Honkai Summoning.

"Did you hear what I, your humble servant, said?" Gilgamesh looked down at the penguin.

"Hey, weren't you just Master a moment ago? I didn't expect you to be such a pragmatic Gilgamesh. You're Master when you need me, and a subject when you don't!" Su Mo expressed his dissatisfaction.

This thing and penguins are such a perfect match!

“Okay, rich guy—no, I mean super rich guy.” Penguin was always willing to grant Gilgamesh’s requests and immediately began to introduce his special abilities as a special class Servant, the Arbiter.

As Penguin said at the beginning, the Arbiter Heroic Spirits will only appear when the Holy Grail War has gone too far astray, or when the Holy Grail War will have an impact on the entire world.

Their mission is to fix all of this, which sounds like a very prestigious role.

Leaving aside the unique abilities of penguins, as adjudicators, they possess the following shared abilities from the outset—

Powerful target acquisition ability: It can sense the presence of any Servant within a ten-kilometer radius, and even the Assassin's "sense shielding" skill can be nullified.

The ability to locate servants: similar to a map display.

The ability to know whether each servant is alive or not.

"What a huge cheat device! Are there any restrictions on using these abilities?" Su Mo asked.

Because Jin Shanshan had just given instructions to the penguin, and Su Mo had also given him a lot of money, Su Mo is now at least someone who can talk to the penguin.

"Yes, enemy detection can only sense whether something exists, but it can't determine its location. Exploring a location can only identify one Heroic Spirit at a time, and it must be within the detection range. However, knowing whether someone is alive has no distance or number restrictions," the penguin said.

Su Mo frowned and asked, "What about the number of uses?"

“Using any ability will consume fatigue points each time, and there is no limit until the fatigue points are depleted,” the penguin said.

"I have a bad feeling about this," Su Mo thought to himself, but still asked, "How is fatigue calculated?"

"Three points of fatigue value per day, updated at midnight every day," the penguin said.

"By the way, can you increase your fatigue points if you spend money?" Su Mo asked.

"Ha, I didn't expect you to know that." The penguin chuckled.

"Shanshan, this guy is yours now," Su Mo said to Jin Shanshan.

For heroes who are obsessed with money, a super-rich person like Gilgamesh is their ultimate nemesis.

Su Mo suddenly realized that it was absolutely the right decision not to eat Jin Shanshan.

It's obvious that the monetary system in Fuyuki City has completely collapsed. Penguins are just instinctively fond of "money," and no matter how much paper money Su Mo takes out, he can only get a few answers from him.

And the treasures inside the Gate of Babylon, which contain enough to tempt this penguin...

"Interesting jester, do a handstand and let me see." Gilgamesh made a very unreasonable request, and then the penguin did a Thomas Flair while doing a handstand, fully demonstrating what it means to have money to make the devil turn the millstone.

If you have money, even a penguin can do a handstand Thomas Flair for you!

While the penguins were performing the Thomas Flair, quite a few things were also happening on Irisviel's side.

The group stayed in a building that resembled a church. Irisviel was the only one sitting, with a bright smile on her face, but she gave off the feeling of a witch, exuding a seductive aura.

After her transformation, Artoria stood half a step behind Irisviel, looking like a "beautiful witch's bodyguard."

A short distance away stood Kirei Kotomine, inscribing a magic circle. Just as Su Mo had predicted, Irisviel chose to fill the hole in his heart, pierced by the love lock, with black mud, thus reviving the local and giving them a hundred ways to hide, so that even if the outside world became the apocalypse, it wouldn't affect them in the slightest.

"Madam, your tea."

On the other side was Aoi Tohsaka, dressed in a maid outfit, who brewed black tea and put it to Irisviel's lips.

Taking a small sip, Irisviel reached out and touched Aoi Tohsaka's face, then rubbed her fingers together, seemingly savoring the feeling, her smile widening.

After merging with the corrupted Holy Grail, Irisviel seems to have awakened some strange attribute...

As for Matou Kariya and Tohsaka Tokiomi, they did not appear. It is unknown whether they were not resurrected or if they had other things to do at this time.

After teasing Aoi Tohsaka, Irisviel, feeling quite satisfied, finally looked at the strange person, or rather, the special Servant who had suddenly appeared—the Arbitrator—not far away.

Yes, while Su Mo summoned the penguin as the arbiter, Irisviel also summoned an arbiter. On the back of Irisviel's hands were not only Artoria's Command Seals, but also the Command Seals of the Heroic Spirit before her.

This Servant was not summoned by Irisviel, but appeared on its own with the Holy Grail as its Master.

"So, you've come to correct all of this?" Irisviel asked, looking at the Heroic Spirit before her.

“Fairness and justice. I am only here to give this Holy Grail War a just verdict,” said the strange-looking Heroic Spirit.

The author's message upon release was very sincere and touching; please take a look.

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If you're a long-time reader, you'll know that my launch message for my last book was a very principled, serious, and heartfelt statement that moved many of you to tears, resulting in a subscription-to-collection ratio of 1 to 10. This ratio might not seem like much to established authors, but at the time, it gave me, a struggling author with only 1200 favorites, the motivation to keep writing.

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After writing this serious, sincere, and touching launch message, I feel empty inside, as if something has been completely lost...

I didn't cry, but tears streamed down my face — by Jing Ming'er.

I think many years from now I will remember this quiet, rainy night, sitting in a chair, facing the computer, typing these words. At that time, I had nothing... At that time—

I own the whole world!

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Chapter Ninety: The War Begins (Please Subscribe!)

“Oh.” Irisviel nodded noncommittally, looking rather uninterested.

After merging with the Holy Grail, the lady's interests seemed to have shifted to world destruction and cute girls or wives, showing no welcome whatsoever to this supposedly powerful Arbiter.

The adjudicator, on the other hand, had a very serious expression—well, to be honest, his face could only convey seriousness.

The arbitrator said, "My Master is the Holy Grail. As the arbitrator, I will try my best to correct everything and make fair and impartial judgments, and I will not allow anyone else to destroy the Holy Grail..."

"So you're here to help me, aren't you?" Irisviel interrupted abruptly.

"Although my purpose is to ensure that the Holy Grail is not destroyed and to allow the Holy Grail War to continue until a final victor emerges..." the Arbiter said, "since you are the Holy Grail itself, you could also say that I am here to help you."

“That’s fine then.” Irisviel waved her hand. “As an adjudicator, do you have any special abilities… uh, strange name, Captain Dragonfly.”

The humanoid robot, who called itself Captain Dragonfly, nodded and began to explain its special abilities as an adjudicator, which were basically no different from those of Penguin on Su Mo's side. The difference was that Captain Dragonfly did not need to consume any fatigue points and could use it more often than Penguin.

“In that case, let’s find out where they are right now,” Irisviel said. “I need to help Kiritsugu achieve his dream, and I can’t do it without him watching over me.”

"Ok."

Captain Dragonfly stretched out a hand and tapped a disc-like golden copper bell on his left forearm. The bell rang rapidly, and ripples could be faintly seen spreading outwards from Captain Dragonfly in all directions.

These ripples ignored the walls and other obstacles, passing right through them.

"By the way, as the adjudicator, you must know all the existing Heroic Spirits, right?" Irisviel asked.

Captain Dragonfly nodded: "Of course. There are five existing Servants: the Sword Knight, the Bow Knight, and three others whose class I cannot determine."

"If we can't determine their job titles, are you referring to Li Yunlong and Xiao Ai? Their origins are indeed unknown. And who is the other one?" Irisviel asked with a curious expression.

Of the five existing Heroic Spirits, she knew four of them. The Archer Knight must have found a new master. After reviving Kirei Kotomine, a local, and discovering that he was no longer her master, Irisviel and the others came to this conclusion.

Who is that mysterious fifth heroic spirit?

“I don’t know. I have no way of determining his class,” Captain Dragonfly said. “Yes, I did sense the presence of a Heroic Spirit nearby.”

"Could it be Saber?" Irisviel asked.

“Of course not, there are quite a few heroic spirits present,” Captain Dragonfly said.

“Let’s pinpoint their location,” Irisviel said. “Let’s focus on Little Irisviel. He’s a rather dangerous Heroic Spirit, you know.”

Among these heroic spirits, I wasn't too worried about Li Yunlong or the powerful archer knight Irisviel, but I was wary of Wang Aiguo, who seemed easy to talk to.

This Heroic Spirit is just as ruthless as Kiritsugu Emiya when he gets cold-blooded. Irisviel clearly remembers that night when the Red Rose of Exorcism was aimed precisely at her heart.

His hand holding the gun did not tremble at all, and his movements were without any hesitation.

Adding to his achievements of instantly killing the Magician, outwitting the Conqueror King, and defeating the Berserker, of the seven Heroic Spirits, five are already dead. He, as one Heroic Spirit, personally ended the lives of three.

Even during this process, Irisviel couldn't figure out how much of the Heroic Spirit's power was involved, or what their true strength was. Irisviel really had no way of judging.

Such dangerous heroic spirits have become enemies, and naturally they should be listed as key targets for defense.

"Who is Xiao Ai?" Captain Dragonfly asked.

If it is a normal class of Heroic Spirit, he can certainly tell which one it is. The aura that Heroic Spirits of different classes exhibit in the Judge's perception is completely different.

For example, when Artoria senses something, her aura condenses into the shape of a sword, although this sword is currently stained with a layer of black. Meanwhile, the Archer Knight, Gilgamesh, is a large, dazzling mass of gold.

"What does the aura you sense look like? Can you show it to us?" Irisviel asked.

“Okay.” Captain Dragonfly reached out and tapped the golden brass bell on his left arm, which looked like an old-fashioned school bell. Patterns made of mist-like substances appeared in front of him, each representing a different Heroic Spirit.

The dazzling gold vortex and the sword stained with ink are undoubtedly those of Glamour Gold and Artoria.

As for the other three, one of them kept changing form, sometimes a large cleaver, sometimes an Italian cannon. According to Irisviel's understanding, this was definitely another randomly appearing Heroic Spirit—Li Yunlong.

The other two are quite different. One is a mouth that keeps opening and closing, seemingly devouring something. The last one is rather unique; it has no particular shape or color, or rather, at first glance it appears to have an infinite number of colors, but upon closer inspection, no color can be discerned, as if it were a chaotic void.

"Which location do you want to confirm?" Captain Dragonfly asked.