A journey into an infinite dimension

"Director, you think too highly of me, and I'm not the type to take away someone else's good things."

Leif smiled softly, appearing to have taken Olga Marie's warning to heart.

"Hey, look! Is that Assassin?!"

Suddenly, a scream reached the ears of the three people, causing them to turn their heads and look at the virtual screen in front of them at the same time.

Chapter 4: Experience the true essence of Assassin!

Amidst a group of ugly fishmen armed with various weapons, which had already exceeded one hundred and were still increasing in number, Assassin, bathed in black mist, was like an unrivaled swordsman, holding two daggers in his hands. Every time he swung the dagger, he would take a life. The trail of smelly blood in the air gradually formed a blooming red spider lily around him.

“Chili quack quack quack—————”

Chaotic conversations, screams of terror, roars of anger, these fishmen composed of pure data seemed to possess intelligence no less than that of humans, and they all developed a variety of emotions due to Assassin's terrifying performance.

"Hehehe, despair, fear, anger, unwillingness, powerlessness, these are some pretty good emotions. They're just a bunch of fake data, but the purity of their emotions is even higher than most real lives."

There was a hint of innocence in the pleasant sound, and a hint of childishness in the crispness. Hong's figure was above the battlefield. She was sitting on a translucent solid in mid-air with her knees hugged. She was smiling cutely, looking like a little girl who was watching ants passing time.

"Please give me some more, so that I can enjoy it more."

As she spoke with a sweet smile, countless threads, invisible to the naked eye and only faintly visible through reflected light in the sunlight, quietly extended from her fingertips and landed among the group of fishmen below, where Assassin had cleared a hole in the center of the formation. Then, she gently hooked them with her slender fingers.

“Ji Li Gua Gua Gua?!!”

Twenty of the murlocs suddenly stopped charging at the Assassin with their weapons, and with incredible agility, they spun around and stabbed their weapons into the necks of their companions. Then, they pulled their weapons out, bathed in the blood of their companions, and turned around to attack other nearby murlocs as their eyes were fixed on them.

"That's it. Betrayal, hurt, resentment. It's awesome."

Her ten white and slender fingers moved rhythmically and flexibly as if they were playing a piece of music. Hong closed her eyes, as if a peerless pianist was playing a world-enchanting music. The sound of the sharp blade cutting through flesh, the sound of blood spurting out, the screams, the roars, the heartbeats, the sounds of bodies falling into the water, all of these things formed a beautiful symphony in Hong's ears.

"Red, image, image."

Landing gently beside Hong, Jia Ye reminded her helplessly.

"Ah, doesn't Jiaye like me like this?"

Hong turned around and looked at Jiaye pitifully with her big watery eyes, like a little kitten begging its owner not to abandon it.

"Besides, aren't you having a lot of fun yourself, Jiaye? You've almost turned an Assassin who specializes in assassination into a Saber."

"I'm just testing how much our family's secret technique can improve the servants."

Jia Ye said without blushing or beating his heart.

“The results have proven to be very encouraging.”

As a family of magicians, the Ruzuki family naturally possesses secret magic that ordinary magic families do not have.

Because the first generation of Rusukiri was a magician who started out as a puppeteer, and the Rusukiri family has been dealing with puppets for generations, Rusukiri's secret techniques are naturally related to puppets, familiars and other servile beings.

There are eight secret techniques of the Kisaragi family, collectively known as the "Eight Steps of the Puppeteer."

The reason why they are called "ladders" is that the practice of these eight secret arts is cyclical and progressive. If you don't master the first step, you can't learn the second step. If you don't master the second step, you can't touch the third step.

In the history of the Ruzuki family, up to now, the only one who has been able to fully master all the levels is the first generation of the Ruzuki family who created these eight secret arts. And among the Ruzuki family and its many branch families in this era, only Jiaye and Ling have mastered the highest level, both reaching the sixth level.

Even if we look at the entire history of Ruyue, the qualifications of these two people belong to the level of top geniuses. Because apart from the eighth level, which cannot be mastered by relying on talent and hard work, there are only a handful of people in history who can master the seventh level. And according to records, the most talented people among Ruyue's predecessors did not master the sixth level until they were twenty years old. In comparison, Jiaye and Ling are not yet adults, and the difference in their strengths is obvious.

"How much magic did you use on Assassin?"

Hong was multitasking, controlling the murlocs to attack their own kind, and replacing them with another one after the murloc died. At the same time, he looked at Assassin who was going in and out of the murlocs, and asked Jiaye.

"If you don't count the 'Heavenly Eyes' that I use as a replacement for my eyes, there are three: 'Telekinesis' that controls Assassin's body, 'Rigidity' that strengthens Assassin's physique, and 'Magic Toughness' that allows him to wield a dagger like a sword."

Jia Ye counted lightly on his fingers.

The Ruzuki family’s puppeteer has eight levels, divided into the four basic lower levels, the three advanced upper levels, and the top, highest level.

The next four levels are: Telekinesis - the foundation of all mystical arts, which is to convert magic power into telekinesis to manipulate objects. It can manipulate multiple puppets, and can also rely on telekinesis alone to create impact and attack. It is the foundation of becoming a puppeteer.

Clairvoyance—Based on the technique of Telekinesis, it focuses magical power on the eyes to enhance their sensitivity, allowing one to see through the flow of magical power. When practiced to the extreme, one can even see through walls and directly observe the flow of magical power within people within buildings. This is a secret technique used by puppeteers to observe their opponents' actions.

〈Rigid Body〉——Use 〈Clairvoyance〉 to observe the flow of magic power in the body, and then use it to interfere with one's own body to strengthen it. Ordinary people can easily gain physical abilities comparable to martial arts masters who have trained for ten years. It can also be used on puppets and familiars to increase the puppet's physical strength, allowing them to perform more flexible movements.

〈Magic Defense〉——with the assistance of 〈Telekinesis〉 and 〈Spiritual Vision〉, a shield is formed with telekinesis, which can be used to resist enemy attacks. If one has a high level of mastery of 〈Spiritual Vision〉, one can even use telekinesis to carve magic circles on the surface of the defense wall, which greatly improves the defense effect. Puppeteers can use it to protect their own fragility and block fatal attacks for their puppets. At this moment, Jiaye and Hong are staying in the air with the telekinetic shield formed by 〈Magic Defense〉.

The top three stages are: 〈Magic Toughness〉—the opposite of the telekinetic shield of 〈Magic Defense〉, which attaches telekinesis to objects and condenses it into a blade, so that even a magus with average physical strength can cut through steel.

"Sky Eye" - converts magic power into telekinesis, which then spreads out like the ultrasonic waves emitted by a bat. When it touches an object, it is reflected back at an astonishing speed several times the speed of sound, allowing the puppeteer to read the information from it, thereby assisting the puppeteer in better collecting intelligence on the battlefield and improving tactical coordination between multiple puppets.

〈Empathy〉——Similar to the principle of 〈Sky Eye〉, it allows the puppeteer and the puppet to share the five senses, allowing the puppeteer to observe and calculate the battlefield from three perspectives at the same time (first person: empathy, second person: original perspective, third person: Sky Eye), collect all the information on all factors, and then deduce the most appropriate tactics.

And, the final highest level: <Mind's Eye> - Improves the puppeteer's precision in mana manipulation, allowing the puppeteer's mentality to reach a state of clarity and calmness, thereby reducing unnecessary waste of mana, enabling the puppeteer to judge the current situation in the most rational state, and perform the most efficient actions at the moment with minimal movement and minimal consumption. A simple example is to maximize the power of the same magic by consuming less mana than others.

Among all the secret arts, only the Mind's Eye does not require the consumption of magic power. Even ordinary people who are not magicians can master this skill. However, among ordinary people, those who can master this trick are usually called saints, monks or martial gods, because they mastered this secret art after they have seen through the world and life.

If, among the eight levels, the other abilities all rely on the magician's puppeteer's own qualifications, then the "Mind's Eye" is the only one that requires more than just qualifications, and also requires one's own transcendence and transformation, so this is also the most difficult secret technique to master.

At the same time, these eight steps only represent difficulty and height, not strength. Take Jia Ye for example, he once easily suppressed a member of the branch family of the same generation who had reached the fourth step and mastered all the secret techniques by using only one "telekinesis".

"The experiment is over. Do you want to continue playing?"

However, even with the assistance of Jiaye, who is considered to be the top master, Assassin's own poor quality made the direction of this battle uncertain and vague after he was scratched by the fishman's weapon.

After all, even a real Heroic Spirit will get tired and weak, let alone a Heroic Spirit clone—a Servant, and the Servant's shadow in front of him.

What's more, Assassin is generally recognized as a class with relatively weak endurance. Protracted battles would never occur to Assassin. He would either kill the enemy with one blow, or be killed and hunted down by the enemy's counterattack. Therefore, the fact that he could hold out for such a long time under the siege of hundreds of monsters and fishmen was already a role model among Assassins, enough to make other classes feel proud to be Assassin's servants.

"I'm not going to play it anymore. After all, it's fake data. I'll find a chance to play it in real life later."

After saying extremely dangerous words, Hong hooked her slender fingers, and immediately the fishmen below who were constantly killing their companions made the next move, and then suddenly and slowly turned into countless evenly sized pieces of meat and fell into the sea.

"Then let's end the game. I wonder if I'll be the first one to complete the simulated battle."

Jia Ye whispered to himself, and then the battlefield below suddenly changed.

Assassin suddenly stopped attacking, and then pretended to be outnumbered and began to fight and retreat, as if the endless battle had made him extremely tired.

The fishmen, whose intelligence was no less than that of humans, also discovered this, and they excitedly began to chase Assassin, wanting to completely kill this guy who had slaughtered many of their own people.

More and more murlocs were attracted to Assassin. No one wanted to know why their companions attacked them in the first place. The excitement of victory at hand made them gradually gather together with roars, and they re-formed into a complete army to blindly chase Assassin.

At the moment when the murloc army had gathered, Assassin, who was originally fleeing in front, suddenly turned around and followed the original trajectory to rush straight towards the murloc army, as if he knew that he could not escape, so he wanted to drag a few more enemies into the water before he died.

Assassin quickly collided with the Murloc troops as they charged forward and backward, and then—

boom! ! !

Accompanied by a huge explosion, the scenery of the blue sea began to dissipate, replaced by the pure white ceiling that could be seen through a layer of transparent glass cover, and Hong's delicate face with a smile on her face that was close at hand.

Chapter 5: Publicly Flirting with a Good Man

[———Master No. 9's battlefield, simulated battle ends———]

【——Time: 7 minutes and 25 seconds——】

【——Battle Rating: Excellent——】

【————Spirit particle infiltration terminated————】

The previous mechanical prompt sounded again. Jia Ye pushed open the glass cover in front of him and walked out of a capsule-shaped cabin similar to a lifeboat with Hong. He was met with countless pairs of eyes filled with complex and amazed expressions.

Ignoring these gazes, Jia Ye tidied his clothes a little, then raised his eyes and glanced at the other cabins around him, and finally his gaze fixed on several virtual screens in the center.

"You are the first Adaptor to leave the virtual world. Congratulations! You set a new record in your first simulated battle with a time of 7 minutes."

Olga Marie walked over and said to Jiaye with a complicated look in her eyes.

She once again confirmed that the young man in front of her was definitely beyond genius, and it would not be an exaggeration to call him a monster.

In particular, he and his puppets use fighting as fun to tease the enemies, letting them kill each other, and after judging that they have no value, he abandons Assassin without hesitation in exchange for the greatest benefit, which makes people feel chilling.

"You're my boss now, so it's okay if you don't use honorifics."

Gaya smiled at Olga Marie, looked around, and asked.

"Then, there shouldn't be any need for me next, right?"

"Yes, please go back and rest. I will let you know if there is any further training."

Although Jiaye said that there was no need to use honorifics, Olgamari did not listen, so Jiaye just let her do what she wanted.

After leaving the control room, which could almost be said to be the core of Chaldea, together with Hong, Jiaye stretched lightly, then turned his head and looked through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows in the corridor at the scenery outside the window full of falling snow, his thoughts drifting a little away.

It was three days ago that we arrived in Chaldea.

Three days ago, after listening to Zero's words, he took the initiative to contact Olga Marie and made the decision to join Chaldea.

When he joined, he did not put forward too many conditions. He just asked Chaldea not to interfere with his rights to enter and leave Chaldea before the rescue operation began, and to use the Heroic Spirit Summoning System: Destiny to try to summon his own servants.

Chaldea had indeed achieved the former. Now, when there was nothing urgent, he could leave Chaldea and go to the outside world. As for the latter——

Although Chaldea agreed to his request, after all, if Jiaye could succeed, then Chaldea would have a greater chance of success in saving humanity, but Jiaye himself has not yet started the summoning ceremony.

According to his idea, he planned to wait until he entered the space-time singularity called "Singularity" before summoning, saying that this would be more metaphysical and reliable.

Because he knew that his luck could not be considered lucky, but only average, so if he just performed the summoning in such an ordinary way, there would be a high probability of failure. In this case, it would be better to wait until the "time, place and people" are all gathered before starting the summoning.

As for why he can determine when the right time is...it's just a guess.

"Gaya, are you going back to your room?"

Hong covered her mouth and yawned lightly. After wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes, she asked Jia Ye who was looking at the heavy snow outside the window.

"Then go back to your room."

Touching Hong's head and seeing her squinting her eyes with a comfortable expression like a kitten, Jia Ye couldn't help but smile knowingly.

"This was your first time infiltrating a spirit particle. Although it wasn't a big deal, it must have put quite a strain on your spirit."

"It's not a big burden, I just want to take a nap."

Humming and making meaningless sounds, Hong gently hugged Jiaye's arm and gave him a sly smile.

"The kind where you hold Jiaye and sleep together."

"Really? Then it seems I have to put making a pillow for you on the agenda."

Jia Ye smiled lightly and pretended to think honestly.

"Gaya's life-size pillow? I'll make good use of it then."

She reached out and gently lifted Jia Ye's chin, stroked his lips with a finger, licked his red lips lightly, and there seemed to be a dangerous light in her eyes.

"Alas!!"

"Ok?"

A sudden and embarrassing scream made Hong stop and look in the direction of the sound with some displeasure.

She hated it most when someone disturbed them while she was teasing Jiaye.

Jia Ye calmly moved his face back a little, and also turned to look to the side, wanting to see which unlucky guy saved him.

At the end of their vision, a girl with orange hair and a side ponytail and a flushed face was pointing at the two of them with a confused look on her face. Looking at her petite body that kept trembling, Jia Ye felt that he seemed to be able to guess what she wanted to say.

"'Molesting decent men and women in public is immoral', is that what you meant to say?"

Hong's figure appeared next to the girl at some point, poking her cheek with interest with a finger.

"I...I, you...you...you..."

As if she was frightened by Hong who suddenly came up to her, the girl sat down on the ground. After stuttering for a while, she suddenly hugged her head and buried her face in her knees.

"Please don't eat me, I promise I didn't see anything!!"

"Ala ala."

Looking at the girl who suddenly entered absolute defense mode, a happy smile gradually appeared on Hong's face.

This girl looks like she would be a great toy.

"Even though you're begging me like this, you look delicious, don't you?"

"Alas!!!"

As soon as Hong said this, the girl's body trembled even more violently, and from a distance, she looked like a small motor.

If we equip her with some parts, would the perpetual motion machine be invented?

Facing the girl's pitiful appearance, anyone with a conscience would step forward and pull Hong away, but the only nonsensical idea that emerged in Jia Ye's mind was this.

"what is your name?"