Or, why don’t you find another savior?

A "Gathering Warrior" born from Maeve in legend.

As the name suggests, it is a monster that is a fusion of twenty-eight warriors.

According to legend, he fought Cu Chulainn and defeated him until his last breath.

If that were all, Shiomi wouldn't have needed to care, but at this moment, an emergency communication came from Chaldea, and a huge magical reaction occurred on the central front.

A black shadow with many tentacles emerged from under the ground and soared into the sky.

When the U.S. military formation saw these monsters, it was immediately shaken and began to retreat unconsciously.

"Demon Pillar?" Xi Jian shook off the Mad King's spear, took a few steps back, and looked towards the central front line.

"The analysis results are out. There are 28 Demon Pillars in total. No traces of illusion or mental manipulation were found. They all have the same magical power as the Demon Pillars that appeared in the second singularity!"

The intelligence officer in the control room immediately reported this shocking fact.

Maeve summoned 28 demon gods. Judging from what she just said, she must have been able to summon them successfully because she was embedded in the framework of the "Twenty-Eight Warriors".

"This idea is too terrible! Even Solomon hasn't tried it!" Romani's shocked voice came from the communicator.

Shiomi couldn't help but express sympathy in her heart.

The party's speech was full of persuasiveness.

Recalling the final battle of the Fifth Holy Grail War, Solomon had said at that time that under the system of the Fuyuki Holy Grail War, the power of the demons would be limited, and he could only summon four pillars at a time to ensure that their full power could be exerted.

"...It's so annoying. Even if the sky falls and the earth breaks, a man like you will remain indifferent." With her last breath, Maeve used all her strength to express her dissatisfaction with Shiomi.

Shiomi held her neck and twisted it, making a slight sound: "The Magic King has come to the Fourth Singularity to kill me personally. Is there anything more surprising than this, Queen Maeve?"

"How annoying..." Maeve glared at Xijian fiercely, and her eyes became blurred.

Her magical response was weakening, and her spiritual foundation would soon be unable to sustain itself.

"Are we leaving?" The Mad King ignored the battlefield and asked Maeve.

"Well...will you praise me?" Maeve smiled with difficulty.

"Yes, you are protecting your country as a queen. If you, a woman, really want to do it, you can actually do it." The Mad King's tone was still calm, but he sounded very emotional.

"I'm so happy... I've always wanted to hear you say this..." Maeve stretched out her hands with all her strength, trying to hug the Mad King, "The Holy Grail... I give you everything I have... Farewell, Cu Chulainn..."

She tried her best and finally kissed the Mad King who lowered his head in response.

Shiomi rarely took this opportunity to attack. He looked at Maeve who was gradually disappearing and said, "I will retract my previous words, Queen Maeve. You also understand what love is, but this love is too twisted."

It's as stupid and reckless as a moth flying into a flame.

"Love is this kind of thing. You know it in your heart, right?" Scathach landed behind him.

"What should we do? Now the Mad King is the only one left." Xi Jian asked his master without turning his head.

Scathach shook her head and said, "No, the last battle has proved that I can't defeat him. I'll leave the task of cleaning up the mess to you. As for me, I'll help others deal with those demon pillars for you."

After saying that, she suddenly disappeared from the spot, running towards the central front like a red meteor. Any Celtic warriors along the way would be torn into pieces and blood would splatter as long as they were passed through her.

"I think my origin is probably because I took a detour..." Cu Chulainn looked at the empty space where Maeve disappeared. "The moment she became a good woman, she disappeared with a satisfied look on her face..."

As he spoke, his aura suddenly changed, reminding Shiomi of the original Cu Chulainn.

Without any warning, he turned around and stabbed at Shiomi at the moment the aura changed, but he naturally dodged the fatal blow by tilting his head.

"Don't drag your feet. If you drag your feet any longer, the southern front will belong to me." Cu Chulainn grinned, his teeth shining with a cold white light. "Besides, it's just the death of a woman. You are not so naive as to think that I will change, right?"

Almost at the moment of dodging the stab, the gun in Xi Jian's hand drew a smooth arc and swept towards the Mad King's head, but was blocked by his gauntlet.

"How could that be? You are the evil king who was born after Maeve made a wish to the Holy Grail and can be with her." Shiomi said quietly, "Master has already said that I will be the one to clean up the mess."

"Well said, Junior Brother." Cu Chulainn's expression was ferocious, making the address sound full of irony. "I am the 'king' of this land."

Just like a replay of the battle a few days ago, the same red spears clashed again at a speed that could not be captured by the human eye. The figures of the two men turned into a meat grinder capable of tearing apart anyone who dared to approach.

Even those Celtic warriors who had no self instinctively retreated to avoid being involved in the battle.

"good, very good."

The Mad King's attacks were faster and faster, but his strength did not diminish at all. Every time the gun collided with Shiomi's hand, an astonishing wind pressure would burst out, making Shiomi's palm numb.

But the Mad King had the same feeling. He never took this human being, whom Scathach called his beloved disciple, seriously from the beginning and just regarded him as a magician. He never thought that Shiomi could be so capable.

Finally, he found the opportunity to attack and stabbed Shiomi's shoulder with his gun. As long as the opponent dodged, he could turn the gun and go straight for the throat.

As if seeing through the intention, Xi Jian did not dodge or evade, but took the shot head-on and thrust out with the red spear in his hand.

The two men's red spears were stabbed into each other's bodies, and blood flowed out along the spear blades and dripped from the spear shafts.

Cu Chulainn didn't care about the injury at all. He turned the gun head cruelly, listening to the sound of muscles and bones being mixed together and breaking.

This scene filled the hearts of the American soldiers with fear, but unfortunately Cu Chulainn could not continue to torture Shiomi in this way. The tip of the gun inserted into the Mad King's body emitted a magical power that disgusted him.

Using the red spear as a medium, magic is performed directly from within the Mad King.

Realizing this, Cu Chulainn suddenly drew out his magic spear, and retreated with Shiomi who did the same thing, and the bleeding from the wound that was burned by magic stopped.

He looked coldly at Shiomi's arm, which had drooped limply due to a serious injury. It was as if time had gone back and he was gradually recovering. Through Chaldea's tight-fitting combat suit, he could see that his muscles and bones had been restored.

"You are able to withstand a curse mixed with the power of the Holy Grail, boy."

Chapter 73 Questioning the Mad King

That being said, the Mad King had already noticed this, and used substitution magic to allow Scathach to bear the Noble Phantasm "Beast of Crushing Death Fangs" on his behalf.

From the perspective of both humans and the Master, this is an act that is too crazy.

However, although he also suffered the curse, Shiomi had already returned to the battlefield before him.

"Then what do you think is going on?" After moving his hands twice, Xi Jian attacked again, waving his double guns.

This time he took the lead in the attack, and the Mad King was forced to retreat several steps due to the hair-raising attack from the two guns. He finally gained his footing and blocked Xijian's two guns.

"Boy, the curse has no effect on you, does it?" said Cu Chulainn.

"How about it? Why don't you try to release your treasure again?" Xi Jian said, and the blazing heat spread along the twin guns, forcing the Mad King to tilt his head back to avoid getting too close to the guns. "Purgatory Fire!"

In an instant, the two guns were ignited, and a raging fire burned and exploded on the battlefield, enveloping Cu Chulainn. The high temperature exceeding that of ordinary flames once again disrupted Cu Chulainn's rhythm.

Xi Jian took advantage of the situation to pull out his two guns and hit the Mad King in the abdomen with a spinning kick, sending him flying more than ten meters away.

The burning Mad King stood up while rolling and raised the red spear which was also wrapped in flames.

"Gae Bolg (The Spear of Gouging and Killing)."

The original usage of Zhu Qiang.

As an anti-military weapon, it causes a large-scale explosion when thrown.

But something is different.

Shiomi knew that this treasure was directed at him and could track the target's movements. Dodging would only give the Mad King a chance to continue his attack.

So, there is only one answer.

"Gae Bolg Alternative!"

The two magic spears were like two missiles, hitting each other accurately and colliding in the air.

But Cu Chulainn's magic spear easily suppressed Shiomi's and was pushed back little by little.

At this time, Shiomi looked at Cu Chulainn. The other party waved away the flames burning on his body, but what remained on his body were not only burns, but also cracks on his flesh after the full-strength throw.

That's it!

It dawned on him.

Regardless of the damage to his body, he threw the red spear with all his strength and used all his rune magic to repair his body.

The most difficult part is that this method of throwing will bring unimaginable pain to ordinary people when the body collapses.

“There’s a second one!”

The decisive gap is not just this one.

When they set out on their expedition, Cu Chulainn only got one red spear, while Shiomi got two.

The second red spear was also thrown out, but it was not used to fight against the Mad King's treasure.

The gun went straight for the Mad King who had lost his weapon. As expected, the Mad King, who was relying on Rune magic to repair his body bit by bit, laughed fearlessly, crossed his arms, and used all his strength to defend against the attack.

Two explosions occurred simultaneously on both sides.

Surrounded by smoke and dust, no one could see what happened after the magic spear fell to the ground.

The next moment, two figures rushed out.

The Mad King grinned and laughed more and more excitedly, while Xi Jian gritted his teeth, and their fists crossed and hit each other's body.

Same weapons, same moves, same attacks.

The curse and the red spear became meaningless in the battle between the two.

"Very smart. He knows that continuing to rely on weapons will not produce any results..." Cu Chulainn stared at Shiomi fiercely, and before he finished his words, he flew backwards.

"It's not too late now. I'll give you time to use magic to strengthen your body." Shiomi raised his fist, with runes wrapped around his hand.

"There's no need for that!" The Mad King rolled over and stood firm, then rushed out again.

He turned his body, and the heavy tail landed hard on Shiomi's head, a blow that was enough to smash a human's head into pieces, but Shiomi only moved slightly.

"Really? Then grit your teeth!" Xi Jian decisively grabbed the tail and threw the Mad King out, "Mad King!"

The Mad King had just opened his eyes after stopping on the rock when Xiomi appeared in front of him.

The continuous attacks forced Cu Chulainn to cross his arms to block.

"How cruel! If it's just to repair the singularity, is it necessary to be so angry?" The Mad King stared at Xijian's black eyes that seemed to be burning with black flames.

"Of course I'm angry, because I was jealous of you, I was jealous of you who was the master's first disciple." Shiomi slammed his fist again, "But I was jealous of the Light Princess Ku Chulin, who also fought against you like that! Not you who became a king like this!"

After seeing that the king had become someone who only knew how to kill, Xi Jian felt only endless disappointment and anger.

"You are just a human being, are you qualified to talk about being a king here?" Cu Chulainn grabbed Shiomi's fist and drove his knee into his abdomen.

Shiomi gritted his teeth and smiled, punching Cu Chulainn on the chin with an uppercut: "I have seen many kings, the Knight King, the Conqueror King, the Hero King, the Magic King..."

Of course...there are also the two queens who love him and whom he also deeply loves.

"Every king is different, whether it's for ideals, ambitions, pleasure, or responsibility." Magical power wrapped around Shiomi's hands, and the next magic was completed. "No matter which king they are, they all became king for something!"

He raised an extremely cold frost, freezing Cu Chulainn instantly, and asked:

"What are you doing this for?"

These things cannot be seen or felt on the Mad King.

A king who exists only for killing, who can only destroy everything, and finally stands in the deserted wilderness, with no one daring to sing against him. He is a king in name only.

If the senior brother whom he had envied was just a fellow of this level, then Xijian's past mentality would also become ridiculous.

This was a personal grudge that he absolutely could not tolerate and had nothing to do with the restoration of human nature.

"That's right. Even if Maeve died in front of me, even if you questioned me like this, I wouldn't feel a thing."

Cu Chulainn's voice slowly rang out from within the ice.

"Have you seen those kings who were engraved in human history? That's why you are so sharp-tongued."

The spirit particles floated out of Cu Chulainn's body and gradually condensed into a golden double-cornered cone in front of his chest.

Holy Grail.

Maeve said that she had handed the Holy Grail to the Mad King a long time ago.

Realizing that something bad was about to happen, Shiomi immediately used magic to snatch the Holy Grail from the hands of the Mad King, but the Holy Grail did not move because of his magic.

"If it were someone else, I would definitely be deeply moved by what you said, but unfortunately I can't feel anything right now. It seems that your judgment of the king is indeed inconsistent. But it is far from enough to deny my words just because of this—"

Chapter 74: Demon God: The Beast with Crushing Death Fangs

"'Holy Grail, the ultimate instrument that can grant wishes, show yourself, remember, and transform. What has descended here is the Seventy-two Demon Gods.'"

A low chant came from Cu Chulainn's mouth under the ice, and the extremely ferocious magic power almost took on a physical form, causing the ice to further crack, melt, and evaporate.

The thick steam obscured his vision. Shiomi had no time to observe and just raised his hand to perform a wind-attribute magic.