In a Fit of Rage

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"And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea."

The little devil, Lu Mingze, stood on the rooftop of a tall building in the park, gazing at the rising flames in the distance, softly chanting, a small glass of Bordeaux red wine in his hand.

As the mastermind behind this entire war, Lu Mingze would, of course, appear here to observe carefully before the grand finale.

From the moment Shirou Emiya released the first Projected armament for "Fantasy Collapse," he had been watching from here.

"A very interesting approach, the path of Alchemy, 'Conceptual Armament,' where an Alchemist melts and reconstructs metaphysical concepts, forging them into weapons of extreme condensed existence."

"But he did the opposite, releasing this process in reverse… No, he injected elements to disrupt the overall precise structure of the Conceptual Armament, affecting the whole through a part, creating a large amount of elemental chaos like a domino effect, releasing the condensed, uncountable concepts visually in the form of an explosion—"

Lu Mingze muttered on the rooftop, watching the distant scene and facing the evening breeze, completely ignoring the certain homebody on the other end of the communication who couldn't understand a word.

Su Enxi's helpless tone came through the receiver.

"Boss, maybe you should find someone else to chat with?… Since you admire our Great Hero Emiya so much, why don't you show up in person and give him a couple of compliments?"

Even if you talk until the sky falls, Alchemy is just like math, if you don't understand it, you just don't understand it!

Su Enxi grumbled inwardly, then halfway through her thought, she realized something was off. Her Word of Power was "Heavenly Evolution," so math was much simpler for her than this Alchemy stuff!

"Nope, Enxi, that wouldn't be appropriate."

"Why not?" Su Enxi thought, the tasks you assign seem to revolve entirely around Emiya these days.

"This script is completely different," Lu Mingze's playful expression suddenly vanished. He spoke mysteriously, as if reciting some ethereal future destiny.

"The storm of a new era has arrived, and the immense power of destiny he carries will ultimately bring salvation to the world. Just as after the final judgment day, the saved believers will shout Hallelujah and ascend to the eternal kingdom."

"But before salvation, Satan will also be released from his prison, the evil in people's hearts will awaken the storm of worldly greed and the great wars of the nations on earth. We can be the force behind the storm, but we absolutely cannot be the first to throw ourselves into it."

"……"

Here we go again, here we go again.

Su Enxi thought to herself, this feeling of saying something but also saying nothing is back, our familiar riddle-master boss has returned. It feels right.

"...Oh! My brilliant and wise boss, where should our sword be pointed now?"

Su Enxi cleared her throat, her tone instantly deepening, also adopting a look of being deeply engrossed in the role.

Since you don't plan to meet Great Hero Emiya, but want to continue directing from behind the scenes, then you must have your next plan, right?

In response to her question, Lu Mingze simply snapped his fingers, "Enxi, you're in charge of the command for the Chen Family manor's lockdown force, right?"

"Ah, yes, that Wa Lord from the Zhou Family dumped all the Noble Families in this area for me to command."

Su Enxi originally didn't have this job and could have comfortably lounged around drinking and sleeping on the sofa. Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, her old partner Jiu De Mayi actually screwed her over.

So she got angry… and then just got a little angry.

Because she found there wasn't much to do in commanding this place.

Isn't it just about surrounding the manor and making sure the Chen Family personnel can't escape with wings? What's so difficult about that? How could that add more work for her?

She even prepared a large cup of popcorn, excitedly preparing to watch the Chen Family manor descend into internal strife – that is, the great drama of "Filial Daughter, Benevolent Father."

"Counting the time, that eldest daughter of the Chen Family should have found an opportunity to act."

"Really? Let me see… Wow, this girl is really decisive! She unexpectedly attacked from behind and stabbed her middle-aged father in the heart! The Ancient Dragon Serum effect is truly extraordinary, the bodyguard team couldn't react at all, everyone was shocked!"

Su Enxi immediately reported the live situation, shouting and stuffing popcorn into her mouth.

"Wow, that middle-aged father actually refused to just die like that, spitting blood while turning back to curse his daughter for daring to… Eh, wait, why did he only curse half a sentence before collapsing?"

Su Enxi's action of stuffing popcorn stopped in mid-air.

Hey, you're the head of the Chen Family, aren't you! How can you be like a regular cannon fodder villain, unable to withstand being stabbed in the heart?

At least hold on with your Hybrid physique and curse loudly, "How dare you assassinate the family head and harm your own father, my Chen Family has no unfilial daughter like you, Chen Motong! Someone, kill her!" or something… That's the only way the development makes sense, right?

"Don't worry, Enxi, it's still early for the story to end!"

Lu Mingze seemed confident about the situation, "Chen Motong's plotline of resisting her tyrannical father still needs some twists and turns."

"Wh-what twists and turns?"

Su Enxi suddenly became alert. Could it be… my job again?

"Go, Enxi, let's extend this drama of filial daughter and benevolent father… to its final conclusion."

Chen Family Manor.

The moment Father Chen collapsed, the bodyguards were shocked.

Having been responsible for protecting the family head all this time, they never imagined the possibility of him being assassinated by his most valued daughter. Moreover, with Nono's incredibly fast speed just now, they probably couldn't have reacted at all.

And the Gattuso personnel secretly responsible for protecting Nono were also shocked.

They had been instructed from above to only protect Nono and not other Chen Family members, nor to conflict with other Noble Families in Shenzhou.

But how should they handle a situation where Nono conflicts with her own Chen Family members?

The Chen Family had just established a friendly cooperative relationship with them, Gattuso. If Nono clashed with the angry Chen Family armed personnel seeking revenge for the family head, should they intervene?

But if they intervened, and Nono, their target, was protected, but it ruined the cooperative relationship and the marriage alliance between the Chen Family and Gattuso fell through, could they bear that responsibility?

Thinking of this, the Gattuso personnel were drenched in sweat. No, they had to quickly contact the acting head of the family, Lord Frost!

Ever since using the Ancient Dragon Serum, Nono had felt an explosive power surge from within her body. At the same time, chaotic, distant memories, seemingly from the depths of her soul, surfaced.

Sometimes she saw herself as a Priest dancing like a pure white elf, sometimes she saw herself sitting on a magnificent palanquin carried by hundreds of people, gazing at the horizon, sometimes she saw a huge black dragon roaring at her, who was pinned down by a sky-piercing bronze pillar, its massive, terrifying face filled with anger and sorrow...

But the moment she saw Father Chen, she forcibly suppressed all of it. The hatred, fueled by the tyrannical Dragon Blood, surged and replaced everything else.

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