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

The tail hit Assassin's body, and Assassin flew out in response, but Menechel felt as if he had been hit by a ball of cotton.

Assassin used this force to flip over and escape outside through the glassless window.

Menechel reached out to grab it, but Assassin just swung his body lightly, and he finally only pulled off a piece of cloth. His tail swept across, piercing the wall. Menechel was about to continue chasing Illya when he said, "Stop."

The steps he had taken stopped, and the surging magic power was restrained as well.

Menechel looked at Illya, whose face was gloomy. She looked around vigilantly, but there was no one else in the devastated church except her and Berserker.

Assassin wanted to lure them out of the church.

The sound was made in advance when attacking just now. It was obvious that any sound could be made after landing on the uneven ground, but such a mistake was made before the attack.

——It was as if he was deliberately reminding her that [Assassin is coming].

This church must be hiding something.

"Keep exploring."

I passed the third test in one try. I was really exhausted.

Thanks to thistle for the reward

(End of this chapter)

328. Chapter 316 Lancer

328.

2023-08-04

The room was dimly lit. There was no light except for the light from the rising or setting sun that shone through a window on one side onto the ground. From her perspective, she could only see two blurry silhouettes with unclear faces.

The figure sitting on the throne looked down at the knight who was kneeling and bowing his head in front of the palace.

"You want to form a marriage alliance, why did you tell me?"

"King, I want to ask you for an introduction." The knight said, "I once told Sir Menechel that I have a sister, but he seemed to be afraid of the King of Pellinor and rejected my proposal. Sir Menechel will only listen to you."

The figure on the throne fell into a long silence as he looked at the knights who bowed their heads and waited for an answer. She knew that King Pellinor had only one son who was publicly known as Lanmaroc.

"But, as far as I know, you and Menachere don't have much interaction."

Lanmarok was stunned at first, and then she seemed to understand the meaning of the king's words. She realized it belatedly, and cold sweat immediately soaked her back.

"King, I have no other thoughts, nor do I want to win over knights for other lords." Lanmarok lowered his head, and his tone became a little hurried: "I just want to..."

"No need to explain, Lord Lanmarok. I believe in your loyalty. But I need to understand the relationship between you and Menachel." The man on the throne did not continue speaking, but a greater oppressive force erupted in the silence.

"Lord Lanmarok..." Finally she spoke again: "You should know that this is not love."

"Yes, King. I understand that this feeling is not love, but so-called feelings can be cultivated after marriage. If we wait until this longing completely sprouts into love, then Lord Menachere will already have many more suitors around him."

Compared to those women, it's very troublesome.

"Is that what you think?"

"Yes, please grant my blessing, Your Majesty." Lanmarok lowered his head, waiting for the king's final decision.

"No."

This unexpected answer made Lanmarok look up in surprise. Her lips moved but she rationally did not ask the reason.

Suddenly, the king in front of her took off his crown, and the air became distorted. Under Lanmarok's gaze, the king's face suddenly changed. The edges of his handsome face full of youthfulness became softer, but the majesty in his eyes remained the same.

“So my answer is, no.”

"I understand, King...I was abrupt."

The emotion that surged in my chest at that moment was not resentment or anger... regret and relief.

After that, she did choose to give up. As she said, her feelings for Menachel could not even be called love.

What's more, she thought she could never defeat the king.

She buried her thoughts and the emotions that only belong to a girl deep in her heart.

"So, you're going to give up on a girl like me, too? Just for your sister?"

……

Sakura Matou's eyelashes moved and she slowly opened her eyes.

She subconsciously touched her stomach, and the hunger that had been bothering her for several days suddenly disappeared.

"Just now, was that Rider's dream?"

Matou Sakura fell into deep thought. She fell in love with the person her king liked - she became uncertain and suspected that she had heard Rider's real name wrongly. Rider was Lancelot instead of Lanmarok.

Only then did Kiri Sakura remember to look around. According to the furnishings, this was a very cheap apartment building, even more shabby than the Matou family's. Most importantly, Matou Sakura had never seen this place before.

——I have to call Rider.

She wanted to get up and use her magic power but her body started to hurt.

"I advise you not to move, little sister."

Sakura Matou looked in the direction where the sound came from, and as the light in the room suddenly became brighter, magical particles formed a human body.

He was a young man wearing a blue tight combat suit. When he saw Sakura Matou looking at him, he tilted his head casually, and the blue ponytail behind him swung along with it.

Matou Sakura could not help but get nervous - the blue-haired young man in front of her was undoubtedly a Servant. She curled up and hid her hands in the shadow of her body.

"No need to hide, I already know you are the Master." While he was talking, he had come close to Matou Sakura. He bent down and put his face close to Matou Sakura: "I saw the Command Seal on your hand when I picked you up last night."

Matou Sakura's face turned pale, but the Servant in front of her couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Don't worry, the one who checked your body is my eldest sister. Although she is more masculine than me, she can barely be considered a woman. She won't let you who was still shouting "Emiya-senpai" in your sleep suffer any harm."

"Hey?"

Her pale face, which was originally frightened by the exposure of her Master's identity, quickly turned red because of the words of the Servant in front of her. Her demeanor also quickly aroused the interest of the Servant in front of her. He said with curiosity: "I say, you like that [Emiya Senior], right?"

like……

Matou Sakura's eyes dimmed. Of course she likes him. But she can't get close to him... because her sister seems to like him too.

"it hurts!"

Suddenly, the servant in front of him cried out in pain, and then his head was forcefully held down by a hand and pulled away.

"I'm sorry my Servant has caused you trouble."

The one who spoke was a woman with short purple hair. She was just standing there, exuding a dashing feeling. There was no doubt that this was the Master who the Servant mentioned as "barely a woman".

The blue-haired young man didn't care after being forced to apologize. He asked the Master beside him: "Sister, is there any news about the nun?"

"Not at all. She hid very well." The woman shook her head in distress. She was not good at investigation. It was indeed easier to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop than to investigate the enemy's whereabouts.

But even now, Bazette didn't understand why the daughter of her old friend suddenly asked her to go to the church last night to assassinate her. But if Lancer hadn't arrived in time, she might have really died there.

But she still failed to kill Kallen completely - next, Kallen would probably use the power of the church to let other contestants besiege her.

Thinking of this, she turned her head and looked solemnly at the Master in front of her who she had picked up at the door of her apartment building: "I am Bazette, the Master of Lancer."

Shocked by Bazette's serious tone, Matou Sakura also subconsciously gave her name.

"I'm Matou... Sakura."

"Matou... huh? Well then, Ms. Matou. I want to sign a contract with you - preferably a contract that is binding." Bazette began, and after a pause she continued, "Of course, you can choose to refuse, but in that case, I will also regard you as an enemy that must be defeated."

A chill surged into Matou Sakura's heart. She glanced sideways and saw that Lancer, who had a gossipy look just now, was now holding a vermilion spear and staring at her expressionlessly.

Feeling the suppressed magic power in her body and the complex techniques seen everywhere on the walls, Sakura Matou knew that she had no chance to refuse.

329. Chapter 317 Karen

329.

2023-08-05

There was a knock on the wooden door of the apartment, and Bazett and Lancer looked at each other.

She originally thought that if she set the negotiation location at her own base, the other party would definitely protest in every way, but not only did the other party not object, but he also came so quickly.

"coming."

Lancer stepped forward, while Bazette stepped back a few steps and came to Matou Sakura's side. The wooden door creaked open, and from Bazette's perspective, Lancer next to the door almost instantly straightened his body.

"What's wrong, Lancer?"

Bazette spoke immediately, her hand was already on Sakura Matou's collar. As long as Lancer conveyed any dangerous signal, she could instantly take Sakura Matou as a hostage.

"There are many more people coming than expected." Lancer still stood in front of the door, one of his hands already grasping the scarlet spear. Then, Lancer's subsequent words were heard in the causal line.

[Sister, the two servants are Saber and Rider, not Caster as you expected]

'Is that nun so quick?'

Bazette was startled, and subconsciously thought that it was Kallen's pursuit order that attracted the other contestants.

"Sakura, are you okay?"

A man's voice called out from outside the house, and there seemed to be light in Sakura Matou's eyes as she was held by the collar.

'Are you here to see her?'

Bazette's eyes narrowed. According to the intelligence Lancer had gathered earlier, Saber, Rider, and Archer, who had already left, had formed an alliance to fight against Berserker. The identities of the masters of these four servants were known, and Assassin's master was Kallen - so Bazette guessed that the little girl he had picked up was Caster's master.

——So Caster and Saber got mixed up with each other?

Putting aside her complicated thoughts for the time being, Bazette pulled Sakura Matou's face closer to her. She lowered her voice and said in the girl's ear:

"Let your servant in."

Even though he was confident in his own abilities, Bazette was not slow enough to fight Saber or Rider head-on.

Matou Sakura nodded silently, and after a while, Lancer moved half a body to the side to let a knight in white armor in.

Bazette narrowed her eyes and concentrated her magic power in her palms. The fluorescent light of the magic power formed several words in front of Matou Sakura.

[Have her take half a step to the left, then two steps back and sit on the ground]

"Do not talk."

Bazette added.

Matou Sakura knew that the other party was testing whether Rider was her Servant.

……

The church in Touki was one of the few buildings that survived the fire ten years ago, and it was all thanks to Kallen's grandfather, Kotomine Risei, the priest of the last Holy Grail War.

Perhaps he had learned from the lessons of the previous Holy Grail Wars. After Kotomine Risei was assigned to Dongmu by the church, the old man had been working on renovating the church. No one would have thought that there was an air raid shelter hidden right under the cross.

Being a priest, he himself blasphemed the faith. It seemed that his whole family were not qualified believers.

Hiding in the air-raid shelter, Kallen smiled happily. Footsteps passed by her several times but she did not panic at all.

Although Assassin failed to successfully lure Berserker away, his attack did help her solve the loophole left when she was hiding from Lancer's pursuit. The sorcerer that could be used to activate the bomb shelter had been destroyed by Berserker's attack just now, so even the perfect androids of the Einzbern family would not be able to find her before completely demolishing the church.

After that, just wait until Berserker leaves and then call Assassin over.

Unlike the other children who participated in the Holy Grail ceremony with a half-hearted mentality, Kallen began to prepare for the Holy Grail since arriving in Dongmu. In addition to this air-raid shelter, she also spread a large number of familiars throughout Dongmu to ensure that she could grasp real-time intelligence even if she did not leave the air-raid shelter.

Otherwise, how could she have appeared on the battlefield of Ryudo Temple so accurately to stop Berserker - but that also aroused Illya's suspicion.

But there was nothing that could be done. If the Holy Grail was to descend, at least the Small Holy Grail had to contain the souls of the six servants. With Archer's soul already absorbed by Illya, if Berserker was allowed to continue killing Saber and Rider, then Kallen's plan for Sakura Matou would be useless.

"As expected, you are starting to look for allies?"

Sharing the familiar's vision, although she was afraid of being discovered by Lancer and only dared to leave the familiar on the treetop in front of the apartment, she could still see Saber and Rider walking into Lancer's base together.

She couldn't help but sneer in her heart. Bazette's behavior logic was too easy to guess. After attacking the supervisor, he subconsciously believed that he would be sanctioned by the rules - but she, Kallen, was also a rule breaker. How could she take advantage of the rules at this point?

She wanted to summon Berserker, but only summoned Assassin. Fortunately, she took advantage of the conflict between Caster and her Master, resolved Caster's Master, and concluded an alliance with Caster.

Unfortunately, Caster was exposed too early, and it was too difficult to deal with Berserker with only Assassin. So last night, Kallen wanted to repeat her old trick to invite Bazette into the church and kill him, and then take her Command Seal to control Lancer.

But unfortunately, the plan failed, and the information that she was Assassin's master was exposed to Bazette. If she hadn't used the command seal to strengthen Assassin in time, she would have died on the spot under Lancer's gun.

Even with the sneak attack and the strengthening of the Three-Stroke Command Spell, Assassin could only fight Lancer to a draw. The situation at that time made Kallen realize for the first time the gap in strength between Servants, which could not be made up by relying on strategies or layouts.

Staring at the three holy marks on the back of her hand that had completely dimmed, Kallen's emotions grew stronger - she had to replace her Servant with a more powerful one!

Kallen felt sleepy and remembered that she hadn't slept all night. She closed her eyes tightly to relieve her mental fatigue.