My XX deal with Sister Nero

Hassan Sabah is the name of this middle-aged man.

The founder of the Assassin Order, the Old Man of the Mountain, and also a Grand Assassin, one of the top Seven Grand Riders among all Servants!

The Grand Servants are the seven servants who originally guard humanity and stand at the top of all servants. They are the means used by the restraining force to fight against the great disasters that endanger primates. When such a great disaster, when such a disaster beast that is "rejected by humanity" appears, the Grand Servants will show up and come to resolve these disasters.

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After a night's rest, Tony sat up from the bed early the next morning, stretched hard, put on his clothes, washed up, and went to the restaurant in the Governor's Palace.

"Hey, long time no see, Zero." Tony said with a smile, waving to the girl who was eating in the restaurant.

Zero, Tony's personal guard, or rather, his former personal guard.

Jie Luo is very strong. To some extent, Jie Luo's combat capability has reached the limit that ordinary humans of this era can achieve. From this point of view, you are not far off the mark when you say that she is the ceiling of human military power of this era.

It’s just that... this era is too close to the Age of Gods.

Fantasy species, fairies, magicians, even some Dead Apostles and the legendary 27 Dead Apostles, which one of them is not an extraordinary existence? Not to mention the part-time workers of the Alaya family, those famous heroes in human history in the Seat of Heroes.

It seems to be far away.

In short, after Boudica's rebellion, Tony returned to Rome and was determined to build his own spy team. It was at this point in time that Tony delegated Zero, and later he sent Zero to the British province because he planned to build a small elite force to counter-attack and harass the Picts.

The commander and instructor of this small elite force is Jie Luo.

"Your Highness." Jie Luo looked at Tony with indifference and nodded slightly at him as a greeting.

"Come to think of it, you must have dealt with magicians here before, right? What do you think of them?" Tony sat casually in front of Zero, supporting his head with both hands, and asked with interest.

"Difficult." Zero glanced at Tony and answered briefly.

It's really difficult.

Tony deeply agreed with what Zero said. Unlike warriors like Zero who were straightforward and good at fighting, magicians... except for cases like Mapo, most magicians were not good at close combat. They were better at using mysterious spells to defeat the enemy. For this invisible and confusing fighting method, Zero's evaluation was fair.

Chapter 685: To deal with a magician, of course, you must fight mystery with mystery

Although she had never actually fought against him, Jie Luo had made an estimate. If she really had to fight against a magician, especially a top-level magician, it would not be a question of whether she could beat the opponent, but rather... she would not know where to start.

"You know, there is a branch within Christianity, the Holy Church. They are now trying their best to win over free-moving magicians, hoping that these magicians can work for them. So in the future, we are likely to fight with magicians." Tony glanced at the maids standing around, suddenly put his little head in front of Jie Luo, and whispered.

The Holy Cathedral, to some extent, can completely represent Christianity two thousand years later. However, at present, the newly developed Holy Cathedral does not have such great power. There are not many people under its jurisdiction, and there are no independent responsible departments in the future. Even now, the Holy Cathedral does not have the magic and baptism chant that are unique to them two thousand years later.

If the Templar Church wants to protect itself now, the easiest way is to hire magicians to fight for it.

Tony and Christian have a deep hatred for each other. Even if he uses his big toe to think, he can guess that in the near future, Christian will definitely launch an attack against him, and definitely more than once.

"Your Highness... do you want me to have the ability to fight against Christianity?" After thinking about it for a moment, Zero quickly figured out what Tony wanted to say.

"That's right. Although I have won over the Magic Association to let them be my swords to fight against the Holy Church, but you...Jero, I am very worried about you. You used to be my personal guard, and now you are one of the people I value. Moreover, you have a certain status in the British Province. In addition, the direction you are responsible for is different from Vitellius and others. You may leave the British Province and get out of the protection of the Magic Association at any time. So for your safety, and because Rome happened to receive a good gift, I decided to hand it over to you so that you can have a certain ability to fight against magicians." As he spoke, Tony took off the Egyptian scimitar wrapped in layers of cloth hanging on his waist and handed it to Zero: "This is a relic of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep II. It was a gift from the Egyptian Province to my sister some time ago, and then my sister gave it to me. Remember, Zero, this knife may not be of much use to ordinary people, but when dealing with magicians... it is quite useful."

"Huh?" Tony held the scimitar in his hand. Zero looked at Tony strangely, not knowing why he said that.

Although I don’t know much about history, but Amenhotep II... this name that I have no impression of shows that this pharaoh is not a pharaoh in modern history. The time period when this pharaoh lived... should be a long time ago.

So this knife should be an antique knife? Can this thing really be used in combat?

Seeing Zero's puzzled expression, Tony coughed and said, "If you want to deal with magicians, the easiest way is to fight mystery with mystery. The magic and magic they master belong to the mysterious side of knowledge, which is knowledge we don't understand and knowledge we can't master in a short time. But we can take advantage of it and use ancient relics to deal with them, because... these things, in terms of mystery, are not much lower."

At this point, Tony paused and suddenly asked, "Speaking of which, Zero, have you found any results on the matter I asked you to investigate before?"

As everyone knows, Tony was attacked during his engagement ceremony with his elder sister, and the attackers were from the Templar Church. Because of this attack, the Templar Church paid a corresponding price...but the Templar Church has already paid the price, but there are still some people who have not received the corresponding punishment.

Although Tony's route during the engagement ceremony had been made public to the entire city of Rome long ago, and although almost all Roman citizens could obtain Tony's route for the engagement ceremony from various channels, in order to ensure safety, the Roman Empire had already deployed a large number of troops on both sides of the route to prevent some people from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

Then Tony was attacked.

And the most crucial thing is that not only were there no secretly deployed troops where Tony was attacked, there was not even a single secretly deployed Roman soldier within a radius of one mile!

Tony could easily come to the conclusion that there must be someone inside the Roman Empire who was secretly communicating with Christianity and wanted to kill him! And this person was of high status!

Apart from the senators of the Senate, the only ones who had a high status and were able to transfer many Roman soldiers were the generals of the Praetorian Guard.

So, after the wedding, Tony secretly asked Zero to conduct a thorough investigation, trying to find out who was secretly colluding with Christianity and wanted to take the opportunity to kill him.

"Your Highness, we have almost finished the investigation. The assassination attempt on Your Highness was initiated by the Senate, and the original planner and participant was Cornelius." Jie Luo put down the knife and fork in her hand and answered with a serious expression.

"Cornelius?" Tony was stunned when he heard the name.

He had an impression of this name; it was the name of a veteran. In this era, this veteran did not leave behind any deeds that were well-remembered by the world, but his ancestor did produce a very famous politician.

Sulla, dictator for life of the Roman Republic!

However, the fame of his ancestors is only the fame of his ancestors and not his own. Cornelius did not do anything great in this era. Even in the Senate, this senator was just an insignificant existence to Tony.

But Tony never expected that this inconspicuous existence had actually planned an assassination against him without any notice!

In fact, bullying Tony is not that Lunar. If Rosa was here, he would probably react immediately when he heard Cornelius. Cornelius, in addition to the Sura who was his ancestor, had a descendant two thousand years later who was also very famous in the Type-Moon world.

Aruba!

Yes, that was the magician who cried out in pain... or something and was killed by Aozaki Touko. He was also the head of the Magic Association who hunted down Emiya Norika and set fire to Kiritsugu's village.

If Rosa was here, based on the name Aruba, he would definitely think of Cornelius, and maybe he also had some unusual relationship with the magician.

Chapter 686: Origin of "Taboo"

At almost the same time, in Rome.

"Cornelius, how is the situation over there?" In a small corner of the Senate Hall, the young Senator Passu leaned against a pillar, frowned, and looked at the young man standing in front of him who was not much older than him, and asked.

"I'm afraid His Highness has realized that the last assassination was related to me." Cornelius frowned, a trace of panic flashed across his face.

The assassination of Tony was a secret agreement reached between Cornelius and the top Christian leaders. Logically, few people should have known about this, but just a few days ago, Cornelius discovered that there seemed to be a lot more strangers near his home.

In this era, no matter which country it was, there was a strict class division. For example, in the Roman Empire, unless you were an official promoted from a commoner and in charge of general aristocratic officials, there would not be many commoners around where they lived. Even if there were, they had lived on this street for so long that they were neighbors and everyone basically knew each other.

Even if there are strangers, they are just passers-by at most.

But... there are suddenly a lot of strangers on this street. They are either passing by or wandering around here for several days. Even a fool can see that there is something wrong, right?

Cornelius knew that he was probably being monitored, and the people monitoring him were most likely Tony's subordinates!

After all, the only major event he had been involved in planning recently was the assassination of Tony.

But the question is, how did this guy know? !

"Have we been discovered?" Passu frowned. Although he was not directly involved in the assassination of His Royal Highness the Prince, Cornelius was a member of the Senate. If His Royal Highness really caught him, His Royal Highness would inevitably expand the matter and involve the Senate.

After all, His Highness seems to be a little bit disgusted with the current Senate.

It is entirely possible that Tony will take this opportunity to purge the Senate!

"Senator Passu, what should I do now?" Cornelius looked at Passu in panic.

Although Pasu was younger than Cornelius, he became a member of the Vanore senator line early on because of his family problems. They had only one goal, to completely restore the republican system, because only in this way would their power not be restricted by anyone.

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"Your Highness, do you believe in past lives?" Inside the headquarters of the Magic Association in Londinium, a magician with white hair and beard, whose age could not be determined, sat in front of Tony and asked with a smile.

The reason why Tony came to the Magicians Association was to steal some ancient weapons from here. After all, these artifacts have a certain mystery, and these things can help him resist magicians who may attack him in the future.

Although Tony's physical fitness is already beyond the reach of ordinary people without using his Noble Phantasm, but... magicians are not ordinary people either. What if a magician with a level beyond his normal attack comes along... he can't use his Noble Phantasm, right?

Even if one can use a hidden ability like a Noble Phantasm infinitely, it is still better to use it less often, so that others will not know all one's details.

When Tony came to the Magic Association and told the magicians his idea, one of the magicians said, "Your Highness, actually when facing a magician, Your Highness does not necessarily need to equip yourself with some mysterious weapons." Then... the magician took him to a small room, found an old man for him, and asked the old man to teach Tony some things.

And then there is the previous question.

"Previous life? Maybe... it exists?" Tony blinked and said uncertainly.

In his previous life, Tony was an absolute materialist. Since science has not proven the existence of the soul, he never admitted that the soul exists. The question of whether the soul exists is the core of the question of whether the previous life exists. If the soul exists, then correspondingly, the previous life may also exist.

After all, in the world where Tony lived in his previous life, the soul was basically equated with "consciousness".

Tony used to be an absolute materialist, but now he is in the Type-Moon world, and in this world... souls really exist!

In addition, Rosa had said before that his research institute had discovered the existence of the soul, and this discovery also became the opportunity for him to find Tony, so Tony had reason to believe that the soul should exist in any parallel world.

Since the soul exists, then the previous life... is also possible.

"So... Your Highness, what do you think your previous life was like? Or... what is your core?" The magician still looked at Tony with a smile on his face and spoke.

"Core? You mean... my origin?" Tony was stunned for a moment and asked uncertainly.

There are two concepts in the Type-Moon world, one is "origin" and the other is "root". The root refers to the beginning of all things, the Akashic Records, the vortex of origin, the ultimate mystery that the magician pursues all his life, and the beginning and end of everything. The origin is the fundamental existence that everyone or existence has. It is the direction that all existence is born with. This direction is eternal and unchanging. Your soul and your body may change, but your origin will never change.

"Your Highness... actually knows the origin?" Hearing Tony's answer, the magician subconsciously raised his eyebrows.

Even many magicians are not clear about the concept of origin. I didn’t expect that His Highness, who has basically no contact with magic, actually knows it.

"Yeah, I've heard of it." Tony scratched his head.

Although he is not an old moon man like Rosa, Tony at least has some understanding of certain concepts about the moon.

"So...what is your Highness's origin?" The magician looked at Tony's little face and asked slowly.

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"Everyone has an origin, and everyone can use their own origin." In a reception room of the institute, Rosa looked at the gentle young man with glasses sitting in front of him and said seriously, "Origin is eternal and unchanging. It is your root and the basis of your existence. For example, my origin is likely to be something like luck. You are familiar with my history of making a fortune. From the beginning to now, I have basically followed Long Aotian's script, and it is an unrepeatable script, because luck is too illusory and cannot be copied. The most typical example is the third brother, who committed suicide because of poverty. Obviously, his origin was not luck. Well, it may be poverty."

"...I feel offended." The gentleman stretched out his hand and gently pushed his eyes: "What about Tony? What is his origin?"

"I don't know." Rosa shrugged and said, "But I'm guessing that his origin... is probably the same as the black paulownia flowers in "Kara no Kyoukai". It's a taboo!"

Chapter 687: The Situation in Ireland

Rosa's hint was so obvious that the gentleman almost thought Rosa was treating him like a fool.

In Kara no Kyoukai, the origin of the Kurogiri flower is "taboo", so she likes Kurogiri Mikiya because it is a taboo, and what about Tony? Did he marry Nero simply because he hugged Nero's figurine and called her wife every day in his previous life?

I'm afraid it's more than that?

There were only two reasons why Tony couldn't do such a thing as marrying his own sister in his previous life. The first was that the law and morality did not allow it, and the second was that he didn't have the conditions to do so. Because of these reasons, he couldn't do such a thing as marrying his own sister.

Logically speaking, after coming to this world, no matter how much he likes Nero, Nero is still his biological sister in this body. Even if there are no legal constraints, the moral constraints should still be there. But Tony... Tony chose to marry Nero.

Isn't this the male version of the black Paulownia flower?

So Rosa had good reason to suspect that Tony's origins were "taboo."

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"What is my origin?" Tony fell into deep thought.

He understood what it would mean if he knew his origin. If he knew his origin before the Origin Awakening, he could make use of it. For example, Kiritsugu Emiya's Origin Bullet and Shirou Emiya's Unlimited Blade Works were both good examples.

But...what is my origin?

Tony didn't know that, for someone like Tony who knew very little about magic, exploring the origin was no different from reaching the vortex of origin. Both were difficult challenges, and both were things he couldn't do at the moment. However... his trip to the Magic Association was not in vain. At least he understood that he still had the path of exploring the origin to go.

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The news of Tony's return to the British province spread quickly. Just as he walked out of the door of the Magic Association, a middle-aged man dressed in a typical Celtic priest's outfit quickly came to Tony and bowed deeply to him and said, "Kador, the court priest of the Kingdom of Connaught, greets the great British Governor, His Royal Highness Prince Oddney."

The court priest of the Kingdom of Connaught? Tony was stunned at first, then he reacted.

Is this the guy that Nerva mentioned before?

"Kador, right? What's the matter?" Although he had guessed the other party's purpose, Tony still smiled and pretended that he didn't know.

"It's like this, Your Highness. I'm sure you know that some time ago, there was a war between our country and the Kingdom of Ulster. Although the war ended in a draw, the Kingdom of Ulster seemed somewhat dissatisfied with the outcome of the war. In short, the Kingdom of Ulster has been deliberately provoking diplomatic frictions in recent times in an attempt to start another war, and we... Your Highness, we hope that Your Highness can do justice for us." Kedor lowered his head and said stiffly.

To seek justice? If I didn't know this period of history and had a general idea of ​​the story of the Bull Stealing, I... wouldn't have believed this.

"I really want to help you." Tony shrugged and said, "But I'm not afraid of losing face. To tell you the truth, my British Province only has more than 1,500 troops right now. With this amount of troops, how can I help you?"

"More than 1,500 troops?" Kador blinked. He knew that there were not many troops stationed in Britain, but he never expected that this "not many" actually referred to such a small number of troops.

To be honest, the Kingdom of Ulster does not have a large army, but they are a country that can at least gather several thousand troops. Moreover, if this war really breaks out again, there will definitely be more than two countries participating. By then, your more than a thousand troops will probably not be enough to fill the gap.

only……

If it was another governor who said this, it would be fine. After all, no matter how hard the other party tried to empty their family's coffers to help, they wouldn't be able to gather many troops. But Tony was different. He was not only the governor of the British province, but also the Prince of Odenis of the Roman Empire, the fiancé of His Majesty the Roman Emperor, and the de facto next heir to the empire!

As long as he opens his mouth, let alone ten thousand, even a hundred thousand troops would be able to be sent out by Nero, right?

Besides, the most powerful thing about the British province is not how many Roman Empire troops are stationed there, but that there are twelve Celtic tribes around the province that are loyal to the British province. As long as Tony gives an order, these twelve tribes will have to contribute some troops, right?

"Your Highness, it's enough that you have the heart." The priest said anxiously, "Your Highness only needs to declare war on the Kingdom of Ulster on behalf of the Roman Empire, and then you won't have to worry about anything else."