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

Su Enxi half covered her mouth and smiled insidiously. She wore a business-style OL uniform with a waist and hips, wearing shiny high heels. The way she stepped and twisted her legs stretched out a tight and wavy body curve on the uniform. Holding the documents, she skillfully led Emiya into the private office in the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau.

The clerks and department clerks who happened to be walking by saw the smart and capable female boss coming with Emiya, and immediately understood and left the office tacitly.

"Why do I hear you sound like you're gloating?"

Su Enxi closed the door after Emiya entered. "Isn't that right? When it comes to the number of tasks, Long Legs is second to none among us. She's unrivaled as a hardworking and dedicated tool! By comparison, San Wu may be stronger, but we don't assign every job to her. The boss actually takes good care of her safety. Isn't she a sweet and considerate little girl?"

"Oh, what about you?" Emiya asked suddenly.

"Eh?"

Su Enxi's smile gradually faded, and the high-spirited tone that had just been pointing fingers at her colleagues behind their backs suddenly paused, "Me? I'm just a civilian, Boss Emiya. If you expect me to fight on the front lines, I'd rather stay in the back and handle logistics! Boss Emiya, please don't have any objections and send me as a soldier!"

Su Enxi seemed to have misunderstood something. In fact, Emiya had no objection to Boss Lu Mingze or Caesar's arrangements, and he was not responsible for Plan C at all.

Su Enxi mentioned something like "the boss's sweetheart," but Emiya wasn't entirely sure what kind of story Rei had with her boss. Besides, the ones he'd spoken with the most over the years were Jude Mai and Su Enxi from the trio.

In fact, what he was more concerned about was that if there was an explosion in the control room just like in the FGO plot, and the seven members of the Hidden Group were about to transfer their spirit particles at the moment of the explosion, and all the people inside the basket were in the "box of both life and death", then it would be bad.

Because if an explosion occurs during this gap, it would be equivalent to the observer effect, causing the "box of both life and death" to collapse, forcing the hidden people to enter a state of death.

According to the original FGO story, Chaldea's solution was to perform emergency treatment and freeze the Hidden Ones inside the cage to maintain their lifespan. However, in reality, during the Human Incineration, these people were rescued from their consciousness by the Alien God.

If this world develops differently, at most the plan will fail, and Caesar's backup plan will most likely ensure the safety of the person hidden in the basket. But if it develops the same as FGO, the person hidden may be assigned to the opponent by mistake.

But this raises a new problem: how to get the relevant information back from the hidden people? You can't just burn the human reason and solve it, and the hidden people will remain offline, right?

Emiya felt it necessary to communicate with Caesar about this issue in advance.

After he asked BB to edit a message and send it, he asked Su Enxi about the latest developments in the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau. It was just a routine concern, and this should be the last inquiry before dealing with the human burning crisis.

"Well, it's actually the same as before. The mining department is very popular, and the popularity doesn't seem to be declining. A large number of Clock Tower students come to us to apply to become miners, all believing that this is a shortcut to wealth and prosperity."

Su Enxi rummaged through the tidy desk - it was obvious that this place was often cleaned and tidied by her subordinates, otherwise if Su Enxi came here herself, she would have made a mess of the business documents on the desk.

Although she didn't stay here all year round, she found her target with just a quick glance:

"Look, this is it! The recently proposed plan for the mining city of Machisphia. Because the number of miners has increased significantly in recent years, and is expected to continue to grow, while the labor force is plentiful, the miners have complained that constantly traveling back and forth between the surface and underground is very troublesome. So, they proposed it, and we've started discussing it internally within our bureau. We haven't had time to report it to you yet."

Emiya took the thick stack of plans and saw from the references in the preface that the popularity of Nidhogg the Tomb in the Clock Tower had only increased this quarter.

Based on statistics from this year alone, over 67% of Clock Tower students chose to become diggers at the end of their required courses. This represents a record high in both number and percentage of students, surpassing previous year-over-year figures. The vast majority of diggers are civilians recruited by the Clock Tower from across the Western Ocean, with a few being second sons and illegitimate children of mixed-race families.

Less than 5% of the best among them officially join the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau as long-term employees after submitting their employment applications. The difference between them and the excavators is that they have formal staffing, while the excavators are at most dispatched or outsourced workers, and their treatment and room for advancement are simply incomparable.

But even so, miners have become a popular profession among civilian magicians. It can even be said that an unprecedented vast blue ocean has been opened up in the mysterious side.

In the past, these civilians with mixed-blood qualifications could not afford to marry into the ancient mixed-blood families, but they could not meet the elite talent admission standards of Kassel Academy. They often spent their whole lives in ordinary society, but because of the sorrow of blood, they were incompatible with real ordinary people. Perhaps at most they could be hunters wandering in the marginal areas.

After all, even if the secret party recruited them, the traditional dragon-slaying cause would not be able to absorb them as effective talents - there were only a few dragon-related incidents that attracted global attention, and the danger was high. Recruiting unqualified rookies would only harm them.

Today, the magic industry is booming. While the bloodline system still affects magical qualifications, there are already visible paths for advancement, abundant resources, and a vibrant market. These commoners can easily obtain precious materials for their own magical research by becoming diggers. Even if the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau requires diggers to turn over a certain amount of their earnings, it is enough for diggers to make a big comeback.

According to the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau's internal statistics, over 20% of these civilian excavators have utilized the abundant resources to further their studies in magic, applying for related patents within the Clock Tower, and some even serving as instructors. As for those with lesser qualifications, they can also sell their own tomb materials to the outside world through the agency's designated channels to make a quick buck. After all, any item in the Nidhogg Tomb would be purchased by wealthy, ancient families willing to pay exorbitant prices.

Emiya also saw from the information that Charlotte was specially marked because she "achieved the most major magical achievements and patents" and "was the youngest lecturer in the Clock Tower."

Of course, while the mining business may seem to be booming, the biggest profit always belongs to the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau, the controller of the source. The stockpile of materials and the number of various ceremonial items alone have already increased by over ten thousand pieces annually, each of which would fetch a high price, not to mention the rapid expansion of cash flow.

The Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau has predicted that if the planned mining city develops smoothly, the efficiency of mining and trade will be greatly improved, and this terrifying increase in funds may be further increased.

In a way, this is the beauty of the dividends of the times. Everyone seems to have caught up with an enviable time.

"Well, the idea of ​​mining cities is good, it can be implemented."

After reading it, Emiya returned the plan to Su Enxi, "Is that girl Regirev still stationed in the Spirit Tomb?"

Hearing this, Su Enxi suddenly recalled the beautiful girl with white hair and silver-gray pupils.

A few years ago, Emiya brought Regirev to the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau. According to Emiya, although this girl was relatively young, she possessed a very high and special bloodline, capable of easily adapting to the unusual environment of the Spirit Tomb and, by extension, tapping into her own potential. Su Enxi therefore assigned her to the Excavation Department's underground Spirit Tomb entrance, a heavily guarded area.

The purpose of the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau setting up a guard at this entrance and exit is mainly to strictly prevent smuggling by miners. Frequent entry and exit will easily increase the uncontrolled outflow of materials from the tomb, so during the contract period, it is usually difficult for miners to pass freely through the entrance and exit.

"Her? Let me check the records on this device...hiss, she hasn't come up to the surface in three months. What's this girl doing? Why does she seem to treat the tomb like her home?"

Emiya thought that in a sense it was not wrong, because Regineve was a clone of Maria of the Stars, and Maria of the Stars was one of the purest descendants of the Black King in the world today, almost equivalent to the first generation, so Regineve could be considered as well.

The spirit tomb was formed from the corpse of the Black King. When she entered it, it was like returning home. No matter how harsh the elemental environment was, St. Regis could ignore it.

What's more, I have arranged for her the bodyguard who is most suitable for this environment.

"Let me see what's going on."

Curious, he leaned forward to look at the screen. His warm breath brushed against Su Enxi's cheek, causing her to tense for no apparent reason and squeeze her legs together. Su Enxi, a longtime single woman, couldn't help but conjure up a few Mary Sue soap opera scenes at the sudden closeness of his body. But she felt they were too cliché. She sighed and held back a word.

"Unknown loud noises and vibrations coming from deep within the spirit tomb? Ridgeleve applied to join the army to investigate? This is..."

Emiya frowned when he saw the contents of the report.

"Don't you think so? This girl just sent a scheduled briefing from a few days ago and then disappeared downstairs without a word. It's really worrying. Boss Emiya, why don't we go check it out?"

"Don't worry, as long as she's in the Spirit Tomb, nothing will happen to her," Emiya emphasized again. "We definitely have to go... But as for this Spirit Tomb anomaly, well, if nothing unexpected happens, I have a hypothesis..."

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The underground tomb area, this world full of sparkling bone gems or covered by ochre-red geology, does not look like the interior of a giant creature like the Black King at all.

Or perhaps the Black King itself is a vast treasure trove of biological genes. Ever since its defeat in the Ancient War, it has been devouring its surroundings in the form of its corpse, growing and developing a vast spatial capacity comparable to the Nibelung. So much so that after five years, the magicians have only mined a small portion of the area.

Some may ask why not use modern excavation equipment for efficient exploration?

This was because, despite the Black King's corpse being completely dead, the chaotic elemental currents it emanated still severely hampered the effectiveness of modern technology, causing equipment to frequently malfunction. This was similar to the situation when the Dragon King's egg was hatching. Furthermore, in order to fully exploit the value of the spirit tomb, humans could not use overly destructive weapons.

As a result, the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau had to establish a materials department to manufacture specialized mass-produced props so that magicians could adapt to the environment of the tomb and explore smoothly.

"Ms. Regis! Please don't go any deeper, it's too dangerous!"

At the edge of the near-chaotic elemental storm, explorers wearing full-body protective suits cried out in surprise. All of them were elite members of the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau's investigation team, rising through the ranks of the excavators over the years. They were experienced in handling the sudden dangers of spirit tombs.

Exploring the spirit tomb is not without risks. Even after the Black King's death, his corpse still possesses strong biological activity, and even has its own ecosystem inside. The miners who persist in doing so for a long time can be said to be truly "seeking wealth and honor in danger."

"I'm fine," said Ridgelove, whose clothing was noticeably thinner than the others, even revealing some skin. Her seemingly delicate skin was naturally shimmering with inconspicuous silver scales, blocking the elemental storm's tearing power. "You two should go back and report this first. I've finally found the source of the anomaly in the spirit tomb, and I can't just go back empty-handed!"

Everyone felt helpless. Reggie Love's tone was a bit stubborn. She had made a name for herself in the Spirit Tomb in the past few years.

At least this ability to move freely between various parts of the spirit tomb, as well as the official identity of the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau, has accumulated a high reputation among the excavators. Even though they, the staff of the investigation team, are not considered direct subordinates and are not under the same command with Reggie Reeves, it is not easy for them to pull her away forcefully at this moment.

She walked forward with difficulty against the storm again. The air felt strangely heavy. It was an elemental storm whose pressure difference alone was enough to tear apart powerful hybrids. The concentration of magic power in the underground layers of the Spirit Tomb had always been extremely high, but such terrifying turbulence was unprecedented. Even the phenomena caused by the Ultimate Words of the Dragon Kings were no more than this.

"Grandmother, please bless me," Ridgelev prayed silently in her heart. Nidhogg, the Tomb of the Spirits, held special significance for her. This once supreme hatchery had, in the last century, become a turning point in the life of Maria, the Grandmother Star.

From that point on, Maria of the Stars, who had broken into the Hatchery and left alive, was indistinguishable from the Black King's direct descendant, and Rigidreve was a stable descendant of this "crown."

In this special tomb, she felt the life waves of Nidhogg, her blood constantly awakening, her physical strength and energy growing stronger day and night in resonance, just like Maria of the Star who had nearly transformed into a dragon.

She also communicated and learned with the magicians among the miners. She tried to combine the elemental manipulation level brought by her bloodline with the use of magic, and comprehend a technique that was more suitable for her.

For example.

Snap! Ridgelev snapped her fingers. "Ashes Scorch Armor!"

The elements of wind and fire intertwined and reversed, forming a delicate shield that could instantly counterattack. It was like wearing a hot gray armor, blocking all violent currents.

But in the darkness, something opened its eyes.

"That is……!"

Chaos brews in the storm.

The pitch-black dragon howled in the rift of the abyss. The sound resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the momentum pierced through the rift. What a terrifying power.

Regisleve thought to herself, "It would be nice if you were also a Grand Dragon."

However, the sheer power of this aura, which unleashed a torrent of destructive elements, was no ordinary crown rank (Dragon King). Rather, it was something even more pinnacle, perhaps a Dragon King among Dragon Kings, a crown among crowns? Something akin to the Black Supreme?

After waking up, the giant dragon exuded an even more violent aura. It flapped its wings lightly and rushed out of the bottom of the abyss at a speed that was totally inconsistent with its huge body. It rushed straight into the sky, with wind and thunder rolling, and even swept away large areas of hills, officially revealing its hideous and terrifying appearance in front of everyone!

"Ms. Regis! Let's go!"

"I'm not leaving, so please leave!"

Everyone was horrified and scared to death when they saw this, but Rijireve was still stubborn and kept moving forward, even feeling dizzy.

Miss, please don't fight so hard at this time. If you fight so hard, how dare we leave you and run away!

"I don't know where you came from, but in the Spirit Tomb, you must abide by the rules of the Secret Corpse Anatomy Bureau!"

Reggie Love declared her dedication to her profession with a level of dedication that moved onlookers to tears, filled with an almost stubborn emotion. Perhaps she stayed here because she wanted the man who took her in to prove her ability, to prove that she was not just a pretty face.

She gritted her teeth, her blood flowing wildly throughout her body, manipulating the elements of wind and fire, which she was currently best at, to rotate and condense with each other.

The scales that grew from the stratum corneum of her skin suddenly grew larger, as if performing a technique similar to "blood violence", but then the scales disappeared in some form. At the same time, the flow of magic controlled by Ridgelife expanded more and more, roaring and sweeping over more wind and fire elements between heaven and earth, making her output level visibly increase!

This isn't a traditional blood burst, but rather a short burst similar to the one caused by Emiya burning dragon blood and magic circuits at the same time in his early years!

As a result, Regislev condensed a red vortex of charged magic power under the horrified gaze of everyone, which attracted the attention of the black dragon in the sky. Its golden pupils gradually revealed a fighting spirit, and its fangs were bared, and a breath of vast white light was exhaled in an instant!

"drink--!"

Regislev was finally ready to complete her grand magic trick. She wasn't even sure how effective this half-finished work, combining dragon bloodline abilities with her technique, would be. However, she had learned a lot of handy spells from those magicians, so she at least had a name she thought was pretty good.

"You are the thunder that tears the universe apart!"

The crimson blazing thunder spewed out with a momentum that shocked the atmosphere, instantly illuminating half of the sky and earth within the spirit tomb space. However, after a head-on collision with the black dragon's breath, the power of the aftermath was far beyond his expectations.

Oh no! I didn't control my power well. My armor isn't strong enough. I'm going to die! And the other staff members will die too!

Suddenly, a sigh came into Ridgelev's ears:

"As for it?"

My eyes blurred, and in that instant, it seemed as if a giant who supported the sky and the earth raised his hand and swung the sword with clever force, offsetting the fatal elemental fluctuations and impact.

Seeing this, the giant dragon stopped attacking instantly and transformed into a petite dragon-shaped girl in mid-air. It joyfully lowered its altitude and pounced on the red-haired man who suddenly appeared in the distance.

"Eh?" Ridgelife blinked, still not reacting.

Chapter 345 Magical Mary is the cutest in the world!

"you are back!"

The true identity of the Black Dragon is naturally Melyuchina.

Emiya looked at Melusina, so delicate and dainty, like a young swallow in his arms, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The little dragon had been a bit impatient when she flew over, her black scales and wings not yet fully contracted, causing a scraping sensation as she rubbed against his chest.

Emiya had previously sent Melyusina to the spirit tomb of Nidhogg, naturally to let her secretly serve as the bodyguard of the girl Ridgelev, to ensure her safety during her time in the spirit tomb.

But I never expected that the two of them would start fighting like this.

Alas, this dragon does nothing but eat and sleep, and fight or be naughty. Is she ever doing her job properly?

"Now tell me. Why did you and Reggie Reeves suddenly start fighting?"

The little dragon in his arms was still rubbing against him openly, but when he heard Emiya's question, his movements suddenly froze. "I..."

Oh no, why did she start fighting in such a frenzy? Hmm, maybe it was because she was groggy and still not fully awake after waking up, her body was incredibly active, and she was so excited she didn't even recognize Ridgelife...

The white-haired girl not far away also ran hurriedly.

She was panting, and her beautiful and upright breasts were rising and falling noticeably. She had just burned all the dragon blood in her body in order to use that half-finished technique, and she couldn't recover for several hours.

Regislev's face was also filled with lingering confusion. She hadn't been aware of Melyusina's role as her secret bodyguard, but she hadn't even recognized the black dragon as one of her own. The black dragon's appearance was vastly different from Melyusina's dragon form.

Even more unexpected was that Emiya arrived just in time to save the situation, which made Ridgelife's heart pound. Could it be that Emiya had just arrived early and had seen everything she had done before?

"Emiya...why are you here?"

"If you don't come over, you'll get into trouble. Next time, don't be so stubborn. It's not like the world is ending. If you're more flexible, others can avoid suffering as well."

Reggie Reeves realized that her previous stubborn behavior was a bit rash, and her face flushed slightly. "Okay, I understand." After that, she turned to let the employees who were still gathered around disperse and return to their daily duties.

Emiya waved his hand to let her handle it. It was nothing. He looked down at the dragoness, who was emitting a warm breath. "Melyucina, have you thought about how to quibble?"

"I'm quibbling... No, I'm explaining!" Melyusina was instantly confused. "I saw that Regisleve was learning magic very quickly, so there shouldn't be anything in the spirit tomb that can threaten her, so I..."

Emiya looked at the mottled and cracked ground in the distance and said, "So, you're going to 'train' her yourself?"

"No, I just found a place to sleep. I don't know why I slept for so long and woke up like that..." Melyusina's slender fingers drew circles on Emiya's chest, mumbling in quibbles.

"Besides, Regisleve is getting stronger so fast that she was able to catch my attack just now. She won't be in any danger in the spirit tomb."

"You can't only think about protecting her when she's in danger!"

Emiya felt that Melyusina still needed to be disciplined. What kind of bodyguard would only come out to take the bullet when the president was attacked? Moreover, she was not paying attention, and this was an accident. If he had not arrived in time, the consequences would be disastrous.

"So you came here specifically to protect me?"