Chapter 754: Chapter 22: Anti-Beast Special Attack
Simulated Crowned?
Upon hearing the words spoken by the Evil Dragon in human language, a slight feeling of shock surged in Goyanskaya’s heart, and she instinctively looked at the towering man with bulging muscles.
This giant, nearly three meters tall, carried a great bow and exuded a rich Divine Qi. His magical power was shockingly pure, and as a Spirit Base capable of carrying this power, he seemed already beyond the norm. But what exactly is a Simulated Crowned?
It is elegantly termed as "simulated"—
But it really means "counterfeit," doesn’t it?
In fact, it is indeed counterfeit. After all, when someone had previously been summoned once in the form of a Servant, he almost figured out the essence of a Spirit Base. And referencing King Hassan’s operation of abandoning the Crowned Spirit Base to unleash the strongest slash during the battle with the Tiamat God.
Afterwards, the first-generation "Old Man in the Mountains" did not directly exit the stage and disappear due to the loss of the Spirit Base but continued to fight in the state of an Assassin, just no longer as a Crowned Assassin, that’s all.
This leads to the conclusion that the Crowned Spirit Base does not directly strengthen the Servant’s Spirit Base and improve its quality, but rather provides an additional high-quality Spirit Base. If a Spirit Base is a container for storing power, then it does not enlarge or thicken the original container but places an even larger container beside it.
It’s similar to an energy shield in a game or an extra health bar beyond the regular health bar.
Thinking of it this way, it seems quite normal. After all, don’t mention multiplying the effect of an additional Crowned Spirit Base, even just an additional Spirit Base of the same level would be a massive boost to a Servant’s power... It’s no wonder Crowned Servants are so strong.
And after understanding the principle and mechanism behind it, and what the essence of a Spirit Base is—
Someone naturally began pondering how to utilize this approach to enhance his own troops and explore the feasibility of the "Mass-Produced Crowned Servant" project.
As long as there’s a way to allow a Servant to overlay an additional Spirit Base outside of its own, and then excessively enhance the latter, enlarging, thickening, and maximizing the container to hold more power, there would basically be no issue.
Though the technical requirements involved in this technology are extraordinarily high, almost reaching a terrifying level, it is indeed only he who can accomplish it.
But fundamentally, in terms of principle and operational mechanism, it is indeed just like this and does not seem overly complex.
The first to be strengthened, of course, is the Great Hero Hercules, who appeared in the Archer class. As the "flawless Great Hero" in epic poetry, there was almost no more suitable candidate than him, so after expedited implementation of the new project, this Great Hero attained the state of a Simulated Crowned.
All ability parameters rose to A+, class abilities and innate skills nearly advanced by a degree, and there was an enhancement in terms of Treasures. These improvements were huge and terrifying.
And after the completion of enhancement, Hercules, who received new instructions, came directly towards this side to support and respond to the fast-reaction forces dealing with the invaders, also to test the new combat power.
As for the Evil Dragon accompanying this Great Greek Hero, it is naturally another Northern European Great Hero, Siegfried from "The Song of the Nibelungs." Possessing the legendary Cursed Holy Sword and swordsmanship transcending human domain, he was naturally also selected as the prime candidate for a Simulated Crowned Saber.
However, when it came time for the actual testing, the emperor discovered another strong power he possessed—
Regarding Siegfried’s permanent-type Treasure "Evil Dragon Blood Armor."
A Treasure that embodies the story of being drenched in Evil Dragon blood.
All attacks below B Rank cannot harm him, and for attacks above B Rank, the damage is reduced by a value equivalent to a B Rank attack.
At first glance, it seems like a very good defensive Treasure, with its pure defensive effect comparable to the Treasure held by Hercules, "Twelve Trials," which turns one’s body into a tough armor, nullifying all attacks below Rank B.
But still slightly inferior.
Yet, adding another setting changes things. Because Siegfried, after defeating the Evil Dragon Fafnir and being drenched in its blood, gained an undying body, and thereafter developed a resonant connection with that dragon. In a sense, it is like a Master and a Servant, able to confirm each other’s existence.
—He is renowned as the Great Hero famed for defeating that Evil Dragon.
—So his existence simultaneously signifies the existence of that Evil Dragon.
Upon learning of such a subtle mysterious connection, the emperor took a temporary interest, thinking he could make a case out of this causal relationship. And Siegfried agreed to such a proposal without much hesitation, as long as it doesn’t go against his morals and principles, he can unconditionally support the Master.
Besides, it just so happens to suit his intentions.
Instead of letting the Evil Dragon reappear every period to cause chaos in the world, it’s better to let it revive as his permanent-type Treasure so it won’t trouble others.
"Your luck is good, choosing such a time to cause trouble. Just when other rare individuals have all gone on missions, so no one could come to stop you immediately, only the two of us remained for experimenting with new tests, temporarily staying in the Sea of the Moon..."
The Evil Dragon calmly looked forward, glanced around, seeing the battlefield littered with fallen combat mechs and military flying dragons. The latter, which just moments ago let out painful roars, now, under the Evil Dragon’s dignity and pressure, whimpered fearfully, struggling to rise.
Opposite, Goyanskaya crooked the corner of her mouth. Is she really that lucky?
Why does it feel like it’s just plain bad luck?!
At this moment, Hercules, wielding an unreasonably large great bow, planted it heavily into the ground with a dull thud, directly drew the bow and aimed an arrow, his aura remotely locked onto Goyanskaya. Stimulated by this, her pupils constricted suddenly to the size of a needle tip.
"...!!"
Extremely dangerous!!
This was her intuition instinctively sounding a frantic alarm!!
Throughout the twelve nearly impossible trials, how many top-tier demons or phantom beasts did Hercules ultimately slay? Tearing apart the Three-headed Dog, shooting down the Nine-headed Serpent, these were the magnificent feats of hunting any beast; this kind of story materialized brings about the most terrifying special attack!!
......
...
As terrifying as a beam unleashed by a star in a flash!
Ripped through the surface, penetrated the crust, like thousands of sharp swords piercing everything, causing matter to disintegrate, and trembling this entire subspace completely!
Alongside the roar of the Evil Dragon, the ultra-high temperature flames spewed forth, and the Hydra Poison Arrow shot by the simulated Crowned Archer directly turned into a burning mass of light, almost like high-temperature plasma, having no fixed form, merely constrained by something similar to magnetic confinement.
Like a meteor flashing by, it crashed down violently!!
The surrounding city, roads, all became glaring at that moment, then were directly shattered and blown away under the terrifying impact, the ground seemed to be torn apart like pieces of paper being lifted by rays, particles, shockwaves. This was almost the power of a nuclear explosion shockwave, a gigantic burning fireball like the sun, accompanied by a massive mushroom cloud rising majestically!
Within the ravaging of this terrifying purgatory storm where everything melted, even the subspace itself was shaken and began to waver, teetering on the brink.
Although in the legends, this great hero, after killing the Nine-headed Hydra, soaked his arrows in the poisonous serpent’s blood.
From then on, any enemy struck by the arrow was beyond cure.
However, looking at it now...
After being enhanced to such an extent through the series of techniques from the True Moon Sea Kingdom, facing this normal Treasure intensity, the additional toxic damage appears rather awkward, and its positioning suddenly becomes very subtle. After all, putting poison into a nuclear warhead, no matter how you look at it, seems bizarre.
This slight dull noise and commotion also transmitted into the real world.
The people in the nearby city paused their footsteps in surprise, feeling a slight tremor emanating from the ground.
"Hmm? What’s this..."
On the top floor of a distant skyscraper, the Goddess engaging in conversation with Gu Mo slightly narrowed her eyes, possessing an A-level Thousand-Mile Eye, where even slight future sight or mind reading is possible, thus vaguely seeing the subspace contours that emerged due to instability.
"Excuse me, a fox snuck into my home today trying to stir up some trouble, but I’ve already had someone sent to drive it away..."
Gu Mo, sitting across a pristine dining table, spoke leisurely, not even turning his head, merely glancing at the dishes on the table.
The cuisine of the Sea of the Moon is indeed rich, everything that should have developed in the old times is present, he then glanced at the Goddess opposite him. Although she is indeed a holy Goddess, her face resembling Altria always subconsciously made him feel that conversing at the dinner table would be more advantageous.
This isn’t some sort of Revelation or Intuition’s precognition...
It’s purely some kind of strange preconceived experience.
"The commotion of driving it away was a bit large, seems that fox isn’t an ordinary prey either." The Goddess across returned her gaze from outside the glass curtain wall, her amber-green eyes calmly looking at the Summoner opposite, who has now become her Master.
"If it were to grow properly, it would indeed be troublesome, but right now it’s still nothing, plus it seems to be trending towards congenital deficiencies..."
Gu Mo’s response was also quite casual.
Although Goyanskaya mimicked Tamamo no Mae’s Spirit Base, she herself hasn’t rid of the curse from Cernunnos in the Sixth Anomaly Zone, and the true body is the result of a forced incomplete evolution, which is the congenital deficiency. Even growing five tails falls far short of reaching the level of Tiamat.
Moreover, she doesn’t even have five tails right now, so there’s nothing to worry about.
Obtaining Hercules with a simulated Crowned Spirit Base alone is completely enough to restrain this wild fox.
"Those two Servants... are very strong." The Goddess across raised her eyebrows, "They’ve both reached Divine Spirit level, since that’s the case, why are you still persistently summoning a true Divine Spirit level?"
