Or, why don’t you find another savior?

This huge disaster known as the "Incineration of Humanity" was definitely not something that Leif could have caused alone, and that man was undoubtedly just a pawn in the whole thing.

"So before we go to the clock tower, do we need to take a detour and go to Dr. Frankenstein's house to find out what's going on?" Sakura finally confirmed the next plan.

Her words caught Jekyll's attention. The young man shook his head and said with regret:

"Ma'am, I don't want to dampen your expectations, but the clock tower has been destroyed."

"Really?" Sakura sighed after hearing this.

"As expected, it turned out like this." Xijian was not surprised at all.

They had already predicted this on the way here with Mordred. As the headquarters of magicians, it is also one of the organizations where the Magic Association truly operates effectively and has the closest exchanges with the magician world.

If we create a singularity in this city and distort history, the magicians will definitely be the first to notice this anomaly and fight back.

Therefore, the correct approach is to first defeat the clock tower, eliminate the resistance, and thus clear the obstacles.

But the one who can do this...

"You two are not surprised at all." Jekyll felt that he was worrying too much.

Mordred laughed happily: "Our Master is a top-notch magician, he must have anticipated this kind of difficulty at the first time!"

"No, this is all thanks to my father and mother's good teaching." Sakura humbly responded to Saber's praise while drinking black tea.

Mordred glanced at the image of Morgan establishing contact with this side, and she shook the beer bottle: "Come to think of it, I didn't have time to ask last time, why does the master want to use honorifics for the queen mother?"

Shiomi is the father, but Morgan is the mother.

"Because Mother is Mother. If I don't call her that, it always feels a little inadequate." Sakura gave the reason.

"Hey hey..." Mordred wanted to complain about Sakura's admiration for Morgan, but he felt it was inappropriate.

"Ying is a good child, much better than the guy who would call someone's father 'the queen's male lover' to his face." Morgan teased Mordred.

"Indeed." Shiomi agreed.

Mordred felt a little embarrassed and could only glare at Jekyll who was laughing there.

She didn't expect that Morgan could hear the voice here at that time.

Mordred had given up thinking about the origins of this Morgan, leaving the question on the border of ambiguity.

She would neither directly call this Morgan mother nor deny it.

"Oh, that's right. Why did Saber say that Dad was a male concubine?" Sakura also remembered this and complained unhappily, "Even if you don't want to admit Dad's position, you don't have to say that, right?"

Mordred gulped down his beer and replied incoherently: "Stop talking nonsense. You can call me whatever you want. If you have the guts, use the Command Spell."

"The Command Seals created by Chaldea are not as powerful as the Command Seals of the Fuyuki Holy Grail War." Sakura looked at the Command Seals on the back of her hand with a look of regret.

“Hey, hey, hey! If it were possible, you would really like to use the precious Command Seals in a place like this!”

"It's suitable, isn't it?" Sakura blinked, looking innocent.

Listening to the conversation between Sakura and Mordred, as well as Morgan's sudden interruption, Shiomi's tense nerves gradually relaxed, and she decided to take a short rest before setting off again.

Chapter 21 Enemy

As Morgan had said, Dr. Frankenstein was attacked.

After an hour of rest, Shiomi, Sakura and Mordred rushed to the doctor's residence, only to find an empty room. Although the doctor did not even leave his body, Shiomi could still judge that the doctor had been killed.

"Eh? You met your father again in the singularity of Fuyuki? And he was contaminated by black mud?"

While searching the room for clues, Sakura chatted with Mordred and brought up the matter of the Fuyuki singularity.

She originally wanted to discuss the commonalities between the two singularities with Mordred, but as expected, Mordred's focus went off track.

"What's the situation with the dark father?" Mordred said with a serious face.

"Cold, ruthless, and decisive." Shiomi picked up a notebook on the table and answered Mordred for Sakura, "Although it is true that I can recognize that she is Altria Pendragon, she is basically a heart of stone. If Altria was like that when she was alive, she would probably leave a legend as a cold-blooded tyrant."

Mordred lowered his eyes and grinned, seeming to sigh: "Is that so..."

The rebellious knight was surprised that he actually thought that if his father was really like this, perhaps Britain would have a different ending.

Even his own rebellion can be crushed easily...

"We'll talk about the Knight King later. Look at this." Shiomi held up the notebook in his hand. "It seems to be something left by Dr. Frankenstein before his death. He was killed while writing the notebook."

Sakura and Mordred immediately moved over and looked at the note pad in Shiomi's hand.

The doctor said in his notes that he discovered a plan called "Magic Mist Project", but the details are unknown. The leaders of the plan are "P", "B", and "M". They can all use magic that exceeds the level of human intelligence, so they are probably heroic spirits.

Then the note broke off, leaving only the blood splattered on it.

"'P', 'B', 'M'..." Shiomi groaned, "It's worrying... The doctor should have discovered more things, but he was silenced before he could finish writing."

Sakura turned on the communicator: "I will scan and write down this note first, maybe it will come in handy later. Saber, please look for it in the room again--"

"Wait a moment, Master." Mordred stretched out his hand. "The direction of the fog has changed."

Xi Jian raised his eyebrows slightly and held the magic wand in his hand.

London's magic fog even invaded the room, which the three people noticed when they entered the room. Dr. Frankenstein had been killed, and the barrier he set up naturally could not continue to be effective like Jekyll's apartment.

But at this moment, the nature of the magic fog quietly changed.

Moreover, it was the same poisonous fog that all three of them were familiar with, which was seeping into the room from outside little by little.

"You are so persistent. It has only been less than two hours since we first met." Shiomi walked in front and pointed his wand at the door, "Jack the Ripper."

The door opened, and a gust of wind rushed into the room, bringing with it even stronger magical power.

He walked out of the room, stood on the steps in front of the door, and looked down at the courtyard path opposite the gate.

However, it wasn't just Jack the Ripper waiting outside, there was also a clown-looking servant, and behind them was a thin man in a white robe.

All three of them are followers.

The skinny servant in white is clearly the leader of Jack the Ripper and the Joker... or the Master.

"What a warm welcome this time. In addition to the executioner kid, there are actually two strange guys!" Mordred grinned and said to the enemy with a violent smile.

"Wait a minute..." Sakura used Chaldea's system to analyze the spiritual bases of the three servants, "Caster... there are two of them?"

This further confirms previous speculation that the summoning of heroic spirits in London did not originate from the Holy Grail War, but had other reasons.

"I didn't expect the surprise attack to fail right after it was prepared. It's just as my friend 'M' said. You are not someone who can be dealt with easily, Xijian Tianxi."

The thin man in white seemed to have known Shiomi from the beginning and said his name naturally.

"So what should we do? Since you know where I come from, should we surrender obediently or die here?" Shiomi raised his wand. Although he wanted to continue questioning, the other party would definitely not answer easily. He might as well prepare for a fight. "Or how about telling me your name first, Caster?"

"I'm very sorry, but my friends and I still have an important mission to complete, and we don't intend to admit defeat here." The man in white raised his sword, "You can call me 'P'."

"That's..." Sakura leaned closer to Shiomi and whispered, "The weapon in Caster's hand is the AZOTH sword."

"AZOTH sword? 'P'..." Shiomi used the two keywords as indexes in his mind and selected the identity from the heroes he knew. "I see, it's actually von Hohenheim Paracelsus..."

The AZOTH sword was originally a magic weapon created by this magician through alchemy. It is said that he never let the sword leave his side during his lifetime.

Shiomi was the first to think of this answer, and it hit the nail on the head.

Paracelsus still had that slightly melancholy expression on his face: "As expected, my real name was seen through in an instant. I underestimated my enemy."

"So, are we ready to start? I'm still hungry after killing those adults." Jack the Ripper urged impatiently, "That girl has a lot of magic power. Killing her will surely fill my stomach!"

"Of course, Jack the Ripper. And then, you will also be held accountable for your own negligence... Mephistopheles."

Paracelsus did not seem to intend to hide the true names of his servants, and gave the order to start the war.

"That's true, I'm a pacifist." Mephistopheles' tone was lazy and funny, and he raised the exaggerated large scissors, which was his weapon.

"You deliberately did not destroy the notes left by Dr. Frankenstein, leaving a fatal clue. This is your job to clean up the mess." Paracelsus said, "If you defeat them all here, your mission will be over."

From the subtle conversation, Shiomi sensed something unusual.

Before he could ask further questions, Jack the Ripper and Mephisto jumped up one after another and rushed towards the three people in front of the door.

At the same time, Paracelsus, standing in the courtyard, raised the AZOTH sword in his hand, and five gems of different colors rotated around the blade.

The magic power contained in the sword instantly launched a ritual magic, aiming at where everyone was.

Chapter 22 True Ether

"Using the five elements to simulate the real ether?"

After seeing the magic, or the treasure, performed by Paracelsus, Shiomi was also surprised.

I never thought that the five famous elementalists in history could actually perform magic of this level.

"In the way! Get out of your way!"

Mordred released her magic power and forced back Jack the Ripper and Mephisto who were rushing towards her. She also knew that the man in white had serious problems with his magic and that she would be in trouble if she continued to stay here.

"Mordred, take Sakura and retreat. I will handle this."

Shiomi struck the ground with his magic wand, and a magic circle formed by runes appeared immediately.

Without any hesitation, Mordred picked up Sakura and jumped to a wider area in the courtyard.

“It’s already too slow.”

Paracelsus calmly declared that he didn't care about Mordred and Sakura, and the only target he wanted to deal with was Shiomi Tenki.

"Let me show you my brilliance." The elementalist said, "Lift the limited treasure, activate the Philosopher's Stone, and gather the super-high-density magic power... and shine it, start!"

The five elements condensed in an instant, turned into pseudo-real ether, and fired towards Shiomi. The gate of Dr. Frankenstein's mansion and the front building began to collapse under the attack of this treasure.

Sakura and Mordred, who were held back by Jack and Mephisto, couldn't help but feel uneasy and worried about Shiomi's danger.

Paracelsus, who had released the True Name of his Noble Phantasm, did not feel happy about it.

Because the man saw it. He saw that just before his attack hit, an extraordinary rune magic spell was opened, directly blocking his attack route.

Amidst the smoke, the rising bluish-white light declared that Shiomi was not defeated.

"Let me show you what the true Aether's posture is like." said Xi Jian.

Ever since the Age of Gods retreated from the earth's surface, the magic power in the atmosphere has gradually become thinner, until it returned to zero at the advent of the Christian era.

Magic and mystery are able to continue because the existence of the fifth fictional element, Ether, has been proven.

In contrast, the magical element that once existed widely in the Age of Gods was called True Ether, or the fifth element of truth.

However, although the true ether has retreated from the surface of the earth, it still exists in some places.

For example, the paradise where the flower magician was imprisoned.

For example... the Land of Shadows which is filled with the concept of death.

These are all places that even magicians cannot reach.

Since leaving the Kingdom of Shadows and returning to the human world, Shiomi has changed the way he practices magic.

The reason is very simple. Since the Age of Gods has retreated from the earth's surface, the existence of the True Ether should not continue to appear. Doing so will bring unpredictable changes to the already unstable foundation of human nature since the beginning of the Christian era.

——That was what the master warned him before he left, and Shiomi followed it very well.

Even without relying on the True Aether, Shiomi can perform the magic taught by his master to a level that is not inferior to that of modern magicians.

"that is……"

Paracelsus looked at the magic power that Shiomi gathered in amazement and sensed something unusual about it.

The true ether is revealed.

This is a singularity, a distortion of human history. As long as the singularity is repaired, all traces left here that are inconsistent with human history will disappear.

Therefore, Shiomi has to reveal his trump card as a tribute to this top magician who can simulate the real ether.

“Feel it with your heart. This is the secret of the lost Age of Gods!” Shiomi’s hair fluttered in the wind. He raised his magic wand and pointed it at Paracelsus. “You have nowhere to escape, von Hohenheim Paracelsus!”

"I see. No wonder my friend 'M' is so wary of you. A magician of the Age of Gods like you should be confined to the Wandering Sea or the Atlas Court."

Paracelsus raised the AZOTH sword in his hand, but did not perform the magic again. Instead, he began to absorb the true ether emitted by Shiomi's ritual.

The real ability of this magic sword is the spirit particle calculator, which can analyze and correspond the enemy's magic power, and finally corrode it and turn it into its own.

However, after the True Aether was absorbed by the Demon Sword, the sword body made of the Philosopher's Stone gradually began to wail.

"Answer me, Paracelsus, why did you participate in the creation of this singularity, and who gave you the instructions!" Shiomi asked, "What does Leif Lenore Flauros have to do with you!"