A few years later, the United Kingdom.

The clock tower, in a dimly lit and empty room.

The space inside the room had a strange feel, the distance inside distorted to an eerie degree, it seemed unbelievably wide, but it seemed like it was too small to be oppressive.

The candle erected in the middle dimly illuminates the faces of the people in the room, and not a single object can be clearly seen, and there is an indescribable atmosphere of bitterness in this room where the boundaries between each other are blurred.

"The whole army is annihilated......" It was a dry voice.

There were three people gathered here, and it was an old man who spoke.

He was a small man, but his back was straight, and the wrinkles on his face shone like those of a wooden carving, the most conspicuous of which were probably the twenty rings on his hands and the ornaments on his chest, which exuded striking magical fluctuations.

He is the monarch of the Clock Tower's third discipline, the Séance: Kolufereus Nazele Eulifis. Kenneth's mentor and father of Kenneth's fiancée, Sora Nazele Sofiali.

A young man next to him nodded in response: "Through the demon I observed the final battle...... The sight is really terrifying, and that level of existence should not exist in the human world at all. ”

This is a red-haired boy with a delicate face, and from his eyes with a strong and arrogant will and his extraordinary temperament, it can be seen at a glance that he must be from high society, and even his words have a strong sense of mission.

His name was Bram Nazele Sofiali, and he was the sovereign successor of the Séance, a first-class lecturer at the Clock Tower, and the son of the old man Koluphileus, who spoke earlier.

The old man nodded approvingly, and then looked at the last man who had been silent, the man with his long hair casually, frowning in displeasure.

"And what do you think, Lord Ermero?"

The man called Ermelo by the old man lit the cigarette between his fingers by the light of the candle, took a deep breath, and shook his head slowly:

"It's the second, although I am very grateful to the older generation for caring about me, but please also add the title of the second, if it is not so, the name of Ermelo will make me feel very uncomfortable."

"What do you think, Ermelo II?"

"Well, we're going to have to change course anyway, after all, we've lost a lot of money...... Moreover, the clock tower has not recovered from the huge damage it suffered at the beginning, these thirty magicians are basically the last idle combat power that the clock tower can send, if they continue to send people over, even if they finally come back alive, the interests of the clock tower will be greatly damaged during the period when they leave their posts. ”

A team of thirty magicians with the lowest rank and also a sacrificial position, led by two magicians with color positions, and also formulated a detailed and meticulous battle plan, but it was completely subverted by a "demon".

The final result was that all thirty of them were wiped out, and if it weren't for the information sent back by the additional demons, maybe this time the clock tower would have returned empty-handed.

The thought of the rampage of the servant in the transmitted footage made Ermelo II frown unconsciously.

The strength of the other party reminded him of the Holy Grail War he participated in 10 years ago, although the strength of this servant was slightly insufficient compared to a certain oversized being in that Holy Grail War, but it was still enough to crush a team of thirty magicians.

"'The Holy Grail War is in complete chaos, and a new Master will be chosen', and thanks to this information, we have a chance to fight back."

"So who are you going to send? The other party has been sniping all the magicians who dare to appear, and the team sent over for the first time is well hidden, but they have all been uprooted one by one. I suspect that the other party knows a lot about the intelligence inside the clock tower, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to snipe so accurately. And most importantly...... We don't even know who the enemy really is. ”

Ermelo II spoke the plain truth in a faint tone, which silenced the room for a moment.

"If I had to say it, I think we should hire other magicians from the outside, after all, this Holy Grail War has now taken place like never before, and with the targeting of those behind the scenes, the Clock Tower is already at an extreme disadvantage. Of course, you'll have to find a way to pick one or two people out of the clock tower. ”

The other two agreed with Ermelo II's remarks.

The matter is now imminent, and it will be a big task to choose from the famous families in the clock tower, and it will definitely take a long time until the personnel are confirmed, including inheritance, storage of magic seals, and other reasons.

It's definitely much more efficient to choose a freelance magician who can be easily hired, and it can also make up for the clock tower's current shortage of manpower.

"Then it's up to the old man and Ermelo II to find a candidate, and at least ask the Templar to send one, after all, this is also to justify us, so we need them to join the war anyway."

"How many people are you looking for?"

"Judging from the previous inspection of the Holy Grail, the carrying limit of the Little Holy Grail is sixteen servants. However, according to the information that came back before, when our candidate for the Master was killed, the Little Chalice was also quickly looking for a new candidate for the Master, and now there are probably less than ten places left. At this rate, if it were a week or so late, there might be only five to seven people left. ”

The Sovereign of the Séance spoke eloquently, although he had only learned about the Holy Grail War for a few years, but he had almost touched all the circumstances of this Holy Grail.

"In that case, the faster we are, the better."

"Then I'll be in charge of selecting the relics, although the situation is urgent, and the relics carried by the magician team have been completely lost, but I will try my best to collect enough medium to become combat power." Seeing that his father had already arranged the work, Bram immediately picked up the conversation.

Hearing him say this, Coluffilius tapped the floor with the tip of his cane as a sign to determine the end of this meeting:

"In that case, let's take action. This is a far cry from the previous situation of the Holy Grail War, so please be careful, and be careful that the other party will completely regret doing something that has brought us to the Clock Tower in disgrace! ”

After the three of them finished discussing, they did not exchange glances, but left straight in their respective directions.

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Fuyuki City, Japan.

"What?"

Zheng Shu sat in the living room of Jian Tong's house, looking at Jian Tong Yanye in front of him and was a little confused: "What is the change in the mode of the Holy Grail War?" ”

Jian Tong Yanye, who looks a lot more mature, sits in front of Zheng Shu at night, his appearance is much older than ten years ago, but because he began to practice magic, he has also begun to carry a good momentum, and it seems that he finally has the posture of some superiors.

However, when facing Zheng Shu, Jian Tongyan Ye still honestly gathered his momentum and behaved as peacefully as possible.

Regarding Zheng Shu's question, he also sighed helplessly, and explained the changes in the past few years to Zheng Shu in detail.

The main change in things started when Zheng Shu picked up the entire clock tower alone a few years ago.

Kenneth's death had made the clock tower pay attention to this small city in the Far East, but it didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, Kenneth was killed on the way back to the clock tower after leaving Fuyuki City, and the most people who knew about the situation were to laugh at Kenneth, the monarch, for losing in such a remote ceremony.

However, after Zheng Shu and the entire clock tower went head-to-head and killed half of the clock tower's power, Dongmu City, a small city in the Far East, was finally completely taken seriously by the clock tower and even the magician association.

Correspondingly, let a monarch return to the clock tower with a halberd and a gray sand and gray, and the existence of such a fierce man as Zheng Shu appeared, the most important "remote" ritual in Dongmu City was naturally noticed again.

In the beginning, just a few lecturers brought their students over, wanting to make the Holy Grail War their students' graduation research topics.

Coincidentally, at that time, Tosaka Tokitomi and the acting patriarch of the Einzberen family, Ahard, were struggling with how to repair the completely damaged small chalice, and in the face of the group from the clock tower, although they were reluctant, they could only agree to join the restoration team under the deterrence of the other party's background.

Originally, both Tosaka Tokitomi and Ahad were angry at the sudden intervention of the people of the Clock Tower, but they were not too worried, after all, the construction of the Great Holy Grail and the Small Holy Grail were completely the same level, and they were not worried that the other party would see through the essence of the Holy Grail War.

But I didn't expect it to overturn.

In other words, Tosaka Tokitomi and the others really underestimated the level of knowledge of the magicians in the clock tower.

Although there were no too powerful beings in this group of people, there was a lecturer who was a student of one of the monarchs of the clock tower.

When he encounters a problem that he can't handle on his own, he naturally uses magic to contact his teacher for help.

So in this series of coincidences, the secret of the Holy Grail was revealed to a monarch.

Fortunately, he also obtained information through observation indirectly, so he didn't get too much detail, but only deduced that there was a deeper ritual after the small chalice in this Holy Grail battle.

Out of curiosity, the monarch went to Fuyuki City to observe it himself, and then found the Great Holy Grail hidden underground.

Of course, due to various barriers, he still couldn't understand the specific operation of the Great Holy Grail, and he didn't know that the main function of the Great Holy Grail was to open the passage to the root.

It seems that the Magician Guild's control over the small eastern countries is not so strict, so that this Holy Grail War was not discovered until the fourth fight, and as an almighty wishing machine actually appeared in the countryside of such a small country in the Far East, there must be a limit to joking - this is the perception of the Magic Association, or the most information they get is this.

But the sheer amount of magic stored inside the Great Chalice could not be concealed in any way.

Of course, with the knowledge and wisdom of this monarch, it can be seen that the magic inside the Great Holy Grail has been completely polluted, and if it wants to be used to fulfill the wish after completing the ritual of the Holy Grail War, it will only be "fulfilled" according to the worst situation.

But for magicians, even if they can't fulfill their wishes, such a large amount of magic crystals is enough to tempt them.

You must know that the magic contained in the saint quartz made by Zheng Shu is only one-third of the Great Holy Grail, but Zheng Shu's two saint quartz as a reward is enough for Aozaki Orange to completely teach Zheng Shu his own puppet-making skills.

With her own doll making technology, it took only a dozen years to save the wealth equivalent to the hundreds of years accumulated by a veteran magician family.

The value of this level of technology in the magic world is simply immeasurable, and unless a war is waged, there is almost no possibility of obtaining it.

This shows how high the value of the magic accumulated in the Great Holy Grail is for the magician.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if this magic is tainted, it is worth far more than the combined fortune of two or three magician families with a monarch.

What's more, for magicians, these tainted magic powers are just quite troublesome, time-consuming and laborious to deal with, but it doesn't mean that they can't handle them, and the difficulty of dealing with them is actually not very high.

The magician's characteristic that has been passed down from family to family for hundreds of years, even if there is such a large amount of magic accumulated inside the Great Holy Grail, after enough time, they can completely purify it, and the value of this mass of magic crystals will increase at that time.

Therefore, after discovering the magic accumulated inside the Great Grail, the monarch who had come to scout was ecstatic.

Unfortunately, this group of students who came to intern was not the only one from his school, so this news was quickly obtained by the entire clock tower, and the severity of the contamination of the magic inside the Great Holy Grail also made it impossible for him to take possession of it in a short time, so the monarch finally had to pinch his nose and discuss the ownership of the magic inside the Great Holy Grail with the forces of the entire clock tower.

As for the original owner of the Great Holy Grail, the Imperial Three of Fuyuki City?

In the face of the "nuclear amiable" faces of the entire eleven monarchs of the clock tower, the three royal families could naturally only retreat.

But in any case, the Great Holy Grail is the stuff of the Imperial Three Families, and the Clock Tower is also about saving face, and if they are taken by force like this, it is estimated that their reputation will stink in the entire magic world - although the current reputation is not very good.

Therefore, in order to be able to obtain these magic powers reasonably, the clock tower decided to send people to participate in the Holy Grail War as well.

After all, the rules of the Holy Grail War were originally that the winner could obtain the dominance of these magic powers, and the quota for participation in this ceremony itself was also open to all people, and in the previous Holy Grail War, there was even a situation where ordinary people were pulled to be the master because of the insufficient number of magicians, and the clock tower said that we sent people to participate in the Holy Grail War is naturally allowed within the rules.

Of course, in order to appease, and also to show his own justice, the clock tower finally left a place for the three families.

In fact, for a big force like the Clock Tower, they are willing to leave a place for the three royal families as a decent place, which is indeed quite "generous".

And in addition, the clock tower also provides a lot of benefits and resources to the three families as a "reward".

Including but not limited to, in the future, each generation of the Royal Three Families can choose a family member to come to the Clock Tower to learn "for free", a large number of resources, and some channels that only the old families can have.

Although these resources combined are not comparable to the magic value inside the Great Holy Grail, they are enough for most small families to soar into the sky.

It's just that anyone with a discerning eye can see that these things are not so much rewards as compensation, and once the Holy Grail War begins, the masters of the clock tower will first unite to prioritize the three masters.

In this regard, both the Tosaka family and the Einzberen family were very angry, but the Maki family itself had completely given up the idea of the Holy Grail War, so although they were angry, Tosaka Tokitomi and Ahad could only swallow this result.

"It sounds miserable, but it doesn't change the pattern of the Holy Grail War, does it?"

Zheng Shu was a little curious, although in this case, it would indeed be confirmed that the masters of the three royal families would be kicked out in advance, but because there were quite a lot of contradictions within the clock tower, the remaining six masters would not form an alliance and cooperate sincerely, but would still continue the correct way of operation in the Holy Grail War.

Theoretically, such a change would not be enough to cause a change in the pattern of the Holy Grail War.

"It wasn't going to change, but just a few weeks ago there was a surprise." Jian Tong Yanye sighed helplessly.

Although theoretically speaking, the choice of the Minor Holy Grail during the Holy Grail War is random, for magicians, "cheating" is what they are best at.

Just like the three royal families, no matter how they decline, they can ensure that a separate master will appear within their family.

And after clarifying the operation mode of the Little Holy Grail, the Clock Tower naturally lifted most of the back doors left by the Royal Three Families, and then used such a back door to confirm the candidates for the six Imperial Masters in advance.

Originally, it was normal to get here, and the rest of the time they just needed to go to Fuyuki City to build their temporary workshop, and then quietly wait for the ceremony to begin.

But just then, the unexpected happened.

The only remaining spot that was supposed to belong to the Imperial Three Families did not show up for a long time, and after carefully observing the context of the ceremony, Tosaka Tokitomi and Ahad came to a conclusion: their last spot was taken by someone.

That's right, someone secretly stole the last spot without their knowledge.

The angry two patriarchs naturally looked for the clock tower to confront each other, but the attitude on the side of the clock tower was also very tough, they made it clear that they only occupied six places, and the last place was not moved at all, and believed that the reason why these two made such an attitude was to get more rewards.

Under the mutual accusations, the two sides finally broke up unhappily.

At this point, if the three families were all normal magicians, they would be angry, but there wouldn't be anything too wrong.

But here's the problem, the Einzberen family is not human.

The entire Einzberen family, from the patriarchs to the most basic servants, are all made up of androids, and the only goal recorded in their brains after their birth is to win the Holy Grail War and complete the final rituals.

Therefore, it is obviously an artificial human who is not good at fighting and seems to be harmless to humans and animals, but in the Holy Grail Wars of the past generations, it is they who have done the most troublesome things.

The reason why the Great Grail was polluted during the third Holy Grail War was completely because of the early elimination of the Einzberen family and the illegal summoning because of the inner obsession.

In the Fourth Holy Grail War, the Einz Belen family directly hired Emiya Kiritsugu, a magician killer, as a plug-in, and turned the little Holy Grail into a human form.

It can be said that these paranoid androids will do whatever it takes to win the Holy Grail War.

Although what the Clock Tower had done before was excessive, it was not impossible for the Einzberen family to win, after all, in the Fourth Holy Grail War, Zheng Shu had already told them what it means to be a powerful enough servant to push everything aside.

Theoretically, as long as you summon a strong enough Servant, even if the opponent's six people work together, you can completely win.

For this reason, the acting patriarch of Einzbelen, Ahad, was even willing to give up his family's share of the interests and transfer it to the Tosaka family, so as to obtain the last place in the Holy Grail War.

"But it all disappeared because of the sudden change, and after the last spot was taken, Ahad revealed his overly paranoid nature." When she said this, she was a little emotional, and she recalled Ahad's distorted expression at the beginning.

He never imagined that the acting patriarch of the Einzberen family, who had always seemed calm and arrogant, would have such a gaffe.

Zheng Shu raised his eyebrows when he heard this, he felt as if he had imagined the next result.

"Coincidentally, when the Little Chalice was being repaired, the Clock Tower did not choose to let one person hold the Little Chalice in order to balance the internal forces, but chose to hide the Little Chalice on the edge of the Great Chalice through transformation, and only after the Holy Grail War reached a certain stage, the Little Chalice will be revealed.

Therefore, Ahad secretly changed the pattern of the Holy Grail War one night through the back hand he left in the Little Grail. ”

"So what kind of battle mode is it now?" Zheng Shu was a little curious.

"The carrying limit of a single small Holy Grail is sixteen servants, and Ahad has completely lifted the previous limit, so this Holy Grail War now should be a big melee between sixteen people."

Jian Tong Yanye also had some amazement when he said this, he could be regarded as having experienced a Holy Grail War, so he naturally knew how fierce the Holy Grail War would be.

And it was just a battle between seven people, but this time it was a full sixteen people, and it was a night of Tong Yan. I feel that the only thing I can do is to pray that these people don't go overboard and don't destroy the entire Fuyuki City.

(PS: I'm tired of watching the ordinary Holy Grail War, so I decided to make a new job on the whole point, the Fourteen War?) No, sixteen! ）

(End of chapter)