You should know that the professor wasn't in good shape!

 Kohei Imamura, quick-witted, hurriedly tried to regain some control by raising his foot on that side.

 "Ok?"

 Kitahara Iori's feet dangled in the air, and the enhancements on his body vanished instantly.

 The two-colored knight, imbued with both divinity and malice, has vanished.

 Only a mysterious naked man remained, jumping up and down in place.

 "Cough cough cough."

 Imamura Kohei stood up from the ground:

 "Kitahara, your Noble Phantasm is just too abnormal!"

 "Wabiwabi, Wabibabu?"

 Kitahara Iori fell to the ground, scratched his head, and began to defend himself, having discovered something terrifying.

 Even though Kohei Imamura was talking to him, he could tell that the other person was cursing him.

 But Kitahara Iori always felt that she was in a superposition of being able to understand and not being able to understand. She clearly knew what Imamura meant... but she didn't know.

 No way, if the physical enhancement has faded, shouldn't the intellectual decline also end?

 I can't possibly use this Noble Phantasm myself and then become half normal and half mentally challenged afterward, can I?

 It's so scary.

 Kitahara Iori touched her head, feeling a sharp point on it. Her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly deactivated the reset of the "Primordial Person" timer.

 "Hey, Kitahara."

 Kohei Imamura's voice came again.

 Kitahara Iori, like a primary school student learning to speak again, thought of each word and said it one by one:

 "Stop cursing. It's a side effect of the Noble Phantasm. Let me calm down and let my intelligence... return to its original level."

 "No, Kitahara, look, the professor..."

 Kohei Imamura's tone was very off.

 Kitahara Iori turned around and saw a scene that was hard for him to accept.

 Lin Zhen had already turned into a stone statue, but he still stood in front of Imamura Kohei.

 The statue's eyes were burned and blurred, but this was not an injury sustained after it was transformed into a stone statue; rather, it was... before that.

 Kohei Imamura remained silent.

 Kitahara Iori's expression was also not good. She quickly glanced at the notification in the upper right corner and saw that Lin Zhen had not been eliminated. She breathed a slight sigh of relief.

 He immediately went into the team chat, using the remaining half of his sanity to its fullest potential.

 [Kitahara Iori: "@Lin Zhen, Professor, are you still in the game?"]

 Lin Zhen: "It's still there. I have a notification on my end; it's been posted."

 Kitahara Iori quickly flipped upwards.

 [You have been completely petrified by the [Petrifying Eye]. You will lose all life in 120 minutes.]

 [Time remaining until death:]

 【1:58:59】

 [Note: If the petrification is not lifted after the countdown ends, the user will be considered dead.]

 [Detection revealed that your team no longer possesses the [Dao Tian Command Seal]. Your team will be permanently eliminated upon the death of any operator.]

 "Imamura."

 Kitahara Iori activated his Noble Phantasm; it was no longer a matter of whether his head was pointed or not. He approached Imamura Kohei and spoke.

 "We must hurry, find Medusa and kill her! Remove the petrification from the professor!"

 Kohei Imamura nodded, and they quickly began to act.

 [Aozaki Touko: "It's useless. Even if you kill the holder of the Mystic Eyes, you can't undo it, let alone the petrification from Medusa. Even if you could construct the materials needed for that kind of undoing magic... they're not something that can be reproduced in modern times."]

 [Gigumael: "Petrification is generally regarded as a curse of the gods in the mystery. Even though Medusa was demoted to a monster, it was still a divine petrification. To break the curse, one must first obtain the forgiveness or proof of a higher-ranking god, and at the same time, one needs materials that symbolize rebirth, such as the legendary Fountain of Life of Hippocrates. How could such things be found in modern times?"]

 [Gabriel: "Is the first beta tester about to be eliminated?"]

 [Ayako Mitsuki: "What a pity"]

 Shinya Kogami: "A rare good person among magicians"

 [Kong: "It's a real pity. Although he doesn't seem to have much combat power, he's the only local with a foundation in magic. If he could have stayed, the beta test team's progress would have been greatly accelerated."]

 [Hisoka: "Beta testers like Ryuguuin Seiya and Misaka Mikoto don't lack ability; what they lack is information and time."]

 [Kirigaya Kazuto: "What are you talking about? Just because something can't be done in real life doesn't mean it can't be done in a game!"]

 [Xu Xiang: "Heh, even in a game, given their current state, let alone defeating that monster, even catching up with them would be a problem."]

 Maple: "How could this happen? (Pouting)"

 -

 Shopping Street.

 Several members of the Fujimura group, holding photocopies of nine chibi-style figures, were asking around on the roadside.

 A van stopped, and the blond-haired young man who had just delivered [Himuro Bell] home rolled down the window and asked.

 Have you found these people?

 "No."

 Several group members shook their heads; they had asked around the whole way but had no results.

 The blond-haired guy sighed and lit a cigarette.

 He doesn't dare to call and ask about the situation there, fearing that something even worse might come out.

 "Dudu..."

 The phone rang, and he picked up his cell phone from his pocket.

 "Hello?!!"

 "Brother, that's awesome!"

 "What's wrong?"

 "This place looks like it was hit by a meteorite. Brother, are the people you found some kind of deities...?"

 "Stop talking nonsense and get to the point."

 The blond-haired guy immediately interrupted his brother, who sounded very excited.

 "They've come out now to ask if those nine people have been found."

 The blond-haired guy had just said, "No."

 A voice immediately rang out from outside the car window.

 "Call me."

 The blond-haired guy turned his head.

 A boy in green slowly materialized in the air right in front of them.

 The cigarette he was holding in his mouth suddenly fell out and landed on his thigh.

 "Ghost!!!"

 The other group members were so frightened that they backed away repeatedly, and some even bumped into telephone poles.

 The blond-haired young man looked at the green-clad boy in front of him and tentatively asked a question.

 "Xianjia?"

 "I am one of the people you are looking for."

 Kazuma Sato spoke. He had been following these people all the way, and hadn't made any moves to ensure his safety.

 Because he didn't know whether Lin Zhenbei, Yuan Jincun, and the other two were being controlled by these thugs, or if there was something else going on.

 I just overheard them standing next to me.

 He confirmed that these people were from a friendly organization before he showed up.

 "Oh."

 The blond-haired guy turned on the car's interior light, looked at his original hand-drawn illustration, at the chibi-style figure with black hair and a green cape, and then glanced at Kazuma Sato outside the car window.

 "It looks just like it, so much like it."

 "It was drawn based on me, how could it not look like me?"

 Kazuma Sato extended his hand and said:

 "Could I borrow your phone for a moment?"

 "no problem."

 The blond-haired guy shouted into the phone:

 "Quickly, let those brothers... answer the phone!"

 After saying that, he gave a forced smile and handed his phone out the window.

 "wait for me."

 Kazuma Sato took the phone, then disappeared again, running to a nearby alley to make sure no one was around before speaking.

 "Moshi moshi, this is Kazuma Sato. I have an ancient airplane named [Lala Zi]. The name of the airplane will change after it lands."

 He deliberately gave false information.

 Whether it was Kitahara Iori, Imamura Kohei, or Professor Hayashi Makoto, they could all understand the meaning behind his words.

 The plane landing signifies safety, and if they don't point out this obviously incorrect name, it means their personal safety is compromised.

 "I am Imamura."

 Kohei Imamura understands what Kazuma Sato means:

 “Vimalaya, you took us on a ride in this plane before. I was the one pushing Lala, so we are safe.”

 Kazuma Sato nodded:

 "Imamura, how are you all doing now?"

 Kohei Imamura said in a low voice, "Kitahara and I are safe for now, but Professor Hayashi is in trouble. I hope to get your help."

 "Ok?"

 Kazuma Sato instantly realized that the situation of the rookie team was probably very bad.

 "What exactly happened?"

 "Sigh... It's all my fault. If it weren't for me, things wouldn't have gotten to this point."

 Kohei Imamura felt incredibly guilty. He clenched his fist to calm himself down, and after his initial frustration, he reiterated that the most urgent task was to solve the problem.

 He skipped the useless pleasantries and went straight to explaining the current situation in one sentence:

 "Professor Lin Zhen has been petrified and will be eliminated in an hour and a half."

 Kazuma Sato's mind raced, gleaning a wealth of information from that single sentence, the most crucial of which was:

 "Your team has run out of Dao Tian Command Spells, hasn't it?"

 "Ah."

 "Who did this? How can it be undone?"

 "A Servant named Medusa fled towards the intersection, but the professor didn't explain how she was released."

 Kazuma Sato only uttered two words:

 "intelligence."

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