My King is Beautiful as a Painting (2nd update, seeking investment)

Artoria has gone to sleep.

Because she was exhausted and weary, Murata Himeko, as the highest-ranking official of the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office, arranged for Artoria to rest after a brief inquiry.

After all, Artoria was, regardless of anything else, a member of the British royal family and a princess of the Holy Britannian Empire; even if she lacked fame, she theoretically held the status of an heir.

Furthermore, she now possessed the status of a suspected "transcendent," so receiving special treatment was only natural.

However, for the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office, this night had only just begun. Cleaning up the battlefield, collecting the bodies of the deceased, and soothing the entire staff were all tasks that required urgent attention.

After all, having the headquarters directly attacked by a Mystery and suffering significant casualties was a massive blow to morale.

Fortunately, the fact that the Mystery itself had been eradicated by a human was a massive shot in the arm for everyone, providing immense encouragement.

This was undoubtedly a good thing for Murata Himeko.

Of course, this director of the Countermeasures Office still had much to do. The events of tonight had to be reported; after all, the commotion was too great, and with the headquarters attacked and over twenty people dead, it could be described as an extremely serious incident.

But before that, Murata Himeko had to carefully study the events of the night, and an emergency meeting had already been convened.

The high-level officials of the Countermeasures Office gathered in a conference room, and before them played segments of video that had been urgently edited.

These were captured by the cameras at the headquarters of the Countermeasures Office; as an important institution, it was only natural that cameras were installed throughout the interior.

Although the arrival of the Songstress caused the lights to go out, the cameras did not stop working, and these high-definition cameras all had night-vision functions, so they captured the entire series of changes Artoria underwent.

From the attack in the hallway during the evacuation to the sudden appearance of the Maiden Knight who slew a Songstress, and then the Maiden Knight merging into Artoria's body, causing Artoria to take on the form of the Maiden Knight.

All situations were captured, and the scenes of Artoria slaying Songstresses in various locations, rescuing those under attack, and finally killing seven Songstresses in a single strike outside, completely ending the terrifying Mystery, were all recorded by the cameras and played in this conference room.

Finally, when Artoria appeared to lose her power and returned to her original state, Murata Himeko paused the video and turned to look at everyone present.

"Everyone, you have seen the situation, and as you have seen, that British princess is indeed a transcendent, or rather, she possesses a transcendent side! It is just that even she herself does not know how to master this power, so when she returned to her original form and we questioned her, she was completely bewildered, having no idea how to replicate the powerful strength she had displayed before."

After hearing Murata Himeko's words, the crowd was lost in thought. One middle-aged man frowned and said, "I don't know how to use transcendent power—could she be faking it?"

Murata Himeko: "That is possible, but the probability is low. Regarding this point, I wonder if you have watched any anime produced in Yingzhou? In many classic anime, there are similar plots—"

"Young boys and girls harbor powerful strength within their bodies, but they do not know how to use it, or are even unable to use it, and must reach a certain trigger before they can awaken and utilize the powerful strength hidden within."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the crowd became somewhat subtle. The middle-aged man from before said, "Director, are you saying that it is possible for Artoria Pendragon to be like this?"

Murata Himeko held her head high: "Judging from the current situation, the probability is high. Although this is incredible, and it is hard for anyone to accept that the plots of anime have become reality, reality is reality, and existence is reasonable. Since that is the case, why not accept such things by following this line of thought?"

"After all, for our world that is gradually collapsing, incomprehensible Mysteries are constantly appearing. Now that a transcendent girl who defies scientific common sense has appeared, isn't that also a matter of course?"

Hearing this, the crowd nodded involuntarily, because as members of the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office, they were accustomed to dealing with unscientific Mysteries, so they were more capable of accepting situations that overturned their scientific worldview than the average person.

In fact, those whose thinking was too rigid to change were not qualified to sit here at all.

Of course, Murata Himeko was also setting a tone for the meeting; otherwise, they would not be able to reach any conclusion after discussing it for half a day.

Now that there was a tone, they could just discuss it in the direction Murata Himeko had suggested.

After the emergency meeting ended, Murata Himeko held another video conference, and this time she had to explain to higher-ups and inform them of her judgment and plans.

However, even so, if they really wanted a result, it would likely be morning by the time they got one.

For Su Yun, these were not things he needed to focus on, at least not for the time being.

He was currently refining the content to be broadcast tomorrow. Having spent quite a bit of Fantasy Manifestation tonight, he had to change the ending point of the video as well.

But that didn't matter; after all, the Fourth Holy Grail War had many highlights, and since it was a magically modified version, there were even more.

By the time the video editing was finished, it was already past one o'clock, directly into the time for "cultivation," so he lay down to rest.

Although the unexpected situation today consumed some Fantasy Manifestation, there were also gains. The biggest one was proving that his plan was completely feasible, which gave him more confidence in the system he had crafted.

Speaking of which, the game-mode control tonight was something Su Yun had confirmed after experimentation.

In fact, with the system's capabilities, it was entirely possible for Su Yun to control the Fantasy Manifestation characters and Artoria after she was possessed, just like the holographic immersive games in web novels.

But that was actually very unreliable, because Su Yun had not undergone professional combat training, and given Saber's strength, the speed and acceleration were not something he could withstand.

Su Yun had once consumed a small amount of Fantasy Manifestation to test the holographic immersive game experience, and the result was that he ended up dizzy and nauseous, wanting to vomit.

That feeling was similar to someone who gets motion sickness playing 3D games, or an average player playing a VR game for several hours at a stretch.

If that was still hard to understand, one could spin around in place quickly a few times and add a few ultimate spiral accelerations, and then they would be able to directly experience the feeling of controlling Saber in a holographic immersive game state.

Although Su Yun was the person chosen by the World Consciousness, and the World Consciousness had given him the greatest help.

But previously, there was no transcendence in this world, so what the World Consciousness gave Su Yun was merely a strong and healthy body that reached the limits of humanity.

Transcendent power was truly non-existent; relying on such strength to perfectly control Saber's body was pure wishful thinking.

Therefore, Su Yun, who was skilled at making games and also skilled at playing them, ultimately chose the operation mode he was best at, which was the state he was in when he controlled Artoria earlier.

The field of view in a third-person action game was also very good; no matter which direction the enemy attacked from, he could see it clearly, as if he had turned on a god's-eye view.

As an excellent action game player—especially a hardcore player of the Souls series—Su Yun stated that in third-person action game mode, he could play the controlled character with the effect of a God of War!

Of course, it was impossible for Su Yun to personally step onto the field to operate every time he confronted a Mystery in the future; even if he were a "Keyboard Immortal," he couldn't handle that.

To solve the Mysteries in the future, apart from some particularly powerful ones that required him to step in, the others would be solved by those he had endowed with transcendent power templates.

"Speaking of which, Lya should have fallen asleep by now, right? Then she should also see the gift I gave her in her dreams..."

Artoria, deep in slumber, groggily realized she had arrived on a plain shrouded in mist.

The air was filled with the scent of the ocean, and the sound of crashing waves could be faintly heard.

Looking around in confusion, Artoria soon spotted a light ahead and cautiously walked toward it, gradually drawing closer.

As she stepped through the light, the scene before her eyes suddenly opened up.

The mist vanished, revealing a plain filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, dotted with the broken eaves and ruined walls of ancient architecture, as if to reveal the heavy weight of history to the world.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, mountains could be seen in the distance, along with a forest not far away.

Before the ruins of the ancient architecture, Artoria saw the Maiden Knight, dressed in blue and white plate armor, quietly gazing into the distance.

Her beautiful hair and skirt swayed gently in the breeze, and combined with the sunlight, she looked as if she had stepped right out of a painting.

In an instant, Artoria's heart began to race, and a strange thought surfaced directly in her mind.

That was—

King Arthur, beautiful as a painting!

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