The Undying Death Knight failed to achieve the ending of the Heroic Spirit

Seeing Fujimaru Ritsuka's head drooping more and more, Caster pursed his lips and let the matter go: "Forget it, I'll use it anyway. I just hope you can communicate with me in advance next time."

"Yes!" Fujimaru Ritsuka responded immediately, but then she said: "I tried to call you in the causal line, and when you didn't respond, I thought you agreed."

"Causal line?" Caster muttered with a frown. She pulled Fujimaru Ritsuka's hand as if she had just remembered such a thing. A light blue magical light emanated from the overlapping palms, but Caster's brows were furrowed.

"It's been disturbed." She said with certainty: "The causal line has been completely blocked by strange magic."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 210: Outside Lihe City

2023-07-29

It wasn't a big village, with only about a dozen households. But when he saw the extremely faint light of fire in the dark wilderness, Fujimaru Ritsuka felt as if he was in another world.

The hospitality of the kind villagers and the delicious cooked food almost made Fujimaru Ritsuka cry.

But unlike Fujimaru Ritsuka's excitement, Caster has been unusually vigilant since entering the village.

"What's wrong, Menachere?"

The girl raised her head and glanced around vigilantly. She tilted her head and slightly lifted her hood to show her pointed ear to Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"They will chase me away as a goblin." She put her hood back on and said calmly, "The appearance of a village means we are close to a town. I don't want to attract the attention of the Knights of the Round Table so early."

Since it is the Holy Grail War, there should be six masters besides himself, and the first target is naturally the Knights of the Round Table scattered around.

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded thoughtfully.

"Then let's leave here tonight." Fujimaru Ritsuka asked tentatively.

"It's actually okay to stay for one night. I see you like it here." Caster shook his head: "After all, you are not a Servant, you need to eat and rest."

After hesitating for a moment, Caster continued, "If you really want to eat cooked food, you can tell me - after all, there are more ways to deal with goblin corpses than just burning them to ashes."

Upon hearing Caster's words, Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately shuddered and recalled the short, ugly, green-skinned humanoid creatures he had encountered along the way. A feeling of nausea suddenly rose in his throat.

"Ahaha, actually I'm not that picky. The bread you brought is enough to fill my stomach." Fujimaru Ritsuka forced a smile. She felt physically uncomfortable eating goblins.

"Go to sleep. It will be the same if we leave tomorrow." Caster made up her mind. She gently closed the door, pulled a stool over and sat by the bed, lowering her head to read a book. "I'll wake you up if anything unexpected happens."

Fujimaru Ritsuka lay obediently on the bed, but her eyes were open and she was staring at the ceiling in a daze.

"Can't sleep? Do you want me to use magic to help you sleep?"

Caster lowered her head and spoke, the rustling sound of her flipping through the book echoing in the quiet room.

"No." Fujimaru Ritsuka denied. After a pause, she turned her head and looked at Caster. At this time, she finally saw Caster's face clearly: "It's just that I think it must be very distressing for you to hide it like this, so can you show your true face a little when it's just the two of us?"

She concluded from the villagers' conversations that the locals hated fairies, so Caster, who had fairy-like ears, was probably also forced to be slightly affected?

——It’s not a pleasant feeling to be discriminated against, and Fujimaru Ritsuka knows it well. Although she also doesn’t like those ugly goblins, she also wants to comfort Caster a little.

But after hearing her words, Caster narrowed his eyes and stared at Fujimaru Ritsuka. His originally red pupils gradually changed color, one blue and one gold. The different colored pupils made Fujimaru Ritsuka sweat coldly.

"Don't play any tricks." Suddenly, Caster sneered, and a dark sneer appeared on her face: "You want to deceive my trust and let me cancel the contract for you? Don't be so naive."

"No, I'm not... I just think you're beautiful and I want to take a closer look at you."

Caster ignored Fujimaru Ritsuka with a cold face and continued to flip through the book in his hand.

Feeling ignored, Fujimaru Ritsuka shut her mouth. She stared at Caster's face and felt her eyelids gradually becoming heavy.

After hearing the breathing sounds around her gradually become steady, Caster, who had been reading quietly, slowly closed the book in her hand. Her heterochromatic eyes looked at the sleeping face of Gotomaru Ritsuka with complicated eyes.

"Isn't it beautiful..."

——I can't forget the shock and disgust hidden in the eyes of Arthur and the other knights when she first showed this appearance.

She pinched the flesh on both sides of her cheeks and slowly lifted her hood. Her elf-like ears were already stained with a little red.

'No lies'

She thought about the strange foreigner who still thought she was beautiful even though he had seen her fairy-like appearance.

"Actually, I was tempted, but I didn't say it - after all, I had to hurry on my way."

……

Amidst a violent shaking and a few faint anxious calls, Fujimaru Ritsuka only felt that she had stepped on empty air. The feeling of weightlessness made her consciousness, which had long since risen to the horizon, fall back into her body in the next moment.

After being forcibly awakened, Fujimaru Ritsuka was unable to sleep until he woke up naturally. When he opened his hazy eyes, he saw Caster's slightly anxious face.

The first thing he noticed was Caster's face which was uncovered, but the next moment, Fujimaru Ritsuka was pulled up from the bed by Caster.

Then she finally noticed something unusual outside the window.

The sky, which was already slightly pale, was faintly lit, but this tiny bit of light seemed insignificant among the vast expanses of fire.

Tiny squeaks and human screams came from outside the door.

"This is……"

Faced with such a hellish scene, Fujimaru Ritsuka uttered incoherently, but no one answered her. Caster just silently pulled Fujimaru Ritsuka and jogged towards the direction where there was no fire for the time being.

When Fujimaru Ritsuka came to her senses, she had been dragged away for a distance, but there was no other villager around her except Caster with a sullen face.

"Menechel!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka shouted again, but the other party did not stop.

"We've been attacked by fairies here." Caster said, "I'll use magic to block our presence for now."

"Then they..."

"The fairies just think it's more fun to hunt this way. So, there shouldn't be a third person who can survive." Caster seemed to have guessed what Fujimaru Ritsuka would say, and she said, "But I can't do anything - it's almost dawn."

Daybreak...

Fujimaru Ritsuka was stunned, unable to figure out the relationship between the two.

As if realizing that she had said something wrong, Caster clicked her tongue and stopped talking, but she did not dare to let go of Fujimaru Ritsuka's hand for even a moment - she was afraid that the girl would get so excited that she would run back to save those abandoned pawns used to delay the fairies.

Suddenly, Minashel, who was running in front, moved her ears, and her free hand grasped out of thin air, and a small notebook appeared in her hand.

Clang——!

Sparks flew when the spear collided with the book cover, but Caster was knocked over by the transmitted force. Fortunately, he was held in the arms of Fujimaru Ritsuka who reacted quickly.

The white knight on the high-backed horse put away his gun and trampled on the two men again.

Caster looked at the other person expressionlessly, the book in her hand moving without wind, skipping the first five blank pages in a row, and came to the sixth page engraved with a bright red twisted spell.

The spell slowly lost its color, but before the magic engraved on it could erupt, the knight cautiously retracted his spear.

Then a neutral and heroic voice came through the head armor.

"Master?"

When he heard the voice, Fujimaru Ritsuka noticed that Caster's face suddenly became gloomy.

But the sound of dense horse hooves made her give up the idea of ​​continuing the attack.

The knight on the white horse stared at Caster for a long time with a meaningful gaze. Finally, when a solemn knight rushed to her side, he whispered: "Sir Rider..."

"Continue to defeat the fairies that have entered Camelot."

The Knight of Justice, who received the order, ignored the two people standing there and led the following knights to continue marching towards the village.

"Now……"

Rider stopped talking abruptly in the middle of her words. She looked towards the rising sun in the sky and quickly fell silent.

She frowned and regretted not leaving behind a few upright knights. Now she definitely couldn't stay with them.

Rider kicked his horse's belly and rushed forward. When passing by the two people, Rider lowered his voice and spoke quickly:

"I'll come find you."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 211: Scene : The Knight of the Phantom Horse

2023-07-29

At night, Lihe City was covered by a lingering white fog, and the thick city walls were hidden under this layer of mist.

Although they had already arrived at the city, Caster did not take Fujimaru Ritsuka into the city. Instead, they circled around the huge Lihe Castle until the night deepened.

The moonlight was shrouded by a layer of dark clouds, and the last source of light disappeared into the dim night.

Caster's frown finally relaxed, and she waved to Fujimaru Ritsuka. The girl immediately came closer obediently.

As soon as he got a little closer to Fujimaru Ritsuka, he heard the obscure curse muttered by Caster.

Caster stood on tiptoe and pressed down Fujimaru Ritsuka's body, and Fujimaru Ritsuka also bent down according to Caster's force.

The spell ended at this moment, a layer of light silver light flashed, and then the magic power turned into an invisible barrier that enveloped the two people.

"All right?"

"Okay." Caster raised his head but his eyes became dissatisfied: "Don't you have anything to ask me? For example, why did I choose this time to go into the city?"

"Well, it's better to let professionals take care of this matter than to worry about it alone." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled indifferently, "After all, you have your own considerations, Minachell."

Listening to Fujimaru Ritsuka's words, the silver-haired half-elf lowered her head and said nothing for a long time. The wide cloak covered the flicker in her eyes, and her delicate face also showed a gloomy look. When she raised her head again, her face once again showed a calm expression.

"Next time you see a magician chanting a spell, stay away from her. Don't use your shallow mysticism to figure out the magician's mind. What if the magic she is performing is a state exchange?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled awkwardly and accepted Caster's kind reminder in silence, but Caster was obviously not going to pay attention to her silly smile. He walked straight around the girl and walked towards the city gate. She spread her hands flat, and then a brown magic note appeared in her palm.

The characters on the fifth page suddenly dimmed, and spiral stairs appeared from under Caster's feet, winding their way up to the back of the city wall.

"Don't get too far away from me. Magic has a limited range."

Fujimaru Ritsuka hurriedly chased after Caster.

The upright knights patrolling the city gate turned a blind eye to the two people who suddenly flew in from the air.

Even the loud noise made by Fujimaru Ritsuka when he rolled to the ground after climbing into the city wall was ignored.

Ritsuka Fujimaru stood up with a grin on his face, but Caster folded her hands and watched the scene coldly. The corners of her mouth turned up in a wicked smile, as if she really appreciated Ritsuka Fujimaru's embarrassment.

Ritsuka Fujimaru glared at Caster angrily, but Caster waved his hands at him to indicate that he did not have the ability to support the girl.

"What are we going to do next?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka did not dwell on this question for too long. She lowered her voice and looked towards the three upright knights not far away.

"Don't worry, they can't hear you." Caster didn't hold back her voice at all. She curled her lips in disdain, "The magic power of these upright knights can be ignored. They can't possibly break my magic."

As she spoke, she looked around wantonly, and finally her eyes fell on the fork in the road leading to the city center: "Next-"

Before she could open her mouth, her pupils suddenly trembled, and a huge magical power that was clearly different from that of the Knight of Solemnity was rapidly approaching this side.

"quick--"

"Thank you for your hard work."

A heroic voice spoke before Caster did, and a knight wearing a pure white helmet "flew" onto the city wall.

Before landing, the white horse under her crotch quickly dispersed the ethereal magical factors of the city.

She looked around, her eyes stayed in the direction of Fujimaru Ritsuka and Caster for a moment before quickly moving away. The knight's gaze finally fell on the three patrolling Knights of the Order.

"Leave the defense of the city in the second half of the night to me."

“But Lord Rider…”

"You have been on patrol for a day. We can't let you overwork yourself just because other colleagues are injured... After all, I am also responsible for this." Seeing that the three upright knights still had doubts, Rider's voice sank and changed to a firm tone, and then said: "Besides, I don't need to rest. I feel more at ease when I go into battle myself."

The three Upright Knights were convinced by Rider's affirmative tone, and after confirming that their superior was not being sarcastic, they left with peace of mind.

Rider watched the three people go away, and silently turned his gaze to the dark night sky outside Lihe City.

Her head armor slowly dissipated, revealing her snow-white hair. She turned her back to the two people who were trying to sneak away with the Knights of Justice and said, "In my memory, the scenery outside the River City was very beautiful, but now there is only impenetrable white mist."

Fujimaru Ritsuka hesitated, but Caster pretended not to hear him and continued walking forward.

The tall horse with pure white mane revealed its true form on Caster's path. The phantom horse snorted and turned sideways to block Caster's attempt to take a detour.

"You smell too much like a fairy." Rider turned around and said, "I don't know about the other round tables, but you can't hide it from me."

"Tsk."