The scissors would not hit Shana from the beginning, they just distracted her so that he could get close.
Although it is actually possible to hit her.
The scissors-shaped weapon was connected to a thread that was extremely difficult for people to notice.
Shirou Emiya did not choose to lose to Shana on purpose. He won the battle very honestly.
Chapter 239: The Maker of Humanoid Treasures (Edited)
On the street, Shana was walking sullenly behind Shirou Emiya.
Lost, lost to a human, lost to a human who didn't give his best.
Shana reviewed the previous battle. Although she did not use her full strength, many of her free techniques were not used.
But if it were a real battle, no one would actually give her the opportunity to unleash her powerful freedom.
Just like when Fariagni faced Shirou Emiya, he was almost cut down by a sword before he even had time to use his Noble Phantasm.
Even if you have many means, it is impossible for the enemy to let you use them all.
Moreover, in that situation, Shana was truly at her wit's end and was completely unable to defend against a spinning scissors attack.
Not to mention, Shirou Emiya has a backup plan to subdue Shana.
In terms of combat experience and combat skills, Shana is far inferior to Emiya Shirou.
The battle strategy and fighting style were seen through by Shirou Emiya almost at the first sight. One could only be thankful that Shirou Emiya was not the Crimson World Demon King but a human being, otherwise the killer with flaming hair and burning eyes would have died here.
But is it really true that Shana cannot defeat Shirou Emiya?
This doesn't necessarily mean there is no chance of winning. After all, that burning flame is the biggest threat to Shirou Emiya, and it is also the reason why it took Shirou Emiya a certain amount of time to defeat Shana.
Such a scorching flame is extremely troublesome for humans. At least it is difficult for Shirou Emiya to resist such a flame.
"and many more--!"
Shana suddenly called out to Emiya Shirou.
"What's matter?"
Shirou Emiya, who was carrying some meat, turned around and looked at Shana who suddenly called him, and asked.
Shirou Emiya decided to buy the ingredients first and then go search for Fariagni. After all, he had no idea about this matter.
It was better than doing nothing, and he had no confidence that he could find Fariagni.
"Can you take out the knife you used to chop me before so I can see it?"
She suddenly remembered the knife that slashed at her and did not melt completely because of the flames. Both in appearance and length, it was very similar to her own Zhidianzha.
But at that time, Shana didn't think so much, and her only focus was on defeating Shirou Emiya. But now, after reviewing it, she immediately found something wrong.
"Is it this one?"
Shirou Emiya looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he quickly constructed a sword in his hand.
"This! How did you do that?!"
At this time, Shana couldn't keep calm at all. Not to mention Shana, even Alastair started to lose his composure.
Xia Bina quickly snatched the Shidenzana from Emiya Shirou's hand and began to examine and caress it.
Then he swung it into the air a few more times.
"boom--!"
A ball of fire started from the Zhidianzha, and then it went out immediately.
"How about it?"
Alastair asked out loud.
"Whether it's the feel, appearance, or capabilities, it's exactly the same as mine."
Shana looked at the sword in her hand with disbelief, and looked at Emiya Shirou with even more disbelief.
The lost child of zero hour In fact, Shana and Alastor did not see the whole process of Shirou Emiya's projection.
After all, when Shirou Emiya handed them the Zero Hour Lost Child, he put his hands down, not in front of them.
At that time, all their attention was attracted by the Zero Hour Lost in Shana's hand, and they were suspicious of how it was so easy to get this treasure.
Before I had time to pay attention to what Shirou Emiya was doing, he took out the Zero Hour Lost.
In addition, they didn't know how long Shirou Emiya had held on to the Zero Hour Lost, so they could only marvel at the fact that humans could actually copy Crimson World's Noble Phantasm. It was truly surprising.
But now seeing the appearance of Zhidian Zhana, Shana and Alastair could no longer describe their feelings as shocked. They could only use the word "destroyed worldview" to describe their current mood.
"How—how did you do that?"
Shana asked Emiya Shirou the same question again, and this time she was more shocked than the first time she asked.
"Projection of freedom?"
Emiya Shirou answered Shana with a questioning tone.
After all, if we follow the correspondence, the power of existence as a kind of mana corresponds to magic power, and the law of freedom as a skill corresponds to magic.
Shirou Emiya automatically completed the equations in his mind: Power of Existence = Magic Power, Freedom = Magic, Projection Magic = Projection Freedom.
"Projection of freedom?"
Shana said that she had never heard of it before, and Alastair also said that he had never heard of it before. He had never heard of a method of freedom that looked so strange.
Alastor suddenly remembered that after the battle, Shirou Emiya asked Shana to destroy the scissor-shaped weapon.
At that time, he was very confused as to why Shirou Emiya wanted to destroy those weapons.
However, Shana was in an extremely annoyed state, so Alastor did not ask Emiya Shirou.
"Since it is the Law of Freedom, then these weapons should disappear after it is lifted. Why did you let Shana destroy those weapons?"
"Projected things are special. As long as they are not damaged, they can exist forever."
Shirou Emiya answered Alastair's question without hiding anything.
In a world full of demons, Shirou Emiya does not need to recycle weapons because those weapons can be used by others even if he does not use them.
In the Empire, Shirou Emiya doesn't need to recover weapons because basically all the weapons have been blown up and there is no chance of recovery.
In the Holy Grail War, Shirou Emiya did not need to recover his weapons because the magicians and androids of the Yugdomirenia clan dealt with them.
And in this city, Shirou Emiya will have to find a way to deal with these weapons.
Because they can really hurt people. If they are thrown on the ground at random and picked up by someone with ulterior motives, who knows what bad consequences will arise.
Moreover, it is not convenient for Shirou Emiya to carry it with him. If he goes out with a knife, he is afraid that his neighbors will choose to call the police if they see him.
So Shirou Emiya could only destroy all the weapons he projected.
After hearing this, Alastair quickly fell silent. He didn't want to say too much.
No one knows what kind of bloody storm will be brought about by the appearance of such a being in the Red World. This is not the so-called projection method at all. It is a weapons dealer and a humanoid treasure manufacturing machine.
You know why those treasures are coveted by people, isn’t it because of their uniqueness and powerful functions?
However, Shirou Emiya can make it no longer unique if the group of Crimson World Apostles find out about it.
Alastor suddenly thought of the situation where those Red World Apostles each held a Zhidianzana in their hands. The balance between the Fire Mist Warriors and the Red World Apostles would probably be broken in an instant.
Not to mention that Hong Shi has more than just these few treasures.
The value of Shirou Emiya has surpassed the value of the Noble Phantasm on him.
Rather than protecting those Noble Phantasms from being taken away by the Crimson Demon Kings, it is more important not to allow Shirou Emiya to be abducted by those Crimson Demon Kings.
Chapter 240: Unusual Number of Torches
"Have you any means of pursuing Fariagni's freedom?"
Shirou Emiya, who was traveling through the streets of the city, returned to the rooftop and asked Shana, who had been exploring the surroundings. It was not a good idea to search aimlessly like this. There was no way to find the Crimson Demon King who wanted to hide in such a vast crowd.
Not to mention that Fariagni is the Red World Demon King known for his wisdom and cunning. Trying to find him under such circumstances is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But Shana did not respond to Shirou Emiya's question at this time. Her pretty face was tense, her brows were furrowed, and she was staring at the street below.
"Shana, you should have discovered the abnormality of this city."
Alastair, who had been silent in front of Shana, suddenly spoke.
"There are an unreasonable number of torches in this city."
Shana hadn't noticed it when she first came to the city, but when she stood on the roof and looked down at the streets below like now, she noticed it.
There are so many torches in this city that they almost occupy one-tenth of the entire city.
The existence of the torch is to prevent the distortion of the world caused by the disappearance of a large amount of existing power.
However, this is a problem that the Fire Mist Warrior needs to worry about. The Red World Apostle does not care whether his devouring of the power of existence will cause any distortion to the present world.
They don't care about the survival of mankind.
Therefore, the Red World Apostles are not worried about the issue of torches. The reason why they leave some residues after devouring the power of existence and make them into torches is to prevent the distortion of the world from attracting the Fire Mist Warriors.
When the power of human existence disappears, both the Fire Mist Warrior and the Red World Apostle will use the remaining residue to make torches, but the torch's subsequent survival has nothing to do with either of them.
After all, for humans who are only left with residual strength of existence, becoming torches is almost equivalent to death.
So why did Fariagni set up so many torches?
Are you afraid of attracting the Fire Mist Warriors?
You have to know that Fariagni has killed countless Fire Mist Warriors who came to attack him. As a powerful Red World Demon King, he has no reason to be afraid of the Fire Mist Warriors.
From any perspective, Fariagni's setting of torches is an unreasonable behavior. The Red World Demon King himself does not have a fixed active location. He basically leaves after consuming a part of the power of existence in one place.
If he stayed in one place all the time, he would only become the target of the Fire Mist Warriors' attacks. Fariagni was obviously not so arrogant as to think that he could fight against several Fire Mist Warriors at the same time.
However, setting up so many torches in such an inconspicuous way obviously meant that they did not want what they were doing to be discovered by the Fire Mist Warriors.
Otherwise, why would the Red World Demon King, who disturbed the real world, be so kind as to set up so many torches in order to maintain the stability of the real world?
But Shana couldn't figure out what it was, and she couldn't imagine it. Her intuition told her that Fariagni had a big conspiracy.
Looking at Shana who was puzzled, Alastair in front of her spoke like this.
"A long time ago, on the western border, there was a powerful demon king who devoured humans wantonly and left behind a large number of torches with some kind of mechanism installed inside them."
These words were not only told to Shana, but also to Emiya Shirou who was beside her.
The knowledgeable Alastair had already figured out what Fariagni was doing.
If it wasn't for Shirou Emiya suggesting to look for Fariagni and Shana going to the rooftop to look for him, he wouldn't have realized that Fariagni was making such a big move.
It was impossible to feel this abnormality while being in a crowd. Only when observing these huge numbers of torches from a wide perspective did Alastair suddenly remember a very distant memory.
Under normal circumstances, the Fire Mist Warriors would not pay attention to those torches.
"The function of that mechanism is that under the control of the user, the torch that serves as a substitute will be completely decomposed and restored to its original existence, making all torches lose their substitute functions at the same time."
"All the torches?"
Shirou Emiya, who was next to Shana, didn't hear it clearly, but Shana, who was familiar with the power of existence, reacted immediately and realized the horror of this method.
"If that's the case, it will cause a huge distortion in the present world."
The function of the torch is to alleviate the distortion of reality caused by the disappearance of the power of existence. If it suddenly disappears in an instant, it will not only cause a great blow to human memory, but also generate a large amount of power of existence.
The power of existence contained in each torch is extremely scarce, but if the number of torches is large enough, it can produce an extremely terrifying amount of power of existence.
Such a large amount of force of existence appeared in densely populated cities in an instant, and the force of existence in human bodies also became part of that force of existence.
Just like a liquid with high concentration will diffuse towards a liquid with low concentration, human beings cannot contain such a huge amount of power of existence with their own capacity.
It will only be blown up by such a huge force of existence in an instant, and the force of existence that diffuses from the explosion will make the original force of existence even stronger.
The Fire Mist Warrior, the Torch, the Red World Demon King, the ways in which humans possess the power of existence are different.
Most of the power of existence used by the Fire Mist Warrior after signing a contract with the Red World Demon King is provided by the contracted Demon King, and the power of existence they consume will gradually recover over time, so the Fire Mist Warrior does not really consider the consumption of the power of existence when fighting.
The torch is equivalent to a container that holds the force of existence. The force of existence is like the water in a cup. After continuous evaporation and use, when the water disappears, the torch will also disappear.
The Red World Devil is like a collector. There is no upper limit to the power of existence they can possess. It only depends on how much power of existence you can possess in your hands.
