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

Regirev, who had not known about Emiya's secret arrangement before, was stunned for a moment after hearing the conversation. Her first reaction was - how can you be a bodyguard like this? That trick just now almost killed her!

My second reaction was, huh? So Emiya actually sent someone to protect me? It seems he doesn't despise me, but rather cares about me—

Thinking of this, Reggie Reeve's expression brightened up, and she walked towards him with a more cheerful step, bowing like a lady, "Thank you."

"It's nothing. You seem to have been staying in the underground tomb lately. The environment here isn't very good. Do you think you can handle it?"

Although he knew that Regis was safe, Emiya still had his nagging nature kick in and greeted her as usual.

"Hehe, it's great. I feel like I'm back home since I came into the spirit tomb!...Ah, although it's a bit strange, I don't know what home feels like." Reggie Reeves suddenly remembered that she was born on a ship, but except for her grandmother, no one had ever made her feel nostalgic for home.

"There's no need to worry about this. Now that we're done here, just go back to Avalon. My house is pretty big. When you get back and feel tired, just sleep there. It's okay to treat it like your own home!"

Emiya patted her shoulder.

Treat it like her own home... Reggie Reeves' heartbeat suddenly quickened. Was this a hint? But she wasn't ready yet. Wasn't this progressing too fast?

I heard that Emiya is the only godslayer in the world and has a very terrifying physique. If they really were together... As if she recalled the scene many years ago when Emiya was as powerful as a god, her face suddenly became nervous and she retreated.

"Um, Emiya, between us..."

While Regis was worried about whether she would be rapped, Emiya didn't have that thought at all. He had no idea that his casual words would be interpreted in so many ways.

If Emiya really knew about this, he'd be hard-pressed to hide his shock—he already had enough to deal with Natsumi Nono and Eri's inexplicable temper! Three girls, a drama, and adding another would be a disaster. Life was unbearable!

If I were to talk about a partner with the purest mind, it would have to be this little female dragon, Melyuchina. All she knows is sleeping in and fighting in various ways. Does that mean I've raised her too well?

"Strange, you probably didn't just sleep for a long time. The life force in your body has grown a lot, breaking through the original limit... Could this be the return of the spiritual base?"

Emiya allowed Melusina to lie on his chest and rub against it, not specifically to let her take advantage of him. Through close observation and contact, he figured out the origin of Melusina's previous huge black dragon form.

First of all, the prerequisite for Melyusina to be able to move around freely is that she signed a contract with Nono, her master, to supply magic power.

Of course, Melyuchina's magic power comes from more than one source. In addition to the Master, she can also replenish magic with Emiya from time to time, which results in the mother dragon having sufficient energy storage. She is not panicked at all, moves quite freely, and does not listen to the Master very much.

Another characteristic of a Servant is that Melyusina's own strength is limited. Even if she has an abundant supply of magic power, there is a clear upper limit - the state of her spiritual base.

If the spiritual base is compared to a reservoir built on a river, the scale of the spiritual base is the reservoir capacity, the magic power supply is the water flow from upstream, and the output magic power of the servant is the downstream runoff when the gate is opened to release water.

Therefore, even if these water flows can be stored in large quantities in reservoirs and even if a large amount of water can be released in a short period of time, there are still two problems:

First, there is ultimately a limit to the storage capacity; you cannot put all the water from the entire river into the reservoir.

Second, when you open the sluice gates to release water, the amount of runoff that can flow downstream is limited. You can't release all the water in the reservoir at once.

This is the upper limit of the spiritual base. This limitation of the spiritual base prevents the servant from exerting his full strength.

And now, combining the performance of the black dragon state just now, Emiya clearly feels that Melyusina's servant state is stronger.

There is a high probability that the spiritual base has broken through the upper limit, which means that the spiritual base has returned again.

The FGO game has a spirit base rebirth mechanism. Although in the game it means that after the servant reaches a certain level, it needs to be fed materials to break through the upper limit, but Emiya remembers that this spirit base rebirth technology does exist.

So, did Melyuzina eat something in this place?

"—what did I eat?"

Melyuchina raised her head from her daze of being absorbed in the warm embrace, and she blankly recalled her memories before she fell asleep.

She remembered that when she was following Regislove and following her down to the tomb, she found it really boring, so she found a crack in the ground not far from Regislove and crawled into it.

However, the crack in the spirit tomb Nidhogg is not an ordinary crack. It usually means that Melyuchina is breaking into the deeper part of the Black King's corpse.

Thinking of this, Emiya asked Melyusina to move aside first, walked for a while, approached the rift abyss where Melyusina was lurking in the form of a black dragon, jumped in and explored for a while.

"..."

Regirev and Melyuchina, who stayed where they were, looked at each other subconsciously. No one thought that Emiya would have an accident in this place.

But Regis looked at the latter with a little caution. She was almost killed by mistake just now, and the relationship between this female dragon and Emiya was obviously unusual. It was hard not to suspect that she was so unconcerned about the task of protecting herself, maybe she wanted to eliminate potential competitors.

After all, my grandmother once said that when fighting, you should give it your all.

She, Regisleif, thought to herself and felt that she could not relax herself because of the overly favorable environment. She had to learn to always stay alert in battle, just like the lazy-looking dragon girl in front of her.

"......?" Melyuchina tilted her head as she looked at the white-haired girl who had inexplicably ignited her fighting spirit.

After a while, Emiya came up from the bottom of the abyss with a strange expression on his face.

He had just inspected the damaged portion of the deep, unexplored tomb and discovered that the entire "left hand" of the Black King's corpse had disappeared, apparently absorbed by the little female dragon.

Is this a fateful coincidence?

Emiya remembered that Melyusina in the FGO's British Lostbelt was also an individual that fell from the left hand of the original dragon's corpse and transformed into a separate individual.

"It seems you really are Melyuzina!"

He almost murmured to himself.

Melyuchina: “?” If she is not herself, who else could she be?

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The days have unknowingly come to the end of the year.

Lu Mingfei was so bored that he seemed to be dying of boredom.

Since Ling came to this position, all the daily chores of the medical department have been taken over. However, this does not mean that Lu Mingfei will live a happy life like a god, because Ling gave him a lot of surgical learning materials and arranged a large number of practical surgical courses.

There is no longer any nurse girl he can chat up on a daily basis, and there is no chance to find his boastful and pretentious good brother Fingel. All he can get in his daily life are endless medical courses!

The damn little devil actually used this ice-girl facade to deceive him, and from time to time helped him to check for omissions and fill in the gaps, taking care of Lu Mingfei's omissions like a mature old mother... Tsk, she actually acted quite well.

Do you think such hypocritical behavior will make Brother Lu addicted and waver?

You're dreaming! No way!

Lu Mingfei, who felt lonely and oppressed, felt a little breathless. Besides a large number of medical courses, there were also little devils in women's clothing (Zero:?) with ulterior motives around him.

I'm shivering with anger and feeling so hopeless. These days, it seems like there's nothing to look forward to except counting the days until the New Year's Day holiday arrives after New Year's Eve...

But is this really the case?

Lu Mingfei, once a giant in esports, said that was an underestimation of him. He was a master in StarCraft, capable of multitasking and even defeating an entire opposing team!

pat!

There was a slight click of the keyboard, and while Ling turned around to go out and submit a work report to the director's office, Lu Mingfei quickly switched the screen using the shortcut key.

The boring human body structure cross-section diagrams, surgical injury grade analysis tables and other graphics have disappeared, replaced by several split-screen images full of light and color.

The large live broadcast screen of the virtual anchor in the center of the screen immediately caught Lu Mingfei's attention. Bai Jie's fluffy hair, flowing eyes, and exquisite modeling attracted a large number of viewers. Gifts rained down from time to time at the live broadcast site. The name of the live broadcast room was written as -

"Magical☆Merry's New Year's Eve Fireworks Festival Special!"

The beautiful magician waved her colorful wand, and a dazzling array of special effects composed of fireworks and flower petals gradually bloomed on the screen. "Mina-san, New Year's Eve is coming soon. Everyone - are you well prepared to welcome the new year~"

Seeing the host Magic☆Meili's smile and pleasant voice, Lu Mingfei's tired expression, which was originally tortured by a lot of schoolwork, seemed to melt away in an instant.

Melted in the sweet smile of Magic☆Merry.

Magic☆Merry, hehehe, my Magic☆Merry.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, and a warm current flowed through his heart, flashing with longing and admiration for this colorful and dazzling person.

In this cold and ruthless Chaldea Medical Department, only Magic☆Meili can bring a little warmth to herself.

Such a virtual idol is good-looking and speaks sweetly. He is simply the cutest in the world. Isn't he much better than the cold-faced little devil in women's clothing?

Chapter 346: Emiya must have a deeper meaning behind this

"That concludes this week's work report for the medical department."

In Caesar's director's office, Zero, dressed in a white medical uniform, handed the report to the other party.

"It's well organized. The data display and analysis dimensions are much clearer than before, detailed but not messy. Are you sure this is the report completed by Lu Mingfei himself? His progress in recent times is quite impressive." Caesar's words were full of praise, but also contained a hint of temptation.

"...Yes." Ling said lightly, with almost no emotional fluctuations, making it impossible to tell whether it was true or false.

Caesar shook his head, deciding not to pursue the matter further. "Alright, go back. I have something important to discuss with the others."

Zero left the office silently and closed the door.

Then Caesar pulled out a secret record and sent it to Emiya, who was waiting leaning against the sofa.

"Oh, is this the secret communication method you devised for the Hidden Ones?"

Emiya flipped through the highly confidential records. Although he had previously discussed this with Caesar, remote communication wasn't always secure, so he reviewed the details in person.

The aforementioned mind-link technology, possessed by all members of the Hidden, was transformed through the esoteric alchemy of the Night Watch Masters of the Secret Party. This made it easy to establish a mechanism for collective communication and covert transmission. This connected consciousness could even be leveraged to escalate the power of collectively cast words and magic…

There is even a prominent name "Fingal von Frings" in the special thanks list at the end, which seems to indicate that this valuable technology is not a gift without reason. For Vice Principal Night Watch to be so generous, this guy Fengal must have made a great contribution.

This time, Caesar planned to use this technology to perform a new version of Shikigami magic modified from the White King Source's Word Spirit·Ghost Victory. The new version of the technique did not emphasize forgetting the pain and breaking the restrictions to burst out combat power, but focused more on stimulating the self-healing ability of the flesh cells of all individuals covered by the field. With this insurance, there would be no need to worry too much about casualties even if an accident occurred at the site of the spirit particle transfer.

The contributors to the data related to this technique are the Snake Eight Families. As the representative of this force, Mai Shude is lazily lying on a top-grade Kashmir leather sofa with her legs crossed. Her slender curves in black stockings and over-the-knee boots are swaying in front of Emiya beside her. She has an outsider expression on her face and is playing with her mobile phone.

Emiya glanced at it and reached out to move the beautiful feet that were blocking his view to the side. He suddenly remembered that Su Enxi was here managing the finances, Jude Mai was the representative of the Japanese forces, and Ling was in the medical department. The trio was now complete. "By the way, why are you representing the Snake Eight Clan? What did Minamoto no Chisei say?"

"How could the current patriarch come here in person? He's not like you, a godslayer who is invincible and never afraid of taking risks... Hehe, I'm just kidding!" Jiude Mai's eyes moved away from the phone, and the corners of her mouth curled up into a charming smile that could charm thousands of little virgins.

"The truth is, I'm just filling in for Potato Chip Girl. I've brought them here, and that's the end of it. After all, she's the boss behind the Snake Eight Families. The real Snake Eight Families are probably Minamoto no Chitose. This patriarch's younger brother sounds very concerned about Emiya's attitude—our Lord God Slayer is still as charming as ever!"

She was making harmless jokes, intentionally or unintentionally.

Caesar shook his head secretly. Another one from the "Emiya faction"? He was almost used to it. Most of the talents stationed in Chaldea were related to him.

Now that I think about it, when Emiya gave up the position of director to me, could it be that he had some deeper considerations - for example, after abdicating the throne to him, he would become the "emperor" and control me remotely, secretly controlling the situation in Chaldea behind the scenes?

But is there any real need for this? It's impossible for a man not to be interested in the supreme power of direct control. So, considering the ambush on the Demon Gods and the aliens, is Emiya trying to create the appearance of disunity within Chaldea, in conjunction with my plan, to deliberately lure the enemy into lowering their guard?

Hiss… Caesar secretly gasped. The God Slayer's schemes were so profound and terrifying! He was indeed the man I was pursuing!

Emiya, who was sitting beside the sofa, suddenly felt puzzled when he received Caesar's burning gaze. He seemed to see a lion with burning fighting spirit in his eyes. "?"

I don't understand what you're so excited about all of a sudden.

In fact, he had no idea how far Caesar's imagination had progressed. Emiya was simply recalling the Minamoto no Onna from the previous Tokyo Holy Grail War. "Mai, the Minamoto no Onna you mentioned... Oh, it's him."

This person originally had one arm broken, but now he can function like a normal person, and his combat power has even increased. This is also thanks to the work of himself and Charlotte.

"But, Mai-san, your substitute duties aren't over yet, are they? Don't forget that your job after joining Chaldea is to replace Zero as a member of Team A and participate in the Hidden One Project. Don't miss today's important year-end control room meeting. The end of the year is a special time."

"..." Upon hearing this, Jude Mai covered her head and face with a fashion magazine, speechless with pain. The sofa under her butt hadn't even warmed up yet. She had been toiling all her life...

Emiya's attention returned to the confidential information. He carefully considered this spiritual consciousness connection technology, which was praised by Chaldea as "great", and was essentially similar to the blood pact he signed with the women. He could actually communicate with the Lord of Wa Nono and even Slude who was disguised as Ophelia, even if the latter was pulled away by the aliens in the Hidden Plan.

"Using souls as a medium, it's the blood alliance... No, it's nothing."

"Did you say anything, Emiya? ...The origin and principles of my technology are nothing to be kept secret from you. My people referred to materials related to the Holy Grail War during the development process."

"I went to do some research and heard that there's some kind of contractual connection between Masters and Servant that transcends time and space. I even asked Miss Charlotte, a veteran of that era and a master of this art, to collaborate on research and development, and it worked! Now, everything's ready. All we need is a gust of wind from those enemies!"

Caesar waved his hand casually, with a confident attitude of "We have no rivals ahead". His tone was like the behind-the-scenes boss in all the major productions, who put his hands behind his back and opened a gap in the curtains to let the light illuminate his incredibly handsome face as a blond nobleman, and said in a pretentious manner, "The wind is about to blow" or "When the day breaks, it's time to bankrupt the Wang family."

But the corner of Emiya's mouth twitched. When he thought about the fact that this plan required the Chaldea employees to take part in it, and even that Caesar, as the director, needed to stand in the most conspicuous position under the spotlight to attract enemy attacks, he couldn't hold back.

Even in the original plot of FGO, the Demon Pillar spy planted a bomb under the director's feet while he was speaking, and sent the director, seven members of Group A, and a large number of employees to death on the spot. In the original plot, Flauros, who personally handled this matter, was also awarded the honorary title of "Grand Bomber".

Well, the same principle applies to Caesar. As the most prestigious director in Chaldea, he should be at the forefront, drawing the most firepower. After all, if the enemy attacks, Caesar, the primary target, will certainly not be in a good position.

So in order to prevent Caesar from being undecent, Emiya decided to help him be decent.

"Even so, it's not enough. Our confrontation with the enemy will cause losses to Chaldea and other personnel. Even the spell you prepared may not be able to save lives."

Emiya's face was serious. "Playing at home, we have to be careful not to neglect one thing while focusing on another... So, I've called in outside help. Calculating the time, they should be verified as outside visitors by now."

"I see. Bringing in new external reinforcements, that's your strategy—no, it's the connections you bring with you as a God Slayer, Emiya. How terrifying!"

Caesar said, the fiery excitement in his blazing eyes growing even stronger. "As expected, I was right. Your early arrangements do have a deeper meaning. You're aiming to catch your opponent off guard when they're off guard!"

bang bang.

There was a knock on the door outside the room. After receiving the answer, the door opened automatically, and the so-called external help - a familiar figure walked in.

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Perhaps to celebrate the upcoming New Year's Eve, institutions with a strong academic atmosphere like Chaldea also decorated themselves with lights and colorful decorations. Joyful expressions appeared on everyone's faces, and the magic fireworks and fairy wands produced by Da Vinci's workshop were very popular.

Lu Mingfei was also defrauded of a significant portion of his salary by this unscrupulous, profiteer who appeared to be a big sister, only to receive a few unassuming fairy wands. What was the difference between these and any other fairy wands sold in any other small shop? Could this be a scam to trick children?

Damn that profiteer, a tycoon, relying on Chaldea's status as the only legally-owned business to run holiday promotions... This scheme is exactly the same as the rip-off, overpriced merchandise in scenic spots...

"Ten more boxes."

Ling next to her spoke in a rich woman-like manner and paid the amount with a card under Lu Mingfei's wide-eyed gaze. Da Vinci, who collected the money, smiled like a flower. Lu Mingfei seriously suspected that this big bitch was about to laugh uncontrollably!