"Speaking of which, you really picked a good time to come back and meet us."

On the way back to the castle, Senior Sister Lilia seemed to be in a good mood and chatted with Bai Ze.

"When the ceremony officially begins, each day spent in this world is equivalent to about two hours in the real world, so every three days the operation of the world will be frozen, so that people can return to reality to deal with their own affairs, and call the contestants again at eleven o'clock that night, and return to continue the previous battle - although everyone will be forcibly evicted at that time, compared to the helpless single person, there is a place that has been passed down from the hands of the contestants through the ages. As a front, the Mage's Workshop is naturally safer than other places, not to mention, even when time freezes in the Overworld, we can still log in and out freely. ”

As far as Bai Ze knows, the three royal families with home field advantages each have an ancestral "mage workshop", in addition to the library and laboratory with their own focus on spell research, its most important function is to provide a magic enchantment that can resist the invasion of the first-level powerhouse of the Heroic Spirit in a short period of time, and the participants in it can rest at ease, even if they send out the servants, they don't have to worry about being taken away by a wave of sneak attacks from the enemy, and the stealth advantage in all aspects is extremely significant.

Of course, at this moment, Senior Sister Lilia mentioned another unknown special advantage of this kind of "stronghold" - it itself seems to be a semi-independent half-plane on the side of this imaginary world, and naturally has all kinds of strangeness.

There is nothing unusual about the ritual when it is normal operationally, but when the ritual is temporarily suspended, it can be used as a temporary shelter. The value of being able to provide twelve times more time than the current world is incalculable, even if you can only have this access to it when you are a Master during the Holy Grail War, it is only more than half a month at most, but even so, for many people, this alone is already extremely powerful - for example, for a group of senior high school dogs who are about to take the college entrance examination and can be called a race against time, it is equivalent to providing an extra half semester of review time, which naturally has a different meaning.

"Do you have any arrangements for Sunday? Except for Xiao Yezi, who had piano and dance lessons to attend, we would only go back once to get the review materials, and then stay here until the end of the intermission. ”

Senior Sister Lilia, who is also a senior in high school, naturally has to focus on her studies, after all, even if she is in a spell or an ability, it is nothing.

You must know that a few years ago, when the trouble here was the worst, it only took more than half a month from the mobilization of the armed police to the complete pacification, and since then there are countless people who have led the crowd to surrender, so now everyone is in the right position, should go to school, should go to work, for the time being, no one wants to break away from the current social structure and find another way.

"I'm fine, I don't have anything to do today, although the school club has a routine training camp, but because there is no sports meeting recently, so I can go or not, I'm going to go back for breakfast first, and then come back here to continue to familiarize myself with the ability of this incarnation at this moment."

It seems that this encounter with Saber has deeply hit Qu Lingjing's original confidence in his own strength.

"Hmm...... I didn't have anything to do, but I didn't want to wake up and find that my family had been taken to the hospital, so I went back for a while and came back for my lunch break and evening. ”

After chatting, the group entered the castle gates, passed through the large and unruly garden, and came to the castle of Einzberen, located in the center.

Although the castle is very large and is as tall as a ten-story building, it does not actually have many rooms. You must know that the hall that just enters the door is four stories high, covering an area of nearly 300 square meters, and the first floor is basically occupied by this hall, and the height of each floor above is basically equivalent to the height of a two-story civil building. There are also cases where there are only three sofas or one bed in a room of 90 square meters, and the corridor is spacious enough for a large group of children to play a football game.

- So in general, when Bai Ze moved in with Saber, basically all the rooms were just full.

Bai Ze also met Xiaoniayou and Senior Sister Shan Shenggu, who had not seen each other since they came here, and they "responded to the call" to gather here last night. Due to the secrecy of the Holy Grail Ceremony, the evening and early morning are the peak periods of fighting, so today's noon is the first intermission of the ceremony.

"This is the library that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Einzberen family, but because there is basically no one living here except for the official opening of the ceremony, there is no spell material in it, but the entry-level books related to alchemy are quite complete, and there are many reading notes and annotations in it, which is a very good choice to broaden your horizons and consolidate your foundation, which is suitable for newcomers like you who have just come into contact with the occult."

Lilia opens a secret door hidden by spells, and introduces the boy to an important facility and benefits that are her home base.

"Although you have now become a full-fledged master, not having gone through the previous selection ceremony will leave you missing a lot of basic learning links, a very important part of which is the understanding and mastery of the unique magic system of the world - for newcomers who have never been exposed to the occult before, this magic system born of classical witchcraft, translated through the Kabbalah secret method, and reproduced with modern electronic information technology, is easier to understand and get started. And it can also form combat power and carry out actual operation faster. ”

Senior Sister Lilia, who led Bai Ze into the library, came to a desk with rows of tall books in the corner, patted a stack of books on the edge, and turned around with a slight evil smile and raised her eyebrows to look at the young man who was following behind.

"I've looked through all the books here before, all the books related to spells have been selected, sorted out according to category and depth, and put them here, if you're interested, just read more books here, in the real world, there is no such a good opportunity, you can so easily flip through the collection of a family of membrane magic that has been passed down for thousands of years, even if it's just the basic knowledge, it's difficult to borrow it from the outside world."

After a brief introduction, Senior Sister Lilia left with Ye Kexin, but Qu Lingyun never left, but she wanted to talk to the young man for a while.

"Aze, your encounter this time is really unbelievable, if it weren't for the fact that you really had a spell and brought back a servant, I wouldn't believe that all of this was true!"

After all the "irrelevant people" left the scene, the girl didn't care about Saber, who was standing aside, and sighed excitedly.

"Seriously, I think it's amazing myself."

"With two pairs of contestants at once, wouldn't we have a great chance of winning the final victory? No, if you have such an advantage, you can't guarantee the final victory, then it is unthinkable! ”

Looking at the girl who had completely left behind the course of action of "focusing on participation" and "ensuring safety" that had been determined before entering this place, and began to focus on "victory", Bai Ze, who had no idea about it at all, couldn't help but start thinking about making more preparations and efforts for this.

"Saber, why did you attend this Holy Grail ceremony? It is said that all the Servants are called here because they have an obsession and a strong desire to achieve whatever it takes—many of them are heroes and monsters that should only exist in history and stories, and they want to get rid of their 'established' fate and gain new possibilities, and of course, there are also some powerful Awakened Ones who participate in this ritual just to get a stronger and more perfect body, and when they win the final victory as a contestant, the Servants can get the opportunity to fulfill their wishes. ”

Qu Lingyun, as an important participant in assisting Senior Sister Lilia in the selection ceremony to brush up points and spill points, naturally has a lot of understanding of many secrets in this ceremony, especially when it comes to the selection mechanism of contestants, which is a blind spot that Bai Ze can't start.

Seeing that Bai Ze was puzzled by this, and after explaining a few words, the girl refocused her gaze on Saber, who bowed her head silently, waiting for her answer.

"--My wish cannot be realized, and it cannot be realized--When my memories and wishes are nothing but false things fabricated by others, such wishes have no value or meaning to be realized."

Saber's response made Qu Lingxing feel confused, but because he heard the distress and pain of the other party, it was inconvenient to continue to ask even if he didn't know.

Speaking of which, after a long night of knee-long talk last night, Bai Ze knew something about it.

Saber claims to be King Arthur of ancient Britain, and he has answered the call to fulfill his three last vows, so it is natural that he will come here to find information about Britain. As a result, she found that the experiences in her memory were different from the history in the real world, whether it was in this imaginary space or in the outside world, and there were countless inconsistencies in the details.

Not to mention, in her memory, the unique android technology of the Einzberen clan runs through every link of her life, and she can't detect this "coincidence" when there is no comparison, but when someone points out the problem, it is impossible for her not to perceive the reality in it.

So after careful deliberation with Bai Ze, she had to admit that everything about herself was just artificially fabricated.

It was as if she remembered her own birth, in order to create a new king who was born above mortals by the former king Uther Pendragon and the royal magician Merlin, who was born above mortals, mixed the bloodline of the King of Britain, the ideology of Britain as a red dragon, and the noble female bloodline that perfectly fused the two to create the mother's womb, thus giving birth to Artoria Pendragon, the "Chosen King".

And she herself is also aimed at the Holy Grail ritual in this imaginary space, and the "little man in a bottle" that combines the history and mystery of the legendary King Arthur and the British Red Dragon, and combines the artificial human technology to smelt - her body is the "Sword of Oath Victory" in her hand now, and the "bottle" that carries her is the scabbard that was lost shortly after she got it in her memory, but it was miraculously used as a holy relic to summon her to this scabbard "Distant Ideal Country".

Because the technology used to create her used a lot of magic techniques used to shape the Servant in the Holy Grail Ritual of this world, after being brought into this world, she was also accepted by the world consciousness without disobedience, and replaced the original existence of King Arthur in this world with the body of a heroic spirit, and obtained a real body and a complete and independent soul. As for the scabbard, which lost its original usefulness after the summoning was completed, it was used by the surviving Eiko Kiritsugu after the last Holy Grail War to make a treasure projection generation device, and it can only project sword weapons, which is also because of this.