Or, why don’t you find another savior?

Indeed, signing so many temporary contracts in one go, even with the support of Chaldea, Shiomi suddenly felt a huge pressure coming. He felt like he was back to the eve of the Fourth Holy Grail War when he was summoning heroic spirits.

Although the pressure on the magic circuits was much more severe than before, it was still within Shiomi's tolerance.

He clenched his fist and looked at the Command Seal on the back of his hand.

This is a necessary sacrifice. The heroic spirits fight for humanity, and as a human being, he should be able to provide more support while fighting alongside them.

Feeling that the contract and magic circuits were gradually stabilizing, Shiomi smiled confidently, but suddenly some scenes he had never seen before flashed through his mind.

A huge door with mysterious patterns, the vast and deep universe, and the absolute supreme will.

It flashed through his mind like an illusion, and Xi Jian had a splitting headache. He covered his forehead, his legs went weak, and he instinctively half-knelt on the ground.

The master's hand appeared in front of her, and she looked at him with concern:

"Is it really too much of a burden?"

"No, I'm fine..." Shiomi shook her head and covered it up with a smile, "This is my first time doing something like this, and I'm a little unaccustomed to the pressure of the magic circuit."

As he spoke, he stood up from the ground, looked carefully at the servants in the room, and nodded to them.

At this moment, he scanned all the Servants, recalling the legends related to them, but none of them matched the images that flashed through his mind.

There was something important going on right now, so Xi Jian put aside the doubts in his heart and walked back to the table:

"The contract is complete. Thank you all for your support and approval. Next, let's discuss the next war strategy."

Chapter 66 Morgan: That woman beat my husband to his knees. She must be trying to...

At night, Scathach went to Shiomi's room to find him, but found that he was not in the room. Some personal belongings were still left there. It was not that he was kidnapped by someone at night, or that he discovered the situation and acted alone.

Unlike previous local-scale battles, this time it will be a head-on collision between the two armies, a real war.

Therefore, she thought it necessary to have a good talk with Shiomi again and do some psychological preparation for this beloved disciple who had never truly experienced "war".

But now, she came up empty-handed, which surprised Scathach a little.

The door to the terrace was open. When she walked outside, she saw Shiomi leaning on the city wall opposite, enjoying the breeze alone.

Understanding it, Scathach went up and down several times between the municipal building and the city wall and finally arrived at the corner of the city wall near him.

Just as she was about to go over to say hello, she heard him talking to someone. Scathach subconsciously stopped and leaned against the wall to listen.

"You were just lying at that time, my husband?" Morgan's voice, and her shadow that was easily overlooked in the moonlight.

"When did you find out?" Xijian smiled to himself.

"As the Master of Chaldea, your various conditions are being monitored here. Carrying out large-scale contracts at the same time has indeed caused damage and pressure to your magic circuits, but..." Morgan sighed softly, "It's far from the point where you can't hold on."

"That's so harsh. I'm just a human being. I have my limits." Shiomi muttered, complaining while laughing.

"I know very well where your limits are. If my husband insists on saying so, I won't break it." Morgan shook his head.

Because if Shiomi was just an ordinary person, it would be impossible for him to stay in that place and accompany her for six thousand years.

Four thousand years of searching and two thousand years of conquest, in the final analysis, are the same thing in terms of time.

Xi Jian was stunned: "So you know?"

"what?"

“…I don’t have any memory of this.” Shiomi said.

"I know a little." Morgan shook his head.

She didn't actually ask about this in depth.

All kinds of things have already filled that period of time. For a person whom I trust from the bottom of my heart, the so-called blank past does seem a little insignificant.

Besides, he had never shown that he didn't care about this blank space, so Morgan would not ask more questions.

"To be honest, my earliest memory is of being in the wilderness of the Shadow Kingdom, fighting with the undead and skeletons everywhere. I was supported by the thought of wanting to survive. I couldn't even remember who I was. I only had a name that I didn't know whether it was true or false." Xi Jian smiled self-deprecatingly, "I thought I would die there, but Master suddenly appeared and saved me..."

"I see. It's no wonder that my husband, who is like a newborn baby with no memory of the past, would fall in love with that person in this deserted place." Morgan teased with a knowing tone, "It's just a fledgling complex. Sooner or later--"

"Don't take this lightly, Morgan." Scathach finally couldn't stand it anymore and walked out.

Morgan, however, was not surprised: "I thought you would be more patient, but you showed up so soon."

Chaldea's detection radar clearly showed the servants within a radius of several kilometers around Shiomi, and marked the magic signals of all servants whose identities had been confirmed.

If Scathach had used her own abilities to imitate breath blocking at the beginning, she could have avoided being discovered, but there was no need for her to do so.

"If Master doesn't show up, you will be so logical that you will completely deny my feelings for Master." Xi Jian laughed dryly and turned around, leaning his back against the parapet of the tower. "Oh no, it should be classified as a fledgling complex."

"I'm exposed. It turns out that my husband is not easy to fool." Morgan didn't plan at all for the embarrassment after being exposed. Her attitude was as calm as if she picked up a strawberry and threw it away when she found it was not fresh.

Scathach laughed happily at the conversation between the two. "It seems that I am too concerned. At times like this, I should trust my beloved disciple more, just like I did in battle."

"Oh..." Xijian sighed.

"But I didn't expect that you would suddenly care about your own origins." After laughing, Scathach quietly took over the topic.

"So, Master, do you know something?" Xi Jian asked.

"I'm sorry, I know nothing about it." Scathach showed an apologetic expression, "There will always be humans who accidentally fall into the Shadow Kingdom because of the connection between the world, and you are just the only one who survived."

She had noticed this at the beginning, thinking that he would die soon, but Shiomi was unexpectedly tenacious, which made her want to come out and check it out.

In the end, they discovered an incomparable "treasure".

"It's true. Even Master doesn't know." Xijian scratched his head.

"You suddenly care about this kind of thing. So what happened when the followers signed large-scale contracts?" Scathach asked.

Morgan tapped the keyboard a few times to confirm the exploration status of the third singularity before continuing, "I saw unknown memories, and they didn't seem to come from the Servants I just contracted. Naturally, I would wonder if they came from a past that I didn't even know about."

"No wonder." Scathach understood.

"So what does Master want to talk to me about?" Xi Jian asked.

"We will begin our march towards Washington tomorrow, so it's best not to do anything unnecessary, Scathach." Morgan said as if warning.

Scathach had a playful expression on her face: "It's just that my beloved disciple has never experienced a real war. I'm worried that he will vomit after seeing the mountains of corpses and seas of blood tomorrow, so I want to come and give him some advice. After all, there is still some difference between the meat grinder on the battlefield and one or two corpses."

"You didn't expect that I would be so depressed here?" Xijian touched his cheek.

Morgan supported his chin with one hand, as if to challenge him: "For such an important matter, I am very pleased that you can consult me ​​first instead of the master over there."

"Well..."

Xi Jian smiled embarrassedly. He just wanted to chat with Morgan before going to bed, but she noticed it. Of course he had to explain it to her.

"Hmm..." Scathach made a meaningful sound, "It's already late at night here, and Chaldea is in sync with us. You should also go to bed early, Morgan."

She grabbed Shiomi's arm.

"Master——?"

Shiomi panicked again. He watched Morgan's face on the projection screen gradually darken, and knew that his fate was becoming dangerous.

"Well, my beloved disciple, it's almost time to rest. Master will accompany you tonight, so forget about the outsiders for now."

As she spoke, Scathach punched Shiomi in the abdomen. He immediately fell to his knees, unable to resist. Without waiting for Morgan to speak, she turned off the communicator and carried Shiomi down the city wall.

Chapter 67: March

Having said that, in fact, Scathach did nothing that night, and Shiomi was not asked to do anything either.

Regardless of the fact that a war that is destined to be protracted is imminent, and whether there is time to linger here, Scathach is indeed more concerned about whether Shiomi's heart can withstand the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

The opponent is a Celtic warrior without self-will. To fight such an enemy, even with Edison's mechanical soldiers as the main force.

The line where the two sides are fighting will immediately become a literal meat grinder, and only by continuously investing combat power can the front line be pushed forward.

"The Northern Army, Edison, Helena, Nightingale, Elizabeth, Nero, Karna; the Central Army, Rama, Li Shuwen, Tesla, Billy the Kid, Robin Hood; the Southern Army, Scathach..."

On the way, Scathach sat on Shiomi's horse and took a last look at the text of the manpower arrangements of the two groups of troops.

In addition, Kallen will accompany the Northern Army, Rama will lead the Central Army alone, and Shiomi will lead the Southern Army together with his master.

"All the forces except me were dispatched to the Northern Army." She said, "Are they overprotecting Kallen?"

"Karen is not me. She can survive even if she is fatally injured." Shiomi patted the warhorse under his crotch, "So try to focus the combat power there."

Starting from Dallas, the army advanced to Montgomery, which was within easy reach of Washington, and then split into two forces, north and south, and continued to march towards Washington along two routes.

Even though there were Celtic warriors created by the Holy Grail, after that night, there was no news of Celtic reinforcements from the front. This was undoubtedly because the Mad King's injuries had not yet healed, and his healing had taken away more of the power of the Holy Grail.

"Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that it's a strategy to confuse the enemy," Scathach reminded.

"I don't think that Maeve, who is full of love, can come up with such a strategy. If I have to say, Finn's strategy is more in line with expectations." Xi Jian grabbed the reins and shook them hard, and the warhorse quickened its pace to avoid being hit by the army of mechanical soldiers behind him.

Because their team used mechanical soldiers as the vanguard, they only had one warhorse each for him and Kallen, and the servants could also transform into spirit bodies during the march to reduce consumption.

"But will Maeve really give Finn this kind of voice? In other words, will she and the Mad King really listen to Finn's advice?" Shiomi asked back.

"Don't underestimate the enemy." Scathach laughed and patted Shiomi's head.

"We have considered this situation, so we have made special arrangements to divide the troops. Without sufficient troops, it is impossible to stop the northern and southern armies at the same time." Xi Jian nodded. "After all, if we are not sure whether we can win the war, I will oppose the plan to advance. Instead, I will look for an opportunity to raid the enemy's base camp again like before."

Morgan had a similar opinion: "Victorious soldiers win first and then fight, while defeated soldiers fight first and then win. The enemy and I are not equal in strength, and this is where the odds of winning lie. Moreover, after learning where my husband is, the enemy will regard the Southern Army, which has fewer followers, as the main force, or as a decoy force—"

Not only that, after knowing Shiomi's Southern Army lineup, Diarmuid would probably not sit idly by and watch the Southern Army continue to advance, and would come out to fight in person.

"So, will our thin southern wing with only one servant encounter the main force of the Celtics, or will it be completely ignored?" Scathach looked at the wilderness ahead, and the hillsides and boulders at the end of the horizon.

As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow of water carrying a sharp murderous intent flew straight towards the two people on the horse.

Scathach's cheerful expression just a moment ago suddenly disappeared. She disappeared from her horse with a stern expression and rushed out to break the water magic attack.

"Oh my, I never expected to meet the Queen of Shadow Country. My magic will be useless now."

Finn and Diarmuid emerged from their spirit form.

Attempting to preemptively attack with water magic had no effect.

"Master!"

At this moment, Shiomi suddenly accelerated the horse again, and the magic that strengthened its abilities in all aspects enveloped the warhorse, blocking its perception of fear.

The war horses' running speed gradually broke the sound barrier, shortening the distance by hundreds of meters in a few seconds.

Scathach knew that Shiomi's voice was a signal, so she quickly dodged to the side, holding down her long hair that was blown up by the wind, and watched her horse crash into the two servants who had just appeared.

The two men were caught off guard and their formation was broken up by the war horses. Although no harm was caused, it brought great shock and impact to the two men.

Diarmuid rolled over the field for a few times before stopping. He raised his two swords and looked at Shiomi with joy, saying in admiration:

"I didn't expect you to be such an expert horseman. It's a pity that I couldn't bring my warhorse with me to the world and fight on horseback."

"Diarmuid, I remember you said you lost to that guy before, right?" Finn asked, "Do you want to switch opponents?"

"It's all right, my lord." Diarmuid stood up.

This time, he wants to have a good fight with Shiomi from beginning to end.

Knowing that the warhorse would be useless from now on, Shiomi jumped off the horse and drove it away from the battle line.

"Well... it doesn't matter. Then I will be the one to stop Lord Scathach—" Finn waved the gun in his hand, "After all, we are just generals of the Celtic Army this time."

As he spoke, a Celtic army marched down the long slope of the undulating field. This army was mixed with various monsters, and there were flying dragons in the sky.

Even though there is no advantage in numbers, this surreal military composition can still bring considerable psychological pressure.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the soldiers sitting inside the mechanical soldiers and responsible for operating them, as well as the infantry following behind the mechanical soldiers, all stepped onto the battlefield with their own will.

"The last time I fought with you was twenty years ago for me." Shiomi looked at Diarmuid.

Diarmuid laughed refreshingly: "In my opinion, you are exactly the same as in that record. I wonder if you have regressed in the past twenty years?"

"Back off? When did you feel that I showed my real ability at the beginning, Diarmuid?" Xijian also shook his head and smiled with a little relief, as if he was reminiscing about the past with an old friend.

Diarmuid felt something was wrong.

Before the Masters of Chaldea arrived here, he and Finn had fought against Scathach.

That queen can also use dual guns -

"Could it be——"

Amid Diarmuid's surprised voice, Shiomi appeared with two guns in his hands and took a stance.