Having successfully formed a contract with Elysia, Liqun couldn't conceal his excitement, afterall the system no longer deemed him as a nobody. His evaluation had improved.
True Name: Cheng Li Qun
Parameters:
STR: F (One of the stronger members of humanity)
END: F+ (Why not try participating in the Iron Man Triathlon?)
AGI: F+ (Let Usain Bolt have a 20-meter headstart)
MGI: E- (Why not go learn some magecraft first?)
LCK: A++ (Host should go buy a lottery ticket, wait, do they even have those there?)
NP: Unable to be used as of now
Skills: The blessing of a perfect person (The purer the heart of the holder, the stronger they are)
Servant: Elysia (Compatibility: 5%)
Overall evaluation: Zasshu, zasshu
Seeing his evaluation change from a nobody to a mongrel, Liqun was quite gratified. After all, a certain pikachu liked to address others with it. So, as long as that idiot king is a mongrel, and I am also mongrel, then we can reach the conclusion that, I am equal to Artoria. Therefore, I can be considered quite a distinguished person myself.
But for some reason that escaped Liqun's grasp, the evaluation gave Liqun a strong impression that a brat had written it. Wait, what's compatibility? Looking at the vague term, Liqun decided to risk sounding like an idiot and asked the system about it.
Maybe because Liqun asked an actual question this time, the system did not engage 'anti-stupid mode' and actually gave him an explanation, "Compatibility is the degree of connection between the host and your servant, the higher it is, the more power they grant their master, when compatibility reaches 50 percent, it will allow them to use their noble phantasms, and upon reaching 100 percent, the Master will unlock all the powers the Servant can provide."
Liqun understood after hearing the explanation, wasn't it just favorability? What Compatibility? Was that guy playing Snowbreak while making this system? Aside from that, knowing that just by forming contracts with Servants would make him stronger, Liqun decided to summon a hundred and eighty of them, stack up all their abilities, and go one-punch Goetia into oblivion.
When that time comes, he'd publish a book titled "Train at Chaldea until max level, one-punch Goetia"
The Cautious Hero is an exemplary role model! When given the option to act recklessly, one must not rush in. After all, you'll never know if you'd encounter the Demon King's Four Heavenly Kings lying in ambush right outside the newbie village.
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But life is always full of ups and downs... and downs... and downs...
"What!? Chaldea's energy reserves can't support another servant summoning!?", Liqun stared at Romani and Davinci incredulously.
Romani awkwardly scratched his head, "It's true, I'm also in favor of summoning a few hundred servants and flattening the first singularity. But, don't even mention whether we'll be able to summon that many servants or not, at present we're already using up most of our energy reserves just to keep Miss Elysia materialized.", Romani said with a helpless expression.
Having learnt that his dreams of grinding till Level 999 and oneshotting Goetia had been dashed, Liqun fell onto his knees like the main character in a tv drama who had just witnessed their girlfriend die.
"No... NO!!", perhaps due to this tragedy, a faint yet familiar BGM began to play; slowly growing louder.
"Xue hua piao piao, bei feng xiao xiao..."
"What are you doing...?", Romani — who existed outside of Liqun's internet induced schizophrenic delusions — stared blankly at him. This sort of behaviour far surpassed everything he had ever learnt as a doctor.
'Maybe he really is insane...', after all, playing BGM in your head was not really something a normal person would do or think of doing.
"And, Miss Elysia, could you please stop it with the snow, it's getting kind of cold in here." Romani turned towards Elysia.
"Ehehe~", Elysia propped up her head with her fist, sticking out her tongue playfully. "It was all Master's idea — you'll have to ask him."
"(一▽ ~) tsk~~", Seeing that no one had gotten the joke, Liqun got up — acting as if nothing had happened— and patted the dust off of his knees.
Before he had inquired about it with Romani, Liqun had already suspected that Chaldea would not be able to support the summoning of more servants. Afterall, if they could do that, they would have done so long ago, and sent Ritsuka some backup. Yet with such an opportunity presenting itself, how could he resist the urge to pull something off?
So he had pre-recorded the BGM, conspired with Elysia to use her powers to make it snow when the BGM started playing. Of course, it wasn't all for nothing either, that little stunt had increased his compatibility with Elysia from 5 to 10 percent! Feeling his body growing stronger, Liqun decided to prioritise spending time with Elysia.
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As Liqun was preparing to enter the 'first' singularity, he was brimming with confidence. Having decided to set off now and show the rookie Master Ritsuka what it meant to be a veteran 'FGO' player.
It's just the tutorial singularity after all, how could it be hard? Liqun impatiently waited to head out. When he saw Ritsuka, he'd make a crab claw gesture and say, "Pfft, weak~ just train more."
Romani looked at the briefing files in his hands, and decided to brief Liqun on some intel, "The rayshift will bring you to a period in 2004, Fuyiki. The objective is to..."
Liqun waved him away in dismissal, signaling him to cut the long talk, "No need to say more, there is no one in this world who would know more than me in there, I have nine ways to resolve the singularity, remember, nine ways.
Isn't the final boss of the Fuyuki singularity just Lev Lainur? With Elysia here, beating him black and blue would be a breeze, a 'so easy' would suffice in describing the difficulty.
Looking at Liqun's overwhelming confidence, Romani decided to just give up on it, and gave a small encouragement. "Best of luck in there."
Liqun and Elysia got into their coffins, waiting for the rayshift to start.
"Searching for qualifying Master... found. 47th Master recognised. Requesting spiritron transfer of Cheng Li Qun. Authenticating permissions... Permission authentication successful. Spiritron calculation device Trimegistus activated. Reverse summoning sustem initializing.
Spiritron transfer commencing.
Spiritron transfer will begin in 3... 2... 1...
Process complete. First Order begins official authorization.
Liqun's body began breaking down into small particles, being sent into the past. An indescribable feeling pervaded him.
'What a pity...', Liqun felt the rayshift nearing completion, lamenting the fact that he could not fully savour such a feeling.
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Liqun and Elysia had arrived underneath a canopy of trees, the numerous leaves blotting out the entire sky, leaving only the occasional beams of dim light through.
When Liqun opened his eyes, Elysia was already bouncing around, exploring the new environment like an excitable child.
Liqun rubbed his eyes in a loss. The environment was not at all similar to the Fuyuki that he was familiar with. Instead it looked more like one of the forests in New Orlean's Hundred Year War.
"Tsk, did I get sent to the wrong place? And I can't get into contact with Chaldea too." Liqun was filled with uncertainty.
Elysia, having noticed the curious state of Liqun, bounced right next to him and pointed off in a seemingly random direction. "Master, I can sense a large gathering of people over there, let's go?"
"Sure, let's go check out what's going on there."
Liqun readily agreed, feeling that the situation was not so clear. Gathering intel became top priority. At least when it came to this sort of thing, Liqun knew what he was doing.
Following Elysia's directions, the forest gradually receded, which expanded their field of view. Eventually, the two finally got out of the forests, revealing a large number of modern buildings. Liqun could finally confirm that he was indeed in Fuyuki, yet.
"What is this?!" Liqun couldn't help but let out a surprised yell. The Fuyuki before him was nothing like he recognised.
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(T/N: 'Feeling his body growing stronger, Liqun decided to prioritise spending time with Elysia.', bolded words replaced, original translation was something similar to 'Liqun decided to move the conquest of Elysia to sometime earlier.', just sounds dehumanising
Added two page breaks to indicate change of scene/minor timeskip, original composition just seemed too erratic
'给藤丸立香这个新手御主表演一下,什么叫fgo老玩家的从容.' 'and show Ritsuka what it meant to be a veteran 'FGO' player.' bolded word excluded from translation
don't know if servants need to enter the coffins to rayshift)