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Medea chuckled, and couldn't help but find the emerald green eyes that Altria gave her amusing. "I did this, but it was the Master you mentioned who ordered me to do it."

"What...?" When Artoria heard this, her face froze.

That man is very powerful, but also very despicable.

But during the magic replenishment last night, she clearly understood that although the other party was unscrupulous, he also had his limits. He was even able to make her experience the grace of a knight again without any anger.

That's a very talkative person!

Medea said calmly, "This magical riot was caused in order to dry up the spiritual veins of Mount Enzo. Perhaps you don't know this yet? The Great Grail Formation of Fuyuki City is hidden in Mount Enzo."

"By causing the spiritual veins to dry up, we are destroying the Holy Grail system."

Altria opened her eyes wide, even showing some confusion: "Why?"

"You ask 'why'?" Medea couldn't help laughing.

This perfect King Arthur is even more naive than the legend says.

"This is naturally intended to attract other Servants. We will use the power of the spiritual veins to reserve mana for the rituals deployed at the Enzo Mountain position. Using this as a base to fight against other Servants will give us an absolute advantage..."

At this point, Medea paused and said, "Of course, they don't have to come. However, if they do, the technique will be truly destroyed, and the so-called Holy Grail War will no longer exist."

Altria opened her mouth and said, "By doing this, you don't care about the Holy Grail at all?"

Medea smiled and said, "How does the effect of the Holy Grail compare to what you experienced last night?"

“…” Altria blushed, feeling a little uncomfortable.

However, she also understood that what Medea was referring to was her spiritual foundation being able to achieve a breakthrough after replenishing her magic with that unique Master. Or in other words, breaking through the limitations of the Throne of Heroes.

This kind of power is indeed no less than that of the Holy Grail wish-granting machine.

"Then you, actually planned all this a long time ago..." Altria said in a low voice.

"No, it's just that my Master feels that the collection is almost complete, and the remaining three riders don't have any targets he wants, right?" Medea responded sarcastically.

In fact, she didn't know the real reason.

The destiny power that her Master had told her about, as well as some of her research ideas, were just the right ideas, and they just happened to target this place.

After that, her master suggested that she go underground and pry the earth veins to complete the scene before her, thus creating this kind of natural disaster and doomsday situation.

It can attract all the servants here, and because she and the Master had laid out a large formation in advance, it was almost a conspiracy announced to those servants -

[Either fall into our trap, or watch helplessly as the magical power of the spirit vein is drained away until the so-called Holy Grail War is over.]

The Master asked her to tell him this to convey a meaning.

Altria looked up at the sky, her green eyes lost in a trance for a moment.

The sky was filled with huge magic circles, which were manipulated by Medea to freely transform into golden stone giants, white-haired and golden-eyed people, and various giant human silhouettes that looked like planets.

The black and red beam of light is located at the center, forming a magical beam of light connecting the sky and the earth.

Chapter 86 "The King's Treasure"

That extreme black and red light almost covered everything within her field of vision.

It wasn't until she heard footsteps from the side of the dojo that Altria gradually withdrew her gaze. She turned her head and saw Fan Yu's face.

Thinking of what Medea had said earlier, Altria couldn't help but step forward to seek an answer: "Master, is this really your order?"

Fan Yu looked up at the sky above his head, then looked at Medea who was giving him a sarcastic smile not far away, and seemed to be thinking about something.

Although this was indeed his order, it was likely that Medea had exaggerated what she said to Altria. However, Fan Yu did not intend to refute it.

"Yeah." Fan Yu responded.

There was a hint of confusion in Altria's green eyes. Even though she already knew that the man in front of her did not put the Holy Grail first, she still found it difficult to understand his behavior at this moment.

If you want to lure all the other servants here, there is no need to go to this extent.

"Why……"

Fan Yu: "Because it saves a lot of trouble."

Facing Altria's gaze, Fan Yu felt a little weird in his heart.

Doing so is actually very risky.

You should know that the heroic spirits registered in the Seat of Heroes like Altria actually all had unfulfilled wishes in their lifetime. It was a pity that they had the desire to make a wish for the Holy Grail and responded to the call of the Holy Grail War and came into the world.

And his actions are undoubtedly the most direct appeal to severing the Heroic Spirits.

By doing this, besides the three Command Spells that can restrain the Servants, you must be careful of being backstabbed by the Servants.

According to the information sent back this morning through Assassin Ryougi Shiki——[Tōsaka Tokiomi was assassinated by his own disciple, and the Hero King helped him become the new Master.]

That is a very vivid example.

Considering that during the previous battle with the Hero King Gilgamesh, Tōsaka Tokiomi used the Command Seal to force Gilgamesh to release his Noble Phantasm, Fanyu couldn't help but wonder whether the legendary tyrant had conspired with Kotomine Kirei to kill his master (Master) because of Tōsaka Tokiomi's disobedience.

During the communication with Artoria last night, the compatibility between Emiya Kiritsugu and Artoria reached an extremely mutually exclusive state, which required Irisviel to maintain.

All these situations silently tell us that an adaptable servant is far more important than the so-called strength of a Heroic Spirit.

If Fan Yu was not strong enough, it would be impossible to maintain peaceful coexistence among the servants.

Altria hesitated and said, "Then my wish..."

"The Holy Grail may not be the universal machine that you imagine, which can achieve everything." Fan Yu reminded gently.

"what?"

"It's just my personal inference. Saber, after I deal with those three knights, I will try to interpret the Holy Grail. Whether it is the legendary universal machine or a pure magician's creation, I will let you witness it to the end." Fan Yu said to her frankly.

Altria was speechless for a while. She naturally did not doubt that the Master would tell lies, but she could not understand why he would use such drastic measures to fight against the three riders.

"..."

Of course, Fan Yu wouldn't directly tell Altria that the identities of the remaining three riders had been confirmed, and that none of them were worthy of a [Connection], which was why he decided to do this. After all, the so-called Holy Grail War was a goal for the Heroic Spirits, whether it was fighting, conquering, or something else.

Fan Yu's goal was simply to connect with the female heroic spirit.

"Master, Saber. Please allow me to interrupt your conversation for a moment." Medea came forward wrapped in a robe and said seriously.

Fan Yu paused: "What's wrong?"

Medea said, "A Servant is approaching and has already destroyed the barrier at the foot of the mountain."

Fan Yu: "Oh?"

Altria's eyes also turned serious. "Have you confirmed which Servant it is? Is it Archer or Lancer?"

Medea shook her head, responding to the glances from Vanyu and Altria, and explained, "After the barrier sensor set up at the foot of the mountain was destroyed, I had to maintain the overall position here, and the mirror barrier couldn't extend there... But, maybe it was Archer?"

Fan Yu listened thoughtfully.

Just as he was about to activate the connected perception and transmit information to Ryougi Shiki in his mind, there was a sudden "crackling" sound.

Dozens of magic circles were swirling around Ryudoji's head, and one of them was pierced by a luminous spear thrown from nowhere. The magic circle remained in place for a moment, and then the magic power supporting it quickly collapsed.

Medea's expression turned grim. "Is that a magic-destroying treasure?"

The only weapons that can break her magic circle at this moment are similar to her treasure [Wan Fu Bi Ying Po Jie], which has the ability to break magic and spells.

Before she could start to prepare to return to defense, the magic circle in the sky collapsed, and a corner of the huge magic circle that originally covered Yuanzang Mountain in the sky suddenly lost a piece, and a grid of magic threads appeared in the sky again, switching between the real sky and the illusion.

Emiya Kiritsugu, who was standing at the foot of the mountain, looked up at the sky and saw the familiar scene. He immediately said to the priest beside him, "That is the barrier of Mount Enzo that I saw."

"This formation construction technique that covers the entire Enzo Mountain is worthy of Caster." Kotomine Kirei exclaimed in admiration as he looked at the magnificent masterpiece shimmering in the sky.

However, his gaze still turned to the king high in the sky, clad in golden armor and with his arms clasped together: "Hero King, may I use the Command Seal to bless you?"

Gilgamesh in the sky snorted and laughed. Compared to a guy like Tōsaka Tokiomi who was rationalizing and timid, Kotomine Kirei was more to his liking.

but--

"There's no need to use a Command Seal to destroy a mere Caster. Let them try to block my Noble Phantasm first." Gilgamesh said proudly from his position high in the sky.

As soon as he finished speaking, golden ripples appeared behind him, emerging from the void.

【King's Treasure】

Spears and swords emerged from the ripples of the void, as if opening the door to a treasure house in another world.

Then, those treasures shot out from the golden ripples like arrows and shot towards the barrier covering the sky of Yuanzang Mountain.

"Submit to my treasure trove!"

Chapter 87 Preservation

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Rays of light from the treasures shot down from the sky, instantly becoming as dense as a sudden rainstorm.

Countless piercing sounds rang out from the sky. Wherever a streak of light passed by, it would create a strong pressure in the sky, squeezing the surrounding atmosphere and turning it into its own color.

At the Yuanzang Mountain Dojo, a quarter of the sky was quickly occupied by this huge wave of light.

"Those are all treasures?" Artoria, who was standing below the dojo, looked up at the sky with a look of horror on her face.

Medea's face darkened. For a normal Heroic Spirit to possess one Noble Phantasm was already the limit; possessing two or three would surely make one a hero etched in history. However, treating a Noble Phantasm as a consumable item like this was completely unprecedented.

The luxury is beyond words and it completely goes against common sense.

As the magician currently in control of all the formations and spells on Yuanzang Mountain, she could clearly sense that her own formations were being damaged by the impact of the Noble Phantasms. Even with the constant flow of magic power from the spiritual veins to maintain and repair them, certain gaps would be hit hard and forcibly shattered.

Medea looked in that direction, and could only see huge explosions in the sky and the forest... No, to be more precise, it was those Noble Phantasms that were like a rain of arrows shooting at the spell in the sky, making a roar like a cannonball.

She subconsciously moved closer to Fan Yu and said to him, "Master, I'm afraid this won't work. We have to find the guy behind this!"

"That's not the guy behind the scenes." Fan Yu shook his head.

Medea was stunned.

Fan Yu did not respond to his words, but instead looked at the destructive effects of the treasures in the sky.

He recognized at a glance that this attack was the same force he had encountered when facing the Hero King Gilgamesh at the Tōsaka Mansion. This was clearly the destruction of the Noble Phantasm launched by the Ancient King.

Bang bang bang!

The sky was filled with explosions, and the impact brought by the destruction of the Noble Phantasm brought endless waves of strong pressure of different colors to the sky.

Some of the maintaining spells were broken on the spot and penetrated into the defensive spells surrounding Yuanzang Mountain, while some were at solid nodes and could not be approached at all.

Furthermore, ripples spread across the sky, and the damaged magic circle was repaired by Medea's [Harmony]. Not all Noble Phantasms were magic-breaking spears; some could easily destroy the magic circle, but many were directly blocked by the magic circle.

However, this attack did not last long...

When the large-scale collapse of a quarter of the sky area occupied by the activation of the Noble Phantasm ended, the light and impact in the sky returned to calm.

The tattered magic circle and the thick magical smoke filling the sky were intertwined.

But this scene was soon blown away by the wind.

Medea looked at the tattered state of the top of her head and said, "This needs to be repaired. Is it okay for me to use that?"

Fan Yu hummed.

Artoria, who was standing aside, looked puzzled, but she soon saw Medea take out a card with a golden giant on it from under her robe and throw it into the sky.

Almost at the same time, the sky was filled with golden light.

Resonating with it was one of the magic circles of those giant figures that Altria had seen not long ago. A golden divine light emerged, and the giant figure named 'Kuan Hu Kliper' struck the hammer -

Boom!

A bright forging sound was heard in the sky, and countless magical powers emerging from the spiritual veins gathered in that direction, and were transparently transformed into golden torrents.

They seemed to become the raw materials for the giant's hammer, the particles transformed from granules into crystal aggregates, and the crystals were hammered flat and turned into a crystal wall. Countless crystal walls combined together to form a golden barrier composed of crystal faces.

It quickly filled the gap in the sky that was destroyed by a large number of Noble Phantasms.

The crystal rippled and then integrated with other defense areas, presenting a regional recoil.

"This is..." Altria opened her mouth, feeling stunned.

Although she already knew that the two had hidden powers, she still couldn't hide her shock when she saw the destroyed sky become intact again.

Her promised victory had been reduced to a mere destruction of a dream, rendered meaningless by the so-called "Power of Harmony." She had wondered if she had discovered it earlier, would the outcome have been different?

After all, it was just a clever change of technique and could not be considered a real confrontation.