Zongman: Evolution Paradise Chapter 161

The existence of Heroic Spirits requires the consumption of magic power. In the original plot, some Masters couldn’t fully supply their Servants with magic power during battles, which dragged down their combat effectiveness.

Due to the shortage of magic power, the Fate worldview even created the “replenishing magic” setting, which audiences enjoyed.

This involves using some indescribable intimate contact to quickly provide magic power to Servants, and in the Fate worldview, replenishing magic has many other wonderful uses.

Before Fate became popular, “replenishing magic” was a serious term, but after Saber’s magic replenishment incident, this term has been used in many works.

Players like Xu Lun and Yukino Yukinoshita also need to provide magic power for the Heroic Spirits they summon. According to Paradise’s Rule 2, the amount of magic power is jointly determined by the player’s physique and intelligence.

Xu Lun’s physique is 23 and intelligence is 26. These two attributes are basically double those of Yukino Yukinoshita. He has no problem bearing the normal magic consumption of Medea and Medusa.

As for the consumption of Noble Phantasm liberation, Xu Lun hasn’t tried supplying two Heroic Spirits simultaneously yet.

Medea’s Noble Phantasm is a short blade called “Rule Breaker.” When facing contracts based on magic, or life forms born from magic, it can directly reset them to the state before the magic was used.

Simply put, after this Noble Phantasm is liberated, contracts based on magic will turn into blank paper, and life forms born from magic will be instantly extinguished. Medea used the power of her Noble Phantasm to directly break the contracts on Sugou Nobuyuki and Medusa.

Medusa has three Noble Phantasms: Bellerophon, Self-Sealing: Dark Temple, and Blood Fort Andromeda.

Bellerophon is simply a powerful ultimate move, summoning a Phantasmal Beast for an offensive and defensive assault. It’s a large-scale anti-army Noble Phantasm.

Self-Sealing: Dark Temple is Medusa’s blindfold, used to control the power of her Mystic Eyes of Petrification.

Opposite to Self-Sealing is a bounded field technique called Blood Fort Andromeda. By setting up a magic circle, it drains the vitality of life within the area. Once activated, it directly dissolves blood to absorb magic power.

Xu Lun calculated his body’s magic consumption. Beside him, Medea and Medusa had already changed into normal clothes, looking completely like members of the Black Organization.

To control the power of her Mystic Eyes of Petrification, Medusa still wore her Noble Phantasm blindfold, standing quietly beside Xu Lun. She showed little reaction to being summoned and immediately changing Masters, tacitly accepting that she had become Xu Lun’s Servant.

Although Medusa appears cold, she is actually afraid of trouble. Her personality, rather than being taciturn, is more about overthinking and keeping things bottled up.

Compared to Medea’s attitude towards her Master, Medusa is completely loyal, almost to the point of self-abandonment, willing to discard her own thoughts for her Master’s commands.

Overall, she is a Heroic Spirit with psychological issues, just like Medea.

However, there are some differences between the two. To use an analogy of favorability, Medea is the type that is difficult at first but easier later; as long as her favorability is raised to 70, she will add the remaining 30 points herself. Medusa, on the other hand, starts with 60 favorability but it’s harder to increase it later, making her the type that is easier at first but harder later.

“There are only eight Servants in total, and we already have three.”

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at Medea and Medusa beside Xu Lun, then strangely at Xu Lun, feeling as if the victory of this Holy Grail War was already predetermined.

Xu Lun glanced at the time. It hadn’t taken much effort to deal with Sugou Nobuyuki; it was just beginning to get dark. He cautiously said, “Although we have a big advantage, we still need to be careful of that high-level player. We can’t stay at the Emiya Residence forever; other players might come looking for us.”

Since the Fate world seemed to fully accept the existence of players, it was likely that many players had already visited worlds within the Fate worldview.

As one of Fuyuki City’s attractions, the Emiya Residence always gave the strange impression that staying there would inexplicably lead to encountering players.

“How about going to my current identity’s home?”

Yukino Yukinoshita suggested. Her identity assigned by Paradise was Fujimura Taiga. She had thought that following the most frequently visited places on her phone app would lead her home, but she ended up at the Emiya Residence instead and summoned Saber through the Dragon Ball there.

Xu Lun pondered, realizing that he indeed had no impression of where Fujimura Taiga lived. After all, this protagonist’s guardian only appeared in scenes at school and the Emiya Residence.

“Let’s go to Fujimura Taiga’s house.”

Xu Lun agreed. The combination of two Masters and three Servants quickly found a detached house less than two blocks away.

It seemed Fujimura Taiga had bought it nearby for convenience, to freeload meals at Emiya Shirou’s house. Apart from a bedroom, there weren’t many signs of life.

Sitting on the sofa, with night still upon them, Xu Lun considered whether he should return to the Matou Residence.

Being an ordinary person in the Fate world was very dangerous, and Matou Sakura was an ordinary person now. Getting too close to her might lead to dramatic events at any time.

After all, Paradise’s combat rules had too many loopholes to exploit. If ordinary people couldn’t be made aware of the supernatural, then couldn’t mundane killing methods be used? Gas explosions, building collapses—mortal lives were as fragile as summer cicadas. It was even possible to use supernatural means to kill them before ordinary people reacted. Xu Lun wondered if Paradise was doing this intentionally or accidentally.

But Xu Lun was somewhat concerned about Paradise’s statement, “Disguise your identity well.” If it was just because the summoning item was within the disguised identity, this reminder seemed a bit condescending.

As players, wasn’t finding the key item to unlock the next stage in an unfamiliar game a basic skill?

“Disguise your identity well.”

Paradise’s words might have more meaning in this world.

As he was contemplating, Paradise announced the manifestation of the last class.

[Berserker class has manifested]

“So now, all classes have appeared.”

Xu Lun and Yukino Yukinoshita looked at each other, their gazes meeting. Xu Lun made a decision.

“There are still people at home, I’ll go back for a bit.”

“Let’s go, Medea and Medusa.”

“Good night, Miss Yukinoshita and My King.”

“See you tomorrow at school.”

“Or, see you later.”