Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

Humans are the most special among them. Their existence force is like a solid. Every time the existence force is reduced, it is like cutting off a piece of this solid. If the existence force in humans is consumed, there is no way to replenish it.

If we use a simple explanation, the reduction of human existence force is like directly reducing the upper limit of their mana, not consuming mana. Therefore, whether it is infusing the existence force into humans or swallowing the existence force, it will lead to the death of humans.

So this is why humans cannot use their own existence force to perform the free method. Only the fire fog warriors who have contracted the Red World Demon King or the torches with self-awareness can use the existence force to fight.

Because humans use the existence force like using their own vitality to fight, and they cannot use any method to replenish it. Using it up means death.

Chapter 241 Torch and Human

"The condensed existence force will be like a snowball, getting bigger and thicker, until there are no more humans in the entire city."

Alastor told Shana in a heavy tone.

"This secret method is called Devouring the City."

"Not just this city, the high concentration of existence power generated in this way will eventually be devoured by the Red World Demon King who uses this secret method, right?"

Alastel did not respond, and answered Shana's question with silence instead.

The existence power of a city is enough to turn an ordinary Red World Apostle into an extremely terrifying Red World Demon King. If Fariagni really succeeds, the consequences will be unimaginable.

And Fariagni naturally expected that Alastel would be able to discover what he wanted to do in this city.

For the contracted demon king of the Fire Mist Warrior who has a wide range of experience, it is only a matter of time to discover the Devouring City, but he did not expect that Shana had already discovered the abnormality of this city in such a short time.

In his inference, it would take at least three days to discover the mystery of what Fariagni did.

Because he also knew that those Fire Mist Warriors would never pay attention to those torches. As long as they did not explore the entire city with a purpose, it would be difficult for the Fire Mist Warriors to discover the mystery.

However, as long as they go to investigate with a purpose, the existence of the contracted demon king will soon find the problem.

"Then there is only one answer--"

At the moment when Shana's words fell, her hair instantly turned bright red, and a large sword appeared in her hand.

"What are you going to do?"

Looking at Shana who suddenly took out a weapon, Shirou Emiya had a bad premonition.

"As long as the number of torches in the entire city is quickly reduced, Fariagni's plan will not be completed."

Before the number of torches is not enough to swallow the entire city, the number of torches can be quickly reduced, which can effectively curb Fariagni's plan.

Although it will also have an impact on the present world, compared with swallowing the city, such an impact is harmless.

"Bang--!"

Shana suddenly turned into a bullet, jumped off the building, and rushed towards the crowd on the street.

As fire fog warriors, they can use the power of existence freely. Naturally, they can use the power of existence to make others ignore their existence, and not all things need to be solved by sealing.

At least, there is no need to launch a seal to deal with the torches.

"Clang!"

The sound of swords colliding with swords echoed fiercely on the street.

Everyone immediately noticed Shana's presence at that moment.

In front of her, there stood a man in armor holding a samurai sword, blocking the slash swung by Shana.

The street suddenly became panic, and everyone quickly moved away from this place. Only a few people watched the two people fighting with the idea of ​​watching the excitement.

However, no one noticed that the torch that should have been cut by Shana's sword.

"Get out of the way!"

Shana was a little puzzled and angrily scolded Shirou Emiya who was blocking her.

"No, those torches should not die like this."

Shirou Emiya still blocked in front of Shana, refusing to give in.

With the blessing of [Evil Ghost], Shirou Emiya, who was not much different from Shana in strength, immediately surpassed her and pressed Shana to retreat behind him.

Although Shirou Emiya was able to suppress Shana even when his power was not as strong as Shana's, he could still push her back.

"They are already dead!!"

The torches are no longer human, they are just the remnants of the remaining power of human existence. Even if Shana does not kill them, they will disappear with time.

The slightest trace of their existence in this world will disappear.

The attitude of the Fire Mist Warrior and the Crimson World Apostle towards the torches is like a prop, not to mention that the torches themselves are props made to delay the distortion of the present world.

This is the knowledge that Shana has always accepted and recognized. She can't quite understand why Shirou Emiya wants to save the torch.

Even at the center of their battle, the torch seemed to see nothing and walked forward on its own.

The disappearance of the power of existence is not only difficult for others to observe him, but also because of the disappearance of the power of existence, his own will and soul will continue to be reduced to ashes.

But in Shirou Emiya's eyes, that was not the case. After all, he met a torch, a torch that could be clearly noticed by others, could live in the world like a human being, and could be remembered by himself.

Although the body no longer belongs to humans, the soul, consciousness, and the torch are still human.

Since there are torches with perfect self-awareness, doesn't it mean that the dissipated torches actually have self-awareness and are not simply puppets set up by the Fire Mist Warrior and the Red World Demon King.

They are no longer human, but they are still human.

If they have no self-awareness at all and are just a walking corpse, then Shirou Emiya will naturally not stop Shana, because it is indeed no longer a human being, just a soulless prop.

"Don't you understand your priorities? Didn't you hear what Alastair said? If you don't get rid of those torches, then the entire city will be lost. You save these torches, but the entire city Is human life worthless?”

Shana suddenly retreated behind her, pointed the sword at Shirou Emiya, and questioned loudly.

They are just some torches, and solving them can save the entire city. Shirou Emiya, as a human, should understand this truth.

This is a trade-off, not to mention that those torches themselves are dead people, and Shana has no idea why Emiya Shirou wants to save them.

Is the life of the torch more important than human beings?

If the failure to extinguish these torches leads to the destruction of the entire city, can he afford such responsibility and pay the price?

Thinking of this, Shana became very angry. The battle that had just ended seemed to be about to break out again.

Although the onlookers didn't know what they were arguing about, they watched it with gusto. Such a fight between dragons and tigers was a rare scene in Misaki City.

What's more, this city is not like a city named Dong, where a small explosion occurs every three days and a large explosion occurs every five days. The gas company is condemned every day, and they don't worry much about their own lives.

It's just two people cosplaying with knives. How could you miss such a good thing?

Chapter 242 How to Save the Torch

"Now that this has not happened, doesn't it mean that Faliagni has not completed this technique?"

Emiya Shirou asked Shana, if the spell of Falagni [Swallowing the City] had been completed, Shana would not have had time to notice such a phenomenon.

To be able to accomplish one's purpose immediately, but to wait for the Fire Mist Warrior to discover his purpose, this is not something that a Red World Demon King who is famous for his wisdom can do.

Why Faliagni waited until Shana arrived without using this technique? There was only one very simple reason, and that was that the technique was not completed.

It has not reached the point where it can be completed immediately.

If you are only one step away from completing such a terrifying technique, then there is no need to hide it, use all your strength to devour the power of human existence, and create crazy torches. Shirou Emiya and Shana have no chance to stop it. he.

Faliagni has a large amount of phosphorus in his hands that can take away the power of human existence.

But there were only two of them, Shirou Emiya, and they had no skills at all. Even if the attack speed was very fast, it would not be possible to eliminate all the phosphorus in the whole city in an instant.

And this kind of operation that Shirou Emiya thought of, Faliagni can naturally think of.

So why didn't Faliagni choose to do this? This was a conspiracy, and it was impossible for Shirou Emiya and Shana to stop it.

In other words, even if the effort and income are not equal, Faliagni will not be able to complete [Swallow the City] by doing so.

This technique cannot be achieved by simply setting up a large number of torches. Each torch must have a free method inside, which can make it possible for Faliagni to do everything in an instant when he wants to use it. The torches are all released.

This is why when Yuji Sakai saw the doll swallowing his classmates, he swallowed all the power of existence of the classmates, and then released part of the power of existence to build it into a torch.

Instead of choosing to devour it while turning it into a torch.

The speed of the second type of devouring the power of existence is faster than the speed of creating a torch, but it cannot make the torch achieve the effect Faliagni wants to achieve.

If [Swallowing the City] is simply setting up a torch, then the Red World Apostle only needs to use a large-scale free method to kill an extremely large number of humans before the Fire Mist Warriors arrive, and then set it as a torch to incarnate. For the powerful Red Devil.

The world would have become a mess long ago.

"Furthermore, from last night to now, there has been no closure in the entire city, nor has there been any sudden explosion in that area. In other words, during this period of time, Faliagni has not taken any action, that is, No new torches are generated."

Shana put down the Zhidian Zana in her hand. She was not an unreasonable person, and the explanation given by Emiya Shirou was reasonable.

The fact is that the situation is indeed as Emiya Shirou said, it has not reached that urgent level, and there is no need to deal with the torches in such a hurry.

However, Shana still couldn't understand why Emiya Shirou was so concerned about those torches. In any sense, they were dead people, and they were just shells walking in the world.

"This is not the place to talk."

Shana frowned as she looked at the crowd surrounding her, and a ball of flame rose from the palm of her hand.

She was seen paddling around slightly, and the crowd around her suddenly became sluggish. Their eyes instantly lost focus and stared blankly ahead.

"I erased their memory."

As soon as the words fell, Xia Na instantly disappeared from the spot.

Emiya Shirou didn't stay too long, jumped up and left the street.

Although Shana is not a Fire Mist Warrior who specializes in using Free Laws, Shana can still use these most basic Free Laws. Just like Feng Jue, such Free Laws that erase people's memories are also things that Fire Mist Warriors often use.

Just like the most basic and most commonly used magic by magicians, they are suggestion magic and enhancement magic. Both of them also have extremely wide practicality.

After magicians are discovered by ordinary people using magic, they also use suggestion magic to make them forget the experience, or treat it as a dream.

The freedom method and suggestion magic performed by Shana also have the same purpose, both of which are designed to prevent ordinary people from going deep into such an unusual world.

After all, not everyone can only use imperfect strengthening magic and unpopular projection magic like Emiya Shirou.

"If most of the torches are eliminated, then [Hunter]'s purpose will be defeated."

Back on the roof, Shana spoke calmly. Although she chose not to eliminate those torches immediately because of Shirou Emiya, it did not mean that Shana would not choose to eliminate those torches.

Because this is the simplest and fastest way to stop Faliagni's conspiracy and draw it out.

There was no way he could just watch something he had planned for so long be solved so easily.

Emiya Shirou knew this very well.

"Those torches are no longer human beings. As humans, they are dead. Even if we don't care about them, they will die soon."

A steady voice came from Shana. Alastair, who had lived for so many years, could see why Emiya Shirou chose to save those torches.

"Have you ever seen a torch that will not be ignored subconsciously and can be easily discovered with independent thoughts like ordinary people?"

Emiya Shirou did not refute Alastair's persuasion. Living like a doll like that was indeed as if he were dead.

If Shirou Emiya had never met Yuji Sakai, he might have followed Alastair's advice and asked Shana to get rid of those torches.

But since there are torches that can live like humans, doesn't it mean that those doll-like torches have a chance to be restored.

Although he cannot become a human being, he can live like a human being.

"One third eye"

Shana whispered a name.

"That is the original holder and forger of the Zhidian Zhe in my hand."

She looked at the weapon in her hand and spoke slowly.

"Mystis?"

Alastair responded loudly.

Torches holding Noble Phantasms are called Mystis, but in essence, they are still torches, they just have something that other torches don't have.

"Mystis?"

Seeing Emiya Shirou's question, Alastair also quickly explained to him.

"No wonder"

Emiya Shirou also understood why Sakai Yuji could live like a normal human being.