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

Chapter 174 "Be Afraid, I'm Not Normal"

As soon as Emiya finished speaking, the air seemed to freeze in an instant, and fell into an awkward silence.

The only thing that echoed in my ears, apart from the faint sound of the wind in the middle of the night, was the crisp sound of Eri chewing crepes beside me - the collision of her red lips and white teeth with the cheese slices and the burnt crust seemed particularly clear in this quiet night.

"Charlotte?"

Thinking that the other party didn't hear him, Emiya raised his voice slightly and asked again tentatively. He carefully looked at this "net friend" whom he had never met before.

From the outside, she was indeed similar to what he imagined. When she sent him the photo before, Emiya thought it had been beautified, but he didn't expect that the real person was almost the same as the photo.

Charlotte is relatively young, wearing a navy blue vest and suit jacket, a short skirt, and a beret. The Tweed Run style makes her look like a little British lady going out for an outing, but her petite figure makes her look more like an exquisite doll.

Charlotte heard Emiya's question and finally came to her senses from the shock of the suspected summoning failure. Her cheeks turned red due to the strong attention from Emiya and Eri. "I heard it, I heard it! I'm busy right now, can you guys be a little patient!"

There was anger and shame in her tone, but also a hint of guilt, as she was afraid that her embarrassment would be exposed by the netizen she was meeting offline for the first time.

The air became quiet again, leaving only the rustling sound of the night wind through the treetops.

Charlotte stretched out her nervous, trembling finger and pointed at the empty summoning array. The bright red command seal on the back of her hand and the empty summoning array seemed to be silently mocking her failure.

She carefully used the Command Spell to feel a void channel that was absorbing her magic power. There was no mistake. The absolute summoning just now was successful. Now she just didn't find the Servant. It just took a little extra time...

As luck would have it, Emiya next to him started to interrupt again: "Hasn't it been possible for you to reveal the Command Seals? In other words, you have just performed a summoning, right?"

You bastard "God Killer", if you already knew it, why did you say it out loud!

"So where's your Servant?"

I'm looking for it now! Why are you in such a hurry?
"Your text message means that you want to test your skills with me, right? So now you have transferred your servant into a spirit form and are ready to fight me alone?"

Hey, hey, hey! You who can kill the Dragon King head-on are saying you want to fight me in a one-on-one duel? Do you have any shame?

Charlotte had a lot to say but ultimately couldn't express it, and it simply turned into complaints and grievances lingering in her heart. After all, as she was still young, she could only be a "loudmouth queen" on the Internet. When she encountered a situation where she had to face real people in real life, she instantly became speechless.

Wait, spiritualize...myself...

Charlotte blinked, and suddenly thought of something. She moved her lips slightly and whispered to the void, "Does directly possessing the Master conform to the rules of the Holy Grail War? Sima——"

Before she finished speaking, a deep laugh seemed to come from behind her, "Little girl, although you are young, you are much more interesting than those idiots of the Cao family."

The voice did not seem to spread in the breeze, but only rang in the mind, "The contract is concluded. There is no need to follow any rules in the Holy Grail War, little girl."

Charlotte felt the power of the Heroic Spirits surge into her body like a tide. The magic circuits she had learned in the Clock Tower also expanded and grew, and their rotation efficiency and precision were incomparable to the previous levels.

At the same time, the servant's information finally became clear... Rider, Sima Yi.

She thought of the past experiences of this servant and silently replied in her heart, "No need to follow the rules. The winner writes history anyway, Sima Zhongda?"

"No, history is not written by the victors, but by those who survive to the end," Emperor Xuan of Jin's words seemed to be full of deep meaning. "I will lend you my power first. Think carefully about how to survive in the Holy Grail War."

Survive?
The sudden powerful power made Charlotte full of joy, as if the whole world was under her control. However, the last words of the servant Sima Yi before his voice disappeared were like a tiny thorn that quietly pierced into her heart, leaving her a little confused.

A sudden gust of wind blew, bringing with it a hint of coolness that was out of tune with the midsummer, blowing up the fallen leaves on the ground, making a rustling sound.

"Ok?"

Emiya, who was feeling bored after watching Charlotte "in a daze" for a while, suddenly raised his head as if he realized something.

In the sky, dark clouds opened like a giant mouth, slowly swallowing up the crescent moon that was emitting a dim silver glow. The darker night came unexpectedly, like an inky river rushing in, instantly flooding the entire empty countryside.

"Wow! Emiya, I got the power of a Servant! This is not some kind of spiritualization, but the real strength of a Servant in a human body. Humph, you must have never seen it--" Charlotte still didn't understand where Sima Yi's warning came from, but she couldn't help but feel a little inflated when she suddenly gained the power of a "pseudo-Servant".

The timidity he had felt towards Emiya gradually faded away, and was replaced by an unprecedented confidence.

She felt the power in her body surge like a tide. She simply estimated that her physical fitness alone was dozens of times stronger than that of an ordinary human being just now, not to mention her Servant skills, Noble Phantasms, and the leap-forward magic ability.
Although she hasn't had time for careful experiments and accurate calculations, with the power of her servants, Charlotte may be able to fight against Emiya!
“…Emiya?”

Charlotte was disappointed to find that her smug display and provocation did not seem to arouse the other party's desire for a confrontation at all.

Instead, Emiya narrowed his eyes and observed his surroundings quietly, as if he was alert to something... As for the red-haired girl Eiry, who had been staying quietly beside him, she was still chewing the crepe innocently, like Emiya's sister, not caring about anything around her.

Eri blinked her clear eyes and instantly noticed Charlotte's gaze. However, she still did not show any admiration, surprise, or fear, but instead handed over the extra crepe in her arms.

Although Eri remained silent, Charlotte could easily understand what she meant - I'll give you a piece, do you want to eat it?
No, you two are some kind of gods. My current strength is at least that of a servant. This is definitely not normal. As a girl, can you please show a more normal fear reaction? ?

Charlotte was speechless, as if her boasting and provocation had hit cotton, with no response. She could only helplessly look at the ridiculously calm "brother and sister" in front of her... Little did she know that Emiya fully understood the concept of "pseudo-Servants", while Eri simply didn't understand.

“Emiya, you guys…”

"Listen, Charlotte, close your eyes and listen carefully. There's something wrong with the sound of the wind around you."

"what?"

Charlotte was startled. The servant's perception was very sharp, which made her feel that something was wrong. She finally realized the hidden meaning of Sima Yi's warning, and immediately closed her eyes obediently with Eri.

The sound of the night wind blowing through the treetops and branches became clearer and clearer, and the whistling of air in the sky and the rustling of fallen leaves and scattered petals on the ground rang in their ears.

Flames began to flash in Emiya's hands, and crackling sounds filled the air. In the blink of an eye, he had forged a strange long sword in his hands.

"Don't be fooled by your eyes. 90% of our understanding of the outside world comes from vision, so it is easy to be fooled by appearances and ignore the information brought by hearing or other senses."

Emiya did not close his eyes. His "mind's eye" was like a device for collecting and analyzing information about the surrounding environment that came with his body's senses. All abnormalities fell into his perception without any error.

The wind grew stronger and stronger, and when it howled, it brought a coolness a thousand times stronger than before, but these noisy and chaotic sounds and touches were quickly dissected and separated one by one by Emiya's mind, and through instantaneous analysis and feedback, formed an increasingly vast and dense world of information in Emiya's sensory experience.

A hidden real world that he discerned after removing all appearances.

Emiya immediately raised his sword and clenched the hilt. From the depths of the dark darkness came terrible crawling and howling sounds. Those dark lurkers seemed to be piled up one after another, coming from all directions, and the coldness they conveyed pierced and soaked into the muscles and bones of innocent passers-by.

Charlotte suddenly changed her lazy posture. She subconsciously grabbed the suitcase she had been carrying and quickly unlocked the fixed lock at the corner of the suitcase. Her alchemical creation, the third-generation mercury AI, was ready to go.

Eri ate her crepes while standing on tiptoe and clapping her hands rhythmically, as if she was trying to play a symphony of the wilderness in response to the cold wind.

Charlotte stared nervously at the things moving in the darkness. The surroundings seemed to have changed, but also seemed to have not changed. She couldn't even be sure if she had strayed into the Nibelungen. She turned to ask Emiya: "What is that?"

Emiya ignored the kid sister for the moment and said to Eri without turning around, "Anything else?"

"what?"

While Charlotte was looking confused, Eri had already understood what she meant. She handed the two remaining crepes to Emiya, who opened his mouth and ate them one by one, finishing the delicious food in the blink of an eye.

Feeling the fullness and warmth in his abdomen, Emiya raised his sword and looked into the depths of the darkness with a sharp gaze.

Ding Ding Ding-!
Emiya raised his hand and swung it down, slashing out a sword energy that flashed with white light, blocking and shattering the barrage of hidden weapons that were attacking quietly.

At the same time, he looked up and the wriggling black shadows finally became clearer. They were surrounded by black aura and their faces were unclear, but they were all armed warriors with agile skills and extraordinary courage.

"Shadow Servant!?"

(End of this chapter)