Zongman: Evolution Paradise

Keeping an eye on the situation on the battlefield, Jolyne separated from Souichirou Kuzuki again and shook her aching arm.

His own attributes are too strong, and he uses techniques similar to ancient martial arts, making him comparable to a humanoid heroic spirit.

I don't know what kind of twisted sense of humor Paradise has, but in the original story, Souichirou Kuzuki tore apart Heroic Spirits with Medea's enhancement magic.

Now that Soichiro Kuzuki has lost Medea, his identity has been directly taken over by this high-level player.

Soichiro Kuzuki's left hand only had two Command Seals, which made Jolyne quite wary, and she wondered where the missing Command Seal had been used.

Steve Rogers' power doesn't seem to be an added skill, and Jolyne doesn't believe that someone like Souichirou Kuzuki would use Command Seals to control Heroic Spirits or provide magical energy.

That leaves only the possibility of equipment or items. The fact that it was used before the battle proves that Kuzuki Souichirou trusts that thing.

Jolyne became even more vigilant, maintaining restraint in the fight and constantly watching Souichirou Kuzuki's movements to avoid being hit.

Jolyne didn't want to fight with all her might, and Souichirou Kuzuki wasn't in a hurry either. He simply used his skilled fighting techniques to deal with Jolyne's attacks, and then spoke to Jolyne in a teacher-like manner.

"Are you from the Sheqi Eight Clan?"

Pressing his palm down to deflect Jolyne's straight punch, Kuzuki Souichirou asked.

"What's the reason?" Upon hearing the name, Jolyne raised an eyebrow. All he knew was that the organization within the Dragon Clan that controlled Japan was called the Snake-Headed Eight Families.

Facing an enemy to whom he had to fight to the death, Kuzuki Souichirou remained calm, adjusting his square-framed glasses as he began to explain the reasons.

"The players here are all Japanese. Your fighting skills are closer to those fighting games played in duels. And I remember that most of these systems in Japan are controlled by the Snake Clan."

"Although it's possible to buy it directly from the amusement park or obtain it directly from the relevant world, I don't think you're the kind of unwise madman."

As Jolyne listened to Soichiro Kuzuki's account, she realized that he regarded her as some powerful and influential player.

Because of the existence of uncontrolled situations, independent individuals and powerful forces are ultimately different.

If you transfer all sorts of skills and bloodlines to yourself, and your own aptitude is no longer sufficient to support this evolution, then things will go out of control.

Therefore, major player organizations all have their own mature training programs, such as how to match skills, how to allocate attributes, and what the different bloodlines in the Paradise require for aptitude.

Like the optimal combination of spirit rings developed by Dai Mubai's family in Douluo Continent, although it eliminated many possibilities for further advancement, it was ultimately more stable, bringing artificial intervention to this evolution.

Although each player's aptitude, circumstances, and situations are different, the methods to reduce the risk of losing control can basically be the same.

Ancient martial arts, magic, technology, superpowers, biochemistry, divinity, summoning...

The amusement park is full of temptations, and what players need to do is to control themselves, avoid stuffing all sorts of random abilities into their bodies, and try to choose a definite route to follow to the end.

Like a big tree, the main trunk must grow strong before there is room for other branches to grow.

In other words, not everyone has the fate of Zheng Zha, who combined vampire bloodline with internal energy; for most people, the only outcome would be an explosion.

Therefore, Soichiro Kuzuki spoke in a matter-of-fact tone. According to his understanding, Jolyne would not just take any skill and use it on herself, but would choose a route that her organization was more familiar with.

For example, Jolyne's Command Spell-equipped Black Flash on Medusa is an incredibly powerful melee skill.

In addition to Jolyne's own fighting techniques, Souichirou Kuzuki naturally guessed that Jolyne's organization possessed a close-combat tradition.

Furthermore, given that this game belongs to Japan, Kuzuki Souichirou, based on these conditions, imagined a Japanese organization called the Snake-Headed Eight Families for Jolyne.

The idea is correct, but unfortunately, all these arguments are based on one condition: Jolyne is just a player.

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Because of the workshop, Jolyne has never experienced the so-called pressure of losing control; she can use whatever skills she wants.

"I'm not just a player, I'm also a workshop owner."

Thinking this to herself, Jolyne didn't know what the Snake-Headed Eight Families that Kuzuki Souichirou mentioned was in Japan, nor did she acknowledge it. Instead, she pointed to Medusa's battlefield and reminded her, "Kuzuki-sensei, your Hydra captain has completely fallen into a disadvantageous position."

"Hmm... I saw it."

Kuzuki Souichirou remained calm, seemingly unconcerned about his fate ending here.

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While the power of magic can directly deceive the eyes of ordinary people, its effect is not as strong on other heroic spirits.

As Saber Excalibur's radiance swept across the land at Homurahara School, terrifying magical fluctuations spread throughout Fuyuki City, heralding the start of war.

As the first pair to summon a Heroic Spirit, Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka originally planned to deal with other players first, but unexpectedly, all seven classes in the Holy Grail War appeared in just one day.

"Love, it seems like everyone in this Holy Grail War is something else..."

According to the records of the Shinomiya family, no Holy Grail War in the past had ever been this urgent.

This Holy Grail War was unusual to begin with. Under such circumstances, Kaguya Shinomiya abandoned her plan to eliminate the players and instead sent Hassan Hyakami, the Heroic Spirit of Ai Hayasaka, to observe the whereabouts of the other players and, incidentally, to find the "referee" that Paradise had mentioned.

Kaguya Shinomiya's training sequence is A, so she naturally obtained this hidden information, and in her mind, the information from Paradise must have a special use.

That unfair referee will definitely have some special impact on this game.

It's like a hidden storyline in a game, where there's a shortcut for the trailing team to catch up.

To ensure victory, Kaguya Shinomiya will not allow anyone to deviate from her plan!

Hassan the Hundred Faces split into dozens of individuals, heading towards various parts of Fuyuki City, bringing additional news to Kaguya Shinomiya.

Near the Emiya residence, an ordinary person has died; one ordinary person was shot and killed.

A conflict has occurred among players at the Hyatt Hotel; two players have already formed a team.

Snowflakes fell late at night at Ryudong Temple, possibly the last Berserker to appear in the world.

As Jolyne and Yukino Yukinoshita faced off against Souichirou Kuzuki at Homurahara School, Kaguya Shinomiya's Heroic Spirit Gilgamesh also decided at that moment to announce his arrival to Fuyuki City.

"My king, please remember that this Holy Grail War must not allow mortals to look directly at your glory."

After offering a reminder and bidding farewell to Gilgamesh with the respect due to a subject, Kaguya Shinomiya did not interfere further and began her work as a nun with Ai Hayasaka.

Bishop Karen was calling on the nuns to do a good job of cleaning the Kotomine Church. Because she had never participated in such things before, Kaguya Shinomiya was quite clumsy and stood on tiptoe to wipe the glass with a rag.

On the other side, Hayasaka Ai stood by, protecting Shinomiya Kaguya, holding a basin of clear water for her to wash the rags.

Sensing her magic power suddenly dwindling, Kaguya Shinomiya paused for a moment and said to her maid, Ai Hayasaka, "Gilgamesh has already started fighting the enemy."

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Bond was wearing a dog tag, and a dog was walking along the side of the road, its eyes warily observing the street, but its gaze would occasionally wander to the food wafting from the roadside, tempting its nose with its aroma.

Beside it was Scáthach, dressed in a purple-black bodysuit, carrying a long spear, and using magic to become invisible.

Last night, the appearance of Berserker meant that all seven classes of the Holy Grail War had appeared, so Bond asked Einzbern for permission to go out.

Bond and Scáthach appeared here under the pretext of going to Fuyuki City to purchase goods.

Sighing at Bond's greedy expression, Scáthach placed a banknote on the counter, took an ice cream from under the counter, and held it in front of Bond, intending to feed her Master first.

"I want the chocolate one."

Bond stuck out his tongue and licked it, confirming that the green ice cream was matcha, not vanilla, Bond thought to himself as he spoke to Scáthach.

“Dogs will die if they eat chocolate,” Scáthach explained helplessly.

“I’m not an ordinary dog.” Bond remained unmoved and had his own set of theories.

Bond stared intently at Scáthach, as if to say, "If you don't give it to me, I'll just use a Command Spell."

In the end, Scáthach backed down, took another chocolate one from the counter, held it in front of Bond, and warned, "...You can only have one."

Because his skills are all banned, Bond is only physically stronger than an ordinary dog. If he were to die at Chocolate's hands, Scáthach thinks it would be better for him to rot in the Land of Shadows.

Just then, Saber, far away at Homurahara School, released Excalibur. Sensing this powerful force, Scáthach's previously sorrowful expression immediately returned to calm.

"It seems there really is a competitor now."

The calmness wasn't a lack of excitement, but rather Scáthach's restraint in the face of this battle.

At that moment, a figure in golden armor appeared on the roof of the ice cream shop next to Scáthach and Bond, heading at high speed towards Homurahara School.

Although both of them concealed their presence with magic, the moment they got close, Scáthach and Gilgamesh looked in each other's direction.

"Interesting heroic spirits."

Although he possessed all-knowing eyes, Gilgamesh kept them closed.

However, the moment Gilgamesh saw Scáthach, she knew that this was not the kind of being she could simply call a mortal.

Scáthach felt the same way; she sensed the presence of those she had once slaughtered in this Heroic Spirit.

He is like a god, and also like a human hero.

Scáthach stood up, planted her spear on the ground, and asked directly, "Are you a man or a god?"

With just these words, Gilgamesh's rage was instantly ignited. A golden vortex appeared in the air, and several Noble Phantasms were already blasting towards Scáthach.

"You bastard, who gave you permission to insult me ​​like this!"

Gilgamesh, who was two-thirds god and one-third human, was among those who hated the gods the most.

To him, he was the king, the oldest king!

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Faced with several incoming Noble Phantasms, Scáthach wielded her spear, her spear skills, already at the level of a god, piercing through the Noble Phantasms in advance.

Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm hadn't even exploded before it quietly went out.

Scáthach, gun in hand, asked him, "You haven't forgotten the rule about not letting ordinary people find out, have you?"

"You bastard, this is no reason for you to provoke me."

The female version of Gilgamesh is just as proud as the normal Gilgamesh.

Standing with his arms crossed, looking down at people, a golden halo rippled around Gilgamesh as he retrieved a Noble Phantasm from the Gate of Babylon.

As the Noble Phantasm fell, a new battlefield unfolded, and Scáthach did not resist being drawn into this power.

When she opened her eyes again, she and Gilgamesh were in a special realm.

Through the outer shell of the domain, which resembles a medium, Scáthach can still see her Master cowering outside.

"It's just a matter of secrecy; my Gate of Babylon contains countless artifacts capable of doing just that."

"You bastard, give me your final performance. If it pleases me, I might just let you go."

Standing atop a red mountain peak, Gilgamesh embraced his broad chest and arrogantly proclaimed to Scáthach.

"Golden Gate?"

Scáthach's calm expression wavered when she noticed the noun she used.

Golden armor, red patterns, and it's also known as the Gate of Babylon, which supposedly contains countless treasures?

“Gilgamesh?” Realizing the true identity of this Heroic Spirit, Scáthach uttered a sound, then asked in surprise, “I remember you weren’t a man? How come you appear in this form?”

This question successfully reignited Gilgamesh's anger, and hundreds of golden vortexes appeared in the sky, heading towards Scáthach. At the center of each vortex was something called a Noble Phantasm.

Gate of Babylon, Rank E~A++. This rank is not the rank of Gate of Babylon itself, but rather the rank of the Noble Phantasm that stores the "treasure" within Gate of Babylon.

As the oldest king, Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm, Gate of Babylon, contains the prototypes of all Noble Phantasms, the crystallization of human wisdom, and treasures or precious items from ancient times to the present.

While other Heroic Spirits may only possess one or two Noble Phantasms, Gilgamesh can freely take out hundreds or even thousands to squander.

What is contained in the King's Treasure is less the treasure stored up by Gilgamesh and more the "original text of human wisdom" itself.

"Miscellaneous cultivator".

With a delicate groan, hundreds of magical artifacts automatically flew towards Scáthach.

The reason for using this fighting style, instead of unleashing the full power of the Noble Phantasm, is that unleashing all the Noble Phantasms consumes too much magic power.

Rather than releasing it, it's better to fire it like a bullet. As an Archer, combined with the explosive power of the Noble Phantasm itself, it is not only extremely powerful, but the actual mana consumption is only the amount required to activate the Gate of Babylon.

"As the oldest king, you keep calling yourself a bastard. Are you really the wise king of Uruk?"

In order to fully enjoy this Holy Grail War, Scáthach shut down her all-knowing wisdom.

Perhaps due to their incompatibility, every word Scáthach uttered struck Gilgamesh squarely in the face, and the air thick with tension filled the domain.

"If a single spear strike reaches the pinnacle of skill, even killing a god is as easy as turning one's hand."

Primordial runes manifested on her body, and her clairvoyance allowed her to see the landing point of every Noble Phantasm. Wielding the Spear of Death, Scáthach charged forward.