didn't you see that the dark shadow eventually coalesced into a humanoid figure holding a spear? I could feel it; that repulsive feeling was as disgusting as looking at the compound eyes of a fly with a magnifying glass!"

Lancer shook his head and explained.

"So, according to that, your signature skill is... summoning? And it's a top-tier summoning technique that can summon Heroic Spirits even while in the form of a Heroic Spirit?"

Shimizu Ken turned to look at Zhou Ke'er, who seemed about to say something, and asked, "Which Casters are skilled in summoning...?"

“Um, it seems you’ve misunderstood something. My spell isn’t a summoning spell.”

Zhou Ke'er finally found a chance to interject.

Upon hearing Zhou Ke'er's words, the others looked at him in surprise, waiting for his explanation.

"It's not a summoning, but rather... simply drawing the spirits of the dead from the underworld back to the mortal realm..."

Zhou Ke'er explained, "In other words, it wasn't me who summoned a heroic spirit just now, but rather the soul of this Void Beast itself that was a heroic spirit."

"This is impossible!"

Upon hearing this, Lancer immediately exclaimed in disbelief and retorted.

## Chapter 284, Section 279: The Battle for Zhou Ke'er (Part 4)

"Why not? Would I lie to you on purpose? You're really quite proud of yourself."

Zhou Ke'er rolled her eyes at Lancer. Although her tone was indeed very displeased, her expression somehow gave off a charming and coquettish feeling.

Immediately, Zhou Ke'er turned around, looked at Shimizu Ken and Kaoru, narrowed her eyes slightly, and asked, "Now, you must know exactly when and how this thing called the [Void Beast] appeared, right? Also, what is the meaning of your so-called dispatch team?"

"...Actually, we don't know much about the origin of the Void Beasts. We only know that they are monsters that suddenly appeared in the world. Ordinary firearms and weapons cannot do any damage to them. Therefore, at the beginning, people repeatedly failed in their struggle against them."

Kaoru slowly explained, "I don't know when it started, but someone suddenly discovered by chance that some special artifacts left behind in the world could actually harm these monsters. After research and investigation, we finally discovered that these left-behind artifacts were things called 'Noble Phantasms'. From there, we extended our research, gradually changing from the inefficient and low-success-rate method of training people to use Noble Phantasms to summoning the holders of these Noble Phantasms themselves, that is, the legendary Heroic Spirits."

“That’s right, take me for example. Originally, my class could have been Archer, but when she summoned me, the object she used to symbolize my Noble Phantasm was a spear, so I could only be summoned as Lancer.”

Lancer chimed in at this point.

(P.S.: Most of the settings above are my own creations. If they differ from the original settings, it's for the sake of the plot. Please don't criticize.)

"Don't interrupt. There are still questions for you later. You'll have plenty of opportunities to speak. Let others finish speaking first."

Zhou Ke'er pursed her lips, showing him no respect whatsoever, and instead gestured towards Xun, indicating that she should continue.