They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

"Master! Watch out behind you!" The moment Aso Shinnosuke lost her composure, Chiyome swung a kunai and pinned the Kamaitachi who was trying to launch a sneak attack to the back of the girl.

"Sorry!" Aso realized her mistake and looked around. The seawater backflow had caused a damp atmosphere to shroud the entire city, and the black waves were swallowing everything. The current situation was even more terrifying and desperate than her usual nightmares. She didn't even know how to break free.

"That's the target! The torii gate there is the exit!"

The sudden female voice echoed in her ears, sounding like the sound of nature to Aso Makoto. She turned around and saw that the one who reminded everyone was actually the unfamiliar female Servant with white hair and brown skin.

Aso Makoto felt a little doubtful. It wasn't that she couldn't trust her companions who were fighting against Orochi together, but she was hesitant because they had been together for too short a time.

"Are you sure?" Emiya took a break from resisting the Yamata no Orochi's attack to ask Attila, "This concerns the lives of all of us. We need to make a careful decision."

"This maze is indeed vast, but it also has formal entrances and exits...the so-called 'doors'."

Attila explained in a tone devoid of emotion, "And the proof is... all the water is flowing that way. The torii gate's altitude is clearly quite high, and yet the water flows towards it for one reason only..."

"That's the exit to the outside of this world!?" Emiya suddenly realized.

boom! boom! boom!

The deafening explosion was still echoing. Hercules's shooting of a hundred heads was simply his unique skill to deal with and delay the Yamata-no-Orochi. The scorching light streams were accurately released and hit those huge snake heads, and exploded and burned the moment they touched the skin.

"Archer, stop fighting! We need to retreat to the exit!" Emiya raised the Broken Dragon Sword and suddenly slashed out a stream of ice and fire, which not only made the Yamata no Orochi wail even more painfully, but also caused the shadow servant monsters that were rushing towards him to fall into an unquenchable tide of fire in the black tide.

bass--!

In pain, Yamata no Orochi's Murakumo sword showed its sharpness again, and the invisible slashing wave flashed in the chaotic tide, easily splitting the city into two. The monsters affected along the way had no time to react, and were cut in half and died and dissipated into the air.

Hercules relied on his stronger mind to notice this scene in advance. Having been split once before, he was obviously much more calm in dodging.

The great Greek hero leaped to avoid the deadly sword strike and the surging waves of air and water. Finally, he gave Emiya a gentle push, signaling him to take the others and leave first.

"Sorry, someone has to stay behind to cover the rear. Besides, such a dangerous monster must not be allowed to successfully escape through the exit to the outside world."

Besides... Hercules realized that he had reached his limit... or rather, he had released his Noble Phantasm too many times, and his supply of magic power had reached its limit. The final time of his manifestation was already in the countdown.

But his master still needs to escape, and Hercules cannot abandon Fingel.

So, with insufficient mana as fuel, how could they cover the rear? The only option was to forcibly burn their spiritual base.

As soon as he finished speaking, Hercules took off the fur of the divine beast and planned to hand over the still unconscious Fingel to Emiya and the others.

Although they had spent very little time together, he had a high opinion of Emiya. He felt that Emiya was an incredible person who, like Jason, could gather so many companions around him. In fact, Emiya's personality was much better than Jason's.

If his old friend Jason had the same tenacity and courage as Emiya, he might be able to become a hero who is on par with himself or even surpass him.

A few shallow thoughts flashed through Hercules' mind. The moment he was about to let Fingel go, the Master who had been sleeping suddenly moved.

Snap! Finger's eyelids fluttered open, and he raised his arm to grab Hercules's strong arm, his voice carrying a deep and magnetic voice that had just awakened.

"Hey, Archer, are you planning to leave me alone? I've been drained of my magic power and have been completely drained. I'm completely exhausted. Are you going to leave me to someone else at this time?"

Emiya's ears twitched. It turned out that this guy had woken up early this morning, but was just exhausted from excessive physical exertion!

"I'm sorry... Master, my presence is a huge burden to you, especially during battle." Hercules didn't blame Fingel for his mana supply problem at all, but simply attributed the problem to himself. "In the final analysis, it's my own fault."

"Are you kidding me? If you hadn't been protecting me in the early stages, I would have been eaten alive by those monsters without leaving even a bone!"

Finkel held Hercules' hand tightly. "Listen, let's stop arguing about who is the burden. What we need to do now is to survive! All of us must survive!"

He cursed inwardly, if Hercules was ready to sacrifice himself at this critical moment, and let Finger escape danger alone and return to reality, then how would he explain what happened to Principal Ange?

Oh... could I say, "I'm sorry, Principal, I lost all my equipment and relics. Although I successfully summoned the great hero Hercules in the Nibelungen, I couldn't bring him back. The Servant is gone, Principal, let's pack up and return to the academy. There's no place for us in the Holy Grail War..."

Shit, Finkel bets five cents that if he really performs so poorly, his evaluation for this year's mission will definitely be extremely bad, and he might even be forced to "repeat his fifth grade"!

Thinking of this, Finkel raised the Command Seal in his hand, "Speaking of which, am I not the Master? Is this thing called a Command Seal useful?"

Emiya split the black wave that was sweeping over a multitude of shadow servant monsters, taking a moment to explain, "Command Seals can enforce commands on Servants! Their essence is the power of the Greater Holy Grail, so it doesn't matter what the Master is like. By giving verbal commands, we can 'bind' or 'strengthen' Servants!"

He and Eri were already helping Aso Shinjuu to evacuate faster, and Attila was almost approaching the target location—

From here, one could clearly see a bronze torii gate standing over there. The black torrents on the street all converged there, finally pouring into it with white waves. The torii gate was like the legendary eye of the sea, swallowing up the world's water and then transmitting it to another world.

In the distance, the Yamata-no-Orochi had slowly raised its huge head that had been revived. Its entire body had become intact again, and it was accumulating an increasingly large and vast divine aura.

If the master and servant Hercules hesitate any longer, the Yamata-no-Orochi will launch another fierce attack and they will miss their last chance to escape.

"This is the Command Seal... I see. It's extremely useful at critical moments, right?"

At a certain moment, Fingel finally raised his wrist and shouted, "In the name of the Command Seal, Archer, take all of us and escape from here alive. No one is allowed to be sacrificed!"

Faced with the compulsion of the Command Spell, Hercules, feeling his spiritual body being filled with new strength, had no other choice but to smile and once again draw up the bow that had once again shot the hundred heads, "Obey the Master's will!"

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"Damn it, what the hell is the 'Dragon King' doing? Why hasn't he dealt with the other side yet?"

Monitoring the news from the Genji Building above, the general, wearing a noble mask, wandered a bit irritably through the Tokyo underground, the "Iron Dome Temple." The vast, mighty sound of water echoed repeatedly within the pipes.

The Iron Dome's massive sewer system, constructed entirely of corrosion-resistant special steel by Maruyama Construction, also includes massive underground reservoirs and turbines. Even in the event of a major downpour, the Iron Dome can hold the equivalent of a lake's worth of water.

But such a large-scale sewer system also facilitates the transportation of contraband.

Therefore, the king was able to use this opportunity to launch a surprise attack on Genji Heavy Industries. In addition, by taking advantage of his other identity as "the head of the family, Masamune Tachibana", he was able to allow the demons to gradually infiltrate the personnel of the Maruyama Construction Works who were responsible for managing the Iron Dome Temple day after day, in exchange for this surprise attack.

General Wang skillfully struck the black clapper on the iron ladder in the wide tunnel, making a rustling sound with a peculiar rhythm. Almost at the same time, densely packed pale faces emerged from the water below. They were the faces of the snake-like Deadpool.

Obviously, through Herzog's brain surgery, not only humans can be controlled, but even Deadpool is no exception.

These Deadpools, personally trained by Herzog, not only reproduced with one another but were also controlled by the sound of the clappers, forming a group of Deadpools. They became one of the main forces in the invasion of the Genji Heavy Industries building.

Unfortunately, for some reason, the "Dragon King" Kazama Ruri and his servant Ibaraki Douji are a little slow in dealing with the enemies. In addition, Minamoto no Nakasawa and the Watanabe Tsuna he summoned are destroying the Deadpools in large numbers, so the King will have to dispatch another batch of Deadpools.

Suddenly, a loud rumbling sound was heard in the distance, like a huge flood erupting.

"Strange... there shouldn't be any heavy rain recently, right?"

The king watched from above and saw that the water speed in the Iron Dome Temple had increased rapidly. A thunderous roar echoed there, and the turbulent water sent up high white waves, like a huge water dragon roaring along the pipe. The tide crest was in the shape of a white pointed mouth, stirring up a barrage of tiny and dense water droplets.

The king was watching leisurely from a high place, but the deadpools in the water were suffering. They were like helpless disaster victims, struggling to survive under the bite of the white water dragon and trying to move forward, but in the end they were gradually washed away by the roaring torrent.

The king watched the sudden increase in the water level in confusion, bewildered, as if some unknown space was dumping the water of the Milky Way somewhere in the sewer, and mortals had no way of investigating.

He knocked on the clappers, and the Deadpools struggled more fiercely. They tried to cling to the inner wall of the Iron Dome Temple to resist the high-speed water flow.

Suddenly, amidst the surging water, two conspicuous red heads emerged from the water, shocking General Wang.

No mistake! The face with the long hair is definitely Eri. This time, it must be the real thing!

It should be...right?

General Wang suppressed his uncertainty and struck the gong.

Chapter 202 So, Herzog Died (No Mercy)

Before Emiya passed through the Torii gate and left that world, the last scene he saw was unknown black debris starting to float in the sky, a raging tsunami submerged the entire city, causing the urban structures to collapse piece by piece, and the dark monster was swept into the turmoil and sank into it, with no chance of recovery.

The Yamata no Orochi roared deafeningly in the black sea, blood gushing from the wounds on its body pierced by the "Shooting a Hundred Heads", but its vitality was still incredibly strong. The sword energy of the Ame no Murakumo sword swept across the fields, and its divine power overwhelmed all directions, but it was unable to stop them from escaping from the exit of the Torii.

That world may be coming to an end.

Then, a fierce and merciless torrent swept Emiya and the others out of this world.

Boom!

When he opened his eyes again, what Emiya saw was a dimly lit pipe and the rapidly flowing tide. In other words, he was floating in the water.

He subconsciously swung his legs to swim and reached out to feel around, and grabbed a restless little hand.

"Eriyi?"

Splash! A wet red-haired head emerged from the water. The girl smiled and made a scissors sign to Emiya. Then she pointed to the wide, swimming-pool-like tidal tunnel ahead and made a "race forward" gesture.

Did you think you were playing some swimming racing game?

Emiya was helpless and really wanted to roll his eyes. This dim water environment was probably the sewer section under the city. They were located nearby when they came out, so they were washed away by the flood... He just didn't know if other people were also washed to different places because of this geographical location.

It’s so hard to hold on. I just finished my journey in the fantasy mirror world, and now I have to start a new sewer drifting journey?

I'm sure Eri beside me would have raised her hands and feet enthusiastically in complete agreement after saying this. She'd only regret that her notebook was soaked and she couldn't write, and that she'd forgotten to bring her must-have little yellow duck toy with her for the bath...

As expected, for Eri, bathing can be considered a water game just like any other water activity.

But Emiya didn't like playing in the water... What was there to play in? He was already so grown up, and still playing in the water? Besides, the water in the sewers was horrible. Even if he had an extraordinary physique, Emiya wouldn't want to play in such an environment... It was too unsanitary, and his mysophobia was already going crazy.

"Eri, let's swim to the edge of the tunnel and grab the iron ladder. There's a platform we can walk on."

"..." Eri nodded silently. A possible sewer swimming race was cancelled. She felt like a child who entered an amusement park and had a rare chance to have an adventure, but was ordered to only visit and not touch the facilities.

rustle……

The low voice was faintly mixed in with the thunderous roar. Emiya didn't pay attention at first. He swam to the inner wall of the Iron Dome Temple and grabbed the iron ladder, but not long after, Eri's body trembled slightly.

"Eriya?" Emiya held the ladder steady with one hand, turning to see Eriya, her body trembling slightly in the water. He reached out his hand to call, but Eriya didn't come, and her face turned away, looking at someone in the distance.

"Ok?"

The rhythmic sound of the clappers began to become clearer and louder. The sound waves were reflected by the wide iron walls in the tunnel, becoming more and more obvious. Emiya also followed his gaze and saw a masked figure standing on a high iron ladder and striking the pair of black clappers in his hands.

Meaningless musical instruments and sounds... Emiya used magic to enhance his vision, enough to clearly see the smiling face of the nobleman who was wearing a Noh mask in the dim environment. The material and color of the mask were clearly visible, and even the place where the mask and the human face were fitted together seemed to be tightly glued together. Such details were not missed.

Judging from his appearance... this person is the king general that Fengjian Liuli mentioned, right?

...The mask...the puppet clone...Odin...is the enemy!

The logic in his mind instantly clicked, and Emiya's free hand instantly projected a weapon, aiming it at the king who was banging the gong for no apparent reason.

The king seemed to have forgotten Emiya's threat and was only focused on trying to control Eri with the clapper.

Because he had just encountered a fake who looked exactly like the girl in the Genji Heavy Industries building, General Wang was a little hesitant. He figured it wouldn't kill him to give it a try, so with this mindset, he raised his clapper and began to play, while keeping a close eye on the girl to see if she would react.

As expected... "Eri" stopped moving, and she floated in the water like a dull puppet, all her attention was taken away by the sound of the clapper in the king's hand.

Good, very good! A blessing in disguise! Good fortune often hides misfortune, and misfortune often hides good fortune!

Although I just encountered a fake, wasn’t it also a coincidence that the genuine product came to my door?

The king was knocking on the clapper while carefully observing Eiry's reaction. Suddenly, he realized something was wrong. Eiry's pupils became brighter and brighter as the sound of the clapper became louder.

The fear and helplessness that should have been evoked by the clapper's sound vanished from those golden pupils. Instead, a golden glow like a sun corona, an increasingly intense majesty, and the oppressive feeling of staring directly at a high-ranking bloodline emerged.

'What's going on? How is this possible?'

The king suddenly froze and lost his mind, secretly shouting that this is impossible!

The reason why he was so confused in an instant was that although Eri had undergone a "pontine separation surgery", she did not develop a second personality and should not have had such a reaction!

But the awe-inspiring power in Eri's eyes couldn't be faked, as if she weren't a girl, but a god far above. How could a mere puppet of a king dare to manipulate a god? ...

At this moment, the king's hands could not stop shaking, and the pair of clappers in his hands slipped to the ground beside him without him knowing when. He actually wanted to kneel down to Eiry, who only had her head exposed.

"No, no... Just keep on banging the clappers, as long as we can reach that place..."

Under the pressure of God, General Wang fell to the ground as if his muscles had cramped, and at the same time he stretched out his hands desperately to his side and grabbed the pair of poor clappers.

rustle.

The clapper was plucked twice by fingers, making a pitiful and barely perceptible sound.

His golden pupils had already suddenly blossomed. Before he completely lost consciousness, he felt a vast and boundless spirit transforming into a roaring torrent, rushing rapidly towards his fragile mortal body.

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Go back a few minutes.

Herzog, who is remotely controlling everything in his old nest - a research base deep underground in the mountains, is excited that he is about to retrieve a chess piece "Eri".

After all, Eri is extremely important. She is not a mere pawn like Ruri Kazama, but a vessel of "God"!

According to the notes left by Bondarev, the most critical step in becoming a god and ascending to the throne of the White King is to have a high-quality and controllable container to act as a filter to carry the toxicity of the White King's bloodline.

As a parasite of this container, he will take its essence and discard its dross, and easily seize the White King's authority and power!

Under the premise of such an abnormal situation as the Holy Grail War, Herzog began to worry about the safety and controllability of the container, especially when his identity of "Tachibana Masamune" was about to lose its effectiveness.

"...As for the upcoming Holy Grail War... Bondarev, we'll see."

Herzog was in a great mood after finding the container, and subconsciously wanted to take out a bottle of rare whiskey from the storage room of the base to reward himself.

He stood up, walked for a while in the dark corridor, and opened the door of the storage room. He saw a masked and cloaked man who took out a glass of Macallan from the treasured wine cellar and poured it for himself, drinking it leisurely.

"……Who are you?"

After being stunned for a second, Herzog immediately issued a cold warning, "I'll count to three. If you remain silent, you will be turned into a pile of mud by the defense measures here in one second."

"You're actually asking me who I am? This is truly heartbreaking. A close friend who I haven't seen in years, the first thing he says is to ask about the identity of an old friend like me."