Artoria the Big Liar

(This chapter is Mordred's POV.)

"Huh...huh... finally caught up."

However, at the same time as Yoshikawa made his voice, the situation of the battle suddenly changed dramatically.

The pitch-black sword gun rolled up dark red flames, and instantly swelled to a 20-meter-long giant sword, which swept across violently. The excessive force twisted the sword body into an arc, as if this was not a sword formed by condensed magic power , but a wooden stick.

The giant sword was not a slash, but a slap. The height of nearly two meters was like a rushing wall, rolling towards Lancer.

The speed of the sword was so fast that Lancer couldn't react at all, so he could only try to block it with the strength of his arms.

However, the Holy Grail limited the size of Lancer's spirit base, and her strength was not strong enough. As a result, this blocking behavior made her fly away like a hit baseball or a fired shell.

But even with such a powerful attack, Lancer was still able to deal with it.

She stabbed the scarlet spear into the ground, hugged the spear tightly with both hands, and dragged an extremely long gully on the ground, until she cut through most of the ruins, she finally stopped, her arms hang down feebly, holding The right hand holding the spear kept shaking, his face was extremely ugly, and sweat kept oozing from his forehead.

In the face of absolute power, the so-called skills are so powerless.

I'm afraid that Lancer's arms have been shattered and fractured, and he has temporarily lost his combat effectiveness.

"—Lancer!"

After calling out to his followers, Rin Tohsaka's right hand immediately burst into red light.

As if my intuition was triggered, I immediately launched an attack, but this time I was still blocked by Assassin.

The power of the Command Seal instantly recovered Lancer's injuries, and his face returned to normal.She twirled her spear and regained her defensive stance, but still said nothing, more like an irrational Berserker than Lancer, who was on the third ride.

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"That's right, it's much better than Gilgamesh. At least he can still move, and he hasn't lost sight of the Master."

The father held the sword and gun that had been retracted to a length of three meters in both hands, and commented coldly and calmly.

This surprised me a little - it seems that from the father's point of view, even if Lancer's arms were shattered, it would not count as a loss of combat power.

And it wasn't until this time that I noticed that the ground of Liudong Temple was completely lifted, all the weeds were dissolved, emitting a pungent smell, the soil was completely destroyed, and the plants on the ruins It also withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In my short life, I have never seen my father use his full strength.The fight with Lancer before was probably not even a warm-up, it was just drinking some tea before dinner.

Lancer remained silent.The setback just now did not make her discouraged, but inspired her fighting spirit.

There was a brief silence in the atmosphere.Everyone is calculating, and everyone is on guard.

In the end, it was the father who broke the silence.

Even though he was wearing the armor of the evil dragon, his father still locked his eyes on Yoshikawa Qingcheng.

"Long time no see, Qing Cheng. I didn't expect that your summer job would be to participate in the Holy Grail War."

"Actually, it's only been a few days, Minister?" Yoshikawa Qingcheng was not an idiot after all, and recognized the identity of his father. "However, I didn't expect that my guess at the beginning was quite accurate-a biochemical transformation warrior from ancient times. If it wasn't for the real bird classmate showing this set of armor that is so similar to yours, I really can't believe that you are the legendary the King Arthur."

"So, Qing Cheng, do you still want to be my enemy after all?" Father Wang asked.

"Hey! Yoshikawa, is it true or not, are you also on their side?" Tohsaka Rin was completely panicked.

The corner of my mouth involuntarily raised a smile.Too bad I'm wearing a helmet, no one can tell.

Yoshikawa was caught in the same dilemma as I was before.If he was on the father's side, Tohsaka Rin would definitely leave immediately, and this Holy Grail War would become much simpler.If he was on Tohsaka Rin's side, whether he could walk out of Liudong Temple alive is another matter.

It's a pity that Yoshikawa sighed, as if he had made up his mind long ago and chose the more difficult path.

"One yard is one yard. I was indeed a member of the HEMA Department at school. But in this Holy Grail War, I was still a magician who was commissioned by the Lord of the Clock Tower, El-Melloi II. I can divide Knowing what to do and what not to do... Sorry, Minister, I have my own professional ethics."

"The Holy Grail is very important to me. Qingcheng, you may not be able to walk out of Liudong Temple alive tonight... Just like Rin." The king lowered his voice, warning harshly and sternly. "Still, do you think that you, as a modern magician, have the ability to fight against my child, Mordred, whom I am most proud of?"

Hearing what my father said, I puffed up my chest almost instinctively, raised my head, held my sword, and looked down on them.

Yoshikawa's face froze, Tohsaka Rin's eyes widened in disbelief, Saber had no special expression, Assassin couldn't see it at all, and the witch was still smiling evilly as before.

Their responses were all interesting enough for me to analyze for 10 minutes.

It's a pity that Yoshikawa didn't give me any time, and a mask suddenly appeared on the right hand wearing a white glove.

It is said to be a mask, but I feel more like a flat black iron sheet. There are no slots for eyes and no room for the nose. I doubt whether this kind of mask can be worn on the face-Yoshikawa does wear it Putting it on, the mask seemed to have a special suction, completely covering her face.

Afterwards, cyan lightning erupted on the surface of the mask, bright purple cracks appeared on the mask's eyes, and scarlet arcs spread from the mouth to the root, as if the mouth was split open.Yoshikawa's mask is like a knight's helmet, but also like a devil's mask, full of evil, depraved and crazy temperament.

"Hey...Qingcheng, what's the matter with your mask..." Tohsaka Rin asked with a trembling voice. "This...how is it possible! This is a god's weapon! It's a treasure made by gods! How could an ordinary magician have such a thing!"

"What's there to be surprised about, Tohsaka-senpai?" Yoshikawa's voice was distorted, becoming sharp and piercing, like a grinning demon. "Ordinary magicians don't have the gem sword Zellich, right? The servants of this Holy Grail War have already reached this level. Do you really think that the master will be the same as before, just an ordinary magician? You really underestimated your peers!"

After a pause, Yoshikawa somehow explained: "Well, I just got this mask by accident. It was really accidental. I lay in bed and slept, and when I woke up, this mask appeared next to me. I don't understand Who gave it to me, but this mask will indeed give me strength... very powerful, so powerful that even now, I still can’t believe it’s true.”

As he spoke, Yoshikawa, who was wearing a suit and a mask, pulled out a purple sword from the void.There is a human eye on the gauntlet, and it is looking for prey.The sword body is full of flame-shaped forks, similar to seven knives.The total length is nearly 1.4 meters, extremely slender, like an awl, and only seventeen pairs of flame-shaped forks make the overall width reach the level of a swift sword.This sword seems to be a living thing, slowly wriggling its body, and even vaguely feel the blood vessels flowing on the main body.

The eyes on the gauntlet looked for a long time, then suddenly trembled, and locked his eyes on the witch.

In an instant, the hilt of the sword spread all over Yoshikawa's body, forming a leather armor that randomly mixed purple and pink, covering his whole body. It looked... how should I put it, very artistic and post-modern.

"No...no, what's going on..." Yoshikawa's voice suddenly became flustered.

Then, the leather armor forcibly distorted his body, and I even heard the sound of cracking bones.

His left leg was forcibly broken, and the sword and armor forced him to kneel on one knee, facing the witch.It seems that the witch is the real master of this sword and armor, a great and unquestionable existence like a god.

Father did not move.After about five seconds, she spoke in an extremely cold voice: "Qingcheng, if you accept power from unknown sources without thinking, you will only become a slave to power in the end."

"Minister...you...know this mask?" Enduring the pain of fracture, Yoshikawa barely made a sound.

"Of course, isn't this obvious at a glance?" It was not the father who answered him, but the smiling witch. "This power does come from a god, but it's different from ordinary gods—this is the mask of the 'Dionysus'!"

"Bacchus?" Rin Tosaka stared at Yoshikawa and shook his head: "Impossible! This can't be the mask of Dionysus! I've seen the mask of Dionysus, it doesn't look like this at all! Not to mention this sword, what do you think It doesn't look like the weapon of Dionysus!"

"Because the existence of Dionysus has been usurped a long time ago?" The witch suppressed a laugh, as if she would burst out laughing at any moment.

"Usurpation? What do you mean?" Rin Tosaka asked.

However, the father ended the meaningless conversation: "Jianna, don't tell Rin this. She doesn't need to know." Then, she said to Yoshikawa who knelt on one knee: "Qingcheng, you are a god of disaster Chess piece. The moment you decided to fight against me and Jeanne, your will was deprived of freedom... Then, I will give you rest."

Saying that, the father's sword and spear pointed at Yoshikawa.Xiaoan's magic power was released, hitting Yoshikawa like a torrent.

Logically speaking, after such a blow, Yoshikawa must be dead.But in front of him, there was a strong skeleton swordsman holding this wide and thick shield with spikes, which formed an enchantment and blocked the blow for him.The overflowing magic power is like a shock wave, spreading towards the surroundings, causing the plants to wither on a large scale, and almost turning the entire Yuanzang Mountain into a dead place.

The father and king refused to let go, and the magic power was still released on a large scale.The storm was blowing, and the sound of the wind was like the howling of thousands of ghosts.The ominous bright purple infested the sky, and the dark red fluctuations eroded the earth. The night's bombardment not only ravaged Enzang Mountain, but also eroded the mountain behind the skeleton swordsman to form a huge abscess.

What's even more frightening is that her father didn't actually release her sword.She was simply using "magic release".

But in the end, the father stopped.The skeleton swordsman's shield had been corroded to the point where it was crooked and out of shape, so he had to throw away the shield and put it aside, holding his huge, wide and thick long sword with both hands.

"Assassin, do you really think that I dare not kill you?" The royal father's voice was rarely tinged with anger.

This faint blue light shone on the swordsman's skull mask.He didn't respond, just raised his sword as an answer.

"...After all, it has become like this. There is no way. Mordred, take Saber and retreat."

The father raised his sword and spear.The magic power of the mixture of the three colors increases, increases, and reaches an incredible height. When you look up, you can't see where the top is, like a tower in the dark night.

Following my father's instructions, I immediately hid away with Saber.

"pledge--"

In an instant, dark blue flames ignited on Assassin's body.The flames suddenly appeared, and a tall figure appeared behind the father.The thick long sword slashed down fiercely.But with the sound of "clang", the long sword was rebounded violently, and the father's sword fell quickly.

After all, it is just an ordinary sword, and it is absolutely impossible to penetrate the armor of the father.

"—and the sword of victory!"

The vast magical power, like a roaring tsunami, instantly submerged everything in front of it.

There is no night, no heat, no sound, everything is lost under this blow of destruction.

Splitting the mountains, flattening the top of the mountain, followed by an even bigger explosion, the thickest darkness erupted with the most eye-catching purple light, even if I was wearing armor and observing all this with an inhuman vision, I couldn't help but block it. the senses.

After an unknown amount of time, the fluctuation of magic power finally dissipated.I regained my senses and watched the tragedy my father created.

Really miserable.A corner of Yuanzang Mountain was directly cut off, and the opposite hill was completely destroyed, leaving only a huge pothole with a diameter of more than five kilometers burning bright purple flames, like a giant open-pit mine.

With this huge pit as the center, a large part of all the hills were forcibly torn away, and they could hardly be called mountains, but broken stone piles overflowing with spring water and burning with purple flames—the explosion was destroying At the same time as the earth, the power of space overflowed, turning into countless blades, cutting and chopping the hills, and rolling down to form stone piles.

Looking at the destruction enough to sink the land, I couldn't help swallowing.

If my father had released the power of the holy spear or the holy sword to me, would I have survived?Can Camlan's rebels survive?

Obviously not possible, right?Not to mention those rebels, even all the knights of the round table, and even the mysteries of the entire British island, can be easily wiped out by the king, right?I can't even imagine what kind of enemies these weapons were created to destroy.And the father himself has lived until now, and what kind of mission has he shouldered.

However, Yoshikawa is still alive even though the distance has been destroyed to such an extent.

Not only alive, but unscathed, except that the mask, sword and armor are all gone, just kneeling on the ground.

In front of him, floating a small dot the size of a teardrop, shining with a blue light.

It seems that the Assassin temporarily sheltered Yoshikawa at the cost of his own life, preventing him from dying.

And the mask and the long sword should have been completely destroyed during the liberation of the holy sword, leaving no trace.

From the shadows suddenly emerged a huge dragon--yes, it was a dragon--that's right, with four strong legs, and its scales were as black as ink, shrouded in a misty darkness, only its eyes were burning Golden flame.Its total length is close to 50 meters, and its head alone is as huge as a heavy truck, which is totally not what should exist in this era.

This dragon species swallowed the little dot, then walked slowly back to the father's side at a pace that made the ground tremble, and crawled down, not like a dragon species, but a long-raised domestic dog.

The father hugged the witch's waist, jumped lightly, and stood on the dragon's back—it turned out that there was a saddle there.

She looked down coldly and locked her eyes on Yoshikawa, as if she wanted to say something.

However, she didn't say anything, and the dragon species stood up, flapped its huge wings, and flew into the air.

"It seems that I was chosen by the Holy Grail to be Assassin's servant, it is God's will..."

A familiar voice sounded beside Yoshikawa.

Assassin revealed himself, the same armored skeleton swordsman as before.

But no... Although they are exactly the same, I always feel that there are differences.

It seems that the previous Assassin was just an empty shell, and now he is the real, unrestricted him.

And Lancer looked at the leaving figure of the dragon species, nodded to the night sky, and said: "It should be like this. I was summoned as a servant, and it was also the great god Odin who told me. At first I didn't understand it. I thought it was the great god who was overly nervous, but now I fully understand—this is not the Holy Grail War at all, but a harbinger of the pan-human history being cut into a belt of rumors."

I can't understand what these two people are talking about.An explanation is urgently needed.

But before I could say anything, Yoshikawa barely stood up, endured the pain and said, "This... what's going on! Old man, didn't you just die on that magic nuclear bomb?" He took off the glove on his right hand, there was no Command Seal on the back of his hand. "That's right! He's dead! The contract is gone, the Command Seal is gone! Even the spirit core has been swallowed by that shadow dragon! I'm not dreaming! I'm in so much pain now, it must be real !【+

"Don't panic, Contractor." The Skeleton Swordsman said calmly, "This Holy Grail War is different from the past. Although the servants came in response to the Holy Grail's call, they are not the dead of the past... In fact, apart from being careless As for the eliminated Archer, all other servants are living creatures that still exist, but their consciousness is temporarily placed in the body constructed by the Holy Grail. When the body dissipates, we will wake up from a dream and use our existing mission."

"Rin, let's talk when we get back." Lancer said, staring at me unceremoniously, and ordered: "You and Saber also come here. We have something to tell you. And it's very important, something you must know. "Then, Lancer glanced at the tragic situation in front of him, and sighed softly: "As expected of King Arthur, what is this 'Oath and Sword of Victory'? The part of the oath has been completely removed, only victory As a result, every liberation is close to the blow that defeated Cefalu 4000 years ago, and this time it was strengthened a lot because of the self-destructive spiritual base overload——It is impossible to use unscrupulous methods to this extent. I know what she is pursuing and what she is afraid of..."

Said, Lancer raised his right hand, and the mysterious original rune was formed with the sliding of her fingertips.

In an instant, the huge pothole returned to its original shape, and even the ground of Liudong Temple returned to life.

"It's all fake, it's just an illusion to cover up the traces." Lancer explained grimly.Then he patted Rin Tosaka, who seemed to be sluggish as an ally, and said, "The battle is over, don't be dazed, little girl. You must contact Caster in Einzbern immediately after you go back. This Holy Grail War is more serious than you imagined." Much more."

Chapter 57: A Talk of Nonsense ([-] words)

(This chapter is Mordred's POV.)

My father left without saying a word, which made me fall into a huge passive state.

Originally, I was hoping to get rid of Lancer as well, but now the situation is reversed in an instant.

The one who just died was Assassin as a Servant.After the servant died, the main body moved here in an instant, and still called Yoshikawa "contractor". His attitude and position are self-evident. If there is any difference from before, it is only "stronger".

So, I could only go to the Tohsaka Mansion to listen to what they said "I must know" as they asked.

The tall skeleton swordsman carried Yoshikawa on his shoulders, like carrying a sack of rice, and walked down the stairs of Liudong Temple.

Rin Tohsaka and Lancer followed me, seeming to be monitoring and coercing it—it was obvious that they were quite dissatisfied with my temporary breach of contract.And I was noncommittal, and I didn't bother to continue explaining.

When I went down the mountain, I realized that the only means of transportation was Yoshikawa's modified Toyota.And Rin Tohsaka walked to the car on his own, and opened the door of the back seat as a matter of course, completely treating the car as his own.

"So, are you going to let me and Saber walk to your house?" I asked extremely displeased. "Aren't you afraid that I will take the opportunity to run away? Or, in your eyes, Saber and I are just like this, not worth mentioning at all?"

"This... There is no other way! When Lancer and I came here, we also walked!" Tohsaka Rin explained guiltily, "You and Saber don't know magic, Yoshikawa is seriously injured now, it must be Let me accompany you? You can't just throw the car down the mountain, and then Assassin is carrying him on his back, just leave the car here and ignore it, right?"

"According to your grade, you should be 26 years old, right? Can't you drive?" I continued to ask dissatisfied.

"I...I...I really won't." Tohsaka Rin's face was stained red with shame.

"Huh? An adult, a magician, and the eldest lady of a magic family, can't drive? Tohsaka, are you kidding me? I really think Saber and I are so easy to bully【&|

"...I just can't!" Tohsaka Rin opened his eyes wide, ashamed to tell the truth, but he had to tell the truth: "I'm very hard on modern technological items! If you don't pay attention, it will explode! It's almost It’s like being cursed since I was a child! If it wasn’t for Master saying that there is no curse, and Sakura persuading me several times, I decided to buy a mobile phone! That’s it, I still use an old-fashioned flip phone! Anyway, it doesn’t cost too much money, It won’t hurt too much if it’s broken!”

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