Lancer?
When this word appeared, the hearts of the audience across the infinite dimensions jolted.
This word seemed a bit familiar...
Didn't they remember a Servant named Diarmuid from the first viewing?
His Class was Lancer.
And this special classification of Classes came from the world the light curtain had called the Type-Moon World.
[King of Heroes: "Hoh? Is this viewing related to our world again? Hahahahaha! I wonder if my noble figure will grace the screen once more."]
During the first viewing, he didn't make it to the end. But fortunately, his final exit wasn't too disgraceful, or his reputation would have been ruined.
This time, he hoped the video would showcase his most perfect side, allowing everyone in the infinite dimensions to feel the magnanimity of a king.
In the Type-Moon World, Gilgamesh sat on his throne, a look of heightened anticipation in his eyes as he watched the light curtain.
[Karna: "The Class is... Lancer? As I recall, Elysia from the first viewing was not assigned a Class."]
[Scáthach, Lord of the Land of Shadow: "The difference in power is too great. If there are no surprises, Elysia would have completely dominated a low-level Holy Grail War like that one. But Guinaifen... even if she comes from a dangerous universe, she herself seems to be just an ordinary girl. Let alone Elysia, she might not even be able to beat some magi."]
As a master of martial arts, especially one accomplished with the spear, Scáthach could tell from the moment Guinaifen appeared that although she had practiced some spear techniques, they were limited to stage performances. She was a long way from being able to fight for her life.
The little girl next to her, on the other hand, looked like a seasoned martial artist, her strength far surpassing Guinaifen's. But it was a pity that the one who transmigrated was Guinaifen, not Sushang.
[Little Gui: "Uh... although my big brother taught me some self-defense to protect myself back then, on the Xianzhou... with Sushang around, these skills were basically useless. Besides singing some opera and being a bit fitter than most, I don't have any special abilities."]
On the Xianzhou Luofu, Guinaifen sighed. Looking at all the transmigrators shown on the light curtain, it seemed she was the most mediocre one.
Stelle, Elysia, and even Jotaro were no ordinary people.
Sigh, she hoped the light curtain would go easy on her. Even if she wasn't the protagonist, she didn't want her ending to be too tragic...
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[On the light curtain, the changes on her phone screen almost made Guinaifen think she was seeing a ghost.]
[And just as Guinaifen was on the verge of tears, a sudden message notification sounded in her account's backend.]
It was a comment...
As one of the hottest streamers on the Xianzhou, Guinaifen's forum feed had many fans chatting, including some IDs she recognized.
["Dacihua_49886: Little Gui, no stream today? I heard there was a lightning strike on the street where you performed today. It destroyed a lot of buildings, and it seems someone was struck and killed. It's so scary!"]
["Loves_Little_Gui_The_Most: No way, the Xianzhou gets thunderstorms? Isn't this a ship floating in space? Even if it simulates planetary surface precipitation, it shouldn't go this far."]
["Naifenfenfen: I hope Little Gui is okay..."]
Countless comments flowed under Guinaifen's forum post, making her feel a wave of panic.
This desolate place had no phone service and no way to send messages, yet she could see the comments on the forum. Wasn't this... a bit too terrifying?!
If it weren't broad daylight, Guinaifen would probably have fainted on the spot.
"Hah~... A-anyway, let's see if I can talk first!"
Guinaifen placed her hands carefully on the phone screen and typed out the words she wanted to say.
["Family, you might not believe me if I say this, but I think I've traveled through time..."]
After typing this line, Guinaifen also took a picture of the sky with the strange circle above her head and posted it to the forum.
A moment later, the forum started buzzing with activity.
["Jing_Yuan's_#1_Fan: Huh? Transmigrated?? Little Gui, are you out of excuses to ask for leave?"]
["Basketball_Kuroko: Little Gui, come clean. Which planet is this background picture from? And what's with that circle? It's quite pretty."]
["Off_Work_Soon: Wait a minute, something's not right. We can't seem to contact Little Gui! Don't tell me you really transmigrated!!"]
The familiar speaking style on the forum confirmed one thing for Guinaifen... this phone in her hand... it had mutated!
Staring at the unfamiliar phone, Guinaifen swallowed hard, a little nervous.
That's right. She could use the forum to contact the Xianzhou. Although it was unbelievable, it was indeed the case.
Even without a signal, she could not only contact the Xianzhou through the forum but could even post videos and photos for everyone to see, just like usual.
The only thing she couldn't do was livestream. The livestream button above was grayed out, clearly indicating it was unusable.
But this point alone couldn't be called a phone mutation. The real reason Guinaifen made this judgment was the white box at the very top of the forum, right after her own message.
On it was written a single sentence: "Target user detected. Now issuing Mission 1: Find the last Master of Humanity. Take a photo with them and upload it to the forum."
This phone... was issuing her a mission?
This is bad, this is bad! This is more than just seeing a ghost; she's gotten into big trouble!
Someone tell her quickly, this is just a prank by the Masked Fools!!
And... why was the phone only issuing a mission? That's not how web novels write it! Without any rewards or punishments, who would do it?!
Perhaps the scene before her had numbed Guinaifen, causing her to start thinking nonsense.
What transmigration, what last Master of Humanity? She just wanted to go home and stay with Sushang. Because no matter what happened, Sushang would protect her.
And perhaps sensing Guinaifen's feelings, another line of text was added to the white box: "Complete all missions to achieve an accomplishment and return to the Xianzhou."
I can go back?
Taking a deep breath, Guinaifen stared at those last few words, but she quickly shook her head and sighed. The prerequisite for going back was to complete the missions, but in her current state, it was a question whether she could even survive in this desert, let alone find some "last Master of Humanity."
Besides, she didn't even know this "last Master of Humanity's" name. How could she possibly find them?
More importantly, why did she have to complete missions to go back?! She clearly hadn't done anything. She was just walking down the street, eating hotpot and singing with Sushang, and then suddenly, with a blink of an eye, she was here!
And now she had to do missions to go back? What kind of logic was that?
"Rumble rumble..."
Just as Little Gui was grumbling, the sound of a distant explosion suddenly caught her attention!
Someone's here!! Great!!
Guinaifen excitedly looked in the direction of the sound. Since there were people, things would be much easier.
In her line of work, what she was best at... was making friends!]
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What the heck, the phone mutated?
It wasn't struck by lightning, was it? Otherwise, how could a perfectly good phone start issuing missions on its own?
Across the infinite dimensions, countless viewers were just as bewildered as Guinaifen in the video.
They had seen it all—the Amber King, Ultraman Noa—they had observed the existence of such great beings.
But a sentient phone? That was a first for them.
[Galaxy Baseballer: "The IPC's technology is so advanced that it's starting to have a machine crisis?"]
[Cold-Faced Young Dragon: "It's clearly not the IPC's fault. The shadow Emperor Rubert left on them is too great. They wouldn't install something like this in their products."]
[March 7th: "I don't know why, but I find this really creepy. Little Gui is really brave. If it were me, I would have thrown the phone away long ago."]
[Little Gui: "Uh... is it possible that the phone is too expensive, and I can't bear to throw it away?"]
[Herta: "Interesting. Tomorrow, I'll ask the Corporation for a batch of phones for research."]
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[On the light curtain, as Guinaifen took action, the screen also shifted to a beautiful young girl.]
She was a girl with orange hair and orange eyes, tied in a side ponytail.
In her clear eyes was a unique, captivating charm that seemed to affect both men and women.
Beside her were two other women. One held a large shield and wore purple armor, while the other was a mature woman who exuded an air of intellectualism.
Opposite them was another woman with an exotic air, looking extremely angry.
The time rewound to a few minutes earlier.
The group from Chaldea had just arrived at the Sixth Singularity, facing the same predicament as Guinaifen: no water, no food.
Thus, they had no choice but to start searching for a water source and food.
But they didn't expect to run into the Hassan of the Hundred Personas escorting a captive on the road.
Mistaking Chaldea for rescuers, the other side attacked. With the help of Da Vinci and Mash, they spent a great deal of effort to finally drive the Hassan away.
And coincidentally, at that moment, the female Servant who had been knocked out by the Hassan's sleeping potion also woke up.
But she mistook the Chaldea group for the ones who had knocked her out, and thus, she said angrily:
"You despicable, rude people! And you, who are you people exactly? To think you would dare to drug and abduct me, the Pharaoh Nitocris, with such rude and barbaric methods!"
Evidently, the Servant named Nitocris had completely misunderstood the situation, thinking it was Ritsuka Fujimaru and her group who had done it.
And with her revealing her identity, the omniscient Da Vinci immediately realized who she was.
"Nitocris, the female king of ancient Egypt. Although her dignity in history has been completely destroyed, she is a powerful and mysterious Heroic Spirit from two thousand years before the common era!"
"Without a doubt, as a magus, she is absolutely outstanding! She can be called a Caster from the Age of Gods!" As Da Vinci explained, not only Mash and Ritsuka Fujimaru in the video, but even the audience outside the light curtain gained some understanding of the Type-Moon World's Nitocris.
And some worlds with histories similar to Type-Moon's quickly put up information from their history books in the comment section of the video.
The last Pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, with unknown dates of birth and death. The Sixth Dynasty was a dynasty during the Old Kingdom period of ancient Egypt, ruling for about 160 years from the 24th to the 22nd century BCE.
So, this completely matched Da Vinci's description; she was an extremely ancient existence. Born into the royal family, Nitocris should have been the most noble person in ancient Egypt and should have had a happy and beautiful life.
However, when Nitocris was born, the royal power had already fallen considerably. Following the traditional custom of incestuous marriage in ancient Egypt, she married her own brother, who was also the king of that generation, and became the queen.
Unfortunately, her brother was killed in a political assassination after only one year on the throne, and Nitocris became a widowed queen.
The plot that followed was like something out of a popular Renaissance biography. Nitocris played along with the powerful court officials and eventually, with their support, ascended the throne, becoming the new Pharaoh.
Then came all sorts of forbearance and scheming, and she finally succeeded in her revenge, sending all the culprits who killed her brother and husband to see Anubis with a great flood.
After her revenge was complete, the country was pretty much ruined and faced a frantic counterattack from the remnants of the enemy forces.
To avoid humiliation at the hands of the enemy, this female king of the Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt locked herself in a room, lit a fire, and disappeared in the flames along with the symbols of the dynasty's power.
It could be said that although this Pharaoh was extremely noble in ancient Egypt, her life was one of misfortune and pain, which was quite pitiable.
And with Nitocris's words, the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Mash immediately and nervously raised her shield in a defensive posture. Da Vinci also prepared for battle, while Ritsuka Fujimaru felt it was stupid to fight over such a misunderstanding and wanted to open her mouth to explain.
However, Nitocris was too fast. As a Caster from the Age of Gods, her chanting speed was extremely fast, something that modern magi could not compare to.
And as she chanted, a staff made of gold also appeared in her hand, and a vast amount of magical energy instantly gathered.
BOOM—!!
A magic cannonball was fired in an instant. Seeing this, Mash immediately stood in front of Da Vinci and Ritsuka Fujimaru, raising her shield to defend.
It had to be said, the defensive ability of this shield was truly impressive. Nitocris's magical attack was almost completely useless.
For a moment, the two sides were locked in a stalemate.
Until... the sound of battle drew Guinaifen, who had rushed over, to the battlefield.]
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