I don't like the gods, I want to be a hero

"No wish? That is to say, you simply responded to that girl's call and came, wanting to give her a bright future?"

Hearing Gilgamesh's teasing tone, Seleus suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, and this premonition pointed directly at his master Illya.

"Gil! What do you know?" Seleus asked the cheerful Gilgamesh, and he realized why his best friend suddenly raised the topic of wishes at this moment.

The all-knowing King of Gold must know some secrets about the Holy Grail War, and these secrets must be very unfriendly to Seleus.

"It seems that you don't know anything about it. Those Einzbern puppets are really damned. They dare to deceive and even use my dear friend of Gilgamesh."

Gilgamesh withdrew his cheerful smile, and cursed all the artificial humans in Einzbern.

"So, Jill, what do you want to remind me?" Serius was a little anxious. After all, it was about his Master Illya, and there was no room for mistakes.

"You who were summoned by Einzbern should know the truth about the Holy Grail."

Although the anxious expression of Serius made Gilgamesh very interesting, he didn't continue to play tricks. After all, you can have fun in unimportant places, but if you have fun on serious things that your best friend cares about, you don't want to have fun. Therefore, it is not worth the loss to let a close friend resent you.

Isn't it obvious that pleasure and friendship with a close friend are more important to the King of Gold?

"Informed by their so-called patriarch Ahad, the three royal families united for their own wishes, and set up a grand ceremony called 'Holy Grail War' using the high-quality land of Fuyuki City."

"The Holy Grail War is held every 60 years, and is composed of the huge magic power accumulated by the Fuyuki Landline in the past 60 years, the Great Holy Grail composed of the dedication of Einzbern Winter's Saintess Yustissa, and the Lesser Holy Grail that absorbs the souls of Servants." The combination of these three things is enough to realize one...almost all wishes, and can even break through all obstacles and go straight to the 'root'."

Seleus frowned tightly. What he was talking about now was all the information about the Holy Grail that Ahad told him when he was in Einzbern.

"I told you about sacrificing Servants, but that's right, the dolls in Einzbern just want to complete this ceremony to realize their ridiculous dreams, so naturally they don't need to sacrifice their Servants to open a Roads they can't use."

Gilgamesh nodded lightly, affirming the authenticity of the information Serius knew, and at the same time dissipated some anger because Ahad was a little more generous than some unknown Mr. Pot of the World, but This is only the extent to which the method of punishing Ahad has changed from a thousand cuts to a sword.

"By the way, when the guys in Einzbern knew that you had no desire to entrust the Holy Grail to Seleus, but only answered the call for that person... oh, for the sake of your Master, the expressions on their faces must be It's exciting."

"In fact, Ahad, who is also an artificial human, returned to the most primitive mode when he told me all this, that is, the artificial human mode without emotion. In my impression, he has always had an indifferent expression .” Serius recalled the conversation with Ahad, and the face of the man-made man didn’t seem to have the “wonderful” expression that Gilgamesh said.

"No wonder you didn't notice it at all. Didn't you have any feelings from the beginning?"

"What Jill means is that that old fellow Ahad hid something very serious from me?" Serius' face turned cold in an instant, and it seemed that he had another reason to kill Ahad. "And about Illya, my Master?"

"Looking at your performance, I roughly guessed what that Ahad said to you." Gilgamesh took out a jug of divine wine and filled a glass for Serius. "If it was you, you should have discovered your Master's physical problems as soon as you arrived, and then you will definitely seek a solution from that Ahad, right?"

"That's true. He told me that as long as I complete the Holy Grail ceremony, Illya can be reborn in the most perfect form and have the power to protect herself in the world." Seleus nodded, affirming and saying goodbye to Gilga Mesh's words were added. "However, I feel a little unsafe, so I just asked you for a golden apple to improve Illya's body."

"It seems that you are being played around by that old thing." Gilgamesh knew that the hero would definitely deal with that Ahad himself just by looking at Seleus, so he began to see the jokes of his best friend.

"How to say?"

"As you said just now, the combination of magic power, the Great Holy Grail, and the Lesser Holy Grail is the complete Holy Grail War. Then the magic power of the leylines is in Fuyuki, and the Great Holy Grail is also in Fuyuki because it needs to absorb the magic power of the leylines." Jill Gamesh took a sip of the wine, with a hint of ridicule on his face.

"Haven't you ever thought about...how the Little Holy Grail came to Fuyuki?"

Gilgamesh's words were like a thunderbolt exploding in Serius' ears, yes, the Great Holy Grail and the leylines are in the winter wood and cannot be moved, like a tightly sealed treasure, which needs the key of the Lesser Holy Grail to open.

And the lesser holy grail as the key should have been prepared, but what exactly is the lesser holy grail?And how did they come to Fuyuki to complete this ceremony?

Even though the Holy Grail War has already started, there is not even any information about the Lesser Holy Grail.

"The Tohsaka family provided the right to use the leylines, the Zorgen family provided a command spell system comparable to magic, and our Einzbern provided the core Holy Grail..."

'I will not escape, I will definitely complete my mission...'

"You never thought...how the Little Holy Grail came to Fuyuki City..."

A series of memories combined in Seleus's mind, and the conclusion reached pointed to a situation that Seleus could not accept.

"Jill means...Illya is the Lesser Grail..."

Chapter 23 Caster's Message

Illya is the little Holy Grail, yes, combining all the information can only draw such a conclusion.

The system that makes up the Holy Grail, the smaller Holy Grail as a 'key', will of course be produced before the Holy Grail War begins, and only the Einzbern family has the ability to create the 'key' to open the greater Holy Grail.

This is already very obvious.

Every time a cyborg is sent out, even if the cyborg is not used as the master, the cyborg must go with him. If this is not some kind of discipline that belongs to Einzbern, then it means Einzbern There's a reason for sending out artificial humans...

It should have been thought that the Great Holy Grail was made by the Holy Maiden of Winter who can perform the third method——Justesa, so the "key" that can open the Great Holy Grail must be similar to the Holy Maiden of Winter The presence.

This year, Einzbern only sent three androids, and among them, the one who is qualified to be the Lesser Grail can only be the master of Seleus——Iliasfiel.

"That's right, this year's Lesser Grail is your Master." Gilgamesh confirmed Seleus' guess. "If your purpose of responding to the summoning is to protect and give hope to your Master, then since she participated in this Holy Grail War as the Little Holy Grail, your purpose has already failed."

Seleus fell silent, how will he save and give hope and future to a girl who is destined to become the Little Holy Grail?

His estimated vision is to help Illya win the Holy Grail War, and then use the wish bestowed by the Holy Grail to heal Illya's body that is the same as the porcelain doll with only one year of life left.

But the ability of the Great Holy Grail to come and grant wishes is based on Illya's death...

correct!And wishes!

"What if I use the Holy Grail to make a wish to revive Illya? With the power of the third method, Illya's soul will be reborn in the world in a materialized form..."

"If the soul is still there, it can indeed be done with the third method, but do you think that after your Master turns into the Lesser Holy Grail and carries the Great Holy Grail, her soul can still exist alone without the Greater Holy Grail?" Gilgamesh directly Seleus was interrupted.

As the 'key' and the carrier, the lesser holy grail needs to be integrated with the descending greater holy grail, so that the souls of the servants she absorbs can be filled into the greater holy grail and completed.

After going through this step, the Great Holy Grail filled with the highest purity magic power can realize people's wishes.

Therefore, wishing on the Great Grail to bring back to life a maiden whose soul has been dissipated and merged with it is itself a paradox.

"The cause of the lesser holy grail blending into the greater holy grail can produce the fruit of the greater holy grail's fulfillment of wishes, and making a wish to the greater holy grail for the rebirth of the lesser holy grail is undoubtedly reversing the cause and effect, just like letting the Almighty create a stone that he cannot lift , your idea will never come true.”

To put it bluntly, even magic, the highest level of mystery directly derived from the laws of the world, cannot subvert itself, and the Great Holy Grail system set up by magicians to pursue magic is even less capable.

"Damn it, it would be fine if my body came in person, or as a caster, but it happened that Berserker, who has almost no ability to cast spells, descended... the body and Caster!" '

"I think I still have hope! As long as I use the magical property of 'transfer' of the Einzbern family to connect me to the main body, or take advantage of the fact that all Servants have not been fully summoned, quickly find a magician to summon me from the role of Caster come out..."

If being Berserker can't do anything, then summoning beings who can do it will change everything.

No matter how wonderful the Great Holy Grail is, it is just the product of a group of human magicians who have no chance of magic, and Seleus himself has powers beyond magic. If it is the main body or Seleus who came as a Caster, then there must be a way Solve the fate that Illya will merge with the Great Holy Grail.

At that time, the ability of the Great Holy Grail can also be used to repair the bodies of Illya and even Einzbern's artificial people, and restore their incomplete souls.

And at that time, I will definitely fulfill my promise and settle all the accounts with Ahad carefully.

"It's useless, Seleus." Gilgamesh directly shattered Seleus's beautiful fantasy. "If you put your hope on the Holy Grail, you will find that all you can get is infinite despair."

"Despair!?" Serius reacted instantly. It was hard for him to imagine why the King of Gold would use despair to describe the Holy Grail.

"Fuyuki's Great Holy Grail has long been polluted by human malice, turning it into a complete killing machine." Gilgamesh said slowly.

When the Holy Grail was first made, it may have been a pure and powerful universal cauldron.But in the long period of more than 200 years, it has lost its original nature.

"Malicious and killing machines?"

"You should be surprised that even though you don't have the aura of a Servant on your body, you still descended from the Hall of Valor to the present world."

Serius nodded lightly. He noticed something wrong with Gilgamesh from the very beginning—not to mention the breath issue, if other servants were directly pierced through the spirit core by him using the Great God Declaration, it would be impossible for him to be like that. Gilgamesh chatted with himself so freely.

Even the servants who have the skill of continuing to fight will gradually disperse into the purest magic power due to the loss of the ability to maintain their bodies.

But Gilgamesh was different, he was mortally wounded and acted too much like a living person with tenacious vitality and a normal physical body.

"I am the Archer of the last Holy Grail War, and I have won the victory and obtained the flesh."

Gilgamesh's tone was suddenly low, because according to the final situation of the last Holy Grail War, Gilgamesh was actually defeated by Saber's master, but because he didn't want his best friend to ask about his embarrassment, he Only those who lack confidence declare their own victory with the final result.

Thinking that his mighty King of Heroes was tricked by a mere human magician at the most critical moment of the battle, he wished he could tear that bastard named Emiya Kiritsugu to pieces.

Seleus heard his resentment from Gilgamesh's words, and according to the information he learned from Einzbern, the real winner of the last Holy Grail War should have suddenly betrayed Einzbern Emiya Kiritsugu.

But Gilgamesh, who has a flesh body, is now in front of Seleus. In the Holy Grail War, there is nothing that can prove his victory more than the flesh of his followers.

"When the Great Holy Grail descended, I saw the twisted things hidden in it."

"Twisted?" Seleus suddenly remembered the twisted thing disguised as Illya's mother that he was still dealing with in the castle of Einzbern's home.

"The Holy Grail has long been defiled, and its interior has long been filled with endless malice, just like the gate of hell. Once opened, the curse and filth overflowing from inside will destroy all the goodness of this world." Gilgamesh thought of the black mud that spewed out from the Great Holy Grail back then, filled with endless malice.

"The Holy Grail has been defiled?"

"Yeah, tainted by all the evil in this world, that is, Angra Mainyu. I don't know what the Great Holy Grail was like before, but the current Great Holy Grail is undoubtedly the greatest evil in the world."

"Angra Mainu?!" Seleus' eyes widened. He seemed to remember Ahad once said that in the Third Holy Grail War, the Einzbern family illegally summoned the one named Angola Mainu. the Avengers.

And the distorted thing encountered in the castle is also in line with Gilgamesh's description. If you guessed correctly, the group pretending to be Illya's mother should be the Angola Mainu who defiled the Great Holy Grail.

"What?" Sirius' sudden exclamation made Gilgamesh a little curious. "You know this servant who polluted the Holy Grail?"

"Damn Ahad!" Ignoring Gilgamesh's questioning, Seleus just cursed under his breath that old thing that made a mess of everything.

Gilgamesh looked at his best friend with some sympathy. Although Seleus did not answer, the attitude he showed was enough for the King of Heroes to guess the truth of the matter - he came to the world and found that all the troubles he encountered It was all provoked by our own people. Let alone the person involved in this situation, even passers-by will have their blood pressure soar when they hear it.

"After listening to this, what are your plans next?" Gilgamesh asked with interest.

"The goal of saving Illya will never change. After all, this is what I promised her, and my heart can't let me let go of a girl with a tragic fate." Seleus's attitude is still firm.

"But you don't even have a clue now, what can you do to save yourself?"

"Although the way to save Illya through the Holy Grail is blocked, I believe there must be other ways."

It is impossible for Serius to give up saving Illya just because there is no hope for the time being, because for him, it is not a question of whether it can be saved, but the girl who is like a snow elf must be saved.

"What about the Holy Grail?"

Seleus glanced angrily at Gilgamesh, who was looking for trouble. "Do you think I will let it go like you, and even plan to use that thing to prepare for a trial for humans?"

"Of course I will destroy the evil of this world in it, I don't feel at ease leaving such dangerous things in the world."

"You still haven't changed at all." Gilgamesh's mouth curled into a smile, and then he expressed his emotion that he didn't know how many times he repeated. "Finally, let me tell you a good news and a bad news, which one do you plan to listen to first?"

"Listen to the bad news first." This is Seleus's habit. When faced with the question of which one to listen to first, good news or bad news like now, he will always choose to listen to the bad news first.

Because for him, no matter how good the good news he heard first, part of his joy will always be offset when he hears the bad news later; Yes you will get some relief.

"The bad news is that the Caster of this Holy Grail War has already been summoned, so don't think about finding a magician to summon you from Caster to solve the problem."

Serius' face became extremely serious in an instant, this news is really extremely bad for him now.However, this emotion only lasted for a moment, and then he looked forward to the good news from Gilgamesh.

"And the good news is..." Gilgamesh deliberately dragged on for a long time, and didn't continue until Serius clearly showed his impatience. "The Caster of this Holy Grail War is definitely capable of solving all your problems, whether it is about your Master or the Great Holy Grail full of malice..."

"That Caster who has been summoned into the world has such ability?" It's not that he doubted that Gilgamesh would joke with himself about this kind of thing, but that this news really surprised Seleus, and he was a little uncomfortable for a while. dare to believe.

"Naturally." Gilgamesh once again affirmed the accuracy of the news, and then saw Serius heaving a sigh of relief as if he had let go of some burden, but a nasty smile curled up on the corner of his mouth.

Gilgamesh didn't lie about Caster's information, but just concealed a little about Caster's upper limit of ability.

Thinking of the Caster who could completely suppress him in the encounter, Gilgamesh continued to question Seleus with some malicious intentions.

"Knowing that Caster has the ability to help you, what are you going to do?"

"I will exchange his help with an order that does not violate the principle, as long as Ilia does not die because of the identity of the Little Holy Grail." Serius, who carefully analyzed the information, did not notice the truth of his best friend. malicious.

"I believe that with my ability, I should be able to help him a lot, and if he or his Master needs the Great Holy Grail to make a wish, then I don't have to pay for the purification of the Holy Grail."

"Now is the time of the Holy Grail War. You and Caster have a hostile relationship. Didn't you think about defeating him, or taking his Master away and forcing him to help you?"

Gilgamesh was obviously not satisfied with Seleus's answer. After being defeated by his best friend, he especially hoped that Seleus would suffer a big loss in Caster's hands like him.

"I need his help to treat Illya, how could I use such a dangerous method?" Serius spread his hands, as if he didn't understand why Gilgamesh made such a suggestion. "And I don't like doing that myself."

"It's really boring." Gilgamesh drank the wine in his hand.

The atmosphere became silent in an instant, and both of them knew that the time of parting was coming.

"By the way, Serius." Gilgamesh suddenly pulled out the Eternal Spear from his chest, and the bright red blood instantly stained everything around him.

"Don't you want to chat with me again?" Serius was a little puzzled by Gilgamesh's behavior.

"We've finished talking about everything we need to talk about. Let's talk about the rest when we meet next time." Gilgamesh, who couldn't control the blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, handed the Eternal Spear to Serius.

"What are you going to do with this gun?"

"Who knows, maybe it can help you..."

Chapter 24 Angry Illya

In the old town of Fuyuki City, the spiritual body of Serius was walking alone on the street, his crimson eyes were listlessly observing the surrounding environment.

"--Ugh!"

Seleus let out a deep sigh, followed by the helpless voice of the great hero.

"It seems that Illya really got angry this time."