They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 517 Welcome the Savior to the Temple!
Krydella accepted Danlei's conditions, so Danlei stopped making things difficult for her.

Danlei gestured for everyone to lay down their weapons, then used his mental power to instruct Xilian to erase the memories of the soldiers present seeing Krystal. He then spoke to Krystal.

"Although I allow you and your men to leave, you cannot leave openly."

So, leave the city the same way you entered.

By the way, give me your entire intelligence network list in Janusapolis, along with information on your inside agents.

You probably don't want me to go through the memories I just gleaned from you.

I only read the most superficial layer of memories, just the information about the legal trials that left a deep impression on you a few minutes ago.

If I were to delve deeper, you would have no privacy left for me.

Upon hearing Danlei's words, Krystal immediately became anxious. She was not like the Sword Saint, who "did not understand people's hearts" and would say that it was nothing to care if someone watched her bathe.

Upon hearing Danlei say he could look into her privacy, Kerudela immediately rushed in front of Danlei, like an angry kitten with its fur standing on end, its hands raised like claws, and shouted...
"You're not allowed to look! You must erase all my memories!!"
As a dragon god, to peep at women bathing and changing clothes! That's...that's utterly shameless!!

In response to Krydella's protest, Danlei simply said with an indifferent expression...
"To be honest, my personal preference for women is towards those who are intellectual and have a more mature physique."

I acknowledge your regal authority, but your feminine charm simply doesn't attract me.

If you really mind, I can have your memories screened by women.

Don't worry, I will only send someone else to fill in the gaps in your memory if I find any omissions in the list of spies and informants you gave me.

Moreover, I can give the spies in the intelligence network a day to leave before issuing arrest warrants.

I have already been very merciful. If you push your luck any further, you will be mistaking my mercy for weakness.

Kerudela was extremely annoyed by Dan Lei's comment that her figure was unattractive for what felt like the umpteenth time.

But then Danlei said that he could give Ohmma's intelligence personnel a day to retreat, so he immediately decided to suppress the anger for now.

Crydella felt that Danlei was too merciful. If the Dragon God Alliance's spies were exposed in Ohma, it would be as if Cenatos's hand was already close at hand.

However, Danlei's thinking was simple: the spies sent by Ohmma were not from the Dragon God Alliance, so giving them a way out wouldn't affect his mood.

However, Dan Lei detests traitors and must kill them as soon as possible.

Therefore, knowing that she had already gotten a great deal, Krydella didn't haggle anymore and directly gave Danlei the list she wanted. Then, as Danlei requested, she led a group of Golden Bloods out of Janusapolis in a vegetable truck.

That night, a high priest from Janusapolis and several mid- and low-ranking priests he brought with him were imprisoned.

This high priest was a Goldenborn. When Danlei descended upon Janusapolis to purge the priests, he was a low-ranking priest with no power, influence, or background. He could only watch other priests make money every day, so he was not purged.

Now a high priest, he finds there's not much left to gain as a priest, and greed leads him to betray Januspolis's information to Ohma in exchange for a life of luxury.

Over time, with a lot of dirt on him in Ohma's hands, he naturally had no choice but to obey Krydella's orders.

For these people, Danlei made them experience the same skinning and straw-wrapping punishment used to punish corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, and then displayed them at the entrance of the worship path for a year.

Of course, such cruel torture shouldn't be blamed on Dan Lei, the Dragon God. Hai Seyin, who didn't care about her own reputation, took the blame for Dan Lei.

The people of Janusapolis only knew that the Dragon God had entrusted the task of dealing with these traitors to the [Shadow Moon Maiden] Heather, who then used this extreme punishment inherited from the sea monster race to punish these priests who had betrayed the Dragon God.

Although Onphalus has a history of nearly five thousand years in each cycle, few people in it study punishments.

Generally speaking, burning at the stake, drowning in a lake, and dismemberment are already considered the maximum penalties.

The Onphalus people had never seen such a practice as skinning and stuffing straw.

In an instant, the name of [Yinyue Maid] Heather was directly equated with torture, and the officials of Janusapolis understood even more clearly that no matter what crime they committed, they could never choose betrayal.

Even the priests who made money by falsely transmitting divine pronouncements more than a hundred years ago didn't suffer this much.

Moreover, a few days after Danlei killed these priests, he went to Aidiria and brought back Aidiria's [War-War Saintess] (Death Saintess) Xiaodie.

The process of Danlei turning the butterfly is very simple.

Find Xia Die and forcibly grasp her hand amidst her surprised expression.

After she was sure she wasn't hallucinating, give her a hug.

After that, whatever Danlei said went.

However, when Xia Die arrived in Janusapolis, the officials and priests of Janusapolis all thought that the Dragon God was about to launch a great purge.

The Death Maiden of Aidiria is far more intimidating than Danlei, the Dragon God who rarely appears in public.

Because Danlei was too far away for the officials and priests of Janusapolis, many people would never see him in their entire lives.

But after the arrival of the Butterfly, just like Saint Morthes, she could see him every day if she wanted to.

Therefore, this wave of deterrence was remarkably effective. The priests and officials of Janusapolis quietly severed ties with their friendly city-states outside the city, fearing that they would be treated as the next traitors and eliminated directly.

However, instead of a purge, in Ohmma, the head of an Antikythera man named Lygus was hung on the city wall.

Because of the characteristics of the Antikythera people, losing one's head does not necessarily mean death, so this person was placed on the most wanted list.

Several senators who were on good terms with him were implicated.

However, this is good news for Ohmar. Crydella, who has fallen out with Lygus, has delayed completing the trial of law in order to prevent Lygus, who has been driven out of Ohmar, from turning against those city-states with low loyalty.

Because the more than 500 Golden Bloods of the Fire Chaser Army are the strongest army in Ohma, once they are killed, they cannot be replaced in a short period of time.

Since the trial of the law has no time limit, Kruldella can simply consume these five hundred Golden Descendants when she has to fight the Dragon God Alliance in the future to complete the trial. There is no need to use schemes and tricks to kill them.

However, Crydella never found an opportunity to start a war, and the fragile peace lasted for another nine years.

Time progressed to the year 3960 of the Light Calendar, the time for the savior to descend, as prophesied by the Long Night Moon impersonating Euronis.

Of course, Changyeyue's prophecy was not a lie. She used the power of time to accurately calculate the time and place of Xing, Danheng, and the girl Xilian's arrival.

So when the three of them arrived at the prophesied platform of the Janusapolis temple, they found it deserted.

Moreover, our savior star seems to be still asleep. Dan Heng and the young girl Xi Lian are awake, but she is still half asleep.

For these three, it had only been a few hours since they parted ways with Danlei's reconnaissance team.

The two groups of people arrived at different times, and Xing and his two companions did not live two hundred years of carefree and comfortable life in the Ai Li Secret Pavilion.

So, Xing falling asleep here is still a problem with her physical condition.

In the game, when Xing enters Pinocchio, it is made clear that she has a memory-sensitive constitution.

Therefore, Xi Lian decisively provided Xing with the wake-up service.

She leaned close to Xing's ear, not lowering her voice, and said with a mischievous grin.
"Hey buddy, buddy, wake up!"

If you don't wake up soon, they'll have to use a wake-up spell on you. Let me think... in my friend's memory, there seems to be a wake-up technique called artificial respiration..."

Xi Lian did it on purpose; she knew that even if Xingyi heard artificial respiration, he wouldn't wake up.

Sure enough, Xing was really drowsy, but when he heard that the girl Xi Lian was going to give him artificial respiration, he instantly woke up and "slept" again.

The young girl Xi Lian is Xing's memory spirit, so she naturally knows Xing's situation.

So she immediately said
“Mr. Danheng, I don’t know how to perform artificial respiration. Could you demonstrate it for me?”

Upon hearing that Danheng would have to perform artificial respiration again, Xing dared not pretend to be asleep any longer.

Things are different now. Danheng and March 7th are too familiar with each other, and Xing no longer sees them as potential targets for taking advantage of.

Moreover, even if there's someone who could take advantage of her, Xing wouldn't casually give away her first kiss with a man these days.

Xing immediately opened her eyes, stood up, and shouted.
"No, I'm awake, I don't need CPR!"

However, when Xing opened her eyes, she saw that Dan Heng was still three or five meters away from her, gazing into the distance from the edge of the platform railing, and did not approach her at all.

Xi Lian, however, looked at him with a half-smile.

Xing felt embarrassed after being tricked by her own memory spirit, but the embarrassment only lasted a few seconds.

For Xing, everyone here is one of his own. Dan Heng is already used to his antics, so he didn't notice that Xing didn't even come close to him this time.

So Xing quickly got up, skillfully changed the subject, and asked Dan Heng...

"Danheng, do you see anything in the distance?"

This should be the Hall of the Three Phases of Destiny. Hopefully, we haven't landed in the wrong place.

Xi Lian answered Xing's question directly.
"Yes, partner, we've arrived at our destination."

This place is the Hall of the Three Aspects of Destiny.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be shortly after the fall of Tarranton.

This also marks the end of the first journey to pursue the fire.

However, just as Xi Lian finished speaking, Dan Heng interrupted her.

"However, this place seems to be different from what is recorded in historical materials."

In the previous cycle, the history books I read in Ohma recorded that this was the time when the Battle of Dolores had just ended and the Siege of Janusapolis had taken place.

Janusapolis was cut off from all external access and communication by Ohma's army, and the city was in extreme chaos.

However, as I looked out over the street, I could see that the people there were very happy and peaceful, and they didn't look like they were experiencing war at all.

Upon hearing Dan Heng's words, Xi Lian immediately transformed into Mimi and flew up to look out over the street.

The streets of Janusapolis were indeed as Danheng had described—prosperous and peaceful, showing no signs of being affected by war.

This confused Xi Lian a bit. After transforming back into her girl form, she scratched her head and said...
"Did we get the time wrong? That shouldn't be the case; the time I set shouldn't be wrong."

Seeing that Xi Lian was also confused about the current situation, Xing decisively said...
"It doesn't matter. We'll find out what time it is and what state Januspolis is in once we leave here and go out to investigate."

Danlei's reconnaissance team arrived two hundred years before us; perhaps they did something to make this place the way it is now.

With March 7th gone, Xing's intuition, no longer suppressed by her, became noticeably sharper. Without any clues, she clearly pinned the blame on Dan Lei.

Xi Lian and Dan Heng did not comment on Xing's guess, but they thought it was fine for her to go out and investigate.

So the three of them opened the platform door, thinking they would explore the interior of the temple first.

As soon as the door opened, a deafening roar suddenly came from the air.

The three of them turned around and saw a thick torrent falling from the sky, heading straight for them.

Without saying a word, Dan Heng immediately transformed into his Moon Drinking form, attempting to control the water flow and change its course.

But to his surprise, he found that his Cloud Chanting Technique had no effect on the water flow.

Because it was empowered by a cloud chanting technique several times stronger than itself.

Sensing the Cloud Chanting Technique, Dan Heng naturally knew who was responsible for the water flow.

However, he didn't have time to remind Xing and Xilian.

The three were swept directly into the corridor by the torrent, and then carried along by the water until they were rushed into a room.

Upon entering the room, the torrent vanished instantly, replaced by a gust of hot air.

The hot air carried the three of them to the ground, and also helped dry their clothes.

Then Xing and Danheng saw the Golden Blood, led by Aglaia, say in unison as the battle began.
"Welcome, Savior, to the temple for your inspection!!"

At this moment, Xing, having regained her senses, realized that the room was decorated like a welcome party, with a red banner on the wall that read "Welcome the Savior to Inspect the Temple" in gold lettering.

This move, without even needing to look, must have been made by Danlei.

Sure enough, looking up, Dan Lei was standing next to two unfamiliar beauties and Zi Xilian on the second floor of the room, watching the show with a delighted expression.

Seeing Xing look up at him, Dan Lei laughed directly.

"How was the welcoming ceremony? Are you satisfied with it?"

Or do you prefer a grander ceremony and need me to arrange a decorated float to take you for a couple of rides around the streets?

If Danlei said this to someone else, they would definitely give all sorts of reasons why they don't need to ride in the parade.

But Xing is a social butterfly, and she straightened up and put her hands on her hips, saying...

"A savior should be admired and revered by everyone."

However, Dan Heng, the fuse expert from the three-man pioneer team, was present, and he decisively interrupted.

"Danlei, we don't need the float. Why don't you tell us what's going on here first?"

I think I saw Tibbo's mother, Ms. Mortes, whom Star described to me.

Also, there seem to be two Miss Saifei here.

No, they aren't two Sai Fei'ers. Although they look exactly alike, their temperaments are different.

　Artoria taking a bath at Shirou's house is considered one of the earliest fan service scenes in Fate/stay night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)