Ex-Machina in Dimensional Travel

White is the main tone of this space, and apart from that, there is nothing else in this space, whether it is the boundless vastness or the desolation of only white.

Gold gradually felt a strong sense of oppression and fear of the unknown.

He didn't know how he got here. He was just in that field, kidnapped by someone, and forced to issue the order to "use the Noble Phantasm" to his Servant.

Moreover, the other party saw his fear and asked him to order his servants to release their Noble Phantasms to attack the man's companions in exchange for his life.

To be honest, when Gold first heard that request, he was confused. What kind of teammate would ask the Master to order the Servant to use the Noble Phantasm to attack the teammates after the teammates have restrained the Servant and taken the opportunity to hijack the Master?

Even Gold, who was already panicking, felt that this man was sick.

But he did it. In order to survive, he directly followed the other party's instructions and ordered Saber to activate the Noble Phantasm.

His last memory told him that after doing all this, the other party did retract the blade from his neck. However, before he could make any other moves, he suddenly felt a strong push on his back.

Gold was unable to resist the powerful force coming from behind, and his body fell to the ground. At the same time, just before he was about to touch the ground, an energy channel made entirely of [gold] suddenly appeared.

Then, he entered the golden gate and was sent to this barren white space.

He didn't know why the other party brought him here, just as he didn't know why the other party asked him to order Saber to release her Noble Phantasm.

However, there is one thing that Gold is now very sure of, that is, he has been captured by the other party, and this white space is the prison where he is imprisoned.

After thinking about this, Gold was completely discouraged. He just sat down on the ground as if he was giving up. He sat cross-legged and began to observe this space.

Although he had been captured and the other party had no intention of further harming his life, this was the Holy Grail War, and the other party was even an enemy. Gold would not be so foolish as to think that he could survive safely.

After all, if it were him, he would capture the enemy's master like this. In order to win, he could choose to end the opponent's life on the spot, while he could not be imprisoned in a certain space like himself.

Then there is only one possibility, the other party has other plans and needs him, the Master, to be alive.

What could the plan be? Gold didn't dare to think about it. Even if they wanted to use himself as a consumable material for a powerful attack, it was possible. After all, in the world of magicians, such things really happened.

The most important thing right now is to find a way to save yourself.

Thinking of this, Gold stood up and walked in a certain direction.

Because just now, before he landed, he saw a green figure not far away from him.

Although the person he saw was lying on the ground and he didn't know who the other person was, it was better than groping blindly.

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It’s still the same white space, but this time it’s at a different coordinate.

As before, the golden gate opened in the air, pouring new things into the space.

She was a blonde woman wearing silver arm armor and a strange silver metal headdress.

The woman, her whole body bound with chains, fell out of the golden gate and landed on the ground. After landing, the chains that were originally tied tightly on her body broke with a sound, and turned into energy residue and disappeared in the air.

Joan of Arc, who had regained her freedom, quickly got up and glanced around vigilantly.

Just now, she was still fighting with the man who wanted to disrupt the Holy Grail War. The man was as agile as a ghost, and there was a hurricane with a huge impact range. In addition, the magic ritual of chains that could dance and dodge freely in the air, made her energy consumed just to defend herself.

Joan of Arc's [Revelation] had the same strange effect as [Intuition], which was even more contrary to common sense. However, even so, it only increased the time she could hold out against the opponent.

At this moment, she was in this space, which silently explained the final result.

She lost.

Joan of Arc pursed her lips, her face full of unwillingness.

If it was just the defeat, it wouldn't have caused her to have such emotions.

The main reason was that as the person involved, she could clearly feel that the opponent was holding back during the fight.

Not only did he trick her without using her full strength, but she was even captured and held prisoner by him. In Joan of Arc's view, this pure white space was the prison that he used to imprison her.

Although I am very depressed, there are more important things at the moment.

Joan of Arc took back her lance. When she was caught and brought into this space, her lance was also thrown into here by the other party, as if telling her invisibly that "all struggles are in vain."

"call--"

The more I think about it, the more upset I feel.

Joan of Arc took a deep breath and tried her best to calm herself down. After all, the current situation was not something that could be resolved just by letting her emotions get the better of her.

There is still a group of people outside who want to disrupt the Holy Grail War. She can't just sit there and wait for death, even if she has become a prisoner now.

"I didn't expect there are such people in this world."

Walking in this desolate space with no end in sight, the white surrounding her gradually dissipated the annoyance in Joan of Arc's heart.

After calming down, she began to think about the information she had now.

She was confused by what she heard from the other party about the attitudes of the Red and Black factions towards her, but because it was said by the person who wanted to disrupt the Holy Grail War, she would not believe it completely.

She wanted to personally contact both the Red and Black factions to see their true intentions with her own eyes, regardless of whether she could escape.

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In this world, due to Shul's influence, Jeanne was not intercepted by the Red Lancer Karna, because he, who was supposed to intercept Ruler, had already been intercepted by Shul.

Similarly, Joan of Arc was not rescued by Black Saber and Gold for the same reason.

Joan of Arc did not arrive at the Holy Grail War ceremony as she wished. She was intercepted just like in the original novel, but the difference was that the interception came from Shuel.

And tonight, it is not only these three places that are influenced by Shul. When no one noticed, Shul's [big hand] had already invisibly shrouded the Holy Grail War.

His appearance before everyone's eyes was a sign that the [Plan] had begun to be implemented.

The plot has deviated from its original direction, and this is exactly as Xuer predicted about the [Plan].

What will be the final outcome for everyone involved in this Holy Grail War has become an unknown.

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Chapter 18: Ruler's Encounter with the Black Master

More than ten minutes had passed, and Joan of Arc was still walking in this space where there was nothing but white.

She is lost.

In other words, in this pure white space with nothing and a super flat ground, although it is flat, the concept of a horizon still exists, as if the size of this space was a one-to-one replica of the planet beneath its feet by its creator.

Looking at the distant [horizon], Joan of Arc felt helpless about her current situation. She had no idea whether the route she had walked for more than ten minutes was a straight line.

This space is very special. There is nothing in it, no reference at all, not even her footprints!

Before coming in again, when fighting with the enemy, Joan of Arc still remembered that she had indeed stepped on mud in the previous battle. Logically speaking, even if this space was indeed white, clean and dust-free, it should have been stained by the mud on the soles of the shoes of an outsider like her.

But the result was that a minute ago, in order to confirm whether he was going in circles.

Joan of Arc turned back to check her footprints, but when she turned around, she saw the ground as white as before, without any trace of dirt.

She checked the soles of her shoes out of disbelief and found that there was still some mud left from the fight.

The answer is obvious, this is the characteristic of this space.

"What a troublesome ability."

Complaining a few words like this was one of the few things Joan of Arc could do at that moment.

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after a while--

clatter......

Finally, after walking for an unknown amount of time, Joan of Arc chose to stop.

She couldn't remember how long she had been in here. She didn't know if it was because of this space, but the [Revelation] that always told her the direction had stopped making any sound since she was caught in this space.

She could no longer hear God's revelations.

It was only then that the Ruler finally began to feel panic.

A feeling of powerlessness suddenly arose, whether facing this strange space with no [boundaries] or the existence that dragged him into this space.

"Alas, I wonder if this Holy Grail War can ever end peacefully."

Fortunately, things were not as bad as she had thought.

The reason why she stopped now was not because she gave up exploring this space, but because she finally saw other [colors] besides [white] in this space.

She focused her eyes, and suddenly exerted force on her feet, stepping towards a certain direction. In that direction, there was a green-haired woman lying on the ground, and a fat man who was reaching out his hand to the other person.

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Gold came to the side of the fallen woman and examined the "Sleeping Beauty" lying on the ground.

His eyes were fixed on the woman, or to be more precise, on the pattern on the back of the woman's hand. He recognized that pattern.

"It's actually a Command Seal! This person is also a Master!"

The Command Seals are magical crystals that appear on the arm or back of the hand of the Master during the Holy Grail War. They possess absolute power to command the Servants and are the Master's exclusive mark.

In addition, Command Seals will react with other Command Seals, so when a Master encounters one another, they will immediately sense the other's presence, unless one of them shuts down his or her own Magic Circuits, but this only reduces the chance of being sensed.

However, this fact alone as the Master was not the reason for Gold's condition.

The Command Seal is a pattern composed of [three strokes]. The style of the pattern will vary depending on the job of the summoned Servant and the camp, but the difference will not be too big. As far as this Holy Grail War is concerned, the Command Seal patterns of Masters in the same camp will be similar, for example, the Black Camp to which Gold belongs.

And this is why Gold's expression is solemn at this moment.

Because he also recognized the pattern of the Command Seal on the back of the woman's hand. It was their Black Side's pattern! ?

"Who is this woman, and why is she the Master of the Black Side?!"

That's right, Gold didn't know this person, and there was no information about this woman in their original planned personnel arrangements.

Moreover, he remembered that when their Black Masters performed the Servant Summoning Ceremony, they gathered together in the fortress of the Yugdomrenia clan.

No, there was one person who was not present.

The man was named Sagara Houma. He was not present at the time and they did not pay any attention to him.

Thinking of this, a guess suddenly emerged in Gold's mind.

"Could it be?"

The Command Seals were stripped and transferred.

The Command Spells are integrated with the Magic Circuits, and the Magic Circuits are the simulated nerves within the magician's body, and are also a direct reflection of a magician's qualifications.

It can absorb magic power from the outside world and can be used as magic power by humans. It is also the [organ] used by magicians to convert life force into magic power. Normally, it serves as the magician's nerves.

Therefore, the act of stripping off the Command Seals is the same as removing nerves from the body. In terms of the result, the person whose nerves are stripped off may become a disabled person if not handled properly.

Looking at the woman in front of him who was obviously not but was indeed the Black Master, Gold was basically certain that the original Sagara Leopard Horse was probably in great danger.

Gold clenched his fists and stared angrily at the woman who was still sleeping at his feet. Then he leaned down and extended his hand to the woman.

He was angry because because of this woman, his team was short of a Servant at the very beginning. Even if it was Assassin, that was the strength of a whole Servant. In other words, they, the Black team, were short of one Servant at the very beginning.

But the current situation cannot be solved by just getting angry.

Gold is not stupid. Even if he kills the woman here, it will be useless. He is still trapped here. At least he should get out first.

He reached out his hand only to wake the other person up and see if he could get any useful information out of him.

But before waking him up, Gold planned to control him with magic first. After all, he was responsible for his own safety.

Just as he was about to strike, a flagpole appeared from the corner of his vision, intercepted him and knocked his half-extended arm away.

Before he could react to what was happening, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and then he felt himself taking off briefly.

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"So that's why you reached out to this woman just now?"

Jeanne put one hand on her waist and held a lance in the other, looking seriously at the Black Master kneeling on the ground in front of her. Her tone was not friendly, as if she was interrogating a prisoner.

"Yes......"

Under Jeanne's contemptuous gaze, Gold covered his stomach and trembled all over, fearing the anger of the Ruler woman and also because he was still in pain from being kicked in the abdomen.