The London Singularity / Loli

"I'm an expert, after all, qualified to guide others through the basics," Mephistopheles said, pointing to the thin notebook. "Understood it?"

"It's very simple. Even an ordinary person with no True Magic background can easily understand it. Besides, I have enough Magecraft knowledge, and many parts are interchangeable." Olga Marie raised her head with some pride. "Are you underestimating me?"

"Oh? Then let me test you?"

"I only said I understood it, I haven't finished memorizing it yet!" Olga Marie immediately said.

"Alright, you can learn first. After you've finished learning, I can teach you Planetary Magic."

"Planetary Magic?"

"Yes, Planetary Magic. Isn't your family primarily based on Astral Magic? I think Planetary Magic might be more suitable for you." Mephistopheles smiled and explained his planned True Magic teaching for the other party. "But let me make it clear first, I mainly follow Kabbalah. Even with Planetary Magic, I will mainly teach you how to obtain the power of angels by relying on planets. I won't teach you anything else."

"The power to summon angels based on planets?"

"That's right. Planets have corresponding angelic symbols. What we need are just the symbols, not the magical power of celestial bodies like in celestial True Magic. We use the symbols to summon angels and obtain their help. That's true Planetary Magic."

As Mephistopheles spoke, he mentioned that he had also studied celestial True Magic. When celestial True Magic was practiced to a high level, one could even use celestial bodies to construct large Magic Circuits, obtain enormous magical power, and cast powerful spells.

If I had to use a metaphor, it would be like the energy techniques (magic) used in cultivation novels and fantasy novels to draw upon the spiritual power (True Magic) between heaven and earth.

However, as a True Magic theory based on itself, it mainly relies on its own power and pays more attention to the inner self. Planetary Magic does not require the magic power of planets, but simply symbolic concepts.

Mephistopheles suddenly felt a sense of anticipation, wondering if he could see the Director of Chaldea standing in front of him in the future, directly summoning the Angelic Power using the symbol of the planet, and then fighting against those who opposed Chaldea, bombarding them relentlessly.

I'm getting a little excited just thinking about it!

"By the way, why do I need to learn Numerology Magic?"

Olga Marie suddenly asked.

Mephistopheles chuckled, "Because there's also the concept of numbers in Planetary Magic."

"Hmm? They're all connected?!"

"The same number may have different meanings, but you can deflect it yourself. For example, in Planetary Magic, you can directly use a number to refer to the planet you want to summon, and then refer to that planet to the Angelic Power you want to summon."

"Of course, you can also choose to exchange the power of other gods corresponding to the planets. For example, with the moon, I can use the moon to summon the power of Gabriel, or I can choose to summon the power of the moon goddess. If the power shifts again at this time, I can also rely on the moon goddess's feminine qualities to summon the power of other supreme feminine beings in mythology."

"Does the negative exist in a supreme way?"

"For example, Gaia from Greece mythology, Izanami from Japan mythology, and so on, can all be associated with and then summoned."

"Even, one could rely on this symbolism to invoke extremely dangerous beings, such as the Mother of the Black Goat from the Cthulhu Mythos."

Mephistopheles smiled slightly as he said this.

"Hmm, but it's a bit difficult. I can't summon things casually right now. I probably need to improve again."

Chapter 167 London Singularity

As the current head of the Animusphere family and the director of Chaldea, Olga Marie is actually quite talented and has a strong learning ability. In Mephistopheles's words, someone like Olga Marie would definitely become a very powerful True Magic in the world of A Certain Magical Index.

Even in places like the Britain Anglican Church, it was entirely possible to obtain a sufficiently high position.

However, this is the Type-Moon World. Without Mephistopheles, her ending would either be laughable or tragic; in any case, it wouldn't be good.

After several days of instruction from Mephistopheles, she has finally learned quite a bit. In the practice room, she is using the True Magic she has learned to test her current strength.

"The soul itself is also a kind of life force. It is possible for you to transform your own soul into magic to cast spells. However, remember that you are only using your own magic to change the state within your body, not to directly change the external world with magic. Do you understand?"

Mephistopheles offered a reminder from the side.

Hearing Mephistopheles's words, Olga Marie nodded. "I understand, you've said it so many times, I won't make that mistake!"

"Alright, let's begin." Mephistopheles nodded, watching Olga Marie begin casting the True Magic spell.

There's a reason he's reminded her so many times. Olga Marie is now a pure soul. If she were to rely on her own magic to perform Magecraft like Magecraft in the Type-Moon World, that part of her magic would be directly depleted. As a result, she would have to rely on external magic to replenish herself.

Although Mephistopheles is currently providing the magic, Mephistopheles is not sure if something might happen to him. If he were to be thrown into another world, Olga Marie, who would be without his contact, would need to minimize her own magic consumption.

Therefore, Mephistopheles's demand of Olga Marie these days is to completely abandon the spellcasting methods of the Type-Moon Magecraft.

His requirements for Olga Marie were simple: she didn't need to be so powerful as to defeat her opponents, but at least she needed to be able to protect herself. That would be enough.

Olga Marie's hands and feet underwent some changes; she altered her posture, a posture that instantly gave her body a certain tilt.

As she moved, a faint magical energy began to appear in the room and started to gather.

That was the power of fire; the flames transformed into thumb-sized fireballs that began to swirl around him, like a protective ring of flames.

However, this is not a protective circle, but a kind of fire spell for attack. High-speed flying fireballs, although each one is not very powerful, the large number of fireballs will continuously attack the target, just like machine gun bullets firing in succession.

Then, all of these fireballs were fired!

"Boom!"

Black Jeanne Alter, acting as the target, immediately drew her weapon and swung it. The moment the fireballs collided with Jeanne's, they all exploded!

The flames, mixed with violent power, caused the air to spread as well, turning into a shockwave.

After using her weapon to block all the fireballs, Black Jeanne lightly pushed off with her feet and charged forward.

Black Jeanne is a Servant, and a very strong one at that. Even without using her full strength, she is still not someone an ordinary Magecraft can handle!

Olga Marie felt a surge of tension as she watched Black Jeanne charge towards her, but she did not back down. Instead, she began to cast a new True Magic spell.

This time, the power of the wind appeared, swirling around her and increasing her speed considerably. She moved at an extremely fast pace, dodging Black Jeanne's attack.

This method of using magic to accelerate oneself is not only used by Servants, but also by Magecraft. However, these methods consume magic power, and using them for too long will leave one without any magic power, and may even endanger one's life.

However, the spell at this time does not directly consume magic power. The circulation of magic power and life force in her body is like a perpetual motion machine, allowing her to continuously cast this special True Magic and keep her speed at a high level.

The earth bulged up, forming several sharp spikes that transformed into the fiercest blades, stabbing upwards towards Black Jeanne!

Black Jeanne Alter immediately leaped and rolled to avoid the attack, but the bulge continued to rise, with sharp spikes constantly emerging from the ground, almost relentlessly chasing after Black Jeanne Alter, as if trying to capture her.

This battle didn't seem like True Magic at all; it was more like superpowers.

"A good choice. Relying on the advantage of the ground to constantly suppress the Servants, thus preventing them from launching more attacks on you." Black Jeanne praised Olga Marie while dodging the spikes that kept emerging from below her.

Mephistopheles's boss, although he seemed weak at first, has become much more skilled after learning from Mephistopheles for a while.

If the opponent encounters a weaker or more common Servant, Olga Marie might actually be able to overpower the Servant head-on, or even kill it!

But she was different; her strength was far beyond what ordinary Servants could match!

As Black Jeanne thought this, she increased her speed and power.

Thus, the battle, which was originally evenly matched, began to show signs of weakness. The ground spikes that could previously be used to interfere with Black Jeanne Alter became less effective as Black Jeanne's speed increased.

Olga Marie watched as Black Jeanne suddenly accelerated, her eyes fixed on her figure. She controlled her True Magic spells, and the earth spikes she summoned continued to appear, relentlessly pursuing the creature.

However, as the opponent's speed increased, the ground spikes struggled to catch up and became less of a threat.

Finally, Black Jeanne held her weapon to Olga Marie's neck, and Black Jeanne laughed, "You lost."

"Yes, I lost..." Olga Marie sighed with some regret, but she didn't seem sad at all; in fact, she looked rather happy.

Even though Black Jeanne had gone easy on her, the fact that she could now fight against Servants made her extremely happy.

Black Jeanne's act of holding back doesn't mean she's at the level of an ordinary person; rather, it means she's fighting as a relatively weak Servant.

Therefore, Olga Marie can indeed fight against weaker Servants without being at a disadvantage, and can even turn the tables on her target!

After the battle was over, Mephistopheles went up to the other person and handed him a handkerchief.

"What are you doing?"

Wipe your sweat.

Olga Marie said "Oh," and took the handkerchief. Just as she was about to put it back in her bag, she suddenly remembered something and said to Mephistopheles, "I'm a ghost now, I don't sweat!"

"It's okay, you can leave it and use it later when you sweat."

"You! I need to get back to normal before I can sweat!"

"It will definitely recover, don't worry!"

Can it really be restored?

"I have a wealth of experience; I can definitely restore it!"

Inside the room, the conversation between Mephistopheles and Olga Marie grew increasingly lively.

However, this period of peace did not last long, as a new mission was about to begin.

"Nothing unusual happened during King Solomon's time," Romani said to Mephistopheles and Leonardo da Vinci.

After learning the purpose of the Demon Pillar, Romani planned to explore those places. After investigating the history of King Solomon, he found that the history had not changed at all.

"Is it possible that we've missed something?" Leonardo da Vinci said. "For example, we should examine the timeline after King Solomon's death, since he became Heroic Spirit."

Romani glanced at Leonardo da Vinci with some displeasure. "Isn't that necessary?"

Looking at Romani like this, Leonardo da Vinci knew that the other man was expressing his dissatisfaction.

"Actually, I think it's correct to investigate the time after death," Mephistopheles suddenly said. "All the accidents happened after King Solomon's death. In other words, the king's passing caused problems with the original system of the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars."

Mephistopheles chuckled as he said this, "If I weren't currently unable to go directly to the outside world, I would definitely go and see where King Solomon was buried, to see if his body is still there."

Upon hearing Mephistopheles's words, Romani and Leonardo da Vinci fell silent. They pondered Mephistopheles's words, and after a while, Romani said, "You mean, they used King Solomon's remains, wanting to use them to perform Magecraft that they couldn't normally use?"

"That's right. After all, it is the remains of King Solomon. Its special nature brings special uses. For example, it can be used directly as a special Magecraft tool, similar to a costume. Or even directly possess King Solomon's body and control this corpse that has an extremely strong grasp of Magecraft. That's entirely possible, isn't it?"

Mephistopheles's words silenced Romani and Leonardo da Vinci once again. After a long while, Romani nodded. "You're right. We do need to pay attention to these things. If we look at it this way, we need to examine the history after King Solomon's death, from the time of his death until how his body was disposed of."

"I think that's fine, so I'll leave this to you guys," Mephistopheles said with a grin. "After all, you are Chaldea's number one and number three Servants."

This made the two of them laugh, because Chaldea's first Servant was Romani's predecessor, King Solomon, while the third Servant was Leonardo da Vinci, who stayed behind to become a tech geek.

As for the second Servant, it is currently inside Mash Kyrielight's body, serving as a basic component of the Mash Kyrielight Demi-Servant.

After talking with Romani and Leonardo da Vinci, the three parted ways, Mephistopheles went to the Spiritron Transfer Hall.

Today is the day everyone sets off again.

With the activation of the Spiritron Transfer, the group left Chaldea and arrived in a city shrouded in mist.

Mash Kyrielight glanced at the system and immediately said, "We are currently in London, in 1888!"

"Although I know Britain is the foggy city, this fog is abnormally thick." Mephistopheles frowned and looked up at the sky. In the air, a huge halo was faintly visible, but the thick fog had even obscured most of it. If you looked ahead, you couldn't see very far.

"This mist is imbued with magic, not ordinary magic... This is the magic of the Great Source..." Mephistopheles said in a low voice, "This is poison to ordinary humans!"

As he spoke, he glanced at Ritsuka Fujimaru beside him. Among the ordinary people here, only Ritsuka Fujimaru was poisoned by this magic.

That's how it should have been.

But look at Ritsuka Fujimaru now; she's clearly unaffected. She even has the energy to look around, full of curiosity about her surroundings.

"I had a dream about this place," Ritsuka Fujimaru said. "I dreamt of a woman who lost her strength in this fog, unable to escape, and was then killed by a mysterious being."

Mephistopheles immediately became interested. "Tell me in detail, who did it?"

"One, one of the killers who looked rather young, maybe a girl, was saying something like 'Mom, I'm going in,' and I had a bad feeling about her."

Mephistopheles quickly asked, "A girl? Is she a child?"

"Yes, it should be a child. Judging from what she said, she seems very attached to her mother, and when she killed someone, she was calling for her mother." Mash Kyrielight frowned. "Could she be mentally unstable?"

Ritsuka Fujimaru added, "Or rather, a Servant with a problem with their brain. After all, being able to move around freely in this kind of environment, they're most likely a Servant, right?"

"That's right, most likely a Servant," Mephistopheles chuckled.

At that moment, Romani's voice came through the communicator.

"Tests have been conducted, and this isn't a dead city. Observe carefully; there are quite a few residents here. After all, this is London in 1888; there can't be a small population." Dr. Roman said, then seemed to be calculating something, before continuing after a while, "These people are all hiding in their homes, seemingly unwilling to go out, probably to avoid the Demon Fog in the streets."

"Because the magical toxins in the fog are deadly to ordinary people, so they're hiding indoors and not coming out?" Mephistopheles stroked his chin. "But if the root of the problem isn't solved, many more troublesome things will definitely arise later..."

Just as everyone was chatting, Black Jeanne suddenly gripped her weapon tightly and whispered, "Someone's coming!"

As she spoke, a woman in armor appeared not far away, scrutinizing the group with a critical gaze.

Chapter 168 Loli

The woman in armor looked at them and asked, "... Who are you?"

"Um... um... we are..." Mash Kyrielight began, seemingly hesitant about how to answer, as she needed to analyze the other party's identity first.

However, at this moment, the armored woman said, "To be able to breathe safely in this thick fog, you must not be an ordinary human. So, which side are you on? Are you friend or foe?"