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Chapter 245 Chain Reaction

Chapter 245 Chain Reaction (Published first, revised later)
Outside the Matou residence.

The massive magic circle centered on the Matou residence has encompassed all the Hassans.

Many of the Hassans were aware of the danger they were in.

They wanted to break free, they wanted to escape.

But this trap was set for them, so how could they possibly have any chance to escape?

Thanks to Medea's prior alterations, the edges of this magic circle have been blocked by space, making it impossible for anyone inside to escape.

Unless they can break through this magical formation.

But can they do it?
Medea and Fu Le stood outside the gate of the Matou residence, with more than a dozen Hassans attacking them desperately, trying to break through the barrier protecting Fu Le and Medea.

However, as Assassins, they do not have the same powerful damage output as other Servants.

There are no sharp Noble Phantasms either.

This makes them often perform poorly when facing this type of defense.

This is normal.

After all, their job is not to launch a frontal assault, but to launch a sneak attack from behind.

Moreover, Hassan the Hundred-Faced is not known for his fighting prowess among the Hassans.

If it were a Servant of another class, they could probably break through this defense in two or three hits, or even in one, but Hassan couldn't do it.

"annihilate them completely, Caster!"

"Yes, my master!"

Medea smiled slightly, her lips hidden behind her hood.

Her body immediately flew upwards.

Medea's robes, floating in mid-air, billowed out as if a pair of wings had been spread.

At the same time, a massive magic circle spread outwards from behind her.

In the blink of an eye, a massive magic circle had covered the sky. Hassan and his companions couldn't help but look up at the sky, where the crimson magic circle had already obscured their vision.

"Die!"

Medea gently waved her staff, pointing it at the Hassans below.

The next moment, a barrage of magical energy descended from the sky, determined to cleanse the ground.

In terms of damage output, Medea is now on par with any Servant who has appeared in this Holy Grail War.

This is because Fu Le provided her with so much magic.

For a top magician from the Age of Gods, Medea possessed an unimaginable number of spells.

She is proficient in many powerful magic tricks.

The problem is, she can't use it at all in the Holy Grail War.

Because in the Holy Grail War, the magical power of Servants is supported by their Masters.

The Holy Grail only provides the Servant with the magical power to exist.

However, modern magicians rarely possess such extensive magical power.

After all, Medea was a magician from the Age of Gods, and the environment she was in still had a strong source of magic.

However, the Great Source of Magic in modern times is on the verge of depletion.

In such an environment, Medea simply could not unleash her full potential as a divine magician.

As a result, Medea, as a top magician, used the following techniques most often in the original story: either condensing magic cannons with magic power or setting up magic arrays, which all magicians are proficient in.

As for other magic tricks, she hardly ever used them.

Because in the original story, his master, Souichirou Kuzuki, did not possess magical powers and was not a magician.

But Fu Le is different; Fu Le can provide Medea with an astonishing amount of magic.

With Fu Le providing the magic, Medea can fully unleash her power.

Such is the case at this moment.

Medea didn't use any dazzling magic this time either; she simply used the magic cannon attack she had in the original story.

But the problem is the number of magic cannons.

This is Medea's magic domain.

Numerous of Medea's magic spells were pre-arranged here, greatly enhancing her spellcasting abilities.

Thus, Medea, having received an epic upgrade, swiftly eliminated all of Hassan's forces.

Just like in the original storyline when Hassan and his men encountered the large army of Iskandar's King's Army, they were filled with despair.

Magic Cannon's face wash left them completely helpless.

In an instant, all the Hassans met their end.

"It's very simple!"

Watching the Hassans leave, Fu Le couldn't help but shake his head.

As an assassination group, Hassan's abilities were almost entirely focused on operating in the shadows.

But once their pawn is exposed...

That would leave only the possibility of being slaughtered.

Unless the one who appears is one of Hassan's types who excels in direct combat.

Hassan the Cursed Arm, who appeared in the Heaven's Feel route during the Fifth Holy Grail War, was quite capable in combat.

Although he was defeated by his Master Kirei Kotomine in the end, he still fought back and forth in direct battles with other Servants.

However, he was unlucky enough to encounter Kirei Kotomine, who had already been corrupted by a higher-level curse.

Then, caught off guard, he was tied up, which led to Kirei Kotomine eliminating his Master, Zouken Matou.

This led to his failure.

After all, the Master has been destroyed, so what can a Servant do?

Of course, Hassan of Cursed Arm is said to be more skilled in combat, but that's in comparison to other Hassans.

Compared to other classes, such as the Three Knights, it is still far inferior.

Hassan is like that; their class already determines their weakness in combat ability.

The only way for them to win is by assassinating their Master.

After all, in the Holy Grail War, Servants and Masters are a pair.

The two are interdependent.

Eliminating the Master by defeating the Servant is also a viable path.

While such things almost never happened in the Fifth Holy Grail War, in the Fourth Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya, who served as the protagonist, was someone who acted with the goal of eliminating his Master.

On the surface, Irisviel serves as Artoria's Master to fight directly against other groups.

Meanwhile, Kiritsugu Emiya, accompanied by his assistant Maiya Hisau, searched everywhere for the Masters' whereabouts with sniper rifles and other firearms.

This is also why Artoria and Kiritsugu Emiya have such a bad relationship.

The two are really incompatible.

Kiritsugu Emiya had actually foreseen this long ago, which is why he was never very enthusiastic about summoning King Arthur.

He would much rather summon an Assassin, so that the two could work together to happily hunt down their Masters.

But the head of the Einzbern family did not agree with his plan.

Having a deep understanding of the Holy Grail War, he clearly understood the importance of Servants.

Choosing Assassin makes it almost impossible to win.

This is his experience.

Thus, the pairing of Kiritsugu Emiya and Artoria came into being.

"Now Assassin is really out of the game."

Fu Le couldn't help but look in the direction of the Holy Church.

Even without his 'clairvoyance,' he could guess that Kotomine Ryomasa was probably very angry at this moment.

After all, Assassin's elimination meant that his and Tokiomi Tohsaka's plans were greatly hindered.

His collusion with Tokiomi Tohsaka has probably been discovered by others as well.

In this situation, there was almost nothing he could do to help Tokiomi Tohsaka.

Am I going to end up with nothing?

Kotomine Risuke couldn't help but sigh.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Einstein, alone outside the battlefield between Saber and Lancer, was waiting anxiously.

Not far in front of him, Artoria and Diarmuid were engaged in a fierce battle.

Today, she openly brought Artoria to pursue Diarmuid.

This was both Fu Le's instruction to her and Emiya Kiritsugu's plan.

Fu Le needs to attract Tokiomi Tohsaka's attention so that he can take advantage of the fact that no one else is helping Fu Le and then focus all his power on her side.

Iskandar serves the same purpose.

He was currently watching the battle between Artoria and Diarmuid from a distance with Waver.

But he won't get involved.

Not only was he unhappy, but Artoria was also unhappy.

Unlike other enemies, Diarmuid is a knight, and a knight who values his chivalry to an extreme degree, even at the cost of disobeying his master's orders rather than taking advantage of her vulnerability.

As the Queen of Knights, Artoria did not want to use too many schemes against this knight.

As a queen who had experienced various battles in her lifetime, Artoria was naturally not a pedantic person.

After all, you can't expect your opponent not to use tricks and schemes when you're at war.

A commander who can lead an army to victory cannot be a pedantic person.

But Diarmuid is different.

He was a knight, and a very noble one at that.

During the previous battle at the docks, when Artoria, who had already been injured by him, was being brutally beaten by Lancelot, his Master Kenneth ordered Diarmuid to kill Artoria.

But Diarmuid refused.

After all, Diarmuid is a purer knight than Artoria.

His purpose in coming into the world was to serve his lord.

This was the knight's wish all along.

His refusal to take advantage of someone in distress at this moment also demonstrates his chivalrous character.

Although Diarmuid was later controlled by the Command Spell, it was Iskandar and Fule who helped him out of the predicament.

But Diarmuid's own reluctance to continue making moves was also a key factor.

If Diarmuid had wanted to, Iskandar and Ful would not have been able to stop him.

She might have died on the spot.

Therefore, Artoria remembered Diarmuid's help.

When faced with this noble knight, she would inevitably respond in the manner of a knight.

After all, she is the Queen of Knights!
Therefore, when facing Diarmuid, Artoria wanted to settle the score with her as a knight.

But Kiritsugu Emiya was unwilling to do so.

Because in his view, this was not a safe bet.

After all, Artoria had already been defeated by Diarmuid in a direct confrontation, losing an arm and thus being unable to use even her strongest Noble Phantasm.

In this situation, how can you expect Kiritsugu Emiya to believe that Artoria can defeat Diarmuid?

Even when they were at their peak and had their Noble Phantasms, they couldn't beat them. Now that they've lost an arm and can't use their Noble Phantasms anymore, how come they can beat them?

Therefore, Kiritsugu Emiya plans to defeat Kenneth himself.

Ultimately, this led to Kiritsugu Emiya completely outmaneuvering Diarmuid and Kenneth.

So much so that Diarmuid uttered the most vicious curse upon his death.

This was far too much for Artoria to accept.

Thus, she and Kiritsugu Emiya broke off their relationship completely.

Right now, Diarmuid and Artoria are fighting an exceptionally fierce battle.

However, judging from the form of the game, Diarmuid still holds the advantage.

Meanwhile, Irisviel was worried about the other side: Kiritsugu Emiya had already gone to assassinate Kenneth.

Although Irisviel knew Kiritsugu Emiya very well, she had never seen him fight.

So she secretly worried about the other person.

Meanwhile, Artoria's battle on the field is also in danger.

Irisviel, caught between two anxieties, was far from calm.

Just then, a sudden feeling of expansion came from Irisviel's lower abdomen.

The feeling of being forced in was excruciating to Irisviel.

She immediately clutched her lower abdomen and squatted down.

"Irisviel!"

Upon seeing this, Artoria immediately retreated to Irisviel's side, while Diarmuid withdrew his spear and ceased his attack.

Although he had the upper hand in the previous battle, he still chose to stop when faced with this situation.

It can only be said that he is indeed a noble knight whom even Artoria greatly admires.

However, Diarmuid was unaware that Artoria's Master had already gone to raid his lair.

But this is no one else's fault.

After all, this is entirely Servant to Servant, Master to Master.

Kenneth could summon Diarmuid back immediately if he didn't want to.

But he hadn't thought of it before.

Because he looks down on magicians from small towns.

He also planned to teach Kiritsugu Emiya a lesson.

But the truth is that Kiritsugu Emiya taught him a lesson.

Then he was taken down by a single Origin Bomb.

It was only then that Kenneth remembered Dirumdo.

So, Diarmuid, who had been so elegant just moments before, hastily retreated upon receiving his Master's call, ultimately saving his Master at the last second and then leading him away from the battlefield.

After this battle, the Holy Grail War made many progress.

Assassin is completely out of the game, Kenneth is seriously injured, and Lancer has lost his aggressiveness to fight again.

"What a fantastic battle!"

Iskandar, hiding high up, said with great enjoyment.

He saw both of Saber's battles clearly.

Watching such a wonderful battle, he felt his blood boil and wanted to find someone to fight.

"You've been completely outmaneuvered, is this your scheme, Shichen!"

"It seems I need to reassess your abilities."

In the Tohsaka residence, Gilgamesh leaned back on the sofa, holding a glass of red wine in one hand, and spoke coldly to Tokiomi Tohsaka.

His words revealed disappointment and criticism.

Upon hearing this, Tokiomi Tohsaka couldn't help but break out in a sweat.

If Gilgamesh were to completely lose faith in him, he wouldn't even be able to save his own life, let alone win.