Why can I be sure that it must be Caster who I have summoned?

Because if there is no mistake in the information Xia Ran has, there is only one vacancy left now-

For example, in the night before his eyes, the man summoned Berserker by adding a spell of madness, and his real identity was Lancelot, the legendary Knights of the Round Table in ancient Britain.

And Emiya Kiritsugu used the scabbard of the legendary King Arthur's sword Excalibur to successfully summon the legendary King Arthur, Artoria Pendragon, and rightfully occupied Saber's rank.

In the fault of everything in this world, Tosaka Tokitomi summoned the protagonist of the oldest narrative poem of mankind, Nasu Gamesh, known as the "Hero King", through the snake fossil of the world's first molting snake, and locked the rank of Archer.

The representatives of the camp of the three royal families respectively determined the seats of the three Servants.

Immediately after, Webb Velvet, who is still a student of the Clock Tower, accidentally summoned Iskander, the legendary King of Conquest, to occupy the rank of Rider as a matter of course.

Then there is Tosaka Tokitomi's disciple, Yan Feng Qili summoned the nineteenth "Hassan Sabah" as the Assassin rank, and acted in cooperation with Tosaka Tosaka, which is also certain.

Finally, there is the unlucky ghost from the Clock Tower, the first-level instructor of the Séance Department, and the ninth-generation head of the Archibald family, Kenneth Ermelo Archibald, who chose to participate in the Holy Grail War in order to increase his popularity, and summoned Lancer.

The real identity of the latter is the chief warrior of the Irish Knights of Fiona, known as "unparalleled" in Celtic mythology, "Radiant Appearance" Diarmud Audina.

Since then, six of the seven Servants have been confirmed, leaving only Caster's rank unclaimed, and even the number of masters participating in the race is not enough.

In the original trajectory of fate, it was because of this that the Great Holy Grail was only able to pull Ryunosuke Yusheng, who didn't know anything at all, to make up the numbers, so that this murderer could summon a similarly smelly Bluebeard.

Since Xia Ran was able to successfully cut off the beard at this time, then naturally there was only one last choice left, which was the unclaimed Caster rank.

It can only be said that this is really an exception among exceptions, and everyone else will only start to summon after being chosen by the Great Holy Grail and obtaining the qualification of Master. It was only when he began to summon that he was chosen to be qualified.

There is no way, the Great Holy Grail was already worried about the lack of people for the ceremony, and now that someone finally took the initiative to sign up and fill the vacancy of the last place, how could they refuse?

However, it is not clear to the wild goose, and it can only be attributed to the mysterious magician in front of him who has done his homework in advance and has mastered particularly confidential information...... Thinking about it, even the Tong Mansion can be touched in unconsciously and assassinate the contemporary head of the family.

Such a person is very suitable for being a ninja at first glance, and it is not a problem to engage in intelligence work.

Xia Ran didn't explain to Jian Tong Yanye, because the summoning array had already activated on its own, and a wave of impact passed through his body, as if he was being burned by a high-voltage electric current.

The powerful magic flowing in his body is being drawn by this mysterious ritual, and his blood is flowing through his body rapidly, almost instantaneously penetrating a specific part of his body, and the unique mimetic mystery in the body of the magician who is like a broken bamboo.

As if it were a mimic nerve, branching into threads that connect the core throughout the body, similar to the pipes of the circulatory system in the human body, used to transport magic and at the same time convert life force into magic.

This was an unexpected joy, Xia Ran didn't expect that just summoning the Servant could directly open up the magic circuit in his body, generating this kind of mystery that is equivalent to the "second blood vessel" for the magicians of this world.

If you apply the noun concept of martial arts style, it is probably that the Great Holy Grail is opening up his second vein of Rendu and the eighth vein of Qijing......

Probably because the system is different, so strictly speaking, Xia Ran is not a qualified magician in this world, and the Great Holy Grail has also made such a judgment, so he is ready to help him improve.

Speaking of which, in the original trajectory of fate, Ryunosuke Yusheng seems to have enjoyed such treatment. After all, for that reason, if there are not enough Masters in the entire Fuyuki City, then the Holy Grail will lower the judging criteria, take into account potential would-be magicians, and even actively increase their magic power to meet the criteria.

If there is a book, it is long, and if there is no book, it is short, and after the magic power passed through the magic circuit circulation that had just been opened in Xia Ran's body, it flowed out of his body again, and then was sucked in by the summoning array, which is probably a necessary step to sign a contract?

In the next moment, a wind blew, and the air inexplicably began to flow in this confined space, turning into a fierce whirlwind.

I don't know when the magic array drawn started, emitting a faint phosphorescence, accompanied by an increasingly strong whirlwind, the light is also shining and getting stronger and stronger,

Finally, the lightning thundered, the wind and clouds swirled, and when the wind pressure was so strong that people's eyes could not open it, the circuit in the summoning array connected with the places of the non-human world, and from the dazzling light that continued to overflow, a mysterious figure appeared.

And then—

"Excuse me, are you the master who summoned me?"

In the middle of the summoning array, which was simply a copy of the script, appeared the silhouette of a slender woman wearing an indigo hooded cloak and purple robe, whose true face was hidden by the hood.

Xia Ran narrowed his eyes slightly, inexplicably having a feeling of being shipped, but feeling a headache because of it.

How could it be her?! Could it be that this is because in the Holy Grail War, the order of appearance is actually determined, and it is not a completely random summon, at least when he does not prepare the holy relic to accurately designate the summon, it is not completely random?

So, even if you directly pass the incompatible Bluebeard, you just skip Bluebeard directly and enter the next sort number?

And then, Caster, who was supposed to appear in the next Holy Grail War, was summoned by himself?

But forget it, this is probably the most useful card for him, and if such a Caster is summoned, Xia Ran even dares to have a mind about the Great Holy Grail, after all, in terms of technical reserves, he has already met the basic conditions.

……

……

In the middle of the night, in the reception room of the Tong family's mansion, two people sat opposite each other on the sofa, it was Xia Ran and Caster who had been summoned before.

- Medea.

Excellent magician of the gods, the real body is the unfortunate princess Colchis in Greek mythology, although she has not accomplished any great things in mythology, and her evaluation is very low, but her skills as a magician are undoubtedly the highest level.

As the daughter of King Aetheus of Greece, and a witch taught by Hecate, the goddess of magic, her abilities are at the level of magicians, as the magic she exercises has the power to be close to the realm of magic.

But unfortunately, there is no real mastery of any of the five major magics, so Medea is still a magician, perhaps a magician who is infinitely close to the magician.

Although Xia Ran had imagined before, he didn't expect that he would really draw such a card, he looked at the witch in front of him carefully, but in fact, there was nothing to look at, the other party wrapped himself tightly, and only his white chin was exposed under the hood.

Frankly speaking, she is indeed very similar to the magician in Xia Ran's impression.

"Master, are you curious about me?" Medea sat leisurely on the sofa, and at this moment finally spoke in a voice with a hint of laziness.

"Yes, after all, I've read all the Greek myths, so I'm not so lonely, and you're one of the famous characters......" Xia Ran said very calmly.

"Oh, that's not a good reputation...... You know what I've done in legends, right? ”

Caster smiled self-deprecatingly, meaningfully.

"Of course I do." Xia Ran nodded indifferently.

"Then aren't you worried?" Medea smiled at the corner of her mouth under the hood, "I'm a witch known for betrayal, wouldn't you consider the possibility of me betraying you?" ”

"Worrying is naturally worrying, I said not at all, and you certainly don't believe it. But now that they've all been summoned, what can be done? You can't just give up this Holy Grail War just because you're worried about your betrayal, right? ”

Xia Ran's expression was still calm, and he was not shy about his honesty about this sensitive topic-

"Besides, I didn't prepare any holy relics in advance, but I still summoned you, which at least shows that the nature between us should be relatively compatible...... I don't deny that I have some preconceived impressions of you because of the information I know, but I do want you to understand that I am willing to try to trust you. ”

Medea was slightly stunned, this answer was not what she was expecting to hear from the obsession in her heart, but it was more sincere.

"Although I'm only talking about this now, it smells like getting on the bus first and paying the ticket later, but I still want to ask...... Are you willing to make a pact with me to be my Servant? ”

At this time, Xia Ran had already stood up from the sofa and stretched out his hand to Caster in front of him, as if he was a gentleman politely inviting a lady to dance at a ball.

"I've heard your story, and I'm not going to say anything to trust you directly and unconditionally, that's certainly impossible. But what I can promise is that as long as you don't turn against me first, I will never betray you. ”

He knew that if he wanted to brush the favorability of the woman in front of him, the most effective way was to be honest, and a lie would only lead to a bad feeling, even if it was a so-called white lie-

Because it can only be when both parties have established trust, she will feel the goodwill, and be able to understand that some insincere statements and hidden things are actually for her good, not betraying her......

But until then, if you don't have enough favorability, don't care about white or bad lies.

Maybe you lied and said you didn't know her legend because you wanted to skip the topic, so that everyone wouldn't be so embarrassed...... Maybe you lied and said that you trusted her absolutely and unconditionally, because you felt that this was a tacit scene by both parties, and commercial touting should not be true......

However, in Medea's eyes, all lies make no difference, they are just to deceive and further use her.