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

——There was a change in the plan, so what should she do next?

But before Kallen could figure out the result, the familiar outside Bazette's apartment building once again gave a strong magical feedback.

Kallen shared the view again, only to see the three servants, Rider, Saber, and Lancer, walking out of the apartment side by side.

She raised her brows and asked the familiar that was parked at another apartment building to move over there.

Finally, Karen came to a conclusion that excited her - they seemed to be coming to church.

If they went to the church at this time, they would undoubtedly run into Berserker in the church, and Assassin could take the opportunity to reap the rewards.

Thinking of this, the fatigue that had accumulated in her body was swept away at this moment. She did not care about the little magic power she had left, and gathered the familiars that were previously scattered outside the church into the church.

Kallen believed that with Illya's magical talent, she would definitely be able to notice any unusual magic around her.

At the same time, she immediately issued new instructions to Assassin in the causal line.

"Assassin, go directly to Bazette's apartment and bring Sakura Matou over." She paused before continuing, "Try to wait until Bazette is separated from her. That woman will be on guard against you. Don't die at her hands."

The Command Seals recovered from the previous Holy Grail Wars were destroyed along with Kotomine Kirei's body, so Kallen had to start from scratch.

330. Take a day off and make it up tomorrow

2023-08-06

I went on a trip today. After a day of driving, this wicked map navigation system forced me to climb over a wall and go straight.

331. Chapter 318 Clues (Two in One)

331.

2023-08-07

I don't know when raindrops fell from the gloomy sky, and the continuous drizzle made the number of pedestrians on the street less and less, which was inevitable. Most of the people living in the old district near the abandoned area were homeless people without jobs. They had long lost hope in life and were only keen on immersing themselves in their own small apartments. Even if one or two of them suddenly wanted to go out for a stroll, they would be discouraged by the annoying weather.

On such a rainy day, a man in night clothes walked quickly on the deserted streets.

Generally speaking, a magician's workshop would be equipped with a strict security system, but unfortunately, the cheap apartment rented by Bazette was not a residence built specifically for "building positions". On the contrary, it was a special terrain that sacrificed space for practicality. There were too few places to set up defensive magic. Even in order to avoid involving ordinary people around him, Bazette rented two houses nearby at his own expense, but the magic power of the spell spread too seriously, which was equivalent to telling the other party that there was a trap here.

——As long as you know where the trap is, it is easy not to step into it.

Assassin used his A-rank agility to the fullest, skillfully stepping on the gaps between the mechanisms and passing through them easily and unscathed like a juggler.

Although he does not have strong combat abilities, Assassin is able to suppress his magic power to almost zero and move around, allowing himself to approach the target like an invisible shadow.

At this time, only twenty minutes had passed since Kallen gave the order to attack him.

The creaking sound of the wooden door happened to be covered up by the thunder that sounded at this moment, and the eyes of the four magicians in the room were all focused on the window.

The door was only opened a crack when Assassin had already squeezed most of his body into the room. Then, he reached into the room with his thick right arm and reached down. His fingertips immediately scratched the core of the automatic counterattack spell on the wooden door.

Boom boom——

The second thunder roared, and Assassin took the opportunity to lock the door. However, the cold wind blowing in from outside the door still attracted the attention of one person. It was a woman wearing a dark black suit and short hair. Her burgundy pupils stared at the closed door.

Assassin, in his spirit form, stuck close to the door, not daring to move. The woman who cast her eyes over was none other than Bazette, the dangerous person whom his Master had repeatedly warned him to avoid.

In fact, without Kallen's reminder, Assassin, who had seen Bazette's inhuman physique, would never choose to have a head-on conflict with this agent - that was a tough guy who could still get up and fight without changing his expression after suffering fatal injuries, not to mention that she now looked like nothing had happened.

Fortunately, after a while, Bazett, who found nothing, hesitantly turned his eyes away.

Looking at the five bewildered magicians in the simple living room, Assassin breathed a sigh of relief but at the same time couldn't help but sneer at the naivety of these magicians. Although being courageous is a good thing, it is too reckless.

Indeed, no matter how bad Bazette is at arranging positions, it is impossible for him to make such a mistake as [the enemy is hiding in his position without knowing it]. Even if the vision is blocked by spiritualization, as long as the Servant exists, the magic power on his body will naturally disrupt the movement of surrounding magic power.

But Assassins are different. Their disadvantage of not being good at direct confrontations is that they have the inherent skill of [Breath Blocking], which is an ability that will make their presence felt if they don't reveal their killing intent. And Hassan the Cursed Arm is the best among Assassins. His magic power in this skill alone has reached the A+ level. Even the original Caster's position may not be able to lock his position immediately.

With a glance, Assassin took in the general situation. There were four magicians in the living room, two men and three women, the Masters of Saber and Rider, the Master of Archer who had been killed, and the Master of Lancer, Bazette, who was leaning against the wall with a tense posture. If they wanted to carry out a decapitation operation, there would be no better time than now.

As long as we get rid of Bazett first and then destroy Sakura Matou's magic circuits before she uses magic, the remaining three will not pose any threat.

He conveyed the information here to Karen, and Karen soon gave him a reply -

——Bring back the Holy Grail and don’t do anything unnecessary.

If all the Masters were eliminated at once, Berserker would become an obstacle that stood in the way of Kallen's victory and could not be overcome. Moreover, Kallen had a hunch that the "guy" in Matou Sakura's body would become stronger as the number of souls it devoured increased.

In the end, Assassin might also fail here.

However, Kallen did not tell Assassin about these concerns. She was not worried that her servants would disobey orders.

And the fact was just as Kallen expected, Assassin lay in hiding with peace of mind.

The bright lights in the room did not pose any threat to Assassin. There were five people in the room but no one was talking. There was no other sound except the occasional muffled thunder.

But Assassin was not in a hurry. He remained in spirit form and lurked quietly in the house like a venomous snake hunting its prey, watching every move of everyone in the house.

"Hey, let me tell you." The first person who couldn't hold back was the man with the blue seaweed hair. He was the only one among the five people present who had never been qualified as a Master. He said dissatisfiedly: "We have also signed your compulsory spell. Can we go back now?"

His words immediately caught the attention of Bazette, who was leaning against the wall. Bazette glanced at Sakura Matou, who was sitting uncomfortably next to Shinji Matou, but when he looked up again, he was met with three wary glances.

Bazette: “…”

She knew the position of this girl named Sakura Matou in the trio alliance.

To be honest, Bazette was not completely confident about this kind of compulsory spell. She knew that she was not smart and was not sure whether she would be able to find a loophole in the contract.

Therefore, we must not let them leave.

"No." Bazette said, "Your servants are not around. If Assassin attacks at this time, I am the only one who can protect you. I saw his lurking ability last night. He may be around."

Assassin's heart trembled, and he almost thought that he had been exposed, but before he could make the next move, Matou Shinji's words rang out again.

"Huh?" Matou Shinji showed his signature annoying smile, as if to express his disdain in this way: "Isn't this all your fault? What were you talking about? Let's go investigate the church together."

"Don't you think it's unnecessary? But do you think that the alliance we have formed will not allow Kallen to do anything? At least I can tell you responsibly that Caster has formed an offensive and defensive alliance with Assassin. And last night, she contacted me so eagerly, so what about Berserker?"

This is not because Bazette was exaggerating in order to hold back Sakura Matou. She did have such concerns - after all, it would be stupid for Berserker to do nothing and wait for others to team up to defeat him. He is not the final boss of an RPG game.

Bazett's refusal to give in made Matou Shinji smack his tongue in dissatisfaction. He couldn't think of a suitable rebuttal for a while. Or rather, whenever he talked about Berserker, he would unconsciously become cautious.

Shinji Matou looked at Sakura Matou and Shirou Emiya who were looking at him worriedly, and Rin Toosaka who was sitting beside them without saying anything, and had no choice but to sit down again.

"That..." Matou Sakura only made a mosquito-like sound at this time. Her face flushed, and she looked in the direction of Emiya Shirou from time to time uncomfortably. Just speaking seemed to have exhausted all her strength: "I want to go to the bathroom."

Bazette glanced at Matou Sakura and nodded in agreement:

"Okay, I'll go with you."

"Hey, that's too much! We're not going to run away."

"Ah."

Now even Emiya Shirou and Toosaka Rin could no longer sit still, and Matou Shinji also took the opportunity to stand up. The three of them immediately separated Matou Sakura and Bazette.

'This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.'

At this moment, Assassin, who had already given up hope, had this thought in his mind.

His actions were far more decisive than his thoughts. Almost at this moment, Assassin had already revealed his physical form.

The concealment effect of [Breath Blocking] was ineffective the moment the two looked at each other. Matou Sakura's eyes widened and her mouth opened, as if she wanted to scream - but before that, Assassin had already taken a step forward and landed his knife on the girl's neck with incredible precision.

The scream died in her throat, and Assassin lifted Matou Sakura onto her shoulders with his left hand. At the same time, he stretched out his right arm, and smashed the door with his palm filled with red magic.

Click click click.

Two cracking sounds were heard one after another, and Assassin suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

The unconscious girl on his shoulder suddenly showed abnormality, her body arched outward irregularly, and then, a bright light suddenly appeared in the lower abdomen of Matou Sakura. This bright light quickly echoed with the broken wooden door.

"That is……"

Everything became clear in his mind instantly. The dual core spell - when Assassin destroyed the wooden door spell, the spell that had long been engraved in Matou Sakura's body by Bazette was activated, and the automatic interception position that sensed his appearance was also activated, even if it only blocked him for a moment.

Assassin sensed something was wrong, so he immediately hugged Sakura Matou and rushed out of the house, but he only managed to maintain his forward momentum for a moment before a beam of strong light pierced his body.

"Fragarach!"

The strong light created by the slash that was granted the Crown's ability to strike first instantly enveloped Assassin's body.

Bazette broke open the wooden door of the bathroom. After the bright light faded, she grabbed the dagger that had become hot from the attack with one hand, and before her body became stiff, she threw the door panel that had just been removed.

Assassin's body was hit, and after a dull thud, the sound-activated lights in the corridor were activated.

But he rolled over and disappeared into the darkness again.

Bazette finally regained control of her body. She walked down the stairs and looked around, noticing the bloodstains on the ground.

"cherry!"

A male voice called out from behind, and then Emiya Shirou arrived with two others.

"Assassin took her away. But my attack must have caused him serious injuries." Bazette spoke very quickly, but her brows furrowed as she spoke: "But she was captured alive?"

"Assassin, where is he?"

"Don't ask such stupid questions, Emiya." Matou Shinji's face turned grim: "He must have gone to the church... Guuu... He might have gone somewhere else, to a new base that his Master had found. Ah ah - that's Assassin, how could he have found it!"

At the end, Matou Shinji glared at Bazette with an angry face. He clenched his fists, but because of the forced spell he had just signed, he couldn't bring himself to attack. Matou Shinji coldly scolded: "You actually used Sakura as bait without permission! You already knew that Assassin's target was Sakura, right!"

Bazett pursed his lips.

She left the second spell in Sakura Matou's body after discovering that she was the Master. During the rescue process, Bazette carved the spell in Sakura Matou's body. It did not have any lethality. Its purpose was only to ensure that Sakura Matou would not alarm Bazette himself when she left.

This was only to prevent Sakura Matou from using the Command Spell to summon a Servant and escape when she was not prepared after waking up, and it was not to be used as bait to lure Assassin into the trap - she didn't know that Assassin's target was Sakura Matou, and Bazette didn't expect that Assassin would choose to take the initiative to attack.

But at this point, Bazette felt that there was no point in further explaining it.

"Although I can't find Assassin, I know where Matou Sakura is, as long as we are fast enough."

Fortunately, Bazette left a tracking mark on Sakura Matou.

"I didn't want to do this."

Bazette breathed a sigh of relief. She jogged while using the causal line to contact her Servant.

"Lancer, I found Assassin's trace."

About five seconds later, Lancer's voice came hurriedly.

"Master, we have encountered a Berserker."

The expression on Bazett's face froze, but it was not because of Lancer's answer, but because of the black flames rising in the distance.

——If I’m not mistaken, Matou Sakura is also there.

……

a minute ago.

In the drizzle, Assassin walked quietly forward with the unconscious girl on his back.

The wound on his abdomen spread due to his intense movement, but Assassin continued to gallop without paying any attention.

In fact, even if he stopped, it would not help and would only make him fall into Bazett's hands faster.

Just one fight injured him so badly, is he really a human being?

In order to obey Kallen's will and bring back Sakura Matou alive, Assassin used his body to block as much damage as possible, so much so that he was almost injured in the spirit core.

——I shouldn't say it's a good thing it was just a human, otherwise Assassin would have definitely died there.

While increasing his speed, Assassin also paid attention to the fluctuations of magic power that were chasing him from the side and rear.

But Assassin didn't notice it - even if he noticed it, it would be useless. The girl behind him raised her head at some point, and purple-black stripes climbed up her cheeks. The girl opened her mouth and bit Assassin's shoulder.

I stayed up all night to finish writing it, so I can sleep on the bus tomorrow morning

332. Chapter 319: Awakening

332.

2023-08-09

The wall was useless to Bazette. The Sword of Backlight easily cut through the wall that blocked her way forward, but when Bazette saw the scenery clearly, her forward momentum suddenly paused.

He stopped forcefully, and as soon as he stood firm, he immediately turned sideways and used his sword to protect himself. Bazette looked around vigilantly, but there was nothing in front of him except a charred and damaged wall.

The chaotic magic power around him and the strange blackening on the wall all indicated that something was wrong, but Bazette could not detect anything unusual. The magic power of the sword was hidden, and the experience accumulated from years of fighting made Bazette instinctively have a bad premonition. Without any warning, Bazette suddenly turned his body.

The next moment, a black and purple tentacle pierced her elbow, and the shadow behind Bazette suddenly lengthened. The shadow projected on the ground actually created ripples like the surface of a lake, and a black shadow emerged from the ripples.