Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

39. So the strongest hero must be Zhang Wuji!

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[As we all know, the London Singularity of the original FGO work is extremely bad. There is almost no content that can be explained at all, and there is no plot that can be explained at all]

[This chapter fixes numerous serious illogical bugs in the original work and makes the plot more interesting]

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Because he was very interested, Lu Mingfei only remembered one thing among all the boring and complicated course contents.

A special individual among heroic spirits—the phantom

The reason is that Leonardo da Vinci mentioned this concept during the teaching process and explained phantoms in a very popular way as "they do not exist themselves, they are just made-up characters in the story, but because many people like them, many people' hope that they exist" ’ and formed an incomplete heroic spirit—this is the ‘Phantom Spirit’.”

It is worth mentioning that most phantoms are actually much more powerful than heroic spirits. After all, bragging about novels and stories does not require logic or foundation, and it does not matter how you set the strength.

In Chinese terms, the most famous example is Sun Wukong.

In reality, there is a mythical individual named Sun Wukong.

However, the real Sun Wukong cannot be said to be very different from the Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West", it can only be said that they are completely different.

Because of the existence of Sun Wukong himself, Sun Wukong can appear as a heroic spirit because of this foundation. However, at the same time, because of the existence of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong's own attributes have been polluted by fans of novels and stories, and are even compared to real heroic spirits. Sun Wukong, most people know him as the fantasy Sun Wukong.

"In other words, if Sun Wukong really appears, he should be the kind of existence that is obviously a heroic spirit, but appears more like an phantom."

"Because it is a heroic spirit that is closer to the phantom spirit, Sun Wukong will definitely be more affected by people's impressions. This is actually a very dangerous thing. Why do you say that? Because there is a difference between phantom spirits and heroic spirits. A decisive difference."

What is this gap?

The answer is ‘memory’.

After the Heroic Spirit appears as a Servant, he will obtain all the memories of his life - that is, "all the memories from birth to death."

Occasionally, the same heroic spirit appears in the world at different ages and with different mentalities, but all the memory contents will definitely be obtained. However, for those memories, the personalities of different ages may have different results.

For example, if a servant of the emperor who was summoned as a child learns that his ending is not so good, he may feel extremely regretful and painful, and may even wish to rewrite history.

But if summoned in an older and more mature state, the same person may have completely opposite attitudes toward the same memory, and may let go of those obsessions and feel, "Compared to things that are over, it's better to think about having some fun now." What's good?" and so on.

A typical example is the First Emperor.

But the eidolon is different.

"Eidolons do not have a 'life story'. All they have is 'from the beginning of the story to the end of the story'. Although it is not that there are phantoms with detailed life experience settings, most of the stories The characters all serve the story.”

"It's okay to say that Sun Wukong has a high level of divine status. He should be able to handle this level of memory confusion, but not all phantoms have such a high level of status."

"In the final analysis, most phantoms come from novels, and novels and stories have been drawn from real history since ancient times. This kind of phantoms with historical prototypes are not so much phantoms as they are phantoms. The shadow of the heroic spirit, most of the time, the shadow should accompany the main body, it will only affect the main body, but it cannot replace it."

"By the way, although summoning heroic spirits is a very difficult technology - we in Chaldea are a special case. Generally speaking, summoning heroic spirits is basically impossible, but those who are similar to heroic spirits, or have some characteristics of heroic spirits Phantoms are easy to create."

"As long as the reputation is high enough - Oh, by the way, for example, Sun Wukong, doesn't there also be a version like "Dragon Ball"? In fact, Kakarot can also be created using magic. After all, the reputation is very high, this is enough. However, because "Dragon Ball" is a fantasy story. There are very few people who really think that it is a 'real character'. Even if it is forcibly created, this kind of phantom that has no entity to rely on will quickly disappear and its power output will be limited. It depends on the power of the caster, so it is basically meaningless.”

"You understand, Concubine Ming, don't have too high expectations for the technology of phantoms. After all, this technology is just the predecessor of the summoning of heroic spirits. There was research and development of this technology in ancient Egypt. record, but was eliminated in the end. However, the devil you contracted with is a special case."

"The ability to manifest fantasy can create phantoms that are infinitely close to heroic spirits. This is also your power. Maybe you don't feel it yourself, but in fact you also have something similar to a 'writer-type servant' Attributes. Maybe one day you will be able to create an incredible 'phantom'."

"Ah, if you put it this way, talking about 'Phantom', I remember that a certain magician once studied this. He has a close relationship with us in Chaldea. After all, our Chaldean heroic spirit summoning technique comes from him. That's what we changed. Our current enemies are Solomon and the Seventy-Two Demon Gods. If you think about it this way, there may be a high probability of conflict with him."

"I remember the name is Matou Zōyan." Da Vinci showed a nostalgic expression, "The original name is Makiri Zolgen, he is a descendant of the demon god Barbatos, and perhaps the strongest in the Barbatos line. A magician who was my best friend during his lifetime, although he had not yet begun to study the art of summoning heroic spirits at that time, as the ancestor of the modern art of summoning heroic spirits, Ma Qili should also be good at creating phantoms, right?"

"Let's not talk about modern completely fictional stories such as Dragon Ball. The phantom servants in stories with realistic prototypes should be used by him, for example, oh yes."

"This is my personal suggestion. Although you may not know it, if you really have this opportunity to meet Ma Qili, it is best to try to communicate with him. After reaching a cooperative relationship, you must ask him to help you Summon an phantom follower! This is very important, at least to you!"

"The protagonist of the novel written by the British writer Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 - the phantom 'Jekyll'!"

"If you have the chance, you must meet him! And get a special, dream-like fantasy potion from his hand——"

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Jekyll suffers from severe memory confusion.

There were two memories in his mind at this time.

One of them is the memory of ‘Jekyll’, an ordinary human doctor, from his birth until now.

The other memory is very weird and incompatible with the memory of Jekyll as an ordinary human being. It is like a forcibly attached 'pendant'. This extra memory is also the culprit of Jekyll's current mental confusion. .

The beginning of this memory is that Jekyll accidentally created some kind of 'split personality potion' during a certain alchemy experiment.

This is not a simple psychotropic drug, but an alchemical potion containing magical power. The mystery contained in it far exceeds magic and has reached the highest level of magical mystery. However, just like many people in this world have come into contact with the source and They gained power from it, but the magi who only painstakingly pursued the root basically couldn't see the root at all.

Jekyll is not a magician, nor can he be regarded as an alchemist. He does not even know what the root is, nor does he even understand the concept of the root. He is just an ordinary, very good doctor.

But just because of this, this thing was created by complete coincidence, as if the world itself was conceived.

‘Split Personality Potion’

It is not a pure mental hallucinogen, nor does it cause the drinker's personality to split after drinking it, but it can separate the 'other personality' in a person from the main body and turn it into a truly existing entity.

From ‘another personality’ to ‘another person’.

Jekyll himself couldn't even explain how he made it.

Even the extra memory itself does not explain the specific production process.

Just from the beginning, the result was that "Dr. Jekyll created a 'split personality potion'".

If that's all, forget it.

Due to the effect of this potion, another 'malicious personality' contained in Jekyll's body was split. His name was 'Hyde', a pure incarnation of malice, one who would kill people without any reason. A killer who kills people.

The cause of Jekyll's serious confusion.

It's because the real Jekyll himself, who exists in reality, is just a simple good man, just an ordinary kind-hearted doctor.

This memory that was added out of thin air, in which the "evil Gerhead" caused a lot of killings, made the kind-hearted Dr. Jekyll suffer a lot.

This confusion of pain and memory only exacerbates Jekyll's confusion.

What is going on now?

Am I a Heroic Spirit Servant? Or an ordinary doctor? Or is it a murderer hiding in the city?

What happened to the bloody scalpel in his pocket?

Why am I here? Am I a Heroic Spirit Servant? Was he summoned by someone? No, why can I become a heroic spirit? I probably don't have that qualification.

Heroic Spirit Servant. No! If I were a Heroic Spirit Servant, my main memory should be 'all the memories from birth to death'!

But why, why is the content of my current main memory not all from birth to death, but a young medical student, like an ordinary human being?

"What the hell is this."

"Because, little brother, you were not 'summoned', but 'possessed'. However, you were not possessed by a heroic spirit, but by an phantom. I'm very sorry to consign you as an ordinary person of this era. Come in."

A sharp female voice suddenly broke in, interrupting Jekyll's confusion as he stood in a daze on the street.

Jekyll gritted his teeth, enduring the pain deep in his brain as if his entire left and right brains were being played with by a pair of big hands, and looked at the person who suddenly interrupted.

Is an Oriental woman dressed in a kimono Japanese?

No, is the person in front of me really a human being? What's with the fox ears on top of her head?

Before Jekyll could react, the kimono fox girl took out a charm from her sleeve and put it on Jekyll's forehead.

A cool breath spread on Jekyll's forehead, and the chaos in Jekyll's mind seemed to lessen a lot.

Then the fox girl took Jekyll's hand without saying a word, and dragged him into the alley next to him under the strange looks of the people around him - there were too many places like this in London in the Victorian era. .

Jekyll, who had calmed down a little, blushed a little.

The fox girl is very beautiful, not just in terms of ordinary appearance, but on top of that, she has an even more enchanting charm. This charm can even make people unconsciously ignore her when they see her. Pair of weird fox ears.

Moreover, in London of this era, dressing up like this would drag people into alleys.

Jekyll, who was still just a young virgin and had worked in a pharmacy all his life, blushed instinctively.

The fox girl led Jekyll to the left and right in the alley, and soon made Jekyll forget the way he came, and then got into a suspicious looking tavern, but there was no one inside. inside the room.

Don't wait until Jekyll starts fantasizing about some inappropriate content.

As soon as he entered the door, a loud and loud man's voice shattered Jekyll's fantasy:

"So the strongest hero must be Zhang Wuji!"

This is a man with short golden hair that is as dazzling as gold. What is even more eye-catching is his figure. That overly strong and chiseled figure makes people look at him, as if he is releasing too strong male energy all the time. hormones

However, this man has very bad taste, or very strange. He has a lot of gold jewelry on his body. This is not uncommon in itself, but this is the first time Jekyll has seen someone put several kilograms of gold without any processing and polishing. , just wear it directly on your body as a necklace or bracelet.

"Master, let's summon Zhang Wuji! Oh, and Zhao Min! I like the two of them the most! It's best to summon the dragon-slaying sword too! My intuition tells me that it must be very suitable for my super golden. Noble Phantasm! I really want to learn the Nine-Yang Divine Art! With that, I might be able to defeat even generals!"

Although he looks like a muscular man, apart from his bad taste, this man also exudes a strong 'big boy' vibe.

I feel like my mental age is not too old.

People can't help but pity the people he entangles with

The person being entangled was another man, who looked pale and made Jekyll worry about his health just by looking at him. He was wearing a black trench coat that was very in line with the London style of this era.

This man with messy hair, who looked much older than him, and even looked as pale as a zombie, was actually the most normal person in this space to Jekyll.

The blond boy heard the noise and turned his head, making eye contact with the fox girl and Jekyll.

Then he showed an extremely refreshing smile that was somewhat inconsistent with his exaggerated muscles:

"Oh! Daji, did you find the doctor and bring him back?"

"——Shut up! Idiot Kintoki!"

Miss Fox, who was originally elegant, suddenly felt as if her tail had been stepped on.

"How many times have I said it! Forget it about Hua Yangtian or Baosi! Only Daji has nothing to do with me! Don't blame me for crimes that have nothing to do with me just because they are both female foxes! Call me Tamamo Mae! Even if Now I am a phantom summoned as 'Daji in the story of "The Legend of the Gods"', which is the identity that the world associates with her. But I am also Tamamo-mae! Not Daji!"

"I think it doesn't matter, there's nothing to worry about."

The man who was called Jinshi scratched his head.

"I am also summoned as Momotaro in "Momotaro"." (Note: Sakata Kintoki's nickname is "Kintaro", which is the prototype of "Momotaro" in Momotaro's story)

"Can that be the same!? Can good deeds be compared with notoriety!?"

"But you are a bad guy to begin with, right? And I haven't done anything in Momotaro's story. I actually don't mind if you call me Momotaro."

"But I mind! Don't call me Daji! I told you it was another fox! Don't blame me out of habit! If one day a warlock named Tai Gongwang rushes down to hunt me down, who can I ask for redress!?"

Ms. Tamamoae was so angry that her tail, which was hidden under her large kimono, stood up.

Jekyll was confused.

Don't know how to interrupt.

I don't even know what they were fighting about.

"If you don't have any evil intentions, you won't care. Compared with those, Da. Tamamo and the doctor, please help me persuade me. I really like boss Jin Yong's martial arts novels! Since we can be... The identities of the 'phantoms in the story' have been summoned, so Leader Zhang and Princess Zhao can definitely be summoned in this way, right! Let's give it a try~"

Jekyll looked at everyone present blankly.

The 'master' in Kintoki's mouth seemed to be the person in charge, the man who made people worry about his physical condition. He bypassed Kintoki and Tamamo Mae who were quarreling and came to Jekyll.

"I'm sorry to involve you. I was negligent. I didn't expect that you were not just a fantasy character, but a real person living in this era, so your status as a living person was relied on. Introduce yourself, My name is Makiri Zolgen and I am a magician."

First he apologized and then introduced himself. As elegant as a noble but without any airs, the man named Ma Qili went straight to the point.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand it for now. I will explain it to you later. Now, I need your help as 'Dr. Jekyll'."

"Dr. Jekyll, I contain the bloodline (program) of the demon god Barbatos in my body. They are the culprits that caused the current crisis of human incineration. Therefore, in order to avoid the situation that I become an accomplice of the demon god to destroy mankind. In this case, I need the 'Split Personality Potion' in your hand to separate the Demon God Barbatos from my bloodline."

"I have prepared a sorcerer (Tamamo Mae) who is good at dealing with evil spirits, and a samurai (Kintoki Sakata) who is good at dealing with demonic things. Next, I ask you to help me perform the 'surgery', and then remove the demon in my body." Crusade.”

——to be continued!

Although it is basically not reflected in the plot, Sakata Kintoki’s favorite novel writer is Jin Yong

Although in ordinary stories, Tamamozen and Daji are both foxes by default, in the setting of FGO, Daji and Tamamozen are not the same fox.