"The Shadow Warrior is a shadow that cannot see the light, and it is impossible for her to appear in a regular Holy Grail War, and only this chaotic way can summon her - am I right, Hatress. ”

After the analysis, Webb looked at the architect of the technique, waiting for the other party's answer. It is not difficult to see from the exchange just now that Hatress is a typical researcher, and when he talks about this matter, he will talk endlessly, and he will never keep his mouth shut.

However, the red-haired man who was named did not react at all, his face was on the ground, silent.

"Hartres, Hartres?" Webb shouted twice, but there was still no response from the other side.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

Faker, who was closest to him, stepped forward to investigate, and as soon as his hand touched the man's body, the body turned into tiny particles of sand that dissipated into the air.

"Huh?"

"Ran away?"

Shinji frowned, her figure flashed to the place where Hatress disappeared, her spiritual power diverged outward, but she didn't find anything, and in desperation, she could only ask Her Royal Highness for help.

"Elquit. ”

Her Royal Highness, who was named, did not disappoint her, and as soon as her eyes were closed, she came to the conclusion: "Didn't run, he died." ”

Shinji's first reaction was impossible.

"With his life force, this level of stabbing could not have killed him. Even if you lose too much blood to death, you should leave a corpse, how can it turn into ashes?"

"It's some kind of sacrificial secret art. ”

The person who answered was not Elquit, it was Faker.

"Sacrificing one's life and soul for the purpose of unleashing certain powerful spells or enhancing the effects of them was particularly popular during the war years. ”

"Sacrifice?" Shinji's heart sank, and his soul power continued with "Origin", ready to build a barrier at any time, "Can you tell what type of technique it is?"

Faker pressed his hand to the earth, looked at it carefully for a moment, and replied with some uncertainty, "It's not like an offensive technique. ”

As soon as they finished speaking, the soles of their feet felt soft at the same time, and when they looked down, they suddenly found that the soil under their feet was drying up and sand at an alarming rate, and the softness under their feet was the result of their feet sinking into the sand. Not only where the two are located, but the nearby ground shows varying degrees of desertification.

"It's just plain sand, indeed. ”

Loreleia bent down and put her hand in the sand.

"It's a big area, but what's the point? Simply changing the terrain doesn't pose a threat to us. ”

The survivability of magicians is much stronger than that of ordinary people, not to mention that there are helicopters from the Law and Political Affairs Department nearby, so even if dozens of kilometers of the vicinity are turned into deserts, they can be evacuated from the air.

"No, changing the terrain is just a side effect. ”

Webb shook his head, the keen insight known as the "discerning eye" was the first to see the mystery.

"The real purpose of the technique is to drain the spiritual veins underground, the entire spiritual veins - look over there. ”

His hand refers to the remains of the "Frozen Throne", although Shinji was nailed to death with 10,000 rafters and the core was taken away, but the forest itself as a body has not died due to the strong vitality of the fantasy species and the vampire species, and it is still in a state of flourishing.

But that was just now, and now the thriving forest is withering and decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turning into ashes like Hatress's body, which is a typical sign of the drain of life force.

In a sense, the spiritual veins can be regarded as the life of the earth, and the emptying of the spiritual veins is equivalent to the emptying of the vitality of the earth, and the drying up and desertification of the earth is a symbol of the loss of vitality. Fu Hailin relied on the spiritual veins to grow, but he was also affected and affected, and his vitality was also drained - because of the loss of the core, the huge body completely lost its ability to resist and became a victim of the technique.

But that still doesn't explain the man's purpose. ”

Luvia spread out a few gems and probed the condition of the spiritual veins in her own way, her attribute was earth, and she was already very good at this technique.

"It's confirmed, the technique is not aggressive, it is simply refining the magic power and sending it somewhere. ”

"Where is it?"

Shinji hurriedly asked, a strange feeling in his heart, as if something unexpected and big was about to happen.

Luvia glanced at him, her expression changing for a moment, before she replied, "I don't know the exact location, but I can be sure that it is in the east, and the distance is not short, I can feel a huge distortion underground." ”

"Twisted. ”

"East!"

Shinji and Webber looked at each other with a look of horror as they thought of the worst and most likely answer - Fuyuki, Japan.

Hatteres had already done this once. It's not surprising to use the MONOCULUS to collect the encounter between the train and the children of the Fur Sea to create a twist, and connect to the winter wood to create a false subspecies Holy Grail.

As for the reason, it is not difficult to guess.

Hartres lost his servant, his limbs were pierced by the rafters, he was seriously injured, and he was surrounded by strong enemies like Shinji and Loreleia who couldn't fight against him in an intact condition, and the possibility of escape was infinitely close to zero.

What's worse is that Hartres himself has committed many crimes for his research and interests over the years, and the serial murder case seven years ago was just one of them, and once he was pressed into the Law and Political Science Department, he was afraid that a fate that was a hundred times more cruel than death awaited him.

It is better to die than to live, it is better to die calmly, and a qualified magician is not afraid of death, as long as it is worthwhile. Therefore, Hartres chooses to take revenge on Shinji Makiri, the culprit who led him to such a situation, at the cost of his own life.

Normally, a dying counterattack would take the form of direct damage or a curse, but Hatress gave up because he couldn't see through Shinji, let alone Elquit, and who knows if he would do useless work. In order to ensure that he could cause problems to the enemy, he chose to take a roundabout route.

From the conversation between Shinji and Weber, it is not difficult to know that the Holy Grail War is about to start, and it is extremely important to both of them, and it just so happens that he has done a thorough investigation of the Great Holy Grail and can interfere to a certain extent, so it is obvious what choice he will make.

As soon as he reacted, Shinji asked Erquette if he wanted to come to his mobile phone, and a call came back.

As soon as it was connected, before he could speak, an anxious female voice came from the opposite side.

"Shinji, you called at the right time, and I was about to contact you. ”

It was the voice of Wattisha, and she seldom spoke in such a tone because of her quiet personality.

Shinji let out a "chuckle" in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Is there something wrong with that?"

"You know, does it have anything to do with you?"

"I'll explain to you what happened later, but I'll talk about that first. ”

"Just now, a huge amount of magic power poured into the spiritual vein, which caused a considerable impact on it, and the specific impact is still being observed, but one thing is for sure - with the replenishment of this magic power, that one has been activated. In other words—"

"- The war began. ”

Shinji answered first, his face gloomy and dripping water.

PS: Someone asked why Red A is Faker? It's very simple, two reasons, first, Red A's treasures are all projected, that is, pirated. Second, in UB, the animation is about what it looks like before and after 16 episodes, and in the episode where the second master played Rin's legs, Red A and Flashing collided, and Flasher came directly to Faker - this is the earliest Faker, and there is a more classic saying along with this title - there is no reason why a fake is necessarily inferior to the real thing - out of Emiya Shirou, but Red A undoubtedly thinks so too. This simply takes the power of Faker to the extreme.