BMN Chapter 122 (Patreon)

Chapter 122: Bai Luo's Reality Marble

"Do you mind if I test my skills?"

The Snow Empress sized up Artoria, battle lust faintly stirring in her heart. "That should be fine, right, Bai Luo?"

Her hobbies were few, and one of them was the desire to cross blades with the strong.

The "strong" she referred to weren't the "brute force solves everything" types like the King of Conquerors and Gilgamesh, but masters skilled in swordsmanship, spearmanship, and martial arts.

Without a doubt, Artoria and Lancer before her were precisely the kind of opponents the Snow Empress had hoped to encounter.

"Poni?"

Ogerpon was a bit at a loss.

The young girl just wanted to say she had only come out to back up the Snow Empress.

How did a fight suddenly break out?

Speaking of which, what should she do now? Help the Snow Empress fight them?

"..."

Bai Luo looked at the Snow Empress with a wry smile. "If you do this, it'll look like I've single-handedly taken on the entire Holy Grail War."

He had eliminated Caster, subjugated Berserker, and dealt with the King of Conquerors.

Next, he still had to challenge Gilgamesh.

If he let the Snow Empress take on both Saber and Lancer in a one-versus-two, Bai Luo could truly say he had beaten the Holy Grail War single-handedly.

"So, is that a yes?"

"Do as you wish."

Bai Luo waved his hand nonchalantly, then gently patted Ogerpon's head, snapping the dazed girl back to her senses.

He had complete confidence in the Snow Empress.

In terms of pure martial skill, the Snow Empress's seven hundred thousand years of training were no joke.

And that was her original version.

After becoming Bai Luo's Fated Martial Soul, the Snow Empress had obtained the Unique Skill known as 【Sword Saint】.

【Sword Saint】 wasn't limited to just skill with a sword.

It represented the pinnacle of martial arts, the highest realm of worldly techniques.

Forget the likes of Diarmuid and Artoria—even the Knight of the Lake with his Eternal Arms Mastery would be no match for the current Snow Empress in a contest of martial skill.

Meanwhile, Bai Luo returned to Ryuudou Temple with Ogerpon.

"Big Brother Bai Luo~~"

The moment he returned, a frantic Sakura rushed over and threw herself at him. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"Don't worry, Sakura."

"Big Brother is fine. The King of Conquerors was no match for me at all."

Bai Luo had left twenty Kijin at Ryuudou Temple. With Gilgamesh and the other Heroic Spirits present at the battle, he wasn't worried about a sneak attack from an Assassin.

Hassan of the Hundred Personas couldn't break through the Kijin's defenses and harm Sakura.

"You saw it too, didn't you?"

Bai Luo had also projected his battle with the King of Conquerors for Sakura and the Kijin here to see.

"Mhm!"

Sakura said, "Big Brother is amazing, and everyone else is super, super amazing too!"

The five or six-year-old girl didn't know many words of praise.

"Amazing" and "super amazing" were the highest compliments she could offer.

"Of course. I'm the man who's going to beat the entire Holy Grail War by himself."

Bai Luo held Sakura in his arms and walked straight into his room.

He didn't put her down, instead letting the girl play in his lap while he immersed his mind and began to feel the brand-new power he had obtained from the King of Conquerors.

A Reality Marble.

Bai Luo thought with anticipation, Let's see just how big of a surprise you can give me.

"Violet!"

【I am here.】

"Have you analyzed the essence of the Reality Marble?"

【Analysis is complete.】

Violet reported her findings to Bai Luo. "I have integrated this power into your Pokémon Storage and linked it with the Void Gate."

"And the result?"

"It has successfully broken through the rule barrier between the Cardinal World and other worlds."

This news from Violet solved Bai Luo's most pressing problem at the moment.

That is, Bai Luo couldn't bring beings from other worlds to the Cardinal World through any means other than the Vassalage Contract.

By the same token, non-dependents from the Cardinal World could not enter other worlds.

But now, things were different.

The Reality Marble that Bai Luo had analyzed and obtained from the King of Conquerors had become a privileged channel that bypassed this restriction.

If different worlds were compared to islands, then Bai Luo's Reality Marble was a black ship that could deceive any world.

Take Sakura, for example.

As long as Bai Luo placed her inside the Reality Marble before traveling, he could take her with him to the Cardinal World.

"Then, can I bring Sakura out?"

"You can."

Violet explained, "Theoretically, the purity of the Cardinal World is extremely high. With Sakura's physical constitution, just stepping out would cause her to be crushed by the gravity there."

"Theoretically?"

"Yes."

A hint of pride crept into Violet's voice. "There are many ways to work around this."

Violet was not yet the sole will of the Cardinal World.

But just as she had bent the rules when naming Bai Luo, she could also arrange for an identity certificate for an outsider like Sakura.

"What kind of identity certificate?"

"A Reincarnator!"

"Hoh hoh!"

Bai Luo said playfully, "You've got some moves, Violet. Playing it like that, are you?"

Being treated as a Reincarnator by the Cardinal World—what that implied needed no further explanation.

The Voice of the World would grant her a corresponding amount of Magicules based on the quality of her soul.

With a bit of luck, it was even possible for her to directly obtain an Inherent Skill.

"But in that case, if I just bring a group of people back, won't I be able to get a bunch of Inherent Skills?"

"It's not that simple."

Violet threw cold water on his idea. "Not everyone can withstand the transformation by Magicules."

"If their soul's aptitude is insufficient, forget about a Unique Skill—their very existence would be a problem."

Therefore, if Bai Luo really wanted to bring people back, it would be best to bring individuals with sufficient aptitude.

The "aptitude" here referred not to a person's talent or strength, but to their weight in their own world.

"Weight?"

"You can think of it as a character's importance."

"Like protagonist, supporting male and female characters, villain, side character, passerby?"

Bai Luo felt this was somewhat similar to the concept of a "Son of Fortune" described in some novels.

"Correct."

Violet said, "The Cardinal World will grant Sakura a gift from the Nasuverse based on that authority."

In other words, it was like two countries establishing diplomatic relations.

The Nasuverse would send Sakura to the Cardinal World as a guest, and the latter would provide a corresponding level of hospitality.

This was the benchmark for how many benefits the people Bai Luo helped smuggle over could obtain in the Cardinal World.

The more important the character, the more they would be favored by the Voice of the World.

Because, in a sense, acquiring talent was a form of rule plunder for the Cardinal World.

It was precisely by using this logic that Violet had persuaded the Cardinal World.

After all, if someone was delivering benefits to your doorstep, there was no reason not to accept.

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