There is indeed a problem with my summoning spirit system

269 Chapter 266. The Truth
Not only did Emiya Kiritsugu fail to notice the appearance of the berserker, even "Irisviel", who claimed to have the Holy Grail consciousness, showed a surprised expression.

"Berserker, why are you here?"

Instead of answering Emiya Kiritsugu's question directly, Berserker said in a mocking tone:

"It's only such a short time, how did you make yourself so embarrassed?"

Emiya Kiritsugu remained silent.

Berserker sighed and patted Emiya Kiritsugu on the shoulder:

"It seems that you have realized that the Holy Grail is not a universal wish-making machine. What the Holy Grail possesses is only infinite power, but things in the world can never be solved by pure power, especially when power is used in malicious ways when."

"berserker, what exactly do you want to say?"

"Let go of that 'thing' that looks just like your wife. That's the 'evil' itself, and blaming it won't help."

"'Evil' itself?"

"Yes, if you are willing to listen, I can tell you the ins and outs of this matter."

Berserker said with certainty, Emiya Kiritsugu looked at the "Irisviel" who was crushed to the ground by him, hesitated for a moment, and finally let go of the hands that were strangling her throat.

"It's obviously a summoned heroic spirit, how did you know the inside story of the Holy Grail?"

"You should know that due to the contractual connection between the servant and the master, it often happens that you see the memory of the other party in your sleep, right?"

"You mean, you also saw it through a dream?"

"Well, when I was soaked in the black mud, I vaguely saw something. Although it was very vague, I could roughly figure out what happened."

"First, let's explain why the interior of the Holy Grail is what it is now."

"The so-called Holy Grail pursued by the Einzbern family is actually not an omnipotent wish-granting machine from the very beginning. A magic ritual."

Emiya Kiritsugu opened his eyes wide:
"Reaching the source? Isn't the Einzbern family's long-cherished wish to save the world?"

Berserker smiled, "That's what the Einzberns told you, but it doesn't mean it's the truth. You have to know that even if it's a complete truth, if you hide part of it, the information you can understand from it will be lost forever." Very different."

Berserker raised his right hand and pointed at "Irisviel":
"Saving the world is really too general. If you want to save the world, what do you want the world to be like? Is it peaceful, or competitive? Is all beings equal, or is class distinct and orderly?"

"If you have determined what you want to change the world into, then what methods and methods do you use to achieve your goal?"

Berserker's question made Emiya Kiritsugu stunned, saving the world is also his dream, and he has made many choices of killing for saving, but he has always wondered whether his method is right or wrong.

Subconsciously, Emiya Kiritsugu believed that his method was wrong, which can be seen from his choice just now and the grief after the choice.
felt.

It is precisely because human beings cannot realize their dream of saving the world that Emiya Kiritsugu places his tragic wish on the Holy Grail, the incarnation of miracles and the almighty wishing machine.

"What is the Einzbern family's method?"

"The third magic, the cup of the sky."

"magic?"

"Yes, magic."

In this world, the way magicians use magic power, if humans can do it without magic, then magicians use magic.What cannot be done without using magic is called magic.This is the basic common sense of magicians, and Emiya Kiritsugu knew it very well.

"The Einzbern family is the successor of the third magician. The function of the cup of the third magic sky is to materialize the soul. The person who has completed the materialization of the soul can achieve immortality because the soul will not dissipate. This is It is the way of the Einzbern family to save the world, to complete the redemption of mankind by allowing all mankind to obtain eternal life. It sounds great."

"The artificial people of the Einzbern family have been working hard, but in the end they still haven't completed the third method of using magic that can be widely used. The result of their efforts that is closest to success is the artificial human Yustissa Ritz Lech von Einzbern. An artificial human capable of using the third method. An existence known as the "Winter Maiden."

"However, the third method of the Holy Maiden of Winter is too cumbersome, and after all, the Holy Maiden of Winter is just an accidental product, and there is no way to reproduce it. The goal of imposing the third method of immortality on all human beings cannot be achieved by relying on the Holy Maiden of Winter Completed, therefore, the Einzbern family actually failed again. Einzbern, who still failed after many attempts, turned his attention to the root."

"Emiya Kiritsugu, you must know the concept of the root. It is said that the root is the vortex of the origin of the world, which contains all the answers. If you reach the root, you can use the knowledge of the vortex of the root to truly realize the third magic on a large scale . to give all mankind eternal life."

Berserker's hand draws two circles in the air, and draws an arrow in the middle:
"Since then, the goal of the Einzbern family has changed from creating more perfect artificial humans to reaching the root."

"In order to reach the root, the Einzbern family cooperated with two other mage families, the Tosaka family and the Matou family, who also wanted to reach the root, and jointly built the current Holy Grail War system."

"Seven heroic spirits are summoned from the seat of heroic spirits located outside the world, and the power generated by the return of the seven heroic spirits to the seat of heroic spirits creates a hole inside and outside the world, forming a passage to the 'root' outside the world."

"The so-called Holy Grail refers to the sum of a series of magic rituals constructed to achieve the purpose I just mentioned."

"To say that the Holy Grail is an all-powerful wishing machine that can grant all wishes is a lie published by the founder of the Gosan Family. Of course, it is not entirely a lie. A magician who can reach the source knows all magic and all knowledge of the world, and One of the side effects of opening up the world is gaining almost unlimited magic power from the outside of the world and from the souls of heroic spirits.”

"Having unlimited magic power and mastering all magic at the same time, such a magician can almost be said to be omnipotent. Naturally, it is a piece of cake to realize one's wishes. The Holy Grail naturally becomes 'a wishing machine that can realize all wishes.' "

"During the first Holy Grail War, the Tohsaka, Matou, and Einzbern families who founded the three royal families worked together to build the prototype of the Holy Grail. The then Patriarch of the Einzbern House, the Holy Maiden of Winter, made herself a living sacrifice. The core of the Holy Grail. As long as seven heroic spirits are summoned to fill the Holy Grail, the road to the root will be opened. If all goes well, perhaps all human beings in this world have been covered by the third magic and become immortal Holy Spirit."

"Then why didn't the first Holy Grail War succeed?"

Berserker said slightly mockingly:
"How ugly human beings can be at certain times. I think you know better than me, Emiya Kiritsugu. Let me ask you, if there are three adventurers who are not very close and just happen to go out on an adventure together, Tons of gold were discovered in an inaccessible cave. Since the mountains and forests are inaccessible, no one outside will know what happened. What do you think will happen?"

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't understand what berserker meant at first, but when berserker mouthed three words to him, he immediately woke up:

"They...will fight to monopolize this ton of gold?"

"That's right, this is the 'desire for monopoly' of human beings."

"The First Holy Grail War was aborted due to the sudden outbreak of a battle for the ownership of the Holy Grail and the unbridled behavior of the summoned servants."

"In the second Holy Grail summoning ceremony held decades later, in order to make the ceremony more orderly, reduce the possibility of followers' betrayal or reckless behavior, and at the same time allow the competition for the Holy Grail to a certain extent, the Matou family, which has learned the lesson, established Starting from the basic rules of the current Holy Grail War, such as the command spell system for controlling servants, the rigid rule that each magician can only summon one servant, etc. Based on the establishment of these rules, summoned from all over the world— —actually coaxing—the magician to come to the Holy Grail ceremony."

"However, the Lesser Grail of the Second Holy Grail War—the device used to stabilize the passage to the root—was placed in the open air. As a result, in the process of competing for the Holy Grail, a pair of servants and masters knew that they were about to lose. When I lost the battle for the holy grail, I destroyed the little holy grail in the idea that I can't get it and others can't get it. Losing the stabilizer, the passage to the root collapsed, and the second holy grail war failed again .”

Emiya Kiritsugu sighed endlessly:

"So the root causes of these two failures are all human beings' bad nature..."

"That's right, the Third Holy Grail War, based on the first two Holy Grail Wars, placed the Small Holy Grail inside the artificial human body to protect it to prevent the damage to the Small Holy Grail from causing the Great Holy Grail ceremony to be destroyed. And such an artificial human body Humans, also known as the Little Holy Grail. Your wife Irisviel is such an artificial human being."

"Unfortunately, the third Holy Grail War, which has been quite complete, failed in the end. The reason for this is the evil of all this world, Angra Mainyu, which is the one you see now disguised as your wife." The Holy Grail of Consciousness'."

"What?" Emiya Kiritsugu immediately became alert, "Sure enough, this guy is not the consciousness of the Holy Grail!"

"Wait." Berserker pressed his hands down, signaling Emiya Kiritsugu to be calm, "There are some origins in it, anyway, it didn't lie to you, it is indeed the consciousness of the Holy Grail, and at the same time, it is also the evil of all this world. "

Facing Emiya Kiritsugu's puzzlement, Berserker explained:
"I have mentioned before that in order to monopolize the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail has evolved from a simple magic ritual to reach the source into a war for the Holy Grail. The Einzbern family of artificial beings are all composed of pure artificial beings. They are First-class scholars and researchers have made great contributions in the process of creating the Holy Grail and constructing the ritual. But when it comes to life and death battles, they are too simple."

"In order to win the Holy Grail War, in the last Holy Grail War, the Einzbern family tried to summon a powerful demon with a catalyst obtained from a foreign country——the dark god in ancient Persian mythology, the origin of all evil and darkness —Angra Mainu.”

"However, what the Holy Grail summons is a heroic spirit. Even a demigod is a human hero. The demon god Angora Mainyu cannot be summoned. The heroic spirit who finally responds to the Holy Grail's call is an unknown anti-hero in the form of a young man."

"The heroic spirit that responded to the call was not the demon god Angora Mainyu, but he bore the name of the demon god. The young man lived in a small ignorant village during his lifetime. According to the unique local customs, he was added to the evil god Angora Mainyu by the ignorant villagers. In his name, he bears the sins of the whole world."

"In that village, religious beliefs and rituals were necessary in order to endure day after day of hardship and poverty. The villagers believed that there must be a reason for the hardships of life, and that the souls of people who could not be redeemed needed a person who could The object to vent this resentment—the sacrifice called 'evil'."

"He was imprisoned on the top of the mountain, and then his right eye was gouged out, his hands and feet were cut off, and he was sentenced to death as an "evil" who brought disaster and poverty to the village.

"During the years of being tortured as a sacrifice, he naturally hated the people in the village, but because he didn't know who to hate, he could only accept everything and bear everything."

"The young man died after having tasted all the pain a human being can feel. But hatred for the absurd situation was seared in the rock prison.

"Even after the young man died, even after the hideous villagers left, even after the village no longer existed, his soul was always bound on the top of the mountain, gazing at human life, human ugliness, human joy, Warm light, thinking about the 'happiness of mankind' that I have not been able to get..."

Angola Mainu, who looked like Irisviel, listened to Berserker's narration, dark emotions slowly overflowed his body, and the elements that made up his body gradually distorted and turned into black mud, completely blending into this dark hell.

"The heroic spirit appears as a special job Avenger (Avenger), he is extremely weak, and he does not have the brilliant power of other heroic spirits, because he is not a hero, and being tortured as a sacrifice cannot bring strength, his body It’s not even different from ordinary people.”

"On the fourth day of the third Holy Grail War, Angora Mainyu was eliminated, and his soul returned to the Holy Grail. Originally, the defeated heroic spirits would lose their personification and become magically pure things that were sucked in by the Holy Grail, but Angora Mainyu was absorbed by the surroundings. A hero created by his wish, so as soon as he enters the Holy Grail, it is equivalent to making a wish."

"Villagers see innocent youth as demons. This is the world's wish for youth. The Holy Grail fulfilled it, and since then the power of the Holy Grail has been tainted. It has become a magical vortex of darkness and evil."

“The current Holy Grail will only fulfill the wishes of the wish-maker in the most malicious and destructive way.

If you want world peace, then wipe out the human race until only relatives of the wisher remain, and there will be no more wars between relatives;
If you want all human beings to live a happy life, then kill some of them. When the number of resources is the same, the number of people will decrease, and each person will get more resources;
If you want to pursue your ideal partner, then kill all your competitors until no one can compete..."

"This is the truth about the so-called universal wishing machine. Now that you know everything, how do you plan to act? Emiya Kiritsugu?"

(End of this chapter)