People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

"Hmm? Chloe, Miyu, have you collected all the Assassin cards?" Qin Xuan asked.

"Hey, it's nothing." Chloe took out the still warm card from her bosom and put it on Qin Xuan's desk. "Big brother, when will the new instructor be arranged? Let me think... the next game should be Berserker?"

"Yes, but there are no more instructors."

"Okay - eh, that's all?" Chloe was still thinking about when she could be the "comeback player" again in the simulated battle, making Illya (KL) lose three times and bow down at her feet willingly calling her "Sister"!

"We have trained enough. There is no point in training more. Simulation is just simulation after all."

Qin Xuan recently took a rough look at their combat records in the simulated environment and the combat strategies they used, and discovered a very dangerous tendency: the three little girls seemed to take their lives less and less seriously. After all, if they failed to beat the simulation and died, they could try again, just like it was a virtual game.

So they used various "suicide" tactics in order to find out the opponent's intelligence and weaknesses.

"You've been too reckless lately. It doesn't matter how hard you try in the simulated battle. After all, if you die, you can just start over. But if you die in real life, you're really dead. There won't be another chance."

"——So, I won't arrange any instructors this time, and you won't have any intelligence either. You have to explore and fight on your own, because this is reality, and you only have one life."

Hearing this, Chloe and Miyu's expressions also turned serious.

"Don't worry, big brother. I promise to make it through the game with one life. But to be honest, I'm actually worried about Illya (KL). What if she accidentally makes a mistake during the battle..."

"Her, it's possible. But where is Illya (KL)? It seems like you three are always together, right?"

"Illya's behavior is a little strange, Brother Qin Xuan," Miyu felt that it was time to ask that question, "Specifically... when we came here today, we met her on the road walking out of the association..."

"Oh, then the one you met is not the Illya you know."

"Huh, as expected!?" Chloe and Miyu looked at each other.

"I've already explained to you about parallel worlds. She's from there... Oh, Chloe, you've actually seen her and met her before. Here's a hint: her 'unsealed' childhood in another world."

Qin Xuan mentioned a key word, which made Chloe immediately think of the parallel world memory scene she had browsed before.

While Miyu was still confused, Chloe had already realized what was going on. She frowned, as if she had immediately thought of something bad. "So, Illya over there..."

"Hey, let me remind you again, Chloe. Don't treat her with pity or outright love. Illya...well, she's much older than you, so she has all kinds of things that she can't get over. To put it simply, she's as stubborn as a little adult."

"Aba, this sounds like a lot of trouble."

"Right, right, so before you understand the suffering of others..." Qin Xuan was about to say something -

Bang. There was a crashing sound outside the window.

A few people looked carefully and found that it was Illya (KL) outside the window. Half of her face hit the window. It was obviously blocked by the defense barrier and hit her head. And it was definitely the Illya they knew. She was wearing a magical girl transformation costume.

"Why did you come in from that place, Illya? Isn't the front door open?"

Qin Xuan waved his hand, removed the defensive spell on the window, and let her in.

“No, sorry,” Illya stuck out her tongue, “When I flew over just now, I saw my parents and some familiar-looking people (Ahad and others) just coming out, but I was wearing this outfit, ahem, so I avoided them…”

She smiled awkwardly, and seemed not to want to show her magical girl form in front of her parents. To be honest, at the beginning, Illya was mentally prepared for her family to find out that she was a magical girl. She was a little nervous or looking forward to their reaction.

But before, when she revealed it to her parents, her mother just reacted indifferently with a compliment, something like "Oh, Illya got full marks in the test today, mom is so happy~", there was no jaw-dropping reaction at all.

Then, father Kiritsugu didn't even give a compliment. He frowned and said, "Be careful on the road and stay safe."

Dad, what do you think a magical girl is? Is she going to work?

Next, it was Lijielit who was lying on the sofa eating snacks: "Oh, so you are a magical girl."

It’s too much, it turned into “Oh” at this point!

As for Sera, she didn't seem to care about it: "Magical girl? By the way, is she able to fly? Illya, I ordered a spice at the convenience store yesterday. It should be delivered today. Can you help me pick it up? I'll need it for cooking tonight!"

I take it back, Sera went even further.

Finally, it was my brother, Shirou Emiya: "What, magical girls! Isn't that something from comics? It's real!?"

Hey, we’re all family, why is my brother reacting so normally?

In short, Illya felt inexplicably lost when facing her family. She didn't quite understand her family's train of thought. Hmm... maybe they just didn't understand the essence of magical girls. This must be the case!

“…Although I don’t know what you’re thinking about when your expression keeps changing,” Qin Xuan waved his hand in front of Illya to let her come back to her senses, “but you still have to participate in the Berserker card recycling battle tonight. You can’t run away.”

Snapped.

As if her rationality had returned, Illya cleared her mind of random thoughts, rethought what Qin Xuan had just said, and then looked at the two friends next to her, "Is there something wrong? Don't you think so? Instructor——"

"There's no instructor," Chloe said unhappily, "Big Brother has already told you twice, but you started to daydream again. You must not have heard it, right?"

"Wow, Xiao Hei, you are so mean to me..."

"It's useless to act stupid! Idiot Illya!"

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The mirror world can be said to be the last mirror world.

Because there is only one class card left here, the distortion of the earth veins has become smaller than ever before, and the size of the mirror world is only slightly taller than a teaching building.

Illya and her three companions were nervous when they arrived here. They were nervous not only because there was no simulated training and no intelligence provided, but also because their battle images were being transmitted back to the association in real time. The eldest brother said that some performance evaluation was needed. Uh, it seemed that my parents were also planning to watch it live.

What a shameful performance...

"Illya, stop being in a daze, (the enemy) is coming!"

Chloe reminded.

"------!"

With a roar that was not like a human voice, a huge, muscular, black monster jumped out.

“Hiss,” Illya thought to herself, she looks so strong, “Dream Summon—Saber!”

She gave the order to the magic wand, and the power of the card recorded in advance covered her whole body, and the golden holy sword gathered light -

"Excalibur!"

Chapter 269 The one who immediately went to the battlefield was—Hercules!

The black muscular monster is undoubtedly the veteran actor Hercules from the Fate set.

However, the card servant cannot be considered as the real person, so "Hercules" only has power but no brain. Originally, when the complete servant's will descended, even if he was driven crazy, Hercules could remain rational and even speak (in the original fsn, Illya initially disliked his ugliness and refused to communicate, so he became speechless), and his martial arts could be fully utilized as usual.

But as I just said, card servants don't have brains. Using martial arts requires brains, so facing Illya's Sword of Promised Victory, the strategy adopted by the berserker Hercules was very reckless, which was to rush over and eat the treasure.

The holy sword Excalibur in Illya's hand flickered and shone brightly, and the golden light gathered on it. It was made of people's thoughts and crystallized inside the planet, the ultimate divine weapon of "Last Phantasm". Although it was not the genuine one kept in the inner sea of ​​the planet, it was a treasure collected by the intelligence of the Sea of ​​Heroes. Just like the holy spear held by Gray was also the shadow of the Tower of the End.

The enormous amount of magic power in Illya's body turned into light under the guidance of the holy sword. At the moment when the treasure was activated, she swung it from top to bottom - the tip of the sword fired a huge beam of light like a laser beam.

Then the light, huge light, amazing light and heat, like the reappearance of mythology, the scene of the power of the stars, swept across the modern atmospheric environment and concrete building structures, impacting and burning the black enemies in front along with a large amount of rubble. Hercules did not hold on for even a second when he tried to withstand the light of the treasure, and was instantly crushed by the holy sword light cannon and submerged.

“Boom boom boom—”

The entire teaching building continued to collapse due to the Holy Sword's artillery fire. Under the powerful energy explosion, the walls were destroyed, the floors collapsed, and dust flew everywhere. In order to avoid being affected, the three of them had to dodge and fly upwards.

“Hey, hey, hey, Illya, be careful not to overdo it. The mirror world is very small this time, and we might get hit if we’re not careful!” As the dodging space on the ground was too small, Chloe had no choice but to be picked up by Illya and flown upwards, followed by Miyu.

"I'm sorry, Hei," Illya smiled to hide her embarrassment, "I was in control just now, but was the enemy eliminated? Although it went too smoothly just now, I did hit it directly--"

"After the magic power test, we found that the hostile reaction has indeed disappeared," Miyuhi explained, "but in view of the previous training, we can't use this as a standard to reflect the enemy's status."

"Hmm," Illya remembered that Ryougi Shiki had "eliminated his own presence" at that time, but she always felt that this time was different. "Berserker" should have been completely destroyed by the hit.

Yet their caution was the right thing to do.

In the dusty ruins of the former teaching building below, the black Berserker once again stood on the ground, exuding the aura of his full strength. His unwounded and full of aura gave people the illusion that the battle had just begun.

This made Illya doubt for a moment whether she was really hit just now?

"Wait, wait...what's going on? Illya, are you sure you just killed him?"

Chloe was also surprised that the enemy seemed completely unharmed.

Miyu guessed: "Just now, for a short period of time, the enemy's reaction did disappear, but then reappeared. It can be preliminarily determined to be some kind of immortality or high-speed regeneration skill...?"

"...The recovery skill is too exaggerated," Chloe complained, "This guy looks like he recovered without any damage at all?!"

The three discussed for a while in the sky, but since there was too little credible information at the moment, they decided to try firing a few more magic cannon shots.

"Xiao Hei, I'm sorry, I'm going to use 'Starlight Burst' next." Illya let go of the arm holding Chloe and looked at Miyu, "After all, I can't use the magic cannon while holding you--"

"Hey hey——"

"Miyu! Pick up the—"

With a whoosh, in a standard parabola, Chloe was thrown onto Miyu again like some kind of cargo, "..."

Chloe didn't complain verbally, but she inexplicably felt a sense of dissatisfaction as she watched Illya prepare to fire the magic cannon. After Illya finished firing, it would be Miyu's turn to fire a new shot.

Chloe really hoped that she wouldn't keep getting tossed around like this.

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Qin Xuan was walking on the road, accompanied by all the Einzberns except Illya from this world, namely Ahad, Sera, Lijelite from this world and Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel from this world. Their destination was the underground cave of Ryudo Temple in Enzo Mountain.

It is one of the "famous places" in Fuyuki. After all, it is the place where the complete Holy Grail ritual is stored, with a complete system for earth vein extraction, energy storage, Holy Grail operation, defense and many other functions. Even the first generation of the loving family saint Justisia herself (her personality has dissipated) also stayed there. The three great families and their relatives know it clearly.

Their purpose is to deal with the "black mud" here.

Of course, there is also the need to transport the discontinued Holy Grail system. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary mistakes and losses, it is necessary to bring these people here. As for Shion and the others, since the city's ground veins have been roughly constructed, although the ground vein spiritual road network has not been fully built, some remote communications and computing power support are not difficult, and they will be contacted when necessary.

Compared to the Holy Grail system in this world which has not been shut down yet, this parallel world is relatively easier to deal with. We can just regard it as a way to accumulate data and experience.

As for the video of Illya and the others' "card recycling battle", it actually caught the eyes of everyone.

To be precise, the video was presented in the small holy grail held by Qin Xuan. The holy grail container played a virtual image of light and mist. Three small figures were fighting with a black unit below them. At the same time, the sound of the battle was also transmitted. The volume was adjusted to a level that was just not noisy or hard to hear.

As for the Holy Grail in his hand, it is not just a fake one, but a real Holy Grail. Ahad, his original form, Eubusta Kuhayd, has complete information from the production of the Holy Grail to the central system of the Holy Grail. It is not difficult for him to reproduce the Holy Grail in the literal sense that was still used in the Third Holy Grail War.

The difficulty, or rather the complexity, is the construction of the new Holy Grail system of GOM.

Qin Xuan was thinking that the current computing resources were still sufficient, but the basic operating logic of the system could not be so complicated that the war process was not handled smoothly (stuttering), nor could it frequently fail (bugs) due to various conditions.

The new mode is based on the spirit world, and restrictions must be placed on all kinds of foul operations in the Holy Grail War. The best way would be to create a rigorous and standardized war process. If it turns into a seven-person free-for-all every time, it would be one of the reasons for the chaos and frequent incidents in the Holy Grail War.

In the Holy Grail War, there must be order.

Without discussing the specific operating rules for now, Qin Xuan set this tone for the time being.

On the other side of him, Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel were the ones who cared most about Illya and the others' "live battle situation".

"Ah, these kids are amazing. Illya is still the best, and Chloe's performance is also reassuring," Irisviel praised her children as always. "I just wanted them to live their lives in peace, but if they are willing to take this path, mom will support them too!"

After hearing what Irisviel said, Emiya Kiritsugu wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, "Aili, the children are fighting against ancient heroes. This is not a path that can be easily laughed off..."

"Ah, yes, that's right. I am also worried about their safety. I am worried about whether they can make the right judgment, stick to their original intentions, and whether they can take care of themselves... But, Kiritsugu, sometimes blindly stopping them will only hinder the children's growth and cause greater mistakes in the future."

“Alas, I can never win an argument with you.” Kiritsugu stared at the small figure tumbling on the Holy Grail. He and Irisviel had already known the information about the “Berserker” in advance. Hercules, a demigod hero, was extremely powerful no matter how you looked at it. He couldn’t help but worry, “…”

Judging from the image reflected on the small Holy Grail in Qin Xuan's hand, the three little guys have reached a stalemate. They still have not confirmed the correct information about Hercules' treasure. After all, the range of the long-range magic cannon is too large. Even with Berserker, they have uncovered layer after layer of the ground, but they didn't even see his regeneration process.

Then they discovered that the magic cannon was also ineffective, which was probably not just a simple regeneration.

I had no choice but to start close combat.

At this time, the Emiya couple, who were originally quite leisurely, also turned their attention nervously, fearing that something might go wrong with the child.

However, the accident happened.

Chloe and Illya teamed up to restrain Berserker in close combat, and when they tried to chop him in with the holy sword for the second time, Illya suddenly found that she could not chop him anymore.

"Huh--?"

"Stupid Illya, get out of the way!" Chloe attacked from the other side in an attempt to distract them, but Berserker ignored her and swung his huge axe at Illya who was nearby.

Chapter 270: Black Cup Curse, Take It All Away!

It's not that Illya didn't react, but when she used the holy sword to chop Berserker, the distance between them was too close, and the size of Berserker's weapon was much larger than the holy sword. If she wanted to retreat and dodge along the normal route, she would actually bump into Berserker's attack.

"What should I do?" Illya was not panicked. She had enough combat experience, including the experience of being close to death. "The possibility of dodging is too small. I am not as familiar with Archer cards as Xiao Hei, and I don't have the mind-eye technique. This Saber card should have "intuition", but this is not the time to experiment with skills. As expected, I'd better use the method I am best at-"

The magic is released!

Illya's huge magical power surged out, covering her body and the holy sword, greatly enhancing its power. She shouted, swung the holy sword behind her, and tried to confront Berserker's weapon.

"——Idiot! You made a mistake! The power of swinging the sword like this is far less than that of the regular hand, so it is 100% impossible to block it!"