[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system":3,"chapter-walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-chapter-267":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Walking Among Heroic Spirits with a Q&A System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1931119,2634,"Chapter 267","walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-chapter-267",267,"\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Master, when did you...\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"I woke up about a few hours ago. I talked to several villagers; this place seems very much like the past when I met you.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[It seems the time is correct; they woke up at the same time.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"What about Flat and Svin?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"I don't know, I didn't find anyone using magical detection.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II said with an ugly expression: \"Sure enough, I shouldn't have brought them here!\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"That's not the case.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray comforted: \"The two of them aren't people who can be easily defeated. Even if they can't be contacted for a while, they will surely mess things up on their own and make the situation more complicated.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"...That's true.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rin Tohsaka: \"This doesn't sound like a compliment.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waver: \"But it's described very accurately.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shishigou Kairi: \"Hahaha, although they are noisy, maybe breaking the situation really depends on them.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The two were silent for a while, and Gray asked: \"Is this the world of the past?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"It's hard to say.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II frowned: \"It looks like it in my eyes, it feels like it on my skin, but I can't rashly judge that this is the world of the past; no matter what, it's too delusional.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Can't magecraft do such a thing either?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"Hmm, from a conclusion point of view, it's not completely impossible. I've heard that the legendary Fifth Magic, or great magecraft that reaches the realm of magic, can cause this phenomenon.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"...Then, can the Atlas Institute perhaps do it?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"No, it's not that simple. Not to mention sending back the caster, it should be very difficult to send back other people who didn't cooperate in casting magecraft; the Atlas Institute alone cannot establish such technology.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Is it the same if cooperating with Heartless?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"That's even more absurd.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II shook his head: \"Even if it's theoretically possible, even if Barthomeloi, who is in charge of the Law Department, gathers all the aristocratic members, it can't be realized; the scale of such great magecraft is that huge. Not to mention the magic world, first of all, it needs the full assistance of the surface society. Even if Heartless has mysterious abilities and fully cooperates with the Atlas Institute, it's not something that can be easily realized.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"I see.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"By the way, the time point we are in is after I sent Reines back to London. Because I sent her away early this morning.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Master sent Miss Reines back, was it really because of my appearance?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Yes, I mentioned it earlier; I confirmed that your appearance is consistent with the hero of the past, and there is a Noble Phantasm related to King Arthur existing in this village, but I failed to ask clearly at that time.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II said in a low voice: \"I should have asked, but an incident happened that left me no time to care.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray nodded; she knew that Lord El-Melloi II was talking about 'she' dying in the church tomorrow.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[She didn't know who the 'Gray' who died at that time was, because she hadn't seen the corpse.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"Will you die in the church tomorrow? Even if I recall it, this matter is very absurd.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray could hear that there was anger in Lord El-Melloi II's tone.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Because this time, who knows if it will be the same as then, that it will be 'her' who dies, not Gray.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Who is it, and why do such a thing?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The more Lord El-Melloi II thought about it, the more confused his mind became; he forced himself to calm down and couldn't help but think of Zepia's words earlier.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Pursue the fictional mystery you should solve.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Does that sentence mean that?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II shook his head helplessly: \"Boring...\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Is this a challenge, a challenge from the Director of the Atlas Institute?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The other party's meaning is to let them solve that case, the murder of the gravekeeper 'Gray'.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Very likely.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II nodded: \"In other words, if you don't solve that puzzle, you can't leave this place that resembles the past. Hmm, let's temporarily define this world as the second round.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Yes, I think so too.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"Okay, I accept the challenge; anyway, I have to challenge that mystery.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iskandar: \"Why does it feel like playing a game?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xi: \"Using game terminology, it should be called the second playthrough.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shishigou Kairi: \"Ha, traveling to the past to solve a case that wasn't solved back then, this development is getting more and more interesting.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emiya Kiritsugu: \"It won't be that simple; that Director of the Atlas Institute doing this, I'm afraid it's not just to have them investigate the truth.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waver: \"Indeed, there must be other purposes.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Subsequently, Lord El-Melloi II and Gray sorted out what happened in the past few days in their memories.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Day 1: In the morning, Lord El-Melloi II and Reines departed from London, arrived at the village at dusk, met Bersac, visited the church, and stayed in the cottage.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Day 2: In the morning, Gray introduced the village and the graveyard to them, met Zepia at the windmill cottage at noon, and then had a talk with Bersac until dusk.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Day 3: Early in the morning, Reines was sent back to London; at noon, Gray accepted his invitation and planned to leave the village, so he talked to Bersac again until dusk.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Day 4: In the morning, someone discovered the corpse of the fake Gray in the church, and then under Bersac's cover, he and Gray escaped the village together and returned to London.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Although some sporadic conversations and people met were missed, it was generally like this.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Next, it's time to think about how to do it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rin Tohsaka: \"It's really a simple itinerary, almost all persuading that old man.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waver: \"After all, that was the purpose of coming to this village.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray first suggested going to the swamp to see, but Lord El-Melloi II rejected it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A magical defense mechanism must have been set up in the swamp, and it's difficult to deal with it with his skills.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray suggested going to find Zepia again, but the other party wasn't in the cottage at all.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II hadn't seen the other party in the original two days either, so he didn't know if he wasn't there originally, or if this second round had set special measures.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Finally, Lord El-Melloi II decided to investigate the church.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Because today is the day the peddler enters the village, most of the villagers have gathered in the square on the outskirts of the village, which is the best opportunity to investigate.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shishigou Kairi: \"Going around in circles, sure enough, the target returned to that church again.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Illya: \"Very reasonable, isn't that how it develops in novels?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The two came to the church, and sure enough, there was no one here.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II carefully checked all the items and didn't find any problems.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The only thing that wasn't checked was that Black-Faced Virgin statue.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"I didn't have the energy to ask before, but I'm very curious, this church seems to be managed by Father Fernande, but it hasn't been like this from the beginning, right?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Yes, Father Fernande was sent here a few years ago. Sister Irmia arrived even later, just last year.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"Hmm, is that why Father Fernande and Sister Irmia's attitude is different from those villagers who look at you with holy eyes?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Yes.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kayneth: \"Hmm?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He previously speculated that Fernande was from this village, but to think he guessed wrong.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this way, this guy really has a problem.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a priest sent from the outside by the Holy Church, how could he not know the name of El-Melloi? This guy was really pretending earlier, and his acting was really good.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II: \"This also means that the Black-Faced Virgin wasn't prepared by the church, but that the Black-Faced Virgin existed first, and then the church was established with it as the center? This is a common model for local special religions to compromise with the center... No, since the Atlas Institute has appeared, is it impossible for only the Holy Church to exist as a single organization?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[With doubts, Lord El-Melloi II carefully observed the Black-Faced Virgin statue.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[At first, he kept his distance to observe the whole, then checked in detail with a magnifying glass, and also took out reagents from his bosom, gently swept the dust off, and confirmed the changes in color one by one.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"It seems to be the influence of some kind of magecraft... but the statue itself is not the source. If I have to say, it's closer to a transit point.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Subsequently, Lord El-Melloi II took out an amethyst chain and cast a detection spell, going straight to the back of the Black-Faced Virgin statue.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[He drilled into the narrow gap, and the chain in his hand pointed to a stone brick floor, but no matter how Lord El-Melloi II pushed or knocked, there was no change there.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II quickly reacted that he was confused.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Although it points to below here, the entrance isn't necessarily here.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Subsequently, Lord El-Melloi II began to construct the floor plan of the church in his heart, and the amethyst twisted unnaturally, pointing in another direction.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The two opened the door next to them, walked down the stairs, and entered the storage room where food was kept.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"This basement is located directly below the sanctuary just now.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord El-Melloi II looked at the ceiling, then squatted down and fumbled on the ground for a while, then seemed to have discovered something and pressed it hard.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Accompanied by the sound of a mechanism, the floor tilted and opened, and a staircase made of dirt blocks appeared before the two.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1664,"2026-06-14T05:03:35.949Z","2026-06-14T08:03:12.667Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","cbbf7fffa6a9dbff7ea2ed378fcc461e577d7da530078ebda5d9abf9cf6dd8fa","walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-chapter-268","walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-chapter-266",626,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwalking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-cover.jpg"]