Multiverse: Starting by Creating Delta of Fate, Group Chat Friends Go Wild

Kazuma Satou slapped his forehead.

"Damn!"

Hachiman Hikigaya jumped in fright.

"What is it?"

"We old-timer players can’t lose to him!"

"…Didn’t we only play one more round than him?"

"No, no, no. You don’t get it."

Kazuma Satou shook a finger, wearing the expression of someone who understood everything while the other person understood nothing.

Then he sat down as well, opened the shop, and prepared to upgrade his loadout.

After looking around, his gaze lingered over several imitation Noble Phantasms:

Imitation: Futsu-no-Mitama (C)

Price: 800,000 Fate Coins

Imitation: Mikazuki Munechika (C-)

Price: 600,000 Fate Coins

Imitation: Onimaru Kunitsuna (C-)

Price: 550,000 Fate Coins

Imitation: Juzumaru (D+)

Price: 400,000 Fate Coins

...

Imitation: Kiku Ichimonji Norimune (D-)

Price: 280,000 Fate Coins

"Mm, mm, mm."

Kazuma Satou opened each sword to inspect it. They all looked cool, and honestly, he wanted every single one.

But unless he sold something, like the "Emiya Residence Key Card Gold (Gold),"

he could only afford one at most.

Kazuma Satou agonized over it. Several times, he nearly sold the key card, but in the end he held back and chose Okita Souji’s "Kiku Ichimonji Norimune."

Hehehe. Maybe he could buy Kaga Kiyomitsu later and make them a pair.

He cradled the sword and stroked it like a loved one, even unable to resist giving it a kiss.

Everyone else was left dumbfounded.

Okita Souji: "Ugh… Don’t treat my sword like that."

Miyamoto Musashi: "Whew, good thing he didn’t pick mine."

Sasaki Kojiro: "It’s not entirely incomprehensible. He seems to be a man of temperament, someone who loves swords."

Iori: "Mm, not bad."

Rin Tohsaka: "Is it possible that he’s actually just kind of a pervert?"

Shinpachi Shimura: "He really is."

Hachiman Hikigaya pulled his gaze away from Kazuma Satou.

He did not have that much money. Excluding his Craft Essence, he only had a little over 100,000 Fate Coins.

The Craft Essence’s effect was somewhat subtle, but he did not really want to sell it.

First, he wanted to see what Craft Essences and Noble Phantasms he could buy with around 100,000.

Reinforcement Magic

Projection Magecraft

...

Uh, they all felt rather subtle.

Hachiman Hikigaya suddenly thought of his Noble Phantasm.

What if he bought something consumable?

He opened the filters. There were a little too many options.

But their strength was all fairly ordinary. Honestly, in actual combat, like his sword, they were probably only equivalent to Level 1 bullets.

Then he suddenly spotted a small category: Command Spells & Command Spell Enhancement.

Functional Command Spell

Servant Command Spell

Dao Tian Command Spell

Hachiman Hikigaya took a look. There were plenty of interesting Functional Command Spells.

However, including Functional Command Spells, the carrying limit for minor Command Spells was seven, while major Command Spells were limited to one.

At this stage, rather than thinking about changing his loadout, he might as well see how he could strengthen it.

Hachiman Hikigaya opened the enhancement paths for the Levitation Command Spell:

"Levitation Command Spell—Enhancement Paths"

"Rhythm of Wind (E): Loses the slow-fall effect and gains Swiftness E."

"Blood Command Wing (E): Deducts 10% hp and grants Flight E, Bleeding E, and Mental Oppression E."

He glanced over them and replaced two with "Blood Command Wing."

He suddenly felt like he had fallen in love with negative effects. He could fly freely just by sacrificing a little hp, and it was so cheap too. What a steal.

Across from the fountain, among the group chat messages.

"…Mmph."

Kurisu Makise secretly glanced around.

A notification appeared before her:

There is an anomalous component within your soul's will. It is neither you nor a derivative of you, but another independent mind.

Its thought activity has been halted.

Fate Coins may be spent to remove it.

"No, no, no, don’t!"

Kurisu Makise hurriedly said. This was probably the experiment Kyouma had mentioned. The consciousness attached to her soul should have been his.

If she removed it, would that not make her a husband murderer?

"Whew…"

Kurisu Makise opened the shop and found the "Foundation" subcategory under materials.

She looked at the Foundations of various Classes and ranks displayed there.

She let out the same sigh. She could not afford any of the good Foundations.

The only ones she could afford were the lowest-quality options.

Item: Imitation Heroic Spirit Foundation

Type: Material

Rank: E

Use: Can be used to summon a Servant. Fixes the corresponding Shadow of the Heroic Spirit onto the Foundation, thereby forming a Shadow of the Foundation. If the Heroic Spirit itself chooses to respond and project its consciousness, it will manifest.

Price: 300,000 Fate Coins

Kurisu Makise did not know whether it would work.

Kyouma said that he had conducted experiments in other worldlines and had researched Craft Essences and Command Spells together with her.

He said that the essence of Command Spells should be summoning, and that an actual corresponding existence was unnecessary. Information alone would suffice.

So, he had imagined using the special magecraft of this game world to summon a "specially constructed version of himself," preferably one that could be brought back to their own world to deal with the Organization.

Forget it. She directly sold the "Gem Magecraft (Purple)" that Kazuma Satou had shared with her last time and exchanged it for this Imitation Heroic Spirit Foundation.

She would give it a try.

Lin Zhen glanced over. He had noticed Kurisu Makise’s little movements from the start. More precisely, he had discovered them when Hououin Kyouma affected her True Spirit in her world.

But it was someone else’s family matter, and he had no intention of interfering, so he let it be.

Of course, there was no way he would let Kurisu Makise directly activate the "Kyouma Card" cheat.

If she was going to use a cheat, it could only be an "Heroic Spirit" cheat.

The rules and gameplay had to be available to all players, not unique to one person. That was what made a game fair.

Seeing that the three of them were more or less prepared,

Lin Zhen tapped the armrest of his chair, and Su Ling’s false body set out.

After "Su Ling" appeared, he could not be bothered to say anything. Looking extremely busy, he did not even wait for Kazuma Satou and the others to speak.

He directly grabbed all seven of them in one sweep, scattered them over Fuyuki City below, and randomly divided them into teams.

Myriad Worlds Live Broadcast activated.

Test players: Kazuma Satou, Hachiman Hikigaya, Kurisu Makise, Mahiro Oyama, Shiori Itsuka (Shido), Ryuguuin Seiya, Shirou Emiya.

Random team assignment in progress:

Team One: Hachiman Hikigaya

Team Two: Kazuma Satou, Shiori Itsuka (Shido), Mahiro Oyama

Team Three: Kurisu Makise, Ryuguuin Seiya, Shirou Emiya

Map: Standard—Fuyuki City

Description: Ten years have passed since the 1994 "Fuyuki Fire"... The Holy Grail War magecraft ritual is about to begin once again.

You are a reserve mage from the "Dao Tian Palace" organization. Can you gather clues in this city, fight enemies, obtain resources from myriad worlds, and successfully evacuate in the end?

So, Hikigaya Chose to Use a Code Word to Rally Justice in the Shadows

Above Fuyuki City.

Hm?

Hachiman Hikigaya looked at himself, all alone at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

Not a gimmick?

Why was he really alone on a team?

Hachiman Hikigaya was a little suspicious.

Was it because he had said going solo was fine, so they had deliberately put him on a one-man team?

But he had no evidence, nor did he dare ask.

"Sigh."

Komachi Hikigaya: "Big brother is alone again."

Yukino Yukinoshita: "Normal."

Yui Yuigahama: "Will he be okay?"

"It’s fine. I’ll just treat it like a knife run."

Hachiman Hikigaya said with feigned magnanimity.