"The big scuffle of sixteen...... I didn't expect that old thing to be quite bold in Ahad. Zheng Shu sighed with emotion.

I feel that what Ahad did this time is completely incompatible with the old guy who knelt down on the spot and apologized after being kicked in the door.

"So how is Ahad doing now? If he did something like that, the clock tower would be very angry. Zheng Shu couldn't help but laugh when he thought that the people of the clock tower had suffered such a big loss.

"Ahad is dead." Jian Tong Yanye said calmly.

"Huh?" Zheng Shu frowned and sat up straight seriously, "Dead?" Was the reaction from the clock tower so violent? No, that's not the way they've done things in the past. ”

Although the clock towers are domineering and experts in foreign wars and in-house wars, there is no doubt that they do worship knowledge and technology very much.

Therefore, although Ahad's behavior would make the clock tower angry, they were not angry that Ahad had cheated them, but they were angry that they didn't expect such a situation and would feel that their intelligence was being suppressed.

Therefore, instead of taking immediate action against Ahad, he intends to use absolute strength to subdue him in the Holy Grail War to show his strength and wisdom.

"This ...... In fact, not only the patriarch of the Ahaddai, but even the six candidates for the imperial lord that the clock tower had prepared in advance were also killed. There was also some disbelief in the voice of the wild goose.

Now Zheng Shu became interested: "Interesting, the people sent by the clock tower are also dead?" Who did it? You're not going to tell me that old guy Ahad could do it, he doesn't have that kind of strength. ”

"The exact identity of the murderer is still not very clear, the only thing that is known is that he has been hunting and killing all the people with the qualifications of the Imperial Master in Fuyuki City. Unless it's an ordinary person who has no magical background who becomes a master, anyone with a magician background will be assassinated by him if they become a candidate for mastership. Speaking of which, Jian Tong Yan was also a little frightened at night.

At that moment, it can be said that the entire Fuyuki City was panicking, and even he was thinking about whether to leave here first just in case.

After all, both Ahad, who immediately gained the status of Master after changing the mode of the Holy Grail, and the six candidates for the protection of the Clock Tower, were all assassinated silently.

In particular, the six candidates for the Lordship were selected by the Clock Tower, and after receiving the spell, they came to Fuyuki City to build their own magic workshop.

However, they were still found dead in the magic workshop they had built, and they died silently, and it seemed that there was no room for resistance.

"So irascible means? It seems that the guy who quietly usurped the throne of the Imperial Master is not a good one. ”

That's right, Zheng Shu knew as soon as he heard it that the person who could do such a thing must be because this Holy Grail War was very important to him, and the biggest suspect was naturally the guy who usurped Ahad's original throne.

"But after suffering such a big loss, is there nothing to say from the clock tower?" Zheng Shu was a little curious.

This kind of assassination is completely different from the guy like Ahad who took advantage of the loophole to make money for himself, and it has already violated the bottom line of the clock tower, so the clock tower will definitely not give up so well.

What's more, the clock tower has just been beaten by itself a few years ago, and it is in urgent need of finding a target to establish power, no matter how short of manpower it is, it will definitely send a large number of executors to deal with such a situation.

"Yes, they sent an execution team of thirty magicians, and among them, there were even magicians in the color position." Jian Tong Yanye shook his head, "But they are all dead, and all the servants instructed by the mastermind behind the scenes have been killed without landing, and not even a single one is left alive." ”

"Servant?" Zheng Shu raised his eyebrows, "The servant summoned at this point in time, if I'm not mistaken......"

"That's right, theoretically speaking, the only Servant who can be summoned during this time period is the Assassin."

In any case, the Holy Grail War is actually a relatively complex ritual in nature, and as a ritual, it must have various restrictions in terms of time, place, materials, incantations, etc.

In particular, this ritual of summoning followers, which is the most important, is the most important for all aspects.

Of course, because the Holy Grail War is essentially a superficial ritual caused by the Great Grail, after the Servant to the Summoning Ritual reaches a suitable point in time, the need for other aspects will be further reduced, and it can even be reduced to a level where even ordinary people can directly summon it through strong intentions.

On the other hand, if the level of the magician is high enough, then it is also possible to summon the servant in advance after obtaining the qualification of the master through a sufficiently exquisite magic ritual and the consumption of a large amount of resources.

However, in these two cases, the summoned Servants are generally not very strong, and the other main limitation is that they cannot be summoned to a strong enough rank.

After all, in the Holy Grail War, the upper three ranks do have obvious advantages, and the Saber rank can be regarded as the strongest among the seven ranks.

And if you want to summon the four classes of sword, spear, bow, or madness, you can only summon them at a suitable time.

Whether it is summoned in advance or after summoning, it can generally only summon the third order of riding, jutsu, and killing.

The greater the time difference, the worse the class that can be summoned.

Theoretically, a Servant like this, summoned at least a month in advance, could only be an Assassin.

"And even if it's an Assassin, because the time of summoning is too advanced, it is estimated that the power of inherent skills, individual attributes, and even Noble Phantasms has been suppressed to the limit." Zheng Shu stroked his chin and reasoned carefully.

Jian Tong Yanye suddenly sighed at this time, took out a remote control from his side and pressed it, and turned on the TV in the hall: "That's right, I originally thought the same way, but judging from the picture sent back, it doesn't seem that the other party summoned Assassin." ”

The picture on the TV unfolds, and from the angle, it should be the surveillance footage taken by the camera hanging on the telephone pole.

"This is what we got from the cameras we set up on the street a week ago."

"Huh?" Zheng Shu turned his head to look at Jian Tong Yanye in some surprise.

Jian Tong Yanye coughed in embarrassment, knowing what Zheng Shu was surprised about: "Last time you asked me to install a surveillance camera in the sewer to find the master, the method of finding the master feels very useful, although this time the Jian Tong family does not plan to participate in the Holy Grail War, but just in case, I still asked the city government to install simple cameras on all the streets of Fuyuki City." ”

"City government?" Zheng Shu tilted his head.

Only then did he suddenly remember that although in his opinion, the three families of Fuyuki City were quite weak, but in fact, they were also large landlords who had been inherited in the local area for hundreds of years.

It is no exaggeration to say that more than half of the people in the city hall have an inexplicable relationship with them, and important positions such as mayor are held by members of their families.

If this were not the case, no matter how influential the Templar Church was in the secular world, it would not have been possible for the media to describe such a large explosion as a gas explosion.

Thinking of this, Zheng Shu continued to turn his head to look at the picture on the TV.

Probably due to technical issues with the monitor, the picture doesn't look very clear, and it's still black and white, but this shows more than enough information.

In the picture, there is a group of people who are fleeing in a hurry, and it seems that there are about a dozen of them.

Judging from their dress, Zheng Shu could tell that this should be the magician team sent by the clock tower.

Although the magic fluctuations cannot be perceived on the surveillance screen, judging from the fact that the opponent's leader can still quickly release magic during the fast running, his magician level and actual combat experience are not small.

And the other magicians are also quite organized, even in the fast running formation, constantly using each other's support magic, from this point of view, this group of teams should be considered elite among magicians.

However, in the next second, just as the figures of these people had just appeared in the monitor, they had completely turned into corpses.

No, it's not so much a corpse as a debris, Zheng Shu's eyes widened as he looked at the scene in front of him, and in the surveillance footage, he didn't even find a piece larger than a human head.

Neither the magic dress nor the prematurely released magic barrier seemed to have blocked this unknown attack for them, and in just an instant, this elite team of magicians had been completely killed.

"That's it, do you need me to slow down?" Jian Tong Yan asked.

"No, I can see clearly." Zheng Shu looked at the picture that kept repeating this second, and clenched his fists in some surprise.

The technology of surveillance equipment in this era was not very high, so the number of frames used to record video was not very high.

Therefore, in this short second, Zheng Shu only saw three frames of the existence of the enemy, and the characters also had very serious phantoms.

Because it is a black and white picture, it is impossible to see the other party's hair color or eye color clearly, but Zheng Shu can also roughly see what the other party's image looks like from these three frames.

In addition to the muscular figure, the exaggerated sword-shaped weapon, and the simple black pattern on the arms, the most eye-catching thing is probably the huge wound on the opponent's chest that looks like it runs through the entire chest and cuts the entire body by the way.

The wound is right in the heart of the other party, if this huge wound is real, ordinary people should have died a long time ago, even if they are lucky enough to survive, such a huge injury should be enough to make them lose the ability to move for the rest of their lives.

But for the Heroic Spirits, the moment they are summoned as servants should be their strongest combat state, that is, the Servant in front of them has reached the peak of his life strength after suffering such a heavy blow.

Because the picture is too blurry, and only three frames were taken, it is impossible to see what the opponent's combat skills are, but even so, it is enough for Zheng Shu to confirm the identity of the other party.

At this time, Tong Yanye also pressed the remote control again, and replaced the TV picture with a freeze-frame pattern, which is the most complete picture of the other party's image among the three frames.

"Although we guess that the other party's rank should be Assassin, judging from this guy's combat mode and the attributes he shows, he is definitely not an assassin."

"Of course this guy is not an assassin, or rather, he can't be an assassin as long as he is summoned." Zheng Shu leaned back in his chair with a playful smile on his face.

"Do you know who he is?" The eyes of the wild goose lit up at night.

"Of course, I'm all too familiar with him. This guy is definitely not an Assassin, but a Berserker. Zheng Shu didn't explain carefully to Jian Tong Yanye why he was familiar with each other.

In fact, the reason why he was able to recognize who the person in the video was was not because he had seen each other after the crossing, but because he had "met" him when he was playing the game before the crossing.

Before Zheng Shu crossed, when he first played FGO, because his luck was not very good, he never drew a suitable five-star mad rank in the first half a year.

The guy in front of him was the four-star mad rank servant who supported him for half a year: Beowulf.

Zheng Shu is so sure that he is not an assassin, in addition to the fact that Beowulf's own character experience is not suitable for assassins, "Beowulf" itself is also the source of the term "Berserker".

Just as if you can only summon Hassan as long as you summon an Assassin in Fuyuki, Beowulf can only be a Berserker once you are summoned.

"Berserker?" Jian Tong Yan looked thoughtfully at the figure on the screen.

Although it is only a static picture, you can also see the terrifying killing intent and momentum of the other party from it.

And I also feel that this guy on the screen is completely using the killing intent and the will to fight as the fuel for his own movement, and once he fights, he will completely ignore it, no matter who the enemy is, he will attack without hesitation.

Judging from such momentum, the other party should indeed be Berserker.

But......

"It's impossible, summoning so early, theoretically, shouldn't have summoned a rank other than Assassin at all."

"No, that's the normal situation you're talking about, but there's another possibility......" Zheng Shu shook his head.

Jian Tong Yanye was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he turned his head to look at Beowulf on the screen as if he remembered something: "Servant! ”

"That's right, for modern magicians, a ritual of this level as the Holy Grail War, even if the existence of the Clock Tower monarch level wants to fully understand and change it, it is not a simple matter, but for those magicians of the ancient and even the god generation, this level of ritual is just a 'simple subject' for them."

"Use the Servant to summon the Servant, I didn't expect there to be such a way of operating. But...... At this point in time, it would be strange even if the summoned servant was Caster himself. ”

"No, who said you have to be Caster to have such technology?" Zheng Shu stood up from the sofa and patted the folds of his clothes.

"The Servant is only one side of the Heroic Spirit, so as long as he has corresponding deeds in his life, even the Heroic Spirit who is a magician can summon the Servant of the Assassin rank.

Anyway, for the Servants, no matter what rank they are summoned, the memory is the same. If it is a different rank, it may still be affected a little, but for magicians, knowledge itself is power, and the rank will only affect the efficiency of the early stage, and the later the rank, the greater the impact. ”

Zheng Shu walked to the door, and didn't care about the look that Tong Yanye tried to keep, and waved his hand casually:

"If you don't want to participate in this Holy Grail War, then I would better advise you to leave as soon as possible, after all, according to the available information, the scale of this Holy Grail War may be a little bigger than imagined. By the way, the house I lived in before should still be empty, so I'll go out for a walk. After so many years of not coming back, the city has changed a lot. ”

Looking at the figure of Zheng Shu leaving without hesitation, Jian Tongyan opened his mouth at night, but in the end he didn't say anything.

……

……

Out of the door, Zheng Shu walked on the street that was both familiar and unfamiliar, and sighed with emotion.

"It's changed a lot more than I thought it would be."

At this stage, Fuyuki City can be basically divided into two parts, one part of which is caused by the Holy Grail War of the decade or the real gas explosion.

This part of the area is seriously damaged, so when organizing personnel to rebuild, they simply use the latest planning and new buildings.

As a result, although there has been a trend of modernization in Japanese cities at this point in time, the modernization of Fuyuki City is quite prominent among most cities.

In a sense, this is actually the only positive effect that the Holy Grail War has had on the city.

The streets that were not destroyed remained, and the destroyed streets were rebuilt so that a clear difference in style could be seen even though they were just across the river.

For example, the Makiri family and the Tosaka family have not been damaged much, so even the Tosaka family of the bungalow can see the obvious ancient style, but if you walk a little distance, you can see a significant difference.

"Not only has the place changed a lot, but even the hearts of the people have changed a lot." Zheng Shu sighed slightly, although he knew that ten years was a long time.

But after seeing such an obvious change in the old man, there are still some unspeakable emotions.

He still remembers the first time he met with Jian Tongyan, although the other party was embarrassed on the outside, but his inner will was firm enough.

Even though he had a lot of immaturity in his spirit at that time, it was dazzling enough.

But after only ten years, the original Makiri, who was willing to sacrifice his life to save someone, has disappeared, and has been replaced by the head of the Maki family who is "mature" enough.

Ma Tong Yanya said that he had no idea of participating in this Holy Grail War, but he installed a large number of monitors in Fuyuki City in advance, and when he talked to Zheng Shu, he was always testing his attitude, and even various information related to this Holy Grail War had been collected.

What a person's intentions are, not by what he is saying, but by what he is doing.

It was also the conversation with Jian Tong Yan Ye that Zheng Shu suddenly realized that the other party had changed so much, and it was only ten years later, and the upright "Jian Tong Yan Night" no longer existed.

If it was the current Jian Tong Yan Night, maybe Zheng Shu wouldn't have taken out his own potion to help when he saw him die.

"Is this the power of time? Do the gods feel the same way about mortals? No wonder, no wonder the gods of the god generation have always emphasized the brilliance of the soul, it turns out that the human soul can become so powerful......"

With a slight sigh, Zheng Shu put this matter behind him and turned to think about the Holy Grail War.

"Obviously an Assassin has Caster's level of magic, but he knows so much about the Holy Grail without touching the Holy Grail, and he can even forcibly obtain the qualification of the Master......" Zheng Shu recalled all the characters he had seen in the original book, "Amakusa......"

The characters who appear in FA: Shiro Yanfeng, Honmei Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, is the Ruler who was summoned together in the Third Holy Grail War because of the Einz Belen family's illegal summoning of Angola Newman to trigger the Holy Grail mechanism.

He is also an extremely paranoid partner of justice, and after being given a body by black mud, he wanders the world in search of a way to save the world.

The reason why the Holy Grail War in FA is fought in disguise as a person from the Templar Church is because the magic inside the Great Holy Grail has been purified by the Thousand Realms Tree for sixty years, allowing the Great Holy Grail to become a treasure that can fulfill human wishes again.

The Servant is Semiramis, who is an Assassin, with the famous quote "I know a thing or two about magic", and the title is "The Oldest Poisoner of Mankind".

With the Empress's level of magic, it was indeed possible to summon Berserker in violation of regulations before the Holy Grail War began.

In this way, everything is very much in line with Zheng Shu's previous presumption, and according to the information revealed in the FA, Amakusa Shiro Shizhen should have prepared the holy relics of Semiramis very early, so he is very sure that he will summon this empress.

"If it's really these two people, it's interesting."

The reason why Shiro Amakusa Tokisada participated in the Holy Grail War in FA is because that Holy Grail has been purified and can fulfill the wishes of mankind.

So, since he is going to appear in Fuyuki City this time, does it mean that he has obtained some news that the Holy Grail of Fuyuki City will also be purified?

"The Magicians Guild...... That's right, the family of losers in the Thousand Worlds Tree who are despised by the Magician Association can purify the magic of the Great Holy Grail, and there is no reason why the Magician Association can't do it, it seems that I still underestimate the technical level of modern magicians. Zheng Shu immediately thought of the greatest possibility.

"No wonder you suddenly gave me this qualification a few days ago, it seems that the Magician Guild is moving much faster than expected, and the speed of purifying magic is so fast." Zheng Shu stopped his steps, looked up at the sky, and stretched out his hand as if to catch the sun.

And on his exposed arms, there were dense red lines, which were one spell after another.

"Let me be the adjudicator? But obviously let me be the referee, but there are no restrictions, what, aren't you afraid of me blowing the black whistle? ”

As if thinking of something, Zheng Shu grinned.

(End of chapter)