Or, why don’t you find another savior?

He and his master traveled light and quickly, avoiding as much as possible all Celtic forces within their sphere of influence, and approached Washington silently.

Coupled with the vast plains of central America, the two men's marching speed was extremely fast.

"Tomorrow," said Scathach.

She meant that at the speed of the two of them, they would be able to reach Washington tomorrow.

"Robin Hood lent us his treasure, 'The Faceless King'. It won't be difficult to sneak into the base camp." Shiomi told his master that he could rest assured.

Compared to the rune magic of hiding aura, Robin Hood's treasure has an incomparable advantage and can achieve the same effect as Assassin's class skill Breath Blocking.

The only difference is that it remains materialized, and even if it cannot be perceived, if it is touched, its existence will be known.

"No, I mean that there is not much time left in this singularity." Scathach said, "Get rid of Maeve and recover the Holy Grail, and you and Kallen's work here will be completed."

Xi Jian opened his eyes slightly, and he suddenly understood what his master was referring to.

This also means a long-awaited reunion, and soon we will have to say goodbye.

Because the range of the singularity covers the entire continental United States, he has spent more than a week in this singularity after traveling back and forth.

I also spent a week with my master after a long time.

Thinking about the separation after the singularity is resolved, Xiomi couldn't help feeling a little reluctant.

"It will be a bit lonely." Xijian touched his hair.

"Hmm..." Scathach groaned, "Isn't your wife waiting for you in Chaldea?"

"Uh..." Shiomi began to scratch his head.

Maybe after the singularity is resolved, his real difficulties will just arrive.

He felt that it was useless to think about it any further. Only when he went back would he know clearly how he would be "dealt with". Shiomi stood up from the wooden stake he was sitting on and walked to the river to perform magic.

A moment later, a circular pit with a radius of several meters and a depth of more than half a meter was opened up on one side of the river.

The river water was diverted in and soon filled the puddle.

He threw two stones with runes written on them into the water. The turbid water suddenly became crystal clear and began to steam.

"You always enjoy yourself wherever you go." Scathach has come over.

"Master, let's take a bath first?" Xi Jian smiled and tilted his head to indicate, "Although I am a servant, it shouldn't be a bad idea to take a bath in an artificial hot spring."

"Do you really think so?" Scathach said with a faint smile.

Xijian sat down on a nearby rock and said generously, "Master, just relax and enjoy the hot spring. I'll just sit here and enjoy the view, and keep an eye on the surroundings."

"So that's your plan. If you don't mind, I won't say anything more." Scathach flicked her hair.

She took off her clothes, approached the hot spring naked, and stretched out her foot to test the water temperature.

Just as she was about to continue walking into the water, she heard a rustling sound behind her.

Then, Scathach was hugged by Shiomi from behind, and the warmth of his chest and the smell of his body came from behind.

"What? Sure enough, you couldn't hold back, just like when I promised you my feelings." Scathach raised her hand and stroked his head on her shoulder. "I thought you really had become more determined than before."

"I can't help it. It was Master who turned me into a man." Shiomi explained naturally, and slowly sank into the hot spring while holding Scathach. "And here, it's Master who comes to see me every night."

"Quite greedy." Scathach suddenly sighed, not sure whether she was talking about him or teasing herself.

At this moment, she felt more like a pure woman than an invincible warrior.

"Besides, tomorrow is crucial. Master also needs more magic power, right?" Shiomi greedily sucked Master's lips and tongue, and teased him in the intervals.

Scathach pinched Shiomi's chin and said, "Do you always lie to her like this?"

“Maybe I’m the one being deceived.”

"Yeah."

Chapter 60 Storming the White House

The next day, Washington.

The White Palace, which was supposed to be the administrative center of the United States, now has statues outside that do not belong to this country at all, and an extremely huge dark purple magic gun is inserted in the square.

Queen Maeve stood in the square, greeting the thunderous cheers of the Celtic warriors.

She smiled and waved warmly, as if she was truly loved by thousands of people.

Next to her stood a tall figure, wrapped in ominous black and red.

Cu Chulainn.

"According to what Fergus said, those soldiers were all created by her using the Holy Grail. Is it necessary to be so happy about cheering for a group of puppets?"

While hiding in the "Faceless King" with Scathach and observing this scene from the top of a building, Shiomi sneered coldly.

"That's not the case. Queen Maeve is said to be the 'mother of many warriors', although in reality those warriors were not born by her. Instead, she took away the genetic information of the warriors and copied them in her body. As long as you cut your finger with a blade or something, the blood that falls to the ground will quickly spread and form a pool of blood, and warriors are born from that."

Scathach further explained Maeve's information to Shiomi.

Maeve, who obtained the Holy Grail, could produce such soldiers endlessly without worrying about magic power. She was as her name suggested, the queen and ruler of the Celtic unknown warriors.

"I see." Shiomi lowered his eyes slightly, "Besides Maeve and Cu Chulainn, there are no other servants around here. But those warriors are very troublesome——"

As he spoke, a violent explosion sounded about ten kilometers away, raising a cloud of smoke into the sky. Even though Maeve was in the square inside the White House, she could still see this scene.

"Huh? What? An explosion? Or an attack? Have those rubbish reached this area?" Maeve showed a look of disgust.

She waved her hand, and the soldiers who had just been cheering turned around in unison without looking back and ran towards the place where the explosion occurred.

With the explosion happening so close, Maeve had reason to suspect that a large-scale military force was approaching, so she decisively dispatched the troops at hand.

Maeve actually found it very strange. Logically, the resistance forces should still be in a stalemate in the south... Could it be the light cavalry?

However, in fact, the explosion was just a long-range magic set up by Shiomi on the way here, with the purpose of luring out the Celtic warriors around Maeve.

Isolate her and Cu Chulainn as much as possible.

But Xi Jian didn't expect things to go so smoothly. Maeve actually sent out all the guards without even thinking about it.

"Hey, Maeve." Cu Chulainn reminded coldly.

"What, Ku-chan?"

Maeve asked Cu Chulainn kindly, but a cold voice sounded.

"A pseudo-inherent barrier is deployed, 'Eternal Orkney'."

In an instant, the White House where Maeve and Cu Chulainn were turned into an isolated island covered with snow.

In the cold snow, two figures slowly walked out.

"Who is it?" Maeve demanded.

Shiomi and Scathach slowly walked forward.

"Imaginary inherent barrier...Did you create this magic because you don't have enough mental landscape?" Scathach was quite appreciative.

"Let's just say it is..." Xi Jian didn't have the courage to say that this was the name given by Morgan.

He originally just used the inherent barrier as a blueprint to create a pseudo-inherent barrier that could temporarily change the environment of about several hundred square meters.

It cannot be isolated from the world. From the outside, this area is just surrounded by thick fog, but it is impossible to enter or exit at will.

It is a large-scale field magic that was gradually designed and formed with reference to Morgan's "Garden" magic.

Because this was the final form, Morgan gave Shiomi's new magic this name.

"You are so exaggerated, Master, that you actually broke into the enemy's base camp in person." Cu Chulainn looked at Scathach and said, his voice still cold and condescending.

"After all, I have to stop a fool who has become unrecognizable." Scathach didn't care.

"Oh, is the guy next to you the Master of Chaldea?" Cu Chulainn looked at Shiomi, "What an amazing rune magic, even I can't do it to this extent."

Scathach pointed her gun at Cu Chulainn and said, "Feel honored. He is my disciple, a better and more talented person than you. He came with me today to clean up the mess."

"So you are a new apprentice. No wonder you have such ability." Cu Chulainn showed his sharp teeth, with a bloody cold light in his eyes.

Maeve made a playful sound at this time: "Hey~ I didn't expect that Scathach actually accepted another apprentice~"

She showed a charming smile and examined Shiomi: "Both her body and appearance are very much to my liking, and she also has just the right amount of jealousy that makes me feel delicious. It's really something that makes people fall in love with her at first sight~"

“……” Xi Jian said nothing about this.

Maeve walked slowly forward, took out a glass of golden mead from somewhere, and raised the glass to Xijian from a distance.

"Please use it." She said to Xijian with a seductive look.

"My Beloved Mead" is one of Maeve's many treasures. It is a mead with a charm legend. Originally, it would turn into a torrent and drown the hostile people without them noticing.

Just one sip and the man will become her property.

Now that she has the power of the Holy Grail, just holding it out like this is enough to match her B-level leadership qualities and make hostile men unwilling to refuse and take the drink on their own initiative.

Scathach, who knew what it was, was about to stop it, but saw Shiomi walking step by step towards Maeve.

"Ah~ Looking at him from such a close distance, he really is a good man that I covet. Your vision in choosing your apprentice is always admirable, Scathach~" Maeve said to Scathach provocatively and sarcastically.

"..."

This time it was Scathach's turn to remain silent. When Shiomi stretched out her hand, she even smiled in a way that Maeve didn't understand.

Just as Maeve was puzzled, Cu Chulainn's magic spear stabbed down from above, and Shiomi retreated.

"Tsk... too shallow." Xi Jian turned the 'Golden Blade' in his hand and smiled indifferently, "I thought I could kill you by chance."

Maeve came to her senses and subconsciously covered her chest. Blood flowed from between her fingers, staining her flat white abdomen red.

The golden dagger had just pierced her chest lightly. If Cu Chulainn had not rushed out in time, her soul core would have been completely destroyed by the dagger.

"how come……"

Even Finn and Diarmuid couldn't refuse the mead, but this man not only didn't reach out to take it, he even took the opportunity to assassinate her.

Merely human beings...

Maeve was furious.

"I'd better advise you to give up, Maeve." Cu Chulainn tilted his neck, grinning and looking at Shiomi, "This man is just like me. He can't become yours."

Chapter 61: Maeve's Ambush

"He is such a cunning disciple. He pretended to be tempted and planned to assassinate me."

In response to Shiomi's actions just now, Scathach could only chuckle and shake her head.

Until she saw him draw out the "Gold Invasion Blade", even she thought that Shiomi was bewitched by Maeve who was holding the Holy Grail and was going to drink the golden mead she gave her.

"Don't think that just because the woman I like is a queen, any queen can fool me." Xi Jian put away the golden dagger with a look of regret and held the red spear in his hand.

Maeve found that her wounds were not healing so quickly. She realized that Shiomi's dagger was also enchanted with something like a curse. She couldn't use any strength in her body and couldn't take part in the battle.

She smiled cruelly:

"I like men like you who are covered in thorns. Since you are unwilling to become mine, I can only break your hands and feet first, and then slowly train you."

Hearing this, Cu Chulainn disagreed: "Ah? Are you crazy when you see a man who doesn't listen to you, Maeve? This guy is the apprentice of that man just like me. It's not easy to capture him alive."

"It's okay, Ku-chan. It doesn't matter if you want to kill him. He's still a human being. If we have the Holy Grail, the corpse can be used in other ways." Maeve licked her tongue, and her charming face, which was enough to captivate everyone, was filled with inhuman emotions. "If we can capture the Master of Chaldea, we can make demands to the Magic King later."

Shiomi felt a disgusting atmosphere. He didn't expect that he would get involved with this woman who was the embodiment of selfish desire for no reason.

At this time, Scathach slowly stepped forward and stood beside Shiomi: "Maeve, have you forgotten something? Being injured by my beloved disciple, you can't fight properly at all, or do you really think that Setant alone can defeat the two of us?"

Cu Chulainn looked disgusted and said coldly: "...Don't keep calling me by my nickname, Master."

"Alas, Master should forget about that kind of unfilial disciple as soon as possible. From now on, Master only needs to care about me." Xi Jian turned around with a smile and suggested to the master jokingly.

"That's not bad." Scathach didn't take it as a joke and promised softly.

Xijian was slightly surprised, then laughed to himself. He pointed his gun at Cu Chulainn and asked his final question:

"Although I have only met you twice, each time more hurriedly than the last, some things are really puzzling, Cu Chulainn... Why would a man like you fall so low as to fight for Maeve, who murdered you in her lifetime?"

The wound gradually healed, but the bleeding had not yet stopped. Maeve raised her bloodstained palm and licked the area near her wrist:

"Is that even a question? Of course it's my wish! I made a wish to the Holy Grail, that Kuro become the 'king'. To become an 'evil' and 'powerful' king who can stand shoulder to shoulder with me!"

"Make a wish to the Holy Grail of the Magic King?" Shiomi frowned. He didn't expect that a heroic spirit engraved in human history would do such a thing. "Do you know what this means?"