Chapter 247

"...By the way, I also want to talk about Leo."

"Did you not communicate with our Acolyte?"

"Not yet - rather, I think he might prefer to communicate with the Pope's aide-de-camp himself." Lansemello sat down by the sea and looked into the distance, "But I personally have some things I want to discuss with others - and you are the only one among all people who can understand what I said in the past."

"Okay, then what do you want to say?" Dieter sighed, took out his notebook and began to record, "Is there anything about him that deserves your special attention?"

"Strictly speaking, he is more worthy of my stopping my gaze than most people." Lansemello held up his face and began to review the special features of Regulus. "It has been a long time since I have seen someone with such a unique talent in 'copying' - you should all know it, right? Leo will imitate all the fighting techniques he has seen and use them."

"Moreover, compared to ordinary 'copies', he has one biggest difference - his 'copies' can surpass the original existence."

"Copy" - The family that conducts magic research closely related to this concept is the Lansemello family.

Apart from the large-scale ritual magic of the Lancermello family, the more familiar magic to the members of Chaldea should be the projection magic mastered by Shirou Emiya.

Things copied using projection magic are fakes, imitations, disposable props that are destined to be worse than the real thing.

But Regulus's mimicry is different - it can almost be described as pure talent rather than skill - he can imitate all the fighting techniques he has seen and surpass the power of these original fighting techniques.

This even goes against the mystical concealment.

So, later on, in order to satisfy his curiosity, Lansemello chose to take some extra time to teach Regulus a few things.

After all, she is a fairy, a nymph - it is normal for her to do whatever she wants, isn't it?

"...Then I discovered that in addition to his ability to copy, he also had something very troublesome." Lansemelo's face fell, and he changed the subject to another place as an introduction. "You all should know the story of Medusa, right? I mean - the eyes that can petrify everything."

"I'll start with the basics of 'sight'. After all, no one else but you will have the patience to listen to me talk about so many things and sort them out by yourself when you go back."

——Sight is powerful.

Just as a malicious look can make people uncomfortable, a kind look can make people relax - this is the most basic manifestation of the power of sight.

A more advanced type is to transform the eyes' function of passively receiving external information into the ability to actively influence the outside world - this is the magic eye.

Medusa's Mystic Eye of Petrification also falls into this category - it is something that cannot be reproduced by human means.

"Unless we can make her appear directly, there is no way to recreate such eyes in this land where the Age of Gods has ended." Lanser Melo paused, as if he remembered something, and turned to look at Dieter who was taking notes. "Come to think of it, you should still remember what I said when I came back from Hades' underworld, right?"

"When you came back from Hades' underworld..." Dieter stopped taking notes and searched through his increasingly blurred memories for what happened 25 years ago. "Was it that sentence - 'I just took a look at them before I left'? Did you attack the Twins with your magic eyes at that time?"

"Well, but those are not my own Mystic Eyes." Lansemelo's eyes lost their magical color, revealing the original pair of eyes belonging to the fairy race. "Strictly speaking, I briefly called a god to fight against them. My original pair of Mystic Eyes have disappeared, but due to the favor of the gods, I can borrow the origin of the pair of Mystic Eyes from the gods."

"Origin... is it like the relationship between Lady Athena and Miss Sasha, who is her reincarnation?" Dieter circled a word in his notebook and gave an example to Lansemero to confirm whether his understanding was correct. "Like the roots and branches of a tree..."

"That's it - your understanding is really suitable for them to take you for research." Lanser Melo paused, raised his hand and used magic to outline the star map of Leo in the air. "Next, let's talk about Leo - while he has that kind of talent, he also has a pair of magic eyes that also originated from the magic eyes of that god."

"...May I ask which god this is?"

"Barol, the Celtic demon god Barol."

Legend has it that the demon god Balor has an eye that is always tightly closed. If this tightly closed eye is opened, anyone who is hit by its gaze will die instantly, regardless of whether they are a human or a god.

——This is the origin of all the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

——As long as there is a world where Celtic's Demon God Balor exists, the origin of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception must come from the Demon God Balor.

"If hit by its line of sight, whether it's a human or a god, they will die immediately..." Dieter watched Lansemello draw a golden eye on the edge of the star map. "But, I remember when we met the twin gods later, they didn't seem to be affected at all."

"That's my problem, not the Mystic Eye itself. I am not strong enough to make it exert enough power to kill gods." Lansemello adjusted the output of magic power, making the golden one-eyed pattern dim. "However, because of the characteristics of its origin, although it is borrowed, I rely on it to reproduce my original Mystic Eyes of Death Perception."

"That glance was at most a minor curse that did not hurt the Twin Gods - but it was enough to stop them from pursuing us."

"Okay." Dieter sighed, "Then let's continue talking about Leo?"

"No, let's start with the advanced ones. I'm more familiar with the advanced ones." Lansemello quickly reviewed the holders of the Death Perception Eyes he knew in his mind, and slowly began to talk about the differences between the different Death Perception Eyes. "I hope you still remember what I said - 'Concept' is the foundation of everything related to the mystery."

"And the use of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception requires you to be able to see death and understand that it is the death of things."

"Based on this, even if it is just a concept, it can be killed by the holder of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception - after all, this is a law of cause and effect."

——Everything that has a beginning must have an end.

The holder of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception will drag the end they see into the present reality - this is the most fundamental reason why they can destroy everything.

"...The premise is that they can understand the 'death' of these things." Lansermello raised his hand and waved away the pattern drawn in the air with magic power. "There are other conditions that can facilitate the establishment of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception - but that condition is equivalent to the existence of talent, so we will not explain it in detail this time."

"Let's go back to Leo. His Mystic Eyes of Death Perception only work on objective things." Lansemello used magic to simulate a ball of blue flame similar to a soul in the palm of his hand, while explaining to Dieter, "In simple terms, he can cause undefended and unhealable damage to the enemy - but it is ineffective against souls."

"He can destroy the flesh of his enemies, but he can't destroy their souls - and I know more people who can destroy souls than anyone else."

"Generally speaking, it's rarer to find someone who can destroy souls," Dieter complained, but he soon noticed the unusual expression on Lansemero's face. "Regarding the content of Leo - do you have anything else to say?"

"I just suddenly thought of one thing - although you all regarded Leo's firm trust in me from the beginning as a wild intuition..." Lansermello blinked, and the blue present vision covered the fairy eyes, finding the world consciousness that was recovering its power in the temple, "but that doesn't seem to be the effect of intuition - well, strictly speaking, it is related to the conditions for the establishment of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception that we skipped before."

"So...?" After writing the last word, Dieter stopped writing and confirmed the next arrangements with Lansemello.

"But it's a bit troublesome to explain that part in detail... Let's not talk about it today." Lansemello stood up facing the gentle sea breeze, turned around and walked towards the direction of the sanctuary temples, "We'll talk about it when we have time in the future - it's rare that so many people are gathered today, maybe it would be better for everyone to have a dinner together..."

"Then we might as well hope that the Pope has time to cook." Dieter smiled and put the notebook back into his coat pocket. "But, have all the others returned? I remember that when we arranged the mission ten years ago, there was no requirement to return to the Sanctuary regularly. I came back this time just to look up some information for future new products..."

"Then we can only regard it as a tacit understanding between you two." Lansemero smiled and turned to look at Dieter. "I saw that Pisces and Scorpio arrived at the same time - just a little later than you and Aries came back. It's not surprising that Pisces came back at this time. After all, the mission he received requires him to come back regularly... As for Scorpio -"

"I will go meet them first." Dieter nodded and followed Lansemero up the stairs connecting the twelve zodiac signs. "But... you don't seem to be planning to stay in the sanctuary anymore? Is there something you want to do?"

"I'm going to take my Gemini brothers to verify some things." Lansemero recalled the previous failed explorations in the North Atlantic Ocean, and silently expanded the scope of this exploration. "I need to verify that the future I have seen is still intact - until the future Athena returns to the Sanctuary."

"When are you leaving?" Dieter began to adjust his work schedule according to Lansemelo's schedule. "It would be better for you to leave while everyone is in the Sanctuary... It's still too dangerous to leave three gold saints in the Sanctuary - even though the holy war has ended for 25 years, there are always other gods who will cause trouble."

"I won't be in the Sanctuary in the second half of this year." Lansemello thought for a moment and gave his answer. "It would be more appropriate to explore the places I want to confirm in the second half of the year - and I may need to do some additional work locally - I won't be in the Sanctuary for at least half a year."

"You can adjust your next work arrangements and strengthen the defense of the Sanctuary."