I'm Shenji, what are you doing?

"The Shadow Warrior is a shadow that cannot see the light. It is impossible to appear in the regular Holy Grail War. Only this random method can summon her - am I right, Hartreth?"

After completing the analysis, Weber looked at the architect of the technique, waiting for the other party's answer. It is not difficult to see from the interaction just now that Hartresses is a typical researcher. He will talk endlessly when talking about this aspect and will never keep silent.

However, the red-haired man who was named did not react at all, his face was facing the ground, silently.

"Hatteres? Hartres?" Weber shouted twice more, but there was still no response from the other party.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

Faker, who was the closest, stepped forward to investigate. As soon as his hand touched the man's body, the body turned into particles as fine as gravel and dissipated in the air.

"Huh?"

"Ran?"

Shenji frowned, and she flashed to the place where Hartres disappeared. Her mental power spread outward, but she found nothing. In desperation, she could only ask for help from Her Royal Highness the Princess.

"Elquit."

Her Highness the Princess who was named did not disappoint her. She closed and opened her eyes and came to the conclusion: "He did not run away, he is dead."

Shinji's first reaction was that it was impossible.

"With his vitality, it is impossible for him to be killed by a stabbing to this extent. Even if he bleeds to death, his body should be left behind. How could it turn into ashes?"

"It's some kind of secret technique of sacrifice."

The person who answered was not Erquette, but Faker.

"Sacrificing all one's life and soul in order to activate certain powerful spells or enhance the effects of spells was particularly popular in the war years."

"Sacrifice?" Shen Er's heart trembled. His soul power was connected to "Origin" and he was ready to build a barrier at any time. "Can you tell what type of spell it is?"

Faker pressed the ground with his hand, observed it carefully for a while, and replied with some uncertainty: "It doesn't look like an offensive technique."

As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them felt the soles of their feet soften at the same time. Looking down, they suddenly discovered that the soil under their feet was drying up and turning into sand at an alarming rate. The softness under their feet was the result of their feet sinking into the sand. Not only the location of the two people, but also the nearby ground showed varying degrees of desertification.

"It's really just ordinary sand."

Lorelaia bent down and reached into the sand.

"Although the scope is large, what's the point of doing this? Simply changing the terrain will not pose a threat to us."

The survivability of magicians is much stronger than that of ordinary people, not to mention that there are helicopters from the Legal Affairs Department nearby. Even if dozens of kilometers nearby are turned into desert, they can still be evacuated from the air.

"No, changing the terrain is just a side effect."

Weber shook his head, and his keen insight, known as the "eye of discernment", was the first to see the mystery.

"The real purpose of the technique is to drain the underground spiritual veins, the entire spiritual vein - look over there."

What he was pointing at was the remains of the "Frozen Throne". Although Shinji had nailed him to death with tens of thousands of rafters and had his core taken away, the forest itself as a body did not die because of the powerful vitality of fantasy species and vampire species. Presenting a state of flourishing branches and leaves.

But that was just now. Now the prosperous forest is withering and decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into fly ash like Hatteres' body. This is a typical manifestation of the vitality being drained.

In a sense, spiritual veins can be regarded as the life of the earth. Emptying the spiritual veins is equivalent to draining the vitality of the earth. The dryness and desertification of the earth is a symbol of the loss of vitality. Fu Hailin relied on the spiritual veins to grow, and was also affected and drained of his vitality - because of the loss of his core, his huge body completely lost its ability to resist, and became a victim of the spell.

"But that still doesn't explain the man's purpose."

Luvia spread out a few gems and used her own method to detect the status of the spiritual veins. Her attribute was earth, and she was already very good at this technique.

"It's confirmed. The technique is not offensive. It is simply refining the magic power and transporting it somewhere."

"where is it?"

Shenji asked quickly. There was a strange feeling in his heart, as if something unexpected and big was about to happen.

Luvia glanced at him, her expression changed momentarily, and then she replied: "I don't know the specific location, but I am sure it is in the east, and the distance is not short. I can feel the huge distortion underground."

"distortion."

"East!"

Shenji and Webber looked at each other with horrified expressions at the same time. They thought of the worst and most likely answer - Fuyuki City, Japan.

Hartresses had already done this once. The encounter between the Demonic Eye Collection Train and the Son of Fu Hailin was used to create a distortion, and it was connected to Fuyuki to create a false subspecies Holy Grail. It would not be surprising to do it again.

As for the reason, it’s not hard to guess.

Hartreth lost his servant, his limbs were pierced by rafter piles, and he was seriously injured. He was surrounded by powerful enemies like Shinji and Lorelaia who couldn't fight him even if they were intact. The possibility of escaping was infinitely close to zero.

To make matters worse, Hartresses himself has committed many crimes over the years for his own research and interests. The serial murder case seven years ago was just one of them. Once he is forced into the Legal Affairs Department, what awaits him may be worse than death. A fate a hundred times crueler.

It is better to die calmly than to live. A qualified magician is not afraid of death, as long as his death is worthwhile. Therefore, Hartresses chose to take revenge on Shinji Matou, the culprit who caused him to fall into this situation, at the cost of his own life.

Generally speaking, a counterattack before death would be in the form of direct damage or a curse, but Hartreth gave up because he couldn't see through Shinji, let alone Arquette, and who knew whether he would be doing useless things. In order to ensure trouble for his enemies, he chose to take a circuitous route.

From the conversation between Shinji and Weber, it is not difficult to know that the Holy Grail War is about to start this time, and it is extremely important to both of them. It just so happens that he has done a thorough investigation of the Great Holy Grail and can intervene to a certain extent. He will make The choice is obvious.

The first time he reacted, Shenji asked Arquette for his cell phone, and he called back.

As soon as the call was connected, before I could speak, an anxious female voice came from the other side.

"Shenji, you called at the right time. I was about to contact you."

That was Justeza's voice. With her calm personality, she rarely spoke in such a tone.

Shen Er felt a thump in his heart and quickly asked: "Is there something wrong with that one?"

"You know? Does it have anything to do with you?"

"I'll explain to you exactly what happened later, let's talk about that first."

"Just now, a huge amount of magic power poured into the spiritual veins, which caused a considerable impact on that one. The specific impact is still being observed, but one thing is certain - with the supplement of this magic power, that one has been activated. In other words By the way -"

"—The war has begun."

Shenji answered the question first, his face so gloomy that he could shed tears.

PS: Someone asked why the red A is Faker? It's very simple. There are two reasons. First, the Noble Phantasms of Red A are all projections, that is, pirated copies. Second, in UBW, the animation was probably around episode 16. In the episode where Erye played with Lin’s legs, Red A and Winky collided, and Winky directly called him Faker - this is the earliest Faker to appear, and along with this title There is also a more classic saying - there is no reason why a fake is not as good as the real thing - it comes from Emiya Shirou, but Red A undoubtedly thinks the same way. This simply brings Faker's power to the extreme.