My mother's love song

As expected of a talented girl who grew up in the Clock Tower, Luvia gave Lanis an approving look, then she frowned and tried to reorganize their current situation.

"…What exactly was that black monster just now?"

"demon."

"!?"

Lainie uttered a noun without hesitation, causing Luvia to gasp.

Demons, that is a fantasy different from fantasy species like Warcraft.

An incorporeal monster composed of spirits and minds.

A primate enemy and human killer who possesses the ability to [Special Attack Against Humanity].

"But how do you know it's a demon?"

"The El-Melloi family is allied with the psychic mediums, so I've heard a little bit about it. That, I guess, is a fully formed demon."

Lanis replied.

Luvia held her chin up. "Well, I didn't expect to encounter something that only appeared in the church's brochures in the Clock Tower. Why would that kind of thing...a demon appear in the Clock Tower and attack humans?"

"I don't know. It's not clear whether the attack is related to the church. Compared to this, I am more worried about them now."

They were referring to Rin and Sakura.

Although she looks a bit malicious, Lanis is actually a very responsible person.

Since she has accepted the job of taking Toosaka to visit the Clock Tower, she must be responsible for safety. This is not only related to the honor of the El-Melloi family, but also Renis's style.

"Well, I'm also a little worried about Miss Matou. After all, that child is now under the protection of Eindfeldt." Luvia said.

“That way, our goals are the same.”

They nodded at the same time.

"Trimmau, can you trace the magic power of Ms. Tousaka or Ms. Matou?"

Lanis asked after calling the mercury maid back to her side.

Trimmawu raised one arm, and the silver arm turned into a ball of mercury mist and floated out of the door.

About half a minute later, the mercury maid responded in the affirmative.

"There are about forty people nearby who can sense the magical reactions, including the magical reactions close to Miss Toosaka."

"very good!"

Lanis clenched her fists.

Unlike Luvia, she is the type who doesn't particularly care about being a lady, and it's common for her to behave rudely when excited.

"Track immediately."

"Yes, Master."

The mercury maid did not retract her vaporized arms, and her body began to melt from the shoulders and flowed back to the ground.

"Luvia, let's go."

Trimmawu turned back into her original Moon Spirit Marrow Liquid and began to slide into the corridor of the teaching building, which was in a mess due to the sudden attack. Lanis and Luvia also ran after her.

Compared to the Moon Spirit Marrow of Lord El-Melloi, who is more adept at combat and calculation, this perception of magic is Trimmau's specialty.

But unfortunately, Lanis and Trimmawu did not reach the point of sharing the five senses.

Because she was not bound by magic.

What allowed her to exist was the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid, a magical gift that was considered to be the finest in the history of the Clock Tower. Her personality and human appearance were merely the result of slight processing by the girl on that basis.

El-Melloi's genius skills are worthy of praise, so faced with this situation, the girl can only honestly chase after the high-speed Mercury.

“It should be around here.”

After running along the collapsed wreckage in the shattered university town for a while, the two came to the vicinity of the shopping street.

They took the elevator to the fourth floor of the shopping mall, from where they could overlook the entire university town and quickly find the whereabouts of Rin and Sakura.

"Lenice, look over there."

After Lanis injected magic power into her eyeballs, her eyes turned red. She looked in the direction that Luvia had quietly pointed out, and found a large number of demons and controlled magicians in the circular plaza.

"Is this..."

"Being taken hostage?"

"No, it's probably because the demons captured the magician and planned to do something to him. It looks like the actions of a terrorist organization."

Luvia pinched her chin and frowned, saying, "I've been feeling strange since a while ago. These demons are not like what is recorded, with the sole purpose of killing people.

Generally speaking, demons are something like a curse, it's amazing that they can resist the urge to kill... They are just like puppets on standby."

She glanced at the mercury maid standing behind Lanis.

"In other words, there is someone controlling these demons behind the scenes?" Lanis took over the conversation.

"Impossible, there is no human being who can control demons."

Luvia shook her head. "If there is anyone who can control demons, the only person I can think of is a human."

"Hahaha."

Lanis answered jokingly, "Could it be Solomon, the King of Israel in the Age of Gods, who descended on the clock tower?"

Both of them found the answer funny.

"But I didn't see Tousaka and Matou."

Little girls of twelve or thirteen should be quite conspicuous, as they are not to be found among the adult students controlled by the demons.

"What should we do? Should we look somewhere else?" asked Lanis.

Luvia played with her golden curly hair in an unhappy mood. "It's a bit unpleasant to run away with your tail between your legs like this... huh? Wait, what's that over there?"

A group of magicians appeared in the distance, numbering more than thirty people.

"Have the rescue team sent by the Clock Tower arrived yet?"

Luvia blinked, which was really quick.

Lanis frowned and said, "No, that's a private army. I remember the ceremonial uniforms they were wearing. That's..."

At this moment, the setting sun shining on the girls' cheeks suddenly disappeared.

The dark clouds that floated in from afar instantly covered the entire basic science campus. When Luvia and Lanis saw the dark clouds spreading across the sky at an extremely unnatural speed and scale, they held their breath.

A low rumble of thunder roared.

"Is this true...there are still hostages!!!"

Luvia grabbed the windowsill and shouted angrily.

Almost at the same time, the sound of thunder that echoed through the sky covered her voice.

The blue lightning that fell from the sky landed straight on the square where the demons gathered.

I don’t know how much magic power was accumulated, but this attack even made Lanis, who was hundreds of meters away, feel an earthquake.

Although most of the electricity was conducted underground, the ionized burning smell also drifted over with the wind.

With no regard for the situation of the captured students, powerful weather magic suppressed the demons in the area.

Afterwards, the private army that Lanis and the others had seen just now also rushed over and started fighting with the demons.

Because they had released the AOE attack effect beforehand, the invading magicians instantly suppressed the demons.

"It seems that the situation here has been suppressed."

Lanis said, “I just don’t know how many students were injured in the lightning strike just now. It wouldn’t be surprising if some died.

We should go... Hey, Miss Luvia?"

When I came to my senses, I found that Luvia had disappeared.

"Miss Luvia shouted that she wanted to give a back throw to the guy who just released lightning on the hostage, and left angrily." The mercury maid explained in an inorganic voice.

"Aha."

Lanis pressed her forehead in silence: Who is going to handle this situation?

Chapter 511 London Falls, Rhodes Returns

On the national highway leading to London, Rod's dark green Aston Martin was speeding like a beast.

Compared to the time I came here, my running style on the way back was more aggressive but obviously more unfamiliar, and I completely lost the ease I had before.

The reason was that the person holding the steering wheel in the driver's seat was not Rhodes, but Scathach.

"How is it, Lord Rhodes?"

Gray lowered her head and asked the boy sitting on her lap.

Rhodes shook his head. "No. It's just as you said. The phone is not working. The hotel, the clock tower, and even Scotland Yard are all busy."

He stroked his chin and began to sort out the information he had collected so far.

Since yesterday evening, a mysterious fog has enveloped the city of London, including the clock tower center and several core departments.

That was not ordinary fog, but a magical fog similar to the [Dark Fog City] of Jack the Ripper that Rhodes knew.

Although it is not extremely toxic, it may be even better than Jack the Ripper in disrupting intelligence.

The fog barrier has isolated London from the outside world on a magical level. Neither conventional communications nor magical means can get in touch with the inside. Even the entire city has disappeared from satellite maps.

Although the association had sent an investigation team into London late at night, they lost contact immediately after entering the fog, and the agreed regular return was not realized, and they disappeared completely.

In the morning, Gray received this news from her classmates in the suburbs of London.

"That's what I said. What do you think?" Rhodes looked at Scathach who was holding the steering wheel.

Scathach stared at the road in front of her and said calmly, "Impossible. I have never heard of anyone being able to set up a large barrier that surrounds a city with a population of 800 million."

"Me too," Rhodes said with a smile.

Even an almost magical barrier is usually limited to a range of one kilometer at most.

If Anna had received power from her mother, she might be able to create a [Blood Temple] covering several blocks, but that would still be a far cry from dominating the entire city.

Moreover, it was the fortress city of Londinium, the headquarters of the Magic Association with a history of 1500 years, which had already been surrounded by a dragnet-like barrier and had never fallen since the days of Vortigern.

How could London, which even Austrian painters could not conquer, become like this overnight?

"Singularity..."

Rod proposed a hypothesis.

Gray tilted her head: "Odd...point?"

"It's not a singularity in the astronomical sense, but a singularity in the theory of magic. Well, there's no difference between astronomy and magic."

Rhodes explained: "To put it simply, there is a chaos in the time and space of London. Tsk...why is this happening?"

"Rod, do you know anything?"

"No, I don't know either."

Rhode instantly thought of Goetia, but this matter should have nothing to do with that girl.

Unlike the original FGO, he did not let any of the Demon Pillars escape here, and collected them all into his own treasures.

That guy must have been pretty honest lately.

Therefore, the culprit must be someone else.

There have been many singularities in FGO that have nothing to do with Goetia, so it's not surprising.

However, Rhode was still very concerned about what Gray said just now.

"Before the thick fog enveloped London, the Clock Tower received information that the entire Basic Department was attacked by demons." Gray said.

"You mean the devil?" Rhodes frowned.

This word has been appearing so frequently recently.

A demonized and corrupted Einzbern android.