Chapter 63: Successful Infiltration
My name is Elijah,
Kiritsugu and Kenneth prepare to negotiate.
83:04:11
Emiya Kiritsugu prepares to meet with Kenneth Al Meloy Achipoud to discuss his next steps.
In this Holy Grail War, because Tosaka Tokitomi gathered three Heroic Spirits from the beginning and launched an overwhelming attack on the other factions, the result was that there was no real conflict between the two sides so far, and under Caster's plan, the two sides also cooperated very tacitly once.
At this time, the other party has captured an assassin who seems to be very important, so as a natural ally, it is necessary for him to discuss the information about her and related disposition.
But the reason why Kiritsugu hesitated for a while was the natural antagonism between "magician killers" and "genius magicians", for Kiritsugu, the academic magicians of the clock tower were never on his hunting list.
Like the nobles of the Middle Ages, they had a very high status on the mystical side, and in addition to experiments, they wrote experimental reports, and their families were busy comparing themselves with each other, holding balls, and celebrating unknown festivals like high society.
Perhaps the biggest disturbance is when two gentlemen duel each other for a lady's heart, and any other scandals and accidents that affect their external image will be completely erased before they can ferment.
Kiritsugu once watched them perform a "seal designation", and although a magician with special abilities lost his personal freedom and magic talents, his magical qualities, which could easily get out of control and cause casualties, were completely sealed and preserved, and no one was killed in the process, which was very much in line with Kiritsugu's definition of justice.
However, since Emiya Kiritsugu himself is also on the "seal designation" list, he still chooses to stay away from these executors.
In any case, Kiritsugu thinks that Kenneth will not be too good at him, especially since he is not able to offer conditions that the other party cannot refuse like Caster, so Kiritsugu brought Saber· Alter, not to intimidate - the other party is an Englishman, although the gender and posture are not quite right, but Saber is the King Arthur after all.
Emiya Kiritsugu opened the co-pilot's door, stepped out of the G550, and stood on the periphery of the Western-style pavilion guard barrier waiting for the master to come out.
82:55:12
Kenneth had been in a state of flux since last night, and the reason was the Assassin Rider had brought back.
According to his plan, the Assassin who looks like a little girl should be imprisoned in the forbidden magic array, and use various analytical magic techniques to analyze her state in order to find clues that are beneficial to this war and even the confidential information of the Tosaka family, at most, for the sake of Rider, do not use means that may cause damage, and that is enough.
But for some reason, this little girl, who is obviously an enemy servant, has won the unanimous affection of Kenneth's faction, and even Sora and Luna, even Webb and Dilumudo take good care of her, and they are adamantly and unanimously refusing to lock her up like a prisoner, or any "check" method that can cause harm.
After repeatedly confirming that his fiancée and disciple were not affected by the magic of enchantment, a frustrated Kenneth had to use ancient and inefficient magic to check on the condition of this particular Assassin specimen - well, her name is Emile - and the conclusion was naturally that everything was normal.
The fact that a Heroic Spirit is subjected to a spell examination on a human is "everything is normal" is not normal in itself, especially when neither Kenneth nor Webersola can perceive the Servant's unique aura and stat values from Amir.
Is Iskandar mistaken? Caught an ordinary little girl who was just dressed more specially as an Assassin?
After discovering that almost everyone had this idea - except for Kenneth and Rider, the genius instructor of the Clock Tower finally determined that she was indeed an Assassin, an Assassin with an unusually powerful passive attribute.
In the end, Sora reluctantly accepted Kenneth's proposal to limit Amir's area of activity to a room where the mana could be effectively suppressed, and the suppression strength was set to the strongest Assassin they had ever seen, Gozl the Monster Wrist.
And Amir, who has barely spoken a word since he was caught, has no opinion on this.
So, upon learning of the visit of Kiritsugu Emiya, the de facto leader of the Einzberen family, Kenneth and Sora take Luna and Rider out for a meeting, with Webber monitoring the surroundings "between controls" while Lancer keeps the spirit on patrol.
82:53:11
As for how to infiltrate a magician's workshop, Yan Feng Qili is very experienced.
As the agent of the Templar Church's [burial mechanism], his goal is not only to bury the dead apostles, supernatural creatures, and heretics who should have been buried long ago, but also internal traitors, evil magicians, and even the "executors" of mission conflicts on the side of the Magic Society.
Those who knew that their actions would attract the Inquisitor, and the natural defense of their lair was extremely tight, and it was quite difficult to infiltrate or break through, and if they could not break through, Qi Li had to gather many of his peers to use large-scale magic to completely raze the opponent's fortress.
And Kenneth's breakthrough in this temporary workshop is not very difficult.
It is composed of the top building of the Hyatt Regency Hotel and a deep mountain pavilion, with a twin structure, protective barriers, and various counterattack traps that work together so well that it is impossible to see that it was improvised after a hasty landing.
And there are also many magic enchantment traps inside them, just like the one that the Assassin Sensei did in his own mansion, any uninvited guest will attract a powerful counterattack, and the strange magic traps that the Assassin avatars encountered when they broke through last time were the manifestation of this.
Since he couldn't perceive the fluctuation of magic power when he empathized with the Assassin, he could only watch them step on the traps one by one, and he didn't know anything except the structure of the house, and as for those traps, I am afraid that they had already been transferred to a new location by the other party.
So now Yan Feng Qili is equivalent to breaking into a completely unfamiliar magician's workshop, and finding Emir and rescuing her before the negotiation parties can reach or collapse, and unlike when Emiya Kiritsugu infiltrated the Tosaka house, the owner of the workshop is close at this time, even if he wants to fight, he can't make a loud noise like a magician killer.
With so many adverse conditions, the success rate of this rescue operation carried out by Qi Li without authorization was ...... Less than thirty percent, but it is enough for the agent who is good at seizing the opportunity, after all, some tasks that must be performed have only one chance, and they must be shot anyway, so the calculation of the success rate is not at all in the content of the pre-war preparations.
And rescuing Amir, this is a mission that must be carried out, whether she is analyzed for identity and particularity, or the rescue fails, or even hurts a hair, this mission is not a success.
At this time, Yan Fengqili, who was dressed in black robes, was half-squatting outside the range of a warning barrier in the backyard of the Western-style Pavilion, pressing his hand on the ground, closing his eyes and feeling a sound that seemed to be a heartbeat coming from the ground.
Knock, knock, buzz – buzz!
It is the sound of a clogged spiritual vein that then bursts on its own, a sound that is completely inaudible to ordinary people, even to animals with sensitive hearing, and can only be detected by magicians or magical creatures through careful magical perception.
Generally speaking, magicians who are old or well prepared will build the magic workshop on the spiritual vein node, and export the magic power in it to continuously strengthen the workshop, which can greatly strengthen the protection of the workshop and the magic power that the master casts in it, for example, several major nodes of Fuyuki are occupied by the Tosaka House, the Makiri House and the Fuyuki Church, as for the one on the Enzo Mountain, it has been abandoned by Shichen Teacher due to the poor terrain.
Maybe the family like Ainzbelen, who likes to build their strongholds in the deep mountains and old forests, will like it, and now they have to add Kenneth.
Kenneth, as an outsider, actually opened up a new node at the Hyatt Regency Hotel after arriving at the Winter Tree, just like building a dam on a river to store water, but the magic flow between the spiritual veins is completely different from that of ordinary rivers, they are more like a whole, and the magic contained in them can walk all the spiritual veins of Winter Wood if no one uses it.
As a result, this sudden appearance of the "embankment" made the entire Fuyuki's spiritual veins a mess, which is probably one of the reasons why Mr. Shichen, who is the manager of the Fuyuki spiritual vein, gave priority to attacking him and demolishing the magic workshop.
And after being driven here, they actually tried to create a node again, and it was carried out by two magic workshops at the same time, plus the "embankment" on Hyatt's side has not been completely demolished, if they succeed, it is still a trivial matter to obtain the geographical advantage, and the spirit veins of Fuyuki will never be restored, and the Tosaka family will probably be deprived of the identity of the manager by the Magic Association while suffering huge losses.
This kind of behavior is not incomprehensible, after all, it has been mentioned as a joke among the agents, and the use of the spiritual veins of the clock tower has such restrictions as "flow" and "pulse width", and there are charging standards formulated accordingly, so the magicians who come out of there are all experts in saving traffic and rubbing spiritual veins, and they will not and cannot think of saving for the managers.
And it is precisely because of this behavior that all the enchantments that use the spiritual veins to power the Kenneth workshop will be blocked by the spiritual veins - the gap that is broken open and invalidate for a moment, if it is not for this point of special inspection or the use of extremely sensitive enchantments, it will be completely impossible to detect, so Qi Li's first step in infiltrating can be said to be foolproof.
Knock, knock, buzz –
At the moment when the spiritual veins were blocked, the black-clothed walker rushed into the range of the warning enchantment with an arrow.
- Buzz!
Enchantments that are supposed to react to any invasion are silent - this is normal, and the simple logic of enchantments simply cannot handle the contradictory feedback of "no foreign object invasion" and "foreign object found inside", and will only end up treating the logically confusing "foreign object" as non-existent.
It seems that even the genius of the clock tower has not repaired this ancient loophole, so the first step of the action can be said to be perfectly achieved, Yan Feng Qili clapped his hands and knocked off the dust, and walked quickly towards the foreign pavilion not far away.