The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 157 The monster will be killed by the hero of justice one day

After a while, Herzog finally forced down the icy chill that made his teeth chatter subconsciously. He kept trying to remind himself that the place in front of him - his lair had not been exposed, otherwise Bondarev would have ordered the heroes to kill him long ago.

What made Herzog feel even more frightened was that there was a huge gap between the information the other party had and the information he had.

Before, when Emiya approached Genjiro to plan an investigation against Aoi-ya, Herzog arranged for people to secretly replace the head of Aoi-ya, cut off business ties with South America, and modified some information in the database.

Because Aoiya Daihou is a trading agent of "Masamune Tachibana", she is responsible for trading people on behalf of Masamune Tachibana and the South American gang "Boar Neo" to supplement the experimental subjects for Deadpool's training experiments, so according to the records, Boar Neo's client must be Masamune Tachibana.

When Yuan Zhisheng really finds out this, how will he be able to keep his position as the head of the family?
Therefore, the words "Tachibana Masamune" in the transaction records must not be left at all and must be changed completely.

Therefore, while the investigation team led by Emiya and Minamoto Chisei had not yet arrived, Herzog had already arranged for people to change the information to "Bondarev". In this way, not only did he get himself out of the way, but Minamoto Chisei would also definitely focus on investigating the Bondarev with a very eye-catching name.

But all these plans were ruined by the "Heroic Spirit Attack" incident.

The database that had been carefully planned and laid out after secretly modifying the information was destroyed by the attack of the heroic spirit. The operation against Bondarev was aborted before it even began.

"..."

Faced with the powerful weapon of Heroic Spirit, Herzog fell into a state of confusion for the first time in a long time.

It is not afraid of physical attacks, comes and goes without a trace, and has a combat power that is stronger than the Emperor. It is simply an intelligence reconnaissance + assassination weapon.

Even if Bondarev had mastered the Divine Corpse and used the White King's authority to develop the Heroic Spirit technology to reach this point... But how did Bondarev do it? Could it be that his true identity is a Dragon King with superb alchemy skills?

Even if Bondarev is really the Dragon King, wouldn't it be better to just devour the god's bones after digging them out? The Dragon King is not a human being, and he doesn't need to explore the illusory path to becoming a god that only humans have to take.

Herzog wore a mask of pain on his face, but he was puzzled.

In fact, considering the heroic spirit that has the dual identities of a skilled warrior and a deceased person, plus his identity as the Dragon King, it stands to reason that the first person that comes to mind is "Odin".

But the question arises again. Odin was killed on the Shenzhou battlefield by Emiya, and many people witnessed it...and even if the intelligence was wrong and Odin was not dead, would the Dragon King be willing to lose face and not only play against Emiya himself, but also run to Black Swan Port and spend time to play a double act with him, a human scientist?

In addition, Bondarev possessed the Heroic Technology but chose not to hide it, but instead displayed it in a high-profile manner, just as a certain regime had conducted a successful nuclear test and deliberately announced to the world that it possessed nuclear weapons.

As we all know, the deterrent value brought by nuclear weapons themselves is greater than their actual use value.

In other words, Bondarev's goal is not to possess the Heroic Spirit technology, but to demonstrate what is hidden behind this "Heroic Spirit deterrence" is what he needs to achieve?

Of course, Herzog still remembers Bondarev, who once promised him an ambitious blueprint of "becoming a god" and "sharing the world", but since the other party tried every means to use him as a chess piece in his layout, these original promises may just be misleading rhetoric to cover up his real goal.

Herzog seemed to see the layers of fog that were originally wrapped around Bondarev. Not only did it not fade with the development of recent situation, but it gradually deepened as more and more information was revealed, making it more and more unpredictable.

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Eri was watching TV obediently in Emiya's residence.

After all, she finally got to watch something other than cartoons this time. This was not boring at all for Eri, but even made her smile and celebrate.

Most of the works she watched at Sheqi Bajia were deliberately selected by the "monitoring team". Otherwise, she would have switched channels to watch some NHK documentaries to learn about the outside world.

What is being replayed on the big TV screen in the Emiya family's living room is the famous "Ultraman Tiga" in the special effects film category. It is not only an original special effects film but also one of the concentrations of Ultraman's famous memes.

There are a lot of memes in the movie, for example, the human form of Daigo and Tiga are collectively called the "crash & horn-breaking duo"; Tiga's red powerful form is also called Daigo's happy form, and there is no monster that the happy form cannot kill; "That year, we all became light" and so on...

In fact, the filming technology of this film itself is limited due to the limitations of the times. Looking back at it from today's perspective, without the filter of "childhood memories", most of the time we can only see the clumsy fights between Tiga and the monsters. This is also what Eri saw.

She blinked her eyes, but her eyes were fixed on the TV screen, as if she could see something from the movie.

Because what Eri was concerned about was not Tiga, who was on the side of the righteous hero, but the monster that was destined to be killed.

Eri stared at the monster, and the memory of herself in the past, out of control like a monster, gradually overflowed from the bottom of her heart and appeared before her eyes.

Her ability is the extremely dangerous Word Spirit Sequence No. 111: Judgment... Well, Eri actually doesn't understand Word Spirit Studies or the Word Spirit Sequence Table, but she has always had a clear understanding of the danger she is in.

Once the ability is activated, all life within the domain will die completely in various ways. Whether it is killed by paper or ice, it will not change the result of death.

She couldn't even control this extremely dangerous word spirit. Once Eri tried to speak, she would send out dragon words that would cause death. In the end, Eri chose to keep silent and replaced her daily speaking with writing in a notebook.

What's even more frightening is that her condition is not stable.

Eri remembered that every time she used her ability, after a while, those dark veins would spread along her white limbs under the skin, and fine white scales would grow on her wrists and ankles.

The next symptom was that she began to gradually become drowsy, as if she was hallucinating and was about to be taken over by the poisonous black color and fall into an abyss of loss of control... When she could no longer control herself, Eri gritted her teeth and scratched herself all over, using the terrible pain to keep herself awake.

It wasn't until her family injected her with some medicine that she finally returned to normal.

Eri's eyes dimmed slightly. One day, she would slowly turn into the monster on TV.

[Yes, you are a monster. Monsters will be killed by heroes of justice one day.]

A creepy voice with an unfamiliar tone quietly rang in her ears, and Eri stood up swiftly from the small soft chair. She suddenly changed from the state of a sad little child back to the cold and murderous contemporary Tsukuyomi of the Snake Eight Clan.

Eri raised her arms and cast her gaze towards the shadows gathered in the corner not far from the room. The creeping darkness huddled in the tiny space, but it seemed as if there was an unfathomable existence staring straight at her.

It’s this thing again... Can this thing actually talk?

Eri was confused for a second or two, but the next moment she took two steps closer, picked up a hairpin and reached out to the corner. She decided to destroy it without thinking twice.

[Are you still planning to abuse your abilities? Look at what you look like, monster.]

Eri's eyes suddenly widened. On her slender arms, a few sparse black veins had appeared at some point. Normally, they were hard to notice, but when she looked closely with her eyes wide open, these black veins were as conspicuous as linear flaws on a white jade.

Memories of the moment when control was out of control came flooding back.

Eri suddenly felt uneasy. The ambition she had when she ran away from home disappeared completely at this moment. She was afraid - afraid that she would become an uncontrollable monster again, afraid that she would accidentally hurt Emiya and his friends who she had been getting along with happily for the past few days...

Otherwise, why not go home, back to that cage-like home.

[Little monster... do you want to be free? ]

The moving black shadow whispered, and the next second, taking advantage of Eri's distraction, the shadow suddenly invaded the daylight and expanded in the room, turning the entire scene into darkness!
[How pitiful! Let me help you. ]

But before Eri could react, the darkness before her eyes disappeared in an instant, the room became bright, and the gentle light from the outside world still seeped invisibly through the window. Everything that just happened seemed like an illusion.

Confused, Eri subconsciously raised her arm, only to find that the skin was still as smooth as jade, without any trace of black blemishes.

(End of this chapter)