Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

57. Gate of Hades

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Question: Why is the Chu Zihang in Eriyo’s hands Odin Chu Zihang?

Answer: Because Eriyo is from the future and she knows the future Lu Mingfei, then Chu Zihang should also be the future Chu Zihang. It is more reasonable to write it this way.

Follow-up question: Is it true or false?

Answer: It’s fake. Actually, I had a headache how to write it after I rolled this result yesterday. Then someone in the group said so, so I just adopted it casually.

Although it is hindsight, but judging from the results, this seems more reasonable, right?

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The battle is over.

But some people’s focus is different from everyone else’s.

The First Emperor's eyes were fixed on Eriyo - not that he was particularly interested in this girl, but that the First Emperor's concern from the beginning was not the victory or defeat itself.

After all.

There is no victory or defeat.

BB has said it from the beginning: "Although it is a game, it is not a joke."

The First Emperor didn't know that this sentence was also a joke by BB.

But the First Emperor felt that if this sentence was said the other way around, it actually meant the same thing.

Although it is not a joke, it is still a game after all.

As the victory or defeat came to an end, the punishment according to the rules of the game came. Eriko was locked up in a golden translucent cabinet, and then——

Then nothing happens.

The First Emperor saw clearly that Eriyo was not punished in any way, he was just imprisoned symbolically, and then it was over.

Eriyo's servants did not turn into heroic spirit cards.

Eriyo, on the other hand, seemed to have expected this situation. She just casually threw one of the Poké Balls in her hand, the Heroic Spirit Ball, I mean the Heroic Spirit Token, to Lu Mingfei.

The movements seem to be very skillful.

It seems like he has practiced a lot.

Although she does not have a heroic spirit herself, she is not qualified to participate in the Holy Grail League competition in her own world.

Lu Mingfei was still there and felt that the appearance of the masked male spirit made him inexplicably concerned.

[Lu Mingfei’s ‘level of concern’: 1D100=67]

In fact, he didn't particularly care, just a little bit, but soon, it turned out that Lu Mingfei's attention was more on the girl Eriyo than on the man.

Thinking carefully about Eriyo's character, I felt that it was strangely familiar to me. I always felt that there seemed to be many people with this kind of character around me.

He glanced at the Heroic Spirit Token that Eriko threw to him.

Good guy, Saber Galahad.

Should I say it was unexpected?

After the arena disappeared, Lu Mingfei dissolved his union with Leonardo da Vinci's Heroic Knights, and the Chaldean Saints returned with a look of regret that they "hadn't had enough fun yet."

As we all know, Lu Mingfei's biggest flaw is the mana consumption problem, but in Da Vinci mode, Lu Mingfei will gain abundant mana in a short period of time.

In game terms, after using skills to activate Da Vinci's transformation, you will gain a large number of false magic slots for a period of time.

This magic power does not belong to Lu Mingfei, nor does it belong to Leonardo da Vinci, but comes from the magic of nuclear energy - the magic power of the Chaldea Nuclear Power Plant.

In fact, among the many heroic spirits Chaldea has encountered so far, only Leonardo da Vinci can use the power of nuclear magic to a certain extent.

In Da Vinci mode, Lu Mingfei does not have to worry about magic power consumption in a short period of time, but there is still a price. Although it will not explode immediately, Lu Mingfei will continue to accumulate a [fatigue value]. When this value is full, it will become The body will be forcibly lifted, and Lu Mingfei himself will enter a state of exhaustion for a period of time.

To use an analogy, it's a bit like turning on virtual video memory on a computer. The price of overclocking is doubling the lifespan of the machine.

However, having abundant magic power during the transformation time is enough for Lu Mingfei to call it his strongest mode at this stage.

Lu Mingfei actually has a lot of plug-ins, but energy consumption has always been a problem.

After destroying Galahad in Lu Mingfei's hands, he naturally had no interest in talking. Lu Mingfei was too lazy to pay attention to him and threw him to the little crocodile. He took a few breaths on the spot. Before his companions could come to him, Lu Mingfei ran to find Eriyo himself.

As a result, when Lu Mingfei found Eriyo, someone had found Eriyo first and was already chatting.

Yes. The First Emperor.

Eriko likes heroic spirits. She lives in a world where heroic spirits are more like humans than humans. Although she doesn't have much communication with other people, heroic spirits are an exception.

Eriko's love for heroic spirits even transcends the good and evil camp. Rather than saying that Eriko likes great people with their own heroic stories, it is better to say that Eriko likes the existence of life forms such as heroic spirits.

Lu Mingfei walked over and heard them saying something he didn't understand.

Eriyo: "In principle, AI cannot interfere with human choices. Naturally, only data will be reset. But I am not data, so I will not be reset."

Lu Mingfei scratched his head and glanced at the First Emperor who looked "thoughtful" and seemed to be thinking about something important. He then looked at the little fan girl Eriyo who had a face full of joy and seemed very happy to be able to communicate with the First Emperor. , for a moment I thought, “Did I come at the wrong time?”

When the First Emperor saw Lu Mingfei, he didn't put on any airs. He waved his hand casually: "You came at the right time, you guys?"

Let's have a good chat - the First Emperor didn't even have time to finish his words.

But Eriyo suddenly burst into laughter, which was exaggerated and trembling.

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The First Emperor blinked, feeling a little confused. Looking at Eriyo who seemed to be unable to hold back her laughter, he couldn't understand where the laughter in what he just said was.

Lu Mingfei understood.

Lu Mingfei realized at the same time that the person who could understand this and the person who could understand this Eri World were probably the same kind of existence in some respects.

If Lu Mingfei just felt familiar and caring at first, this made Lu Mingfei suddenly feel a lot closer to this girl.

Lu Mingfei stopped beating around the bush and asked directly: "Eriyo, you called me 'Uncle Lu' before. Isn't this the wrong person?"

Eriyo didn't care that Lu Mingfei called her name directly.

"Why, does Uncle Lu still think I'm calling Lu Lincheng? Oops, I finally feel like those time-travel dramas in novels. Compared to the virtual game world, I really like this kind of time-travel story. I wonder if I will ever have the opportunity to say to the French soldiers, 'The Thirty Years' War is almost over'."

Lu Mingfei immediately nodded and said, "I understand."

Then Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment.

Immediately he frowned, and then his eyes widened: "Dad Lulincheng? Do you really know my dad?"

"No, Uncle Lu, you haven't told me much about your family, but you should have realized who I am, right?"

Lu Mingfei nodded.

Eriyo made this clear. If Lu Mingfei didn't know it clearly, all the time travel he had done in Chaldea during this period would have been in vain.

Lu Mingfei said seriously and in non-standard English: "Oh, I'm so angry."

The First Emperor was confused.

But Eriko smiled even more exaggeratedly.

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Because the battle at other venues was not over, before BB announced the results of the preliminary round, Eriyo, who was laughing so hard that her stomach ached, was carried to Chaldea's base in Sky City.

To be precise, it is the base of the guild’s ‘Shilan Middle School Alumni Association’.

Eriko had no intention of hiding the fact that she was a 'future person'. Instead, like a curious baby with a social disorder, she identified various acquaintances around Lu Mingfei one by one.

The result is quite subtle.

The main character Eriko actually only recognized Su Xiaoqiang.

"Big dog owner!"

Su Xiaoqiang began to wonder if he had been scolded.

However, many of Lu Mingfei's old classmates from Shilan Middle School were recognized by Eriyo, especially Zhao Menghua and Chen Wenwen: "Troublesome lovers who got back together after breaking up!"

I really don’t know what kind of life Eriyo is living.

The strange thing is that among the old classmates, Eriko was the only one who did not recognize who Natsumi was.

Kadok frowned and asked Lu Mingfei, "What do you think?"

Lu Mingfei looked worried, and he was obviously also very concerned about the content of the 'future' described in Eri World. He replied to Kadok: "I heard her say that, but I always feel that I will live the same in the future. Does he look like the good-for-nothing diabetic uncle Gintoki Sakata in "Gintama"?"

Kadoc silently covered his face and sighed: "I was really stupid for thinking you would pay attention to the important point."

As the number two think tank, Caddock's analysis has always been "reasonable and well-founded".

After listening to some of Eriyo's descriptions, Kadok felt that there was a big discrepancy between Eriyo's description and the current situation, so he made the most reasonable judgment:

"Even if it's time travel, don't forget that there is such a thing as parallel worlds. The second method is parallel world interference, so don't think too much about it."

Kadok looked at Zhao Menghua and Chen Wenwen, whose faces were full of embarrassment.

After all, Master Ka is an honest man with a kind heart, and he actually knows how to comfort him.

Eriyo curled her lips, tugged on Lu Mingfei's clothes, and whispered quietly into Lu Mingfei's ear: "Uncle Lu, you didn't cheat on your first love. It was the man who cheated on you, and it was the Liu Miaomiao next to them."

"What are you talking about?" Chen Wenwen became wary for no reason.

Lu Mingfei put his hand on Eriyo's head calmly: "It's nothing. This kid is not sensible. He just knows to tell the truth. Don't take it to heart."

Eriko snorted with her nose.

"Speaking of which, this is also a rare experience for you. Why don't you take this opportunity to get engaged here? There is a saying that if you survive a catastrophe, there will be death, so you might as well give it a try."

Now it was Chen Wenwen's turn and she didn't know how to answer Lu Mingfei's words.

Zhao Menghua, who didn't know why, sighed: "Why are you just playing with the God of Death?"

Seeing that Lu Mingfei was so careless, Kadok's frown disappeared - since Lu Mingfei didn't expect it, he didn't bother to say anything more.

For example, why didn’t Eriyo recognize any of the people in Group A, including Kadok?

Kadok wanted to complain privately: "Why does it look like the hidden 'knife' in the novel?"

But it was not said out loud.

There is no such thing as a coincidence.

Not long after, as the last battle of the first round ended, the winning players gathered in the square again under the call of BB.

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Although it is a bit sudden, let me mention it a little bit here.

I wonder if you have ever played MMORPG games?

This kind of game has been popular in the past, and the classic one is "World of Warcraft". The original biggest selling point of this kind of game was not to compare the world rankings, but to attract players to experience life in a different world.

So immersion is the key.

However, role-playing also has its limits. This kind of game is very social in nature. Many players will assume the identity of their characters in the world. However, after socializing and chatting, it is easy to become distorted into reality. .

Your character is listening to the speech of the NPC general. As a soldier, he is worried about his future, and the players behind the scenes are chatting in the channel about starting a family. It is difficult to make money from milk powder. He may not have so much time to go online in the future. That’s the topic.

After all, role-playing is acting. When you play that role, you are destined to not be able to integrate into it.

This is why many people who play role-playing games like to skip the plot.

The players gathered in the square, but what puzzled the players was that BB did not come out to speak immediately. Instead, there were Lu Mingfei and other players who were very familiar with the situation.

What is the name of the high priest in Athens?

Lu Mingfei was a little embarrassed. He actually didn't remember the old man's name. Maybe it was because he knew that the other party was an NPC and he was a living person, so it was understandable that he didn't care about this.

In fact, few of the players captured by BB were actually role-playing.

"The only ones who really take 'role playing' seriously are these NPCs."

Eriko sighed.

The high priest's mother-in-law spoke seriously about the origin of the 'Holy Grail Competition' on the podium.

Generally speaking, this 'Continent of the Age of Gods' has suffered disasters in the past. The war between gods made people miserable. Until the white giant fell from the sky, the gods and the giant died together, and then the twelve new gods were born. Among the twelve newly born gods, the goddess Athena is the closest to humans. In order to help humans fight against other gods with ill intentions, Athena, who admires martial arts, will hold regular competitions and reward the winners.

In short, it is a very common setting in this type of game.

People listening especially want to find a skip button to skip.

In the final analysis, no matter how much the game NPCs value the fictional game history, if players know that these are false, their actions will naturally be more utilitarian.

After all.

So much nonsense, but almost no players are interested in these false stories, they just want to know the rules of the next stage from BB faster.

In fact, there have been serious pitfalls in the rules of the preliminary stage, and many players have fallen into the trap.

What's the problem?

The problem lies in the fact that "the winner will obtain the opponent's heroic spirit."

At first glance, it seems that the strongest is stronger, but many winning players have discovered that the heroic spirits they received after victory did not listen to them at all.

The function of the Heroic Spirit Card is exactly the same as that of Eriyo's Heroic Spirit Token. In addition to allowing the Heroic Spirit to come out to fight, it can also be used for possession fusion.

But only if the heroic spirit in the card agrees.

In other words, just defeating the enemy is not enough. If you do not establish a good relationship with the opponent in advance, even if you win, the heroic spirit card you get will probably be useless.

Judging from the results, the most perfect way to win the primary election is not to fight, but to win through diplomacy.

After all, the First Emperor was a veteran in this field, and he had been a veteran of He Zong Lian Heng, so he had naturally seen through this a long time ago.

Kenneth's character was definitely going to fall into this trap, but the divine king Caesar saw through this and convinced his master in advance.

After belatedly realizing that they had been cheated, the players' focus naturally turned to the rules in the later stages.

Although a little weird.

But because of the rules of BB, the relationship between the players has improved a lot. They are not as tense as they were at the beginning. Instead, they will take the initiative to build a good relationship with others - who knows if they will be opponents later?

"Lady Athena has not returned for a long time. I hope that all the warriors can go to sea to explore."

After patiently listening to the ‘story’ of the high priest’s mother-in-law.

BB finally appeared.

"To sum up, as you have heard, because the whereabouts of the goddess Athena who is responsible for awarding awards is unknown, the Holy Grail Competition has been postponed until she comes back!"

Players: ".What?"

BB shrugged: "Let's explore the rest of the story in the future. Please work hard to advance the story. Specifically, how about investigating the underworld? You are only focusing on PVP and not going to PVE to promote the plot. BB, it's difficult for me. well."

Who is this because of? ?

Countless players turned into roaring bodies in their hearts.

However, Eriko caught the key point of her words.

"Speaking of which, I've always wanted to ask. The twelve gods in this background story are obviously the Twelve Olympus gods, and the twelve gods correspond to each other. But... when it comes to Greece, Hades, the king of Hades, can't be bypassed, right? ? But Hades is not among the Twelve Gods. What is his role in this story? I have been investigating for a long time without finding any clues. How about you, Uncle Lu? "

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, then wiped his forehead with some shame: "You, you are actually studying this plot seriously?"

This is very embarrassing.

Background or something, isn’t it a ‘background’ in the literal sense? Since the main theme is the PVP Holy Grail Competition, why bother bothering people in this aspect?

".I always feel that there is something wrong here." The First Emperor narrowed his eyes slightly.

As a professional player, Lu Mingfei wanted to make up for his mistakes by developing characters who were awesome in the background but very weak in the game due to reasons such as the designer's brain twitching. Who would be free to connect the actual performance with the background setting? Get up?

You are mainly focused on competition, aren't these things just secondary supplements, like easter eggs, it doesn't matter whether you understand them or not?

——to be continued!