The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 422 "Iron Fist" Martha!

"Whoosh... I, Blackbeard, actually survived this calamity...?"

Teach opened his eyes groggily and felt a pink light enveloping him, like an invisible spiritual force... Then his mind cleared and his severe spiritual foundation injuries stopped.

However, the next second, his heart sank – this mental power did not heal him, but instead made his whole body inexplicably uncontrollable; he was under mental control!
Despite his injuries, the bewitched Blackbeard seemed to be forcing himself to rise and kneel before the purple-haired goddess. His expression was devout and his eyes were filled with infatuation, almost as if pink hearts were about to appear. "Wow! Lady Stheno, my goddess's beauty is unparalleled in the world!"

“Heh heh heh,” Stheno said, completely unconcerned about the newly added servant. “Tell me—what’s the deal with Shanks, the Emperor of the Sea?”

"Yes……"

Blackbeard began to recount his memories of Emiya.

But to be honest, there was very little useful information. After he and all his men were beaten down, he was tied up for several days and nights. The only thing he knew clearly was his own suffering.

For example, "The Red-Haired Pirates are numerous and full of powerful figures," "His own subordinates were all taken to watch the Red-Haired Diva's concert," and "The Emperor of the Sea, Shanks, is invincible!"...

...But the goddesses with their perverse sense of humor listened with great interest.

"The Pirate Emperor..."

After listening once, Stheno's expression gradually brightened. "Hey, my two sisters, what do you think? Shouldn't we also call ourselves Pirate Empresses?"

"Huh?" Empress? Pirate? Can these two words be combined? It sounds strange. Does this mean they're forming a force that focuses on plundering at sea?
Medusa blinked; she had always been rather... hesitant to express her opinions in front of her two older sisters.

"Yay! This sounds like so much fun!" Euryale clapped her hands excitedly, not only in appearance but also in her wicked sense of humor, which was almost a carbon copy of Stheno's.

After the cheers subsided, Euryale looked at Blackbeard and said, "Oh, right, sister, what about this man? What should we do with him? Hehe, judging from his condition, he'll be broken in no time if we treat him like a toy, right?"

“It’s alright,” Stheno said nonchalantly. “We can have whatever we want anytime. As for him… whatever his reason, daring to trespass on the goddess’s chariot, throw him into the sea… if he’s a brave warrior who’s good at survival, he might be able to pull through.”

Although Stheno didn't heal Blackbeard, the mental interference she exerted could be considered a weak form of "divine protection" in some respects. Even if this Servant were left to fend for himself, there was still a chance of survival...

So, at the goddess's command, the dazed Blackbeard was carried onto a large ballista mounted by a group of Amazonian warriors, then aimed in a certain direction, released the string, and fired! He transformed into a black dot hurtling towards the horizon!
"Whoosh!"

Blackbeard's fantastical adventures, a grand serialized story!
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"Whoosh-"

Emiya tilted his head to dodge several arrows that flew out from the shadows. Given his Observation Haki—no, his Mind's Eye—which allows him to foresee the future, such a sneak attack was impossible.

However, while he could dodge them, there were so many of these things that they were incredibly annoying. Now, he had to dodge dozens of times more alchemical arrows every ten steps.

However, in order to successfully obtain the possible road sign key and prevent the underground stone chamber from collapsing or the key from changing, Emiya cannot use too much Godslayer-level power to violently destroy it, so he can only proceed obediently.

"But why are there so many of these random traps? When they were profiling, Saint Mary and her group didn't encounter any of these fancy things, did they?"

Emiya complained, but as he dodged again, he instantly caught the arrow and threw it back, blocking the arrow hole precisely in an instant.

“Phew… Is it possible,” Nono said, pulling Erii along as they narrowly avoided a sudden pitfall, “that in the centuries before they explored the stone chamber, an unspecified number of explorers had already traversed these minefields?”

"What you said makes sense. So, the survival rate of Maria Hoshino's group, which is less than one percent, is actually quite high."

Emiya's gaze swept forward. He and his group were considered the middle of the team, while many other Servants served as the vanguard, exploring ahead and removing the first wave of traps.

Looking up, one can see a series of agile and swift figures moving about, followed by bursts of thunder and rising heat. The dragon-blooded monsters that jumped out of the dark room, intending to punish the arrogant intruders, all of them suffered without exception... Well, no matter how well-equipped the old ancient ruins' trap defenses are, they can't compete with the firepower of the Chaldea's Heroic Spirits.

Another advantage of using Servants is that unless a spell barrier is applied, there is no need to worry about special physical obstacles. Servants can ignore obstacles in all directions and reach their target by relying on their spirit form. This is also the advantage of using Servants as vanguards.

"boom."

Emiya raised his foot and stomped on the cone-shaped spike that had suddenly appeared, then suddenly saw BB's figure appear beside him—[Senpai, Senpai, if nothing unexpected happens, it seems they've found the so-called 'key' ahead.]

"So fast?"

Emiya still remembered the large dragon servants that Maria and her party encountered during the profiling process. He seemed oblivious to the Servants unleashing their Noble Phantasms to obliterate those dragons.

BB shrugged. "We didn't encounter any dragons. Why don't you take the rest of the group and go check it out up ahead?"

Emiya turned and met Nono's equally puzzled gaze. After a few moments of hesitation, he said, "Okay."

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"This is the key that represents one-quarter of the total?"

Emiya stepped into the deepest part of the underground stone chamber and saw a massive stone wall that stretched across the entire cave ceiling and the ground.

The ancient stone wall relic alone is hundreds of meters high on this side, and if you include the parts embedded in the stone above and below, it is probably more than a thousand meters long. Moreover, it is entirely constructed of precious alchemical minerals such as lapis lazuli and jade, and it still exudes the brilliance of magical elements even in the dim cave environment.

Upon closer inspection, the wall revealed intricate and chaotic indentations, entirely written in ancient and obscure dragon script. Caster, an expert in deciphering, along with Mashu and the others, had already gone to translate the inscriptions.

By this time, the heroic spirits had already carved out a considerable amount of space on both sides of the stone wall, and Emiya could observe the side of the dragon-patterned stone wall after taking a few steps...

It was a gigantic dragon claw completely embedded in the material behind the stone wall. A terrifying presence emanated from the massive stone, and some of the claw's edges, with writhing flesh, were about to pierce through the stone wall's constraints, bursting forth with vigorous life force. The reason it was visible from the outside was because the giant claw inside seemed to be expanding, as if it had grown larger and larger over an unknown period of time, causing clearly discernible protrusions on the outer stone wall.

"A giant dragon claw placed alone?"

Regina Reeves said, "This is definitely not an ordinary claw... I can clearly feel that it belongs to the Black King, and any ordinary life that touches it will be corrupted..."

The information obtained during the profiling was vague; even she couldn't clearly see the full picture of the key that Maria's grandmother and her group received, only knowing that it was a heavy object that needed to be moved. She never imagined it would directly involve that person's flesh and blood.

This explains why they didn't encounter any dragon servants... The dragons that Maria and the others encountered hundreds of years later were probably not dragon servants, but rather dragons transformed from intruders who had been corrupted by the Black King over the years.

Amor then walked up to Emiya and narrowed her eyes. "This stone wall is the seal of the dragon's claw. This is probably one of the four elemental nodes of the entire Ocean River 'Okeanos' singularity."

"node?"

"The four elements constitute the foundation of the world. Many myths and legends mention this, right? I even learned about it with your wife, Nuwa, at Chaldea. There are also records in Chinese legends that Nuwa cut off the legs of a giant tortoise to establish the four poles. The so-called four poles are the nodes that support the heaven and earth."

Amor casually uttered a phrase addressing the goddess Nuwa, which made Wei Gong's lips twitch.

"Now we know that all living beings killed the Black King in the 'Great War'. After that catastrophe-like battle, they would have to deal with the Black King's body. Everyone was probably afraid that the Black King would be resurrected quickly, so they probably chose to cut off and seal the Black King's four limbs, which correspond to the four keys of earth, water, fire and wind respectively."

"Conversely, this can also be used as a quarter key to unlock the door to the real Black King's corpse."

"I understand that!"

Emiya heard Erii chime in again, and the girl nodded in sudden understanding, "It's like playing the Dark Wizard deck in Yu-Gi-Oh!. You need to collect the sealed left leg, right leg, left hand, and right hand, plus the sealed Old Man himself. If you have all five of these Old Man cards in your hand, you can win by the rules."

After saying that, she looked at the group with bright eyes and said, "Doesn't that make a lot of sense?"

Emiya: "..." Is that how it's explained?

Regina: "Huh?" Who is Old Ai?

Amor actually caught up with the rhythm, and she added with great seriousness, "Hehe, that's right, we need to collect the front left paw, front right paw, back left paw, and back right paw of the Black King Nidhogg to synthesize the complete key, open the door to the final destination, and face the final evil dragon!"

One Piece + Yu-Gi-Oh! + Dragon Quest? The elements have become inexplicably complicated!

"Senior!" Mash waved her hand, "We've connected to Chaldea headquarters' database, and the dragon script translation is complete!"

"Coming right now!" Emiya walked around the side wall a few steps and returned to the front of the stone wall. He thought to himself that if Constantine Shami hadn't been using another imaginary submarine to collect supplies in other eras, this task wouldn't have been so difficult.

Only Nono remained where she was, frowning as she glanced at the dragon claw.

She hadn't forgotten the figure who resembled Yaobikuni, who devoured the Black King's flesh and blood and became an existence extremely similar to Maria the Star, even able to break through the limitations of time and space, causing Regille to experience dream-like sensations.

That guy will definitely set up a trap at this singularity to lure them here.

But if the other party could achieve this, it means that Yaobikuni had already attempted to merge with the Black King's corpse. But why didn't she touch the key? How did she bypass these seals and directly find the Black King's corpse?
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Somewhere in the Western Sea.

A massive pirate fleet of hundreds of ships sailed across the ocean, its sails obscuring the sky and its prows stretching for miles. In this singularity, no force, whether it be "Red-Haired Shanks," "Blackbeard," or "Empress," could match its fleet size.

This is the fleet of the great pirate Bartholomew Roberts.

Bartholomew Bartholomew was one of the most successful pirates of the Golden Age of piracy, and also the pirate who led the largest fleet. During his lifetime, he established extremely strict rules and regulations within his organization, drinking tea instead of alcohol, and was known for his refined tastes and vanity, earning him the nickname "Black Baron."

Of course, no matter how much embellishment is added, as a pirate, his plundering behavior is the same as Blackbeard's.

"captain!"

Amidst the surging waves, the sailors meticulously reported to the well-dressed, dark-skinned man, Bartholomew, "The encirclement is complete. The enemy is confined to our small warships within the encirclement. When will we launch a volley of cannon fire?"

“No rush,” Bartholomew said, walking toward the foreground of the deck. “I hope there is room for discussion with such a beautiful lady who still has bangs. —Aren’t you right, my Lord’s faithful saint!”

"What room for negotiation or dawdling is there for these wicked villains who have committed arson, murder, and looting?!"

Surrounded by hundreds of ships, only one woman remained standing on a small warship in the center. Despite being a saint, she had rolled up her sleeves, her anger flaring, radiating a violent aura that suggested she was ready to fight at the slightest provocation.

She is Martha, a Christian saint recorded in the Bible, also known as St. Martha. She was a village girl living in Bethany with her sister Mary and brother Lazarus, and witnessed the miracle of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. She also subdued the dragon Tarasque without weapons (physically).

Although Bartholomew, whom Martha faces, is well-mannered and not at all like the savage Blackbeard pirate, and is even a devout Christian, to Martha, who has witnessed evil firsthand, evil is evil, and it cannot be changed by magnificent and dignified embellishment.

"Ah, what a pity. This reminds me of the days when I clashed with the Navy in my lifetime." Bartholomew sighed softly. "No, the flawless saint has surpassed any Navy admiral I know, hasn't he?"

The sailor beside him was somewhat skeptical. "Even if she's a saint... she's just one person. Even if she steals one of our warships, how can she possibly deal with our fleet's attack?"

“Sailor, don’t underestimate the Saint. She’s ‘Iron Fist.’ One wrong move—” Bartholomew warned, “—and you’ll die!”

boom!
Martha raised her gauntlet-covered hand and hurled a dark cannonball with lightning speed. The cannonball pierced the sky with a deafening roar, like a giant cannon that surpassed countless artillery formations in its fury!

With a single strike, an entire fleet directly in front of her was destroyed, and Bartholomew's fleet encirclement formation was instantly breached!
(Iron Fist Martha!)
(End of this chapter)