Chapter 36: Fake Emperor Armor

"Berserker!", Illya piled up a snowman, waved at him, wearing pink gloves on her hands.

Sella said something next to her, looking troubled.

Shirou temporarily put down his bow and listened carefully to what Sella was saying.

She was saying: make her ladylike.

If remembered correctly, Sella indeed hoped to train Illya into a proper lady.

Unfortunately, Illya's manners were all in place, just not ladylike enough.

"That's really big," Shirou walked over and patted Illya's head.

Illya closed her eyes and enjoyed it, "Berserker, can you play with Illya?"

Shirou thought, "Just for a while, it's fine."

Illya clung to him like a spoiled child, "Really don't get it, Berserker is clearly a Servant, why still train?"

"Because I'm a bit special," Shirou answered, "Even as a Servant, I can still continuously refine my skills."

"I see," Sella understood, and said, "Indeed, the Holy Grail War is still two months away, improving combat skills is quite helpful... Could it be, Berserker's Noble Phantasm is this?"

"Something like that."

It could indeed be compared to a Noble Phantasm, no issue with that.

"Berserker's Noble Phantasm... is, amazing," Liz also echoed beside.

"Hmph~", Illya puffed up angrily, displeased, stood on tiptoe, slapping Shirou, "Berserker, play with me! Illya wants you to play with me."

"Alright."

Shirou grabbed her soft little hand, squatted down, and brushed her nose with his index finger, "Just for a little while."

"Mm-mm!", Illya beamed brightly, nodding vigorously.

She couldn't wait and grabbed Shirou's hand, dragging him off running far away.

"Illya-sama, don't move so much when running, be careful with your skirt! You'll fall... ah!", Sella worried greatly and ran after, only to trip and fall flat herself.

Liz walked up in front of her, squatted, "Sella, fell... not ladylike."

"And you too, Liz," Sella lifted her head buried in snow, "Always so lazy and sluggish, how can you be a maid of the Einzbern house? Not to mention you're also in charge of Illya-sama's protection."

Liz stood up, elegantly like a catwalk, and ran away, "Sella... lecturing, Liz... doesn't like."

"Stop right there!", Sella got up and chased after her.

"Run slower, Illya!"

Because she was playing so wildly, Shirou also started to advise.

"It's fine, Berserker."

Illya scooped snow from the ground and tossed it into the sky, spinning under the flurry of falling snow, "Illya won't fall so easily."

———

After joyfully playing, Sella arranged for Illya to go bathe.

Shirou sat in the room, thinking about what kind of mask to make for himself.

'Oni face?'

'Kamen Rider?'

'Ultraman?'

'Or maybe the super beast armor of a Qilin that transcends the universe with no limit?'

'Possessed by ancient species demons?'

'Or perhaps the Ultimate Emperor Armor of the bright universe?'

Speaking of Emperor Armor, Shirou wondered, 'Can I build a set of armor myself?'

Projection was out of the question. Without understanding its structure, it would only look like the real thing.

With no answer, he turned to the system.

'System-san, can you help me build a set of Emperor Armor?'

["Would you like to proceed with creating "Fake Emperor Armor" through Hosting mode?"]

'It really can!'

Shirou jumped up from the stool.

The next second, he calmed down.

'What does this word "Fake" mean?'

["Combining nearly a thousand years of Einzbern's alchemy heritage, requesting they cease their homunculus research and pool the entire clan's efforts, the projected success rate for forging fake armor is extremely high."]

'The whole Einzbern clan's effort?'

A flash of contemplation passed through Shirou's eyes.

He immediately stood up. He needed to find Jubstacheit.

'It's the last Holy Grail War anyway, why research homunculi anymore, build me armor instead.'

———

"What did you say? Servant Berserker?"

Jubstacheit stared in astonishment at Shirou who had come to him.

This guy came over and immediately said, for the Holy Grail War, he needed help to build a set of armor.

'Doesn't he know our alchemy is mainly used to tackle homunculus research?'

Jubstacheit explained things clearly to him.

For a Servant who passed the trial, there was nothing to hide. If it failed this time, the Einzbern family would also become history.

After hearing, Shirou discussed it with him.

In the end, Jubstacheit decided to give it a try, but told him not to get his hopes up.

Two months, it's impossible to build an excellent suit of armor no matter how you think.

What's more, in battle between Servants, human-made armor would likely be shattered in one hit.

"What exactly is it like? What functions does it have?", Jubstacheit asked.

After organizing in his mind, Shirou described it to him in detail.

After hearing, Jubstacheit fell silent, then roared in anger, "What do you think the Einzbern family does, Berserker?"

"Armor like that, not to mention now, even tracing back to the Age of Gods might not yield such a creation!"

"You want it to have all five elements and light at the same time. Plus that whatever Five Elements Armor Summoner, keep dreaming, Berserker!", After yelling, Jubstacheit stormed off.

'Still just a Berserker, talks without thinking.'

Shirou was silent.

Liz came over with small steps, "Berserker, are you... arguing with the patriarch?"

"Nothing."

After ending the conversation with the system, Shirou said, "Liz, you and Sella to take care of Illya, I have something to do these two days."

Without waiting for Liz to respond, he quickly ran into the room, and after closing the door, opened it again.

"Sella, help me get some drafting paper, the kind for drawing, professional if possible," After saying that, he shut the door again, leaving Sella confused.

Illya opened her own room door, poking out her little head.

She was still changing clothes, but hearing Berserker's voice, she ran out immediately.

Slender collarbone, smooth rounded shoulders, with a touch of girlish blush, under the blazing light, sweet and delicious... She opened her ruby-like big eyes and asked, "Sella, where is Berserker?"

"He went back to his room," Sella answered dutifully.

Illya seemed thoughtful.

———

For the next two days, Shirou didn't train. He spent one hour each day playing with Illya, using the rest of the time entirely to draft the design of the Emperor Armor.

According to the system's description, abandoning the nearly impossible five-element switching, using Shirou's origin as the foundation to forge.

First draw the appearance roughly, then analyze the internals one by one.

This would require a lot of metal materials, combined with Einzbern's alchemy, refining and transforming high-purity metals, applying specific magical incantations and alchemical reactions.

This would cause the molecular structure of the metal materials to change, increasing hardness, toughness, corrosion resistance, and resistance to magic.

Thus, the appearance was basically finalized.

Next, he needed to resolve the driving system. That is, the energy core and transformation.

The system meant to skip the long transformation sequences, sound effects, just transform when you want.

Shirou firmly refused.

'No flashy transformation, no special effects, might as well not have the armor.'

The system was speechless and could only comply.

The construction of the mana-driven system used the core techniques of Einzbern alchemy. Because it needed to construct complete magical circuits and wiring inside the armor, it looked just like making a homunculus.

By engraving a large number of magic circles and magical runes, Shirou could channel mana into all parts of the armor, ensuring energy supply, and using alchemy to create something like a miniature Holy Grail called "mana core", a.k.a. battery, also called "transformer."

At this point, with appearance, energy, and structure secured, strength could be considered.

Facing Servants, man-made armor couldn't possibly compare to Karna, Lancelot, Siegfried, or those from mythic ages.

Here, Shirou had to admire the system.

It planned to use Einzbern alchemy's soul and life-force manipulation techniques, to fuse some alchemically processed soul or life essence into the armor.

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