Or, why don’t you find another savior?

Then, the conversation that seemed like a casual exchange fell into a temporary silence.

Morgan picked up the coffee in front of him, took a sip, and waited for the two to get to the point.

"So, what do you think, Romani?" Shiomi asked Romani frankly, "Who is that man who calls himself the Magic King Solomon? Do you have any clue?"

"Even if you say so..." Romani stroked his hair, "Personally, I think he is probably telling the truth... Although it's a bit irresponsible to say so."

"So conversely, the people working with us now are actually fakes?" Morgan joked.

"Hey, hey..." Romani's mouth twitched.

Shiomi pinched his chin and thought for a while: "Let me ask a question, Romani. What kind of existence is Magic King Solomon to you now? Is it a past life, or is it..."

"That's a good question, as expected of you." Romani smiled happily. Even Malis Billy, who regarded him as a friend, never cared about such things. "In my opinion, Solomon and I are like different beings."

"What's the reason?" Shiomi listened carefully.

"Because Solomon did not have human sensibility, or rather, he had no period as a human. From the moment he was born, he was treated as a king who could listen to the voice of God. People wanted him to fulfill his duties as a king, and he did just that. Although he was known as the 'passionate king', this was all in response to the requests of those around him." Romani expressed his views.

"Like the Queen of Sheba?" Xijian asked.

"Yes. In fact, Solomon does not have a second of free will. Even though he is given the power to know everything, he is forbidden to express his opinion on these things. Solomon is actually the name of a device, a device made by God and man to make the kingdom develop better. So Solomon has no humanity, he has no relationship with the world as a human being, and he is not given the freedom called "human"."

When Shiomi heard this, he recalled what Morgan had said in the car eleven years ago before the final battle of the Holy Grail War, and what Gilgamesh had said before that.

"Although both are kings created by gods and humans, Solomon and Gilgamesh have completely opposite ways of existence." Shiomi sighed.

"Yes. Actually, I envy Gilgamesh a little. As a king created by gods and humans, he did not obey his fate as a device, and personally led humans to bid farewell to gods..." Romani sighed sincerely, "But... I don't agree with his behavior as a tyrant."

Shiomi couldn't help but laugh at this self-justification.

It was the kind of smile that showed understanding and knowingness.

"So, you made a wish to become a human?" Shiomi leaned back on a chair that looked like a single sofa. "I have also seen the King of Conquerors. That man also had the desire to obtain a body, but he wanted to reign as a king again and conquer everything."

"That's because he's freer than I am. The King of Conquerors must also have the freedom of being a human being, and can act according to his own desires." Romani said, "That's why I want to become a human. No magic circuits, no clairvoyance, but I'll gain true freedom..."

Morgan nodded slightly: "But this freedom is also shackled."

"…Maybe, but I feel like I've been very content over the past ten years." Romani shook his head, disagreeing with Morgan's opinion. "It was a dreamlike time."

"I see." Xi Jian understood. "That man is not Solomon. I don't know how he got the power to be so real, but at least the guy who can freely express his dissatisfaction with humans and burn the world can't be Solomon."

Even though he was once a Servant, Magic King Solomon still follows his duties.

If Malisbury needed him to commit suicide at that time, he would obey even without the Command Spell.

The realization of the Third Law can lead to human evolution. If that is the answer that humans of this era need, he will sacrifice his second life for it.

Magic King Solomon is such a person.

"I'm glad you said that," Romani said.

"After all, we are not just colleagues, we are also friends." Shiomi smiled gently, "But the man who calls himself Solomon now, in addition to the difference I just mentioned... there are other things about him that are out of place, but I can't remember what it is at the moment. Maybe the battle was too short and I missed something."

"Maybe...it's this." Romani took off his gloves, revealing the ring on his left hand.

"Ah..." Xijian remembered.

King Solomon's ten rings were all gold, but the man who appeared in the London singularity had a silver ring.

"This is the ring that King Solomon used to summon magic because he was worried that magic would become a threat to humanity in the future. Malibri found it after King Solomon was sent to the future before his death. It is also the holy relic he used to summon magic," Romani said. "Although I don't know how the other nine rings..."

"What will happen if I use this ring?" asked Shiomi.

Romani hesitated for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and said, "Perhaps I will die. When the ten rings are reunited, the Magic King will be able to activate the First Noble Phantasm and repeat the legend of returning miracles to heaven during his lifetime, completely erasing himself from human history."

Chapter 38 Power

It was so cruel that even Shiomi couldn't understand the meaning of this treasure.

He covered his face with his hands, his expression solemn:

"Take good care of this ring, and it's best not to use it..." Xi Jian was halfway through his words when an idea suddenly occurred to him, "No, there is another option. Can you give it to me?"

"Huh?" Romani didn't understand.

"If you offer it to me, the right to use it will fall into my hands, but I am not the Magic King, so I cannot activate that cruel treasure." Shiomi continued, "But it should be the key to command the remaining nine rings, so that the Ten Rings can be freed from the control of that man and used by me."

The reference point was his experience of using "Avalon".

But Shiomi is not sure whether he can control the full power of the Ten Commandments.

"Why do you want to do this? Do you have any secret tactics?" Romani was very concerned. He was a human being, so he was afraid of death and didn't want the ring to be used.

But if there are other options, he will consider them.

"It's not a hidden tactic, but a secret of mine." Shiomi raised her hand, and the magic wand she got from the Fuyuki singularity slowly appeared and floated in the center of the round conference table. "This is what I got from Cu Chulainn who was seriously injured and retreated in singularity F."

"This is it!" Romani stood up.

Morgan's eyes widened as well. "This isn't just ordinary ash wood... it's made from a part of the World Tree? Why would Cu Chulainn have this?"

"It's probably the result of a plan by the great god Odin." Shiomi expressed his guess, "interfering with the Throne of Heroes, allowing Brother to appear at singularity F with this magic wand..."

After gradually calming down from shock, Romani sat back in his seat: "Odin... the main god of the Nordic countries, why would he do this for you?"

"I think this has something to do with the secret of mine," said Shiomi.

"He was killed, but came back to life... Is that so?" Morgan lowered his eyes. "Then everything makes sense."

Shiomi was stunned for a moment, and looked at Morgan with Romani.

"Originally, this should have been revealed by my husband's master." Morgan smiled, "This time I will reveal my husband's secret before you find her."

At this point, she suddenly left the question unanswered: "Doctor, what do you think of my husband's situation in the London singularity?"

“If I have to say, it is indeed the realm of magic from the Age of Gods, but it is far more than that. His recovery at the singularity F before that was already amazing,” Romani said.

Morgan nodded slightly. "You, who established the miracle of magic as a phenomenon manipulation technique, do you still remember the general types of miracles?"

"Magic, rituals, secrets and curses." Xi Jian answered at this time, "My master has already talked about this... Wait a minute..."

When he said this, he suddenly remembered the rest of what his master had said.

Above these four categories of miracles, there is a higher level category.

"Can you tell someone other than me about your experience studying magic in the Shadow Kingdom? Let's skip the part about martial arts." Morgan smiled.

With a rough guess, Shiomi slowly told everything about something that happened to him in the Land of Shadows.

Then, Romani also showed a shocked expression, as if he thought Shiomi was lying:

"Magic that creates life in a place where there is no life? That's impossible. If it were the outside world, it would be fine, but that is a pure land of death, a place deprived of the concept of life. Even your master should be about the same."

Morgan, who rarely acted as an arbitrator, raised his hand to signal Romani to calm down. "This is the genius of my husband, who stumbled upon it by accident. He accidentally crossed the barrier of miracles and touched the power that only gods possess from the realm of magic."

"Power..." Shiomi finally faced the answer.

After leaving there, he lost the environment where only the "concept of death" existed, so he regarded his familiarity with the realm of life as the embodiment of the magic of the original rune.

"However, the power related to life is possessed only by the God of Creation, or beings like the Earth Mother." Romani sighed, covering his forehead with his hands.

In any case, the Magic King only performed a miracle once in his lifetime, and did not delve into it and reach the realm of God.

However, he found out why the man who called himself the Magic King appeared in London and killed Shiomi himself instead of asking his subordinates to do it.

"So the Magic King appeared there... because he saw Shiomi's power and decided to kill him?"

"No, if that were the case, he would have taken my husband's body away and sealed it up after killing him, instead of just leaving like that." Morgan laughed sarcastically, "The Magic King's clairvoyance can't see through my husband's true nature, right?"

Romani seemed to have hit a sore spot and laughed dryly: "...Indeed."

Although he lost everything as Solomon, the memories of that time still remain.

It is precisely because the Clairvoyance cannot fully see through Shiomi's power that he asks the King of Heroes to help hold back other enemies so that he can face Shiomi and Morgan alone.

"But even if my husband has touched the realm of power, neither I, the doctor, nor even the Magic King can give you any advice." Morgan smiled awkwardly, "That is a place that even magicians like us have never reached."

But Romani had other ideas, he looked at the gloves he took off and the final ring.

"The power to enter the gate of power, the World Tree Wand given by the great god Odin, the magic and martial arts of the Age of Gods learned in the Kingdom of Shadows..." He enumerated Shiomi's conditions, "If it were you, maybe..."

"It just suddenly occurred to me, but what should I do? Perhaps I can only find the answer when I really face that 'Solomon'." Shiomi raised his hand, signaling Romani not to draw conclusions so easily.

Romani, however, holds the opposite view: "I am just a human being now, and I enjoy my life as a human being. So, I want to take a gamble like a human being and entrust this ring that King Solomon sent to the future to you who belong to this era."

"Or maybe it's praying to God." Morgan joked as he looked at the ring placed in front of Ximen.

"Don't praise people so highly, it's not good..." Xi Jian couldn't laugh. He understood the significance of having this ring entrusted to him.

If I can't do anything... the owner of the ring may...

He carefully held the ring in his palm.

"That's all for now regarding Solomon and my respective issues. Next, I'd like to propose a change in the plan for future singularity repairs."

Shiomi closed her palms and handed the plan to Romani who was putting on gloves.

Chapter 39 Olga Marie Attempts to Abuse Her Power

The original battle plan was to use the situation at singularity F as a reference, and then based on the human basic values ​​measured at each confirmed singularity, the existing personnel who could participate in the lepton transfer were divided into three teams, each of which carried out human restoration work.

The basic value of the human physics in the Orleans singularity is closest to that of singularity F, so it is assigned to Olga Marie, Fujimaru Ritsuka, and Mashu. Led by an excellent magician and director, they accumulate practical experience in all aspects in this singularity.

The slightly higher level of Rome is in the charge of the team of Kallen and Gray, who also have the purpose of accumulating practical experience there.

According to this idea, Shiomi originally thought that after solving the six singularities, they would reunite and head to the seventh singularity together.

However, an unexpected situation occurs in the London singularity, causing the incineration of humanity, and a man who calls himself the Magic King appears before Shiomi, demanding that he surrender or die.

The identity of the enemy to be faced gradually became clearer, so Xi Jian Tianxi proposed a new combat plan.

"In other words, we are heading to the third singularity. Do we need to gather together in advance and go together?"

After completing the repair work on the first and second singularities, Olga Marie returned to Chaldea. During the operations meeting, she looked at Shiomi's plan and asked seriously.

"No, to be more precise, you two will join me, while I will go to the fifth singularity that we confirmed a few days ago." Shiomi said, "The Magic King has clairvoyance that can see into the past and the future. Although he cannot see the situation in Chaldea, he will definitely notice me who has appeared in the singularity again to carry out human restoration work."

Kallen crossed her arms and said thoughtfully, "So Dad wants to be the bait?"

"No, this is too dangerous!" Sakura was the first to object.

Although the incident of Shiomi almost dying was suppressed and covered up as a problem of signal interference in order not to shake the morale of others, Sakura, who had witnessed it, could not accept it.

"I can't agree with this either. No one can tell whether the Magic King will appear in front of the teacher next time." Olga Marie put down the plan and objected worriedly.

If even someone like the teacher doesn't have confidence, Chaldea will have no chance of dealing with the Magic King.

"But what Mr. Shiomi means is that if he also acts with us, he will be caught by the Magic King." Ritsuka raised her hand to speak. She understood the intention of Shiomi's action.

"Ritsuka is right." Shiomi nodded with a smile, "But what I just said was just a worst-case inference. I actually wanted to take this opportunity to confirm something."

Gray asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?"

"When the Magic King appeared at the London singularity, he said that he was waiting there 'in his spare time'." Shiomi considered his words carefully and recalled the other party's words and deeds again. "At singularity F, Professor Leif said that the whole world had been burned to ashes, and only Chaldea survived because of the special magnetic field."

He looked at everyone in the conference room and said, "Then conversely, can we speculate that the great disaster of burning human principles has actually been completed. The Magic King is already carrying out his next plan, and his appearance in front of me is just a brief gap before the next thing is carried out?"

“So that means…” Olga Marie’s forehead was covered with cold sweat.

"For the Magic King, the burning of human principles may only be the first step. He shows a strong disdain for humans and human history, and believes that humans who cannot overcome death and the fear of death are useless." Shiomi has been thinking about this problem these days, and has tried to discuss it with Morgan or Romani, and even Leonardo da Vinci, but except for Morgan who seems to be very secretive, the other two can only come to a similar conclusion. "If the Magic King really has a next step, then maybe he won't have the leisure to appear in front of us like he did in the London singularity."

That's why Shiomi is going to the next singularity alone, using himself as bait to test whether the Magic King is really like that.

The two possibilities currently seem to be half and half.

So his speculation did not reassure Olga Marie and she agreed to his new plan.

“No matter what, this decentralized approach is also very risky. Even if the teacher is stronger than the rest of us combined, there will always be things that we cannot take into account when we act alone.” Olga Marie bit her fingertips, “So the operation to the fifth singularity will be carried out by the teacher and I, and the others will rest during this period and then go to the third singularity—”

"Wait a minute, Director!" Ying stood up, put her hands on the table, and stared at Olga Marie. "Dad and I have experience working together, and I have been by his side since I was a child. No matter how you look at it, it should be me who continues to be with Dad, right?"

"Uh..." Olga Marie was stumped. She looked at Kallen, "In that case, Kallen can do it too, right?"

Kallen showed a strange smile: "It doesn't matter who goes, just discuss it freely."

"If it's really inconvenient, I'll go." Gray raised her hand. "Like Mr. Shiomi, I'm a human with a Noble Phantasm. Yade's performance in the second singularity was very impressive."

Not only that, the Holy Spear that Yad liberated even defeated Attila, the King of the Huns, who liberated the Noble Phantasm, thanks to Gray's efforts, bringing the final battle of the second singularity to an end.

"That won't work. Gray and Mash are equally important servants. You should act together." Olga Marie rejected it immediately. "The location of the third singularity is in the Atlantic Ocean. Chaldeas shows that it is Oceanus, a place that only exists in legends."

"Woo..." Gray lowered her head and her entire face shrank into the shadows.