My mother's love song

Chapter 405: Educating the Empress

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Rhodes breathed a sigh of relief and carefully placed the peacefully sleeping Atalanta Alter on the floor.

He turned and looked at Semiramis.

She had unconsciously stood up from the throne and stood there with her fists clenched.

Her expression was nothing short of wonderful.

It contained both anger towards Rhodes and jealousy towards Atalanta who was treated so kindly.

"Damn it... why... do you keep playing those little tricks!!!"

The calmness on Semiramis's face had disappeared, and she looked at Rhodes as if she was looking at a monster.

"So I'll just ask you to join me as soon as possible."

Rhode shrugged and said, "Why do you have to be so arrogant? Even if you want to join me now, I won't accept it."

The empress hugged her chest and snorted coldly: "So, you want to kill me?"

"How is that possible?" Rhodes sneered, "I want you to experience the humiliation that Atalanta just suffered."

Having said this, Rhodes took steps towards her throne.

at this time,

“Rod!!!”

Jeanne's voice came from behind.

The blonde saint stood at the door and looked over here.

Empress Semiramis, who sat back on the throne, raised her eyebrows: "Ruler..."

Tsk! You came earlier than I thought. I just wasted too much time.

"How's the battle situation outside?" Rhodes turned and asked Jeanne.

The Saint pursed her lips and said, "Archer and Rider's spiritual base reactions have disappeared. They have returned to the Greater Holy Grail..."

Did Chiron and Achilles die together in the fight, or was he killed by Kama?

It was the same development as Rhodes expected.

The remaining Servants are Rhodes, Jeanne, Atalanta, Semiramis, Amakusa Shiro, Shakespeare, and Kama.

Oh, and there’s also Meli who is trapped in the city of Mirenia.

By now, Lion Jie should have taken advantage of the time when the entire Yugdomirenya army was dispatched to sneak into the castle and rescue Meli.

In fact, this was also Rhodes' plan.

On the one hand, I don’t want Lion Jie to come and die.

more importantly

Preventing Meili from participating in the final battle was the ultimate insult Rhode gave her!

On the other hand, the Servants who returned to the Greater Holy Grail are Spartacus, Vlad III, Karna, Miyamoto Musashi, Avisbronn, Chiron, and Achilles.

There are seven souls in the Golden Grail, which actually meets the conditions for activating the Greater Holy Grail.

As long as Amakusa Shiro Tokisada is eliminated, this battle can be ended immediately.

Of course, the same applies to the Red Team. As long as Jeanne d'Arc, who serves as the restraining mechanism, is eliminated, Amakusa can ignore other Heroic Spirits and activate the Greater Holy Grail ahead of time.

"Rod, let's defeat Assassin together!"

In response to Jeanne's proposal, Rhode shook his head: "No. Assassin and I have some personal matters to deal with.

You go down first, the mastermind is waiting for you inside."

Rhodes glanced at Semiramis and said, "I think this is probably what Amakusa Shiro Tokisada meant."

Stared at by that provocative look, the empress frowned slightly and turned away, seeming a little unconvinced but helpless against him.

Jeanne thought for a moment and nodded: "I see. Rod, you have to be more careful. See you later."

She glanced at Assassin and said, "Then this time we will say goodbye forever."

After hearing Jeanne's words, Semiramis smiled fearlessly: "I think so. Goodbye, Ruler.

You are a boring saint, so perish with them. I will have this man waiting for you down there to reunite with you."

Joan of Arc had neither the time nor the energy to respond to her provocation.

Rhodes and Semiramis both watched the saint's back as she continued to run forward.

Initially, the Assyrian Queen wanted to deal with Joan of Arc herself, but now Rhodes was the only prey left in her eyes.

"Caster, I have already asked Ruler to go to your side. It is your responsibility from now on. I will now deal with the problems on my side."

Before Shakespeare could answer, Semiramis unilaterally cut off the conversation and raised her right hand towards Rhodes.

"Well, let me treat you well. I will activate my second Noble Phantasm, [The Wine of the Arrogant King]."

In an instant, Rhodes' vision was distorted.

The invisible high-density poison quickly enveloped Rhodes' body. It was a pure poison that was enough to dissolve the flesh of a heroic spirit.

However, the dizziness in Rhodes' brain only lasted for a moment before disappearing.

Rhodes shook his head and sneered disapprovingly: "It's just useless work.

It seems that the poison you prepared specially for me was in vain, Semiramis."

"……what?"

Semiramis's golden pupils dilated slightly, and she was stunned for a moment.

How come the poison he prepared himself had no effect on Rhodes?

That night, my poison clearly took effect on Rhodes, right?

Semiramis is known as the oldest poisoner of mankind. The poison of origin she possesses should be a universal poison for everything.

What’s more, what I used this time was specially formulated to deal with Servants, so it should be effective even against Caster, a black magician.

"Poisons that are intended to take lives are meaningless to me. Unbeknownst to you, I have already taken doses far beyond your imagination."

In the original work of "F/A", the red Saber Mordred who confronted Semiramis once relied on the injection of serum to remove the "Wine of the Arrogant King".

The serum that Lion Jie made at that time was made based on the snake venom of the nine-headed Hydra as the imaginary enemy.

The result was just as he expected. The original poison of Semiramis, the Queen of Poison, was the Hydra poison prepared in advance to deal with Chiron.

But she could never have imagined that the venom of the Hydra was the only thing that had no effect on Rhodes.

In the Greek era, Rhodes, who was once ravaged by his beloved daughter Nyx with Hydra fangs every night, had the strongest resistance to Hydra in his blood.

"Thanks to you, I don't even have any magic power left now. How are you going to compensate me?"

With a sly smile on his face, Rhodes began to climb towards the throne where Semiramis was.

The long staircase leading to the Queen's Seat was more than 50 meters long, and Rhodes walked slowly on it.

"Wait there. Now I will go and love you well, Semiramis."

Seeing his appearance, Assassin showed a trace of uneasiness on his face and raised his right hand.

As if in response to this action, dark green chains suddenly emerged from the darkness behind the empress.

The tip of the chain woven with magic power is hook-shaped, like the fangs of an animal or the claws of a dragon.

"Don't get too carried away, Caster! Let me torture you to death unilaterally."

The moment the raised right hand swung down, the chain danced like a snake.

A dark green chain flew out from the depths of darkness, passed through the space of the aerial garden, and quickly wrapped around Rhodes.

However, Rhode didn't even raise his hands or blink his eyes as the chains that were powerful enough to tear a heroic spirit into pieces shattered the moment they approached him.

"...!"

Semiramis bit her lip.

The performance just now was something that even Ruler Jeanne with [Magic Resistance] level EX could not have done.

The materialized magic gift set is not as easily dispelled by [Anti-Magic Power] as energy.

Rhodes did not rely on anti-magic power, but instead deployed an "anti-magic spell" around his body.

Because Rhodes once owned the [Sky Garden], he knew all the magic techniques there clearly and could naturally design corresponding countermeasures.

Having said that, it is truly amazing that such a near-magical magic formula was completed in such a short time.

Semiramis, who was also a magician, thought that she could not do it. Among the magicians she knew, the only one who could do such a thing was probably the man in front of her.

"Tsk!"

Semiramis felt unhappy about feeling inferior as a magician, and she waved her right hand, summoning more and more chains.

Those dark green chains swooped down the stairs like a giant dragon.

But no matter how much the number increases, the result will not change.

When the chain rushed to a position less than one meter away from Rhodes, it quickly disintegrated and turned into powder.

In contrast, Rhodes climbed the stairs slowly and step by step.

"Ugh...!!"

Facing Rhodes approaching the throne, Semiramis took half a step back, sweat oozing from her fair neck.

He could obviously move ten meters in one step, or even get close to the empress in an instant, but he chose not to do so.

The clear echo of Rhodes' footsteps on the stairs, and his figure getting closer to the throne, seemed to have turned into an invisible huge pressure pressing down on Semiramis's delicate body.

Rhodes' actions were full of the evil taste and sadism that Semiramis possessed the most.

He clearly wanted to retaliate in her own way, using her style to gradually undermine and trample on the empress's proud self-esteem.

Semiramis also noticed this.

"You look like you've been sweating a lot. You didn't even fight, but you're already so tired? Your Majesty is really used to a life of luxury."

Rhode was like a villain, sneering happily, "It doesn't matter, I will make you happy as a woman next."

"Noisy!"

A huge monster suddenly appeared between the empress and the magician.

The fish summoned by the empress was none other than the sacred fish of the ancient gods, a ferocious monster that could only be summoned by Semiramis, whose mother was the fish goddess.

The fish-like monster opened its mouth, trying to bite Rhode to pieces!!!

"Go away."

Rhodes drew out his staff and slashed at the monster that was about to devour him.

A cold sword flashed by.

The sword hidden in the staff cut the huge divine fish into two pieces.

“…Gurgle.”

There was only a dozen meters between them, but the proud summoned beast couldn't stop it even for a moment. Semiramis' mood seemed to have fallen to the bottom at this moment.

Although I know the gap between myself and Caster, is it really that big?

"I will never surrender to you! Never!!!"

Semiramis shouted loudly. She felt uncomfortable with Rhodes' indifferent smile.

That expression was as if he had already confirmed that the empress was his property, and was full of confidence.

She wanted to deny it desperately, but it was only then that Semiramis realized that she was just fooling around.

Ah... My dignity as an empress disappeared long ago, at least in front of this person.

The only thing she could do was to act like a child to get more attention from men.

"I hate you!!!"