The Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City has a deeper meaning behind it.
It is not simply the pursuit of the Holy Grail, which is regarded as the ultimate goal by the world. To a certain extent, although it does have the function of a wishing machine, it is more like a gorgeous shell that hides the truth.
The original purpose of the earliest Yusan Family to create and hold this extra-standard magic ceremony was to reach the unreachable "root"——
Summoning followers to fight and fight is just the process of realizing this strategy.
In the process of fighting, letting the followers die in a reasonable and reasonable manner is the real key.
Inject the souls of the six dead servants into the Holy Grail, and use the moment when they return to the "Seat of Heroic Spirits" located outside the world to open a path to the outside, which is equivalent to opening a hole in the world. .
As long as they can seize this opportunity and fix this slightly opened hole, magicians can theoretically follow this opened path to the outside of the world, or even reach the source...
Although the final link to the root has not been proven in practice, all the steps and theoretical basis before it have been confirmed.
——The Holy Grail War is just fishing.
——The essence of the Holy Grail is a fixed device.
Now, as a pseudo-Holy Grail in a sense, Sakura is functioning as a fixture. Although it stands to reason that it generally requires the souls of six servants to reach the soul weight necessary to activate the Great Holy Grail.
In fact, however, quality is far more important than quantity when it comes to judging the necessary "weight" of the soul.
Just like some servants' souls are worth much more than other heroic souls due to their special characteristics. The soul of one servant can be worth several or even more, which is naturally more decisive...
Of course, the more critical point is that the current Great Holy Grail is not the previous Great Holy Grail. It was arrogantly refined into a true elixir by immortal technology from another world, and its form and efficacy have undergone fundamental changes.
All its "medicinal properties" have been fully stimulated by the immortal alchemy techniques. It no longer sleeps like a giant dragon inhabiting a large hollow like before, but has a new vitality.
The power of this spiritual vein, or the power of dragon——
Now he has completely woken up, become excited, active, and extremely aggressive.
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"Um?"
Xia Zhi raised her eyebrows and was the first to notice the change in space.
In just a moment, everything around him was overturned.
It was as if the scenery in reality was eroded, the space in reality was replaced, and the sky suddenly turned red in an imperceptible microsecond, which was as bright as blood.
——Surrounded by black soil with rolling waves like the sea.
——There are mountains of corpses everywhere, composed of withered corpses, which are gradually sinking into the sea.
——The wind is cursed and sad. In the dark mud rain, the black sun dominates the sky.
It seemed that he was suddenly pulled into such a fantasy-like space under some unconscious circumstances. The Fuyuki City around him had disappeared, and was replaced by something completely abnormal, like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. earth.
Inherent enchantment?
Or is it a realm where some kind of magic unfolds?
He raised his hands and looked at his palms. He felt his body seriously again, and then walked back and forth a few steps casually, moving his hands and feet with a thoughtful expression on his face.
He probably knew where this place was. It should be the inside of the Great Holy Grail, and it was also the inner realm of the true elixir in his belly.
"You're finally here..."
Just at this moment, a voice with a friendly tone sounded.
Xia Zhi looked up calmly and saw a figure quietly appearing in front of him, wearing a black dress and shining silver hair.
She walked with light steps, stepping on the corpses and pools of blood, not caring about the black mud rain, and walked in front of Xia Zhi. A warm and loving smile bloomed on her cheeks, and her eyes were tight. Lock the young man who was led here tightly.
"I waited for you a long time……"
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"Are you... the consciousness of the Holy Grail?"
Xia Zhi stopped and looked up and down at the woman with silver hair and black dress. His eyes paused for a moment at her silky silver hair and the gentle eyes with deep meaning, and a reasonable guess emerged in her mind.
"Well, it seems that you understand the current situation... This statement is not wrong. I am essentially a void existence. I cannot communicate with others or even think without the help of this personality and mask, but..."
She gently put a hand on her heart. The woman in the silver-haired black dress seemed to be revealing herself, and her words were full of sincerity and gentleness: "At this moment, I am both a woman named Irisviel and also a person." The will of the Holy Grail is manifested."
"Oh, nice to meet you, my name is Chen Beixuan."
Xia Zhi nodded calmly, with a slightly perfunctory tone. While he examined the appearance of the woman who called herself Irisviel, he tried to figure out what the relationship between her and the lolita was.
His suspicion was not only due to the fact that they also had silver-white hair and gorgeous ruby-like eyes, but also because of the subtle similarities between their looks, as if they were a mother and daughter.
"Chen Bei It can only summon heroic spirits from the West.”
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Xia Zhi looked at her quietly. Although she could hear the other party's insinuations, she had no intention of explaining.
Irisviel paused for a moment and gave up on the idea of testing. Then she smiled brightly and changed the topic: "But it doesn't matter. None of this is important anyway. What's important is that the preparations for the Holy Grail have been completed."
"Oh, are the preparations for the Holy Grail complete?"
"Yes, that child's potential is amazing. Of course, it's also thanks to the King of Heroes and the great Greek hero. If it weren't for these two, just by recovering the souls of the four servants, the Holy Grail might have been delivered. Still a little reluctant..."
Irisviel replied with a smile.
Immediately, the woman with silver hair and black skirt turned around lightly, her skirt flying, and pointed at the symbol of the end in the sky.
"Look, do you see it? That is the Holy Grail. Although it has no form yet, it is already waiting to be born..."
The dark sun in the sky, or rather the dark vortex.
It is the center of the entire world, and it is normal to be mistaken for the sun, although it is actually a "hole" in the sky, with unfathomable darkness inside and a density that seems to be able to crush everything.
Looking back, Irisviel spoke out cheerfully and cheerfully: "You are the only one worthy of defining its form. Have you thought about what "pose" to give it? "
"So, how should I give it a "pose"? "
The young man also looked at the dark whirlpool in the sky and threw the question back lightly.
"This is very simple. Just make a wish directly to it. According to the entrusted wish, it will change its appearance accordingly, acquire the posture and shape of the world, and truly appear in the outside world..."
Finally coming to the real point, Irisviel replied with a smile. At the same time, a hint of helplessness and loneliness flashed through her gentle and loving eyes that seemed to come from the heart. She knew that this person would definitely refuse. .
"You must have realized that the power of the Holy Grail has been contaminated——"
However, at this critical moment.
A calm voice slowly sounded, interrupting her further explanation.
"My wish is to make the power of the Holy Grail fully available to me." Xia Zhi stared at the "hole" in the sky and expressed his wishes calmly.
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"Huh?" Irisviel, who was wearing a black dress with silver hair, couldn't help but be stunned, as if she had just understood it. She suddenly lost her ability and stammered: "Wait, wait, listen to me first, the Holy Grail has been realized. The way of desire has been twisted——"
"I understand, I understand, but can I fully use the power of the Holy Grail?"
The young man nodded in agreement in a perfunctory manner, while seriously making such a request again.
"Hey, what do you know? Can you please listen to me first? No matter what kind of wish you make, the Holy Grail will never come true according to your ideas..."
Irisviel's eyes widened, feeling that this development was completely wrong, and that the plot in front of her was completely off track. Although her role was like a devil at the moment, the other party's reaction made her feel that her preparation and design had encountered Waterloo.
There is an inexplicable and subtle sense of frustration.
How should I put it? It's like she showed the other person a button and told him that as long as he pressed it, his wish would come true, but she also warned him that he would have to pay an extremely heavy price to fulfill his wish.
It was originally expected that the other party would fall into a process of struggle, inner entanglement, and repeated weighing.
However, the actual situation is that this guy only heard half of the words that his wish could come true, as if he couldn't wait to smash the button.
"What's there to say about this? Isn't the point of making me make a wish?"
Xia Zhi frowned and gave her a strange look: "Besides, isn't this just what you wanted? Why aren't you happy with it?"
"I……"
Irisviel was speechless for a moment, but she also reacted.
It seems that this is indeed the case. I should incite him to make a wish. Isn't this what I thought at the beginning?
Probably because no matter what is in this body, the personality belonging to Irisviel is real. Every word, every move, and every move she makes are all true emotions.
Taking a deep breath, the woman with silver hair and black skirt shook her head slightly, looking at the young man in front of her with a somewhat complicated look: "Ten years ago, there was also a person who arrived here and faced the same choice as you... …”
"I thought he was the most suitable person for the title "All the Evil in the World", but now it seems that maybe you are more suitable than him. "
She could tell that this guy might have realized something.
After all, the Great Holy Grail is in his body now, and the malicious black mud has begun to seep out, and he is unaware that there is a ghost.
However, the other party's performance was that he didn't care at all. He didn't care about the malicious content at all. On the contrary, he looked very interested.
"Who is that person?" Xia Zhi's heart moved slightly. Someone had reached this point ten years ago and had reached the stage where he could make a wish to the Holy Grail? But it was obvious that the wish was not made.
So could he be the person who set up the "tumor" on the mountain of Enzang Mountain?
Sensing a problem and wanting to end the Holy Grail War?
"He is already dead..." Irisviel seemed not to want to talk about that person, and then directly changed the subject, "Since you have decided to make a wish, then prepare for the birth of "it"——"
"Experience it carefully, the conceptual weight of that malice..."
"You must have felt it too. Let me explain it more clearly to you. In terms of numerical value, it is already six hundred million..."
The moment the words fell, the scene changed again.
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The illusion that affects the deep spiritual level, only when we look back, we realize that it only happened in the blink of an eye.
The moment he came back to his senses, Xia Zhi found that he was still standing in the sky above Fuyuki City. He still had that violent and domineering "medicine" in his body. Even if it was swallowed as a pill, it would expand like a wild dragon. The magic is running rampant.
"The value of malice is actually 600,000,000 -?"
He instantly recalled what had just happened, and was slightly confused about it.
"How is this value quantified? Is it the number of evil deeds? Well, it seems... not too much? It seems that it feels like that."
Xia Zhi subconsciously made this association and thought of that infinite time loop. He suddenly felt a wave of physical and psychological rejection. He could not remember those values and was not very willing to recall them.
And at this moment——
The terrifying magic power shook the atmosphere, making a terrifying howl.
He cast his gaze and looked over, just in time to see a black-red light pillar rising into the sky and sinking directly into the sky. He immediately raised his eyebrows.
The beam of light tore through the clouds at an altitude of 30,000 meters in the blink of an eye, without losing any momentum. It even completely penetrated the atmosphere under the illumination of the moonlight, and just passed the edge of a satellite that had changed its orbit towards Fuyuki City not long ago and had just arrived in the sky.
The heat of the majestic magic power directly destroyed and evaporated it, turning it into space junk floating in the earth's orbit.
And in the sky above Fuyuki City, countless people saw "it" in the night sky.
The dark sun.
Like a symbol of the end of the world.
Below the "hole" is Sakura whose whole body is suspended. She is screaming silently in pain. The majestic magic power visible to the naked eye shoots straight into the sky. The magic light beam just now bloomed from her body.
There were black "holes" connected to the light pillar, and it continued to be filled with seemingly endless magic power. Like a sharp sword slashing through the sky, it struck higher into the sky above, causing the scene just now.
——As the incarnation of the Black Holy Grail, the result of being directly connected to the Holy Grail is that Sakura's magical power has also reached an extremely terrifying level.
——If the magic power of a first-rate servant like Artoria can only reach "thousand" units, then the magic power stored by Miss Sakura is hundreds of millions.
It's just that due to the limitation of her own human circuit, the output efficiency was not high. She had hundreds of millions of magic power, but she could only output a magic value of over a thousand at most every time. Although this was terrible, it was still far away. not enough.
But now, she is no longer a human being, and has completely transformed into the "vessel" of the Holy Grail.
The output power is naturally comparable to the level of the real Holy Grail. When the human reason and functions are completely stripped away, the functions of the Holy Grail finally climb to the theoretical limit.
As a fixed device, she is now outputting magic power at maximum power, opening the tightly closed "portal", allowing things on the other side to be born into this world.
Xia Zhi watched coldly from high in the sky.
He just watched like this, seemingly ignoring all the commotion and panic below, until all the screams and turmoil suddenly stopped and turned into dead silence.
——Black mud.
——It was endless black mud, like a raging black wave falling from the sky, pouring into the world instantly.
The dark curse color exudes extreme malice. It falls down like an endless stream. In an instant, it will set off a black tsunami, flowing from Yuanzang Mountain to the entire surrounding city, and then endlessly eroding the land and world further away. .
Without any suspense, everything around was quickly swallowed up...
As time goes by, the black mud flowing down from Enzang Mountain seems to be endless. The entire Fuyuki City is swept up and swallowed up by the black mud, turning into a black turbulent sea...
The chaotic black tide did not stop and continued to spread endlessly toward the outer reaches, sweeping the earth like a tsunami...
And on the sea covered with endless black mud, a huge shadow slowly rises from the deeper sea. It bulges on the sea, squirms, and finally turns into an extremely tall silver-haired black figure like a beauty taking a bath. The slim silhouette of the skirt.
As all the black mud poured down from the "portal"...
"It" was finally born into this world...
Looking towards the figure in the sky, "it" showed a greedy expression. However, at this moment, the night sky seemed to be slowly filled with cracks, like a glass container that could not bear the weight.
The dark cracks spread little by little, from the horizon to the void atmosphere.
"It" had a very human, astonished expression on its face, and the next moment it saw the surrounding space completely peeling off, with pieces falling continuously.
The Enzo Mountains and Fuyuki City that were swallowed up not long ago...
Everything became illusory at this moment, disappearing like transparency...
The seemingly endless black turbulent waves are being held simply and directly in the palm of a hand. The five fingers are like ancient pillars supporting the sky. In the palm of the hand, it is as if time and space have been stretched. .
"Yes, those things just now were all fake. I manipulated the splicing of time and space. As long as I have the power of the Holy Grail, of course this kind of thing can be done..."
The fairy-like figure stood above the clouds, staring at the black mud in his palm for a long time, seeming to see "it"'s doubts, and laughed mischievously.
"It turns out that this is the true power of the Holy Grail. It was just because you were mixed in that it was difficult for me to control that power. But when you chose to come out of the Great Holy Grail, you actually helped me. Very helpful...otherwise, why do you think I would help you make a wish?"
"Oh, by the way, you can't run away either..."
As if he remembered something, he added this sentence. He suddenly closed his palms and rolled them into a ball of black balls.
Then, as Tohsaka Rin and others watched helplessly, they pushed the black pill-like thing into the deepest part of Enzo Mountain's "alchemy furnace" with a backhand.
What malice...
What a heavy concept...
He didn't seem to feel anything about it.
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(PS: A little more than expected...)
(PS: I also learned that someone reported this book in the evening, which made me a little numb...orz)
