#527Chapter 500: Ma Yuan AkiraAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 500: Ma Yuanzhang
Bai Cangshu's thoughts stirred, and crackling electricity surged within his body. Subtle currents spread from his skin, but they dissipated within a hundred meters of him.
He looked up, surveying his surroundings. The night sky over Fuyuki City showed nothing unusual, yet his Mind Net ability was greatly restricted.
Bai Cangshu was unsure if this was a constraint imposed by the Counter Force placing him within a Class, or if the city had already been set up with a ritual to limit perception.
Both possibilities made sense in this world.
"Tao Pai Pai… Is that your true name?"
"Strange, why have I never heard of your deeds?"
Ma Yuanzhang frowned and pondered for a moment, but quickly gave up. He wasn't skilled in history, and this notebook only stated that summoned Heroic Spirits were heroes who had left behind great achievements in history and mythology, but this 'history' was definitely not limited to Japanese history.
He didn't know much about Japanese history, let alone foreign history.
The two walked towards the residence of the annoying female teacher in his memory. Bai Cangshu looked at this 'flesh lump' that still possessed mobility. Yes, after the other party summoned him, Bai Cangshu had already decided he must kill him.
The relationship between Master and Servant, due to the existence of Command Spells, was a rather dangerous contract.
Bai Cangshu's Magic attribute was extremely low, whether in his Reincarnator identity or his current Class's additional enhanced panel. This Master also didn't seem like a proper magus, making him utterly useless to Bai Cangshu.
"What wish do you want to achieve by participating in the Holy Grail War?"
Bai Cangshu acted like a good Servant confiding in his Master. Ma Yuanzhang didn't detect any malice at all, or rather, he was dull enough not to notice the clear killing intent Bai Cangshu displayed upon their first meeting.
"Wish? What's that…"
Ma Yuanzhang turned his head, looking strangely at his strange Servant. He kept his head down, searching for more records in the black-covered notebook.
Beneath his bangs, his eyes glowed with fanaticism.
Bai Cangshu froze for a moment. At this instant, he clearly felt a sense of indifference from the heart of this Master who called himself Ma Yuanzhang.
There was no wish he wanted to achieve, no particularly strong impulse, only a lack of understanding of various common senses of the world.
For example, he didn't understand why his parents had always argued and fought since he was little;
He didn't understand why those people always looked at him with strange eyes;
He didn't understand why, when such parents died, the people from the welfare agency asked him why he wasn't crying;
He understood even less why that family would invite a stranger like him into their home at night;
He didn't understand why that annoying teacher would show a concerned expression.
"Tsk…"
Bai Cangshu clicked his tongue, then chuckled involuntarily. He noticed the clever arrangement of the Counter Force, or rather, the Infinite Dimensional Space.
They didn't brutally and directly arrange for an event to happen. Instead, they arranged a more suitable 'cause,' and then, following the development of the rules, allowed him to fall into that 'effect.'
They didn't forcibly decree that he would be summoned by this Ma Yuanzhang. Instead, they found someone who happened to possess certain similar characteristics to him for the Heroic Spirit summoning.
Therefore, he naturally became the Servant summoned by the other party.
A Servant is definitely not a good role in the Holy Grail War. Even with the additional panel of a Class, it cannot be avoided that this is the role with the highest mortality rate.
The purpose of the Holy Grail War has never been a classical romantic hero play where several magi summon legendary heroes and fight to determine a victor.
The Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City, from the very beginning, was just a grand ritual set up by those three families to pursue the mysteries of the Root.
All processes in this Holy Grail War were unimportant. The only important thing was to have enough Servants die, so that when Heroic Spirits returned from the Lesser Grail to the Throne of Heroes, the Greater Grail would use the Magic accumulated over decades from Fuyuki City's excellent 'Spirit Vein' to pierce through space-time and fix a passage, allowing the magi of the 'Three Families' to reach the Root.
It wasn't a hero play, but a dark, absurd sacrifice.
A mocking smile played on Bai Cangshu's lips. Fixing him in the Class of Assassin not only forced him into an unavoidable death match but also limited his strength.
And there were no flaws in the rules.
He couldn't help but applaud the Counter Force and the Infinite Dimensional Space for this game of theirs.
Thinking this way, it was no wonder that the Reincarnators who pursued others into the Nasuverse had extremely high mortality rates. It was equivalent to joining a game where two GMs (Game Masters) watched you and tailor-made negative effects for you.
Afterwards, Bai Cangshu asked Ma Yuanzhang some more questions, but the other party was indeed not from the magus world and knew nothing about the various details of the Holy Grail War.
Therefore, he couldn't confirm the current timeline, but combining it with the year, he could roughly deduce that this should be around the timeline of the Fifth Holy Grail War.
Because it was currently 2004, which was the node where the Fifth Holy Grail War occurred. Of course, it was not excluded that the current direction might have changed due to the intrusion of Reincarnators or different developments in the derivative world.
Bai Cangshu's figure lightly floated up, and the next moment he had already leaped onto the roof of a shop beside the street. Then, his figure flickered, and he lightly stepped onto a streetlamp.
His movements were silent, and Ma Yuanzhang, walking ahead, didn't notice at all.
Bai Cangshu tilted his ear. Although his Mind Net ability was restricted, the senses of his terrifying body remained. As a humanoid dragon with over 50 points in constitution, Bai Cangshu's vision and hearing far surpassed the imagination of ordinary humans.
He heard continuous explosions from a far distance, indicating an intense battle was likely taking place.
Judging from the sound, the battle was over 10 kilometers away from them, and its intensity was high, with each strike emitting considerable destructive power.
Given the combat style of Servants in this world, Bai Cangshu believed that if it followed the plot of the Fifth Holy Grail War, it was highly likely to be Berserker Heracles.
"We're here~"
Ma Yuanzhang's voice involuntarily rose, carrying an emotion he himself couldn't pinpoint.
He pointed to a standard Japanese detached house in the distance and said,
"That woman should live here, Tao Pai Pai, go kill her!"
This was probably the first person to so forcefully order Bai Cangshu to act. Even that fox-like Outer God mostly used temptation with Bai Cangshu.
Bai Cangshu's senses retracted from the distant battle. He had always been quite curious about the combat power of these Servants in this world.
Because in the Nasuverse worldview, factors like compatibility, special attacks, and other idealistic factors accounted for a higher proportion in combat.
This was vastly different from worlds like Dragon Ball, where pure power determined victory.
As a result, Bai Cangshu was unsure of his strength positioning among these Servants before he engaged in combat.
He currently lacked Noble Phantasms and was quite weak in Magic attribute, so he probably couldn't withstand the full power of those Servants unleashing their Noble Phantasms in an all-out clash.
But similarly, Bai Cangshu's destructive power to the world, his own mobility, and his martial arts ability, which had reached the realm of Zongshi and was born purely for combat with others, also surpassed the performance of many Heroic Spirits in the anime he remembered.
Bai Cangshu extended a finger. He didn't even have the interest to confirm who he was about to kill. The Dong Dong Wave had already condensed.
*鳴!*
But the next moment, Bai Cangshu suddenly retracted his hand and turned to look behind him with a playful expression.
A long spear was pressed against Ma Yuanzhang's back.
"If you don't want to die, order Tao Pai Pai to commit suicide."
*Puff!*
The spearhead pierced less than an inch into his flesh. The pain finally made Ma Yuanzhang realize an enemy had appeared.
He raised his hand, and the Command Spells glowed.
Bai Cangshu, however, merely spread his hands, a smile brimming.
"Seeing that I didn't choose to escape, but instead tried to kill me in this way, it seems you are now a Master?"
"Where is your Heroic Spirit? Quickly summon him…"
Ch. 527 / 787