[Summarizing your deeds in this simulation…]
[Looking back on your life, it was full of ups and downs and grand scope.]
[You witnessed and took part in the Prophecy Child's entire pilgrimage. Along the way, you and she pressed forward together—whether as her most vital emotional support or as the sharpest sword in the team, you played an irreplaceable role.]
[In your legendary life, there are several events of such remarkable legend that future generations delight in recounting them. These legendary experiences themselves elevate your story and are forever etched into your biography.]
[Legendary Event "Star-Chasing Knight": In Gloucester's arena, you challenged and defeated the Fairy Knight Lancelot. As a mere mortal, you crossed the seemingly insurmountable chasm between races and achieved what seemed almost impossible. From that day on, you never miss a shooting star.]
[Legendary Event "Norwich's Heavenly Fire": When facing the dreadful calamity that could have annihilated all of Norwich, you drew your sword for salvation. With the Flame of Judgment, you tore a path through the boundless darkness for the Prophecy Child. This became the crucial step enabling her to subjugate the calamity.]
[Legendary Event "Shadow of Onyx": Though this event did not spread widely in the tales, it remains an indelible achievement of yours. You challenged Britain's strongest knight—the Shadow of King Yuser—and, without numerical advantage, in one-on-one combat you defeated him, bringing a fitting closure to that restless king's life.]
[Legendary Event "Journey to Avalon": After aiding the Prophecy Child in completing the full pilgrimage, you accompanied her to Avalon as her attendant. There, as a key reason for her fulfilling the mission, you witnessed her fate with your own eyes and returned from Avalon bearing the Star Holy Sword. This became the most vital link to ensuring Fairy Britain's survival.]
[Legendary Event "Beast Calamity Subjugation": Upon returning to Britain, you reached Norwich in time before the Beast Calamity ran fully amok. Recognized by the Holy Sword as the savior, you used the Holy Sword to utterly subjugate the Beast Calamity, rescuing Britain from the shadow of a millennial disaster.]
[Legendary Event "Blood-Stained Coronation": You won the unanimous approval of all surviving lords of Fairy Britain and were jointly nominated as King of Britain. During your coronation and throughout your subsequent ten-year reign, you survived over a thousand assassination attempts—each would-be assassin staining your crown with their blood.]
[Aside from these brilliantly legendary experiences, even as king your achievements were outstanding. The edicts you issued greatly advanced Fairy Britain's development. Under your rule, humans in Britain gained liberation and their creativity flourished; national strength soared. Though your reign was brief, the kingdom's growth during it surpassed the sum of the previous two thousand years.]
[The only blemish: due to Chaldea's destruction, ten years after your passing, during the reign of the next Fairy Queen, Knocknarea, some unknown external catastrophe destroyed the surface world and Fairy Britain was also extinguished in that devastation.]
[You bore many titles throughout your life, including but not limited to "Attendant of the Prophecy Child," "Sword Saint of Britain," "Savior of Norwich," "Britain's Strongest Human," "Executioner of Salisbury," "Holy Sword Knight," "Bearer of the Star Holy Sword," "Beautiful and Noble King"… Yet, puzzlingly, your favorite title among them was the most modest: "Attendant of the Prophecy Child."]
[Relative to Fairy Britain's thirteen-thousand-year history, your time was fleeting—but you undoubtedly inscribed a vivid, bold stroke upon its annals.]
[Your simulation-life evaluation: "Savior Holy Swordbearer."]
[Your simulation-life score: 95 points (Legendary).]
[You have earned a chance to draw a reward. Due to your outstanding performance in this simulation, the probability of obtaining a high-tier reward is increased, and the chance of drawing rewards related to this simulation is also increased.]
[Each Legendary Event grants an additional 5 Saint Quartz fragments; you achieved six Legendary Events, earning 30 fragments in total.]
[Each different Legendary Event also carries its own extra effects. Because the effects are numerous, please confirm them within the game later.]
[Additionally, players can exchange 7 Saint Quartz fragments for 1 Saint Quartz, and by spending 3 Saint Quartz they may draw another reward opportunity. Moreover, when spending 30 Saint Quartz for a ten-pull, you will receive an extra draw as a bonus.]
"…So stingy. If you don't do a single ten-pull at once, you can't get that extra draw?" Guinevere frowned upon reading this.
"This is absurd—even the actual FGO game isn't this tightfisted! How can this knockoff surpass the original?"
"But… well, an extra reward is still nice."
Saying so, Guinevere returned his gaze to the simulation's evaluation of himself.
"…It is quite impressive, though I feel the score might be slightly too high."
Reading the summary again, he murmured to himself: In truth, after reviewing those legendary experiences, he felt the achievements that could truly be credited to him alone were not so many. On reflection, the outrageous power he reached in this simulation was largely due to Altria's relentless resource investments. Except for the challenge against Lancelot, his own impact on the other Legendary Events had been less significant—in the absence of Altria's resources, none of it would have been possible.
It's like in a MOBA: you farm minions and jungle camps, secure kills in teamfights, and if you amass half the team's economy, your high performance is simply what's expected—not something to boast about. Conversely, if you get so much economy but fail to carry, you become the scapegoat. Guinevere had always admired players who yield resources to teammates yet still carry on minimal resources—those who succeed despite fewer resources. Relying on teammates to fuel your rise wasn't inherently remarkable; it was just doing your part.
So to receive such a high score made him feel a bit embarrassed. He wondered what score Altria—the true architect of success—would earn.
At that moment, he noticed that the simulation settlement, which should have concluded, now displayed a previously unseen entry:
[Because your simulation-life rating reached Legendary, your simulated character will be recorded in the Heroic Spirit Simulator. The "Savior Holy Swordbearer · Guinevere" Heroic Spirit card will join the public pool, available to all players who participated in this simulation.]
[The Heroic Spirit card's skills will be generated according to Heroic Spirit rules and bear no relation to the character's real-world abilities.]
[Different rarities of Heroic Spirit cards have different durations. After using a Heroic Spirit card, you can designate yourself or a character sharing the same name to summon that Heroic Spirit. If not used on yourself, you will gain three Command Spells for that Heroic Spirit.]
[Furthermore, a summoned Heroic Spirit's stats will depend on the host's base capabilities, Master's mana, the card's rarity, and other external factors.]
"…Such a windfall?! A character who performed exceptionally in the simulation—even if an NPC—can be ascended into a Heroic Spirit and enter the gacha pool?!"
Altria, recovering from the headache of reliving the simulation's memories, felt an instant surge of excitement at this system message. All her pain and confusion vanished; she was nearly ready to leap with joy.
In other words, if she draws this character card, she could summon Guinevere—the one who had supported her throughout the simulation—directly into reality?
"This is incredible!"
At the thought of summoning [Savior Holy Swordbearer · Guinevere], Altria nearly danced with happiness. She had feared it was merely a fleeting dream, but now… perhaps it was more than that?
Then her jubilant motion abruptly halted. If she truly could summon a simulated character into reality, might those so-called dreams not be mere illusions? Could it be that the lives she simulated actually existed in some distant world, and the memories she gained were her own records from that world, tinged with regret?
If so, then the "Exiled Knight" Guinevere and the "Ordinary Blacksmith" Guinevere might once have truly existed in another world. Yet now she'd never again meet the version of him who did not ascend as a Heroic Spirit—no chance to apologize or to thank him.
At that thought, Altria's spirits dipped.
"Is that too cruel…?"
—No, wrong: it isn't cruel.
After all, she need not bear responsibility for faults or debts that never truly existed for her. The departed are gone; the past cannot be changed, but she was not the protagonist of those records. The true purpose of simulations is to let you find, among infinite universes, the one path where you make all the right choices and live happily. The joys and sorrows of other worlds no longer concern you. Here in your own world, someone awaits you. Only he is your exclusive starlight; only he would regard you as his starlight.
Thus, there is no need to shoulder the burdens of those drifting dreams. What you must grasp is solely the life that belongs to you here and now.
Faintly, she seemed to hear a voice saying so.