The next morning, Hestia went to Babel early to attend the temporary Denatus.
And Bell also woke up that morning.
Upon hearing about the War Game with the Apollo Familia, Bell felt very guilty.
"I'm sorry, everyone. If I hadn't been unconscious and kidnapped…"
"Look up."
Takatsuki's voice made Bell look up: "This isn't your fault. If there's any fault to speak of, it's weakness!"
"Because of weakness, others feel they can manipulate us at will. Because of weakness, people think we are soft and easy to bully. Malicious people will appear regardless of whether you make a mistake. Bell, in this situation, if it were just you alone and you had to make a decision, what would you do?"
"I…"
Hearing Takatsuki's words, Bell didn't know how to answer for a moment.
What should I do? I can't beat them myself, and even if I wanted to ask for help, who should I ask?
"Are you going to surrender?"
Bell unhesitatingly denied Takatsuki's second question.
"Then run away?"
Bell shook his head again.
"Then there's only one answer, isn't there?"
"Fight!"
Relying solely on himself, Bell didn't realize that, from beginning to end, there was only one path he could choose.
It was just that his vision had been obscured by the intricate dead ends.
What if he failed? What if he had nothing? If he were to retreat and flee Orario because of a little fear, losing his dream would be no different from dying for Bell.
"I understand, Takatsuki-nii!"
Takatsuki nodded: "But unfortunately, you probably won't have a chance to participate in this War Game for now. It's just the Apollo Familia."
"Huh!?"
Bell had just made up his mind when he heard this news, causing his newfound courage to instantly plummet.
"Takatsuki-kun, don't tease Bell anymore."
Mei eased the atmosphere and said, "Bell, the War Game event hasn't been decided yet. If it's an event suitable for you, there's still a chance."
Just as Mei said, whether he could participate depended on the rules Hestia and the others decided upon.
However, in the original work, Takatsuki remembered that they had decided on a siege battle through a lottery.
If it was a siege, he could destroy the city by himself. If it was a 1v1 battle, even if the Apollo Familia's captain came, he could instantly kill him.
"Everyone! The War Game method has been decided!"
Speak of the devil, Hestia suddenly pushed open the door and announced loudly.
"The event for this War Game is a siege battle!"
A siege battle, as the name suggests, is a war where one side defends within a city and the other attacks to capture the city.
However, in the War Game, the attacking side doesn't need to occupy the city; they only need to defeat the defending side's commander and break the flag inside the city.
"If it's a siege battle, I think Bell might not be very suitable for this War Game."
Although he had expected it, he didn't expect it to actually be this result.
"Not just Bell, if it's a siege battle, I can take care of them all by myself, so…"
Before Takatsuki could finish speaking, Kiana grabbed him by the neck and shook him repeatedly: "Takatsuki, if you dare to leave us and hog all the glory, I'm not done with you!!"
"Let go! Let go! I get it…"
After several slaps, Kiana finally released Takatsuki's neck.
"Cough cough… Kiana, you really want to show off, don't you?"
"I doesn't care. Since coming here, it's always been going into the Dungeon to fight some monotonous monsters. It's too boring. Bronya and Mei must feel the same, right?"
But the other two didn't quite agree with Kiana's statement.
"Bronya doesn't feel bored, it's just that not having games makes Bronya unaccustomed."
"I think it's alright too, but since Kiana said so."
Takatsuki rubbed his temples helplessly: "Since it's decided, I'm going to the Dungeon to practice a new magic. Do you want to come?"
"Yes!" * 3
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Projection magic, in Takatsuki's understanding, is similar to Type-Moon's Projection Magecraft, but even better.
Because the weapons projected by the original Projection Magecraft were of very poor quality; it was only due to Emiya Shirou's unique nature that it was greatly developed.
And Emiya Shirou, based on Projection Magecraft, extended various usage methods.
Broken Phantasm, which causes damage by detonating magical weapons.
Acquiring skills by replicating conceptual Noble Phantasms.
Unlimited Blade Works, which invades reality through the world of the mind and stores the weapons he has replicated.
Takatsuki couldn't do the latter two.
The former is because weapons that have evolved from skill into Noble Phantasms can only be found in the Type-Moon World, and the latter is because he simply doesn't know how to create a Reality Marble.
But Broken Phantasm, after many attempts, Takatsuki was finally able to do it.
Weapons created by projection cannot be retained for a long time, but last night, Takatsuki drew an S-rank item that suited him very well, the King's Treasure.
The appearance of the King's Treasure immediately solved Takatsuki's long-standing problem of insufficient backpack space, and also solved the problem of projected weapons disappearing.
Everything within the King's Treasure would not change with the passage of time.
Unfortunately, this King's Treasure was empty, but precisely because of this, it was only an S-rank item; otherwise, it would surely have become an SSS-rank item.
However, the appearance of the King's Treasure further reduced his already precarious equipment slots by one permanent spot.
Although the King's Treasure seemed to allow him to directly take out that key sword for manual use, Takatsuki specifically asked the System, and manual use would only bind it to the current world; if he crossed worlds, it would be left behind.
But if it was placed in the equipment slot, it could be bound to the System, so he wouldn't have to worry about crossing worlds.
Thus, of Takatsuki's three equipment slots, one was locked by the Dog Talisman, and the second was also locked by the King's Treasure.
After a night's rest, his depleted magic power had fully recovered. In front of the three, Takatsuki activated Projection magic and projected a familiar longsword.
"Last night, I obtained a new item. From now on, when exploring the Dungeon, I won't have to put things into a bag and then put them away like before."
Releasing the longsword from his hand, the longsword fell freely and directly entered a golden Hamon.
"What is this? Is it something fun again?" Kiana curiously reached out and touched the still-present golden Hamon, but her hand passed right through it.
"This thing is called the King's Treasure. It can only be used as a warehouse, but unlike my previous one, I don't know how much it can hold, and it can also be used as a weapon to some extent."
A nearby wall suddenly shattered, and a pitch-black Newbie Killer emerged from within. Just as it was born and hadn't even had a good look at this world, a golden light suddenly flashed past.
With a loud bang, the newly born Newbie Killer was eliminated, leaving only a longsword embedded in the ground.
Crack…
With a crisp sound, the longsword itself was covered in cracks, then shattered into its magical essence.
"So strong…"
Mei looked at the weapon that had just been launched from the golden Hamon. Although it was just a simple, powerful throw, the force of that throw was too strong.
"It is indeed strong, but it hasn't reached the level I envisioned."
The anticipated Broken Phantasm did not occur; instead, it merely turned into magic power.
"I'll practice this for the rest of today."