Book 1: Chapter 39: ya’s Mission Request
Faillen Angel Gabriel: It’s still alright, Boss. I do have a First Trumpet of the Apocalypse. I can use it to destroy the enemy when I am in danger.
He Who Knows Fate: The First Trumpet of the Apocalypse? That is the trumpet that can sound the end of days, right? Isn’t using that a means of going down with the enemy? At the same time, you will implicate the entire world.
I Have a Strong Presence: I suddenly feel that being in the same world as Gabriel will be even more dangerous. You won’t know when she would blow the First Trumpet of the Apocalypse. Then, you would die together. No, that’s not right. Gabriel is an angel; only you will die.
nk Never Loses: Just based on Gabriel’s shut-in personality, she might blow the First Trumpet of the Apocalypse if someone identally tripped over the Inte cable and yanked it out.
Faillen Angel Gabriel: …
nk Never Loses: Hey! Hey! Hey! Why are you silent? Shouldn’t you be refuting it? Quickly refute it. Don’t tell me you would really blow the First Trumpet of the Apocalypse because the Inte wire got yanked out?
Faillen Angel Gabriel: …How-how can that be? Boss, you must be joking. How could there be someone who would blow the First Trumpet of the Apocalypse for such a juvenile reason?
He Who Knows Fate: …
Iron Fist Teacher: Perhaps we should change the topic.
<em>Ding!</em> A world consciousness is issuing you a mission. Would you like to ept it?
Reinforcement Gudako (World Mission: ya): For various reasons, Sigurd, the dragonyer, cannot be summoned. Please help Gudako clear the 1st Singrity and prevent the storyline from being ruined.
Intel: ya: Gaia, that little bitch, to think she schemed against me! Screw that bitch! Do you hear that? Screw that bitch! Cough! Cough! So…when I said for various reasons, it is actually Gaia’s doing. There is no Sigurd now, so no one can defeat Fafnir. That’s why I need external reinforcement. So far, you have the highest ratings. Although you havepleted only two missions, you got five-star ratings on both, so it shall be you. Furthermore, isn’t your Absolute Precognition damaged? If you help me, I will help you repair…it by half. It is not that I don’t want to repair it for you fully; it’s just that the situation does not permit me to. One world having two world consciousnesses is quite problematic. As for the other intel, I feel that you should y the game. You already know what game it is: FGO.
Even if Consciousness Gaia wants me to die, I—the collective will of humans—will not die. The world depends on you to save it.
Danger Level: 1 (You will be entering as a Servant, so even if you die, it will not harm your true body.)
Mission Reward: 1,000 points + half-repaired Absolute Precognition. (Cough! Cough! I know that the points are little, but I can’t do anything about that. Isn’t there still the half-repaired Absolute Precognition?)
[TL Note: ya is the collective will of humans, and Gaia is the will of the in <em>Fate/Grand Order</em>. Gudako is a fan-given nickname for the female <em>Fate/Grand Order</em> yer. The male yer would be Gudao. It is the abbreviation of the Japanese pronunciation of Grand Order, and the name stuck. The yer’s actual name is Fujimaru Ritsuka. Sigurd and Fafnir are characters in <em>Fate/Grand Order</em>. The 1st Singrity is an event within <em>Fate/Grand Order</em>. Servants are summoned spirits, and the being that appears is more like a clone. Here are the links to the various profiles: ya and Gaia: /wiki/Counter_Force, Fujimaru Ritsuka: /wiki/Ritsuka_Fujimaru, Sigurd: /wiki/Sigurd, Fafnir: /wiki/Fafnir, 1st Singrity: /wiki/First_Singrity, and Servants: /wiki/Servant.]
Chen Heng suddenly received a message while killing time in the chat group.
<em>Ding! </em>Will you ept this mission?
“ept!” <em>Of course, ept! Why would I not ept? A half-repaired Absolute Precognition. That can save me 50,000 points. Furthermore, there isn’t much danger. After all, I would just be going as a Servant. Even if I die, it will not affect my true body.</em>
Chen Heng left the chat group interface to enter the cultural section of the Dimension Administrators Association’s store and searched for FGO.
After Chen Heng searched for FGO, he suddenly remembered Merlin had mentioned appearing in FGO.
He Who Knows Fate: Merlin, are you there?
Chen Heng started a private chat with Merlin.
Magus of Flowers: What’s up?
He Who Knows Fate: You appeared in the FGO game before, right?
Magus of Flowers: That’s right. Why did you suddenly ask me that? Did you receive a mission concerning FGO?
He Who Knows Fate: Correct. Your instincts are sharp. Have you downloaded the FGO game?
Magus of Flowers: Yes! Yes! Yes! Let me tell you this: my luck in this game is ridiculously high, a full five stars. Tell me, which Singrity are you going to?
He Who Knows Fate: My mission concerns the 1st Singrity, so I would like to borrow your ount. Does the game have a function to rey past game cutscenes and stories?
Magus of Flowers: Ah! The 1st Singrity. I don’t have a part to y there. I’ll send you the ount user and password in a while. After you download the game from the association’s store, you can log in to my ount. My ount has already cleared the 1st Singrity, so you can watch the story and cutscenes directly.
He Who Knows Fate: Thank you.
Magus of Flowers: You are wee. Say, can I make a request?
He Who Knows Fate: Go ahead.
Magus of Flowers: Can you livestream the entire process of the mission?
He Who Knows Fate: …Sure.
Magus of Flowers: Ok. There’s nothing else, then. I’ll send the user and password to you.
There had to be something wrong with Merlin.
After Chen Heng downloaded the FGO game, he logged into Merlin’s ount, then spent one hour watching the prologue and the storyline of the 1st Singrity.
Chen Heng was going to the 1st Singrity in ce of Sigurd to deal with the evil dragon Fafnir.
Honestly speaking, because he only watched the storyline and did not y the game, he did not have a good understanding of Fafnir’s strength. However, since ya sought him out for help, there should not be too many problems.
If Fafnir was truly too difficult to deal with, he could just call down justice from above. If one was not enough, then he would pull two down. If two did not work, then three. If worst came to worst, a meteor shower.
Chen Heng nced at the time in the chat group interface and found it was about nine. He decided to go to the nearby supermarket to purchase some daily necessities. The 1st Singrity took ce during France’s Hundred Years’ War; that was the Middle Ages. The standard of living would not be as good as the present. To avoid suffering, he prepared food, ingredients, seasoning, water, and even cutlery. In life, one should never wrong oneself.
[TL Note: Wikipedia entry for France’s Hundred Years’ War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War.]
Chen Heng used about an hour to buy everything he could think of and got the supermarket’s delivery personnel to send it to his house. The delivery of so many things caused quite a din and even disturbed Sirin.
After sending Sirin to her room, he ced everything in his ne, a spatial storage passed down in the Chen n. It contained all of the Chen n’s umtions over the past thousand years. Only the Chen n’s bloodline could open it. Furthermore, ordinary cultivators would not discover this to be a spatial storage. Fortunately, that hidden culprit was considered an ordinary cultivator. That was why Chen Heng could keep this ne. Its storage space was extraordinarilyrge, more than sufficient to contain everything.
Now that Chen Heng had put everything away and had sufficient daily necessities, he prepared to depart.
Before Chen Heng left, he even started a livestream. The title of the livestream was <em>Journey to the 1st Singrity</em>. Then, he pinged everyone in the group. Sorry, an administrator could do as he pleased.