His Identity Is Exposed
"Yes, senior."
"But what was that just now?"
"I don't know, senior. Not to mention this era, even in our time, such a thing didn't exist."
"This era? Mash Kyrielight, this thing appeared in this era..."
"It's not in the records, senpai." Mash Kyrielight shook her head. "Perhaps these things are the cause of this Singularity, or something like that. This deduction should be correct."
"Singularity, or a special point, is a peculiar region in physics that can shatter the entire order of spacetime. It also has mathematical significance." The sudden voice made the two turn around and look at the owner of the voice.
He was dressed in a trench coat and even wore a top hat, looking like a man from England in the last century.
Upon seeing each other, both Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight showed expressions of surprise.
They had seen this person before; he was the 49th eligible candidate. But shouldn't he be outside? He hadn't even come to participate in the experiment!
"I've finally found you, Miss Mash Kyrielight and Miss Ritsuka Fujimaru." Mephistopheles took off his hat, gave the two a slight bow, and then put his hat back on, displaying the same polite manners befitting his status as an English gentleman.
"Hello, you are..." Ritsuka Fujimaru racked her brains for a moment, then recalled the other person's name, "Mr. Mephistopheles Fraga McRemitz."
Because the other party was so overly polite, Ritsuka Fujimaru couldn't help but use a respectful title as well.
"Hello, Senior McRemitz," Mash Kyrielight said immediately.
"Just call me Mephistopheles, you two. There's no need to be so formal. If it's alright, I'd also like to address you as Mash Kyrielight and Ritsuka."
The two naturally had no objections to this, and Mash Kyrielight even immediately changed her mind.
"Yes, Mephistopheles."
"No need to call me senior. Actually, in Chaldea, you are the senior." Mephistopheles shook his head and walked over, but this made Mash Kyrielight reveal a hint of inferiority. "No, my status is different. In my opinion, everyone in Chaldea is my senior."
"Then let's just call you Mephistopheles. I'm not really used to honorifics," Mephistopheles said, glancing at the surrounding remains of creatures.
"These inanimate objects, born from the combination of human corpses and spiritual particles, are summoned as puppets. You are indeed powerful, managing to defeat them all."
Mephistopheles praised the two of them without hesitation.
In fact, Mephistopheles had already noticed the crisis the two were facing when they entered, but he did not intervene. Instead, he watched from mid-air, assessing their strength, and only landed after they had resolved the situation.
After all, this is their first battle, so it's best not to let them skip it.
"Ah, finally made contact! Hello, hello, this is the Chaldea Control Room, can you hear me?!"
A voice suddenly rang out, and a phantom appeared before them; it was Romani, the doctor from Chaldea.
Upon seeing the figure, Mash Kyrielight immediately reported, "This is Mash Kyrielight, a member of Team A. She has successfully transferred to Singularity F."
"The two companions were Ritsuka Fujimaru Mephistopheles McRemitz, both of whom were in good physical and mental condition."
"Ritsuka Fujimaru's Spiritron Transfer Adaptability and Master Adaptability are both excellent. Please register Ritsuka Fujimaru as a full-fledged investigator."
Romani looked surprised as Mash Kyrielight spoke.
"Oh? The McRemitz kid is here too?!"
"Yes, I'm here too, Dr. Roman. And you can just call me Mephistopheles, no need to be so polite." Mephistopheles moved his body in front of the phantom. Clearly, this doctor, besides being busy with treatment, even took the time to contact the people inside the Singularity.
This level of control is something that shouldn't be a capability of an ordinary doctor.
Mephistopheles, who knew Romani's true identity, laughed and said, "Perfect leadership skills... I think you're actually more suitable to be the actual controller of Chaldea."
"You can't say that, Mephistopheles. I'm just an ordinary person who's been cramming at the last minute." Romani chuckled dryly, then added, "And you? How's your adaptability to Spiritron Transfer?"
"I'm fine. I don't experience any problems with either Spiritron Transfer or spatial transfer," Mephistopheles said, even extending his hand. "You can check if you don't believe me."
Mash Kyrielight immediately examined it, then frowned slightly. "Strange, it's a completely physical body, with no trace of any Spiritron Transfer!"
"There's only one possibility for this: a perfect Spiritron Transfer, reaching the theoretically achievable limit." Dr. Roman frowned, his eyes filled with doubt and scrutiny as he looked at Mephistopheles. "But that's impossible."
"I also have some understanding of Magecraft based on the element of nothingness."
"Void... space?" Dr. Roman nodded slightly after hearing this explanation. It was indeed a reason. If the manipulation of space reached a very strong level, then completely avoiding the drawbacks of Spiritron Transfer would not be a problem.
But is this McRemitz's adopted son really that powerful?
However, at this point, Romani decided to temporarily set aside thinking about this problem, or rather, not to think about it openly.
He shouted at Mash Kyrielight.
"Mash Kyrielight, what's with this outfit?! It's shameless! I don't remember ever raising you to be this kind of child!"
Mash Kyrielight's face flushed slightly. "I've transformed... because Chaldea's uniform can't protect you, Senpai."
"Transformation? You said transformation? What are you talking about, Mash Kyrielight? Did you get your head stuck in a door? Or is it really because of what happened earlier that you..."
Faced with the doctor's incessant chatter, Mash Kyrielight immediately used a powerful interruption technique. "Dr. Roman, shut up!"
This angry rebuke silenced Romani. Despite claiming to be from the lowest rung of society, he brazenly interrupted King Solomon with verbal violence. Mash Kyrielight, what a formidable human.
"Please check my status; I think that will help you understand the situation."
"Check your physical condition?" Romani said as he began the examination, then let out a howl like a primitive man who had regressed to his ancestral state.
"Your physical attributes and magical circuits have all improved! You're more like a human than a human..."
"Yes, I became a Servant. Although I don't remember what happened, it seems that I survived by merging with a Servant."
"This time, in order to investigate and resolve Singularity F, Chaldea prepared a Servant in advance. However, that Servant lost his Master due to the previous explosion and was destined to disappear. But at the moment before he disappeared, he asked me to renounce the contract. He transferred his abilities as Heroic Spirit and his Noble Phantasm to me. In exchange, he hoped that I could eliminate the cause of the Singularity."
"The union of Heroic Spirit and Servant, Demi-Servant... Chaldea's sixth experiment, so that's how it is. It's finally a success. So, do you have the consciousness of Heroic Spirit within you?"
"No, he disappeared after entrusting his combat abilities to me."
Watching Romani and Mash Kyrielight's conversation, Mephistopheles and Ritsuka Fujimaru stood aside like two outsiders.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mephistopheles spoke with Ritsuka Fujimaru, the legendary evil among humans, known as the Demon King Gudako.
At this point, they were clearly still in a relatively innocent and kind state.
"Ritsuka, do you want to learn how to infuse Servants with a massive amount of magical power at once, allowing them to unleash tremendous combat power instantly?"
"A massive infusion of magical power at once? Unleashing tremendous combat strength?" Ritsuka Fujimaru pondered this with some doubt, then, based on her experience playing games, asked with some concern, "Won't that be dangerous?!"
"No, it's very safe. I can teach you if you want to learn!"
Just in case, he felt it was necessary to teach Ritsuka Fujimaru some combat techniques that Master didn't need to know.
To avoid situations where you end up being thrown out of this world and having to find your way back.
Ritsuka Fujimaru pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Learn!"
Chapter 126 My Identity Has Been Exposed
However, Mephistopheles's conversation with Ritsuka Fujimaru did not continue, let alone Mephistopheles's plan to teach Ritsuka Fujimaru some new skills.
After Romani and Mash Kyrielight talked for a while, they changed the subject to Mephistopheles.
"Mephistopheles, you come from a legitimate family of Magecraft. Ritsuka Fujimaru doesn't have this knowledge, so you'll have to lend a hand later..."
"No problem, I was just talking about this with Ritsuka, planning to pass on some of my knowledge to him." Mephistopheles nodded immediately.
Romani was taken aback by this reaction; he hadn't expected Mephistopheles to be so agreeable.
However, at the same time, he also began to have some doubts.
"Wait a minute, Mephistopheles, what's wrong with your health?"
What's wrong with my health?
"No, it's nothing..." Romani shook his head, not saying much, but there was obvious doubt in his eyes.
Seeing the other person's reaction, Mephistopheles immediately asked, "What exactly did you see? If there's something wrong with my body, I think you should just say it directly, instead of hiding it like this."
"No, you are very healthy, healthier than I expected."
Mephistopheles became even more curious. "Beyond your expectations?"
At this moment, Mash Kyrielight and Ritsuka Fujimaru to the side, also seemed very curious.
"In my conversation with Mash Kyrielight just now, Mash Kyrielight Demi-Servant, successfully transforming into a combination of human and Servant, thus surpassing humanity in every aspect and reaching a non-human level."
"But your body clearly has this tendency as well... Although the numbers aren't as exaggerated as Mash Kyrielight's, on average, your physical strength has indeed surpassed that of humans."
"But this shouldn't be happening... Demi-Servant can't be transformed so easily, otherwise there would be no need to conduct experiments. Besides, you are indeed human; the tests have confirmed that you are human now, and not something else..."
Using the machines inside Chaldea, Romani glanced at the numbers on the screen and spoke to Mephistopheles.
"You're in good health, so I didn't think I needed to tell you... but since you've brought it up, I might as well explain."
As Romani finished speaking, he sighed silently, feeling as if he hadn't said it directly, making him seem like a villain hiding a secret.
"Well... it's simply because my body is special. If you consider me a special individual, like a Servant, that's fine too." Mephistopheles smiled, not hiding anything. He had thought there was something wrong with his body, but it turned out to be due to his Servant constitution.
"To treat you as a servant?"
Not only Romani, but Mash Kyrielight also expressed surprise.
Ritsuka Fujimaru had also done some supplementary research, so she could understand the term "Servant," and was therefore quite surprised. "You're a Servant?!"
"You're not trying to say I'm already dead, are you?"
"No, but Servants aren't all people who died in history or are from mythology..."
"Actually, it's possible that the future could come too, it's uncertain, because the Throne of Heroes where the Servant's true form resides is separate from the timeline." Mephistopheles shook his head, correcting Ritsuka Fujimaru's understanding, and then said, "What I mean by 'you can treat me as a Servant' is that my body is special and can be regarded as a Servant, but I am human, so you should also treat me as a human body."
"You're practically saying that you were born from a combination of human and Servant characteristics." Romani shook his head, feeling that such a thing was highly improbable. If it were really that simple, then what about the experiments Mash Kyrielight had endured all these years?
Unless, of course, the House McRemitz is also secretly conducting such experiments.
But does the House McRemitz have that much money to squander? Chaldea's daily expenses are astronomical.
In the end, Romani could only attribute it to something he himself was unaware of, and did not inquire further.
At the same time, he felt much more at ease. He was initially worried because only Mash Kyrielight was with him, but now that Mephistopheles's physique was close to that of a relatively weak Servant, surpassing that of an ordinary human, the mission to Singularity F should be much safer.
"Now, let me explain the situation. Move about two kilometers from where you are now. There's a place with a very strong spiritual vein there. Once you get there, you can stabilize communication with me. This is your first mission. But please be careful and don't act recklessly. This way..."
Before he could finish speaking, the communication was cut off, and Mephistopheles and the others looked at each other.
Then, Mash Kyrielight said, "The communication is down, what do we do now?"
Ritsuka Fujimaru seemed quite enthusiastic. "Let's head towards our destination, but did he mention the direction?"
"The doctor couldn't send the coordinates directly, probably because the communication was cut off too suddenly. I can sense that the spiritual energy over there is stronger, and if you look at the direction, it's heading this way." Mash Kyrielight sensed the direction and then pointed to a place.
Mephistopheles didn't look in the direction he was looking at. He had already sensed the general situation in the vicinity when he came in. At this moment, he was looking at the creature that looked like a dog and a fox at the same time, Fou.
The legendary Primate Murder, whose real name is Cath Palug, is an existence on par with the Demon God King Goetia, also known as a beast.
If we had to put it simply, Fou is the strongest life form on the planet created by Gaia's consciousness, commonly known as UO, which is short for Ultimate One, meaning the final and only one.
It can be said that planets such as the Moon and Mercury all have their own Ultimate Outer Universes (UOs), which are incredibly powerful. However, Earth is an anomaly. Its UO is incomplete, and in some timelines, it has even been tricked by the UOs of other planets.
In addition, with the continuous emergence of all sorts of bizarre phenomena on Earth, in some ways, Earth has embarked on a completely different path from other planets.
Mephistopheles couldn't help but laugh as he watched this Primate Murder, whose sole purpose was to kill humans, perched on Mash Kyrielight's chest every day.
"I created the strongest holy son to destroy the demon race!"
"Wow, that's amazing! So, what about this Holy Son?"
"He's been seduced by the Demon Saintess, and he's always clinging to her chest!"
"Wow, they really did target the demons, they even managed to win over the demon saintess!"
"..."
When Mephistopheles first saw this concept, this was probably the idea that came to mind.
At this moment, Mephistopheles walked up and gently reached out his hand, wanting to touch the beast. After all, it was covered in fur, and just by looking at it, he knew it would feel very comfortable to touch.
As a result, upon seeing Mephistopheles's hand, Fou immediately leaped off Mash Kyrielight's chest, ran behind Mash Kyrielight, and bared her teeth at Mephistopheles.
He looked like he was both scared and disliked it, but he didn't dare to do anything about it.
"Eh? Sorry, it doesn't usually like being with people, Ritsuka- senpai is an exception, I guess." Mash Kyrielight apologized to Mephistopheles in a low voice.
"As expected of a beast, its instincts are quite powerful..." Mephistopheles muttered to himself, withdrawing his hand.
He guessed that it was some of his own traits that caused Fou's reaction; after all, some of his traits made him extremely lethal to enemies of humanity.
Primate Murder are also enemies of humanity.
Moreover, he followed the path of Kabbalah, which has a restraining effect on such beings as Dead Apostle.