Alchemy Principles of Type-Moon World

"However, in order to construct this shell, we must separate the necessary Noble Phantasms, fuse them into Magic Circuits, and create a simulated Servant, continuously operating the Noble Phantasm's deployment. In this process, he had to withdraw."

"Therefore, we need a noble, self-sacrificing knight, skilled in martial arts, handsome, and capable of transforming his outer shell into a Noble Phantasm, to help us protect this small cycle and our dreams." Xing Qingqi looked at Lancelot with admiration. "Lord Lancelot, I have always been a fan of yours. I grew up listening to the legend of King Arthur. I sigh for your experience. It is not your fault, but a cruel trick of fate."

"Lord Lancelot, please help us."

This is a lie.

A complete lie.

This guy just discovered that Berserker had the ability to transform the objects he held into weapons during the fight with Archer. After asking his master and Newton about his research, he learned that he could transform the objects he held into Noble Phantasms.

Before today, he had never read any Arthurian legends, let alone Lancelot.

Being able to flatter others without blushing was why it was Xing Qingfeng who was negotiating with Lancelot. Just kidding, could Newton and Kenneth do such a thing?

"Helping others is a knight's duty, but..."

"And we won't let you work in vain. You must have a wish of your own for being summoned to this Holy Grail War, right?" Xing Qingqiu saw that Lancelot was interested and immediately climbed up the pole. "We will help you fulfill your wish. Do you want the Holy Grail? It's just a large magic crystal. It doesn't have the power to grant all wishes. So relying on the Holy Grail and entrusting your wishes to us is..."

"I do not desire the Holy Grail," Lancelot said. "I simply want to confess my sins to the queen, hoping she will punish me as a sinner."

"My wish is that simple."

"The king you're talking about should be the Saber of this Holy Grail War, right?" Xing Qingyu scratched the back of his head, "Hmm..."

"Why do you keep chasing and beating your king after you go berserk?" He almost asked this question, but after hesitating for a long time, he chose to keep his mouth shut.

"Yes, if you can fulfill this wish, I will willingly withdraw." Lancelot swore solemnly, "I swear, if you can fulfill this wish, I will do my utmost to help you realize it, even if it means sacrificing my sinful body."

"I thought you were going to help your king obtain the Holy Grail."

"..." Lancelot was silent. Then, as if he had made up his mind, he said firmly, "I can guess why my king desires the Holy Grail..."

"I should fight for my king's victory and sacrifice myself wherever his sword points."

"...But she has sacrificed enough. What she needs is not the Holy Grail, but love and understanding. Please let her rest in peace."

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Considering that the interruption of the main narrative here would give people an uncomfortable feeling as if the climax has been reached but the chapter is interrupted, the narrative structure of the whole article was adjusted, and the flashback reads much more comfortable.

I took a quick look at the plot related to Lancelot and found that as long as this guy cancels his berserker mode, he will become a complete comedian. Damn.

The above is a new book by a new author. Please vote, collect, and give suggestions and feedback. Thank you!

Volume 24: The Alchemist's Apprentice from the Fourth War: . The Mother-in-Law and the Husband-in-Law

Leave Kenneth at home to screw in the screws, and let Diarmuid stay at home as well to prevent the house from being robbed.

Both of them expressed strong dissatisfaction with this.

But doing so was actually a decision made by Xing Qingwu after careful consideration.

"Kenneth, I understand your desire to avenge your workshop. Saber's side is indeed the most suspicious. Diarmait, I understand your desire to continue competing with Saber. The duel between you and Saber is not over yet."

"But we're not going to fight this time." Xing Qingqiu stretched his neck and peered from the courtyard into the room. After making sure Lancelot couldn't hear what was being said, he continued, "Do you think he looks like he's going to hit someone? He clearly looks like he's desperately wanting to be beaten to death by Saber."

　"Besides, these two are acquaintances. If we go over there, it'll probably turn into some 8:30 cliché drama. And you still want to settle old scores in that kind of atmosphere, huh..."

"Diarmait, you wouldn't want your sacred duel with Saber to take place in this atmosphere, would you?"

"makes sense……"

"Furthermore, if an enemy Servant attacks during this time, only Lancer, who has the highest agility among the top three knights, can react in time. We need a knight who can protect everyone and stay at home. Your lord will be proud of you."

Isn't this just a scam? Kenneth thought as he looked at Diarmait, who was holding his head high and chest out, as if he would definitely live up to the trust placed in him.

"Kenneth, our chief engineering wizard." Xing Qingfeng had just finished comforting Diarmuid when he turned to Kenneth. "The teacher has great confidence in your abilities, and entrusting you with full responsibility for this important assembly task is a testament to that."

"The teacher has almost finished making the next parts, and now we are going to start the most important part of the construction."

"A task as arduous as this can only be accomplished by someone whose abilities are respected by the teacher and whose wisdom can keep up with his pace," Xing Qingqiu said. "A new apprentice like me, new to the mysteries, can't even master the basics of alchemy. I can only follow behind the teacher. How can I possibly become his right-hand man?"

"Only you, as the teacher's assistant, can provide support for the teacher. Only with your extraordinary talent and extraordinary ability can you accurately understand the teacher's design and accurately complete his grand plan according to his wishes."

"So, we really can't do without you here! Please put aside your personal feelings and continue to work hard for our cause!"

But I feel like I can complete the master's work for the past two days. Diarmuid thought, crossing his arms as he watched Kenneth, who was accepting Xing Qingjiu's flattery with a rather smug look on his face.

"This family will break up sooner or later without me," Xing Qingfeng thought after comforting the two of them. "But soon we can go out and play."

The next step is to take Lancelot to let Saber get beaten up, and then there will definitely be a bloody and clichéd drama!

Xing Qingfeng thought Lancelot's behavior was truly nagging. He cheated on his boss and then ran off, only to want to come back afterward, only to find he wasn't there. If he'd been more decisive, he should have continued flirting right in front of his victim!

Xing Qingyu was really impatient to see what amazing wisdom Lancelot, who was so nagging, would show at that time.

More importantly, he could use this opportunity to skip a whole day of math practice. He had already accumulated nearly seven thousand hours of math problems in the previous two days, and he couldn't imagine what would happen if he stayed any longer. If it ended early, he could take Lancelot out for a day of fun under the guise of experiencing modern life. If it ended late, he could skip class and go home for dinner.

In short, the plan works.

"Qingjiu, let's go." Newton stood at the gate with Lancelot and motioned Xing Qingjiu to follow. "The sooner you go, the sooner you can come back."

"Teacher, are you going too?" Xing Qingfeng looked a little embarrassed, as if his well-thought-out plan had suddenly been thrown out of context. "If you go, the Saber Master and Servant will probably just run away."

"Look, Saber's left hand is injured, and two more riders are coming over from our side..."

"I have something to discuss with the Einzbern family. Okay, stop talking nonsense and get ready to go."

"Yes……"

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Thirty kilometers west of Fuyuki City, a national highway crisscrossed the mountainous region, far from human habitation. Along either side of the highway lay lush, verdant forests. In other seasons, one might have seen their dense foliage, but in winter, all one could see were their withered, brownish-yellow branches.

Long ago, this land became a popular local urban legend. It was said that in the deepest part of this deep forest, there was a "dream city"—

This rumor was quickly disproven. This place, less than an hour's drive from the residential area, was a prime outing for the residents of Fuyuki, outside of winter. Over the years, curious minds had explored the entire forest, and recent aerial surveys of the area had confirmed the absence of any man-made structures within this undeveloped forest.

Therefore, this rumor eventually only spread among students who were curious about urban legends, or appeared in third-rate magazines that had nothing to write about.

However, it does exist, its true form being a stronghold specially prepared by the Einzbern family for the Holy Grail War. Protected by numerous illusions and barriers, it opens only during the Holy Grail War, which takes place every sixty years, to welcome its master. This enigmatic city is awe-inspiring.

When the Holy Grail Ceremony turned into the Holy Grail War due to "unequal distribution of spoils", the patriarch of the Einzbern family, Eubusta Kuhaid, disdained to set up a base on the land of the Tōsaka family. So the wealthy Einzbern family bought up the surrounding sacred lands and used them as the Einzbern's base during the Holy Grail War.

However, even though they had almost broken off relations with the Einzbern family, in the end, whether it was purchasing land or helping with hiding, these tasks were still handled by the Tōsaka family at the time.

Should we say that the Tōsaka family's tsundereness is inherited from their ancestors?

"Teacher, are you sure this is the place?" He surveyed the withered forest before him. The trees looked as if they had weathered countless years, their branches intertwined into a web of broken branches. "Could there be a trap or something?"

"My barrier is already open, and all the traps have been broken." Newton, who had deliberately triggered the surveillance barrier, replied nonchalantly, "Just go ahead."

"Rustle, rustle..." The dry leaves broke under pressure. This was the sound of footsteps stepping on the fallen leaves.

"Crunch, crunch..." This is the sound made when the dry and compact land is stepped on.

"Crack..." That was the sound of dead branches breaking under my feet, as if announcing some ominous omen -

——“Boom!!” Cheese booby trap.

“Aieeeeeeeee!!!!” This was the sound Xing Qingfeng made when he stepped on a landmine. The cry kept echoing in the empty forest, “Sayunala!”

Xing Qing Wine, in the EDD trap set, exploded and scattered!

"Teacher, didn't you say that all the traps had been broken?!" Xing Qingfeng, lying on the ground covered in dust, howled, "Why didn't you search for booby traps?"

"It seems the magicians here aren't clinging to the past, nor are they wedded to any notion of magical superiority." Newton, far from caring about Xing Qingjiu's plight, praised Bray's men. His voice betrayed his admiration for their strategy. "They're far superior to those magicians in the Clock Tower who refuse to keep up with the times."

"Wait, where's my lower body?" Xing Qingfeng found himself blown into two pieces, with his lower body missing. "Where's my butt?!"

Xing Qingfeng, who had nearly ripped Matou Kariya in two with explosives, was also ripped in two by an explosive today. Namo San! Actual karma!

"It's hanging on the tree." Lancelot climbed up the burning tree trunk quite nimbly and took down the buttocks hanging on it. His movements were agile and graceful, as if he was performing a silent dance. The only problem was that he had a buttocks on his shoulders.

"Qingjiu, you and Berserker keep going," Newton said, as if realizing something. "The Einzbern girl is about to run away. I'm going to go over there."

Although he said that the other party was about to run away, Newton did not quicken his pace at all. He just changed direction and continued to walk slowly as if on a picnic. Perhaps he had already calculated the other party's escape route and planned to intercept him halfway.

"So what are you going to do then? Will you kneel down first when you see Arthur?"

Xing Qingyu always felt something was amiss. Perhaps Newton had predicted that being with Lancelot might turn him into a comedian. But that didn't matter to Xing Qingyu, because he was already a comedian.

The only problem was, he felt like a scoundrel accompanying a jerk to his mother's house.

But this is not accurate, because for Lancelot, Arthur is completely his untouchable white moonlight.

"If my king orders me to die as an apology, I will gladly accept it," Lancelot said expectantly, "but I will disappoint your expectations then."

"It's okay. The teacher has already set up the barrier." Xing Qingfeng said nonchalantly, "Since you've agreed to participate in the experiment, we can just take your soul and start working."

"Haha, is this a fate I can't escape even if I die?" Lancelot said with a smile, "I'm not sure I'll still be conscious when I'm launched, am I?"

"Then I was exiled to the deserted sky, tortured by loneliness but unable to end my life." Lancelot said, "Perhaps this is the ending I deserve."

"That's too inhumane. As I said, we will return the part of your linked realm record. The remaining part will not carry any consciousness."

"After all, we wouldn't trust an unpredictable intelligence with a probe that's supposed to travel for millennia."

"Then I can die without any worries."

"You've come to participate in a Holy Grail War that transcends time and space, yet your wish is to die. I wonder what the other contestants' expressions would be if they knew."

"Hahaha, there's nothing I can do about it. After all, this is my only regret in my life."

After skirting the dead tree trunk before them, a magnificent ancient stone castle suddenly appeared before them. While it looked deserted and ruined at first glance, a closer look revealed that the castle was immaculately maintained, spotless and untouched, completely unlike a deserted place.

The one guarding the castle gate was, of course, the Sword Knight, King Arthur, whom he had just met a few days ago.

Obviously, from her expression, it can be seen that she is quite shocked.

"Sir Lancelot..."

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"Ah, let me introduce myself. My name is Xing Qingqiu, and this is Lancelot. I'm sure you already know who I am." Xing Qingqiu shouted loudly, "We don't have any bad intentions here. Lancelot is dying soon, and we need to provide him with hospice care. He said he wanted to see his master before he died, so we brought him here."

"You must be his lord, King Arthur."

"Indeed, I am Artoria Pendragon, the one known as King Arthur."

"Huh? I thought the person's name was Arthur." Xing Qingyu muttered quietly, "I always feel that the history of this world has some strange things..."

Although Altria was the only one in front of him, Xing Qingfeng still raised his voice as loud as possible, just to show the Master Saber who might be hiding nearby that he had no ill intentions. No, after slightly improving his perception, he was already sure that someone was hiding in the forest not far away.

Taking his backpack from Lancelot, Xing Qingfan continued to shout:

"Then I won't bother you anymore. I'll leave first."

He found a stone table and stone chairs near the castle to rest, took out the snacks he had prepared in his backpack, tore open the package and enjoyed them comfortably. He couldn't wait to see Lancelot's mother-in-law's drama.

"My king, please punish me!" The purple-haired knight knelt on one knee before Altria without hesitation. "Although I am a knight serving you, I have had an affair with Princess Guinevere."

"Because I was ashamed to face you, and because I didn't dare to face you, I took her away and hid in my own fiefdom."

"No, I don't blame you at all..."

"Your Majesty, this is treason!" Lancelot ignored Altria's embarrassment and listed his crimes. "Later, I even fought with my fellow knights who were pursuing me and shamelessly killed them."

"My king, even when faced with such a shameless me, you never punished me once, not even a word of scolding—"

What is this, an 8:30 romance show? Xing Qingfeng thought.

"Because Sir Lancelot is the most ideal knight I know," Artoria helped the knight who was kneeling in front of her to his feet. "Since you have fallen in love with Guinevere, then you must have your reasons."

"Lancelot, you did nothing wrong."

"Ah... King, that's exactly what you said..." Lancelot refused to stand up and insisted on kneeling on the ground. "If possible, I really want to stay with you until the end."

"But, as a sinner, already a disloyal and unrighteous person, I cannot return to Camelot."

"My king, for the rest of my life, I will constantly beg you to punish me." Lancelot burst into tears. "If I can be punished by you... if you can demand compensation from me... then I will definitely believe in atonement... I will definitely believe that one day I will find a way to forgive myself..."

They are more nagging than I thought. I feel like I am getting tired of watching them fight.

"Sir Lancelot, you are not a sinner at all." Artoria said gently, "No one knows better than me the sincerity of your devotion to the country and the king."

"I don't want to humiliate you, I don't want to lose you." Artoria said, "It's my fault. My selfish desire has caused you to feel so guilty."

Fortunately, the couple, who are good at being mother-in-law, do not live in my house, otherwise they would be in trouble.

Perhaps because he was a bystander, Xing Qingfeng understood that there was no way to break the deadlock between the two of them. Unable to contain himself any longer, he finally shouted to them:

"Well, Artoria, if you really want Lancelot to be free, don't be so nagging, one person saying I'm guilty and the other saying you're innocent." Xing Qingfeng shouted, "You can't kill him like this... I mean, this won't solve the problem."

"Now, you two have a fight, or you punish Lancelot unilaterally. That's the only way to untie his knot." Xing Qingfan continued to shout, "Beat him up! He came here just waiting to be beaten by you. What are you whining about? Don't you understand what your knight is thinking?"

"Yes, you do not blame your knight, but your knight is now consumed by guilt because of your leniency. Now, the best way is to punish him and make him feel that he has received the punishment he deserves, which will slightly alleviate his inner guilt."