Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

Chapter 284 The Myth of the Great Qin Alliance Pluto

60. The Alliance of Great Qin/The Myth of Hades (please recommend votes! Please vote monthly!)

Subtitle: This chapter is actually connected to the previous chapter, and it is complete when read together. It is recommended to read it together from the beginning of the previous chapter, so that after reading it, you will have a feeling of sudden enlightenment (probably)

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What is magic?

Almost everyone in Chaldea can answer this question somewhat,

Except Lu Mingfei and Hui Liyi.

Eriyi was restricted from learning knowledge, but Lu Mingfei really couldn't learn that.

However, after all, it has been a million words along the way. If you want to say what kind of impression Lu Mingfei has on magic, Lu Mingfei can still tell a little bit.

This is also the only opinion that Eriyo can come up with when Lu Mingfei thinks from a layman's point of view.

".Historical reenactment?"

Although Lu Mingfei couldn't understand why those magic tricks "can do that and then that", he could still understand the superficial meaning of the process of recreating history through rituals.

Lu Mingfei's mind recalled what happened in the battle with Eriyo not long ago.

"I also know the story of the Gun of Longinus. After all, it has been mentioned in countless games. In the previous battle, the reason why Lucius was so passive was because if he did this, even if he Recreating the historical story of the Gun of Longinus. Eriyo, what are you doing?"

Eriyo took a sip of milk tea, put the 'pearls' in her mouth, chewed them, and nodded vaguely:

"Uncle Lu, I wrote a text version of what you said and sent it to the chat group. People who are not good at communicating in real life are surprisingly active in text communication on the Internet. This is what you taught me, Uncle Lu."

Lu Mingfei thought about what happened in high school. Is this what happened?

"Uncle Lu, do you have anything else to say?"

"What else? If you insist on continuing to ask like this, I have nothing to say. Let me think about it. The Holy King and Athena seemed to be like this at that time, right? Athena reappeared the story of Chiron saving Prometheus. With the power of Prometheus, the Holy King proved that he was Adam by recreating the story of the angel's fall in the biblical myth. At that time, the Holy King turned the entire singularity into the content of his own project to reproduce history."

Lu Mingfei paused, and then asked in an extremely uncertain tone:

"Will it be a similar situation this time?"

To be honest, there is actually no logic in Lu Mingfei's speech. He was just asked this way, so as a true layman, he mentioned it casually based on past experience.

— but it did get someone’s attention.

"Hehe, Master of the Observatory, he seems to be talking about something interesting."

A very, very, very stiff, blond-haired young man intervened in the ‘date’ between Lu Mingfei and Eriyo.

It's Kenneth.

Why is Kenneth here?

Probably something like this happened:

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Caesar (suddenly said): "Master, now we need manpower more than force, so let's find someone to ally with! The person who claims to be your successor has this relationship, he can become our A natural ally, right?”

Kenneth (frowning): "What nonsense are you talking about? We and them will become enemies sooner or later, and I, Kenneth, don't need to-"

Caesar (interrupting): "Other competitors have begun to join forces to expand the scope of exploration."

Kenneth (impatient): "So as a monarch, I don't need it at all."

Caesar (interrupted again): "Master, as a monarch of magicians, it will certainly not be difficult for you to find a few allies who are willing to surrender, right?"

Kenneth (lost in thought): "."

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That's probably it.

At the seat of the street dessert shop, Kenneth sat between Lu Mingfei and Eriyo minding his own business.

"I was looking for a suitable souvenir for Sora on the street, and I happened to hear your speech. Rather than making random guesses like you, low-class students, let me, as the monarch, talk about it. Phew, feel honored. , this is the lesson given by Lord El-Melloi!"

It's too forced, too rigid.

Lu Mingfei suddenly became alert. But at this time, Weber's voice entered Lu Mingfei's mind.

"Wait a minute, Master. This guy Kenneth was probably tricked by his servant Caesar. With Caesar's character, he will definitely seek to form an alliance with us. The First Emperor has already guessed this."

indeed so.

Kenneth really has a very simple and stubborn character. Although he has abilities, if he summons an equally stupid and loyal samurai, I am afraid that Kenneth's communication with it will be a disaster.

But it was different for a cunning politician like Caesar.

Although it is a bit strange to say this, only a Master like Caesar can fully utilize the strength of Servant Kenneth.

I always feel like there is something wrong somewhere, but there seems to be no problem at all.

After comforting Lu Mingfei, who was his nominal student, Weber projected his figure in front of Kenneth.

"I would like to hear the details, Teacher Kenneth."

The word Weber, a reluctant teacher with complicated emotions, reminded Kenneth of something -

[Difficulty: 85]

[Kenneth’s ‘inspiration’: 1D100=47]

——Kenneth remembered that there seemed to have been a similar voice in the corner of the mediocre people he didn't care about.

But since it was a mediocre person that he didn't care about, Kenneth didn't bother to think about it.

"What does this monarch El-Melloi II have to say?" Kenneth asked with some gunpowder.

Lenis couldn't help but hold her forehead and shake her head as she sighed across the screen.

"As the monarch El-Melloi II, I have had many experiences of 'cooperating' with the Legal Affairs Department in handling cases. Since it is a case involving magic, I cannot reason from the perspective of 'criminal techniques' during the investigation, so I only Can we think about it from the perspective of 'motive for committing a crime', specifically?"

Weber paused, and then said words that would make countless detective novels faint:

"First assume that the person most likely to commit the crime is the criminal, and then use this to work backwards to determine how he committed the crime."

"Hypothesize the answer first, and then work backwards to figure out the solution? I like the traditional magician's thinking very much."

Kenneth casually asked for a cup of tea from the frightened boss. After receiving a cup of pearl milk tea, Kenneth looked at the plastic straw on the plastic cup in front of him. After a slight silence, he elegantly sealed the top plastic with Moon Spirit Essence Liquid. He tore it open and took a sip with his mouth.

"Then let me assume the result and apply this."

Kenneth looked at Lu Mingfei and was embarrassed again.

Eriyo almost couldn't hold back her laughter, and the girl suppressed her laughter: "Ricardo, um, Ricardo M. Lu, just call him Ricardo."

"Let's start with Mr. Ricardo's idea. Assume that this singularity world is a huge ritual venue for historical reproduction. From this, it can be concluded that this singularity world itself is constructed by the magician. A huge 'magic workshop'."

Weber followed Kenneth's train of thought and took over the following words:

"So the first thing we have to determine is, what do the magicians gain by building this magic workshop, by building this huge historical reenactment site?"

Kenneth took a sip of milk tea out of habit. A very British habit. Although Eriyo next to her was more concerned about the fact that Kenneth tried to drink the 'pearl' gracefully into his mouth several times, but failed. Even so, he had no intention of using a straw.

Kenneth continued elegantly:

"What did you get? I think it's the 'players'. Beings from different times. Just being able to do this must be some kind of huge magic in itself. So the next step we have to think about is, what is it? What kind of magic can bring so many people here."

"No." Weber interrupted Kenneth, "It's an 'NPC', Lord Kenneth. This is a concept in future games. The players here are basically reproductions of history. They are all The dead people burned by human reason are not themselves here, but just 'NPCs' who are like missing bodies."

Kenneth frowned.

He naturally knew about the Incineration of Humanity, after all, Caesar had told him about it a long time ago.

"Why do you think so? Second."

Kenneth's tone even contained some rebuke.

This made the Chaldean think tanks, including Weber, stunned. Only the First Emperor showed an expectant look.

"Although I don't know much about the unpopular concept of 'NPC', it is obvious that compared to the kind of problem-solving action where you just fill in the answers you know in advance because you can't figure out the process of solving the problem. Isn’t there a more elegant and mysterious solution that is more in line with the magician’s style?”

".What?" At this moment it was Weber's turn to be a little stuck.

But Weber soon realized that this was because he and others had entered into a misunderstanding - Chaldean magicians are the kind of magicians who can accept emerging ideas, but because of this, they can easily get into trouble.

Kenneth could see it precisely because he disdained those things.

"NPC? Game? Why use that incomprehensible explanation? Assuming that this singularity is a magic workshop, a huge historical reenactment ceremony site, then the large number of existences called 'players' that appear here, as dead people What is the reverberation of man, what is he himself, isn’t it something that is ready to come out?”

Kenneth sneered:

"Second, if you had listened carefully to my lessons at the Clock Tower and not studied any strange skills, you would definitely not have made this mistake."

Weber reacted.

Everyone in Chaldea reacted.

In fact, this is not a difficult answer to come up with. It can even be said to be very basic common sense. It just happened to hit the inertial thinking trap of the Chaldean people.

In other words, the King of Singularity who created this Singularity did so on purpose.

Before this, Chaldean experts naturally considered that 'this singularity is the site of a super-large historical reenactment ceremony similar to that of the Holy King', but basically at this step, they got stuck. Players in the game world are virtual characters composed of data."

Although BB calls this place a game world.

However, what if we think outside of this thinking and think about it again?

A place where the dead come to gather in large numbers?

Do you still have to think about what this is?

""It's [Underworld]! ""

Lu Mingfei, who was listening in a daze, was suddenly stared at by countless blazing eyes. Lu Mingfei was confused and had no idea where he was providing help.

Perhaps, when Holmes got clues and inspiration from Watson's casual remarks as a layman, Watson himself had similar thoughts.

With this idea in mind, the following reasoning suddenly became a broad and open road.

Kenneth: "Since it is the underworld, then the existence that actually controls this singularity is probably an existence related to the [underworld]. Since it is the age of mythology, then it is the gods related to the underworld. From a regional perspective, it should be Greece." The god of Hades in cultural areas.”

Weber: "Then first exclude Hades. Although Hades is the King of Hades, he is not the God of Hades, and he does not control the powers related to death in the underworld. Those powers belong to the gods of Hades, and Hades's power is' The power to rule Hades', and someone on our side has tried the magic of defining himself as Hades and succeeded, so this matter has nothing to do with Hades."

Kenneth nodded slightly and seemed to have entered the state: "Power is the interpretation of the existence of gods. The god of Hades is naturally in charge of the death part, and no god of the underworld can allow so many undead to become living people."

At this time, Kadoc secretly whispered into Lu Mingfei's ear and explained to him: "Although the players here are basically undead, most of them don't realize that they are actually dead, or they feel that' Although we died once, we now have a second life' and 'we are resurrected', because most people don't realize that they are dead, so these are 'although not really alive, but not completely dead either. s life'."

Lu Mingfei nodded solemnly: "Although I understand, I don't understand."

"The proof of magic is like this. There is a saying that 'the essence of magic is lies' is not unreasonable." Caddock shrugged: "Actually, whether a life is considered a human being or not does not depend on magic. All material conditions depend on whether the people around him subconsciously think that he is a human being. If the people around him subconsciously think so and hope so, then even if he is the top fantasy species-such as a giant dragon or something- —The actual performance will appear to the people around you to be no different from ordinary people. This is the most typical ritual magic composed of collective unconscious behavior, and Alta is in a similar situation."

Lu Mingfei continued to nod seriously: "I don't seem to understand."

But Kenneth and Webber were completely in the zone. As their conversation, which seemed like a question and answer, or a soliloquy, continued to progress, the two people who gradually got closer to the truth became more and more excited.

Kenneth: "He is the god of Hades, but he doesn't particularly care about the destination of the dead. Although he is the god of Hades, he has no power directly related to death. The god of Hades who is between life and death is Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx. ?”

Weber: "No, although Charon is a power that has no direct connection with death, he is a ferryman. The meaning of his existence is to send the undead to where they should go. It is impossible to develop a world map to allow the undead to go. Let's go find and explore on our own. To put it bluntly, Charon has a certain degree of 'binding' power over death, but this time the undead in the singularity have the opportunity to choose themselves to a certain extent, regardless of whether they live or die. .”

Kenneth nodded: "Indeed, if it is Charon, everything is unreasonable. Charon is the god of Hades in the restraint system. He should have an extremely strong desire to control the undead. He is the defender of the rules of the underworld, and restraint is his nature. , let alone like BB, who puts many choices in front of us and then waits for us to make our own choices."

Weber thought: "Furthermore, although the choice is placed in front of us, BB does not specifically require us to follow the choice. It is more like a guide than a ferry. She tells us how we will encounter opportunities, but the opportunities are specific. No one knows what the result will be, as if the process is more important than the result.”

Weber's words stopped, Kenneth's thinking also stopped, Lenise's eyes widened, and Da Vinci slapped his forehead, suddenly enlightened.

Similar to ferrying, but there are no fixed rules. He is not a defender of the rules, not a result of belonging to the underworld, but a guide between the underworld and the human world, and a guide between life and death——

In addition, there is a scope limit of the ‘Greek cultural circle’.

The answer is already there.

The goddess of the underworld who has no power in the underworld, the goddess of opportunity with an unpredictable outcome, the god of Hades who leads the confused souls in the darkness——

A goddess of the underworld who does not exist in the underworld.

""""It's [Hecate (κτη)]! """"

Although I still don’t know what the specific process is.

But as long as this answer is preset, then many things that have happened now, no matter how unreasonable, can be explained if the prefix "This is all Hecate's ritual" is added!

The decisive evidence is the first stage of the most unreasonable Holy Grail Contest that has just ended!

Lu Mingfei was a little confused when he heard it, and he only knew that although he didn't know why, the experts seemed to know that Shady's real name was 'Heikati'.

"Uh, so what exactly are we going to do next?" Lu Mingfei asked weakly.

"It's very simple, Lu Mingfei." Chu Zihang's voice rang in Lu Mingfei's ears, "Our biggest goal is to recover the Holy Grail, but don't forget, it's BB to say that winning the Holy Grail Competition will give you the Holy Grail as a reward. As I said, there is no evidence to guarantee that she will really give it to us at the end, but we now know that the shady character is Heikati, so the Holy Grail must be in her hands, and she used the power of the Holy Grail to create this singularity , Therefore, as long as we defeat Hecate, the king of the singularity, we can end the influence of the Holy Grail on the singularity. After that, whether it is to recover the Holy Grail or repair the singularity, it is up to us!"

--finally

Before that, everyone in Chaldea was forced to follow BB's ideas and requests, following BB's constant and unreliable reminders.

But it's different now.

Chaldea, at least, has a clear goal.

Lu Mingfei felt that he seemed to understand, so he asked a question that everyone wanted to know now:

"So where is this Hecate?"

Lu Mingfei thought that as long as he asked this question, this group of magic experts who could be called the encyclopedia of myths would immediately find the answer from the myths.

but

The scene fell into an eerie silence.

Even Kenneth's expression looked like he was in pain?

It was Weber who revealed the problem after sighing:

"Mingfei, Hecate is the god of Hades who has little to do with death. Before that, she was also the three-phase god of the sky, the earth, and the ocean. She is not the god of life or the god of death, but from life to death, The gods in the process from death to life are the guides in this process, also commonly known as the 'God of Reincarnation'. Of course, the lamp that guides the direction of the dead souls, the 'Lamp Goddess', is the best interpretation of her existence. .”

Kenneth couldn't help but sigh: "Everything is in the cycle of life, so Hecate is everywhere, but just because she is everywhere, trying to find her existence is a joke in itself. When Hecate will After reproducing my own way of existence in the magic workshop's way, it's equivalent to being unable to find her."

Weber continued: "If you want to find her, you have to destroy the singularity. But if you don't find her, it's impossible to destroy the singularity. This becomes an endless loop."

Lenis couldn't help but interject at this time: "However, the so-called miracles exist, or in other words, adventures and opportunities exist. Hecate is the guiding goddess in the process of life and death, and is also the god of opportunity. So if you want to find her, you need to meet two conditions

Condition 1: Only if you encounter an 'opportunity' in the process of 'going to the underworld', can you meet Hecate

Condition 2: In the process of fulfilling condition 1, we must gather ‘three types of people who can seize opportunities.’”

"Three types of people who seize opportunities?" Lu Mingfei still felt that he understood something but didn't seem to understand it. "What three types are they specifically? They can't be the ones that often appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul, right?"

"You should say that the content prototype of Chicken Soup for the Soul came from this."

Lenis also let out a long sigh.

"Three types of people who can seize opportunities

The first type is a person who has always been fully prepared. A person who is fully prepared must be the best at [discovering opportunities].

The second type is a person who is strong enough. Only a strong enough person can overcome difficulties [seize opportunities].

However, the first two are not enough. After all, during the execution of opportunities, no one knows whether the result is good or bad, whether it is true or false, and no one knows whether it is gained or lost. Therefore, the third one is needed. people.

"That is," Lenis looked at Lu Mingfei, with confusion written all over her face, "[the lucky person]."

Now Lu Mingfei understood.

We also know why Weber and others were so speechless.

Mingfei would be speechless if he changed the way he came from.

Lu Mingfei started to grin, and those who didn't know thought he had a toothache: "In other words, we are strong enough, and then we must make full preparations to embark on the journey to the underworld, and then gamble on luck in the process to see if we can Meeting Hecate? This is too painful! By the way, how are we going to get together with these three kinds of people?"

"This is quite simple. Lu Mingfei, haven't you realized yet? It's the first stage of the outrageous Holy Grail Competition that just ended! The winners of the first stage are these three types of people!"

Lu Mingfei was suddenly dumbfounded: "This Heikati deliberately organized people to find him who was hiding? What kind of outrageous thinking is this? He hid himself and expected someone to find him? Is this a large-scale dating show event?! "

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but talk nonsense again.

But the magicians, especially Kenneth, could understand why Hecate did what he did.

"Hecate is also the God of Magic and the Goddess of Magic. As a god and a magician, Hecate has arranged her workshop and set up many traps like a question. She will definitely expect that some candidates will get it. Give her an answer that satisfies her."

Kenneth narrowed his eyes.

I have finished drinking the milk tea in my hand, leaving only a pile of black pearls in the plastic cup.

"It's not that I can't understand this kind of action, but since the gods are challenging me, then I naturally have to fight against it. Huh, that's it, the Animusfiyas from the observatory are looking for Hecate. I am willing to form an alliance with you, but after that, when it comes to defeating Hecate and taking away the Holy Grail, we will have to rely on our own abilities."

Lu Mingfei was still wondering why Kenneth was suddenly so talkative.

As a result, Kenneth's next sentence directly revealed the truth.

"I can provide you with the strongest power, because I am the strongest existence in this singularity, so - the 'ship' and 'captain' needed to go to the underworld will be provided by you!"

This person is really easy to understand.

Well, Caesar must have told him to say and do this.

But the ship and the captain

If Drake were still here, these would be no problem.

but now.

What to do?

[Can you find a suitable captain? (If not found, enter the default route)]

[Difficulty: 75]

[Lu Mingfei’s ‘luck’: 1D100=45]

Speaking of captains who are good at travel and adventure, in Greece they are really Jason and Odysseus, right?

However, when Lu Mingfei and others came to find him, Captain Jason had already set sail with his people and left.

Among Jason's crew was Medea, who was half a disciple of Hecate. Perhaps Medea had already thought of the period when Chaldea thought of it.

Lu Mingfei could only issue announcements to recruit crew members while trying to find traces of Odysseus.

But none was found.

Just when Lu Mingfei and others had no choice but to rely on the last captain in their hands, Blackbeard, to try to challenge the voyage to the underworld——

"I heard that you are recruiting a captain? It just so happens that my ship is gone, so I am looking for opportunities now. How about letting me try?"

A woman, holding a recruitment form, approached the headquarters of Shilan Middle School Alumni Association.

When she saw the person clearly, Chen Wenwen was dumbfounded and hurriedly approached Lu Mingfei, who was discussing with Blackbeard how to prepare for going to sea.

"No, it's terrible! The dead! The dead are resurrected again!"

Lu Mingfei: "? Why did you say again?"

——to be continued!