Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

36. The corpse of heaven

Lu Mingfei originally thought that the people in the Round Table should be wary of the two people who suddenly appeared, including himself and Prelati, even if one of them pretended to be an 'acquaintance' like Merlin.

After all, from their perspective, Gareth, their companion, just exploded not long ago, right?

At this delicate moment, someone claiming to be an "acquaintance" suddenly came to the door. Not to mention the Knights of the Round Table, even Lu Mingfei found it too suspicious.

But—forget about Lancelot and Gawain, how could Agguiwen, a guy who claims to be the 'real strategist of Camelot', have such a 'friendly' attitude towards himself and others? Rather than saying 'friendly', Lu Ming Fei even felt a little 'relaxed'.

"Why is this?" Lu Mingfei murmured to himself.

Prelati looked at a piece of information handed to her by Agguiwen in her hand, walked in the spacious corridor leading to the throne, and replied casually without looking back: "Maybe I'm fishing."

fishing?

perhaps

"Mr. Merlin, what are you looking at?" Lu Mingfei continued to maintain the disguise of 'Bradamante' and got behind Prelati.

"The basic information Age Guiwen gave me. Well, the so-called basic information is nothing more than insignificant information that won't matter if it is revealed."

"What's written on it?"

"Written some information that we could not know about the refugees before, such as the new enemies that appeared after the Knights of the Round Table led by the Lion King defeated the Crusaders of the Demon Richard and took away the Holy Grail."

"New enemy?"

Lu Mingfei subconsciously pictured the city of Cairo in his mind.

"It's probably not what you think."

Prelati patted the neatly bound A4 paper in her hand, and then, without continuing to speak, she passed the contract and told the information directly to Lu Mingfei's consciousness.

"I will omit some professional terms that you don't understand, as well as some reasoning processes that combine their intelligence with the intelligence we know. Let me tell you the results directly:

After the Knights of the Round Table eliminated the devil Richard, it seemed that for some reason, they came to the edge of civil war. The specific reason was not stated, but after the civil war lasted for a short period of time, a brand new enemy appeared. Therefore, in the Agguan text Under the operation of the Round Table Rebellion, some Knights of the Round Table who were neutral in the Round Table Rebellion returned to the command of the Lion King, mainly the 'Lion Knight' Ivyn, the 'Knight of the Paladin' Percival, and the deacons of King Arthur's Palace. 'Bedivere'.

The Lion King currently doesn’t know where these new enemies come from, but we in Chaldea do know that if we calculate the time, it is almost the time it took for the Digital World to be blown up on the physical level and the fragments scattered everywhere. Now it seems that this makes The new enemy that the Round Table has reunited with should be related to the original Digital World. "

"What is it specifically?" Lu Mingfei asked in his mind.

"A thing that looks like a 'spore' or a 'fungus', and basically meets the definition of a 'fungus' from its shape to its habits to its definition, but it is not something with an unknown identity."

"Old contradictory literature."

"Don't complain about this. This kind of contradiction is common in mysticism, so the magic of the 'proof method' system is so easy to establish."

"So what is it?"

"I don't know. The Lion King doesn't know either. At least the information they gave me said they don't know. They can only regard it as some kind of fungal spores with viral transmission characteristics based on the ecological characteristics and transmission characteristics. Existence will become a seedbed for this thing after a period of time, and the fungal spores will multiply rapidly and turn the host into something like half human and half plant."

"Half human, half plant?"

When Lu Mingfei heard this description, his mind subconsciously thought of the 'Black Dragon Nidhogg' who appeared in front of Chaldea in the previous decisive battle at the Singularity in London.

"It's not that kind of plant life, it's fungal spores that multiply in large numbers. Visually, it looks more like a thick liquid that keeps pouring out, because it only parasitizes humans, and visually it looks more like 'pus' Liquid', so the Lion King calls it 'human pus'."

"Human pus!" Lu Mingfei's eyes suddenly widened, "Gareth? Gareth is parasitized?"

"Gareth is indeed parasitized, but the actual situation is somewhat different from what you might imagine."

"How to say?"

"Gareth was deliberately parasitized. To be more precise, she offered herself as a sacrifice and actively absorbed the spores that parasitized other people's bodies. What the Lion King gave her was actually a 'curse'." Jing's blessing actually worked wonders, turning her into a container to seal the spores. "Tsk."

Prelaty clicked her tongue.

"I finally know why the person next to you spent a whole trading opportunity to make you a 'Master Ball' that can 'capture' Gareth. Gareth's problem is that , the nearly unlimited 'spores' of unknown origin sealed in her body are the real troublesome thing. Depending on the situation, this thing may become the last real hidden BOSS of this singularity."

"What exactly is this 'human pus'?" Lu Mingfei became a little uneasy, "I passed Gareth and the Master Ball to the Chaldean side. Isn't this going to trick them?"

"That's not bad." Prelati shook his head. "As a human being, my old friend is basically a scumbag who does everything he can, but he surprisingly keeps his promises. He shouldn't be against What danger is there in Chaldea? In fact, there are His people in Chaldea, and they will look at it favorably, compared to those."

Prelati emphasized: "The real problem is not the 'human pus' itself, but what the guy who created the 'human pus' and spread it wants to do and what is his purpose."

"Could it be that the Knights of the Round Table are fishing for law enforcement? They spread it themselves?" Lu Mingfei thought for a while following Prelati's previous statement.

"I don't know. I really don't know. Let's sit in on the roundtable meeting later and see what their attitude is."

Prelati concluded: "We just need to act more cautiously, collect as much intelligence as possible, and then pass it on to Chaldea's rear for analysis with professional instruments. We should act conservatively. The Lion King's combat effectiveness is elusive, but it is high Wen is now beyond our control."

That could only be it - Lu Mingfei's waist was suddenly pushed hard from behind.

"What are you doing?"

Sanzang looked at Lu Mingfei and Prelati with a puzzled expression: "Go in, the meeting is about to begin."

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Entering the throne room, Lu Mingfei did not see the scene of 'everyone was in full force' as he had imagined.

The room between the thrones was very empty, and the only knights of the Round Table who were actually present were Gawain, Lancelot, and Argues.

Agguiwen stood on the left side of the throne without squinting. On the platform on the right was a lion helmet mask. On the pure white marble throne, the white queen sat calmly.

Is this also Arthur?

[Arrived in front of the ‘Lion King’ unexpectedly and easily]

[Considering that Lu Mingfei uses the power of Artoria on a daily basis to transform into a heroic knight, and during his journey so far, he has seen various versions of Artoria, and even interacted with Altria as a creature. I have had close contact with the original Morgan, so let’s give it a chance to judge]

[Can Lu Mingfei see through that the 'Lion King' in front of him is not actually Artoria, but the incarnation of the original divinity 'Lungominiad' from the pre-mythological era - the prehistoric period? 】

[Difficulty: 90]

[Lu Mingfei’s ‘inspiration’: 1D100+30 (carrying ‘King Arthur’ concept bottle correction) =74+30=104]

【104＞90】

[Lu Mingfei: True name, see, break! 】

The white Lion King, but unlike Fuyuki's Black Knight King, the Lion King is tall and looks more mature. He looks like the Wild Hunt 'Lady Bertha' that he encountered when he was near the singularity in London, but his temperament is more mature. It is colder, and the hair is not grayish silver, but more platinum blonde.

——I surprisingly lack the sense of oppression.

It may be strange to say that, the Lion King is sitting there, just sitting there. Compared to herself, the aura of a certain superior person is less like the 'aura of transcendent existence' of the superior leader. From the armor and body on her body, From the throne below.

Maybe it’s because Lu Mingfei has met a lot of people so far.

In a word, the Lion King in front of him is more like a prop, or a 'container', that is hosted by something than the aloof king.

It felt very similar to what Lu Mingfei had seen in France - Elizabeth, the Witch of Despair.

".?"

Lu Mingfei thought about it carefully and felt something was wrong. Then he thought about it, couldn't the Prelati next to him be regarded as one of the shady plots of the French Singularity?

So Lu Mingfei told Prelati his feelings.

As Merlin's junior sister (senior sister?), Prelati is also aware of the messy affairs between Merlin and Artoria.

Artoria is not a life born normally, but an artificial human being. It was designed by the cunning Merlin to steal the genetic factors of Morgan, the fairy in Paradise (equivalent to the messiah and savior of the fairy species), and then created it in a human form. Life born into the world.

Although Merlin himself did these things just to cause trouble and watch the show.

But the purpose of King Uther, the founder of the Knights of the Round Table, who was also involved in this matter, was not just that.

King Uther's purpose is to start a war, a 'war to steal the country' as a human race, to take away the fairy island (country) - Albion (Britain) - from the hands of the fairies.

In order to achieve the goal of the war to steal the country, the first thing to do is to degrade the status of the queen of the fairies and the real royal family who are equivalent to the 'saviors' of the fairies - the 'Paradise Fairies'.

The first step is to belittle the 'Lady of the Lake who blesses mankind'. The second step is to introduce the concept of Christianity and belittle the 'Savior (Paradise Fairy)' as a witch. Under Merlin's trajectory, she should be the leader of the fairies. Morgan, the savior, was betrayed by everyone, and the goblins stood against Morgan because of the "interesting activities" promised by Merlin.

Even if Morgan desperately replaced King Uther, the situation was over. Humanity's kleptocratic war and Merlin's "goblin self-destruction game" came to a perfect end. The savior was also reduced to a witch, and was even distorted into a kleptocrat by Merlin's deceit. daughter.

Even though King Uther died, he still left behind the Knights of the Round Table. He reached a contract with Merlin and asked him to be responsible for raising the 'King of Men' who stole Morgan's identity - that is, Artoria, later King Arthur. , 'The Red Dragon of Britain', 'The True False King'.

As a fun-loving person, Merlin was not the kind of person who would strictly follow a plan. Therefore, when he cultivated Artoria as agreed, he also gave her two choices.

‘Holy Sword’ or ‘Holy Spear’

The holy spear is more powerful, but its use carries the risk of being unconsciously eroded by the concept of the holy spear itself.

Although the power of the Holy Sword is inferior to that of the Holy Spear, it can grant the holder the protection of 'sure victory' and 'immortality'. When paired with the scabbard 'Avalon', it can make the King of Knights invincible.

The Holy Sword is the choice to become the 'King of Men'.

The Holy Spear is the path that carries the risk of becoming the 'King of Gods'.

In most world lines, Artoria chose to draw the Holy Sword.

The Holy Sword will grant Artoria 'immortality'. Specifically, the time of the physical body is frozen at the moment when the Sword in the Stone is pulled out, and it will no longer grow.

".I see."

As a conspirator among the goblins, Prelati naturally knew the secrets of the Holy Sword and the Holy Spear, as well as the conspiracy (game) of the thief war that Merlin once enjoyed happily.

If you choose the Holy Sword, Artoria's body will stop growing due to the protection of immortality.

But the Arturia in front of her looked like a mature woman.

In other words, this is Artoria who did not draw the Holy Sword, but chose the Holy Spear.

Holy Spear Lungominiad——

It has the same origin as the Ruyi Golden Cudgel in Eastern legends, but it has no experience of being refined into a prop by Taishang Laojun, so it maintains the purity of its essence.

Primordial Divinity – in other words the ‘Primordial Goddess’.

In terms of divine status, she should be similar to the "Nuwa" in Eastern legends, but her humanity has basically been lost. She is not a "god of humans", but a "god of gods".

The original state of many ‘divine’ prototypes passed down and passed down from later generations can perhaps be called the ‘original god’.

Although Lu Mingfei didn't know this, Prelati immediately judged the truth after hearing his feelings.

The person on the throne in front of me was not Artoria at all.

The Lion King is not a subspecies of King Arthur at all, but occupies the body of the 'real false king'. After consuming all of Artoria's personality, he swallows the 'residues' of Artoria and becomes a false king. The original goddess who acted as a king - the "dead remains" of the "Heavenly Pillar" left over from the prehistoric era before the mythical era.

(The dead body of heaven.)

Prelaty narrowed her eyes slightly.

Others may not know it clearly, but she knows the danger of this thing very well.

Regardless of who is behind the spread of 'human pus', the original goddess pretending to be Artoria is definitely the enemy of human nature. As long as Chaldea intends to restore human nature, it must be destroyed.

From the perspective of human survival, Lungominiad is not a prop but has acquired a physical form, and is more dangerous than the Demon King Goetia!

——to be continued!