"Befriend in obscurity, do not bully a young man in poverty."
Bai Luo's voice echoed in the Ice Empress's ears.
Clearly, this was the true lesson Bai Luo wanted to convey to the Ice Empress.
"I understand."
The Ice Empress's mood improved greatly.
Knowing that Bai Luo's defense of Fran was actually a sign of his high expectations for her, the Ice Empress's depression vanished, and she gained a clear understanding of her position under Bai Luo.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have said that about you."
The Ice Empress apologized to Fran, who, upon seeing this, let out a few 'ah ah ah' cries before shifting her attention back to her Master.
"So, is Fran going to become Bai Luo's subordinate too?"
Egui Peng bit her finger, looking at the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, then at Bai Luo, with a bewildered expression.
Simple Pokémon couldn't understand the complex thoughts of adults.
"No."
Bai Luo looked at his attribute panel, then shook his head regretfully: "Unfortunately, Heroic Spirit summoning can't exploit the loophole of the King of All Spirits."
"Fran is just my Heroic Spirit, not a subordinate."
One of Bai Luo's purposes in performing Heroic Spirit summoning was to try and see if he could expand the number of subordinate slots through this method.
It now seemed that this plan had failed.
"However, it's not without good news."
Through this Heroic Spirit summoning, Violet collected some important information.
One of these points was that Bai Luo could retain the souls of the Heroic Spirits he possessed.
For example, Fran.
If Bai Luo wished, he could completely take her soul and then, in the Cardinal World, create a new body for her.
Through this method, Bai Luo could indirectly steal the Heroic Spirits of this world.
And as long as Fran entered the Cardinal World, Violet could help her obtain a green card, allowing her to receive the world's voice's blessing.
The race of Heroic Spirits, vast magic essence, and various skills.
According to Violet's estimation, Fran's potential after arriving in the Cardinal World would be no less than Shion and Zhu Cai; she would be another high-end combat talent seed.
"Moreover, don't underestimate Fran."
"Her inherent ability, 'Electromaster,' is exactly the power we need."
Bai Luo's Heroic Spirit body was anchored to Sakura.
His existence constantly drained Sakura's magical energy.
Even though Sakura was incredibly talented, the magical energy within her body was more abundant than that of an ordinary mage.
However, a six-year-old girl simply couldn't support Bai Luo in full-strength combat.
But now, it was fine.
With the magical energy provided by Ryudoji Temple, Bai Luo could unleash the power of his Heroic Spirit template to its fullest extent.
(aeae) As for Fran,
she belonged to the type that could fight freely once fully charged, requiring no concern from Bai Luo.
The source of her electricity was the magical energy freely floating in the air.
And with Ryudoji Temple's ley line, Fran could complete her charging in the shortest possible time.
Most importantly!
Even after Fran's magical energy was full, she could still absorb the ambient magical energy from the outside world; she just couldn't store any more.
"Could it be?!"
At this moment, everyone realized Fran's importance to them.
Name: Frankenstein
Magical Energy Recovery: 40/hour
"Isn't it great to have a free combatant who doesn't need to be supported and can even increase our magical energy recovery?"
To be honest, compared to Changjiang Knight, Bai Luo still preferred Fran.
There was no other way; Changjiang Knight consumed too much magical energy.
Supplying him with magical energy was less efficient than giving it to Zi Yuan and Peng Peng; they were not inferior to Changjiang Knight at all.
Unlike Fran, she not only cost nothing, being free labor,
but also increased magical energy recovery by 40 points, on top of Sakura's original 10 points and the ley line's 100 points.
"But, 40 points, isn't that a bit too much?"
Snow Empress was a bit curious; Fran herself wasn't strong, yet her magical energy extraction from the Greater Holy Grail reached four times that of Sakura.
It was truly unbelievable.
"Because of this place."
Bai Luo pointed to his feet: "Fran's inherent ability absorbs the ambient magical energy from the outside world."
"And what we are doing now is releasing the magical energy accumulated for hundreds of years from the ley line beneath Ryudoji Temple."
This release required a corresponding magical energy extraction array.
But no matter what kind of array it was, there would always be waste, and the proportion wasn't small.
For every 100 points of magical energy Bai Luo extracted from the ley line, nearly 60 points of magical energy were wasted.
"Coincidentally, Fran can reuse this part of the magical energy."
As a result, Bai Luo's magical energy recovery efficiency increased from the initial 0 to the current 150 points per hour.
And in just 100 hours, which is five days, Bai Luo would be able to fully display the power of [Demon Country from Another World].
By then, no plans would be necessary.
He could just charge in and sweep through this Holy Grail War!
"Kirei Kotomine's Heroic Spirit is still the original Assassin."
"Tokiomi Tohsaka's Jin Shan Shan also hasn't changed."
On the first night of the Holy Grail War, which was the second night after Fran was summoned,
Bai Luo, who was staying in Ryudoji Temple, received news that Assassin had trespassed into the Tohsaka residence and was then powerfully annihilated by Jin Shan Shan.
This scene was exactly the same as in the original work, purely a self-directed performance by Tokiomi Tohsaka and Kirei Kotomine.
"Aside from Caster and Lancer, who have not yet been discovered, the identities of the other Heroic Spirits have been confirmed."
Cang Ying knelt on one knee, reporting to Bai Luo the information collected by the Oniwaban Ogres in various parts of the city: "This morning, a white-haired beauty accompanied by a blonde woman dressed as a butler appeared in Fuyuki City's shopping district."
"A burly red-haired man also appeared beside a young man named Waver."
"Artoria and Iskandar."
"Knight King and Conqueror have also arrived."
Knowing that these three had successfully descended into the Holy Grail War, Bai Luo's hanging heart finally settled: "Very good, our targets are mostly here. The remaining Caster and Lancer are irrelevant."
What Bai Luo wanted was King's Treasure and Inherent Barrier.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Bai Luo and Cang Ying, who were sitting in the room, felt an invisible fighting intent emanating from the void.
"This blatant fighting intent is too arrogant."
Ice Empress appeared behind Bai Luo, her arms crossed, her expression displeased: "Do you need me to go eliminate him?"
"I agree with Ice Empress's suggestion."
Zi Yuan eagerly said: "Let me go; I'll definitely chop that guy into pieces!"
"Don't be so irritable, you two."
Bai Luo slowly got up. He instructed Zhu Cai to take good care of Sakura, then headed towards the direction from which the fighting intent originated: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the scene of Di Lu Mu Duo and Daimao Wang's first encounter."
"Let's go, we'll join the fun too!"
At the same time, at the container street at the mouth of the Miyo River in Fuyuki City, a warrior holding two guns and a knight princess in blue and white armor were engaged in a fierce offensive and defensive battle.