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

Su Enxi gave a lengthy speech. In short, from excavation to research and utilization, everyone had to be theirs. As for attracting and retaining talent, that was simple enough… Their unique supply of Black King material alone was already the best in the world. As for external sales, they could simply maintain a very high price and release a limited amount of the precious material.

After all, it is nominally Emiya's private property. The Clock Tower and his men have access to such high-end materials and have an unprecedented opportunity to rise to prominence, so they should be thankful.

In short, after Su Enxi's high-quality PPT speech, Emiya became the most powerful Tomb Raider capitalist in history in the literal sense.

Whether you're a magician or someone else, if you want to become rich through mining, you can't escape Emiya's invisible hand.

In the following time, Su Enxi and Emiya perfected the plan of the Secret Anatomy Bureau and announced it in front of various families in London and guests who were representatives of the Clock Tower.

After Emiya finished his polite remarks, Su Enxi took over and began to discuss cooperation matters with representatives of various families.

The reactions of the visitors varied. Several students in the Clock Tower, such as Charlotte, were wondering whether her Mercury Maid, a self-disciplined magic costume, could allow her to become a registered digger. Su Xiaoqiang looked left and right. She had not yet started learning magic and seemed out of tune with the enthusiastic adults around her.

The reaction of the London families was even more pronounced. Some were still unconsciously coveting the Black King's legacy, while the cleverer ones had already begun negotiating with Su Enxi to reserve the first batch of precious materials...

The deal took half a day to finally come to an end.

During this period, Emiya witnessed Su Enxi's strong business ability as the Black Gold Swan. She was able to speak eloquently in front of several families with a long history and was not at a disadvantage. No wonder she was so rich at such a young age.

"By the way, it seems like your boss has no intention of seeing me?"

After everyone left, Su Enxi put away the negotiation records, the letter of intent for cooperation, and a pile of various documents, and suddenly heard Emiya's sudden question.

After thinking about it carefully, I realized that Emiya was talking about the various supports that the boss provided to Emiya during the YAMAL incident, but he never showed up.

"Boss? He... who knows, he hasn't seen me much lately."

Su Enxi shook her head. She wasn't the boss's inner circle, so she had no way of knowing his true thoughts. "But recently, he seemed to have shared some travel photos. I guess he's having fun in Shenzhou."

"Shenzhou..."

Emiya suddenly thought of Nuwa. Speaking of the person who was suitable for inclusion in the contract system, Nuwa was truly the first.

"It just so happens that apart from the matter of the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau, I don't have anything else to do next, so I might as well go to Shenzhou."

Chapter 290 Great news! Everything matches up!

Glastonbury in Britain, a small village far away from the city, is covered with lush grass and dense forests. It is the legendary resting place of King Arthur. A tomb can still be found on the ruins of the local monastery, and the epitaph reads "Here lies Arthur, the Eternal King."

However, the real remains of King Arthur were collected by Odin in the Nibelung Avalon countless years ago and became a large collection. Finally, they were packaged and taken away by Norton along with many other reserves of heroes.

The area near Glastonbury is a vast plain, forest and swamp. Apart from the added fame brought by the King Arthur ruins, the natural scenery here is also worth mentioning. At least the weather and air freshness are 99% better than those in London.

However, in recent days, the humid swamps between the lush woods have been shrouded in a fog so thick that it obscures vision.

Here, the passage to Avalon is hidden.

This strange change naturally attracted the attention of some locals, but they ultimately found nothing, believing it to be a result of climate change, and subsequently forgot about it. Because there was no key or mark to Avalon, no matter how humans explored, they only saw a muddy swamp.

Ever since Lu Mingze and Norton implemented their plan to seize Odin's Nibelungen, Avalon's location has been relocated here. The restrictions imposed here are not only intended to hinder ordinary human exploration, but also to prevent Odin from returning and attempting to seize it after his resurrection.

However, Avalon never welcomed its former master. Therefore, there is ample reason to suspect that after Odin's multiple reincarnations, his strength has been greatly reduced and he is no longer able to display the power of the original generation.

I believe that Miss Xia Mi, the strongest second-generation, will be extremely happy with this inference.

At this time, before setting off to Shenzhou again, Emiya returned here alone.

Last time, he returned to Avalon in time under BB's guidance to deal with the runaway core left after the light body was shattered. This time, he came back to look for BB who stayed here.

The reason why BB stayed alone inside Avalon was nothing else but to analyze the residual data collected from the light body and to solve the mystery of the Black King and Odin's secret plan as much as possible.

Emiya pushed aside the bushes and vines that blocked his steps under the cedar forest and walked a few dozen steps in the foggy woods. Suddenly, the view in front of him opened up and a vast, circular lake emerged from the woods. It made people wonder if the space here had been specially processed and stretched.

The surface of the quiet lake is as smooth as a mirror, without any ripples. Looking down, you can see the reflection of the clear sky.

It reminds us of the Fairy Lake in Arthurian legend. Legend has it that after his death, King Arthur crossed the lake in a boat and arrived at the eternal land of Avalon.

Emiya boarded the small boat on the lakeshore, but did not prepare to row. Instead, he carefully observed the mirror-like lake surface beside the boat. Finally, after choosing a position, he found the black reflection hidden under the water, stood up and jumped in.

thump!

After a wave rose up, it completely swallowed the figure, and the lake quickly returned to calm.

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Emiya passed through a strange passage underwater that was surrounded by bubbles on all sides. He knew that this was a space transfer passage similar to but different from Odin's. The feeling of being wrapped in bubbles was like a chaotic squeezing and weightlessness, as if one was in space, walking in a long cosmic corridor.

Ignoring the confusion surrounding him, Emiya followed the bubbles' lead and floated up the lake. Finally, he emerged from the water and rushed up in one breath, arriving at the shore of Avalon... which was also known as Apple Island. Under the illumination of the blue sky, a pink world of petals wrapped in black stone walls appeared before his eyes.

He looked around carefully. The last time he came, he was in a hurry to solve the remaining problems of the light body and had no time to take a closer look.

Sure enough, the Odin's lair that Emiya had seen in the space channel before was here, and because of this circle of stone walls, he mistakenly thought it was the inherited defense possessed by the Wandering Sea.

Honestly speaking, if there really was a Sea of ​​Wandering in this world, Emiya felt that his chances of winning against Humanity Incineration and Blank Paper Transformation would be much greater.

The reason is simple: the Wandering Sea itself is really ideal as a base.

The Wandering Sea itself is like a mobile singularity, equivalent to an independent time and space, and even the burning and blanking that destroy human history cannot affect it.

In FGO, in order to invade Chaldea hidden in the Wandering Sea, Goyanskaya, who acted according to the orders of the alien god, could only rely on the new director's personal belongings (a lipstick given to him before) to successfully transfer into the Wandering Sea using this as the coordinate.

Afterwards, the Wandering Sea was attacked by an alien god, but the magicians of the Wandering Sea did not show any interest in the matter.

Because to them, the workshop lent to Chaldea was just a shadow left by the Wandering Sea in this era. Even if it was destroyed, it would have no effect on the past, future, or real Wandering Sea.

To be honest, even now, Emiya couldn't figure out how the Wandering Sea was able to complete such a strange "transcendence of time and space" structure.

He set foot on the land of Avalon and met BB on a plain surrounded by flowers. The Tower of the End standing in the distance seemed to be guarding a small corner outside this world, overlooking the entire world.

"BB, are the analysis results out?"

Emiya only saw BB's back as he squatted on the ground.

"Hi, the BB you are calling is busy, please call back later~" BB squatted and scratched something with a straight pointer. It didn't look like he was busy at all, but rather like he was slacking off or playing in the mud.

"Huh?" Emiya didn't take BB's obviously deceptive tone seriously. He walked closer, leaned down slightly and tilted his head.

As a result, BB noticed Emiya approaching suddenly, and as if overreacting, he lost his balance and fell on his butt on the ground covered with green grass petals. The plump cushion swayed under his white shirt.

"Hey! You scared me! Senior, everyone said that BB-kun is busy and busy. He is analyzing the massive amount of information left by the light body at full power. His physical functions will be slightly reduced."

BB rubbed her heavy shoulders and spoke weakly. She tried to stand up, but her legs gave out and she sat back down. It looked like she'd gotten numb from squatting for so long... Emiya thought, "Can AI get numb from squatting? Isn't your self-made body a little too realistic?"

He was too lazy to judge whether BB was acting or serious, so he pulled her up and asked about the progress again.

"Alright, alright. Actually, we were just a little bit short. Since you are so anxious, let's discuss and sort out the analysis results."

BB shook his pointer, and a point of emptiness appeared. Then, on the empty pink field of fragrant grass and petals, the words "World Tree", "Light Giant", "Universe" and "Destiny" gradually emerged.

Emiya's expression suddenly became serious.

These few words...are basically the "underlying settings of the worldview" that directly point to the entire world.

If you want to prove how this world is related to or different from the Type-Moon worldview, using other surface phenomena as evidence may not be accurate, but the underlying worldview setting will definitely not deceive people.

"As a fellow veteran of the YAMAL incident, I won't recount the entire process. I'll simply summarize the important information in these few points."

"First, the World Tree."

The pointer waved, the words flashed, and then the light flowed, and a pattern of a lush giant tree appeared below.

"Senior, you should already know that the World Tree does exist in this world... or rather, the Tree is the mechanism that operates the celestial bodies, almost indistinguishable from the world itself. The Black King is both a monster bred by the Earth itself and a primordial life form born from the World Tree."

"And the YAMAL incident led to the appearance of the World Tree."

Emiya nodded. The first incident was the tree branch murders, and after the Black King's interference in the Holy Grail War, he cultivated the World Tree. The World Tree was the organization that operated the planet, and using the World Tree as part of his ascension ritual was undoubtedly a disguised attempt by the Black King to become the "God of Earth."

To be honest, the concept of "tree" is also a common visitor in Type-Moon. Not to mention that the foundation of the Atlantic Lostbelt world in FGO is the World Tree of the same name. In the second part of FGO itself, the basis for maintaining all the Lostbelts is the "Imagination Tree". Trees are also an element that maintains the world in Type-Moon.

BB immediately pointed to the next word—"Light Giant." The words then shifted, forming a pattern of a giant of light.

"But why did the Black King's spirit forcefully descend into the form of a giant? Even if the vehicle He used to descend was the now-collapsed Greater Holy Grail vessel, Star Maria, there's no reason for Him to transform into such a clumsy, giant humanoid, right?"

Emiya nodded. To be honest, apart from the endless energy, self-recovery and the most troublesome trump card storage, the light body was not too difficult to deal with. It moved slowly, and if it were not for its gravity control, it would have been beaten by Emiya in terms of real basic attack ability.

This thing behaves basically the same as the light body Arquette in "Tsukihime Remake", but the Black King can't really transform into a giant of light for no reason and without considering the benefits, right?

"The answer is simple," BB said, seemingly answering his own question. Suddenly, the topic changed. "Senior, do you know where the World Tree in Norse mythology came from?"

Emiya was stunned for a moment, then blurted out, "The founding giant, Ymir. Ymir's death gave rise to the universe of Norse mythology, and the World Tree grew from Ymir's heart."

"That's right! This explains why the Black King chose the form of a giant—it's a narrative related to the original form of the creation of the world in mythology. Just like Pangu in Shenzhou mythology, Tiamat in ancient Babylonian mythology, and Purusha in ancient Indian mythology, the giant Ymir symbolizes the previous form of the creation of the universe. The universe was created from it, and the universe originated from it."

"The Black King Nidhogg seeks sublimation, or advancement. He doesn't simply want the primordial life beneath the World Tree, but to control the World Tree itself, or even become a being more noble than the World Tree."

Emiya frowned and pondered for a few seconds. "—I see. If there's the World Tree, then there can't be no more original Ymir. In other words, that form is related to the creation of the planet, right? Could this world really be like what the myth says?"

No way? The creator of the planet is the giant of light, Ymir?

"Hehe, of course it can't be that simple!"

BB then pointed to the third word, "universe".

In an instant, the pattern of cosmic vocabulary formed countless stars radiating outward.

"Senior, this is the scene we witnessed after we discovered the core of the light body and unfolded the starry sky of the conceptual universe... What do you think this looks like?"

"like what?"

"If you connect it to the universe, does it look like the Big Bang?"

BB's statement is shocking. The term Big Bang comes from the well-known cosmological model called "inflation theory", which generally says that the universe originated from the rapid expansion of a very small space in a very small time.

In other words, is the creation of planets closely related to this inflationary phenomenon? Does it mimic the Big Bang process?

Emiya frowned. If this was the process of planet formation, wouldn't that mean this world was essentially a small, closed universe? But a planet was clearly a sphere, right?

"Senior! Do you really think the structure of the world is so simple?" BB knew what Emiya was thinking. She smiled and pointed to the sky.

"Senior, do you know that the laws of this planet are completely different from those of the outer world? There's a canopy of heaven between the two. Outside of that canopy, you can't find the various elements of earth, fire, water, and wind that apply to this planet!"

BB hit on a crucial point: the invisible canopy separates the world from the inside and the outside! This is a characteristic of a closed universe!

Emiya raised his eyebrows. It sounded like the plot of FGO again. He remembered that after the blank paper transformation occurred, the Illusion Tree closed the sky of the earth to form a canopy.

Moreover, the Earth of Type-Moon is filled with the energy that circulates within the planet itself, but this type of matter does not exist outside of the universe. There is only cosmic dust called zin... I just don't know if there is anything similar to zin in this universe.

"Senior, think about this again. Aren't the various Nibelungen regions of this world also distinct small spaces with completely different landscapes, isolated from the outside world? Just like Earth is isolated from the laws of the universe?"

BB started making all kinds of analogies, and after a little thought, Emiya came up with various conclusions. For example, after the creation of the planet, the initial sky canopy formed was an original Nibelungen, or an inherent barrier. Avalon was a small-scale Nibelungen/inherent barrier. The Black King even created a storm barrier in the hatchery to isolate the inside and outside.

The whole world is a huge Nibelung!

"Huh..." Emiya felt like he was going to explode after taking in all this worldview theory. It wasn't because of the overwhelming amount of information, but rather because his initial expectations for "this world having nothing to do with Type-Moon" were getting lower and lower!

"And the last one, Destiny?"

He took the initiative to take over the topic. He wanted to know whether this world had a setting similar to the "quantum recording fixed belt" in the Type-Moon universe.

Quantum Time Lock, in layman's terms, is the convergence of world lines.

The multiverse often allows infinite possibilities, resulting in numerous parallel worlds and different development histories, but in order to avoid unlimited possibilities exhausting the resources to operate the entire universe, it needs to be converged.

Convergence is about maintaining a fixed, unchangeable trajectory or history. If the development of a world line is likened to a tree with infinite branches and leaves, unstable developments are treated as unnecessary branches and leaves, saving resources and retaining the most stable mainstream direction as the main trunk.

"Hehe, it seems that Senior Emiya cares a lot about fate." BB curled the corners of his mouth and stroked the word "fate" twice.

The pattern changed and quickly became a thick branch. Countless points of light shuttled through the cell tissue and moved towards the crown of the tree. But it also looked like a wide river. Countless fish were in chaos and disorder, but they were all in the river, swimming towards a destination.

"So-called destiny is something that both diverges and converges. The universe allows for all kinds of developments, but it also stipulates an irreversible convergence!

"A simple explanation is that in the long river of fate, the development of each world line is like hurried fish swimming randomly in the water, but they are often swept away by the undercurrent. They think they are swimming with the current and saving energy, but in fact they are tightly constrained by the undercurrent..."

"Human quantum mechanics also mentions the collapse of wave functions. Fate, that's what it is."

Chapter 291 Equipment Department: I heard that Atlas Academy is recruiting otakus?

"destiny……"

Emiya understood that the word BB said implied the meaning of "constant".

This is exactly in line with the characteristics of the fixed band of quantum records. Things in the fixed band will not change no matter what happens. Even if you try to change them, they will be forcibly returned to their original state, just like the end of fate.

"But BB, where did you gather this information? The Black King never seems to have displayed the ability to judge fate."

"Huh? Senior, didn't you notice?"

The AI ​​girl giggled evilly.

The sound of their conversation carried freely into the empty, deserted area around them. After all, the wonderland of Avalon was a land of pure peace. Pink petals of flowers covered the plains like a vibrant, immortal decoration. Occasionally, a gentle breeze blew, blowing Baby's long purple hair around her and accentuating the rich fabric of her white uniform.

"Senior, 'Destiny' is right beside you!" BB pointedly reminded him, poking Emiya's waist with his finger.

"Beside me—" Emiya looked at BB standing next to him, wondering if this AI woman was just bragging. But after seeing the flicker in BB's eyes, he suddenly realized that this girl was deliberately misleading him—