Type-Moon: Root Seiko

The bubbling sound of the hot pot always whets the appetite of onlookers.

The struggle of a pot filled with plants, animals, and stones, a lack of freedom, is far sweeter than the unrestrained evaporation of a pot of clear water.

Humans are truly terrifying creatures, smells delicious!

"Okay, the beef is ready to eat." Luo Zhen stopped the stopwatch.

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Including Xiao Kuang, who had completely adapted to Luo Zhen's rhythm, the girls' chopsticks, along with their moist mouths, couldn't wait to make that delicious piece of meat their own magic and calories.

We resolved two blockage points in one go today, so we should have a big celebration to reward everyone.

Luo Zhen held Kallen and fed her, and Sakura held Ishtar and fed her. Everyone has a bright future.

"Now there are only three left." Orange puffed out her cheeks.

As one of the two famous big eaters in Sanju City (Aozaki's hometown), and like her sister, Ms. Orange is banned from entering the hometown's buffet restaurant by name, she has a very strong appetite.

Unlike Qingzi, who relies solely on her strength, Chengzi can maintain her makeup and hair without smudging or getting messy while eating voraciously, demonstrating the composure of an older sister.

Luo Zhen picked up a piece of crab stick without any meat from her plate and asked, "Miss Orange, what can I do for you?"

"It's the same old story, don't underestimate your enemy." She bit off Luo Zhen's source of illusionary pain.

"Right now, Luo Zhen controls about half of the spiritual veins, but so does the other side. We must always anticipate the worst-case scenario and not assume that the other side will just wait for us to conquer them."

"And more importantly, after all the siltation points are cleared," Yuzhu said quietly, eating her fish slices.

Yuzhu has a typical small appetite, and her eating manners are dignified and elegant. She is completely different from most of the women present, and can be called the epitome of a young lady from a wealthy family.

But she's also the type who "never allows food she sets her sights on to be taken away," and she's even willing to use magic tricks at the dinner table.

Even now, she maintains the witch's barrier, causing some of the ingredients to disappear from others' sight.

Witches are so possessive; they can even steal from you a god.

She covered her mouth as she chewed: "The singularity hasn't changed; the biggest distortion has always been there."

"After reclaiming the spiritual veins, the Greater Grail must be dismantled, otherwise there's no point in discussing it."

"Oh right, the Greater Grail is still in the ley lines, isn't it?" Canaan shoveled rice into his mouth.

Others only need hot pot, but Canaan needs to eat a lot more.

She was the only one still eating rice, with a large pot of it next to her.

The hot pot dipping sauce she used was also from the Devil's Domain.

Mix together satay sauce, peanut oil, sesame oil, strawberry, tomato, and honey into a large bowl of non-Newtonian fluid. If you put a piece of meat in, swirl it around, and lift it up, the meat's volume will double, and even the muscle fibers will be covered in mucus.

Depending on the situation, people watching her eat may experience either arousal of their appetite or complete loss of appetite... most of the time it's the latter.

With her mouth full of food, she asked, "Those Dark Heroic Spirits that Luo Zhen killed, their Spirit Origins were also recycled into the Greater Grail, right?"

"So that means the more Dark Servants we kill, the more complete the Greater Grail becomes, and we're helping it unlock the Root?"

“This is a calculated move.” Irisviel nodded seriously.

The originally dignified Irisviel was initially quite close to Ariel.

But now it's increasingly developing in the direction of Artoria.

Once she discovered the deliciousness of food, there was no going back. The android princess became increasingly uninhibited in enjoying sensory stimulation.

She ate a large, thick, firm piece of beef tongue: "We must deal with the Greater Grail, but the Greater Grail is also integrated into the ley lines along with 'all the evil of this world.'"

“If left unchecked, the singularity will stray further and further from the pan-human history. Eliminating the Heroic Spirits within the stagnation point will complete the Greater Grail Ritual. We have to do something, to fulfill our duty.”

"...There's something else you should know, right?" said the goddess Ishtar.

This goddess is the most despicable person in the whole place.

She lay on her younger sister's (Rin: ?) lap, letting 6-year-old Sakura feed her, and was too lazy to even pick up her own chopsticks.

Although Sakura, with her strong maternal instincts, also had a lot of fun, she actually had a very good relationship with Ishtar.

But the scene was so appalling that everyone simply ignored it.

This goddess is still saying, "Even if the singularity can be repaired, most of what has already happened can't be undone, you know?"

"Especially you people, you've all been separated from Pan-Human History. Even if you eventually solve the Greater Grail or the culprit, the Counterforce will definitely come after you and eliminate you as pathogens and impurities."

"So, to be honest, it's all in vain. Even now, based on my goddess's intuition, the opponents you're facing are monsters too massive to fight back against. Although I promised my Rose Stone I would do my best to help, you mortals should just... ah, wait, Sakura, this tofu is a bit hot... *gurgle* Don't put it in! It's so hot! QAQ"

The fact that Sakura can punish the wicked and useless goddess is reassuring.

Luo Zhen blew on a piece of shrimp paste to cool it down and put it into Karen's little mouth, watching her chew slowly.

“No problem,” Luo Zhen said.

"It'll definitely be fine, I promise."

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The night is deeper, and the people are busier.

Luo Zhen persuaded Jeanne and Canaan, and replenished Yuzhu and Touko's magic power, allowing them to fall asleep contentedly.

After breaking free from Ishtar's clutches, he continued to offer her promises, urging her to work first and then eat meat, finally freeing her to her freedom.

Luo Zhen arrived at the warehouse and workshop set up by Orange to make necessary adjustments.

He was not a heroic spirit.

The spirit origin he is currently using is a modified version of a blank spirit origin he stole.

After 60 years of transformation, this spirit base has long since become an extension of his soul.

On top of that, Luo Zhen modified another Noble Phantasm for himself.

It was "Rose," a gorgeous revolver that Orange had tailor-made for him.

Orange poured all her stubbornness and emotions into this work of art, working overtime to complete it under the stimulation of their first night together.

Orange herself probably didn't realize it, or maybe she did but deliberately didn't mention it.

This costume, which fully embodies the morbid neuroticism of its creator, features a pattern of endlessly replenishing magic power, forming magic bullets, and launching bombardments, which is exactly the manifestation of Aoko's Fifth Magic that she witnessed firsthand.

Her obsession with not losing to Aoko, and her desire to prove that she too can wield magic.

And the subtext: "Luo Zhen is mine, and I can completely replace you (Aoko)."

This seemingly petty mindset is precisely what makes her so formidable.

And then on top of that.

Luo Zhen conjured a long sword in his hand and placed it on the workbench.

This is the "Sword of Saint Catherine," Joan of Arc's sword.

Nearly six hundred years after her death, the sword was kept secretly in the treasury of the Holy Church.

Time itself is the most effective means of accumulating mystical knowledge, especially for sacred objects with a clear source of faith.

Luo Zhen has already confirmed through the Spirit Origin Fusion that Jeanne's Spirit Origin covers this sword, and its power far exceeds that of a simple Spirit Origin Fusion.

Jeanne d'Arc, who has merged with the Sword of Saint Catherine, is stronger than Artoria, who directly merges with her Spirit Origin.

And it's much stronger.

Then, Luo Zhen laid out five bullets on the table.

This is the "Origin Missile" that he obtained from Canaan.

The magician assassin Kiritsugu Emiya took out his own ribs, ground them into powder, and used them as the core material to make bullets.

Due to its unique origin of "cutting and reconnecting," this Origin Bullet possesses special attack capabilities against magicians. It can disrupt an opponent's magic circuits, causing them to overload and go berserk.

This is worse than simply cutting off the circuit. The more powerful the magician, the less likely they are to be saved; they will be burned to death by their own overloaded magic circuits.

Chapter 115 will make you regret it for the rest of your life!

The Origin Missile is useful, but only against humans.

But no one ever said that it could only be used on people.

While Kiritsugu Emiya is an abstract figure in many ways, the two ribs he removed and ground into powder certainly made a significant contribution.

"Depending on the situation, this bullet could not only kill the monarch of the Clock Tower, but also some geniuses who could change the times."

Luo Zhen fiddled with the brass bullet between his fingers, infusing it with a trace of magic to analyze its structure.

The effective part of the origin missile is only a portion of the core material in the warhead.

The bullet itself only serves to penetrate the opponent's body; the key is to make the bone powder core material come into contact with the magic circuit under the enemy's skin.

So Canaan himself modified these bullets, turning the original shotgun shells into the sniper rifle bullets he was used to.

Luo Zhen, however, wanted to go a step further and transform it into a Noble Phantasm.

He focused his mind, his pupils brimming with a magical radiance.

The origin of "cutting and connecting," a fake cure.

If this bullet were used to attack a human body, it would regenerate at the same time as it creates a hole.