Or, why don’t you find another savior?

Chapter 2: Heading to the Fifth Singularity ()

The earliest machine gun capable of continuous firing appeared in 1862. It was a hand-cranked machine gun invented by American Gatling.

However, such weapons appeared in North America in 1783, and were used by soldiers who looked like militiamen. Judging from their attire, they looked like the independence army of the thirteen states in North America in history.

Just from this, Shiomi could already see the distortion of this singularity. Firearms that were supposed to appear nearly eighty years later were already being used in this era.

But not only that, the soldiers who were wielding weapons that were considered deadly to people of that era and using these guns were hiding behind bunkers and emitting a series of wailing cries.

“Aaaaaaah——!!! Why?! Why is it not working at all!!”

It was not surprising that those soldiers made such noises. The soldiers armed with cold weapons were charging towards the positions of the soldiers armed with hot weapons. The rain of bullets fell on them, but it seemed as if they hit a solid bunker, only stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust, without even splashing blood.

"Is the human body so strong? Not everyone is a father..." Kallen hid behind a rock, used magic to strengthen her eyes, and observed the situation on the battlefield.

Shiomi squatted on the treetop, almost losing her balance: "Even if it was me, I would be injured if I was shot without magical defense..."

"Really? What a pity." Kallen sighed, "Without fear of physical damage, those warriors armed with cold weapons clearly have the advantage on the battlefield."

“Hmm…” Shiomi had long been accustomed to Kallen’s style, so she did not continue to complain, but continued: “From the situation, these warriors may have received a considerable degree of magical enhancement. Not only are their bodies very strong, but their personal emotions can also be erased, thus reducing them to mere war machines.”

"Can you even see this?" Karen asked.

"If you've seen enough battlefields, you'll understand just by looking at the movements." Shiomi stood up, "And this battle was a completely one-sided massacre. Those warriors wearing armor and using cold weapons looked like Celtic style..."

As she subconsciously analyzed the outfit, Shiomi was shocked.

The Celts shouldn't be in this place. Could it be that the ones leading these people are servants of Celtic origin?

In that case...

"What should we do? Should we sit back and watch the fight, or help those locals who are about to be killed?" Kallen asked again, "I would rather save those soldiers who are about to be slaughtered."

On one side are soldiers who shouldn't exist and may be from the mythological age, and on the other side are people who may have originally lived in this singularity.

"You've taught me a lesson, Kallen." Xijian laughed at himself and stood up from the ground, "I actually forgot the responsibilities on my shoulders because of personal reasons."

One of the tasks of repairing a singularity is to protect the people here from dying due to the occurrence of the singularity.

Otherwise, when the foundation of the singularity is restored and the world... or the quantum record tape is fixed for "human calculations", these people will not be resurrected.

The dead will not come back, but the world will be corrected to a level that can be understood by those who survived this singularity.

What's more, this was the last year of the American War of Independence, and those who died would eventually be counted as having died during the war.

Letting someone who could have survived die here would not actually shake the foundation of human nature. If it were another magus, they might just watch until the battle continued, until the leaders of both sides... or servants appeared.

After all, no matter how many people die, as long as the singularity is repaired, the quantum recording tape will make up for the loss in other ways, and the history of the United States' prosperity will not change at all.

The losses and gains in human history have always been balanced. This is "human actuarial science."

But Xi Jian couldn't do it, he was not the kind of person who could turn a blind eye to death.

Kallen couldn't do it either, because she had been with Shiomi from infancy to adulthood.

"I'll be responsible for breaking into the battlefield, Karin, you just find a suitable route--" Shiomi said, turning back and seeing that Karin had already prepared the magic gift outfit 'Never Miss'.

That was the hand crossbow magic gift set that Shiomi had prepared for her, and Kallen was already able to wield both of them skillfully.

"Find a suitable route, close in while taking cover. If the arrows from the two crossbows can't hurt those warriors, I will hide and wait for Dad to finish the battle."

"You are worthy of being my daughter. You know exactly what to do." Xijian said proudly.

"Although my colleagues in Chaldea often complain that the father looks younger than his daughter..." Karen pointed out faintly, "Even I sometimes think so."

"Let's just assume that everyone is in their twenties, okay..."

Shiomi, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, jumped off a several-meter-high cliff and rushed towards the battlefield, while Kallen quickly moved forward along a small path on the side.

In the short time when the two were about to intervene, those strange Celtic warriors had already rushed to the position of the Independence Army soldiers, jumped to heights that ordinary people could not reach, and the spears in their hands were shining with cold light of murder.

Despair surged into the hearts of these soldiers. They didn't know why such an enemy appeared and thought it must be some kind of nightmare.

The cold light approached, and suddenly stopped when it was only ten centimeters away from the soldier behind the machine gun.

A pool of blood spilled, staining the soldiers' clothes on the battlefield red.

The Celtic warrior who was so close was suspended in mid-air, and a red spear pierced the body.

Xi Jian held the bare spear in one hand, picked up the warrior's body, and threw it towards the other warriors who were surrounding him.

The red spears danced rapidly, and the blades passed through the Celtic warriors like red meteors, and then their spears broke instantly and their bodies lost strength.

As expected, they all became like puppets, like dolls who only knew how to obey orders and fight.

Shiomi pulled out the spear from a warrior's body.

Behind him, a pair of hurried footsteps were approaching, and Xi Jian turned the gun and launched a counterattack.

But this time, it was not a Celtic warrior who came to kill him, but a woman in red, holding a revolver with the muzzle pointed at Shiomi's head.

The two men stopped attacking and fell into a standoff.

If Shiomi's gun doesn't hit the target, the woman won't shoot.

"It seems that you are not a companion of these people? And you saved our soldiers. Who are you?" The female voice sounded rational.

"Master of Chaldea, come to investigate this singularity. What is your real name, Berserker?" Shiomi introduced himself and asked the servant in return.

"Berserker? What are you talking about? I'm a nurse and my name is Nightingale."

The other party obviously did not understand what Shiomi said and just introduced himself like this.

Chapter 3: Heading to the Fifth Singularity ()

Three hours later, in a church near the battlefield.

This church was converted into a temporary hospital, and the female servant who called herself Nightingale was the manager and nurse here.

Although she is a nurse, she has an unshakable say, and even the field doctor cannot refute her.

Shiomi sat on the floor outside the church and pulled at his white protective suit, which was stained with blood.

Because of Shiomi's sudden appearance, the originally one-sided battlefield was turned around by him single-handedly.

Although he was feared by the Independence Army because of his powerful strength, he was a hero who saved their lives after all, and with the guarantee of nurse Nightingale, Shiomi also gained the respect of these people.

After that, they cleaned up the battlefield and helped transfer the wounded back to the hospital in the rear.

As magicians, Shiomi and Kallen can both perform healing magic, so their presence brought great help to the wounded in this hospital.

Unlike medical disinfection, magic can relieve pain, stop bleeding and heal minor wounds more easily and quickly.

In this process, Shiomi even cured some wounded soldiers with broken limbs, or injured eyes and ears. Some wounded soldiers with deep faith regarded him as the messenger of God who came to this church and the Messiah who came to save them.

Shiomi simply remained silent and did not firmly deny it, because there was no need to disappoint these soldiers who needed religious beliefs to support their hearts.

After about three hours of assisted treatment, Nightingale kicked Shiomi out. She insisted that Shiomi needed to rest and that even as a magician, there should be limits to his magic power.

"The battlefield here is really tragic." Kallen, who was also wearing a white protective suit and long white gloves, walked outside. "It's a pity that the medical level of this era is limited..."

"Moreover, magicians often follow the iron rule of hiding mysteries and will never get involved in things that are not helpful in exploring the truth and the root." Shiomi pursed his lips, "If it weren't for the singularity, I wouldn't do such a thing."

On the one hand, he wanted to gain Nightingale's trust by helping her, so as to collect information about this singularity; on the other hand, he wanted to try to further explore the "power".

"Dad's healing magic can actually reach that level. It's something that only a top magician who specializes in healing magic can do." Karin praised softly.

"It's okay." Xi Jian shrugged, "How do you feel? If you are tired, just lean on me and rest for a while. Taking care of the injured is very exhausting."

Kallen obeyed and just leaned on his shoulder, the smell of blood mixed with Shiomi's scent coming over.

Taking advantage of the break, Shiomi established contact with Chaldea and explained the current situation.

"I don't think I'm a Servant of a Servant. After scanning Nightingale's spiritual base, I inferred that her class is Berserker." Morgan's image was projected. "You have so much blood on you. Did you kill anyone?"

Since returning from the London singularity, Chaldea has continued to repair and improve its communication equipment, and now it is possible to communicate with Chaldea from the singularity using both video and sound.

"That's not surprising. No wonder she insists on emphasizing that she is a nurse. Perhaps the combination of her frenzy and her persistence as a medical worker has led to her current mental state." Shiomi recalled the situation when they met on the battlefield.

"Before I came out just now, I tried to ask Nightingale about the situation of this singularity, but she was only concerned with taking care of the wounded and didn't want to answer my questions at all." Karen said helplessly, "Although we can communicate, we can only communicate a little bit."

Morgan's eyes scanned the other data on the screen. "A Berserker's berserk originally deprived the Servant of his own will, but this does not mean that the Servant's own abilities and legends can be ignored. Sometimes these essences will interact with the berserk level, so it is not surprising even if they can communicate normally."

The last person she was referring to was herself.

Obviously, Morgan had a very clear understanding that he would arrive as a Berserker, and did not feel strange or offended at all.

"But it's not all in vain." Xi Jian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Because I was treated as a savior by the wounded. Every time I treated one, the wounded would start to confess to me and pray to me... I'm really afraid that if this continues, I'll be arrested as a heretic and have a witch trial."

"Then I am a witch?" Kallen pointed at herself.

The witch-hunting movement that took place in the Middle Ages was caused by a life-and-death struggle between the Templar Church and the Magic Association.

Hundreds of years have passed since that era, but that doesn't mean these things will disappear completely.

"Then my husband should be able to use this opportunity to get some useful information, right?" Morgan's teasing tone was full of certainty.

Shiomi shrugged: "Well, I took the opportunity to ask some of the wounded and got a rough idea of ​​the situation here-"

Not long ago, the land that was later called the United States was suddenly divided into two parts, the East and the West, to start a war.

The West refers to the American troops that fought the War of Independence.

Those in the east were Celtic soldiers who should be called "warriors".

After those warriors were killed, their bodies were not left behind, but they disappeared like servants.

But their spiritual base cannot reach the level of servants. These puppet-like soldiers appear here, and they should have only one goal.

"Prevent the birth of the United States of America... If this War of Independence cannot be ended with victory, the history that has been fixed on the quantum record tape will not be established, which will affect all records after that and destroy human history." When Shiomi said this, he sent a few pictures taken when he passed by the military camp on the way here to Chaldea.

They were robots that looked almost identical to the Chaos Mechanical Soldiers seen in the London Singularity, the only difference being that they were painted with the Stars and Stripes pattern. The reason why the Independence Army had been able to hold out until now despite the strength of those Celtic warriors was because of the cooperation of these Mechanical Soldiers.

"It seems that both sides are very strange..." Kallen said, "On one side is the US military with Servant nurses and mechanical soldiers, and on the other side is the enhanced warriors who do not belong to this era."

Shiomi sighed: "Anyway, now that we have helped this side, we should try to investigate the war that occurred in the singularity from the perspective of these living people...then organize it and repair this-"

"You said you wanted to stop the 'war'?"

Suddenly, Nightingale's voice sounded behind me.

Chapter 46: Reunion after a long absence

Only Xijian remained indifferent, he sat on the steps.

"Do you think I'm too arrogant? A mere human being wants to stop a war by himself?" he asked jokingly.

"At least you are not an ordinary human." Nightingale's voice was clear and rational. Apart from his obsession with curing illnesses and saving lives, he was a Servant who could have a normal conversation. "If you intend to stop this war, I will act with you."

"What?" Xi Jian didn't expect Nightingale to put forward the opinions of her colleagues so simply.

But in fact, Nightingale's idea was very simple: "The wounded here have basically been treated because of your appearance. Next, as long as they follow the instructions I left, they will recover and be discharged from the hospital."

As she spoke, she looked at the tents on both sides of the road outside the church, where soldiers with less serious injuries lived.

Originally, the church was used as a hospital, but as the war situation worsened, the number of wounded increased, so at Nightingale's strong request, many treatment tents were set up outside the church.

"But the wounded will continue to appear. Rather than continuing to rescue them, we should take advantage of the moment when the increase in the number of wounded is temporarily under control to collect intelligence about the war." Nightingale said, "Only by removing the root cause of the disease called 'war' can we completely cure these wounded."

That was why she decided to go with Shiomi and Kallen.

Of course, we must add one more point. During these three hours, these two people helped the wounded without regrets, treated the wounded with miracles, and brought new hope to the disabled wounded.

No matter what the reason, Nightingale could clearly see the kindness of taking the initiative to help others.

"I have no objection." Shiomi did not refuse.

If it were just an ordinary person, it would certainly not work, but Nightingale was a follower and had enough ability to protect herself.

Moreover, not to mention Shiomi himself, but for a Master, Kallen's combat power is not that exceptional. Finding servants who are willing to cooperate and establishing temporary contracts with them is the more suitable way of action for Chaldea in this singularity.

"Then please make a contract with Kallen first. This way, your activities in all aspects will be more convenient. It will be more realistic than being a masterless servant." Shiomi stood up and said.

"I see. If this is the necessary condition for acting together to stop this war—" Nightingale stretched out his hand, "then let's make a contract."

Therefore, after Kallen and Nightingale established a master-servant contract, Nightingale's originally limited power was temporarily enhanced.

But after signing the contract, Nightingale ran to prepare the carriage for departure and said goodbye to the doctor in charge of the hospital, or left medical instructions:

"...Listen carefully. Keep the affected area clean and do not fill the room with beds. The most advanced medical knowledge you know is outdated. Please do not practice it."