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

Emiya did not respond to this level of provocation. Suddenly, an abnormal flow of elements began to appear in his body. Bright patterns similar to circuit boards appeared on his hands and feet, and elements were also concentrated in his pupils.

Strengthen magic.

In an instant, his strength and eyesight increased dramatically, and with his enhanced dynamic vision, he could see the direction of the bronze "whip" at a rapid speed.

Crack! Emiya actually inserted the blade held in one hand precisely into the gap between the chains!

"!?"

Zhou Yuxuan was shocked. He saw Emiya pulling and swinging the knife, and he was pulled over without any resistance by the huge force transmitted from the chain. The katana in Emiya's other hand was raised steadily, and he seemed to be rushing towards the blade!

There is no doubt that if this blow lands, the outcome of this fight will probably be decided!

Realizing the impending crisis, the golden pupils in Zhou Yuxuan's eyes ignited vigorously, and the domain of Word Spirit·Iron Flow rapidly expanded.

boom!

With a dull thud, Emiya's sword struck the small metal round shield that Tieliu had improvised.

Zhou Yuxuan took the opportunity to withdraw the chain. He looked at the conspicuous cracks on his shield and remained silent.

It was obvious that Emiya did not use all his strength. With the alchemy sword in his hand and the sudden surge of strength, it was no problem for him to split the makeshift shield.

As for why Zhou Yuxuan judged it to be the Alchemy Tachi? Because his Word Spirit, Iron Flow, which was powerful enough to control metal, was unable to exert any influence on Emiya's weapon.

There must be spare swords in Emiya's weapon box, but Zhou Yuxuan can't affect any of them. The answer is obvious. All of Emiya's weapons are alchemical weapons made of recycled metals!

Only by using superb alchemy to "kill" the metal, remove impurities, and give it new life, and to form recycled metal, can the weapon be freed from the control of his words and possess performance that breaks through limitations!

It seems that what Lord Wa said that day, that Emiya's alchemy skills are extraordinary, is true.

So, was Emiya's sudden increase in strength a word spirit, or was it the magecraft he was talking about?

We must try again.

This time, Zhou Yuxuan no longer swung the chain, but instead raised the heavy, wide, ring-handled heavy sword as wide as a door panel and attacked with great force.

Boom——!

The heavy mass chopped down, the air waves were pushed out, and fierce sparks burst out from between the two men's weapons. The escalating confrontation caused the concrete road to roar under the unbearable weight.

However, Zhou Yuxuan was not at ease. He was clearly wielding the powerful Door Panel Heavy Sword, while Emiya was using the delicate and sharp Katana, but the situation between them was completely reversed.

The piercing sound of swords echoed all around, and the alchemical double swords swung by Emiya formed an astonishing silver arc, but it was not a methodical sword move of the ancient martial arts school, but a pure "my style" that formed a fast and deadly battlefield killing move, catching people off guard and making them run for their lives.

"Well…!"

Even with this exceptional alchemical heavy sword, Zhou Yuxuan was still pushed back by Emiya's powerful blows. After a dozen rounds, his arms were numb from the immense force transmitted through the blade.

He gritted his teeth and persisted, his golden eyes burning even more vigorously. In fact, his Word Spirit: Iron Flow had another use, which was to extract the metal elements from the opponent's body when facing the enemy at close range.

The free metal elements in the human body are one of the important components for maintaining life activities. As long as they are extracted, the opponent can be made to lose the ability to move.

Zhou Yuxuan felt that this move, aside from the drawback of needing to continuously engage the enemy, was unlikely to fail due to other factors.

Unless the enemy doesn't rely on metal elements to maintain its activities, or the enemy is a moving alchemical product, he cannot interfere with it at all.

The mysterious dragon language echoed, but no response came.

Failed!?

The metal element content in Emiya's body is normal, but it cannot be interfered with!

Zhou Yuxuan made a rough observation with the perspective of the Word Spirit and discovered that there was an extremely sophisticated array pattern (alchemical matrix) composed of metal elements inside Emiya's body!

These lines are spread throughout the body like the nervous system, forming an internal domain that resists external interference.

A clear, regular flow of elements flowed through the alchemical matrix, converging on his hands and feet. So that's how it was solved? This was the magic circuit, the source of Emiya's surge in power! Emiya's so-called magic was activated through this!

He actually implanted an alchemy array of such precision into himself. Emiya's alchemy level... I'm afraid he has already reached the master level!

Chapter 8: Archaeologists are in such good physical condition?

Shirou Emiya would never have imagined that someone could exaggerate the creation of an ordinary magic circuit to such an outrageous level.

Therefore, he couldn't understand why Zhou Yuxuan suddenly stepped back with a changed expression while fighting, looking at him in shock.

Are you still going to fight?

"I've thoroughly experienced Lord Emiya's martial arts and Western magic," Zhou Yuxuan put away his massive heavy sword, seemingly ready to call it a day. "Lord Emiya is a true tester. This is the end of Lord Wa's test."

"No, why don't you use your heavy sword?"

However, Emiya didn't really want it to end. Until just now, the ring-handled heavy sword had never come out of the scabbard. Zhou Yuxuan was simply using the scabbard to smash it like a door panel.

In other words, the heavy sword needs to be pulled out of the scabbard in order to complete the release of the true name of the Noble Phantasm.

He had originally wanted to witness the unleashing of this ancient Noble Phantasm. To project a Noble Phantasm, the more thoroughly one understood and analyzed the original, the closer the projection would be to the original.

"Did you see it?"

Zhou Yuxuan smiled and stroked the black scabbard with one hand. There seemed to be a faint low dragon roar from inside, and the sound was huge and powerful.

"This item...actually, it mostly serves as the Zhou family's facade and token of trust. It can't be officially activated unless it's a critical moment. If it is used, it will cost you nearly your life. Besides, you, Emiya, are already a distinguished guest of our Zhou family, not an enemy to be killed."

"..." Emiya fell silent. It seemed that releasing the magic power required almost to the point of overdrawing his life force was a huge price to pay. Now he couldn't ask others to release the Noble Phantasm.

Zhou Yuxuan said, "If you, Emiya, insist on seeing the true form of this 'Dragon-Severing Platform,' I can also ask for permission from Lord Wa. Currently, she's the only one who can wield this weapon. Lord Wa has a great fondness for you and might be willing to demonstrate the power of the Dragon-Severing Platform."

At this time, a smiling face came up, and Old Tang patted Shirou Emiya's shoulder vigorously: "Brother Emiya is really famous. Just by chatting casually, he can enter the attention of important people. Alas, I, Old Tang, have only achieved a little in my life by playing e-sports."

There wasn't a hint of disappointment in Old Tang's words, rather he seemed quite proud of himself for having such a good brother and living a life of luxury from now on.

As expected, the next second, Old Tang winked at Zhou Yuxuan with a mercenary look, "Brother Zhou, regarding this originally planned... ruins mission, aren't the hunters supposed to go down as cannon fodder? Since your family has approved it, can my brother Emiya and I..."

Zhou Yuxuan raised his hand and said, "It's just a mission reward. Lord Emiya has been recognized, so there is no problem in getting the reward even if you don't enter the ruins. As for you, it depends on whether Emiya agrees or not."

"Thank you! Thank you so much!" Old Tang felt the joy of getting something for free for the first time. He turned to look at Emiya and said, "Brother, this time—"

Emiya Shirou was squinting his eyes and looking into the distance.

"Does your Zhou family have any additional plans here today?"

"?" Zhou Yuxuan was confused. "No, apart from the private meeting with Lord Emiya, there is nothing else. The personnel from other families besides the Zhou family will arrive tomorrow at the earliest."

Emiya looked far away through his strengthened eyes.

Although enhancement magic is basic, it has flexible applications. It can not only increase strength by strengthening limbs, but also enhance the senses - for example, strengthening the eyes can also improve visual ability, creating an effect similar to "pseudo-clairvoyance".

Emiya's high accuracy in archery is certainly due to his superb skills and the high quality of his bows and arrows, but his good eyesight is also indispensable.

"I saw a vehicle coming straight towards here."

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Su Xiaoqiang sat in a black Audi A8, the engine rumbling softly, the car stereo blaring "Daily Growing" by the Irish band Altan. Uncle Li was behind the wheel. As the sky darkened and the lights faded, the pure black sedan seemed to gradually blend into the night.

Su Xiaoqiang asked Uncle Li that the hotel was too boring and he wanted to find a place to run around and relax, but in fact he was curious and rushed to the location that Shirou Emiya showed him when he asked for directions.

Perhaps it was more than just curiosity. She saw that the solemn expression on the red-haired boy's face did not seem fake. It was as if he was a soldier in a movie who was carrying out a heavy mission and faced with his teammates in danger, and he resolutely plunged into the enemy's ambush like a sharp knife.

Su Xiaoqiang, a little angel with a stable life, a huge fortune but extremely bored, imagined this heroic rescue plot in her mind and immediately thought she had fully empathized with it.

"Miss, it's dark enough. At least for driving safety, you should turn on the headlights--" Uncle Li couldn't help but say.

"Hey! No, no!"

Su Xiaoqiang's flustered behavior made Uncle Li suspicious. From the very beginning, Su Xiaoqiang had refused to let the headlights on, saying they wanted to enjoy the pristine night view. This lame excuse was obviously fake.

Glancing ahead, he saw a large, dark-colored transport truck heading straight in a certain direction, about to disappear from view. Although Su Xiaoqiang said it was just a casual turn, its direction was undoubtedly the same as the one in front.

While driving, Uncle Li took the time to set his phone to one-touch dialing and recording mode.

Not long after, Uncle Li was about to brake and slow down, "Miss, it seems we are almost there."

"Really?!" Su Xiaoqiang shuddered and blurted out, then realized that she had not revealed her destination to Uncle Li before. "Uncle Li, how did you know?"

"Because there's a sign up ahead saying 'Road Closed, Detour'..."

Uncle Li's brows suddenly furrowed as he spoke. The transport truck in front actually broke through the blockade and roadblocks and drove past.

Su Xiaoqiang was not surprised but happy. He blocked the road on purpose. There must be a problem!

She was about to say, "Keep driving," when she heard a knocking sound outside the window. The sound was very clear, someone was knocking on the outside of the Audi.

Su Xiaoqiang subconsciously reached out to roll down the car window, but almost instantly, a chill spread throughout his body from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

An Audi was driving alone in the middle of the road at high speed, but someone knocked on the window from outside?

But the car window had been rolled down, and as Su Xiaoqiang gazed with a somewhat horrified expression, a very familiar face of a red-haired man appeared outside the car window.

"?"

Shirou Emiya used enhanced magic to increase his leg strength and ran to catch up with the Audi, touching his face in confusion. Does he look scary?

"It's you!"

Su Xiaoqiang came to his senses and his stiff facial expression relaxed. Seeing this, Uncle Li in the front seat slowly stopped the Audi and took his finger off the one-touch dialing button.

"Why are you here? It's dangerous here... I mean, this is a key national archaeological project site, and entry is prohibited without permission!"

Facing Su Xiaoqiang's rebuttal, Emiya Shirou directly displayed a bunch of certificates he had obtained from Zhou Yuxuan, including the "Archaeological Excavation Qualification Permit", "Cultural Relics Protection Certificate", "Archaeological Excavation Group Certification", etc., and forcibly swallowed back her original words, turning them into a complaint:

"No, are you archaeologists in such good physical condition? You can run to catch up with an Audi without even taking a breath?"

Chapter 9: Darkness of Night

In fact, these certificates of Zhou Yuxuan are specially used to deal with unsuspecting "Muggles" to prevent anyone from breaking the principle of confidentiality.

When Emiya got this, he thought it was quite troublesome. If it were a magic family, they could just set up a magic barrier to "expel ordinary people". Why would they have to run around manually to disperse ordinary people?

As a result, Zhou Yuxuan said that it would not matter if ordinary people were let in on normal days, because they would not be idle and dig deep to look for relics next to abandoned unfinished buildings. But the time was too sensitive now, so Zhou Yuxuan felt it necessary to stop them and take a look.

So Old Tang was responsible for guarding with a gun at a distance where the view was better, Zhou Yuxuan stopped the first car, and Wei Gong was responsible for the next one.

"Why can the car in front pass, but ours can't?" Su Xiaoqiang hasn't given up yet, and is determined to keep pestering. His flashing eyes seem to say, 'You must be hiding some secret.'

"No, the one in front can't pass either, so someone is already blocking it."

Shirou Emiya moved sideways to block Su Xiaoqiang's attempt to peek.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang from the car in front, followed by the sharp sound of breaking glass.

Su Xiaoqiang asked, "What's going on? Is this also an incident handled by you archaeologists?"

Shirou Emiya turned around suddenly and saw Old Tang in front of him, pulling out his gun and yelling, "Brothers, hurry up and get help! These people are crazy! They actually want to transport a truckload of monsters into the ruins!"

"What a monster!"

"Deadpool, an out-of-control dragon-blood monster!" Zhou Yuxuan, standing in the distance, fired a shotgun shell from his alchemical rifle. "They refused to negotiate and awakened the frozen Deadpool hiding in the car!"

On this day, Su Xiaoqiang paid a heart-wrenching price for his groundless curiosity.

In her vision, the car's windows shattered again, and a ball of orange flames suddenly exploded in front of the car, as if someone had thrown a napalm bomb there. Two strong men got out of the car, one of them muttering something, and then a supernatural scene occurred -

The invisible air masses condensed into several balls, and exploded the next second, blowing the concrete road surface into countless flying fragments.

At the farthest point, a young man with droopy eyebrows was firing his HK416A5 rifle in a "relatively normal" manner. Meanwhile, a lean young man on the other side rushed forward, a heavy sword like a door panel in front of him and a strange-looking cannon in the other, unleashing a crackling hail of bullets. As he walked, countless streams of iron sand and steel fragments were swept up from the ground.

Click!

Su Xiaoqiang was shocked by the shattered worldview.

Superpowers? Spells?

At the moment when her brain reacted violently, sharp claws pierced through the transport vehicle. The metal sheet was easily twisted into holes by the inhuman force, and a hideous monster covered with black and green scales crawled out of it.

The monsters' gray scales reflected the cold light of metal, their faces looked stern or ferocious, their limbs were slender and twisted, and their lower bodies looked like mutated giant pythons.

Their pupils glowed a golden hue, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, like a pair of cold, captivating death lanterns in the deep darkness. Someone in the distance fired fiercely, but most of the bullets only managed to spark off the scales...

Then, as if a cold fear came from deep in his blood, Su Xiaoqiang felt his body and mind tremble, and finally empathized with the powerless ordinary people in disasters or thrillers -

The "little angel" who was born with the halo of wealth, fame, appearance, etc., is just an ordinary girl who is powerless to resist when facing the approaching death.

At this moment, the only person she was familiar with on the battlefield shrouded in the threat of death, Shirou Emiya, had already rushed forward. The alchemy sword in his hand and the sharp claws extended by the first snake-like Deadpool monster that came out clashed in the air, producing dazzling sparks.

brush!

Su Xiaoqiang felt her vision blurred, and lines appeared on Emiya's legs, and he suddenly accelerated. In an instant, he turned around and crossed with Deadpool. The sword hidden in his other hand drew a beautiful silver arc from the blind spot, and black blood splattered out. The knife cut through Deadpool's spine and cut into the ganglion, causing him to fall down helplessly like a high-level paraplegic... The movement was so beautiful that she almost clapped her hands in amazement. It was much better than those stunts in the movies.

Boom!

The rear door was violently opened, and an arm more than twice as thick as the original attacked from the darkness. Without waiting for Su Xiaoqiang's reminder, Emiya drew his knife with his backhand as if he had eyes on the back of his head to block the sharp claws.