Lost Narrative Poetry

"If you feel that taking a break like this is a waste of time and will make you feel guilty, and you don't feel mentally tired yourself and really don't need to relax, then study!"

Xia Ran laid out his previous notebooks one by one and suggested to the depressed knight girl.

"Study?" Artoria was a little surprised.

"Yes, although you are not a magician and do not have magic circuits, just because you have red dragon blood and use the heart of the magic furnace, it does not mean that you do not have the qualifications to practice magic..."

Xia Ran nodded in affirmation.

"So as I said before, if you want to pursue a slim miracle, you must strengthen your own strength. In the current situation, there is no hope for attributes and equipment for the time being, so increase the skills you master. It’s just the best choice.”

Having said this, he looked directly into the girl's emerald green eyes and spoke his thoughts seriously——

"One thing needs to be understood. You are no longer registered in the Heroic Spirit Seat, so your information can be updated and your strength can grow. It will not remain in the same state forever..."

Heroic spirits are such existences. To put it nicely, they are the spirits of heroes in the past. Their great achievements have become legends after death and have become objects of belief.

To put it harshly, he is nothing more than Alaya's tool man, part of the defense mechanism that protects humanity.

Because only living people can create history. As dead people who have died in the past, their time has stopped long ago and they have no future. After all, if there are no accidents, the status information of the heroic spirit is constant and will not decrease or increase.

Because their abilities, their legends, the class adaptability they have as a result, and the manifested noble phantoms are all based on what they did during their lifetimes and the legends passed down.

In other words, as dead people, it is theoretically impossible for them to grow again. As a weapon, their performance has long been constant...

Even after being summoned, there is no point in continuing to study hard and master new abilities. The next time he is summoned, he will still be a template based on the legendary standards, and will never add new abilities...

Because the legend will not change anymore, not everyone is Gilgamesh. They can ignore the legend and specify their own settings at will. They completely ignore the basic characteristics of the existence of heroic spirits and can fabricate them however they want.

It is precisely because of this that the conquering king Iskandar hopes to obtain the Holy Grail, resurrect himself, regain his body, and continue his grand cause of ravaging and dominating. It's because he knows that dead people have no future, and only living people can continue to grow——

In this way, we can continue to create history and continue to write legends.

But now Artoria is different. She doesn't have to worry about such things at all. She is now a living person, retaining the characteristics of a high-level familiar as a Servant, but without restrictions.

The level of her attributes is only linked to the upper limit of magic power provided by the Master, and she herself can also continue to learn new knowledge and skills...

"Gather sand to form a tower, and soil to form a mountain. Don't underestimate some basic skills. The more powerful you are, the more likely you are to chase your dreams..." Xia Ran spoke earnestly and poured chicken soup for the soul into the knight girl.

He felt that although the girl's heroic spirit template was perfect, with superb attributes and strong intuition, the attack had the Sword of Oath of Victory, and the defense and endurance had a magic-level scabbard like Avalon... It was both the sharpest sword and the strongest shield. .

It can be said to be simple yet powerful, without so many bells and whistles.

However, from Xia Ran's own point of view, her template is really too simple. She just fights for the sake of fighting. Once she encounters some problems or situations that are not suitable for solving through violence, she will appear to be helpless.

She obviously has such good conditions, but she can't even do some basic home travel and the necessary magic to kill people. It's really a waste.

"I understand, Master, which book do you think I should start learning from?"

Saber also felt that what he said made sense, and she really didn't want to sit here doing nothing, so she nodded and agreed.

"Considering your ability to accept, I recommend that you first learn the skills of the magic system of the world you were born in. Since your attack and defense are not bad, there is no need for these aspects of magic, so I suggest you concentrate on it. On some auxiliary magic..."

Xia Ran gave her answer without thinking, as if she had already considered it.

"I recommend that you learn magic such as suggestion, control, or spiritual medicine. Basically, you can deal with many things that are not suitable for solving through combat..."

The knight girl hesitated for a moment and finally nodded.

She doesn't think that techniques such as suggestion and domination are so evil, but many people have some inexplicable cognition, always feeling that they can give hints to the other person, influence the other person's psychology, manipulate other people's will... these methods It must be very evil and hard to accept.

However, as the king of knights in ancient Britain who led various wars, large and small, he did not have this meaningless psychological barrier——

Is it evil to influence other people's psychology and manipulate other people's will? What about torturing the body and causing physical pain? Is it just?

Compared with the latter, the former is actually many times gentler. The world is not that gentle or ideal after all. It does not mean that you insist on not using evil or cruel methods to harm the enemy's psychology or body. , the enemy will be grateful to you and actively cooperate with you...

Such people will never become enemies at all, but with such naive understanding and thinking that they are people who adhere to ideals, they can't do anything at all. At most, they can only harm others and themselves.

"Then let's read these two books... This one is the information on spiritual magic that I recorded, and this one contains the contents of healing magic. As for my personal study notes, experiences and so on, I'm sorry, This is not available at the moment.”

Xia Ran said this as she pushed two notebooks that purely recorded study materials over.

It's really just a set of spelling data. You can edit the program in advance, then input the magic power and give the command, and then it can be run directly - it's probably this process, without any other extra content.

Of course, Xia Ran will gradually record her study notes, but now that she has just come back, she cannot take them out for the time being.

Moreover, his main focus recently has been on important projects that have reached the threshold such as the field of "Tower" and the second magic "Parallel World Interference". As for other peripheral projects, such as alchemy Art, human body bionics, séance, artificial magic eye...

These have to be sorted according to importance and priority for the time being, and moved to the back, or Xia Ran will only consider them in order to change her mind when she feels that it is difficult to make progress in the previous two research projects.

It feels like you have been writing a paper on a subject that is taxing your brain for a long time. In order to relax your brain, you change it to some papers on a simple subject.

"...I can't understand these words." Artoria was originally full of confidence, but after opening the notebook and looking at it, she frowned. The square words on it belonged to knowledge she did not master, so she whispered said.

The next moment, a full set of Chinese teaching materials was placed in front of her. Xia Ran had already expected this. She had made preparations when she was shopping yesterday, and bought all the language teaching materials by the way——

"Regardless of complete mastery, use it immediately and fluently to communicate. You only need to understand the possible meaning of each word. If you don't understand, you can ask me at night..."

It sounds like a child's play, but with the support of high intelligence, this kind of thing is really very simple. If it doesn't work, just look up the dictionary and you can always understand Xia Ran's notes.

The girl frowned and entered into a learning state.

Xia Ran drank the still scalding tea in one gulp, then put down the cup. Without any delay, he took out a glittering skill scroll and prepared to use it at this moment——

"Infinite Martial Arts" was a martial arts training that was said to be unparalleled in a certain era.

The main effect is to completely integrate the mind, skills, and body, and to exert powerful combat capabilities without any mental influence.

Just as Xia Ran expected, this is a high-level ability that relies on a huge amount of knowledge and experience as a foundation. It is not something that can be mastered instantly like "A knight does not die with his bare hands".

A large amount of information flowed into his mind, and he was immersed in it all at once, as if he had experienced a long life journey in the memory level, but other insignificant memories, bonds, emotions, etc. were insignificant. Can't leave any impression.

The only part that is extremely clear, as if it is carved into the soul and becomes instinctive, is the training that is sweating profusely day and night in the training ground, and the battle of life and death in the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood——

The experience of using various weapons, the experience gathered from the battle, all kinds of battle memories...

I don't know how much time passed before Xia Ran took a gentle breath, and then opened her eyes. In a daze, she even felt like she was in another world.

It was as if he had really experienced another long life, and could not remember anything else. The only thing left was the kind of fighting, fighting, fighting countless times. In the end, fighting turned into instinct, and he tempered himself to become the best person in the world. The most powerful and efficient murder weapon in the world...

He has gone through countless battlefields without defeat, and he does not know death, because he is always the victor!

Is this the martial arts that was said to be unparalleled in a certain era, the infinite martial arts? He felt a sense of excitement from the bottom of his heart, but this feeling disappeared without a trace along with the feeling of being separated from the world just now, and was forgotten by him.

Because as soon as the magician opened his eyes, he met a pair of eyes as clear as ice and snow, which were coldly reflecting his own image.

She had regular features and long black hair. She was an out-and-out beautiful girl who looked like a lady and an elegant daughter. She didn't know when she sat across from her.

"Huh?"

Xia Ran subconsciously turned her head and looked out the window, and found that the position of the sun was obviously much higher than before. She had just learned that skill, and it seemed to have taken more than two hours, close to three hours at least.

But no matter how you look at it, it’s not after 3:30 in the afternoon, and it’s not even lunch break yet.

He turned around and reached out to pinch the girl's cheek to make sure he was hallucinating. However, as soon as he stretched out his arm, it was opened very ruthlessly——

"what are you doing?!"

Yukinoshita pulled up her collar, which was not messy at all, and stared at him with her eyes, as if she had seen something dirty.

"Huh? It's true..." Xia Ran was immediately surprised, "Yukishita-san, long time no see."

"Well, long time no see."

The girl nodded slightly and said this calmly. She no longer wanted to complain about his way of greeting him, or she had discovered something keenly.

She narrowed her eyes and looked up and down at the young man in front of her, and then said in a voice as sweet as a stream: "I noticed that you greet me like this every ten days... …Is there any special reason?”

"Yes." Xia Ran nodded seriously, "Mainly because..."

"Wait, before you explain, I want to ask first, who is this girl?" Yukinoshita interrupted the topic, looked at the dull-haired girl sitting next to her, and frowned slightly.

"Huh? Didn't she tell you?"

"I asked before, but she didn't tell me anything..." Yukinoshita replied calmly.

Well, it seems that before he is sure whether he can do this, King Da Mao is also very aware of confidentiality.

At least I won't just ask someone and tell everything.

"This...she is..." Xia Ran's mind was spinning rapidly. He originally thought he would not have to face this situation until the afternoon.

"Don't say she is your sister, I am not as easy to deceive as my sister." Yukinoshita added coldly.

"Hey, okay, actually she came to the service department to ask for help..." Xia Ran laughed dryly. Was she dismissed directly without saying anything?

Yukinoshita glared at him, and then sighed: "So...why did this classmate come to ask for help?"

When she said this, she turned directly to Artoria, staring closely at the foreign girl, waiting for her answer.

"..."

"..."

"Well, answer me." Xia Ran felt a little bad and tried hard to wink at his servant.

"What should I answer, Master?" the knight girl asked helplessly.

The moment this suspicious title appeared, Xia Ran had a premonition that something was wrong, and the next moment, he felt that his whole body was directly penetrated by a sharp and cold gaze.