[FGO] Stone is a bad civilization

Before this, I have never felt so intuitively the fact that Wuxiang was the last master to save humanity.

A servant's Noble Phantasm is condensed from his life experience. For a master who has served multiple heroic spirits, the Noble Phantasm he is most likely to obtain after his death must be the "bond" related to the servant he contracted with him during his lifetime. "Are.

Among the servants summoned by Wuxiang, some—such as the Cave King and Minamoto Raimitsu—I have seen before, but most of them are unfamiliar faces.As soon as they landed, they showed their loyalty to their summoners, then quickly took out their weapons, turned into streamers again, and quickly joined the battle with the Demon God Pillars behind them.

My eyes hurt from the intense light just now, and I was about to shed tears, but before I could recover from the beam of light just now, those followers scattered in the state of light flow again After all, the white light surrounding them almost blinded my vision again.

After I completely recovered from the scene with too strong contrast between light and dark, I realized that not all the servants went to help according to the current situation.

Another follower chose to stay where he was.

It was a man with a beautiful and delicate face that was almost not human. He was holding a strangely shaped cane. He was covered in snow white, with long white hair protruding from under his hood and cloak, dragging down to his waist. s position.When the follower noticed my startled gaze, he curled his eyelashes and gave me a kind smile.It wasn't until this moment that I noticed that he had a pair of extremely rare violet eyes.

"Merlin."

Before I could ask, Wu Xiang took the lead in calling out the follower's name.

He calmly said: "Since you answered my call, why don't you help?"

"I'm sorry, master." The servant whom Wuxiang called Merlin spread his hands towards him, "The 'I' in this world really doesn't want to participate in the battle, as the one who temporarily occupied his body Shall I... just respect his opinion a little bit?"

Wuxiang let out a bit of dissatisfaction.

"If you don't go, I will," he said, "You can just watch Aiba here, it's rare to be summoned using Chaldea's power system, so it's no problem to play casually."

"Okay," Merlin held the cane and showed Wuxiang an expression that could be called a "hippie smiley face", "I wish you good luck in martial arts."

Wu Xiang rolled his eyes at him, turned the ring into a red sword again, stomped his feet, and rushed into the battle like an arrow leaving the string.In an instant, in the darkness where the Demon God Pillars were piled up, the shrill screams of the tentacles sounded one after another, mixed with the piercing sounds of weapons colliding and rubbing each other, my head almost burst when I heard them all. open.

"Hello, what should I call you, can I just call you Xuejian?"

Just when I was still desperately enduring the increasingly loud noises around me and the slowly evaporating bloody smell, Merlin suddenly spoke.His voice was very gentle, and there seemed to be a strange but serene atmosphere all around him. When he approached, I suddenly realized that where he stepped, the clumps did not match the surrounding environment. The little flowers are blooming enthusiastically.

"……Can."

For a moment, I couldn't figure out the character of the servant in front of me. Although his appearance and voice gave people a very reliable and gentle feeling, for some reason, I always felt that his nature should be a somewhat frivolous man.

"Excuse me, are you... the Merlin of King Arthur?"

"Yes." Merlin smiled, "It's a pity, Al, she is not willing to respond to Wuxiang's call, she is really stubborn."

I was stunned for a while before realizing that the "Al" Merlin said was Artoria Pendragon, the most famous female King Arthur in the fate series.

"I seem to have heard of this incident," I said, "I heard from King David that the whole family of the Round Table is very disapproving of Wuxiang's approach... Is it because his plan violates the chivalry they advocate?"

"Half and half," Merlin said, "There is also a part of the reason, because Al thinks that Wuxiang's actions are really more unreasonable than her who tried to use the Holy Grail to restore the country, so he refused to help."

"'Obtaining the Holy Grail is a goal that can be achieved through equal battles between servants, but your plan is to hurt those innocent people, so I, and my knights of the round table, will never give What you want to help, please do it yourself." That's what she said at the beginning."

Merlin shrugged at me with a helpless expression.

I nodded: "According to the possible character of the Knight King and what Wuxiang has done so far, this is indeed very realistic."

"So," I asked him again, "as the teacher of King Arthur, why did you choose to respond to Wuxiang's call? Although you refused to go directly to the job to deal with the Demon God Pillar, the most basic thing is that you still chose to respond Him, admit him, don't you?"

Merlin tilted his head and thought for a while.

"Because I like to see the happy ending of human beings," he said, "It would be best if everything can come to a happy ending. Therefore, I want to witness the ending of this child, even if what he did is not good. To be recognized by most of the heroic spirits, even if he is likely to go on the road of self-extinction in the end."

"...Self-extinction?" I was taken aback, "Is that a good ending?"

Merlin smiled and didn't speak, but turned his gaze to the Heroic Spirits who were fighting wantonly in the Demon God Pillars in the distance.

I followed his gaze, and the first thing I saw was the entanglement of those black, white, and gray demon pillars that seemed to have countless pairs of eyes.The darkness where the Demon God Pillar inhabited has gradually expanded to what could be called the sky, and their bodies have also extended accordingly, spreading from the ground to a height beyond the reach of human sight.

"If the light of a star represents the strength of the follower's mind, then Wuxiang undoubtedly represents the brightest star in the sky."

Merlin looked at the white light spots flickering between the giant demon pillars, and suddenly sighed.

"Because it is a beautiful thing in my eyes, so I hope he can have an ending consistent with his efforts."

"Is it just beautiful in your eyes?"

I finally found out where the sense of disobedience from the servant in front of me was.Although Merlin was beautiful and always had a smile on his face, in essence, he was an inorganic and cold person.Perhaps Wuxiang really made a lot of efforts for the resurrection of Solomon, but what about the influence and damage he caused?Could it be that what you are after is the beauty of human beings, and he happens to have a strong mind, so you can erase all the inappropriate things he did?

"No wonder, if there is such a teacher, it is not difficult to teach a king who 'doesn't understand people' like King Arthur." I lowered my head and sighed softly.

"Don't say that, see you."

Merlin's ears are very good, and he heard my muttering all at once.But in the face of such an evaluation that was almost accusatory, he did not show the slightest expression of anger, but still maintained a smiling appearance.

"I'm a half-dream," he said, "human emotions are my appetite, but even so, I'm a bit picky. Wuxiang's dream is pure and delicious, and that's why I like him one."

"Just like King Gilgamesh would never mistake your true nature, my ability to read the hearts of human beings is also very high."

"... What's the use of insight, you can't understand at all."

I said: "Solomon still has a heart that wants to become a human, but do you have it? Although you have imitated human emotions and reactions very well, you are still using... the rules of the half-succubus to deal with it from the beginning to the end. others."

"Oh?

Merlin raised his eyebrows: "Then according to what you said, what should I do to really look like a human being?"

"I have been in human society for nearly a hundred years, can I do worse than that former magic king who is keen on virtual girl idols on the Internet? Ah, by the way, the magic☆Meli he was a fan of before is the one I stayed in In Avalon, there is nothing to toss out."

This is really some incredible information.I widened my eyes in surprise, and belatedly discovered that the pronunciation of Merlin and Meili is actually the same, and when I checked the homepage of the Magic☆Meili blog on the Romani computer earlier, the image of the virtual blogger It was indeed somewhat similar to the Merlin in front of him.

"Look," Merlin seemed to be very pleased with my face change, "Is a 'human' who can't even distinguish a 'non-human' worthy of being called a qualified 'human'?"

"It's just that I stand in a different position from him." He spread his hands to me and said very to the point.

"Romani likes you, so I choose to protect you and guard against Wuxiang. I used to be Wuxiang's follower, but at this moment, I can still stand here and talk to you with a peaceful mind... Look at it this way If I come here, am I a bit more noble, a bit more like a perfect human being?"

"...It is because of selfishness that human beings are human beings."

When I bite the bullet and say this, I always feel that I have put myself in a position with lower moral standards.But this is indeed the nature of human beings. It is precisely because of mutual suspicion, jealousy and hatred that the beauty of "love" will be more highlighted, and the shining of those virtues will be more prominent.

"Yes."

Unexpectedly, Merlin did not refute my point of view, but said with a smile: "It is precisely because of being soaked in those dirty emotions that the brilliance of Wuxiang itself can be highlighted."

"The stars always have to be set off by the night to appear brighter."