Chapter 101: Black Dog Legion? Shadow Legion!

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Very quickly, Xia Zhi received the verification results fed back from the main server.

This revision was comparatively unsuccessful, failing to achieve the expected progress.

He shook his head, decisively crossing out his current idea; Xia Zhi did not continue to dwell on it, instead putting the Holy Sword Sample away again. He stood up, stretched, and looked out the window at the night sky.

There were other things to do as well; after all, he couldn't single-mindedly deadlock on a high-difficulty project, which would instead drag down improvement in other areas.

He moved silently and swiftly through the room, skillfully and fluently inspecting and reinforcing the protective magecraft and bounded fields.

Before leaving, he conveniently added a few more layers of insurance.

He opened the balcony door and walked out, lightly leaping onto the railing; he glanced back once, then directly took a Leap of Faith forward.

………………

"Eh?!"

On the floor below, Fu Yuta Togashi was also on the balcony; he suddenly felt a black shadow seem to flash by outside, and froze instantly.

He couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, had a sudden whim and ran out, checked the box where he had packed away his Chuunibyou black history, and even pulled out that black plastic toy Greatsword from within, touching it a few times with a complex and nostalgic gaze.

Perhaps today's events made him unable to help but reminisce about his Chuunibyou past.

After all, supernatural power was so close to him; it seemed if he had decisively accepted it back then, he would truly have become the Black Flame User with the Black Flame Dragon sealed in his right hand, wielding the dark flames...

Such a situation would naturally move anyone to some degree.

However, just as Fu Yuta Togashi was reminiscing with a complex gaze, something outside seemed to whoosh past!

He swallowed hard with difficulty; Fu Yuta Togashi wasn't too sure if his peripheral vision had misread, or if something really had just flashed by outside... it should be a misread, right? Xia Zhi is upstairs; there's no way an enemy would come knocking.

But after this incident, he was more or less a bit panicked.

He didn't dare investigate closely; he decisively turned and walked into the living room, quickly locking the balcony door and windows, then carefully paid attention to the movement outside.

Until a good while later, confirming there was no situation at all.

Only then did Fu Yuta Togashi slightly relax; as expected, it was just a misread, this paranoia really won't do——

"ROAR——!!!"

At this very moment.

A deep, long cry of some kind that was soul-shaking seemed to come from afar.

Even though the distance was extremely far, the instant he heard this cry, Fu Yuta Togashi couldn't help but tremble all over, only feeling an extremely heavy pressure and intimidation, as if acting on the spiritual level.

………………

Outside the city.

Amidst those rolling hills.

A Mammoth as huge as a mountain stood quietly in place; Xia Zhi watched from the hillside, looking up at the Servant with the form of a magical beast atop the Mammoth's head, revealing a smile.

"Indeed, even an enemy is part of the karmic ties..."

The medium information copied from Fujimaru Ritsuka automatically formed a Spirit Origin Portrait within the Great Holy Grail System; and while inspecting the Spirit Origin Portrait, he discovered some interesting things.

And now, having successfully performed the Summoning, it further corroborated a certain guess of his.

Although the one summoned is no longer the Lostbelt King·Ivan the Terrible, but the Servant·Ivan the Terrible, this also shows that this one was indeed registered by the Singularity Record, and inexplicably entered the Gacha Pool.

——Is the Counter Force of Human Order too powerful?

——Or is the registration mechanism of the Throne of Heroes too powerful?

Xia Zhi cannot confirm for now, but this does not hinder him from continuing to advance his plan... summoning this one is only the first step; the second step is to stir up some commotion, to continue attracting attention.

Making the situation as chaotic as possible is very advantageous to him.

The youth commanded the mountain-like magical beast, making it in an instant seem to "come alive"; it raised its head and let out a long cry, while twisting its massive body, causing the earth to tremble, rampaging wantonly in the surroundings.

Because under normal circumstances, the Servants humans can summon are all without personality.

Borrowing the power of the Holy Grail or the aid of the Counter Force to copy the entirety of a Heroic Spirit's power and personality — this is instead the minority of cases.

So Xia Zhi also worked on this point——

The Ivan the Terrible he summoned likewise has no personality, able to act purely according to his commands.

All actions and responses are like this, like a marionette.

However, even in the mere form of a Servant, Ivan the Terrible's strength undoubtedly far surpasses any conventional Servant; that mountain-like magical beast body is an immeasurable threat to all survival.

Walking between, it can shake the earth.

A single movement of that long trunk can shake mountain peaks.

Just letting it move at will caused absolutely not-to-be-underestimated turmoil, quickly attracting certain attention.

When he sensed helicopters rapidly approaching from afar, the youth chuckled, quickly manifesting Medea's Magic Resistance Noble Phantasm in hand, severing the Contract link between himself and Ivan the Terrible.

Simultaneously, before that, he issued a final command, making this overwhelmingly super-gigantic body walk into the mountains.

This way, the authorities will be shocked to discover——

A colossal thing, right under their eyelids, directly walked into the deep mountains, and then disappeared...

This is enough to make them generate many, many associations, and interfere with their current investigation direction.

As for before that, the instigator had long since obtained what he wanted, and left the scene leisurely.

Not long after.

Xia Zhi returned to the Xiao Niao You Jia, sat on the living room sofa, and began analyzing the Ivan intelligence he had just obtained with all his might... before that, he only grasped the possibility of summoning the other party, yet lacked concrete intelligence about them.

Whether Skill intelligence or Noble Phantasm intelligence.

And what he had his eye on was naturally Ivan's Noble Phantasm——

"Black Dogs Emerging from My Dream Path"...

——An automatic defense, suppression Noble Phantasm that activates when Ivan falls into slumber. Countless Killing Hunters walk out of Ivan's dreams, running east and west, slaughtering the legions of enemies hostile to Ivan.

According to Fujimaru Ritsuka's previous words, the Chaldea Base in Antarctica was breached by a large-scale attack from these Killing Hunters.

They are practically endless……

Like a Black Tide coming from the horizon's End……

Killing Hunters lined up in a long queue stretched all the way from the foot of the Shan Yue to the top……

——In short, according to that saying, even an alien army would be nothing more than this.

Xia Zhi judged this should be quite Valuable, although the Thunder Emperor was the Lostbelt King at the time, possessing Unimaginable power, which allowed him to dispatch Countless Killing Hunters in his sleep, suppressing the entirety of Russia's territory at that time.

But he now Lacks such Mass, and his Magical Resources are also far from sufficient to Recreate such a scene.

However……

He still has a trump card in hand that might come in handy.

Gently spreading his palm, a lump of pitch-black, viscous, glue-like and mud-like black substance Emerged in his palm; the mere instant it appeared, it was as if the air itself became thick, letting even the lamplight be stained with the color of Curse.

Xia Zhi watched the pitch-black lump in his hand calmly and steadily, understanding that this thing's Concept was actually terrifying, and also heavy.

It is "All the World's Evil"——

Because it is the Concept symbolizing all evil in the human world.

Therefore it will Adjust its own numerical value according to the scale of the human world.

Because it benchmarks against all evil, if the human world has one hundred million people, it is the evil of one hundred million; if the human world has one billion people, it is the evil of one billion…… In short, its numerical value is the "sum total" of all evil in the human world.

"Let's first see if we can cobble together a Shadow Army……"

Gently tapping the tea table before him with the finger Joints of his other hand, Xia Zhi's mind already had some Lingji.

If "All the World's Evil" can be combined with the Noble Phantasm form of "Black Dog That Stealthily Emerges On My Dream Path", then perhaps it can achieve the level of the Thunder Emperor in Lostbelt King mode.

Just that the Quantity might catch up, but the Quality is not certain……

After all, it is said the Thunder Emperor's Black Dog Corps, individual Strength can even reach close to low-level Servant level.

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(PS: Received a piece of very bad news today…… Father-in-law's test results came out, confirmed lung cancer, and it's late stage…… Sigh, don't dare tell the old folks……)

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