Fairy Britain, they all want to raise me?

Chapter 94 The gap between reality and illusion

"—"

Are the words I just said just a fantasy in my mind to defend myself, or did someone actually say that?

Because that thought never occurred to her again after that, Arturia had no way of knowing the answer to this question.

But, at least, Artoria did agree with a certain point in that sentence.

No matter what, she must grasp this period of her own life that only lives in the present, living here.

so......

"It's time to draw a wave of cards!"

Artoria quickly clicked on the card drawing interface.

You know, this time her simulation score reached a full eighty points, which was a super high score she had never received before!This is unprecedented progress!

Although there is a sentence in the simulator's evaluation: "Due to the activity of your squire Guinevere, your own evaluation has been greatly improved", it is almost mentioned by name that she is following the mixed score. This is somewhat embarrassing. Artoria felt a little embarrassed...but she still had some effect!

After all, for Guinevere to be so powerful, her excellent vision is also very important. If she hadn't fought against everyone's opinions and forcibly allocated resources to the person with the best C in the team, how could this game have been won? It’s so smooth!So, for such a good result in this game, she accounted for at least half...no, [-]% of the credit!

"But... I obviously thought that I would protect Guinevere for the whole game before the game started... I didn't expect that in the end, I relied entirely on him to help me get through the difficulties... ..."

Thinking of this, Artoria still felt a little hot on her face.

We can't keep going like this. At least next time, we must play a greater role in the team.

After secretly making up her mind, Artoria turned her attention to the simulator again.

In any case, it is a good thing that she can get high scores this time... According to the prompts of the simulator, after the simulated score reaches 80 points or more, she can get excellent results through the lottery given by this simulated settlement. The possibility of rewards will also be greatly increased, and there will be a higher probability of obtaining rewards related to this simulation.

In other words, in this simulation, the probability of her drawing the character card of Guinevere's Holy Sword User should be very high, right?

"Paradise, please protect me... Draw a card!"

After praying to the staff of choice in her hand, Arturia pressed the button to draw cards with hope.

Then, in front of the sparkling summoning circle, Artoria clasped her hands together, lowered her head and prayed hard.

Please, please ship it!

No matter what, she really wanted the summoning card of Guinevere, the holy sword user.

However, the brilliance of the stars she was looking forward to did not arrive.

The back of a silver card slowly appeared in front of her, and then slowly turned over in Arturia's eyes filled with disappointment.

[Congratulations on getting the reward: Boundary Breakthrough·Strength x1]

[Note: After you obtain "Boundary Breakthrough", the upper limit of an attribute you originally possessed will be exceeded, and your attribute will be able to reach a higher level. Each limit breakthrough card will increase your corresponding The upper limit of attributes is one level. 】

[Because you have obtained "Boundary Breakthrough·Strength" x1, your original upper limit of physical strength has been increased by one level, and now your upper limit of physical strength is A level. 】

"......what?"

After reading this reward, Artoria's little mind thought quickly and came up with a big question mark.

After being silent for a second, still wondering if she had understood something wrong, Artoria quickly clicked on her basic attributes column. After seeing the E in that column, she slowly exited the attribute interface.

Then, she finally couldn't help but complained loudly:

"What the hell is a breakthrough in muscle strength?! It doesn't even add level one attributes. What's the point of this reward?!"

Isn't this just irritating?It's so convoluted, it's better to simply and crudely increase your strength attribute by one level!That would at least slightly enhance her current combat effectiveness.

And if you really want to say that boundary breaking is completely useless, after all, she can quickly increase her attribute values ​​​​by ringing the bell, but in this way, the column where she needs the boundary breakthrough most is her ultra-low durability attribute, which can only reach D. , if this problem cannot be solved, she will always be the most vulnerable part of the team to be broken through.

But what is the use of this [boundary breakthrough·strength]?By the time her strength reaches A, her magic attribute has already reached A. At that time, wouldn't it be good for her to be an auxiliary mage in the back row to assist her teammates?Is it because she needs to go up and hit someone with a staff to kill someone when she gets a Strength A?

As a mage, who would use physics when the magic value is already up?

Arturia now has a bad word in Paradise, and she doesn’t know whether to take it seriously or not.

"No, calm down, Artoria, you are the child of prophecy, it is not good to get angry so easily... Anyway, you have extra chances to draw, right?"

After comforting herself a few words again, Artoria quickly calmed down and quickly counted the other resources she had on hand.

In addition to the card drawing opportunity given by the system after each simulation, she also accumulated twenty holy crystals at the end of the last simulation.

In this simulation, the system gave her a life summary of the Sims with three legendary events:

[Legendary event "Norwich Light": When faced with the disaster in Norwich that brought despair and prevented everyone from resisting, you, as the son of the prophecy, became the first one to express your hope. People who take steps forward.Even though you knew you were invincible, the scene when you stood up to resist inspired everyone behind you. 】

[Legendary event "Murderous Chocolate": In Edinburgh, during the Yumabu competition showdown with Nokenalei, the Queen of the North, you creatively combined chocolate with heart-shaped shapes to win the competition, and won the competition with your outstanding performance. The magic ability of people's prediction creates forbidden murderous chocolate, which is unprecedented and unprecedented. 】

[Legendary event "Prophetic Pilgrimage": As a child of prophecy, you completed the mission given to you by the paradise, rang the six pilgrim bells, ended the legendary tour, and returned to the inner sea of ​​the stars after the tour to forge a sword with your body , and the holy sword you forged successfully saved Fairy Britain from the fate of destruction. 】

Although she really wanted to complain, "What the hell is that murderous chocolate? Why can something like this black history become a legendary event!", but considering that each legendary event can bring her five saints. Chip, Artoria decided to reluctantly accept this dark history.

After all, who can’t live with a reward?In any case, the Holy Crystal is innocent.

That was her hope of drawing the Holy Sword User Heroic Spirit Card!

[You exchanged the Holy Crystal Crystal x35 you held for the Holy Crystal Stone x5]

Now, Artoria holds the future in her hands.

[You consumed Saint Quartz x3 and performed a regular pool draw. 】

"Please, please, Star Inland Sea, please protect me from shipping. I have never received a reward with quality above SR. After all, I am so weak. You don't want me to die inexplicably just after I set out on my journey, right?"

With muttering in her mouth, Artoria clicked the card draw button with a desperate attitude.

Then, golden light blinded her eyes.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!"

At that moment, Artoria, who was blinded by the golden light, completed the achievement of "a sound of frogs" by herself, and immediately bowed twice to the swamps in northern Britain:

"Thank you! Thank you, thank you! Thank you for the golden award my hometown gave me—huh?"

After quickly bowing, Arturia couldn't wait to move her eyes to the light screen. When she saw her reward, she was stunned on the spot:

[You have acquired the inherent skill: Forbidden Refining·A]

[This skill is sublimated from your personal legendary event "Murderous Chocolate" as an anecdote. 】

[You have extremely excellent ability to make props, and because of your innate talent in taboo knowledge and your production style that is very in line with the principles of taboo refining, the gift props you make will have At a higher level, the gift props made by your hands will have a chance to randomly come with some additional new abilities, and may even be sublimated into a living magical life form. 】

["Being able to turn chocolate into a murderous monster is a terrifying talent in a sense, right?"]

[——A certain magic teacher who was knocked down by the work submitted by his students]

"That's almost it! Is there no way around this? Who wants such a reward!"

Veins popped with anger at such a reward introduction, and Artoria had an extremely embarrassed expression on her face:

"Why can't you give me a similar reward? Is it so difficult for me to get a reward related to the Holy Sword User?!"

"I can't stand it anymore! Here's another one! I don't believe I can't get Guinevere's Holy Sword User reward!"

Saying this, Artoria, who was completely overwhelmed, immediately angrily clicked "Start simulation again" in the light screen.

[Sorry, this feature is temporarily under maintenance. 】

"Huh?" Arturia couldn't help but be stunned when she saw the subtitles.

[It has been detected that you and your attendants have successfully cleared the main mission of this simulation. Therefore, the simulator will open a new simulation gameplay and system. 】

[New Mode·FATE/Fate Simulation: In this mode, the simulated world you can perform will no longer be limited to Fairy Britain where you are, but will expand to infinite parallel universes. 】

[These universes all have completely different destinies, completely different futures, and scenes of joys and sorrows staged by completely different people, but the same thing is that their fates often revolve around the Holy Grail and the heroic spirits. 】

[Create your own character card through the new entry system, either as one of those legendary heroic spirits, or as a magician with obsession, or as someone who simply exists in that universe. , participate in their epic legend, and write an epic story that belongs only to you. 】

[FATE/Fate simulation mode and entry system will be installed after this update and maintenance. The specific server opening time shall be subject to actual conditions. 】

[Thank you for your continued support of the simulator series. 】

"what?"

After reading the long list of introductions, Artoria thought about it for two seconds and quickly understood the situation:

"That is to say, I can no longer take the chance to draw Holy Sword Master Guinevere now?"

Then, she soon became so sad that she rolled on the spot:

"Why! Are even the simulator officials targeting me?!"

........................

[Congratulations on getting the reward: the memory fragment of "Guinevere, the Holy Sword of Salvation". 】

"What a pity... I didn't draw the complete character card directly, but only the memory fragments?"

Looking at the golden reward in front of him, Guinevere sighed softly:

"I didn't expect that even my lucky A would fail one day? I thought I could at least draw a three-day experience card and the whole Heroic Spirit would feel great."

[Note: The memory fragments of the Heroic Spirit character card are one-time consumables. After using this prop, you will gain the memory of a legendary event in the Heroic Spirit's life and gain a skill related to the event. Or a treasure. 】

"Fuck!"

Guinevere originally thought that the effect of this memory fragment might be mediocre, but after reading it, he immediately overturned his previous thoughts.

Please!This is a skill and treasure that directly locks the legendary event!And he can even obtain the memory of this legendary event, so that he can fill the gap where he cannot obtain the simulated memory!

"Is this Lucky A? I have never felt so wonderful!"

Without hesitation, Guinevere immediately used this memory fragment.

[You have consumed 1 memory fragment of "Sacred Sword of Salvation Guinevere"]

[Randomizing the legendary event of this heroic spirit...]

[About to obtain the legendary memory of "Sacred Sword of Salvation Guinevere" "Norwich Skyfire"]

Seeing this line of subtitles, Guinevere was so happy that he almost laughed out loud.

But soon, when the familiar hand of disaster and endless flames appeared in front of him, he could no longer laugh.

While the self-liberation Noble Phantasm in the simulation stepped forward with the Heavenly Fire Holy Seal held high...

——Unspeakable severe pain surged from all directions and every inch of his body, overwhelming his nerves in an instant.

Until that moment, Guinevere didn't know what the gap between reality and illusion was.

Chapter 95 Mediocre people are mediocre wherever they go

pain,

Pain, pain, pain,

Why why why does it hurt so much pain pain pain——

The burning memory seeped into his blood vessels like lava, and pierced into his bone marrow like sharp spikes.

It was like a red-hot iron pierced his eyes, and then penetrated straight into his brain. The severe pain turned his brain upside down.

He couldn't even think about regretting accepting this memory, because such severe pain easily tore his rationality to pieces, and while his sight was flooded by the tide of memory, his body was He fell directly to the ground, rolling around desperately because of the pain that had exceeded his endurance limit.

Those memories were too clear, so clear that he felt as if he were actually there. The hot tongues of fire burned his skin into charcoal, and the smell of scorched flesh and blood filled his nasal cavity. When he thought that that smell was emanating from his own body, he couldn't help but want to scream.

But when he opened his mouth, the too severe pain deprived him of the ability to scream. In reality, his eyes were looking up at the ceiling empty, and his hands and feet were moving randomly like a drowning person. The air kicked up, and snot and tears were mixed together, and they were unconsciously smeared on his collar and the ground.

However, the most tormenting thing is that the man in the memory has not stopped moving at this moment. He is still moving forward. He is still holding the flaming sword tightly. Holding tightly the big sword that brought him torture and pain, he swung forward, and with his movement, the pain from his hands increased exponentially. ,

Under such painful torture, his nervous system should have made him faint immediately to avoid being tortured to death by such a severe pain signal, but the forcible transmission of the memory ensured that his spirit was forcibly awake, and the system's influence on him The protection also forcibly stabilized his life state, forcing him to endure the entire process of such painful torture. Under such torture, every second seemed as long as a century.

Finally, with the violent explosion, the huge black shadow reaching the sky and the ground was forced back by the flames, and the endless darkness was swallowed up by the flames. Then, the severe pain reached its extreme at that moment.

Immediately afterwards, a large amount of seawater came in and engulfed him, and the suffocating feeling of cold seawater pouring into his lungs followed closely.

There is even a vague sense of peace that I have finally returned to where I should go.

Then, as Guinevere lost consciousness due to suffocation in the memory, this extremely torturous memory finally came to an end.

At the same time, at the moment when the torturous memory sharing stopped, the protection that forced Guinevere to wake up was finally removed, and Guinevere's consciousness, which was already on the verge of reaching its limit, was instantly broken like a string.

——I don’t know how many hours passed, but when Guinevere finally regained consciousness and slowly woke up, the first message that was transmitted to his brain was the coldness and hardness of the ground, as well as the The smell of dust and earth in the nose and mouth.

What followed was a tight feeling all over his face and neck, after some kind of mucus had dried up.

After being in a daze for several minutes, Guinevere's already stiff brain finally came back to his senses, regained the ability to process information, and recalled why he was here.