Shinji's own uniqueness destined him to not be able to join the E-Team with his true identity. To be precise, Shinji never thought about joining the E-Team.
He is El-Melloi's hidden trump card, and with his physical age of only eleven, he doesn't want to attract too much attention. More importantly, he may return to Japan at any time, and cannot and is unwilling to be bound by militarized management.
However, the strength shown by Shinji has completely aroused Lorelaia's interest. She is determined to win this boy who is similar to herself but a little younger.
After some bargaining, coercion and inducement, the two agreed that Shinji would join the E-Team as a special member under a disguised identity, directly under Lorelaya. The welfare benefits were the same as those of the cadres, and he enjoyed the privileges of selecting tasks and not having to accept military management outside of tasks.
The reason for making such a concession is mainly because Shinji is indeed excellent and has great potential. In addition, there is also the consideration of setting a benchmark to attract more talents to join the e-team, and Shinji is such a benchmark.
Loreleija estimated that the team would have 50 members, but now she has not even recruited half of them. She is unwilling to lower the standard, so she can only change her recruitment strategy - if the members of the E team can single-handedly annihilate the "Son of Fuhailin", this kind of signboard may attract more talents to join, and at the same time, it can also give a satisfactory answer to the entire Barthelmero - this is what Loreleija calculated.
Therefore, Shinji must demonstrate his strength and value.
What? I can't do that.
Four words, take responsibility for the consequences!
When she said this, Lorelaia was so queenly. If Shinji hadn't seen all kinds of kings (Scathach, Altria, Gilgamesh, Iskandar), he might have really fallen for Lorelaia, even though Shinji had never seen Lorelaia wearing a skirt.
Although Shinji wanted to see how serious the so-called "consequences" were, he gave up the idea when considering Barthelmero who was standing behind the girl - blindly provoking a strong enemy was not heroic, but stupid, and Shinji was not stupid.
So he agreed to Lorelaia's condition and killed "Son of Fuhailin" alone. This can not only show the strength of E-Team to the outside world, but also show the strength of "Death God" to the inside, so that those equally outstanding members will be convinced - there is always someone stronger among the strong, if you don't agree, you can try it too.
"What are you going to do, Death?"
When the approach failed, Lorelaia maintained her stern attitude and asked calmly, as if she didn't care about the success or failure of this trip at all.
"Looking for a place to land nearby?"
"No, that's too much trouble." Shinji shook his head, "Go directly to the center of the lava."
"Do as you wish."
Loreleija glanced at the "chariot", which immediately increased its altitude, adjusted its direction, and arrived at the center of the lava lake.
"Then what?"
"I jumped and destroyed the core—"
Shinji said as he got up from his seat and opened the cabin door.
The cold air from the sky and the scorching air below rushed into the cabin at the same time, giving people an indescribable sense of contrast. However, this contrast was nothing compared to Shinji's simple and rough approach.
Chariot, who gave people the impression of being serious and meticulous, opened his mouth wide, and Loreleija's face was also full of obvious surprise.
Without giving the two people time to express their opinions, Shinji jumped out of the cabin, leaving only one sentence.
"—Remember to pick me up."
When the last word reached his ears, Shinji's figure had turned into a small black dot.
"... Miss, is he okay?" "Tank" was a little worried.
"Should be fine. He's the only one on the team who can fight with me—"
—But why am I still a little worried
Lorelaia exerted force with both hands, and the whip that she always carried with her bent.
... ...
Shinji took the "Leap of Faith" and let gravity pull his body. He didn't hear Lorelaya's voice. The moment he jumped out of the helicopter, he entered combat mode.
Every nerve is fully expanded, feeling the changes in the surroundings. The muscles throughout the body are at a balance point between tension and relaxation, and can be both tightened and exerted, or relaxed and adjusted.
His eyes were fixed on the lake below, carefully guarding against possible attacks at any time. With his left hand, he pressed the rune bag, holding the frozen rune that had been prepared long ago, and with his right hand, he held a wide variety of treasures at hand.
After a distinct feeling of distortion and dislocation, Shinji realized that he had entered an "other world" isolated from the real world. It seemed that Fukailin's son had also inherited the mother's ability to create his own other world.
The temperature rose sharply, almost instantly exceeding the limit of human endurance. Fortunately, Shinji was not affected by the high temperature. He was now wearing a fireproof suit made of salamander skin. The fire resistance was so high that he could swim directly in the magma, not to mention the high temperature.
However, the high temperature is just a prelude, not even a prologue to the attack.
The sea of molten lava in sight was boiling, and a flowing red flower was blooming on the lake. The scattered magma was the petals, the pillar of fire rising into the sky was the heart of the flower, and the alien creatures accompanying the pillar of fire were the stamens.
No matter which part of the flower it is, it has only one goal - to devour the invader, no, the prey, and turn it into its own nutrients.
Shinji turned on the switch of the magic circuit, and with the tingling sensation he had long been accustomed to, he turned his body into parts and drew magic power from the ubiquitous sea of life, the "Great Source". A part of the magic power that was turned into his own was injected into the feather shoes under his feet, and relying on the changes in the wings, he calmly avoided the direct attack of the magma.
The magma scattered and the alien fish jumped out one after another. It was only then that Shinji could see the details of the alien creatures. The dense bone spurs on the wing membrane and back were hideous and terrifying, the black and gold fangs in the mouth flashed a chilling light, and the smooth and hard scales reminded people of a freshly polished ruby.
It seems that this creature has a high defense against simple physical attacks.
After making this judgment, Shinji gave up the idea of manifesting the Snake Hunting Scythe and first threw out two Thursaz (Thor's Hammer) runes to hinder the advance of the alien flying fish with lightning.
After discovering that flying fish conduct electricity, Shinji continued his efforts and used the little time bought by Thursaz to launch the lightning rune magic - Lightning Shock.
Accompanied by a flash of lightning that was clearly visible in the helicopter, the dense school of fish suddenly lost their vitality, twitching and falling into the lava lake.
But these losses are just a drop in the bucket for the Son of Fukailin. This huge abnormal blood-sucking species did not give Shinji any chance to breathe, and the second and third magma flowers bloomed one after another.
With the experience from the first flower, Shinji responded more calmly, either dodging or counterattacking with magic, in an orderly manner, and the distance between him and the lake surface was getting shorter and shorter.
Just when the distance was shortened to twenty meters, Shinji suddenly felt his body become heavy.