Chapter 319: Conceptual Weapon: Universal Servant Doll

By the time Li Ang returned to the Alchemical Kingdom, Scathach and the others had already been waiting there.

Such massive disturbances on the ground were clearly visible to them from space.

Though confident in their Master's strength, the Servants still exhaled in relief upon seeing Li Ang return unharmed.

"What happened?"

Scathach asked, her voice tinged with concern.

Upon hearing this, Li Ang briefly explained the sequence of events.

Upon hearing the mention of seven Grand Saber Class Servants, Artoria's snack slipped from her hand and plopped onto the floor.

Oh no, her long-term meal ticket nearly vanished.

Seeing this, Li Ang's eyebrow twitched.

To be honest, for reasons he couldn't fathom, he always felt his Servants were gradually turning into comedians after spending too much time with him.

Fortunately, Scathach remained as reliable as ever.

After temporarily entrusting the affairs of the Alchemical Kingdom to Scathach, Li Ang returned to his laboratory.

'I wonder what Artoria's reaction will be when she sees Arthur.'

Li Ang suppressed the odd thought and began his preparations.

Looking at the doll containing Arthur's soul, he first summoned several shadow clones to form a Barrier, effectively preventing Arthur's soul from being forcibly reclaimed by the Throne of Heroes in case of failure.

Once certain he could attempt repeatedly, Li Ang began crafting a specialized doll.

"Specialized" was merely a term—he had simply used alchemy to mold materials from the second layer of the Alchemical Kingdom into a soulless doll.

Of course, the ideal scenario would have been crafting a golem from Arthur's original body, but the problem was that Arthur, as a Servant manifested in this world, had no such thing.

Soon, a doll resembling Arthur to nine-tenths appeared on the workbench.

'Now I just need to stuff Arthur's soul into it.'

As for how to do it, Li Ang already had a solution.

In his view, the technique on Mash's body was far too crude; perhaps Chaldea didn't even know how to perfectly insert a Servant's soul into a body not originally its own while still allowing the soul to empower the host.

But Li Ang knew.

Jinchūriki.

This technique from the Naruto world perfectly matched his needs.

In other words, a pseudo-Servant was essentially a Servant Jinchūriki—except in Li Ang's case, the Servant directly controlled the body himself.

'I hope this works.'

Li Ang took a slow breath, calmed his emotions, then used his Rinnegan to extract Arthur's soul from the doll.

The moment it was pulled free, an inexplicable force tried to drag the Grand Saber Class soul out of this world.

Without hesitation, Li Ang shoved Arthur's soul into the specialized doll and formed hand seals, activating a Eight Trigrams Seal over its heart.

Boom—!

The next instant, dense cracks appeared across the doll's surface, then it exploded into a pile of shards.

Failure.

Watching Arthur's soul return to the storage doll, Li Ang furrowed his brow slightly.

'Of course—the Grand Servant's spiritual foundation is still too powerful; ordinary dolls simply can't withstand such a level of spiritual base.'

'And their compatibility isn't good either.'

Strength, compatibility.

Li Ang pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling a headache coming on.

With the materials he currently had, there was no way to solve this.

Wait.

As if remembering something, Li Ang's face suddenly twisted into a peculiar expression.

He reached behind him and pulled out a long spine.

'If I mix my bone powder into the doll's materials, combined with Kiritsugu Emiya's method of crafting Origin Bullets, wouldn't that…?'

For strength, Li Ang was certain his bone powder would drastically increase the doll's tolerance.

As for compatibility…

Origin, 【Infinite】.

Li Ang wasn't sure if this Origin would improve compatibility, but trying wouldn't hurt.

Without delay, he took out a portion of the doll-making materials.

Branches of the Jingtie Tree Clan, the corpse of a fantasy sub-dragon from the second layer of the Alchemical Kingdom, his own bones.

As the materials fused together under the effect of Heaven and Earth as the furnace, a doll with closed eyes appeared before Li Ang.

Without pause, he combined the information kindly provided by Kiritsugu Emiya and used his Conceptual Weapon to extract the concept from his own bones.

As faint streams of light flickered across the doll's surface, Li Ang exhaled slowly.

'Did it work?'

He wasn't certain—it was his first time attempting this.

But he'd come this far; there was no way to quit now.

With this mindset, Li Ang repeated his earlier actions, inserting Arthur's soul into the doll.

This time, the doll did not shatter into fragments as before, but it also did not assume the posture he desired.

After a long while, seeing no movement from the doll, Li Ang's eyes flickered with disappointment.

'Failed again?'

Just as he thought this, a notification suddenly popped up on his professional panel.

【Acquired: Three Alchemy Kingdoms (2/3)】.

At the same time, the blond young man lying on the workbench suddenly opened his eyes.

He first stared blankly at the unfamiliar ceiling, then sat up and turned his head to look at Li Ang.

".??"

What's going on? After finishing the job, shouldn't he have been returned directly to the Throne of Heroes?! Why is he still staying in this world?

And this body—

Arthur clenched and unclenched his palm, his eyes flashing in turn with confusion, shock, and blankness.

"How does it feel?" At that moment, Li Ang at the side spoke up. "If there's no problem, then for the next period of time, you should be working for me."