Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

"Everything has its own rules. When species form groups, leaders will naturally emerge. The leader decides the future of the group and makes decisions to face prosperity and decline. The decision of this leader is the law. I only need to make laws according to my wishes, and my subjects only need to follow my laws." Gilgamesh's arrogance was revealed as he spoke.

After hearing Gilgamesh's words, Iskandar looked thoughtful. His conclusion as a king was similar to Gilgamesh's. Gilgamesh's words gave him new insights.

The Knight King, on the other hand, could not agree at all. He stared at Gilgamesh and said, "Your dictatorial ways are only an expansion of your personal desire for power. The will and needs of your subjects are completely suppressed. People like you will never have a fulfilling life."

Gilgamesh didn't care about the Knight King's gaze at all. He knocked on the table and nodded, "You are right to a large extent. My subjects are responsible for obeying the laws I set. As the only king between heaven and earth, my power should not be infringed by anyone and all people are responsible for obeying it. Any unnecessary will is a rebellion against the king."

"But what you said about a perfect life is wrong. My life is perfect. As a king, I do not need anyone standing by my side. Those who admire me, follow me, and hate me, as long as they kneel under my laws, I will treat them all equally. Moreover, Knight King, it seems ironic to hear the word perfect coming from your mouth. It seems that your kingdom is falling apart because of you." After Gilgamesh learned of the identity of the Knight King, Kotomine Risei, who was in the church, also informed him of the information about the Knight King.

Gilgamesh's words were filled with contempt, and his last words struck the Knight King's heart like a hammer.

When the Knight King heard Gilgamesh's words, he reacted violently, "That's why I think I am lacking as a king. I will go back to my time and elect a better and more perfect king."

"What kind of dream are you having? You actually take your ideal as reality. Even the miscellaneous gods revered by humans cannot be perfect. How can you think you can find such a person? Even if such a person appears, what words can be used to describe him?" Gilgamesh mocked the Knight King without hesitation.

"In your time, in the eyes of your respected subjects, you are a perfect existence, and you possess absolute will, but you do not use it to lead them. This is the reason for the decline of your kingdom. In the kingdom, it is enough to have one absolute voice. This voice will guide the kingdom forward, and it is enough for the subjects to try their best to understand this voice." Gilgamesh pointed out the reason why the Knight King's kingdom was destroyed from his own perspective.

"A dictator who disregards the wishes of his subjects is doomed to betray everyone." The Knight King could not agree with Gilgamesh's kingly words. She could understand using laws to restrain his subjects, which was like the code of chivalry virtues at her time, but the king himself was above the law, which reminded her of the lords who were overthrown by the masses in their fiefdoms at that time.

"People who are immersed in an ideal country, although I strongly disapprove of your behavior, it does not prevent me from appreciating your efforts. I hope you can let me see a different scenery, hahaha", Gilgamesh drank the wine in his hand, and then looked towards the darkness next to him.

"It seems that an uninvited wild dog has come in. King of Conquerors, is this also your invited guest?" Gilgamesh looked into the darkness and saw a figure flashing, but no sound was made.

After being discovered, the figure hiding in the dark also came out, wearing a skull mask and a black cloak.

"It's the assassin." The next moment the black cloaked figure appeared, Toosaka Rin sensed his situation, but Waver was a little slower. He only reacted after seeing the assassin and quickly reminded his Heroic Spirit.

Iskandar did not look over at the first moment. Instead, he took out the wine spoon in front of him and scooped a spoonful of wine from the surviving wine barrel beside him. Then he handed it over with no concern on his face. "I said, as long as they are willing to join my army, I will lead them to conquer the Endless Sea and share the honor together. Come, wine in front and blood together."

However, Assassin was obviously not interested in the Conqueror's invitation. He threw the dagger in his hand and cut off the wine spoon in the Conqueror's hand. The wine spoon fell and the wine spilled. After Assassin threw the dagger, more than a dozen people wearing black cloaks and skull masks appeared behind him. Their figures were exactly the same as Assassin.

"How could this be? These people are all assassins. Doesn't the Holy Grail Game stipulate that there can only be one Heroic Spirit per class?" Weber exclaimed when he saw more than a dozen assassins suddenly appear on the field.

Chapter 376 The banquet is over

"Haha, you're rejected again? But, I told you, this wine is with your blood," Iskandar laughed again, his body left the table, and walked past Gilgamesh and the King of Knights.

"Since you've refused, you'll be my rival on the road to conquest." The violent magic power in Iskandar's body burst out, and the air in the garden began to become stagnant.

A dozen assassins were suppressed by this strong pressure, and they felt their bodies stagnate and were about to launch a counterattack.

At this time, Iskandar spoke again and asked the same question at the beginning, "King, are you aloof?"

Then, without waiting for a response, he continued, "The answer is, a king should be aloof."

After Iskandar finished speaking, the void in the entire garden suddenly became blurred. Then, everyone was surprised to find that the original garden had turned into a desert. Hundreds of illusory soldier figures appeared around Iskandar, and the number of these soldiers was constantly increasing, surrounding more than a dozen assassins.

"These are the soldiers who followed me, the Conqueror King Iskandar, and accompanied me through hundreds of battles. As a king, I will lead them to conquer the Endless Sea and share the glory. Soldiers, ravage them," Iskandar waved his hand and pointed at the dozen assassins surrounded in the center.

The moment Iskandar finished speaking, the virtual soldiers suddenly raised their weapons, shouted, "King! King! King!", and then launched a charge.

"Is this, an inherent barrier!?" Seeing Iskandar's attack and the sudden change in space, Toosaka Rin reacted immediately, found the corresponding information, and spoke it out immediately.

The inherent barrier is a magic that materializes the imagination in the mind, a magic that rewrites reality, and is said to be the magic closest to magic. It is listed as a forbidden spell by the Magic Association. It is an ability that only elves and demons can manipulate, but through the accumulation of strong mental scenes over a long period of time, coupled with huge magic power, this move can be performed.

But apart from the elves and demons that extend naturally, other people who use the inherent barriers will be gradually erased by the world, so huge magic power is needed to support it. A normal inherent barrier can only last for a few minutes. If the magic power is insufficient, the maintenance time will be shorter.

Once the inherent barrier is deployed, all objects within the range will be pulled into the caster's barrier. Just like now, Iskandar's inherent barrier covers the entire garden, so people in the garden are also pulled into his inherent barrier.

The battle started instantly. The soldiers that Iskandar materialized were not ordinary soldiers. If they were ordinary soldiers, they would not be qualified to be recorded in his inherent barrier. These soldiers were elite soldiers who had experienced hundreds of battles.

After killing more than ten soldiers, the assassin was overwhelmed by the charge of the soldiers, and was stabbed or cut into pieces by these soldiers, and the battle was declared over.

After the soldiers shouted a few more times, Iskandar withdrew his inherent barrier, and the scene began to become blurry again, returning to the garden.

The battle started very quickly and ended very quickly, but the shock it brought was huge. Gilgamesh, who had been sitting in the chair, lost his disdain and looked at Iskandar with admiration; while the Knight King looked at him with a serious expression.

"I am very satisfied to be able to talk with two kings from different eras. The Q&A session of the king is over. Since we have no way to make each other recognize each other, we can only explain it through battle. I look forward to fighting with you. Goodbye, the golden hero king, and the little knight king girl, hahahaha", Iskandar flicked his cloak, and a bull with electric light wrapped around its nostrils spewing white smoke appeared from the void, pulling the mighty wheel.

As Waver screamed again, Iskandar pulled him onto the God Wheel, soared into the sky, and disappeared into the sky.

After Iskandar disappeared, Gilgamesh drank the wine in his hand and jumped onto the golden spaceship Vimana, which was a flying vehicle recorded in the Mahabharata. It was powered by solar energy generated by solar crystals fueled by mercury and could fly at high speeds regardless of the laws of physics.

Standing on Vimana, Gilgamesh turned and looked at the Knight King below, "Knight King, I am looking forward to your script. Can your idealized goal be realized?" After that, Vimana disappeared into the air with Gilgamesh.

The remaining Knight King sat there without saying a word. Artoria was a little worried, so she walked over and wanted to comfort the Knight King, but she found that she didn't seem to know where to start. After all, after listening to the power of the three people, Artoria concluded that what the three people said made sense, but what the three people said also had problems.

"Don't worry, Leia, don't underestimate the faith of a king. I'm just recalling the former Knights of the Round Table. We used to discuss the future of Britain at the round table," the Knight King sighed, and then his eyes became serious again. The next time they meet, they will fight with all their might.

Seeing the Knight King regain his momentum, Altria felt relieved. She was a little worried that her Heroic Spirit would be hit by the mouth cannon attack.

Li Xuan has talked about related things before. To sum it up, in one sentence, whether it is a mule or a horse, just take it out for a walk. Time will make the right choice.

The King's Banquet ended, and in the end no one recognized anyone else, and the game returned to the original rules, with the heroes fighting to the end to decide the final winner.

"Leah, come here and take a look, it's so strange." When sisters Altria and Toosaka Rin were discussing the latest battle plan, Irisviel, who was directing the androids to clean the garden, seemed to have discovered something and shouted.

The three Altria girls heard Irisviel calling them and walked over.

"Ellie, is something wrong? Eh!?" After Altria and the other two walked over, they immediately noticed something wrong.

Toosaka Sakura spoke uncertainly, "Well, as I remember, in the Holy Grail Game, the defeated heroic spirits don't leave behind any bodies."

"That's definitely not the case. The Heroic Spirits are used to replenish the magic power for summoning the Holy Grail. The six Heroic Spirits will eventually be sucked into the hole and become the magical medium for summoning the Holy Grail." Toosaka Rin was very sure after reading the books in the Toosaka family's collection and adding the information here from Irisviel.

"Then, is this the assassin's body?" Toosaka Sakura pointed at the assassin's remains on the ground after being buried by the King of Conquerors' soldiers.

"We also discovered that after identification, these body parts all belonged to people who had been dead for more than three days, but the assassin had been dead for less than an hour," Irisviel told the maid the news after she examined the assassin's body.

-Knight King

Chapter 377 The Role of the Church

Several suspicious points that suddenly emerged made everyone fall into deep thought.

"What do you think? Is it possible that the assassin is not dead?" Toosaka Sakura quickly thought of a possibility.

"Not dead? But, as masters, we can clearly sense the aura of a heroic spirit on the assassin." Altria scratched her golden hair, not quite understanding.

"No, what Sakura said is very likely true," Toosaka Rin said, with wisdom flashing in her eyes.

"Eh? Even Rin says so? Aren't those corpses on the ground the assassin's?" Irisviel was also very curious at this time.

Toosaka Rin sorted out her thoughts in her mind and began to explain.

The corpse belonged to Assassin, but as the Assassin had just shown up, the appearance of multiple Assassins at the same time made people somewhat doubt the illusion of the rules of the Holy Grail Game. However, combined with Sakura's speculation, one can immediately come to the conclusion that the dead Assassin was not the real Assassin.

Assassin is an assassin. The Tohsaka family and the Einzbern have always summoned the Three Knights and ignored the others, so there are limited records of Assassin, but Li Xuan told the three girls a lot of information about the direct Heroic Spirit members in the Holy Grail Game.

As an assassin, assassin is likely closely related to the legendary figure of the Old Man of the Mountain in the Turban Zone.

"The maids pieced together the full appearance of the corpses. Each corpse looks different, which makes it even more consistent. The assassin this time is most likely a messenger of a school related to the Yamanaka Old Man, or even very likely the Yamanaka Old Man himself. His other title is Hassan of a Hundred Faces. His signature skill is that he can have a hundred faces. If reflected on the Heroic Spirit, it does not seem difficult to accept that he can manipulate the dead," Toosaka Rin analyzed carefully and made bold guesses.

"If that's the case, then we have to be careful. This assassin was able to launch a sneak attack at the banquet, or he was hiding farther away during the duel at the dock and was not discovered, or he has always had a whistle in Einzbern," Toosaka Rin immediately guessed the key point.

"The surveillance hasn't found anything yet," Irisviel said, adding that Einzbern's surveillance had found no signs of the assassin stalking.

Toosaka Rin was not surprised by this. As an assassin, an assassin has a basic attribute, which is the concealment of his aura. If a supernatural being like a heroic spirit is involved, then it would be easy for him to avoid surveillance.

"Don't worry, we just can't be too relaxed. We are not weak. Even Saber would find it difficult to defeat the three of us without giving her all." Seeing Irisviel's worried look, Altria reached out and held her hand, clenched her other hand into a fist, and spoke with great confidence.

Irisviel's worries were relieved when she saw Altria's confidence. According to the records of the Einzbern family, even the weakest Heroic Spirit could not be defeated by modern magicians. But Altria actually said that with the addition of the Toosaka Rin sisters, even Saber would not be able to defeat them without using her full strength. Such combat power is no worse than that of some weaker Heroic Spirits.

"Since the banquet is over, do we still need to go to church?" Alice remembered what she had not yet completed.

"Go, because Assassin suddenly thought of a hypothesis, but we can only confirm it after going to the church," Toosaka Rin contacted Rem. Not long after, Rem drove to the gate of Einzbern, and Toosaka Rin and the other three went to the church again.

This time, Toosaka Rin asked Rem to drive the car to the foot of the hill where the church was. After the four of them got out of the car, they started walking up.

Inside the church, Kotomine Riko, who was wearing black priest attire, had his eyes closed and was facing away from the door, with a cross in one hand and a Bible in the other. The sound of Toosaka Rin and the other three pushing the door made Kotomine Riko open his eyes and then turned around.

"Hello, Father. We are participants of the Holy Grail Game and come to you to learn some information." After Toosaka Rin came in, she looked around. It was no different from an ordinary church. The flames of candles burning all around illuminated the scene inside the church. Kotomine Riko also appeared in front of them with a serious look.

"My Lord has already told you about his visit. I have been waiting here for a long time. I am the head of the church, Kotomine Rizheng. I am responsible for providing shelter to Masters who are eliminated or defeated in the Holy Grail Game. At the same time, I will issue certain tasks based on the progress of the game. After completing them, you can get Command Spells as rewards." Kotomine Rizheng quickly introduced himself and the role of the church.

"Don't Command Seals only appear on Masters? Are you a Master too?" Altria looked a little cautious.

Kotomine Rimasa shook his head and slowly explained, "The Command Seals are used to restrain Heroic Spirits from being controlled by their Masters, or to enhance the combat effectiveness of Heroic Spirits. Every Master will have three Command Seals after making a contract with a Heroic Spirit, but during the battle, some Command Seals may not be used up, and the Master will fail. At this time, the Church will be responsible for recovering these Command Seals."

As Kotomine Lizheng finished speaking, he pulled up his robe and hands. Dozens of Command Seals covered his arms.

In past Holy Grail Games, the heads of the church would collect varying numbers of Command Seals in each Holy Grail Game. As the Command Seals accumulated, each generation of priests would pass them on through secret techniques to the next generation of priests of the Fuyuki City Church, waiting for the next Holy Grail Game.

"I understand. You are a neutral building similar to an observer." After hearing this, Altria also understood the location and function of the church.

"Then, if you are unfortunately defeated in the subsequent battles, you can come here for shelter until the end of the Holy Grail Game," Kotomine Rizheng pulled down his sleeves and continued to speak to the few people.

"No thanks. We will be the winners of this year's Holy Grail Game. We don't need protection or anything like that. We came here to ask you, have all the heroic spirits of the Holy Grail Game appeared in Fuyuki City now?" Toosaka Rin fixed her eyes on Kotomine Risei and asked.

Kotomine Risei was silent for a while, as if he had not expected Toosaka Rin's confidence and her question. After a while, when Toosaka Rin began to show impatient expression, he responded, "This falls within the scope of the Holy Grail Game, and the church itself should not be involved in it, but you are one of the three major families, so I specifically tell you this time that the seven masters and their heroic spirits have gathered in Fuyuki City."

"I understand, Leah, let's go, we have enough information," Toosaka Rin said to Altria and the other two girls, then turned and left the church.

Back at the foot of the church, Toosaka Rin spoke to the void beside her, "Archer, did Hawkeye see the person hiding in the church just now?"

-凛

Chapter 378 Toosaka Rin's Speculation

"Eh!?" Irisviel and the other two were a little curious after hearing what Toosaka Rin said.

Toosaka Rin saw the three people with curious eyes and covered her forehead with her hands, "No way, haven't you ever doubted the church? Hercules is an Archer, and with his job skill Eagle Eyes, he can find people even if they hide in the dark."

After the assassination, Toosaka Rin quickly thought of the church. If it was the same as the three major families, then Toosaka Rin might not have thought of the church, but unfortunately, Li Xuan told her that in the East, if someone says that he believes in God, then there is no doubt that there must be angels behind him.

Fuyuki City is in Sakura's territory, which is the eastern area.

"Ah? So, the angels are behind the church. That means, there are at least three chaebols involved in this Holy Grail Game?" Toosaka Sakura quickly sorted out her sister's words and analyzed more information along this direction.

"Chaebol!?" Alice was shocked to hear that the Holy Grail Game actually involved three chaebols. She originally thought that this was just a small-scale competition game, and whoever persisted to the end would get the final Holy Grail reward. If chaebols were involved, then the problem would be different. The Holy Grail was not something new in their eyes.

When Altria saw Irisviel's shocked expression, she remembered that she had not yet told Irisviel about the three of them's backers.

"Don't be surprised, Elly. I forgot to tell you about our background," Altria said with an embarrassed expression on her face.

"Background? Isn't it a British knight family and the Tohsaka family, one of the three great families?" Irisviel was once again filled with curiosity when she heard what Altria said.

Altria shook her head and continued, "That's not entirely accurate. To be precise, in addition to representing the British knight family and the Tohsaka family of the Three Great Families, we are also the spokesperson for one of the world's five largest chaebols, the Great Xia family, in this Holy Grail Game. This Holy Grail Game was not automatically activated, but was reactivated by Sorena of the Nordic chaebol Odin family who obtained the relevant props of the Holy Grail."

After briefly introducing the backgrounds of the three of them, Altria stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Irisviel, who was already a little intimidated, and said, "Are you okay, Elly? There's no need to be surprised. Didn't I tell you? I will definitely win this Holy Grail Game."

Irisviel came back to her senses after seeing Altria's actions, with a smile on her face, "I didn't expect it. I just thought I found a powerful helper, but I didn't expect it to be an ace."