They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

"That's right! That's so abominable~!" BB pretended to be indignant, which made Emiya look as if he had seen a ghost.

Logically speaking, doesn't this practice of ignoring the rules and letting the servants engage in brutal fighting with each other just fit in with BB's nature of liking torture?

"Hey! Senior seems to have a deep prejudice against BB-ki! Please, although BB is a cute devil-type junior, I have never been a stickler for rules and regulations, but I don't like such reckless behavior!"

"Well, a truly brilliant boss-level operation should carefully consider the user base and give everyone equal torture! This super perfunctory, crude and brutal ritual process is not worth watching at all."

"Come on, stop making bullying sound so righteous!"

Emiya stepped forward, holding up the Murasaki sword high. The sword flashed with a mighty aurora, and the terrifying golden light tore through the sky, destroying the thick tree roots in one blow.

Then, the chopped branches, like rootless duckweed, began to transform into broken and dissipated bark tissue under the flow of divine power, and transformed into illusory data streams.

"Huh?" BB suddenly flashed closer and extracted something from the shattered and dissipated data stream.

"Did you find anything?"

"Hmm—it's hard to say. Senior destroyed everything so thoroughly that only fragmentary records remain... The information concerns Vincent, the original instigator of the Holy Grail War... The data gap is so severe that even the almighty BB-kun can't seem to fix it, unless we find additional data sources."

"About Vincent..."

Emiya suddenly remembered Vincent's diary that he had seized from the top floor of the YAMAL at the beginning.

"Don't tell me, it really exists."

Chapter 277: I really want to get to the FGO world line

"Xia Mi! What are the results of your interpretation of the diary?"

The first thing Emiya did after returning was not to rest, but to still be thinking about promoting the resolution of the situation.

While the task of cutting down the tree's roots is important, understanding the specific process by which the Holy Grail War spiraled out of control is also crucial.

He was a little concerned about what role Friedrich von Roon, who was obviously Odin's pawn, played in this out-of-control incident.

Judging from Odin's planning ability, he never acts without a purpose.

In Emiya's eyes, he could despise Odin's frontal combat skills, but he could never underestimate this guy's ability to plan and cause trouble.

In this respect alone, he is on the same level as the old director of FGO.

"Eh?"

Xia Mi, dressed in a maid outfit, hurried over to help the God Slayer rest, but the master just opened his mouth and asked her to continue working?

The most terrifying thing in the world is that your boss is even more complacent than you are, which makes all your legitimate reasons for working overtime and slacking off disappear.

"Okay, I'll get it for you right away." She said attentively with a smile on her face.

In a few seconds, Xia Mi spread Vincent's notebook in front of Emiya. The notebook looked the same as before, completely original, without any added interpretation or analysis.

It is obvious that the labor-intensive interpretation work has not yielded any results.

Emiya didn't say anything about this. He just handed the contents of the diary to BB to scan without saying a word.

When it comes to working with complex data, the advantages of artificial intelligence are clearly evident.

"Hi, hi, hi! Thank you, seniors, and Maid Xia Mi for providing the data. BB, your hardworking family, will immediately reveal the mystery of the YAMAL Holy Grail War to our audience!"

"Thump, thump, thump! Why did a luxury cruise ship, sailing for over a decade, suddenly capsize? Why did the Holy Grail War suddenly spiral out of control, with even the organizers changing hands repeatedly? Why did Vincent, the organizer and owner of the cruise ship, openly express his frenzy in his diary?"

"All the lingering mysteries will be revealed live on this episode of 'Approaching the Holy Grail', hosted by BB herself!"

"Stop!" Emiya picked up his phone and pretended to shake it. "Skip the synopsis! Forget the commercials, the opening credits, the staff, the acknowledgments, and all that. Let's get straight to the point!"

"Wow, why is it that no one wants to appreciate the opening remarks that BB came up with so hard," BB covered his face and was about to cry again.

Emiya turned his head away instantly as if he couldn't bear to watch, and his eyes happened to meet Xia Mi's.

Maid Xia Mi was clearly puzzled by why this AI was so full of inner drama... no, so much acting? Shouldn't a normal AI prioritize efficiency? Was this AI broken?

"Xia Mi, go call Ridgelove over. She should also be interested in the truth."

"Okay." Xia Mi agreed at first, then hesitantly said, "Also, that Valkyrie you brought back last time seems to have other ideas."

"Slude? What happened to her?"

"She seems to want to follow you into battle," Xia Mi's tone was filled with suspicion. "I say... can you really believe it? Is she going to turn against us and go back to her Valkyrie sisters?"

"No, that's not important..." Emiya denied. "If she's really suspicious, then it would be much safer for her to stay with me than to leave her with you guys... Don't you agree?"

Xia Mi was speechless. Was her fighting ability being despised again?

"One more thing. Have you observed Su Xiaoqiang's two people from the Holy Church? How did they perform?"

"Eh...seems pretty calm, right? They took the initiative to help when we were trying to calm the crowd."

Xia Mi didn't know why Emiya asked this, so she just reported according to the actual situation, "That Su Xiaoqiang seems to have a talent for learning and practices very hard every day. Mariana has a cheerful personality and is good at socializing and speaking. She has contributed to the stability of the survivor base to a certain extent."

"Well, that's good. Keep an eye on them."

Emiya did not clearly state the purpose of his actions.

But he had a vague plan - he needed a group of absolutely reliable team to help him. The last time after the Tokyo incident, the Snake Eight Families were suddenly attacked, which made Emiya realize that such a big force was not absolutely reliable.

The Sheqi Eight Clan certainly had obvious advantages in terms of resources and manpower, but they were not truly trustworthy confidants. Relying on the influence of the God Slayer would easily have made such a powerful force voluntarily attached, but there was also the unavoidable problem of internal traitors.

The forces behind Odin seemed to have already established a global presence, targeting even the inner workings of the major families. At a time like this, having an absolutely trustworthy team was always better than fighting alone with no one to rely on, and being suspicious of potential spies everywhere.

——In fact, what Emiya didn’t know was that in the outside world, the Seiya Medical Association had been forced into using the nuclear missile silos at the military base.

This round of nuclear missile launches has caused an unprecedented uproar, and even many major countries have fallen into the highest level of alert... Being able to ignore multiple security verification mechanisms and launch a country's nuclear missiles means that national security is facing a huge threat.

If the missiles launched had not uniformly flown towards the North Pole, the events that followed would probably have evolved into a global nuclear war.

"Well then, let BB reveal the truth about the YAMAL incident to everyone who looks confused!"

After everyone arrived, BB waved his hand and the projection equipment in the room started to work automatically. Then the light and shadow in the entire space changed, and a holographic landscape like a computer space appeared in front of everyone.

"Hehe! This is the data field unfolding here, as the almighty BB-chan imitates the form of computer space. Now, let's directly intervene in the past experiences of the person involved, Vincent—!"

Almost invisible azure light particles float and reorganize in the air, changing rapidly every minute and every second, extracting a vast amount of complex information and presenting it in the form of intuitive virtual images.

So, Emiya and others saw the scene where Vincent came to the helipad and greeted a strange masked man in the heavy helicopter.

"Medical Association..."

Emiya heard the words they used during their conversation. Is this the official name of the organization behind Odin? It doesn't seem like the full name, but an abbreviation?

Regislev noticed that when the two left, a group of crew members began to move heavy equipment from the plane.

"what is that?"

Naturally, Emiya wouldn't know about this, but BB blurted out his guess:

"That's what's called a computer matrix. It can be seen as a high-precision calculation device that applies unique alchemy, similar to an alchemical matrix... The structure of computer space should be closely related to these things?"

Several people then saw Vincent and the masked man coming to the lowest cabin below the deck, where Star Maria was imprisoned.

"grandmother!"

Rijirev couldn't help but exclaimed as she saw Grandmother Maria's transformation into a dragon deepened in the lower cabin.

That appearance caused Grandmother's flesh and blood to expand and spread out from the outside of her body like a terrifying bright red ball of flesh, with dark black scales and claws tightly arranged along the outward-turned bones and flesh tissue. Many body tissues had already eroded the cabin and hull, integrating into it like blood vessels or branches.

The erosion of the YAMAL was clearly already evident here.

But what made Regislove even more angry was that Grandma Maria, who was in such a miserable state, was actually used as a tool by the hateful Vincent to operate the Holy Grail War.

BB seemed unable to empathize with the pain that the little girl, Reggie Love, was experiencing due to her admiration for her child. She simply unraveled the story and interpreted it as follows:

"...The story has been pretty much reconstructed. Out of greed, Vincent agreed to the Medical Association's plan. He donated Maria's blood to the Medical Association, completing a transformation of himself into a vampire undead 'Dead Apostle'. For the rest of the time, Maria's blood was constantly drawn and her flesh cut for experiments."

"The Medical Association's technology isn't up to par. The limited Holy Grail War data they have isn't enough to simulate a real Holy Grail War from scratch. Therefore, they agreed with Vincent to conduct a virtual electronic Holy Grail War. This method of experiment requires less resources, and Maria's soul will serve as the spiritual vessel for this virtual experiment."

"Next, the Medical Association will continue its experimental testing, aiming to create a deity similar to Ibuki Douji. Vincent will be responsible for selecting unlucky passengers to serve as Masters in the experiment. Like Maria, they are essentially the victims of this experiment."

"But an accident caused by one of the participants changed everything."

"A man named Friedrich von Roon."

Emiya's expression froze. He noticed that the scene became blurry from here on. Vincent was furious when he saw Maria, the vessel of the Holy Grail, suddenly go out of control and run away. Then Friedrich hacked into the computer matrix of the Medical Association and began to modify and input unknown data.

BB said, "Vincent made a mistake. Friedrich brought three coffins aboard the cruise ship through unknown means. Inside were the Valkyries themselves. Friedrich then used the Valkyries to perform relatively independent Heroic Spirit Summonings. The other Servants, who were merely simulated data, were no match for the real Valkyries."

Xia Mi stared at the rapidly changing scene intently. Her intuition told her that these coffins came from Odin, and Friedrich applied Odin's technology... What is the relationship between this guy and Odin?

"Friedrich killed the members of the Medical Association, but Vincent escaped due to his own immortality as a vampire creature, so he had the opportunity to witness everything that happened next."

"—Friedrich revised the original operational plan for the Holy Grail War. His goal in inputting data was not to experiment with the creation of virtual gods, but to use Maria's soul as material to verify the possibility of creating a god of 'celestial operation'—in other words, a pseudo-godlike structure of the natural environment itself."

Emiya's eyes suddenly widened. Wait a minute... isn't this the alien Chaldeas!?

The pseudo-Earth environment model Chaldeas in FGO defines a planet as a being with a soul. The soul is copied and used to create a very small Earth model, which can completely simulate and operate the Earth's natural environment.

However, even if it is a tiny model of the Earth that is made exactly, compared to the Earth as the prototype, Chaldeas is certainly not the Earth, but another planet, in other words, an alien planet.

The reason why this Chaldeas is considered a replica of the Earth is because the law of similarity is used. Chaldeas is similar to the Earth and therefore possesses some of the Earth's properties.

Debit once realized the old director's conspiracy, but was unable to stop it because the completed Chaldeas copied the nature of the earth. To destroy Chaldeas, an attack force strong enough to destroy the earth is required.

Emiya thought that, coincidentally, this Medical Association or Odin was also good at copying. So far, he had encountered Odin's replica puppet and the shadow warrior used by Herzog for multi-line operation... In essence, they were all replicas created by projecting part of the original body's power.

...According to Xia Mi, in the alchemy of this world line, this thing is also called "separation of cause and effect", one of the outstanding achievements of alchemy.

Now that Friedrich was considered a related character to Odin, Emiya had no doubt that once the other party verified the success of the experiment, they would be able to make a replica that could be put into use.

When it comes to "the god of 'celestial operation', the pseudo-god organization of the natural environment", it is not difficult to think of the Earth's UO "Type: Earth". It is not an exaggeration to say that the UO of the Type-Moon worldview represents the will of the planet... and the UO of this world must be the Black King without a doubt.

No matter how powerful the Black King is now, his replica will surely be no less powerful.

"So, the reason why this Holy Grail War got out of control..."

BB suddenly raised his pointer:

"Ding, ding, ding! The deeper truth has finally surfaced. The advent of the Black King's will caused the Holy Grail War to spiral out of control. But this wasn't a simple accident caused by a misoperation. It was the result of a deliberate manipulation of the Holy Grail War by a figure named Friedrich!"

Everyone seemed to understand something when they heard this, except Emiya, whose face turned dark. Combined with the content of Ibuki-douji's prophecy, this is becoming more and more like another FGO world line.

He turned to Xia Mi and asked, "Friedrich...his technology comes from Odin, right?"

Xia Mi also nodded with a frown, "That's right, we can tell from the Valkyrie's coffin, and it might be her."

"In person?" Emiya knew Odin had been killed on the spot and then jumped back and forth before. "But your Dragon King's resurrection will probably take quite some time, right?"

He had heard Helver say that she had witnessed Odin's exit from the Holy Grail War.

"No, resurrection through a cocoon is only one method. The Dragon King can also use living creatures, such as humans, as 'eggs' for resurrection, and parasitize them within the human body to quickly revive."

Chapter 278: Sniper? My Indra's Arrow

"You can even choose humans? Isn't that too convenient?"

Emiya didn't mean to be envious. What he wanted to point out was whether the Dragon King's resurrection method was too convenient and shameless.

"No, it's not that simple," Xia Mi shook her head. "First of all, no matter which method you use to revive, the more you want to return to a 'complete' state, the longer it will take."

Xia Mi used the word "long", and it was obvious that the time scale she referred to was by no means comparable to the lifespan of an ordinary person.

The most typical examples are Fenrir and Leviathan.

Both possessed enormous dragon bodies, a result of countless years spent hatching from their cocoons to reach such size. Such dragon bodies, in terms of basic qualities and strength, far surpassed those of humans.

However, if one always takes human form to revive like Odin, it will obviously take much less time and the strength will decrease accordingly.

If we choose a ready-made human parasitic resuscitation, it might take less time.

Emiya understood a little bit, the so-called Dragon King's revival is mainly divided into several steps:

The first step is to prepare a "cocoon" for resurrection before death, or to select a human in advance as a container for resurrection.

The second step is to transfer your soul into the container at the moment of death.

The final step is resurrection, which takes an indefinite amount of time. The time consumed is proportional to the strength after resurrection.

"Isn't this still wrong?" Emiya raised a question:

"Let's assume Odin chooses Friedrich as the vessel for his resurrection. Then, he uses this time to select the next human vessel... In this case, even if he dies on the YAMAL, he'll still be able to escape alive... No, wouldn't that mean he can be resurrected infinitely and remain immortal?"

If this continues, wouldn't it be just like Roya in Tsukishima? Every time Elquet comes out and kills him, Roya just reincarnates into the next generation. Wouldn't this cycle of killing never end?

"Hey, it's not as outrageous as you think."

Xia Mi felt that Emiya was overthinking it. "Then let's talk about choosing humans as containers for revival. Although it takes less time, it is also one of the most troublesome methods."