Emiya Shirou doesn't want to work overtime

Number 124 thought for a moment and then said this to Emiya Shirou.

"We'll take you back to the doctor's lab after we finish our patrol. Right now, because the entire city is being swept through the Night Raid organization's hidden strongholds, we need to monitor this area from all angles. I'm sorry!"

Number 124 expressed his apologies to Emiya Shirou as he spoke.

"No, it's okay."

Emiya Shirou quickly waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care at all.

"Swish—! Swish—! Swish—!"

Several more figures appeared in front of them; it was another team of Shirou Emiya's android squad. They greeted Android 88 and his group and then quickly left.

Their speed was much faster than that of numbers 88 and 124 when they appeared.

Shirou Emiya could clearly feel a magical energy emanating from their feet.

It's an enhancement magic.

This familiar aura allowed Shirou Emiya to immediately recognize that these androids could use enhancement magic that he had never been able to apply to the human body.

“That’s another squad. With the Empire and the Revolutionary Army facing off so fiercely right now, there are basically three squads patrolling this area.”

Number 124 was still patiently explaining things to Shirou Emiya. After all, in their eyes, Shirou Emiya had not yet joined the mental network, so much information could only be communicated verbally.

Although they communicate more verbally when they are together.

"It's those guys number 287!"

Number 97 waved back, and they were all very familiar with each other.

"There are over two hundred of you. How many of you are there exactly?"

Shirou Emiya felt a headache coming on when he heard Number Ninety-Seven address another team of Emiyas. Just how many androids were there in the Empire?

"There are over five hundred in total, but currently only three hundred or so are in the Empire. Some are in factories providing weapons for the soldiers, some are like us patrolling the Empire, and others serve as guards in the palace to protect important ministers."

"The remaining part is in the doctor's laboratory. On the one hand, it is to protect the fashion doctor and prevent his experiments from being disturbed. On the other hand, it is to assist the doctor's experiments and provide him with experimental data."

"I heard that Esdeath led an army to fight against the Revolutionary Army, right? Were the remaining two hundred or so people sent to help?"

Emiya Shirou scratched his cheek and asked, feeling that it wasn't right for him to rely on their trust to extract information.

He still felt a little guilty.

"Don't mention that woman, she's a complete freak. Hundreds of us died at her hands, and she even said we were too weak, not like that at all!! We've had nightmares about the way we died, and now she's our nightmare."

Before number 124 could answer, number 97 quickly straightened his face, and fear was evident on his face as his body trembled.

Meanwhile, Number 124, upon hearing Shirou Emiya mention Esdeath, displayed the same expression as Number 97, her face also filled with fear.

"Those two hundred of us didn't go to the front lines to help; they were all slaughtered by that woman and died meaninglessly."

Number 124's voice trembled when she mentioned Esdeath; her terror was deeply etched in their hearts.

"When that woman returns victorious, remember not to provoke her; she's terrifying."

Number 97 chimed in, even with his arrogant personality, he was unwilling to provoke Esdeath.

"Is it possible that we can't even defeat them all?"

It should be noted that their strength was not much weaker than when he first arrived in the Empire. Although they did not have the blessing of breathing techniques or some skillful techniques, their physical qualities were far superior to his own when he used breathing techniques.

Furthermore, the ability to use the Noble Chariot, which mimics the "Possessed by Evil Spirits," meant that even I at the time would probably have needed a considerable amount of time to defeat it.

“Quantity is meaningless in front of that woman. During that period, even though we were already the strongest in the empire, her strength still increased by leaps and bounds, and she would test her skills on us every day.”

Number 124 seemed to have no desire to recall that period of time.

"Dozens of people die almost every day, and they are all tortured to death."

"There was even a time when the doctor sent fifty of us to fight her, and she killed them all in an instant, in a flash, with ice spikes piercing through them all."

A look of despair appeared on number 124's face.

"The ice spikes didn't appear in the air, and the wounds on our dead weren't caused by forceful penetration. The Noble Chariot couldn't even provide any defense."

"Her attack bursts directly from her body. Within a hundred meters of her, all living things, whether trees, insects, or birds and beasts, are pierced through by the ice spikes in an instant, leaving them with no way to defend themselves."

Chapter 345 Conflict and Birth

"Projection started (Trace on)!"

While Shirou Emiya was talking to Number 124 and Number 97, Number 88, who was patrolling the rooftop, seemed to have noticed something.

One after another, perfectly standard imperial bows appeared in Number Eighty-Eight's hands. Without any hesitation, he quickly nocked his bow, and a sword arrow appeared on the bowstring.

All that could be heard was a sound of something piercing the air as the sword arrow shot out with the speed of a whirlwind.

"Qiang————!"

A faster, more powerful arrow, flying out like lightning, struck its target with extreme precision just before it was about to hit.

The other arrow tore the arrow fired by number 88 to shreds and embedded itself firmly in the ground.

"It's Captain Emiya! It's Captain Emiya's punishment!!"

The people who seemed to be chasing something on the street saw the rapidly approaching sword and immediately understood what was happening; their faces turned deathly pale.

They retreated in extreme fear.

In front of those people was a very thin boy who was trembling with fear as he watched the sword arrow being torn apart before his eyes.

He held a pancake tightly in his hand, his hand trembling, his expression filled with nothing but fear and despair.

The target of the number 88 sword arrow was not the adults chasing the boy, but the boy himself. The sword arrow was aimed at the head of the seemingly frail boy.

In that instant, the boy felt his whole body turn icy cold. He sensed death approaching. If the second arrow hadn't intercepted him, he would have been pierced through and pinned to the wall.

He was left with a look of terror on his face, and was then devoured by those living in the dark depths of the alley at night.

"What are you doing!?"

Number 88 confronted Shirou Emiya in an angry tone.

Numbers 124 and 97 were also stunned at this moment. The speed of Emiya Shirou's attack and shooting was something they had never seen before in their lives.

It should be noted that their shooting skills have now reached the pinnacle of the empire. If they claim to be second in archery, no one in the entire empire would dare to claim to be first.

But now, Shirou Emiya far surpasses him in both accuracy and strength, even to the point of overwhelming him.

To understand what it means for a sword arrow to be hit in mid-air, in the same direction, by a sword arrow fired after it, and then hit, is to grasp the concept of that.

In short, they can't do it now. After the Mind Network opened up, the gap between the first, second, and third batches gradually disappeared.

After all, the inactive fashion doctor was not very skilled at creating androids at the beginning, and there were always many defective products, such as those that could not use magic, magic circuits that could not be activated properly, or those that were simply not humanoid.

He has done a lot of cyborg work, and he did try to create artificial humans before, but the effort and reward were not proportional, so he gave up.

During the time Shirou Emiya was imprisoned, Dr. Fashion had already deciphered the essence of magic and what magic circuits were.

For a period of time afterward, hundreds of people died almost every day in the fashion doctor's laboratory, and sometimes thousands died during his madness.

They're all just ordinary people anyway. Even if the Fashion Doctor didn't have these expenses, hundreds of people would still die every day in the Empire.

After having some of his magic circuits transplanted, he became obsessed with magic and frantically used it to conduct all sorts of human experiments.

Humans are nothing more than rare computing devices with motor functions, a conclusion reached by the fashion expert after conducting a frenzied experiment.

To put it simply, at this moment, the fashion expert's thoughts are highly consistent with those of the alchemist in Type-Moon.

It was from this moment that he began his research on androids. The material used to create Shirou Emiya's android was not Shirou Emiya's own cells.

This path was attempted by the fashion expert from the very beginning, but the final result was that he could only barely obtain a partial magic circuit.

He also doesn't have the technology to preserve cells for months.

With the help of God's Hand Perfector, and through his tireless work day and night, he spent several months using magic circuits to create the first homunculus of Emiya Shirou.

One reason is that he does possess talents that are difficult for ordinary people to match, and another reason is that androids are not a particularly complex technology.

After acquiring the technology, the Yggdrasilian race was able to easily produce a large number of androids to serve as cannon fodder.

The Atlas Institute within the Society of Magicians has always possessed the technology to create androids.

The Einzbern family's artificial human technology was the result of the efforts of many magicians.

In reality, however, the normal technology for creating artificial humans did not take these magicians much time.

However, what the Einzbern family needed was not an android that could provide magic and use magic, but an android that could realize the power of the Third Law.

They have been devoting all their time to researching and creating androids capable of using the Third Law.

However, the birth of the Winter Saintess was a "miracle" born from a series of coincidences, and it is impossible to replicate.

It has nothing to do with the magicians' painstaking research.

The androids created using magic circuits as their core usually have many physical defects, but Dr. Fashion is an expert in human modification, and he can fix the androids' poor physical qualities with almost no effort.

However, perhaps due to a lack of technological accumulation, the androids created by Dr. Fashion, although possessing independent consciousness, were exceptionally weak in magic.

The projection magic and enhancement magic he used were unusually weak, not to mention reaching Shirou Emiya's level, he couldn't even reach the level of a normal magician.

Some of them couldn't even perform magic tricks.

Although these androids do not have Shirou Emiya's complete set of 27 magic circuits, they are not so incapable of performing magic.

It should be noted that none of the prisoners whose magic circuits were transplanted through him had experienced such problems.

He was very good at both enhancement magic and other magic he developed himself.

After using various drugs, the doctor discovered that these androids had very weak mental strength. Although they had high physical fitness, they would fall into a state of weakness after less than an hour of outdoor activity each day.

So they began to research drugs that increase mental strength, or more accurately, to modify the empire's existing drugs that increase mental strength.

Previously, the Empire had trained many assassins and used similar psychoactive drugs.

However, this drug could easily cause mental confusion in users and affect the assassin's normal combat ability, so its use was discontinued and replaced with a milder drug that was mainly addictive to the body, although that drug also had some effects on the mind.

However, after being modified by the fashion expert and taken by artificial humans, strange side effects occurred, or perhaps they shouldn't be called side effects.

Perhaps because they were so similar, after everyone's mental strength improved, they unintentionally formed a mental network that only they could enter.

All of these things came about by chance.