Ex-Machina in Dimensional Travel

"Where are you going?"

"To see a priest."

“…?”

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Chapter 5: Suspicion

The next morning, Lion Jie and Mordred arrived at the agreed place.

At this moment, in this church in Romania, Lion Jie looked at the man and woman in front of him with a worried look on his face.

The two people opposite him, one had white hair and dark skin, dressed in clergyman's attire, and seemed to be the priest of this church, while the other was an elegant woman with long, smooth black hair, dressed in a gorgeous dress, who looked out of place here.

The man's name is Shirou Kotomine, a priest belonging to the Eighth Mystery Society of the Holy Church. He is an official responsible for supervising the behavior of the Masters in the Holy Grail War.

However, this Holy Grail War is different from the previous ones. It is a contest between the Church and the Eugledomilenia clan who stole the Greater Holy Grail.

And this time, there is someone else who is in charge of the position of [Supervisor]. He is the fifteenth Servant independent of the Red and Black Servant.

【Ruler】

It's a job that existed to allow the Holy Grail War to take place, so it makes sense that it would be summoned by the Holy Grail during this Holy Grail War between red and black.

Therefore, Father Shiro Kotomine is also a Master of the Red Side.

And his servant was none other than the Red Assassin beside him, who was known as Semiramis, the legendary queen of the Assyrian Empire.

"You mean, right after you summoned your Servant, you encountered an enemy with overwhelming strength that could defeat your Servant?"

Father Shiro Kotomine repeated the news he had heard from Shishijie.

"Yes."

Lion Zed sits on a chair in the church,

"Can you confirm whether the enemy is a Black Servant?"

The black-haired, long-eared woman gave this argument with disapproval. After all, the one who would start fighting right away would probably be the black servant.

Although there are magicians who can defeat servants with their own strength, they are a minority after all. Moreover, according to the enemy's intelligence, the black master does not have the strength to defeat the servant alone, and the target is a Saber who has the most versatile panel among all the professions.

However, Shizijie's answer directly denied the Assyrian Queen's guess.

"No, the enemy is not a Servant..."

When he said this, Shizijie's face was also full of shadows.

"Not a Servant?"

"Yes, Saber told me this herself."

Mordred was the only victim of this unprovoked disaster and the only person who had close contact with Shuul.

As a Servant herself, how could she not tell whether the enemy was a Servant or not?

Therefore, Mordred was absolutely certain that the opponent was simply a magus, a magus who could fight a Servant like himself without losing, or even kill him.

After hearing what Lion Jie said, the priest and the empress immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

It is known that the Black Master does not have the strength to fight against the Servants. At least that is the current available information, and it does not prevent the other party from finding out something.

And the master of the red side, Shirou Kotomine, was also very sure that there was no such person on his side.

In other words, unless the Yugdomirenia side is hiding some information.

The only possibility is that a fourth force other than the unidentified Red and Black and the Supervisor has infiltrated this Holy Grail War.

And the most important thing is that they still don’t know what this fourth force is like.

They don’t know the number of people, scale, purpose, etc.!

Looking at the priest's increasingly dark face, Shizijie's mood wasn't much better either.

After all, his Servant was still in a [severely injured] state and it would take time to recover, and a third party had been involved in this Holy Grail War, making the entire situation confusing.

The topic that was originally supposed to be a discussion about countermeasures against the Black Master was changed due to the information brought by Lion Jie.

The low pressure filled the entire church.

"But we can't rule out the possibility that Black summoned a Servant skilled in 'disguise'."

The empress looked at Lion Jie's expression with her golden eyes.

"makes sense......"

Listening to his servant's words, Shirou Kotomine, who had long since calmed down, also continued the Empress' words.

He looked at the serious-looking Shizijie with a soothing smile on his face.

"What's more important right now is your Servant's injuries."

Modred was unable to show up due to his injury. Lion Jie had already mentioned this reason when he first met the priest, but he did not reveal the severity of his injury in detail. One could only infer from a few words that he was seriously injured.

It was also at this point that Shiro Kotomine saw Shishijie's [distrust] of him.

"This is inevitable. I wonder if the other masters here have any solutions."

Lion Jie was obviously concerned about the injury of his servant, and when he talked about this topic, his words revealed that he wanted to heal his servant quickly.

Hearing this, Shiro Kotomine just smiled and came to sit on the bench next to Shishijie.

"Don't worry about that. We do have a solution."

"real or fake?"

Originally, Lion Jie had no hope for this matter. Although there were indeed many servants with healing abilities, it was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack to pick out such a character from the seven places.

Ultimately, he was reluctant to use his precious Command Seals to instantly heal his Servant's injuries. Having already used up one of them rescuing Mordred, Shishijie still wanted to use them for things where they could be used to their full potential. (I won't elaborate on the design of the Command Seals here, as everyone knows them.)

"After all, it's somewhat of a waste to use precious Command Seals for something like this."

Meeting Lion Jie's inquiring gaze, the priest said this, then looked at the empress beside him.

Seeing this, Semiramis cooperated and continued the conversation.

"Although I am in this world as Assassin, it just so happens that I know a thing or two about the magic book." As she spoke, the empress's beautiful golden eyes looked towards the side of Lion Jie.

"If it's related to [treatment], I can do it."

"Well then, let's go meet up with the other Masters first."

Father Shiro stood up from his chair and said this kindly.

"Afterwards, we will provide adequate treatment for your Servant."

"..."

Shizijie once again observed the expressions of the priest and the empress. There was nothing wrong with their arrangements, or rather, they were quite reasonable.

And he will also help heal his servants later. If he were an ordinary person, he would have agreed to this plan by now.

However, Lion Jie rejected this very reasonable proposal.

"Can you treat me here right now?"

"oops?"

After hearing this, Shiro Kotomine, who was originally preparing to lead the way, had a slightly puzzled expression on his face.

"Are you not very good at interpersonal communication?"

"I guess so..." Lion Jie said this without looking at the priest beside him. His eyes under the sunglasses were just staring straight ahead.

"After all, we necromancers are just that kind of people, and my Saber is normally strong enough to fight alone."

Looking at Shizijie's clear attitude, Father Shilang finally had no choice but to accept the other party's proposal.

After letting Semiramis treat Saber, Lion Jie did not stay for too long.

Before leaving, the priest took the empress to the church door to see her off.

"Black's enemies have already formed a complete army..."

Before leaving, the empress's words were full of advice.

"And now, there are enemies from that unknown force lurking in the territory. If you act without authorization, it will cause us trouble."

"Even so, you insist on leaving?"

Lion Jie was not at all shaken by Semiramis's advice. He simply apologized and left without looking back.

Only the priest and the empress were left watching the door close.

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ask for leave

I don’t know why my blood pressure has been showing signs of rising recently, so I will take a day off today and continue updating tomorrow.

After all, since I was discharged from the hospital, I bought a blood pressure monitor at home, the kind you get in the drugstore, and I measure it every morning when I wake up.

In the past two days, we have noticed a clear upward trend, and this morning the high pressure level has even reached 147.

But you don't have to worry too much. As for my blood pressure, sometimes it suddenly rises even without me doing anything, so I'm just thinking about whether it will go back down after today.

See you tomorrow then.

Chapter 6: Shuul's Preparations

As a wisp of golden energy condensed and took shape in Xuer's hand, a micro drone the size of an ant silently rose from Xuer's hand into the sky, and then disappeared without a trace.

Now, it was the morning of the second day after the battle with the Servant named Mordred.

And Xuer is in a different space from the real space. It is a different space created by the angel [Paradise of Samsara] obtained from the elf Mio in the first world. In this space, he will not be disturbed by anything and what he is going to do next.

Last night, the first thing Xiuer did after leaving the battlefield was to start arranging his own spies.

Up to now, Xuul has built and flown thousands of stealth and silent drones, like the one just mentioned.

These drones will serve as Shul's eyes for monitoring the area encompassed by the Holy Grail War, but their number is currently insufficient for him to directly cover the entire Romania.

However, according to Xiuer's own calculations, it would be enough to achieve the goal by this afternoon. Now, the first batch of drones released are almost reaching the border.

Although the clone can do the same thing, or it can do more.

But compared to the clones that take up computing power, each of these small machines is an independent individual. For Xuer, even if he releases hundreds of millions of them, it will not have any impact at all.

By releasing some permissions through the declaration, it is not a big problem to just check your location.

It was only after Xuer checked that he realized that he was now in the territory of a country called Romania in the northern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe.

To be honest, Shul's understanding of the Fate series can only be described as "pathetic".

From what he knew in his previous life, he only knew about the so-called Holy Grail War that took place in Fuyuki City.

This European country, which borders Ukraine to the north, Moldova to the northeast, Bulgaria to the south, Serbia to the southwest and Hungary to the northwest, is completely different from Shul's [cognition].

Therefore, Xiuer's heart was full of helplessness, but this also made him learn a lesson.

"Confirmed. Due to unstable factors, the safety factor of keyword retrieval is low and has been classified as [Danger Warning]."

Fortunately, this time it did not lead to any irreversible consequences. Otherwise, if I had ended up in a very dangerous world because of this kind of thing, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Since the beginning of his time travel, Xiuer ignored the AI ​​warnings of his body and allowed the system to transform and integrate into his body. This outsider (system) directly replaced his AI position.

However, emotionally speaking, Xiuer was also extremely grateful for this matter.

After all, in the original work of No Game No Life, Shuvi, who is also an Ex-Machina, caused a large number of errors in the AI ​​of his body because he wanted to explore the [heart].

If it were Shuul's case, the original machine AI would probably issue more warning messages.

But speaking of No Game No Life...

When Xuer thought about the game life, his thoughts suddenly drifted in a strange direction.