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

"If Odin intends to be reborn through this, he must use his own dragon blood to transform this hybrid's body. Otherwise, its strength will be extremely weak, even much weaker than the humanoid body he hatched himself."

"Unfortunately, after the Dragon King parasitized the hybrid, its blood became extremely attractive to dragons, deadpools, and the like. If one isn't careful, it could easily be killed again before it even awakens. Therefore, when choosing a human container, one shouldn't just pick a rookie who's easily killed."

"Secondly, judging by his purpose in parasitizing Friedrich this time, Odin seems to want to manipulate the vast amount of experimental data from the Holy Grail War and then take that data away. This presents a problem."

Xia Mi gave an analogy:

"Originally, Odin prepared his own cocoon and resurrected into a humanoid form with a capacity equivalent to a swimming pool. But now that he's parasitized on a man over a hundred years old, the capacity of his body has suddenly shrunk to the size of a small water tank..."

"This brings up a problem. Not only has his strength dropped to a mere tenth of its original state, but his ability to manipulate elements and his understanding of the laws of nature have also significantly declined. These factors directly lead to difficulties in performing alchemy."

In reality, dragon alchemy isn't simply the same as human technology. To some extent, it's connected to the principles of word spirits, and it's a test of one's fundamental skills. Most hybrids can't reach higher levels of alchemy, largely because their human bodies, as a foundation, aren't as advanced as those of dragons...

Of course, a certain godslayer is an extreme case.

"If he needs to use space-opening methods to transfer a copy of that thing—"

Emiya continued, "The results of the experiment with the God of Celestial Operations and the Natural Environment Simulacrum."

"Right, right, right. If Odin wants to take this copy away as well, he'll have to pay a higher price...which also means further weakening."

Xia Mi explained.

Emiya slapped his head and suddenly realized, "So that's how it is..."

He looked at BB, "What is Friedrich's current whereabouts? Is he confirmed to be dead like the other Masters?"

"Hmm..." BB did not answer immediately, but waved his pointer and quickly read through the huge amount of virtual image data left by Vincent.

This scene appeared in the eyes of everyone as a super-fast-forwarded three-dimensional image that was dazzling to the naked eye. Countless lights and shadows seemed to have fallen into a vortex of time and space, transforming into tall, twisted lines that moved and rotated rapidly forward, backward, left and right.

The rapid forwarding of the video finally stopped at a certain moment, and BB said lightly:

"Fortunately, Friedrich has already died, just like the other Masters, due to the killing by the branches. But the bad news is that after he caused the Holy Grail War to get out of control and the Black King's will descended, he also took something away..."

"Of course, this is Vincent's perspective. Now, we can basically judge that the other party took away the experimental results he wanted..."

This action seemed to have caused Maria's body to irreversibly dissolve, and Vincent finally began to regret it. He completely understood that he had become a tool used by everyone, but he could no longer find the woman he once loved, only the madly running branch.

Emiya and the others saw the final scene of Vincent's life. It was a cloud of blood-red branches that rushed from the sky, like a surging red wave in the electronic world sweeping over tiny individuals.

This is the indiscriminate revenge of the natural pseudo-godlike organization against human beings without any intelligence.

The life of Vincent, an octogenarian, is not exciting, full of sweet talk and cowardice. He is like a degraded version of Herzog. Herzog manipulates his children, while Vincent manipulates his lover.

After he tricked the Saint Mary into his possession, he hid behind the scenes and continued to rely on her to gain benefits. In the end, he finally received a grand and cruel revenge from the woman he had harmed.

"Grandma..." Tears flickered quietly in the corners of Ridgelife's eyes. Only after witnessing this scene with her own eyes did she finally accept the tragic end of her last relative in the world.

"…My condolences." Emiya said, then fell silent.

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"Senior, senior~, there is no time to mourn for Maria's death, we have to rush to the battlefield immediately!" The purple-haired girl spoke in a light and pure voice in the ear, as if warm lips were rubbing against the ear.

After a day's rest, Emiya discovered that his mobile phone had a new alarm for waking up. Well, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed like Baby was torturing people in a new way.

Fortunately, BB didn't have the nerve to turn up the volume and send the alarm voice through an external speaker in the middle of the night, otherwise Emiya would have to punish this annoying little devil.

"understood."

Emiya washed and ate with the help of Xia Mi's maid, and then asked casually, "The electronic domain we attacked before was called 'Asgard', right? So which two are the next ones?"

Didn't he remember that the World Tree connected the nine worlds? But they only had three roots to cut down?

"Hehe, it's recorded in Norse mythology that there are three thick roots beneath the World Tree. The first root penetrates deep into Asgard, but it has been handsomely taken care of by Senior!"

BB said cheerfully on the phone, "There's also the second root that goes deep into Jotunheim, the land of giants, and the third root that goes deep into Niflheim, known as the Land of Mist."

"The third tree root is the most special. Beneath it lies a dragon that constantly gnaws at it—"

Emiya's expression tightened when he heard this, "Black Dragon Nidhogg."

"That's right! Doesn't it feel like a lot of it matches up, Senior?" BB chuckled. "If we can't cut down all the roots of the electronic world in time and destroy the central structure here, we won't be able to stop the ritual, and the world will be completely destroyed."

"...You don't need to remind me of this, do you? Just look at that doomsday countdown you set up on that display screen, and you'll know."

There were so many of them. In the main hall, the dining room, the casino, and even in other cabins, every idle screen would be switched to a doomsday countdown. It was like a constant reminder to everyone who saw it: "Everything is about to end!"

"Hehe, it looks like the Doomsday Clock BB customized is a real success," BB said proudly. "If you like it, please remember to give it a three-star rating!"

"Who knows this?"

This countdown was quite intimidating, perfectly suiting BB's mischievous intent. Not only did it severely impact the mental state of the ordinary survivors on the cruise ship, but even Emiya, upon seeing the countdown, could associate it with something bad...

For example, the countdown to the exam.

Emiya shook off the random thoughts in his mind, turned around and instructed Xia Mi, "Tell Slude to get ready. We're about to set off."

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The brand new electronic realm "Jotunheim" seemed extremely vast. Even though Emiya strode proudly on the flat ground in the state of "Susanoo", he felt that the vastness of this place was on a different level than before.

"Strange, isn't the space stretching and expanding too much? Is it much bigger than before?"

BB sat on Susanoo's left shoulder. "Of course. As time goes on, the electronic field will gradually expand and erode the YAMAL. Although I gave a deadline of one week, if the situation is not resolved within three or four days, the electronic field will erode the survivors' base~"

Slud flew over Susano's right shoulder and said, "Warrior, be careful here. Jotunheim is the domain of giants. These giants are mythical creatures that evolved from the World Tree and are far more powerful than Servants."

"Yes, got it!"

Emiya stared at the huge figures running towards him from a distance. Some of the giants were khaki in color, which were mountain giants, and some were ice blue, which were frost giants.

In the worldview of Norse mythology, giants are the most primitive race. It is said that the most original life is the ancestor giant Ymir, and all gods, elves, dwarves, etc. are born from giants.

After her death, Ymir's body transformed into the sky, the earth, and everything else. Even the World Tree, which connects the nine worlds, was able to flourish thanks to the heart donated by the Founding Titan, Ymir.

Speaking of this, you may think of a certain "Attack on Titan", but unfortunately, the real Titan does not have such obvious weaknesses as the flesh on the back of the neck.

They are all tall, ferocious and brutal, with a high degree of mystery and thick skin and flesh. They are powerful and have strong resistance to attacks. They are natural tanks that are more resistant to attacks than servants.

If ordinary servants do not have good countermeasures, they can easily be suppressed by the giant's size advantage.

They don't even need to think about how to fight, they just need to step on the enemy and it's done.

But that kind of advantage does not exist for Susanoo, and Emiya's Susanoo itself is also a giant in size.

"Look here, big idiots, this is how you use the power of a giant!"

hula-

When he saw a group of mountain giants starting to throw stones, Emiya immediately operated Susanoo and drew his bow and arrow.

Sniper? My Indra's Arrow!

Chapter 279 Giant of Light

An attack that condensed the power of Indra broke through the rain of stones thrown by the mountain giant in the form of arrows. The rain of stones that fell at a speed high enough to flatten the mountain turned into ashes the moment they brushed past the arrows.

The moment Indra's arrow fell into the group of giants, the dense thunder turned into infinite materialized plasma and exploded.

Rumble!

Dazzling flashes of lightning flashed between sky and earth, their dazzling brilliance sweeping away all the surrounding enemies and obstacles with overwhelming force. With a single strike, a vast swathe of mountain giants was wiped out.

Emiya looked at the Mountain Giants that hadn't been completely eliminated, as well as the Frost Giants that had been drawn in, their footsteps thundering loudly. "Sure enough, the average defense of these Giants is significantly higher than those Servants."

BB reminded him, "BB, I suggest that from the perspective of improving output efficiency and saving energy, use divine weapons for melee attacks to destroy the defense~"

"That's fine, we're not pressed for time anyway. BB, while you can, help me find the roots of this level of Jotunheim."

Emiya opened his hands, and the towering body of Susanoo swung along with it, condensing fine lightning and fireworks between his giant palms, causing them to rotate and condense with each other, and finally forging them into a golden divine sword.

"Divine Shell Entanglement·Ame-no-Kurosakumo Sword!"

The gleaming golden sword wasn't strictly a melee weapon; after all, its wielding blade could glide and fly long distances, though such a move would consume more energy. However, considering the giant's limited agility, charging into the formation wasn't dangerous. After a brief consideration, Emiya charged into the formation with his sword in hand.

Valkyrie Slude, who was standing beside him, saw Emiya charging forward without hesitation and wanted to remind the God Slayer to be careful with the enemy.

However, the first moment the huge sword was swung on the battlefield, the destructive golden light symbolizing the power of the gods began to tear apart the giant's defense like a rotten wood.

Every time the sword was swung, a giant would "sacrifice his head and shed blood", and his body tens of meters tall would fall down with a loud bang.

It was like recklessly cutting into the enemy camp and being caught in a wave of attack from a group of giants, but it was like a sharp knife, cutting through the group of giants effortlessly and in one go.

"...What a remarkable warrior! It seems I was worrying too much."

Slude suppressed his emotions and prepared to go in another direction, but suddenly heard BB's voice beside him: "Hey, Miss Valkyrie, where are you going?"

"...BB, aren't you going to look for tree roots?"

Slude looked around but couldn't see BB in the air. Suddenly, a pointer came out from behind her and lightly touched Slude's left shoulder.

The Valkyrie shuddered, turned around in mid-air and looked warily at the elusive BB.

"Are you scared by the way BB-kun showed up? Hehehe, just a reminder, this is a cyberspace, a place where artificial intelligence can play a greater advantage than servants~"

Slude's eyes flickered, "...What did you mean by that just now?"

"Hey... aren't you going to look for your sisters? They're watching the battle from the shadows right here in this area."

"How did you know..." Slude wanted to ask, but thinking of BB's elusive movements in cyberspace, he gave up and said, "If I had searched for them while the Emiya Warriors were fighting, you would probably accuse me of betrayal."

BB noticed that Valkyrie wasn't fooled, and immediately expressed regret with a smile, "That's such a shame! If you go find them now, you might have a chance to catch me and Senior in one fell swoop~"

"No, you're being sarcastic," Slude replied expressionlessly, "If it were you, you'd just want to use me as bait to catch both sisters in one fell swoop."

"Oh, how could that be? BB-kun is the most innocent and kind-hearted superior AI in the world!"

Although Slude didn't have the ability to tell jokes, she instinctively felt that BB's words were a huge joke.

"No need to be so secretive. Why don't you go looking for the tree roots instead of targeting us Valkyries?"

After getting along with these humans, Slude found that they all had many shining points. The resistance of Emiya and others before the end of the world left a deep impression on her, but... except for this AI with strange behavior patterns, she subconsciously felt that this AI always had no good intentions.

"As for the tree roots, we'd have found them long ago," BB said, undeterred by the Valkyrie's suspicions. She waved her pointer and pointed far ahead.

Suddenly, a huge tree trunk that supported the sky and the earth stood at the end of Jotunheim. The huge tree was the most important root of the World Tree.

Slude followed BB's movements and, as expected, discovered the tree roots. The roots were located in a hidden space that even the Valkyries couldn't easily explore, but this BB did it easily...

"BB, are you really trustworthy? If you are truly the support that Emiya is counting on, then what are your methods for helping him overcome this difficult time?"

BB tilted her head. "Valkyrie, what are you talking about? Compared to me, who serves you wholeheartedly, you, an enemy with unclear positions, are more suspicious, right? As for my support method, it's a secret! Hehe, it will only be used by you, Senior!"

"If you want to make your position clear, why not try to convince your sisters to submit voluntarily?"

Slude was silent for a moment. BB still looked as if he was hiding his thoughts.

She recalled the various kinds of people in the survivors' base under the Doomsday Clock, their laughter and sorrow amidst the lights and revelry, the desperate cries in black and white, the innocence and stubbornness of the little girl Ridgeline, Emiya's bravery and tenacity... Only BB made her unable to see clearly what was going on.

"BB... I can help you convince my two sisters, provided you really have a way to kill that adult and destroy the ritual."

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At this time, Emiya had slaughtered all the mountain giants in a short period of time.

Corpses began to pile up in the shape of numerous small hills, and blood began to flow like a lake and soak the earth. However, this was computer space, and according to the understanding of Emiya and others, the matter left by these mountain giants would soon dissipate and return to invisible data.

The next moment, the Frost Giant stepped forward to block the attack, and with it, a thick layer of frost condensed on the purple Susanoo armor, but it was quickly shattered by the sudden divine thunder.

The moment of contact with the new enemy, Emiya wrapped the blade of the Murasakibara sword with fierce flames, so that the thick ice layer on the frost giant's shell could not serve as any obstacle, but was quickly torn apart by the extremely high temperature blade.

Long-term battle training, combined with the use of "mind's eye", allows Emiya to be like a fish in water on the chaotic and huge battlefield, and to match himself with reasonable skills and tactics according to the real-time battle situation.

After all, his mind and eyes (true) acquired through training have been improving through fighting. Combined with the mind and eyes (false) that Susanoo possesses as the god of fighting, he has the same double mind and eyes configuration as Hercules.

"but……"

Strange, it seems like someone is observing him?

Emiya perceived the sight of observers other than BB and Slude, but with the help of his double eyes, he never thought that his perception was an illusion.

Pfft!

After chopping down another frost giant, Emiya sensed that gaze again.

"Hilde? Ortlinde?"

After careful sensing, Emiya discovered that the gaze came from mid-air, similar to that of a Servant. He had dealt with these two Valkyries before, so it was not difficult for him to judge the other party's breath.

"warrior."

The cherry-haired and black-haired Valkyries flashed into the air.

They will not be attacked by the Frost Giants. Even if Emiya moves the battlefield and allows the huge figure of Susanoo to get closer to the location of the Valkyrie, no giant will choose to attack them.