Chapter 132: Melusine, Barghest, and Baobhan Sith
Rome indeed had considerable expertise in information control.
However, this expertise was limited to non-Age of Gods aspects. When it came to preventing Magecraft communications... rather than prevention, it would be more accurate to say that modern Rome no longer had Magecraft communications at all—even the Royal Magecraft Corps of Rome no longer practiced such arts.
Moreover, to prevent communication interference, Morgan had put significant effort into perfecting these communication spells.
Such Magecraft communications could function even if you infiltrated the Lady of the Lake's magical realm to send messages, let alone in Rome, which had no defenses against them at all.
In fact, if you were to report such a thing, Rome might even think you were insane.
Communicating with Britain while standing in Rome—wasn't that something only found in legends?
It couldn't possibly exist in reality!
Thus, they remained unaware that the measures decided upon by the imperial palace in the morning were learned by Morgan's spies in the afternoon, and by evening, intelligence on Rome's maritime defenses and troop deployment locations was already in Morgan's hands, personally delivered to Noah.
What is efficiency? This is efficiency!
While some commanders in Rome's army and navy had yet to receive the news, Noah already had it!
On average, Noah received information one to two days faster than Rome's execution departments!
So, upon seeing this intelligence—especially the timestamps noted on it—Noah couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
However, after his moment of reflection, he didn't immediately discuss the contents of the report. Instead, he turned his gaze to Morgan.
"Have you made progress in cultivating Fairies at the World Tree?"
Hearing Noah's question, Morgan nodded.
"I suppose there are results... At the very least, I have created the newborn primordial three Fairies named Melusine, Barghest, and Baobhan Sith."
"I also modified the original trait where Fairies could only survive by absorbing life force, allowing them to convert human food into life force. The trade-off is that their appetites won't be small—and I altered their original 'pure sense of good and evil,' instilling them with humanity."
"Among them, the Fairy named Barghest is taller and more robust. Her physical abilities are exceptionally outstanding even among Fairies, making her the type capable of fully utilizing the life force possessed by Fairies with abundant vitality. I also increased her capacity to store life force."
"As for the Fairy named Baobhan Sith, I significantly enhanced and preserved her innate talent for Magecraft. I also retained some of her ability to absorb life force, turning it into a skill she can use in combat to directly extract blood from an enemy's wounds and convert it into her own life force."
After describing the first two Fairies, Morgan paused when she reached the third.
"The third Fairy is a bit more complicated... Back when we were plundering the treasuries of those nobles, didn't we find some dragon scales, fish, and dragon blood in the vault of that major southern noble?"
Hearing Morgan mention this, Noah nodded. White hadn't told him that she had stuffed her own treasury and the Saxons' treasures into that noble's vault, so Noah had no idea how those nobles had obtained these things, but they certainly did exist.
And not long ago, Morgan had taken them away.
"I used those dragon scales, dragon horns, and dragon blood to create the final fairy. If the fairy named Barghest represents the ultimate embodiment of a fairy using life force to strengthen the body, and the fairy named Baobhan Sith combines the flourishing Magecraft skills of fairies with the trait of absorbing life force, then the last one, the fairy named Melusine, is a special individual I created by fusing dragon characteristics—you could call her a 'dragon fairy' for now."
"The fairy's inherently strong physical constitution and Magecraft talent go without saying. Additionally, she possesses the form and power of a dragon."
"A dragon's heart enhances her magical power and life force with each breath."
"Invisible dragon scales greatly increase her resistance to Magecraft and attacks."
"Dragon wings allow her to soar into the sky."
"She is arguably the strongest among these three fairies and likely the most powerful fairy in history."
As Morgan said this, Noah nodded repeatedly.
Although the principles were probably different, the three Fairy Knights named Barghest, Baobhan Sith, and Melusine matched the characteristics of the three Fairy Knights he remembered from FGO.
So after hearing about these three Fairy Knights, Noah spoke up again.
"Morgan, although I entrusted you with creating fairies using the World Tree, could you tell me what plans you have for the other fairies besides these three Fairy Knights?"
Noah didn't want to see Morgan create the kind of fairies from the FGO Lostbelt.
Even though fairies created by the World Tree could fundamentally solve the problems of those fairies from the Lostbelt, Noah didn't even want to see those creatures.
If he ever got the chance to invade that Lostbelt in the future, he wouldn't mind doing something about it!
Morgan clearly hadn't expected Noah to ask this.
Earlier, she had been worried that the White Dragon characteristics displayed by Melusine might displease Noah, but she never imagined he wouldn't care about it at all.
"Regarding the subsequent fairies... Since our initial goal in creating fairies was to form the Fairy Knights, it naturally follows that future fairies should have the noble qualities of knights integrated into their souls..."
"However, when I created the original three fairies, I used branches and leaves from the World Tree. For Melusine, I even used additional materials unique to dragons. Such treatment won't be given to future fairies."
"In fact, because future fairies won't possess the same powerful life force as the original three, I don't plan to specialize them. Instead, I intend to develop them in a balanced manner, striving to ensure each one has stronger physical constitution, higher magical adaptability, and noble chivalry—that is my plan."
At this point, Noah saw Morgan break into a smile.
He knew Morgan had no intention of creating something like the Six Clans, so he simply nodded in agreement.
Seeing Noah's reaction, Morgan continued speaking.
"By the way, Noah, if the Fairy Knights are formed in the future, could you entrust them to me?"
Apart from Morgan, no one else would dare say such a thing to Noah.
After all, judging from the potential of the Fairy Knights, aside from special knight orders like the Knights of the Round Table, the Fairy Knights were likely to become Britain's elite force in the future.
Only Morgan would dare to ask for command of such an elite force before it was even fully formed.
Because she knew Noah would never doubt her intentions.
And indeed, as soon as Morgan made her request, Noah agreed without a moment's hesitation.
"Of course... In fact, I was already planning to entrust the Fairy Knights to you. After all, there's no one in Britain more suited to lead them than you, right?"
"But regarding the issues you mentioned earlier about creating the Fairy Knights, have you come up with any ideas yet?"
Although Noah was also highly optimistic about the future of the Fairy Knights, he wasn't blindly expecting immediate success. He was still mindful of the problems Morgan had raised from the start.
Hearing this, Morgan let out a slight sigh.
"To be honest, not yet... The Saint Graphs of heroes in our world are difficult to manipulate, and there are side effects. Moreover, finding suitable candidates isn't easy. If I had to suggest something, we might have to look into places like Parallel Worlds... But we don't have any means to connect to Parallel Worlds, so we're essentially stuck."
Morgan felt somewhat helpless about this.
But Noah was taken aback.
A means to connect to Parallel Worlds—Morgan truly had difficulty finding one.
But he had a way... or rather, Mary had a way!