I really didn't want to burn it.

"Okay."

Freya smiled, radiant like a flower, and picked up a chess piece, making her first move.

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Singularity: Qin Dynasty.

Li Ang is extremely bewildered right now. Even when Ritsuka led Chaldea to blow up his house, he had never been this bewildered.

Before transmigrating, Li Ang had a hobby of listening to crosstalk while playing mobile games.

Among them, Teacher Guo and Uncle Qian are one of Li Ang's favorite crosstalk duos.

Besides Grandpa Wang from Uncle Qian's family, Guo Degang's favorite story to tell is about Uncle Qian coming home to find his house collapsed, leaving only a door frame.

And now, this joke has become Li Ang's reality.

Ever since moving into the Imperial Preceptor's residence, Li Ang never imagined that the house would collapse down to just a door frame!

But that's the truth.

If it weren't for the three characters "[Imperial Preceptor's Residence]" on the door frame, Li Ang wouldn't have believed that this ruin was his home.

"Li Ang, is everything alright?"

Skadi, who was holding her husband's arm, also looked puzzled.

She truly never expected that the house her husband had been praising all the way would turn out to be a complete ruin.

Aside from the possibility that her husband's taste had drastically changed and he preferred living in a dilapidated house, seeing the scene before her, the only thing she could think of was that he had been attacked.

"Damn it! Chaldea wasn't supposed to come?! How come my house is gone?! And this jinx came early?!"

Doesn't this show that their predictions are accurate?

"Stop gloating!"

[Don't you have something more important to do than argue with the system, host?]

"Ah! Chloris and the others!"

Li Ang quickly kicked away the remaining door frame and rushed into the house.

Then, Li Ang saw an even more infuriating scene: his own sisters and servants, almost all of them wrapped in bandages, were sitting on the flat ground near the door.

"Li Ang, you're back."

Chloris quickly came over, secretly glancing at Skadi but saying nothing.

Normally, the Flower Goddess would definitely have given her a good scolding. But in this situation, it's best to let it go.

Li Ang asked directly, "What happened? I was just out on a mission, how come my house was attacked? Are you all alright?"

"Fortunately, apart from Chiyome Mochizuki who broke her arm, everyone else only suffered minor injuries."

Chloris began to explain.

"Fortunately, Ryougi Shiki's Mystic Eyes mitigated a significant amount of the destructive power, preventing anyone from sustaining serious injuries. However..."

"what happened?"

Chloris's hesitant manner made Li Ang feel uneasy.

“DD has been captured by the enemy,” Chloris said helplessly. “The enemy’s attack was aimed at her. Everything happened so fast that we didn’t even have time to react before DD was taken away.”

"..."

Li Ang took two deep breaths, trying to calm his volatile emotions.

He didn't blame Chloris and the others for their thoughts; he was simply angry with himself!

"Do you know who did this?"

"We have captured a prisoner."

A ruthless glint flashed across Chloris's face.

Regardless of the maid's attitude towards her, the other party was still one of her own. Now that DD had been captured by outsiders, Chloris, the Greek goddess who was fiercely protective of her own, was naturally extremely displeased.

Two servants from the Imperial Preceptor's residence dragged a severely injured man to Li Ang like a dead dog.

Despite the bloodstains on the other person's face, their elfin-like pointed ears and short black hair made them instantly recognizable.

[It's actually Belial Gat, the deranged serial killer from Group A. Looks like you're in for a lot of work, host.]

Chapter 287 The Story of Emperor Li Ang of the Tang Dynasty

Chaldea, control room.

When Ritsuka finished the spirit transfer and opened her eyes, she didn't see the staff cheering and welcoming her and Mashu's triumphant return in the control room, but rather a series of serious faces.

"Um, Doctor, Leonardo da Vinci-san. I'm back."

Ritsuka greeted the two chiefs in the control room with an awkward smile.

"Ah, Fujimaru, Mashu. Welcome back. Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Emiya, and Ms. Aozaki."

Despite Romani's efforts to force a smile, the worry on his face remained impossible to erase.

"Director Archiman, what happened? Has something bad happened to the remaining two singularities?"

Kiritsugu had no intention of exchanging pleasantries and instinctively got to the point.

"Well..."

Romani sighed and rubbed his forehead. He tapped the touchscreen in front of him, projecting the image onto the main screen.

"Just as you were repairing the Nordic Singularity, the remaining Qin and Tang Singularities merged once again."

"again?"

Kiritsugu was taken aback.

Because he was in a hurry to go to Scandinavia to save the day as soon as he arrived in Chaldea, he didn't really know much about what had happened in the previous singularities.

"Again..."

Ritsuka and Mashu, however, knew what the so-called "again" meant.

It is precisely because they know this that they are even more troubled.

"So, will a war break out between the Tang and Qin dynasties to seize the throne?"

The thought of the struggle between Britain and Rome for Gaul (France) caused Ritsuka a constant throbbing pain in her temples.

The current ruler of the Qin Singularity, Qin Shi Huang, is the servant she summoned. His invincible strength has left an indelible shadow on her.

If she could, Ritsuka would never want to step into that singularity. No offense intended, it's just that seeing Ying Zheng's imposing gaze made Ritsuka particularly—in other words, a coward.

"It's probably more complicated than that."

Da Vinci's hands moved across the keyboard, and the world map on the main screen was stretched into two identical red and blue layers.

"First of all, whether it's the Tang or Qin dynasty, these two singularities have spread to almost the entire Eurasian continent. In terms of scope, they're no longer just limited to the Chinese region. Moreover..."

"and……"

“This time it’s not a simple, crude patchwork like the Roman and British singularities,” Leonardo da Vinci said with a serious expression. “Now these two singularities are more like two sides of the same coin.”

Romani added, "Of course, that's not entirely accurate. It should be said that the two singularities exist on different dimensions. The coin analogy is just to help a magician of your caliber better understand."

"Hey, doctor. Isn't what you're saying completely unnecessary?"

Ritsuka bared her teeth at Ramani, but Ramani ignored her.

“Is there a problem with having two sides like a coin?” Mash asked.

"Let's put it this way."

Da Vinci took out a piece of paper and pointed to a dot on it.

"How do I get to the same point on the other side of the paper from here?"

"Poke it with your hand... Ah!" Mashu covered her mouth with her small hand.

“That’s right, that’s the current situation for these two singularities,” Da Vinci said seriously. “As long as we open the passage, we can reach the same place in another singularity.”

Seeing Ritsuka's confused expression, and that she hadn't yet realized the seriousness of the situation, Da Vinci said directly, "This means that between the two singularities, as long as one side has an aggressive mindset, it can send its army to any location of the other side to start a war! This is basically a chaotic free-for-all!"

"It can't be that exaggerated, can it?" Ritsuka poked her hands together, looking hesitant. "After all, attacking a country that's about the same size as ourselves... shouldn't we think about it carefully?"

"Ritsuka, you need to know how these two singularities came to have such vast territories."

Leonardo da Vinci rested his chin on his hands and analyzed, "Although the reason is unknown, under Li Ang's interference, both countries have a strong tendency to expand their territory."

"If you were the ruler of either of these countries, and a country with equally abundant resources appeared, and it would be very easy to conquer that country, what would you choose?"

As she listened to Leonardo da Vinci's explanation, Ritsuka's expression gradually turned frightened.

"No way……?"

Just as Romani was about to say something, he heard the alarm go off in the control room.

"what happened?"

"Romani asked anxiously."

"Acting Director Archiman! The portals to two singularities have been opened!"

"Where is the flow of traffic?!"

"From the Qin singularity to the Tang, the number detected is... 5000!"

Kiritsugu slowly lit a cigarette for himself: "It seems the worst has already happened."

pat.

Irisviel snatched the cigarette from Kiritsugu's mouth and stomped it out on the ground.

"Kiritsugu, I told you not to smoke, didn't I?"

"Alice...I just..."

Seeing the couple's stand-up comedy begin again, everyone in Chaldea shook their heads.

"Ignore it, ignore it. Work, work." *N

Ritsuka and Mashu stared at the data on the big screen, their faces filled with worry and fear.

Although there was no direct evidence, Ritsuka always felt that this matter was inextricably linked to a certain Grand Tutor she knew.

"Li Ang... what will happen next?"

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Let me tell you a story about an emperor.

The Tang Empire—that's what outsiders called this country.

The people of the country themselves prefer to proudly refer to each other as "Great Tang".

The first emperor of the Tang Empire was the famous Emperor Taizu Li Ang, who ruled the country for nearly a century and developed the country's power to an unprecedented level!

This hero, who rose to prominence at the end of the Sui Dynasty, emerged in an incredible way, sweeping away the six kingdoms and unifying the world.

Unlike the founding emperors of previous dynasties who considered unifying the Central Plains as the end of their reigns, Li Ang regarded unifying the country as merely the beginning of his legendary career.

For nearly a century afterward, Li Ang continuously enhanced the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, reformed the government internally, and expanded its territory externally, pushing the country he founded to an unprecedented peak.

To the common people of the Tang Empire, Emperor Taizu Li Ang was practically a sage ruler who had descended from heaven. Compared to him, the wise rulers recorded in historical books were not even worthy of carrying his shoes.

But to those powerful families who had dominated the Central Plains since the Han Dynasty, Li Ang was a demon crawling out of the netherworld.

Back when Li Ang was conquering the world, he had already killed a large number of powerful families who opposed him.

However, at that time, no one paid any attention to it.

After all, it's not uncommon for families to be wiped out for making the wrong bet in the struggle for power; it's just that those families who were wiped out were unlucky.

Those founding emperors also liked to pick out two uncooperative examples to make an example of them.

After the initial shock, the music and dancing just continue.

When it comes to governing a country, it ultimately comes down to their family lineage.