I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

Logan, holding onto the sofa cushion, asked, word by word.

What impression does this name leave on you?

Li Cheng turned to look at the other person.

“I don’t remember him, I don’t know who he is,” Logan grinned, revealing an almost maniacal smile, “but I want to kill him, no, I must kill him!”

……

At the same time, in neon lights, in Tokyo Special District, at the Emiya residence.

Kiritsugu Emiya led the remaining members of Team Six into a capture operation, while Irisviel went to participate in a nighttime car race. Nameless moved out to live alone with Rin. In the entire Emiya residence, only two maids, three young girls who were already sound asleep, and Shirou Emiya, who, even late at night, was still diligently practicing his projection magic.

Amidst a bluish-green magical aura, a pair of black and white short blades slowly projected from Shirou Emiya's hands. With his eyes closed, Shirou Emiya meticulously refined every detail of the projection. By the time the projection of the twin blades was finally complete, he was drenched in sweat.

But that's not enough.

"Tch, they're clearly the exact same magic tricks, so why is there such a big difference in their strength?"

The magic originating from the same source as Emiya Mumei's is projection magic, capable of replicating projected weapons. This is the magic that Mumei and Shirou excel at. However, compared to Mumei's powerful projection weapons, which are sufficient for sustained A+ level battles, Shirou's projections are far inferior in quality. For example, Mumei's projection, Li Cheng, requires more than ten full-force attacks to create a crack, while Shirou's weapon is shattered by Li Cheng at most five times.

It's my own projection, but there's still something I could improve.

Setting down the projected blade, Shirou Emiya wiped the sweat from his brow, took a few deep breaths, and began preparing for the next projection.

A clear knock on the door interrupted his actions.

Looking up at the clock on the wall of the gym, Shirou Emiya realized it was already 2 a.m. He wondered who would be visiting the Emiya residence at this hour.

Without much thought, Shirou Emiya picked up a towel, wiped his sweat, got up, left the training room, and headed towards the gate of the Emiya residence.

Upon opening the door, a tall, silent figure stood outside.

"Is this the place, the Holy Grail of Einzbern?"

The figure, completely shrouded in black, asked in a hoarse voice.

"Huh, what's Einzbern?" Shirou Emiya, completely clueless about what the other person was talking about, looked puzzled. "Sir, have you come to the wrong place?"

"The aura is correct. What a waste! Such a perfect Holy Grail, yet it is completely abandoned."

The man's voice suddenly turned icy.

"you--"

Shirou Emiya's experience training with Wuming and the others in Group Six allowed him to quickly sense the hostility coming from the other party. However, before he could react, the man in front of him calmly reached out his hand, and a huge impact was suddenly released into his chest, sending him flying. He crashed through the walls and fell into the backyard of the Emiya residence.

The next moment, an even louder explosion rang out in the Emiya residence. Amidst the flames and noise, Shirou Emiya, who was lying on the ground, heard Illya's mournful cry.

"Ilya!"

Enduring the excruciating pain in his chest, Shirou Emiya roared as he rose from the ground, struggling to rush forward. In the raging flames, he saw a dark figure holding the unconscious Illya. Those eyes, hidden in the darkness, seemed to be looking in his direction. Then, the figure, carrying Illya, vanished into the dark night without looking back.

Ilya, Ilya, Ilya...

The intense pain caused Shirou Emiya, who had finally managed to get up, to fall to the ground again. As the feeling of powerlessness spread, his vision slowly blurred.

How could she...fall here? Ilya has been taken away. We must...take her back...

The man in black, carrying the unconscious Ilya, ran between buildings when suddenly, numerous crimson arrows flew towards him, exploding just before he could reach them. A nameless figure dressed in red descended from the sky, blocking his path.

"No matter what your purpose is, please put down the child in your hands. She is not someone you can use as a tool."

Wuming, holding a longbow, spoke coldly, projecting his twin swords in front of the man.

"Beings from another world? To you, these are people who have nothing to do with you, just similar people from a parallel world. Can they really be your salvation?"

The man in black spoke in a hoarse voice, uttering words that caused Wu Ming's expression to change drastically.

How did you know?

"It doesn't matter. Your presence won't hinder my plans. In fact, this is also a testing opportunity. Let me see what the latest model of [Hercules] can do."

As the man spoke, a bright red figure slowly emerged from the darkness.

This is……

Standing three meters tall, a colossal figure comparable to a giant, with concentrated magic power throughout its body turning its body a deep red, like a branding iron, and wielding a crudely designed giant blade, the giant known as "Hercules" stood silently before Wuming, radiating a suffocating and terrifying sense of oppression.

At that moment, Wuming felt as if he were truly facing an ancient hero.

…………

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Cultivating immortality, cultivating immortality, cultivating immortality brings me endless joy, ah—(mental breakdown)

Section 364, Chapter Six: Military Base

Freedom Union, United States of America, New York suburbs, New York City military base.

In the dead of night, outside the thick walls, shadowy figures crept closer, hiding behind a large rock in the wasteland near the military base.

Is this the place?

Peeking out from behind the rock, Li Cheng gave a cursory look at the military base's external defenses. He could see at least thirty fully armed soldiers in exoskeletons patrolling the walls. Each of them possessed physical abilities equivalent to a B-level martial artist, and their high-impact rifles could even pose a fatal threat to an A-level martial artist.

At the same time, through his demonic power, Li Cheng also sensed extremely powerful mysterious sensory traps around the wall and on the wall itself. These traps could clearly identify both magic and supernatural abilities. In addition, there was an invisible barrier surrounding the entire military base, preventing the invasion of supernatural beings with abilities such as spatial teleportation and curses that could be used regardless of distance.

Not to mention that inside the military base, there are a large number of soldiers and various light and heavy weapons, and there will definitely be multiple A-level experts stationed there.

However, at this point, Li Cheng no longer takes several A-level superhumans seriously.

While attempting to open the rift, Li Cheng encountered difficulties in analyzing the coordinates of the military base. Zi, who was still in her child form, sighed and covered her face. She then used her demonic power to help Li Cheng resolve the coordinates, allowing him to successfully open a rift leading to the interior of the military base.

"It's just a three-stage composite spatial interference, yet Cheng still can't break through it. He's really a worrying guy."

Zi spoke to Li Cheng with a hint of teasing, making the latter's expression become somewhat unnatural.

"I'm really sorry I'm a half-baked amateur. To be honest, it's not quite right for a warrior who just swings his fists to try to solve math equations."

Li Cheng turned to look at Zi with some resentment, but met tide's deep blue eyes full of doubt.

Wait, when did those two develop the ability to seamlessly switch personalities?

"Cheng, do you dislike Xi? Did tide do something wrong?"

tide showed a somewhat aggrieved expression because of Li Cheng's previous words.

"No, no, no, how could that be? Xi is the cutest in the world, the best and most amazing, so well-behaved and sensible. How could I possibly hate Xi?"

In a flurry of activity, Li Cheng opened a gap and grabbed a freshly made hot fruit drink from a burger shop a thousand miles away, handing it to Xi. Only after the latter drank the juice with a happy expression and stopped thinking did he finally breathe a sigh of relief. As for the customer whose drink was taken, Li Cheng could only apologize to him silently, because he really didn't have time to think about any other issues right now.

"Cough-cough-"

A soft cough made Li Cheng notice that there was a third person present.

Logan, dressed in a black coat, looked at Li Cheng with a somewhat displeased expression and asked with a forced smile:

"Are the scenes of the stupid father and daughter over?"

"You'll get beaten up sooner or later for talking like that, and beaten up badly."

"It doesn't matter, they might not be able to beat me anyway."

I clearly beat you up during the day today.

Li Cheng silently muttered something to himself, but didn't say it aloud. He was certain that if he said it out loud, the two of them might start fighting right there.

To avoid the two main team members wasting time fighting each other before the battle even began, Li Cheng wisely chose to remain silent. After instructing Xi to wait quietly outside and receiving a compliant nod from her, Li Cheng and Logan traversed the gap together and appeared inside the military base building in the next moment.

Both are forms of spatial teleportation, but the Gap is different from the ordinary teleportation ability that connects two three-dimensional coordinates. It allows the user to enter a spacetime corresponding to the real world and then locate another coordinate in the real world from there. Of course, the power of the Gap should not be limited to this, but like the power of realms, both of these are too profound for Li Cheng at the moment, and he can only use them superficially.

In the dimly lit corridor, Li Cheng and Logan emerged from a gap. Having already set up shielding mechanisms against light and heat, the two successfully avoided being detected by the building's internal defense system.

"Is Stryker hiding in this place?"

Logan tensed up, his face, already somewhat distorted, filled with a chilling murderous intent.

"Don't ask me, I don't know either. I found the coordinates of this place from you, and I don't know what's here."

As Li Cheng spoke, he walked cautiously through the building.

The military base building, which was three stories high, was quite spacious, but the two of them walked around it in no time. During the walk, they frequently passed by patrolling soldiers, but thanks to the pre-arranged shielding, the soldiers could not detect Li Cheng and Logan's presence unless they made direct physical contact with the two of them.

"While it's nice to be able to explore the whole building without fighting, kid, we've searched the entire building but haven't found anything of value."

After walking through the entire building, Logan said to Li Cheng with some impatience.

“The fact that there’s nothing on the ground can only mean that something valuable is underground,” Li Cheng thought to himself. He found an elevator, glanced at it, and saw that there were only buttons for the first to third floors. He then opened a gap and came to the bottom of the elevator, where he saw an elevator shaft that seemed to be bottomless.

Great, it seems I have plenty of places to explore.

"This damn elevator is at least seventy or eighty meters deep. What are these guys trying to hide by digging so deep?"

With questions in mind, Li Cheng and Logan went directly to the bottom of the elevator shaft and teleported to the outside of the elevator door through a gap. Then, Li Cheng stared wide-eyed in shock.

On the 146th underground floor, at the very bottom of the entire military base, Li Cheng saw countless incubation chambers emitting a deep blue glow. Inside these chambers were many things that Li Cheng was extremely familiar with, things he had encountered several times before.

"Hercules, actually, he's in a place like this, doesn't that mean..."

The monsters Li Cheng had encountered in both the China Alliance and Japan, supposedly modeled after the ancient Greek hero Hercules, were initially thought to be nothing more than a dark organization hiding in the shadows, operating only in the shadows. But now, seeing hundreds of these monsters in cultivation chambers at the Free Alliance's military base, he couldn't help but ponder what that organization truly was, and a chill ran down his spine.

Is that organization affiliated with the Freedom Alliance, or is it already part of the Freedom Alliance? Or has that organization infiltrated the Freedom Alliance and even managed to manipulate some of its forces?

The more Li Cheng pondered, the more difficult it became for him to calm his mind.

"What a big guy."

Logan, with a cigar in his mouth, stepped forward and looked at the enormous monster, which was over two meters tall, inside the incubation chamber.

"Yes, and each of them possesses physical qualities that surpass those of an A-level martial artist, and they are very likely to have super-strong self-healing or even resurrection abilities. They are simply monsters among monsters."

Li Cheng, who had personally encountered such an enemy, added in a low voice.

Even for a martial artist like him who has defied common sense, facing such a thing one-on-one would not be easy. If he were surrounded by hundreds of such things, he would probably only be able to escape through gaps.

“Sounds pretty impressive. I’d really like to see how tough this thing is,” Logan chuckled, brandishing a claw from each hand and rubbing it against the cigar tip, igniting it with a burst of sparks. “But I’m here to see Stryker today, I don’t have time to play with this stuff.”

I'm afraid that if one of them really comes out, he could destroy you.

Li Cheng silently recited a phrase to himself, and then prepared to open the gap and teleport to the floor above.