Fantasy Manifestation, Only Practice Makes Perfect

Time rewound to one minute ago.

Su Yun, who had been lying on his bed making videos via the system, froze. He immediately sat up, his brows furrowed deep.

He then cast his gaze in a specific direction—the location of Artoria.

As the girl he cared about most, Su Yun couldn't just stand by after having her taken away by a government agency through a public execution. He had long since locked onto her status via the system.

The moment she encountered danger, he would sense it immediately.

Probing through the system, Su Yun's brows furrowed even deeper, for he sensed the presence of a Mystery. He understood instantly that the danger the girl faced originated from a Mystery.

The headquarters of the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office was under attack by a Mystery!

With the current global resurgence of Mysteries, the whole world knew the situation was dire. Agencies like the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office, specifically designed to counter Mysteries, could not afford to remain in the shadows.

To instill confidence in the public, such agencies were transparent. Even if they harbored many internal secrets, they had to make their existence known to the populace, and any achievements had to be touted and publicized.

There was no other reason: if there were truly no hope, and the public felt they were not being protected, human society would inevitably collapse from internal chaos.

Thus, Su Yun was well aware of the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office and had been keeping an eye on it.

He had assumed Artoria would be safe while in the custody of the Countermeasures Office, but he hadn't expected such a crisis to arise right away.

However, since Artoria was in danger, he had no choice but to intervene.

Looking at the less than 3,000 Fantasy Points remaining, Su Yun felt a pang of heartache as he spent 2,000 of them to activate another function of the system.

[Fantasy Manifestation]

This was a feature Su Yun had added to the system as an emergency measure; it consumed too much Fantasy Point energy, and the returns were not always guaranteed.

But with the situation being critical, he couldn't afford to worry about that now.

Fantasy Manifestation, as the name implied, was the act of turning drama within fantasy into reality.

It was an ability that directly interfered with reality—one could say it was a modification of reality—so the consumption of Fantasy Points was naturally exorbitant.

If not for this, Su Yun could have simply manifested a whole army of powerful anime girls and steamrolled every single Mystery disaster. There would have been no need to go through the trouble of creating a global livestream light-curtain projection just to collect Fantasy Points!

In fact, even if he wanted to use Fantasy Manifestation now, the Fantasy Points Su Yun currently held were nowhere near enough.

Su Yun was actually relying on the effect of today's livestream, which had caused people across the world to fantasize that Artoria was King Arthur, thereby imbuing the girl with a layer of King Arthur's Fantasy Points.

What Su Yun did was combine the Fantasy Points from both sources to achieve the Fantasy Manifestation.

At the same time, achieving this kind of manifestation required more than just having both sets of Fantasy Points.

To succeed, Su Yun also had to obtain the target's favorability. Only after raising their favorability to a certain level could he utilize the Fantasy Points attached to them; otherwise, the two sets of Fantasy Points would fail to resonate.

This was quite complex and troublesome.

Su Yun wasn't looking for extra work by making the system he built so complicated; rather, the more precise the "settings" and the more refined the details, the fewer Fantasy Points were consumed.

The system itself was a mindless artificial idiot. If the commands Su Yun input were not detailed enough, it was prone to bugs, wasting Fantasy Points for nothing.

If one were to treat Su Yun's situation as developing a game, the so-called Fantasy Points were the funds held by the project team. As the project lead, his job was to spend those funds where they mattered most.

It was common knowledge that the more detailed a project's planning, the more costs could be saved.

What Su Yun did was continuously refine and concretize the system's functions, adding every detail he could think of.

Only in this way could every bit of Fantasy Point energy be spent on the cutting edge.

Ultimately, it was because he was poor.

If he had tens of billions of Fantasy Points, Su Yun wouldn't bother with these details. He would simply provide a goal and let the system consume a massive amount of points to refine the details and execute the plan on its own.

When the Fantasy Manifestation function was activated, the scene before Su Yun changed. A mouse, a keyboard, and a massive 50-inch monitor appeared in the void before him.

However, these were visible and tangible only to him; they were manifested by the system.

The content displayed on the giant monitor was the location where Artoria was.

It was clear to see a strange, transparent woman closing in on Artoria, who was slumped on the ground, surrounded by several corpses in gruesome states.

Seeing this, Su Yun narrowed his eyes, a cold glint flashing within them. He then placed his hands on the mouse and keyboard to initiate the Fantasy Manifestation.

Much like controlling a character from a third-person perspective, in Su Yun's field of vision, his own Fantasy Points attached themselves to Artoria, merging with the Fantasy Points already on her.

The latter had initially resisted, but upon sensing that the incoming Fantasy Points originated from Su Yun—and given Artoria's high favorability toward him—they ceased their resistance and merged with his.

In an instant, a girl knight appeared in the void, looking exactly like Artoria herself, but clad in blue and white dress armor.

Clicking the left mouse button, a fierce attack instantly shattered the assault from the Mystery.

Facing the stunned Artoria, the girl knight spoke on her own.

"I ask of you, are you my reincarnation?"

It wasn't Su Yun controlling her; the girl knight of the Fantasy Manifestation had asked it herself.

This was the result of the character settings.

The same principle applied: the more refined the settings, the lower the Fantasy Point consumption, and the better the manifestation effect.

For Su Yun, just as he was doing now, the manifested character was a controlled game character whose every word and personality trait were pre-set.

Without a doubt, the figure of the girl knight was the holy King Arthur in Su Yun's mind, none other than the renowned Saber from the world of anime.

It was fortunate that Su Yun had been a devious game designer before he transmigrated; otherwise, he would never have been able to navigate these complex system settings.

Nothing else, just pure familiarity.

At this very moment, if only there were some background music, it would be perfect.

At the very least, a melodious and ethereal melody began to play involuntarily in Artoria's own mind, fitting the current scene with incomparable beauty.

Just then, Artoria saw the girl opposite her—who looked exactly like her—suddenly swing her right hand backward. It seemed as if she were holding something, causing the light in that area to distort.

Then, with a sharp swish, it sounded as if something invisible had been sliced open, creating a gust of wind. The terrifying and mysterious Songstress was clearly stunned for a moment.

It seemed... unable to understand why.

The girl knight then glanced back at the Songstress, her face cold and her eyes filled with obvious disgust: "What a nauseating demon! Even those man-eating magical beasts do not make me feel as repulsed as you do!"

As these words were spoken, the Songstress's killing mechanism triggered once again, yet every strike was blocked and severed by the weapon in the girl knight's hand, the form of which remained unclear. Not a single blow could harm her.

Even though a Mystery was a terrifying entity that humans could not contend with, once its means of killing were directly suppressed, its level of terror dropped significantly.

For instance, right now, under the gaze of Artoria's wide, beautiful eyes, the girl knight suddenly moved, rushing before the Songstress with incomparable momentum.

Following that, a slash sharper than the speed of sound erupted.

Accompanied by a violent gust of air, the Songstress's body was severed, and the raging currents instantly tore her remains to shreds.

The entire process was clean and efficient, as if she had merely cut down an insignificant mob.

The battle had only just begun, and it was already over.

A Level 4 Mystery that humans could not resist appeared so weak and fragile before the girl knight, who had been formed from human fantasy.