Chapter 34: The Hidden Dragon

My name is Illya

I'm watching Kiritsugu play infiltration.

155:47:12

"Do you feel it? Saber? ”

On the southern outskirts of Dongmu City, on the side of the winding road of an unnamed low mountain, a very ordinary black car is parked, whether it is its owner, the number of kilometers traveled, and the reason for appearing here at this moment, it is very ordinary, even if someone deliberately investigates, it is impossible to connect it with the Einzberen family.

Kiritsugu Emiya was standing at the front of the car looking out at the Tosaka house at the foot of the mountain, and to Saber, who was standing quietly behind him. Alter asked.

Without Maiya's control, the bats that had been collecting information for Kiritsugu quickly regained their wild habits and scattered, and even if Kiritsugu was able to forcibly reclaim and control a few, the entire intelligence network was still fragmented, so it was imperative to rescue her.

Until then, if you want to scout the opponent's Servant and the Magic Enchantment, it is not a good idea to let the Servant get close and sense the magic fluctuations.

"Yes, there is a dense reconnaissance and sensing enchantment around that big house, but there are no masters or servants involved." Dressed in a black suit with a grim face, Saber Brown looks like a real bodyguard. Alter responded.

"Very well, you just wait here, and if anyone approaches, immediately communicate it to me." Kiritsugu nodded, took two steps over the guardrail, and began to organize his gear.

The so-called 'communication' is a communication method invented by Kiritsugu using the magic connection between the master and the servant, and in short, it is based on Saber's retention skill [Mana Release], using the frequency of the Morse code to consume mana, and Kiritsugu can understand the meaning of the expression through decoding after sensing it through the magic loop.

Although it may be a waste of magic, Saber has no objection to this for some reason.

At this time, Kiritsugu was not wearing the usual suit and trench coat suit, but a gray tights with a dark red hood like an Assassin, and even if he was seen by the envoy who monitored the Tosaka Mansion, he couldn't recognize who it was.

The reason Saber wasn't allowed to participate in this operation was because of the scale of her magic that allowed the sensing enchantments to sound alarms from far away - they were meant to be on guard against Ssrvent, and Kiritsugu didn't plan to know what would happen when those alarms were triggered.

"Uh-huh." Saber nodded in agreement, then watched Kiritsugu jump over the highway fence like a giant bat.

After seeing Kiritsugu out of her susceptibility, Saber turned to open the door of the back seat and picked up a large red crumble with the faint smell of fried chicken and fries from the "supplies" stacked on the seat.

Everything works fine.

She replenishes her magic power as she sends a message to Kiritsugu.

155:39:09

As one of the three Imperial Families of the Holy Grail War, the manager of the Fuyuki Spirit Vein, and the main person in charge of the local magician association, Tosaka Tokitomi could not and did not need to hide the location of his base camp, and only needed to set up sufficient protective means inside and outside.

Although he and his disciples, his wife and daughter can enter and exit normally, it is because they have access to enter and exit, and if an uninvited guest comes uninvited, whether it is an enemy demon or a killer who infiltrates, they will encounter strong resistance and counterattack.

At this time, Emiya Kiritsugu, who had infiltrated from the back mountain, was trapped in the garden of the mansion.

From the point of view of the magician killer, the function of the enchantment in this garden is relatively simple, just to detect an enemy and urge a preset magic spell inside a statue to attack, but the problem is that there are too many nodes to scan enemies, and there are gems in the grass, street lamps, benches, and even small fountains that are constantly spreading mana pulses.

They act like sonar, a pulse of magic is safe if it travels to its destination, and any interference means that there is "something" there, and the reaction will immediately activate and strike at that location.

Although Emiya Kiritsugu didn't take this simple magic attack seriously, and it was no problem to forcibly destroy it, but just the back garden had to use violent means, and the magic trap inside the mansion was even more difficult to deal with.

If the flow of magic in the garden at this moment is regarded as a fallen leaf, then Emiya Kiritsugu is equivalent to walking in a deciduous forest in late autumn, and he can't let a single leaf touch him.

[Inherent Time Domination: Double Speed]!

Eventually, after judging that he would not be able to pass through the barrier without destroying any of the magic nodes, Emiya Kiritsugu used his unique magic technique to reach the back door of Tosaka's house at an incredible speed through the gaps between several mana pulses.

There were no magic seals or traps on the back door, which surprised Kiritsugu slightly, but he quickly put it behind him and focused on unlocking it.

Everything was normal, and Saber's message came back through the magic link.

Although I wanted to ask why she sent messages so often, Kiritsugu, who knew the reason very well, ended up remaining silent.

155:27:41

Contrary to expectations, the part of the Tosaka Mansion above the ground level is almost unguarded, and of course, not to mention that those rooms are basically the living area that would be troublesome, and there is not enough space for the confrontation between magic methods.

Although there may be magic items from the Tosaka family's collection on the upper floor, as a magician killer, he doesn't really care about those things.

If you don't think badly, the underground space here is the base camp of the Tosaka family as a magician, and the related protection and means of defending against enemies are also ......

Bumper ——!

A huge arm came with the sound of the wind, confirming the guess of Emiya Kiritsugu, who had just infiltrated the basement of the mansion.

"That's ...... Puppets? Dodging the attack, Kiritsugu quickly observed the attacker and his surroundings.

The basement was empty and devoid of anything but magically enhanced walls, floors and ceilings, and the opposite door, which led to other rooms or the next level, guarded by two puppets identical to the man who had attacked him.

Puppets are generally used by magicians to guard fixed locations, and most of them are made of earth and stone to form a powerful image like a giant, but there are also practices that use steel as a material to increase their strength.

And the one in front of Kiritsugu is made of ruby......

Although it has been mentioned in the information that the Tosaka family is good at gem magic, and the material is not a precious gem rough, and even if the puppet is destroyed, those gem fragments can continue to be used, but it still makes people feel a sense of malice towards the poor.

Finding that the punch failed and the target was far away from him, the ruby puppet crashed directly into it according to the predetermined setup, and this straight attack naturally had no effect on Kiritsugu.

Although using ruby as a material will increase the strength of the body, due to the transparency of the material, the location of the core is clear, and the magician killer dodges while pulling out a light machine gun equipped with a silencer, and fires directly at the back of the puppet.

Puff puff puff – bang!

Unsurprisingly, its outer layer was cast with the magic of deflecting projectile attacks, but there was no way to deal with this direct attack, and the originally imposing ruby puppet was quickly collapsed into a pile of ruby shards after being pierced through the core.

And the logic of action of this magic creation is very simple, even if there is a mess here, the two guarding the door on the other side are proof of this, if there are such things in the underground workshop, it saves a lot of trouble, and soon after knocking down the two gatekeeper puppets, Kiritsugu opened the door.

Everything works, Saber repeated.

155:07:18

Between spells, generally refers to a specific magic workshop where the entire room is strengthened by various restrictions and weakening aspects of magic, and is basically used by magicians to restrain dangerous summons, but it can also imprison people with magic abilities or conduct magic experiments, and if expected, Maiya should be locked up in such a "curse bondage".

After half an hour of intense fighting in the Tosaka family's underground workshop, which can be called an underground fortress, Kiritsugu finally reached his destination.

Although the mana was a little overdrained and the bullets were almost gone, there were no other enemies left, and Kiritsugu reached out and pressed the doorknob between the spells in front of him.

At the moment, aside from the regular puppet guards and magic traps, no deliberate settings have been found for him, so Tosaka Tokitomi probably didn't plan to use his assistants to invite Jun into the urn, of course, it may be that they didn't know how important Maiya was to him.

"Kiritsugu! Retreat! ”

As soon as the door opened, Kiritsugu heard Maiya's voice and seemed to be anxiously asking him to leave, if it was other occasions with insufficient information, Kiritsugu would naturally agree with the assistant's judgment and withdraw immediately, but at this moment he knew at a glance what happened or was going to happen.

Kuyu Maiya is trapped in a magic array, and in addition to the regular forbidden demons and restraints, it also has the characteristic of exploding when attacked by external forces, and it can be easily lifted at the level of Kiritsu.

But the problem is that next to the magic array, there is a big guy that is twice as large as the puppets he destroyed before, and it can be seen through the ruby transparent body that its magic core has been deliberately strengthened, and it cannot be destroyed again.

I see, the reason why we don't set more traps outside is because we have faith in this guy? If you get entangled with it, the aftermath will inevitably hit the magic circle and explode, and then the puppet will not be in serious trouble, and Kiritsugu and Maiya trapped in the formation will be more than lucky.

Such a cold and effective method should be Yan Feng Qili's handiwork, but as a substitute, he didn't know the meaning of the Holy Grail War, this was not a duel between ordinary magicians.

Kiritsugu nodded soothingly to Maiya, who was trapped there with a panicked expression, and then looked at the ruby puppet approaching him and stretched out his right hand.

Everything is positive-

"In the name of the Spell, Saber· Alter came to me right at once and destroyed the core of this puppet! ”

The sword shape on the back of Kiritsugu's hand dimmed the spell, and at the same time, the light between the spells dimmed, and the huge puppet that was still approaching stopped and turned into shards the next moment the light reappeared.

"Only to this extent?" Saber, the black-armored man who appeared behind the puppet, put away the pitch-black sword in her hand with a slightly dissatisfied tone: "Well, as long as you think it's worth it." ”

The Magician Killer forced himself to ignore the fast-food box that Saber had just casually thrown behind the pile of puppet shards.

"When he set this trap, he probably didn't think about the combat power of the Heroic Spirit at all." Kiritsugu lifted the magic circle that bound Maiya and said to her, "Let's get out of here." ”

“…… Well. Kuyu Maiya seemed to want to say something, but eventually nodded and gave up.

In the next moment, a pitch-black shadow swooped towards Emiya Kiritsugu from the corner.