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

Chapter 170 Humans linking the World Tree = Magicians?
"Compilation of myths? Mass production of vests? Jörmungandr, are you here just to pick a fight with me?"

Norton's voice came through the mercury curtain of the alchemy array, with a cold and hard texture like metal. His figure appeared in a laboratory background with glittering silver light, surrounded by countless precision alchemical instruments, with mercury flowing and flames leaping from time to time, reflecting a dazzling light.

"The execution of the Heroic Spirit System's design plan was originally the responsibility of you and Constantine, and I am responsible for providing all the design proposals! My requirements are both reasonable and legal, and can significantly increase the upper limit of the Heroic Spirit System!"

Xia Mi fought back without showing any weakness, her golden pupils flashing a tiny but stubborn light in the dim cave.

"You call this raising the ceiling?"

Norton's voice suddenly rose, and in the background of the laboratory there seemed to be a crackling sound of burning fire.

"You are just grafting a mythology system onto the Heroic Spirit System! Do you understand the difference between the workload and feasibility?"

Inside the large cave, the conversation between the two Dragon Kings was filled with tension, and there seemed to be crackling lightning in the air.

Fenrir on the side had already shrunk his huge dragon body. Before that, he carefully picked up his beloved small TV with two fingers on his claws and hid it in the corner quietly.

Fenrir's entire dragon just stared with eyes wide open, staring blankly at the giant alchemical array and the Holy Grail in the center of the cave, as if he was deaf to everything around him.

This was not the first time that Fenrir had heard his sister arguing with the King of Bronze and Fire. In order to avoid being implicated by a topic he did not understand, Fenrir had become an expert at pretending to be innocent.

"Okay, okay, Norton, you think you have a lot of work to do, right?"

Xia Mi waved her arms angrily. She got angry when she thought about how she was busy day and night in Japan and had endless experiences!

"Does that mean my workload is light? Do you know how many creative ideas I borrowed and researched, and how many brain cells I killed in order to provide you with a design plan?"

Norton's voice came through the mercury curtain, with a metallic tremor: "Enough, Jörmungandr, you still don't understand the essential difference between these things!"

At the other end of the alchemy array, Norton hurriedly handed the work at hand to the boy beside him - his younger brother Constantine. The boy took over the work, and a trace of worry flashed in his golden eyes. Norton took the time to approach the mercury curtain, suppressing his anger in his low voice:

"Jörmungandr, I'll be honest with you. You've already given me the design for Minamoto no Raikou, and your new proposal is like telling me that the previous one is a scrapped design that needs to be redone. And when I redo it this time, I need to match this Heroic Spirit with a fantastic mythology system that has zero feasibility!"

"How can this be considered a redo?"

Xia Mi's voice echoed in the large cave, and she spread her hands:
"We are not going to start all over again. We are just adding a new aspect to Minamoto no Raikou - 'Ugly Gozen'! Then we will design a power system for 'Ugly Gozen' based on the incarnation of Indra..."

She spoke faster and faster, like a string of cannonballs: "According to the alchemy you are good at, adding a 'great equipment' system similar to wearable alchemy machinery will definitely be no problem, and there is also the Bull-Headed Heavenly King Great Envoy..."

However, as she continued to describe, Norton's face became more and more gloomy. In the mercury curtain, his figure trembled slightly, and the alchemical instruments around him made an uneasy hum.

"Shut up!"

Norton's voice was as loud as a bell. "The 'Bull-Headed Heavenly King Great Envoy' you designed in your plan must be able to attack at super high speed and release lightning. The destructive range must reach a width of one kilometer and a length of more than ten kilometers..."

His fingers crackled. "Where do I find the time and energy to build you such a ridiculously large toy?"

Xia Mi curled her lips and was about to refute, but was interrupted by Norton:

“If you really have the time, why don’t you just place a World-Destroying Word Spirit right there? That would save a lot of trouble. And don’t forget, the Holy Grail War is about to begin. It’s too late to rebuild it now!”

There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice: "If the Holy Grail War is held in Japan, I remember that Minamoto no Raikou is also a Heroic Spirit with a very high reputation. He will definitely be a hot candidate for summoning, right? By then it will be too late. What are you going to do as the operator?"

The newly designed Heroic Spirit system uses high-end alchemical technology such as "Spirit Recasting". "Spirit Recasting" takes fantasy as its core and human legends and beliefs as its raw materials. The popularity of the legend and the strength of the belief will affect the strength of the fantasy...

From this perspective, there is nothing wrong with the popularity bonus mentioned by Emiya earlier.

However, Xia Mi shrugged indifferently:

"It's too late, then. There is indeed a Genji in Tokyo who is suitable as one of the candidates for the master, but there is more than one Minamoto no Raikou in the thousand-year-old Genji family, and more than one person has used Minamoto no Raikou's relics. Can't we just match one of the four kings of the Genji and make do?"

Norton shook his head silently. He could not understand the "evil-hearted operation" thinking that Jörmungandr insisted on. It seemed that the King of Earth and Mountains regarded every Master who came to participate in the Holy Grail War as a sucker who was willing to spend huge sums of money to purchase intelligence and holy relics and come from afar to serve as the Master's experimenter.

However, Norton was too lazy to argue. He just collected experimental data, and he would be thankful if Jörmungandr did not make fewer requests and add unnecessary workload to him.

"The wearable alchemical machine 'Dajuzhu' you mentioned is not a big problem," Norton's voice came through the mercury curtain.

"But I'm afraid we'll have to wait for the 'Bull-Headed Heavenly King Great Envoy'. Unless we can truly open up a 'Mythology System' track, it would be a fantasy to develop such a large-scale toy in a short period of time."

"Is that so? Seriously, Norton, do you think the myth system is really impossible to realize?"

Xia Mi still did not give up, and there was a hint of unwilling persistence in her voice. "Since we can use the power of the White King to transform ordinary human souls into heroic spirits, then aren't the myths created by humans essentially a kind of fantasy legend? In the final analysis, shouldn't this still be classified as 'spiritual recasting'?"

Norton snorted coldly, with obvious sarcasm in his voice: "You say that easily. But since you have studied human mythology, you should know what level of 'power of gods' those myths have reached, right?"

His words were full of contempt for Xia Mi, an outsider who "ignores the magnitude and only talks about the principle", as if he was listening to the nonsense of a layman who didn't understand alchemy.

"Besides, Jörmungandr, have you forgotten? The reason why we can create Heroic Spirits is that the person (Lu Mingze) connected to the World Tree and opened up the Throne of Heroes for us!"

Xia Mi's eyes suddenly lit up, as if she had caught some key clue, "Wait! Now that I put it that way, doesn't it make sense? To realize the mythological system I mentioned, we only need to connect to the World Tree and open up a new throne of God..."

Norton sneered, "How is that possible? How do you plan to carry it out? Are you counting on that person to be kind again and help us? Or do you think that people like you and me are capable of accomplishing such a feat as 'creating a human myth'?"

"..." Xia Mi was choked by Norton's words and was speechless for a moment. Her originally complacent momentum was like a balloon that was punctured, and it instantly deflated. She curled her lips and muttered softly:

"If dragons really don't work, why don't we use humans instead..."

Humanity?

"Wait!" After hearing this, Norton's pupils suddenly contracted, and a memory suddenly flashed through his mind. It was the "truth" of the Holy Grail War that Emiya had explained to Old Tang.

The Holy Grail can fulfill wishes, but it is just a cover to attract outsiders to participate. Its true essence is to use the souls of seven servants as sacrifices, use the Holy Grail to open a path to the outside world, and attempt to explore the origin of all things in the world! If a human can complete this great feat, he can become a legendary magician!
"Humanity... magic... the path to the root... the true nature of the Holy Grail War, is it really possible!?"

Norton's thoughts were as fast as lightning, racing through his mind.

Everything in the world originates from the World Tree, including the Black King, the ancestor of the dragon race. Therefore, the World Tree is not only the origin of the birth of dragons, but also the origin of the birth of humans.

After all, the Black King’s supreme throne is only the highest throne of dragons. Do humans have a similar “throne”?
No one knows this at all.

"It still feels a bit difficult," Xia Mi said with a hint of uncertainty in her voice.

"When we connected the World Tree to build the Throne of Heroes, even the flesh and blood of the Black King disappeared. Can humans really do it? Wouldn't we disappear as soon as we enter and never come back? And then we finally got the chance to connect to the World Tree, but it was wasted like this?"

The "World Tree" is the origin of the world. If humans really step into it, they may behave like the Black King's flesh and blood, and will directly dissolve into it as if returning to the womb of life.

"Maybe, but this is also the only chance for humans to become gods and ascend to heaven in one step..."

Norton sighed. However, before he finished speaking, he suddenly noticed that Xia Mi's face changed suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Norton asked with a frown.

Xia Mi's eyes could not hide her surprise, "That guy (Lu Mingze)... actually sent me a message, saying that he wants to take a Master's quota."

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Pier No. 4 at Tokyo Port was as dark as ink at night and so quiet that it was heart-wrenching.

This should have been a bustling moment - the rough shouts of dock workers, the roar of tug engines, the hurried footsteps of customs officers, and those huge merchant ships going in and out of the locks, the rumbling of gas turbines, stirring the salty sea breeze.

However, at this moment, this place seems to have been forgotten by time.

The metal-wrapped containers stood neatly in the darkness, like silent tombstones. The dim street lights cast mottled shadows on the wet ground, and the air was filled with the unique salty smell of seawater, but there was no sound of waves hitting the shore.

Rei and Jude Mai stood side by side, their eyes fixed on the dark water.

Zero's light blond hair swayed gently in the breeze, and Jude Mai's fingers unconsciously stroked the hilt of the sword at her waist.

Sudden--

A deafening roar tore through the silence. The water surface exploded, and huge waves rushed into the sky, as if a sleeping beast had awakened from the abyss.

In the flying mist, a huge piece of ice broke out of the water. Its crystal clear surface reflected the cold moonlight, like an iceberg rising from the bottom of the sea.

Looking closely, the interior of the huge ice cube was faintly illuminated by the dim moonlight, revealing a terrifying black outline.

Like a giant shipwreck.

(End of this chapter)