Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

41. Irene Adler

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【Irene Adler】

[A woman from New Jersey, USA, who is nearly 1.8 meters tall, is famous because she once defeated Sherlock Holmes and amazed him. She is often considered a world-class criminal]

[However, among the various stories in the Sherlock Holmes series, in addition to the normal CPs such as Holmes X Watson and Holmes X Moriarty, there are surprisingly many supporters of Holmes

[By the way, it appeared in the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" published in July 1891, but the current timeline of the singularity is 1888, so...]

[Since Holmes and Watson are both real-life characters, then what kind of person is this mysterious Irene in reality? 】

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Jekyll listened to the confession of the criminal in front of him with the mentality of listening to a story.

No, no, it seems that the man in front of him cannot be said to be a criminal, but it is obvious that he put himself in the position of a criminal when describing himself.

Machili's story sounded quite bizarre. Jekyll didn't dare to say that he understood it, but it was still very easy to understand what he wanted to express.

Because this is 1888, for Jekyll, a top medical student who really lived in the Victorian era, the distance between mystery and ordinary society is really too close.

This is a turbulent era, this is a bizarre era. Countless magician families have been involved in the wave of capital. As a result, countless magician families have gone bankrupt and have been reduced to selling coolies or selling technical knowledge in order to continue research. .

Because of this, this is also an era when mystery is rampant in ordinary people's society.

On the one hand, people are full of affection for the various emerging science and technologies, but at the same time, most people also believe that mysteries really exist and are not rumors or simple novels. Most people even think that science is actually a mystery—— In fact, there is nothing wrong with this idea. At least there is nothing wrong in this world.

Unfortunately, this world is really a world filled with mysteries.

To Jekyll, Maric's story seemed both distant and within reach. This was an extremely magical era, so there was nothing hard to accept.

Even Jekyll himself, as a top medical student, believed like most people that there really were evil spirits under London Bridge and in the Thames River.

Not only did the young brother Jekyll not feel scared, but he was a little excited. Although he could not be said to come from a wealthy family, as a top medical student, he could naturally be considered a small fortune. Anyone who is literate in this era would not like Conan. ·What about Sir Doyle’s detective novels?

As a medical student himself, Jekyll has more or less the idea of ​​meeting his own Sherlock Holmes as a 'Watson', and then solving various bizarre cases to protect peace.

Now this opportunity is right in front of us.

Although like Lu Mingfei, Jekyll didn't quite understand those occult terms, the event itself was an immersive experience in every sense of the word.

Jekyll actually read the "Dr. Jekyll" two years ago, and thought it had the same name by accident. Now it seems that Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson accidentally used him as a prototype?

Or maybe, Jekyll has nothing to do with the Jekyll in the story, but because of similar character settings, he was chosen to be possessed by Maric's Phantom Summoning Technique?

After calming down, Jekyll discovered one thing, that is, his physical fitness had been greatly strengthened at this time. He was originally a student who had stayed in the laboratory for many years, so his physical fitness was naturally not much better. , but now Jekyll feels:

"I can take on all of Scotland Yard by myself!"

Brother Jekyll felt that he was full of blood.

I don’t know how Jekyll, who is truly a heroic spirit, feels when he sees the passionate young man he looked like when he was young.

By the way, because in Sir Conan Doyle's novels, Sherlock Holmes complained almost every day that Scotland Yard was a waste and he couldn't solve the case without him. Therefore, this kind of cute Scotland Yard has become a mainstream habit of public opinion. .

In a sense, it can also be regarded as a unit of measurement of combat power.

Ma Qili told Jekyll that London is now in a crisis, and a huge mysterious magic ritual has enveloped the entire London.

"In fact, this is not the real London, but a false London, a huge fantasy of unprecedented scale. Countless London residents are trapped in this 'London in the story' pieced together by their own impressions. , and played their respective roles.”

Ma Qili's current goal is to decipher this huge mysterious ritual and find out the reasons behind it and why the mastermind behind it supports this ritual.

In order to achieve this goal, Maqili used his own prototype of the 'heroic spirit summoning technique' that was still hundreds of years away from being completed - the 'phantom summoning technique' to summon several spirit familiars.

Compared with Heroic Spirits, Phantoms have no Noble Phantasms, no skills, and no corrections. Technically speaking, all aspects are very rough. There is not even a command spell system to help control familiars. Can you control Phantom Users? All magic depends on the ability of the caster.

Ma Qili first needed a warlock who was proficient in evil knowledge to observe the secrets of the barrier covering the entire London, so he summoned Tamamo Mae. Because he was worried that Tamamo Mae would be difficult to control, he summoned the magician in advance to control Tamamo Mae. Samurai Sakata Kintoki.

To be more precise, he summoned ‘Daji’ and ‘Momotaro’.

But before taking action, Maqili had to solve his own hidden dangers, so he summoned 'Dr. Jekyll' Jekyll.

"Why choose the existence of Toyo?" Jekyll asked the key.

"There are three reasons,

First: I am an expert in the mysterious knowledge of the West, so naturally I have to summon Eastern warlocks who can make up for my lack of knowledge.

Second: I first decided to summon 'Daji', and then I summoned 'Momotaro' in order to deal with Daji. The reason why I chose Daji was because she has the identity of Japan and is not within the direct coverage of the mainland of China. relatively easy to get up

Third: When magic is performed, it is different from what many laymen imagine. We magicians are not the direct users of the magic, but more like managers. The unfolding of the magic does not mainly depend on the magician himself, but on the magician himself. It is an 'environmental element' used by magicians. In this singularity, beings with the status of 'hero characters in the story' are more likely to be summoned. "

Regardless of whether he understood it or not, Jekyll nodded seriously to show that he understood.

Then Jekyll asked a very obvious question.

"If it's easy to summon the 'heroic character of the story' here now, why not summon Sherlock Holmes?"

In this era, Sherlock Holmes cannot be said to be well-known, but he is still a household name. Jekyll's questions are quite normal.

Then Maqili told him that there really was a Sherlock Holmes in reality. He was not only a detective, but also a superpower who could fight with giants, the kind who could use flesh and blood to wrestle with Chimera.

Holmes is a person with origin ability. The origin ability he masters is called "Elucidator". This origin makes almost all magic ineffective on him. He is a veritable magician killer.

Maqili could not be said to know Holmes, but Holmes and he were both friends of Madam Blavatsky, so naturally they knew each other.

"It's impossible to summon Holmes, but if Holmes is involved, he will definitely be on the way to solving the problem, so we won't force it."

Jekyll was stunned for a while before he realized: "There is actually a real person!?"

In any case, at least Machili's own action plan went smoothly.

The person who told him the 'future' and claimed to be the Master of Chaldea and her descendants - Sakura Matou disappeared after telling her about the hidden dangers of the devil in her body. Maybe she was also using her own method to conquer the singularity. ?

The biggest success for Ma Qili is actually that the character of 'Daji' - Tamamo Mae, is not vicious as the story spreads, but is the type that is quite friendly and can communicate with words.

Then, with the cooperation of Jekyll, Ma Qili drank the potion of 'dissociation of personality' in one gulp.

According to the plan, in the best case scenario, Sakata Kintoki, who is carrying a big ax next to him and is good at dealing with demonic objects, will suppress the separated demon god Barbatos, and then Tamamo-mae will use magic to seal it and make it into a weapon. magic.

The plan was perfect.

Then something went wrong as soon as it started.

After drinking the potion, nothing happened.

Tamamo-mae checked Jekyll's magic potion, and after confirming that it was really useful, he came to the conclusion:

"The first conclusion is that the demon Barbatos seems to be no longer in your body. The second conclusion is that maybe the future Matou Zōyan is a monster, but there is no 'malice' or 'evil' in the current Machiri." One side'——Matou Zouken happened two hundred years later, and you are too far away from who you are now, so the magic potion cannot be effective."

"If you want to solve the 'future' in the 'now', it is somewhat unrealistic. For a being like you, it would be quite difficult to die before the soul is completely decayed, right?"

Maric was silent.

suicide?

If only it were that simple.

This unique point is based on the "dream of all London life". In other words, everyone's spiritual consciousness began a "sleepwalk" on an unprecedented scale in the illusory world.

The closest thing to this situation is probably the experience of the protagonist Alice in "Alice in Wonderland", right?

If you die in a dream, most people will actually die, but Machili is different. The soul of the devil makes his spirit extraordinarily powerful before it decays.

As the dream is broken and the fantasy wakes up, the singularity will disappear. When the restoration of the human body is completed, Maric will also forget the experience in this singularity and will naturally forget the 'future' and return to The path of studying the art of summoning heroic spirits continued until one day he went astray.

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Although he saw through this, Ma Qili did not respond to Tamamo-mae's spicy words, but quickly cheered up again.

"Since Barbatos is not here with me and there are no hidden dangers on my body for the time being, let's start taking action."

We will figure out how to solve future problems later.

Let’s deal with the immediate problem now.

If this singularity is not eliminated early, more people will be killed in the dreamland.

"Where to go?" Jin Shi asked.

"Clock Tower."

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The Clock Tower is the headquarters of the Magician Association, and also serves as a large library, functioning as an educational institution and a political institution among magician families.

Since the entire existence of London is involved, the magicians of the Magicians Association naturally cannot escape. As long as they find a way to make them aware that this is a dream, it is possible to organize them and perform magic together from the inside of Wonderland. Let’s try to counter and break it.

The process of entering the clock tower was surprisingly smooth.

After passing through the barrier of the clock tower itself, Maric did not encounter any obstruction, which was obviously abnormal.

Not to mention that he wasn't blocked, he didn't even see anyone.

The deeper you go.

A bloody smell gradually spread and became stronger.

While Jekyll was nervous, inexplicably, a question suddenly occurred to him.

".Are we going to a crime scene? Do we have a detective here? Without a detective, what if we encounter a super criminal like Professor Moriarty...? Moriarty?"

Jekyll was stunned.

"Hey, if Sherlock Holmes is real, then where is Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime?"

Maric thought for a while and shook his head: "I don't know. At least I haven't heard about it from Helena."

"Shh!" Tamamo Mae lowered his voice and took out the charm.

Sakata Kintoki took out his giant axe, and the frivolity on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by solemnity.

Pass through layers of barriers.

We arrived at the deepest place inside the Clock Tower - the Great Library of London.

Hundreds of thousands of occult books are stored here, and it is also a place for students to study by themselves, conduct simple research experiments, and discuss their studies.

Push open the door.

The pungent smell of blood hit my face——

It's a corpse.

Countless corpses, placed in some special ritualistic manner, filled the entire space.

Obviously, for some reason, the Magicians Association was destroyed.

However, compared to these, everyone in the Machili team focused on the only living person in this space filled with death——

——[Disagreement·Emergence]——

[Too bad, I had a good sleep for two days, but now I have forgotten how to explain the process of Moriarty getting the Ruby Staff. Now I can only temporarily add a judgment to determine the reason]

[1. It’s just an ordinary get (Ruby didn’t refuse?)]

[2. Moriarty did not appear. What appears here is Irene who plays the story role of ‘Moriarty’? 】

【3. The power of ruby! Forcibly turn old man Moriarty into a woman! 】

[4. Moriarty and Ruby reached a cooperation agreement]

[5. Moriarty has a hostage in his hand, the Ruby Staff’s sister, the Sapphire Staff! 】

[6/8. Moriarty was involved in the enchantment of this story and played the role of 'Irene Adler'? (Shady bad taste?)]

[7. Option 4+ Let your subordinate Irene use the ruby]

[9. In fact, the real Moriarty in this world is a woman! 】

【10. Super expansion of chaos】

【1D10=10】

[1D2=1 (big success!)]

【give it to you! Me tomorrow! 】

——to be continued!