However, after arranging various errands, after setting a date for the first issue of the newspaper to be published on October 3, on September 29, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Terry, went to the Carr laboratory to find Xia Lin.

This time, it was not for Xia Lin to guide him in reviewing the manuscript, but the reporters under the newspaper were all new and did not find any news worth mentioning.

When the informants who had just developed into the newspaper heard about the newspaper's solicitation of news, they were not very enthusiastic, resulting in most of the pages of the Imperial Capital Xunbao being filled with no content, so the editor-in-chief Terry wanted to ask Xia Lin for advice on whether to delete half of the pages.

"No, how can you cut the layout of the first issue! If the content is not enough, it is a big deal that we will serialize a long story in the spare space! As for the specific content of the story, let me think about it first.

You first hire a young scholar who has written good stories, has written epic stories, and is also familiar with folklore stories, preferably someone who is in dire need of money, and I think that after the story is ready, I will give him the outline! ”

Yan Zi denied Terry's idea, and in Xia Lin's opinion, as the first issue of the first issue of the "Imperial Capital Xunbao", it must not be fooled like this.

Instead of cutting down the page, it is better to learn from the wisdom of the people who came before you, and serialize a story in the newspaper to fill the empty page, and by the way, it can also attract some popularity.

As for what the story is, Xia Lin has to think about it carefully.

Seeing Terry away, Xia Lin thought about the story requirements needed to serialize in the Imperial Capital Xunbao.

First, the story must conform to the general aesthetics of the aristocracy and merchants in this world as the main readership, such as knights, dragons, and magicians, and at the same time have enough gimmicks, otherwise it will not achieve the purpose of increasing newspaper sales through stories.

Second, it's best not to have gods in the story, although the Templar Church of the Sassen Empire is much more low-key than the Evil Light Cult in the north, probably Xia Lin will not be burned at the stake by them if he writes about this, but in a world with extraordinary power, Xia Lin feels that it is still a bit too much to write about the gods in other stories.

Third, the length of the story should not be too long, nor too short, Xia Lin would have to waste a lot of time revising the outline, and if it was too short, it would also not play a role in boosting newspaper sales.

After deciding what kind of story he needed, Xia Lin found a pen and paper and began to brainstorm.

Then he found out that he couldn't even come up with a story that qualified him.

The existence of gods is absolutely indispensable in the classic fantasy works in online novels, and the protagonist is a time-traveler with various golden fingers, and if he does not make major changes, he can't take them out to the readership of this world.

Not to mention the rest of the "Azeroth Chronicles" and "Harry Potter" that he remembers, the problem is even bigger than those online works, at least a Titan Creation and a wizard on a broom are difficult for people in this world to understand and substitute.

What is the meaning of hating less when the book is used, this is probably the most appropriate scenario.

Xia Lin couldn't help but regret why he hadn't watched Old Man Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the famous "A Song of Ice and Fire" in his previous life, so that he didn't even have suitable material for copying.

After thinking about it, the unwilling Xia Lin quickly went through the cultural works he had seen in his mind again, and suddenly found an anime that was not included in his target at the beginning: "Fate/Zero".

"Fate/Zero" tells the story of seven heroic spirits from different eras and different legends, who are summoned by magicians to the modern day and fight each other for the almighty wishing machine.

Xia Lin unexpectedly found that the story seemed to fit his requirements very well.

First, the setting of Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong is enough to catch people's attention at the first time no matter which world it is, and with a universal wishing machine holy grail, the reader group that can be attracted will be wider.

Second, Artoria's character is very suitable for establishing a noble image of a female king in the hearts of readers, so that the enlightened faction can promote Dorothea in the future.

Thirdly, this story is very convenient for Xia Lin to carry out magic reforms, replacing magicians with magicians, replacing their motivation to pursue the root of magic with the pursuit of the essence of magic.

Then replace a few of them with the protagonists of the heroic epics that circulate in this world, which will not produce too much sense of disobedience, and can also increase the appeal of the story to the imperial knight class.

As for the modern background, it is not very abrupt to directly and completely cut it into a background that fits this era.

After Emiya Kiritsugu's demon reform, Crete Emia can use a kind of magic equipment from Xia Lin Kouhu, which is powered by magic crystals, and can fire a continuous ring of magic missiles.

In addition, this magic equipment can also fire another special spell with curse power, which can inflict a unique curse on the target, and as long as the mage uses magic power, it will be extremely severely counterattacked.

As for the city of Winterwood, it can be placed in the kingdom of Clansedia, far across the Francose Sea, and the name is changed to "Vortock", which means Winterwood in the Sassen language.

However, as for why the kingdom of Clanthya had a Sassen name, Xia Lin didn't bother to care about such unnecessary details.

After all, the Holy Grail War was held in the Kingdom of Clansedia, thousands of miles away, in order to take advantage of the fact that most of its readership was unfamiliar with it, and it was convenient to make up all kinds of nonsense.

After consulting with a professional scholar at Ferran Eddarde, and borrowing two of the Empire's most widely circulated epic books, Charin successfully reinvented Fate/Zero and named it the more accessible War of the Holy Grail.

After his magic change, the new version of the Holy Grail War has the following lineup:

Saber: Artoria Pendragon, a knight from the historical (fictional) fallen kingdom of Britain.

Magician: Crete Emia (Emiya Kiritsugu): A famous mage killer on the continent, a one-ring mage, who uses magic equipment to launch magic bullets to assassinate enemies.

Rider: The legendary founder of the Sassen Empire, the dragon knight and Sun King Albis Ahlica.

Magician: Webb Velwitt: A student at the Sassen Imperial Clock Tower School of Magic, a mage of the First Ring, who stole the relics because he was dissatisfied with his mentor's disdain for looking down on civilian students.

Archer: It has been recorded in history that the oldest king of the Church of Oia, the blessed God.

Mage: Turkomi Dosaka (Tosaka Tokitomi): The head of a long-standing alchemist family in the Kingdom of Clancedia, a three-ring mage, who specializes in a unique spell technique that stores magic in precious magic stones.

Berserker: The strongest Knight of the Round Table, the Knight of the Lake, who respects Artoria but betrays her because of Gnevel.

Magician: Karia Mart (Wild Goose Night): The heir of a long-standing mage family in the Kingdom of Clanthaya, but unwilling to learn the family's insect magic, through a special way to achieve a link.

Caster: Gilles de Ray, Earl of the Kingdom of Austin, known as Bluebeard, was lured by the devil to fall for his defeat in the war of independence of the Holy Church two hundred years ago, leading his saint to be burned to death by angry foolish believers.

Magician: Linosque Beliu (Ryunosuke Yusheng): A native of the kingdom of Clancy, a murderous young man who takes pleasure in killing.

Lancer: Dilumudo, the Radiant Knight of the Kingdom of Enshiro, betrayed his monarch because of the curse of the Mole of Tears.

Magician: Kenneth Elmeloy Achpolud: Professor at the Clock Tower School of Magic, one of the Twelve Sovereigns, and a four-ring mage.

Assassin: The leader of Assasin, the assassination organization of the Kingdom of Prius, is a hundred faces Hassan with kaleidoscopic abilities.

Magician: Crey Cottmini: A priest of the Evil Light Cult, a man with extremely strong melee abilities and an empty heart.

In the case that the background and the setting of the Heroic Spirit have changed, and the main story line has also been adjusted to a certain extent, Xia Lin spent a day and a half coding the outline, and then came to the newspaper office to see if Terry had found a suitable person to write for him.

Xia Lin is not too interested in spending precious time every day to serialize a story.

Terry found a man named Grote Fell, a rare scholar of civilian origin, who was very knowledgeable about epic stories, and even wrote and published a book of Thran Knoll himself.

However, studying these did not bring him much money, and publishing in this era was a huge act of self-payment, and in the past he had to earn money by being a literacy and poetry teacher.

In the imperial capital, where aristocratic merchants gathered, as a scholar, it was originally very simple to find a job as a tutor.

However, Grote once said at a banquet that merchants were moths of the empire, and this sentence offended many merchants and enlightened nobles who ran the industry.

After his previous job was completed, Grote Phil found that he couldn't find a suitable job.

Therefore, when he heard in the scholarly circle that Terry Elton was looking for someone who had written epic stories, he volunteered to sign up, and because he met Charlin's qualifications, Terry was chosen as the first candidate.

"I've already given you an outline of this story and the content of the first chapter, you try to write a chapter along the outline to familiarize yourself with this style of writing, and if you pass, you will be paid 25 silver mar every ten years!"

Charlin handed the outline and the first chapter of the Holy Grail War to Grote Phil and said to him.

"Do I have to do something like this? Lord Terry? ”

Grout took the manuscript and looked at Terry on the side with a look of embarrassment on his face and asked. Before he came, he didn't know that he was going to do this kind of thing.

Writing a story according to someone else's outline is a humiliation for any scholar who has written his own work, except for the compilation of a new version of an epic based on historical sources, which is a re-creation.

And the salary of 25 silver mar for ten years is actually not much in his opinion as a poetry teacher from an aristocratic family, and the only advantage is that he can give full play to his writing expertise, and at the same time he can only work part-time.

"Mr. Grote, this is His Excellency Charleen Carr, the owner of our newspaper, and he even asked Her Highness the Imperial Lady for the title of the Imperial Newspaper.

His request is my request, and if you can't do it, please go back! ”

As Xia Lin's subordinates, Terry's editor-in-chief naturally would not veto Xia Lin's proposal, and said to Grote with a straight face.

"That'...... I'll try it first! ”

In order to stop asking his friends for help, Grote, who had been unemployed for more than half a year, reluctantly took the outline manuscript to the seat assigned to him at the newspaper office and began to read the manuscript provided by Xia Lin.

But when he read it, a look of shock suddenly appeared on his face.

The almighty Wishing Machine Holy Grail described at the beginning of the outline and the war that revolves around it to summon heroes from different eras in history, this setting alone makes Grote's mind sound like opening the door to a new world, and the whole person is frozen in place, with only one thought left in his heart:

It turns out that the story can still be written like this?

After the shock, he finally came back to his senses, and Grlot immediately read the following content, the noble knight king, the king of the ancients of mankind, the founder of the Sassen Empire, because of the curse to choose the monarch in love and loyalty, the glorious knight, the earl who fell because the saint he followed was killed by the believers......

The characters of the heroic spirits who appeared on the stage were either familiar or unfamiliar, but the continent was so big that even Grote, who specializes in epic poetry, could not conclude that these heroic spirits he didn't know did not exist.

One thing they all have in common is that they all have legendary experiences that are worth singing, so they have reappeared as heroic spirits under the power of the Holy Grail and Holy Relic.

What a thrilling story! Heroic spirits from different eras fight each other for the almighty wishing machine! The more he looked at Grote, the more inspiration flowed through his mind, and he felt that he could write several pages of epic poetry in less than half a day.

But when he cursory over the outline with shock, and was saddened by the destruction of the Holy Grail tainted by the evils of this world at the end of the story by the Sword of Victory of the Oath of the Noble Phantasm of the Knight King Artoria, the manuscript of the first chapter provided by Charin caught his eye.

After reading the manuscript of the first chapter, Grote suddenly became entangled again:

"Your Excellency Xia Lin, do you have to write in this plain style?"

"Yes, what I need is not an orthodox heroic epic, but a long story, and in order to fill the pages of a newspaper, you have to learn to use this style."

Xia Lin sat on the chair next to him and explained the main points of running a newspaper with Terry, and nodded when he heard Grote's words.

"Well, I can give it a try! Please wait a minute! ”

Although Grote usually writes epic stories, he is also very interested in ordinary folklore stories, and in his opinion, the language style of the samples provided by Xia Lin is very similar to those stories.

Although it was a pity that Grote could not write the story into a new epic poem for the bards on the continent to sing in the way he was best at, he was able to accept the use of folkloric style to write this extremely interesting story.

Grote opened the inkwell, picked up the pen, and began to write.

Although the inspiration was like a spring, but the speed of writing with a dipping pen could not be fast, Xia Lin waited with tea on the side, and began to think about whether to get the typewriter out.

However, although the principle of the typewriter is similar to that of the pickupter, the requirements for machining accuracy are higher than those of the pickupter, especially the spring on it, Xia Lin thought about it and gave up this idea that is not yet possible.

It was not until late in the evening that the blood-red sunlight poured into the newspaper office through the open wooden window, spreading a carpet on the floor, and Grote finally finished the 2,000-word manuscript for the second chapter that Xia Lin had requested.

After taking the manuscript and reading it, Xia Lin found that Grote was really a talent, but he had grasped the language style of the novel the first time.

And his writing is quite good, after the language is flattened, he still maintains the unique grandeur of the epic story, and he also has a good grasp of the characters of the various magicians and saints in the story.

In Grote's anxious expression, Xia Lin smiled:

"Congratulations, Your Excellency Grote Phil, you have been given this job by your talent, and from tomorrow onwards, you will be asked to provide two chapters per day according to the outline, and after the first issue, only two chapters every ten days.

If the response is good, I will consider having the newspaper publish the novel, and then as a ghostwriter, you can get 5% of the royalty!

One more thing, in order to avoid some trouble, a pen name is needed for serialization in the newspaper, and I think we can use the pen name 'mushroom'! ”