I want to just drift through life in Type-Moon.

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Merlin calmly crossed his arms and placed them under his chin, gazing into the distance as if recalling something, and then spoke.

"Who asked you that? What I want to ask is, you taught the child with your own hands and feet, and she even expressed her feelings for you in the end, yet you silently watched her being snatched away by another guy. I just want to ask how you feel about this."

Chapter Sixty: A Pleasant Chat (Part Two)

"What does this mean?" Merlin asked, looking completely bewildered.

"Oh? So you didn't know... Well, that makes sense, since you can't see things that don't happen in this world."

Yue Zhengling looked at him with pity. "King Arthur participated in the Holy Grail War in this world, didn't he?"

"Yes, that child is still chasing that unrealistic dream. Actually, we can't blame her. The fate of that country was already sealed. It wouldn't matter who became king."

Merlin gave a rare serious explanation.

"Yes, I know about that. After all, it's the end of the Age of Gods. Unless the Great Source changes, the ending will be the same. But that's not what I wanted to ask. Didn't you hear me clearly before?" Le Zhengling tilted his head.

"I want to tell you that the girl who had feelings for you, who was taught by you to become a king, and who remained devoted to you until the very end, was taken by her Master in the Holy Grail War in another timeline. I want to ask you, the one who was NTR'd, how you feel."

Merlin's expression faltered for the third time; his hand supporting his chin slipped, and his head slid to one side.

First, he was shocked by what Yue Zhengling said, and second, he was shocked by Yue Zhengling's unrestrained speech, which almost caused him to lose his mind.

Looking at this clueless guy with dead fish eyes, Merlin decided to help him deal with the problem in his soul. Otherwise, not only would the conversation not be able to continue, but he might also be driven crazy by him!

Seeing Merlin's weary expression, Yue Zhengling blinked, then blinked again, before realizing what she had said.

He turned his face away guiltily and said, "Well, I didn't mean anything by it. I just wanted to know if you, this scumbag, would reflect on your actions after being dumped."

"You're really going to be so reckless..." Merlin grabbed the wand beside him, his warm demeanor instantly transforming into the sternness of a devilish instructor.

Seeing his expression, Yue Zhengling immediately got up from the chair. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found that the chair hadn't changed. However, when he saw Merlin stand up, put Fufu on the table, and walk towards him step by step, his expression changed drastically.

"What do you want to do?" He ran away as fast as a startled rabbit.

"It's alright, don't be afraid. I'll treat you (physically) now. Trust me, you'll be fine after a nap (physically)!" Merlin smiled and approached Yue Zhengling.

"You said it! You said treatment (physical) and sleep (physical), right?! Are you some kind of head physical therapy nurse?! And didn't you say we don't need to sleep?!" Le Zhengling ran away in fear, complaining as she went.

"So, struggling is useless. This is Avalon, my home turf. Facing the home-court advantage, the Magician of Avalon, how could you possibly escape? Heh heh~~"

Merlin looked at Yue Zhengling with pity as she ran off into the distance, then drew his usual sword from his wand and forcefully slammed it into the ground.

Turning around upon hearing his words, Yue Zhengling saw the rapidly approaching Earth-Shattering Wave Sword and shouted angrily, "To hell with you, Avalon Magician! If you have any self-awareness as a magician, don't draw your sword at me!!!"

"Bang!" Actually, the screams that followed were from Yue Zhengling flying high into the air. Merlin put his hand over his eyes and chuckled mischievously, "Ah, as expected, souls can fly high and won't fall to their deaths. It's so much fun."

He was the child of the Princess of Wales and a nightmare, half human and half nightmare.

A high-dimensional life form that possesses spirituality, can create future prediction maps, and parasitizes life (humans)—a creature in a half-baked position.

If he were born a complete child of nightmares, he could only frolic in the spiritual world, but, coincidentally, he is half human.

He felt incredibly fortunate that he could be nourished by his own dreams, without relying on the dreams of others, thanks to the personality he gained as a human being.

However, one will eventually tire of the same taste, and just then, another non-human being comes to this cage, appearing in a semi-mental state.

For Merlin, who is half-nightmare, all dreams can be turned into food.

The moment he saw Yue Zhengling's soul, he discovered that the other person's body was filled with all sorts of dreams.

Cathy Parluge also saw this, although she didn't know why she helped Lok Ching Ling at the time. It might have been because she finally had a visitor, or perhaps she sensed something from him.

Regardless of the reason, the result was that Cathy Parluge used [Comparison] to filter out all the dreams, and a portion of those that belonged to Yue Zhengling were completely converted into magic to strengthen Yue Zhengling's soul.

The other part, which did not belong to him, was left arbitrarily in Yue Zhengling's body, to be slowly released.

Merlin, being a half-nightmare, was drawn to the fluctuations of these dreams, and the [dream] constantly emanating from him was quite unique. As a nightmare, he naturally couldn't resist wanting to experience it.

After all, rather than letting it dissipate and go to waste here, it's better to let him collect it as a reserve of food.

Looking at the unconscious figures in the distance, which had scattered from Yue Zhengling's body and turned back into colorful orbs of light, Merlin waved to them.

Then, the orbs of light flew into his arms like swallows returning to their nests.

Looking at the dozen or so orbs of light in his hand, Merlin grinned with delight, then casually picked up a blue one and pressed it against his forehead to try it out.

However, his expression quickly changed, and the ball of light in his hand fell to the ground.

Then, Merlin turned ashen, and his eyes lost their luster.

Afterwards, as if he had lost all meaning in life, he slumped forward in despair, muttering to himself, "So this is what it means to be taken advantage of... So this is what it means to be taken advantage of..."

Not far away, bathed in the warm sunshine, Fufu, who was sleeping soundly, slightly opened her eyes, looked at the two clueless people, yawned, and then went back to sleep.

After a while, Merlin, who had finally caught his breath, slumped onto the grass and quietly looked at the sky.

Merlin is fond of the "results left behind by humanity," but he is completely incapable of feeling anything for the beings who carry out his work.

Similar to: This painting is beautiful, but I have no interest in its content, nor in the joys and sorrows of the people who created it, nor can I find any value in it.

I couldn't understand the content of the painting, but I still found it beautiful.

Merlin himself understood that such a hobby was quite excessive, but he could not change it since birth because the nightmares were creatures with such values.

Compared to the content of a dream, we can only evaluate the nutritional value it possesses.

That's the same as humans, who, no matter how glorious the animals' past records may be, will easily devour them once they're on the dinner table.

However, there was one exception, and it was precisely because he was an exception that he wanted to escape.

He felt embarrassed and troubled, not out of joy, but because he was so bitter that he could only smile like that. The words of gratitude that a sage had heard countless times were like an arrow piercing his heart.

The magician recalled the words spoken at parting, the king's final words of affection as a child: "Thank you, Merlin. I am grateful to you. To me, you are a great teacher..."

Chapter Sixty-One: Wrong Film Set

A little agitated, Merlin looked at the orbs of light scattered around him, gritted his teeth, and decided to stop watching. At the same time, he knew whose "dreams" these were.

Rather than a dream, it's more like the memories of a clone, the pages of a book.

Those were memories brought back by a clone copied by Alaya, belonging to another being on the Throne of Heroes. This made him understand one thing: Yue Zhengling had come here through the realm record.

At the same time, this memory of Artoria also made Merlin realize that in a certain world, she had finally let go of her inner turmoil and entered a peaceful slumber.

Merlin was both happy and sad about this ending. He was happy that the king he had served had been freed, but he was also sad that this liberation left him with a bitter taste.

But in the end, Merlin smiled nonchalantly, putting that ending behind him. After all, his feelings for Artoria were more familial than romantic. As a nightmare, he couldn't really understand what love was.

"Moreover, I suppose that other world's 'me' has already seen this story, that beautiful miracle, so let that 'me' record it properly."

The girl who finally accepted her fate at the end of her long quest for the Holy Grail is not yet liberated in this world.

"However, seeing that outcome, there's one more thing to do. Oh dear, is it that the restraining force deliberately sent this thing in so that this old man like me can do something?"

Supporting himself on his knees, Merlin stood up again and walked to Yue Zhengling's side. Yue Zhengling was lying face up in the flower bushes, having been knocked unconscious by the sword energy.

"Since your appearance has shown me something different, then let me repay you properly. After all, it seems you know a lot of things, and those things are quite important."

After saying that, Merlin raised his head again and looked at the tower in the distance. The golden top of the tower reflected a dazzling golden light. "This world doesn't have that many miracles. The world seems to be made up of countless coincidences, but in fact there are no coincidences in the world. There are only inevitabilities."

"So... let me make a move and create a real [chance]."

After saying that, he pressed his wand against Yue Zhengling's head and began chanting a spell—

The Lookout Tower in the Inner Sea of ​​the Stars!

From the ends of paradise, I tell you, may your stories be filled with blessings. Only the purest and most innocent can pass through—the Garden of Avalon, now permanently closed to the elements!

In an instant, everything in this space was filled with an atmosphere of happiness. Pink flowers bloomed on the earth, the pulse of life could be heard in the distance, and even the sky became clearer.

The dazzling sunlight made people feel more comfortable, and the top of the farthest tower slowly rotated, then rotated faster and faster, bringing out a strong wind, and the petals seemed to be swept into the air to form a rain of petals.

The storm intensified, and the magic in the air, so dense that it would kill an ordinary person just by breathing it, was compressed at the top of the tower, where a strange object began to form.

Fufu, who had been blown to the ground by the strong wind, opened her eyes and then jumped up in fright, keeping her body low to avoid being swept away by the increasingly strong wind.

It lay beneath the table, watching the top of the rapidly spinning distant tower, where the color slowly transformed from gold to iridescent, and a dreamlike radiance, like a rainbow, radiated from the two gaps above and below, coating the world with a dreamlike hue.

"Oh my, I never thought this idea that came to me on a whim would actually come true. But rather than letting the magic of this paradise be used as a weapon, wouldn't it be better to transform it into something that might be harmless to everyone?"

With his right hand holding the staff and placing it on Yue Zhengling's forehead, and his left hand supporting his eyes as he gazed at the top of the tower, Merlin wore a pleasant smile.

Knowing what he was doing, Cathy Parluge blinked, then gave a wry look, bit off a tuft of fur from his tail and released it into the air, watching as it was swept up to the top of the tower.

The rainbow light grew increasingly blinding. In the end, both Merlin and Cathy Parluge chose to close their eyes. At the moment when the light was at its most dazzling, Yue Zhengling, who had been unconscious for a long time, woke up and opened his eyes.

That familiar yet unfamiliar rainbow light brought tears to Yue Zhengling's eyes. "Ah, my eyes!"

Merlin, who hadn't expected him to wake up at this moment, didn't hesitate and tapped his wand again, and the world fell silent once more.

After the final burst, the entire space trembled, and the petals blown into the air really turned into a rain of petals and fell to the ground. However, Merlin did not pay much attention to this beautiful scene of thousands of pink petals falling. He was just looking at the top of the tower, which was separated from the top with unusual focus.

Cathy Parluge looked at that spot with the same expression.

Then, a rainbow-colored Metatron cube the size of a fingertip and a card that also emitted a rainbow light floated down from the top of the tower.

"Very good, it worked as expected." With a wave of his hand, the two items flew towards Merlin, accompanied by iridescent light spots.

Cathy Parluge quickly followed the two objects towards this side.

The card and the Metatron Cube floated in front of Merlin, while Cathy Parlug leaped onto Merlin's head and lay down on it, carefully examining the two items with him.

"It worked! Cathy Parluge, my talent as a magician isn't bad either." Merlin said boastfully, patting his companion on the head.

“four~fofo~fu” Cathy Parluge gave a disdainful look.

"What do you mean by plagiarizing someone else's idea? This is a technique that I spent countless hours and efforts to master."

“fo~fofu~fourfour!”

"Yes, yes, yes! I know you deserve some credit for this too, thank you!" Merlin was filled with pride as he looked at the two masterpieces before him.

At this moment, Yue Zhengling woke up again. He covered his head and groaned, then opened his eyes a crack. After confirming that the bright light outside was gone, he dared to open his eyes wide.

"Oh, he's finally awake." Merlin turned his head to look at Yue Zhengling when he noticed him moving.

Hearing his heartless words, Yue Zhengling jumped up in anger, "What do you mean 'finally awake'! Didn't you knock me out again when I woke up before? Do you want to do it again?!"

After saying this, his peripheral vision caught sight of something floating in front of Merlin, and he exclaimed in surprise, "What the hell! Why do you have Saint Quartz?! And it's so small?! Also, is that Rainbow Card in the wrong game?!"

Merlin, unsure of what he meant, shrugged. "This is a small gift for you. Please accept it with gratitude."

Then Merlin felt his companion step on his head twice. "Alright, alright, I got it. Fou has a part in this too."

"A gift for me? Hmm... Can I ask where these are from?" Yue Zhengling stared blankly at the two items, forgetting even to say thank you.

“From there.” Merlin pointed his wand to the top of the tower.

Following the directions, Yue Zhengling finally saw the place clearly and muttered to himself, "Both of you are King Arthur, so you really do have something going on!"

Chapter Sixty-Two: The Infinite Metatron Cube

Looking at the tower top that could easily be modified to create a Million Arthur world and rip off players, Yue Zhengling sighed bitterly, "Million Arthur, from when I first started playing to when the game shut down, from when I first entered the game to when I passed away, the world is more exciting without you..."

"???" Merlin didn't disturb Yue Zhengling, who was saying some inexplicable things, because time was meaningless to him, and he was also looking forward to getting some interesting information from the other party's words.

"If it's called 'Deviation,' isn't it that guy's weapon? And Million Arthur?" Merlin couldn't help but shudder at the thought of having a million Artorias.

"If there really were a million Artorias, then Britain wouldn't need to fight anymore, it would be completely crushed... Hmm, that's not right either. If there really were a million Artorias, it would be possible to reclaim the entire territory and take over other continents."

"No, no, no, that's impossible. The food supply absolutely can't keep up, and I'm supposed to cover up the gender of a million Artorias! I'll be the first to die! And I'll die from exhaustion! It's terrifying!"

Perhaps influenced by Yue Zhengling beside him, Merlin's thoughts also drifted off course, and he began to imagine some very strange things.

Fou, perched on top of her head, rolled her eyes in annoyance and was about to close them to catch up on her sleep. After all, she had used up a lot of magic power today and had also lost a part of her precious fur, which she didn't know would take forever to grow back.

However, before it could close its eyes, Merlin lifted it down from above and made it face Le Zhengling.

Le Zhengling hesitated for a moment, then reached out to hug Fufu. Fufu shrank back slightly, clearly not wanting to be touched. He felt a little bit disappointed, well, really just a little bit. But he quickly cheered up and sincerely said to the cute white creature, "Thank you, Fufu. I feel much better."

He placed his right hand on his chest. When he first entered this place, he found that he had regained his physical body and all five senses had returned. However, like someone experiencing sleep paralysis (commonly known as sleep paralysis), he had a feeling of floating outside and looking at himself.

When Fufu stretched out her little paws and the two made contact, his unreal feeling improved a lot; at least he didn't lose the sense of reality like he did at the beginning.

Now, although he still doesn't know what happened while he was unconscious, Merlin has said so, so no matter how unreliable he usually is, something big must have happened this time.

This can be seen from the rain of flowers falling from the sky; he didn't believe Merlin would do this for no reason. Most importantly, he sensed the magic emanating from the two things floating beside them.

Saint Quartz and Rainbow Cards are things that many people dream of!

After hearing Yue Zhengling's thanks, Fufu stretched out her paw and waved it, as if to say "Don't worry about it," before turning around and snuggling into Merlin's arms to catch up on her sleep.