Chapter Seventy-Six: The Endgame (1)
Xue Qiong was surprised that his whole body was petrified, but his brain was still functioning, and he stayed where he was, constantly thinking about something.
(I don't know exactly how it works, but I guess Rider was done the same thing as Saber...) Maybe add some of the kind of modifications that the Lancer did with the Dirty Inkstone? Contact the Holy Grail again... No wonder, as the so-called self-family does not fight their own family, Emiya Shirou is another holy grail, Yanfeng Qili is a human who has been polluted by black mud, and Minette is a pure dark attribute... So that's it! However, I can only act like a fool and be an afterthought here... )
The feeling of not being able to move even the eyeballs is really uncomfortable. Not to mention Xue Qiong and the others who have been petrified, let's take a look at what the people who can still move are doing.
Yan Feng Qili's black key can only play the role of "sweeping the array" at this time. Minette tried to catch the fast Rider with a desperate Hellkill, but failed, so she gave up on using the colorless small crystal block, after all, the best skills for catching people failed.
The black Rider is very fast, even faster than the agile A++ Minette. She kept jumping up and down in the middle of the building, passing the three men from time to time, leaving small wounds. In order to escape the huge President Zhu, Xue Qiong and the others chose to escape in this narrow and complex terrain, but now the terrain here has become their biggest limitation.
Finally, Emiya Shirou disappeared out of thin air and reappeared three more times, that is, after using the Infinite Sword System three times without catching Rider, he finally succeeded the fourth time.
When Emiya Shirou and Rider fought in the inherent enchantment, Xue Qiong and the others, who were petrified, gradually regained their mobility, but there was still a residual petrification effect on the surface of the skin, which would shatter as long as it moved, and then cause a large number of wounds...
Able to use healing magic, Mono Kiri, Bald Head, and Rin Tosaka began to heal again, but at this time they didn't have much magic left, and at most they could only scab over the wound first.
"Shirou..."Illya was receiving Rin Tosaka's treatment as she looked at the place where Emiya Shirou disappeared and said to herself, "Even if you defeat Rider, you..."
"Emiya Shirou won't regret it." Yan Feng Qili interjected, "If he is really the son of the person I know, just this level of consciousness is nothing. ”
"Rider, if it is absorbed by Emiya Shirou..."Xue Qiong sat on the ground, picked up the cigarette that had just been half-smoked, but had now been extinguished, put it back in his mouth and said, "The Great Holy Grail will be activated immediately, and we will have no way to rest, right?"
After Xue Qiong dissolved it with petrification, his already bloody hand took out a lighter, tried it a few times before lighting it, and then continued: "Maybe, we have to carry him to Yuanzang Mountain immediately..."
"Don't move! Hands up!! "At the end of the alley, which had become more or less in ruins, there was a voice of anger and fear.
It seems that the ground forces of the military have finally come... In reality, however, there was only one person there, and he was just an ordinary officer stationed nearby who happened to survive several large explosions. And now he chooses to shout first instead of shooting directly, in fact, he is trying to delay time and wait for backup.
In the pursuit of Mr. Zhu, and no matter how much damage Mr. Zhu's pair of big pliers caused, just talking about Emiya Shirou's two EXcarliber has a very great destructive power... The consequences are even more terrifying than the fire in Xindu ten years ago. That's why this elite soldier on active duty is so frightened, and he becomes like a policeman who can point a gun at a gangster for most of the day and can't pull the trigger.
To the other party's surprise, everyone present, including Xue Qiong, raised their hands without hesitation, only the three who were healing with magic did not move.
Today they were so tired that they were no longer in the mood to kill again, and even Xiao Yun gave up using the Charm Scroll.
However, although he raised his hand, Xue Qiong still shouted with interest: "Friend of the Self-Defense Forces!!" We are not ****, we are superheroes who stand on the side of justice!! These losses are not what we want to see, but the planet is in danger!! What happened before your eyes is also happening, and you should know that Kamada Gosaku is just a monster disguised as a human in order to try to lurk among you and complete his evil and sabotage plan!! ”
"Who believes you! Hand up well!! A middle-aged man in an officer's uniform walked out from behind the bunker where he had been hiding, and the gun in his hand had been aimed at Xue Qiong's head.
"Cut... It's boring! Xue Qiong spit out the cigarette butt in her mouth, and then simply lay on the ground.
"You three! Hands up, too! Put it where I can see it!! ”
Rin Tosaka, who had just solved Illya's problem and was treating herself, said dissatisfiedly, "Drink! To give you some face, you still kicked your nose in the face?! I tell you, you are still alive because of our kindness... Put the gun down! ”
The poor man was almost so frightened that he shot him, but he eventually resigned himself to laying down his weapon.
Xue Qiong looked at the helicopter gunship that had just flown here, hovering in the sky, and was aiming at the helicopter gunship here with a heavy machine gun, and said sleepily: "Okay, okay, if you have something to say..."
At this moment, Emiya Shirou appeared out of thin air, holding a black head in his hand. The head with beautiful long hair was gradually dissipating as black blood flowed out.
And the final flow of those dissipated energies is all Emiya Shirou's body...
"How much longer?" Xue Qiong asked.
"Today... Sky. Emiya Shirou's words were a little inarticulate, and although he could barely stand, his legs were obviously shaking.
"Let's get started." Xue Qiong jumped up from the ground with a carp.
Yan Feng Qili shot through the throat of the officer on the ground with a black key, and at the same time, Emiya Shirou also projected a spear, and with a wave of one arm, he threw the spear out, and easily knocked down the helicopter.
After walking out of this ruin, they found that the US military and the Self-Defense Forces had even driven armored vehicles over... So they laughed unceremoniously, and after Emiya Shirou cleared out almost all the troops in an instant, leaving only one command vehicle with the thickest steel plate, Xue Qiong sat in the driver's seat.
They are in a race against time. At the same time as the armored car started, Emiya Shirou had already fainted, and it seemed that his situation was even worse than he thought. Xue Qiong drove the armored car all the way on a rampage, while letting Minette stay on the roof of the car to clear the chasing army, and after more than twenty minutes, they reached the foot of Yuanzang Mountain.
It was a surprise that it was not bombed by fighter planes. And after standing on the largest spiritual vein of this winter wood, Emiya Shirou also woke up like a return to the light, and as if guided by something, he limped a distance on a completely unfamiliar mountain road, and led everyone to a mountain stream.
"To... Upstream. Emiya Shirou gasped twice, although he could use enough magic to be described as a humanoid nuclear bomb, his function as a human was about to disappear completely, and the reason why he could still walk now was all due to terrifying willpower and absolutely strong desire to support him.
"Wait." While everyone else began to walk up the mountain stream, Yan Feng Qili stopped in place.
"What's wrong?" Emiya Shirou walked with Xue Qiong's support and turned his head with difficulty.
Yan Feng Qili said, "Before I meet the Great Holy Grail, I have a question that you need to answer, Emiya Shirou. ”
"Say."
"It's about what's inside the Holy Grail." Yan Feng Qili said with a smile, "Now you should be able to understand what the real Holy Grail looks like, right?" So, what are you going to do with it... What about it? ”
"It's none of my business." Emiya Shirou shook his head, "I just... Cherry... As for what's in the Holy Grail, I'll let it die..."
"Oh? Good answer. Yan Feng Qili smiled even more happily, and then followed the footsteps of everyone.
Eight people, each with different goals, followed the mountain stream and walked all the way to the front of a cave according to Emiya Shirou's words, "Something is calling me".
"It's time to get to the place..."Emiya Shirou refused Xue Qiong's continued support, and walked in front with a stagger, and was the first to enter the cave.
"It's the place." Xue Qiong squinted her eyes and looked into the cave, patting her bald head and Xiao Yun's shoulders at the same time.
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While Xue Qiong and the others relied on the lighting of a large amount of fluorescent moss in the cave and the guidance of Emiya Shirou to go deeper step by step, Jian Tong Sakura was sitting on a stone platform in the center of the cave, looking at a mineral water bottle in her hand in a daze.
Behind her, there was a huge black shadow that was slowly flowing. In essence, it is a "hole" suspended in the air, slowly flowing out of a thick black liquid. This is the essence of the Holy Grail, the hole leading to the "outside", inside is a huge amount of magic that is enough to make any wish in this world come true, but due to a certain Holy Grail War, the magician of Einzberen illegally summoned the eighth Heroic Spirit, the Avenger "Anglo Mayer", to pollute the Holy Grail, so that the original colorless and transparent pure magic inside has turned into this dirty, disgusting and malicious black.
"Now, grandpa..."Sakura tapped the plastic bottle with her white and slender fingers, and said to a small insect that was struggling inside, "You say, what should your great-grandson or great-granddaughter be called in the future?" Or, should it be surnamed Weigong, or surnamed Jiantong, or... Surname Tosaka? ”
The little bug didn't respond to her, still lying on the bottom of the bottle and fluttering.
"Ah, I forgot!" Sakura suddenly thought of something and unscrewed the cap of the bottle a little.
"Grandpa, the air is much better this way, isn't it?" Sakura laughed happily.
Smiling and laughing, Sakura's expression suddenly changed.
Her gaze was on the Great Holy Grail behind her back, as she felt... Something's going on in that hole.
Sakura took a closer look at the hole again. On the opposite side of that "hole", there was originally nothing "empty", but at this moment, that side appeared... Snow.
Yes, snow. Even the snowflakes have begun to fly into this cave under the blowing of the strong wind.
"Outside..."
The Holy Grail was originally created for the purpose of magicians trying to gather a large amount of magic through a ritual to tear down the barriers between the planes... The so-called "external" is the collective term for all the worlds of magicians except the world in which they live.
"That's not right..."Sakura was a little puzzled, "The total amount of magic power is not enough... Although the Holy Grail War has come to an end, the dead Heroic Spirits should never be enough..."
If Xue Qiong, or even any reincarnation, was present at this time, he could actually give an answer to this phenomenon.
That is, the worldview of this world is about to collapse completely. In this case, the stability of the plane decreases, and the barriers between the planes become more fragile... And it just so happens that the magic of the Great Holy Grail has been trying to tear through this barrier.
In addition, Mr. Zhu's way of destroying the worldview is a little different, and he is rudely attracting a large number of forces from a specific world in this world...
Therefore, the magic power is far from gathering to the limit of the Great Holy Grail, so it can be used in advance to use this much less magic power than expected, and easily open the door to the "outside" of the magicians... Moreover, it is the way to that world, the world that has been the most eroded by this world.
But Sakura Maki doesn't think so much. Her will has been squeezed by magic, and Anglo Mayer's temptation is already on the verge of collapse, and in this case, she obviously can't think too much.
"I don't know what's going on, though..."Kirizakura rubbed her head, and then used black magic to condense into a sharp claw on her right index finger, and began to draw something on the ground.
"Since the quota in this world has been used up, it is better to use it elsewhere..."