You are very strong, but my painting style is better than yours!

"Command Seals? It looks like... it's Karna?" Iori was also amazed by the power of the two, but unlike Sera who was stunned, he was still able to remain calm and think.

It seems that he was right not to rashly attack the priest before. Amakusa Shiro has already gathered at least one extra servant. Even if he can defeat Semiramis, he cannot defeat the demigod Little Sun.

But now, with Black Spear holding Karna back, Iori's plan can continue.

……

"It won't be a problem for Lancer to stop Rider. If Black Rider refuses to retreat, we can even try to keep her here... Semiramis?"

Amakusa Shiro turned his attention from the sky back to the assassin, and asked Semiramis who was in a trance with concern: "What's wrong with you?"

"Someone broke into my garden!"

The calmness on the empress's face disappeared for the first time: "Damn it! It's the guy in the forest before... There's no important target there, what does he want to do?"

"perhaps--"

"No matter what he wants to do, he dares to covet my garden. This is unforgivable!"

"Calm down, Semiramis."

Amakusa Shiro emphasized the assassin's name, which calmed her down a little.

"Think about it carefully, my Lord. It is surely not a coincidence that two unexpected guests have arrived at the same time. If we act rashly, we will only fall into the enemy's trap."

"Hmm...you mean, this is a trap?" The empress lowered her eyelids, then came to her senses, "It's to test us!"

"Yes, although you are an assassin, your combat style is closer to Caster. Only in specific locations can you display the combat power of a first-class Servant. Otherwise..."

"Should we stay here and wait for them to leave?"

Semiramis was indignant: "How dare they make trouble in my garden?"

“Those things are important, but we have to give up something.”

The priest was not in a good mood either. If Semiramis was just out of female possessiveness, she would be very annoyed about the intrusion of outsiders.

Then Amakusa Shiro has very realistic reasons:

Many ancient building components and precious cultural relics that he had dug out and purchased by various means over the past sixty years, enduring hardships and sleeping in the open air, were now placed in a church cemetery protected by a barrier.

What if the intruder had some evil intentions? Wouldn't he have spent half a century in vain? !

When the priest thought of this, he even felt that the Command Spell was not such a precious thing:

"You and I can't leave the church, so use the Command Spell to call Archer back!"

Volume 101: Death Comes to the Holy Grail War: Chapter : I, Tama, Shoot! (Two in One)

"This is the original stone tablet, which records the important sacrificial events of the temple."

"take away!"

"Golden cup and silver plate! It is a precious ritual vessel. This style... is at least two thousand years old."

"take away!"

"Ancient Babylonian-style stone pillars, um... I can't take this with me, right?"

"Break it!"

……

There are often cemeteries under or around Western churches. Some devout nobles and even royal families will store their coffins in churches. This custom has even influenced mythology. For example, there is a saying about the whereabouts of the body of Finn, the great Irish hero, that he was buried under a church, waiting for the day of awakening.

(This legend is similar to King Arthur, and Finn is indeed one of Arthur's prototypes. For example, both of them were tragically cheated on by a good-looking and virtuous knight...)

Father Kotomine is a low-key person, and the church he chose is not a famous building, but the cemetery is large enough to accommodate his "collection".

At this time, the originally quiet and peaceful cemetery has been filled with all kinds of big and small, strange and weird things.

Among these sundries are extremely expensive gold and silver utensils, bronze and pottery with ancient charm, as well as rough earth and stone bricks, especially various building materials that look severely weathered, and it feels like a layer of sand and gravel will be worn off with just a light touch...

At first glance, there is no unifying feature, and to the average person it would be like entering a garbage dump.

But in the eyes of the magician, there is another feeling, because no matter what the value of these things is, they are all "real"!

They are by no means props made by a film crew, or cheap fakes imitated by modern technology. Every brick and every tile is a legacy of the ancient civilization in the Mesopotamian region with a history of more than 2,000 years!

Of course, old things are not necessarily antiques, and having a history of thousands of years does not necessarily mean they are precious. At least from a magician's perspective, there are only a few treasures that have "mystery" and can be used as research objects or media for casting spells.

Most of them are just cultural relics in the secular sense, and are valuable to archaeologists or governments.

...What is really shocking is that there are too many of these "useless things"!

If the things here were converted into money, they could probably buy a small country, right?

——This was enough to make the twelve monarchs of the Clock Tower look at him in awe.

The scene before our eyes is absolutely difficult for ordinary people to see. It requires extremely exaggerated financial resources, or perseverance and determination spanning several generations to continuously collect to form such a scale.

There are such wealthy families, but their assets are in the form of workshops, holy relics, magic seals, spiritual veins... They exist in various forms that are priceless to the mysterious side.

No one would ever exchange this level of wealth for a pile of "historical" earthenware bricks!

It is also impossible for a magic family to maintain this habit for several generations, because such stupid people cannot continue the family line.

This is indeed the case. The person who raised so much ancient Babylonian heritage was not a real magician, but just a priest who could perform "miracles".

——Kotomine Shiro!

His true form is a special class [Ruler] summoned in the Third Holy Grail War. His real name is "Amakusa Shiro Tokisada". Due to special reasons, he obtained the body of a living person and has been accumulating strength for the Fourth Holy Grail War for the next sixty years.

In order to collect these cultural relics, he spent half a century of time and blood and sweat, and changed from a handsome young man with black hair and white skin to a non-mainstream person with white hair and black skin...

However, as we all know, civil engineers have a very hard and miserable life. For example, now, the savings that Shiro Amakusa has worked hard for decades are being plundered and destroyed by a person who has no sense of morality.

"Take whatever you can!"

Iori and Sera were as happy as if they had entered a department store and were shopping for free. Sera, who had a good eye, chose the items. Iori would roll up small items that were valuable and easy to carry, and would just hit them with a punch or a sword if they were big items that he couldn't take away.

In less than three minutes, the cemetery was in a mess, and many tombstones of innocent people were affected... For this, Iori had no choice but to say sorry.

"Well, that's about it." Iori weighed the large package in his hand. The weight of hundreds of kilograms seemed light as a feather in his hand, but he should quit while he was ahead.

It's not that he was kindhearted and felt sorry for Amakusa, but he just couldn't keep it up... He was now wearing a black suit, and in his hand he had materialized a Death Bag to use as a bag. Although the Death Bag was of good quality and had a large size, it was not a storage bag that could store space.

"It's too troublesome without space props. I wonder if [Shangri-La] can be transformed..."

"berserker, my box can hold some too!"

Sera's face was flushed as she ran around in the pile of cultural relics. The huge amount of physical exertion made her exhausted, but she was extremely excited... Perhaps all women cannot resist the pleasure of large-scale shopping, even artificial humans.

"No, we should retreat. The priest is not dead. Although we have Rider to help us draw fire, we can't guarantee what else he might have in store."

"Well... that's good!"

Since Iori had spoken, Sera did not object, but still took the opportunity to pick up a few rune bone fragments that looked like divination props from the ground.

The two who succeeded in stealing the house entered the forest victoriously. Iori suggested to run away with Sera in his arms. The silver-haired girl disagreed at first, but she soon realized that she was a hindrance and jumped into Iori's arms.

Huh-huh-huh-

The scenery on both sides quickly receded, the tall trees formed a shadow, and the strong wind pressure made Sera unable to open her eyes, but she inexplicably realized that this was not Iori's limit. In order to take care of the weak master, the berserker had been very restrained when running.

This should be far enough away from the church - Sera thought to herself.

Suddenly, the android girl felt her heart tighten. A stern pressure emanated from Iori, causing her to hold her breath.

Then Iori suddenly accelerated——

call out!

An arrow shining with emerald green light drew a flowing smooth curve in the gap of the forest, just passed by Iori's back and hit a big tree. The force was long and strong, and the arrow head went straight into the tree, leaving only the tail end trembling outside.

In the blink of an eye, the arrow turned into spiritual light and dissipated, but it was actually something woven with magic power.

"Is it the enemy Archer?" Sera reacted immediately, her white and slender fingers tightly grasping the Servant's collar.

"No, it's more likely that they are 'friendly forces'... they really won't let us go so easily!"

Iori spoke in a relaxed tone, and his body turned sharply. Instead of slowing down, he suddenly jumped onto the treetops and moved nimbly among the dense tree canopy.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

The green leaves and branches blowing by her side made it difficult for Sera to see what was happening. She could only hear the short and dangerous sound of arrows breaking through the air. And judging from the timing of Iori's early turn and dodge... the arrow was even faster than the sound!

Sera didn't know how Iori dealt with arrows that went faster than the speed of sound, but he obviously didn't rely on his hearing. He was able to act just in time every time to avoid the arrow's landing point.

However, the archers hiding in the darkness were obviously not ordinary people. Even though the target was hiding his body with the help of the dense tree canopy and was still moving quickly, theoretically he could disappear from sight in the blink of an eye and could not be pursued by flying props. However, the arrows still shot at him accurately and persistently again and again, like a thorn in the flesh, making it impossible for Iori and the other man to get rid of them.

Is it 【Clairvoyance】?

As the last descendant of the Einzbern, Sera is very clear about the characteristics of servants of each major class. As the servant who is best at long-range sniping, Archer usually has the skill of [Clairvoyance]. Combined with [Act Alone] that allows him to stay away from his Master, he can be transformed into the strongest scout and hunter.

Seriously speaking, an Archer who abandons his reserve is no less threatening to the enemy Master than an assassin.

To put it bluntly, the assassin became the MVP in the Subspecies Holy Grail War simply because the makeshift system could not summon three powerful knights, and the masters were generally of low level.

However, relying solely on [Clairvoyance] would still not allow for such precise continuous sniping across the forest. The enemy Archer's archery skills were also incredible. In addition, he probably had a good tracking ability, and could always keep track of Iori's position in the forest.

He hid in the dark and oppressed the enemy through long-range shooting... The opponent's tactics were simple and efficient, and Iori, who was escaping with only one person, had no power to fight back!

Realizing that she had become a burden to Iori, Sera frowned and quietly clenched her fists. The red command seal on the back of her right hand showed her silent presence.

"no!"

Iori's voice echoed in her mind, and when she looked up she saw that the boy looked calm, without any sense of urgency as if he was being hunted.

Even though those arrows were extremely powerful and could easily pierce through tree trunks and penetrate rocks from hundreds of meters away, there was no fear on the boy's face.

"It would be a waste to use the Command Spells now. We are far from being at the end of our rope!"

bass!

Before she finished her words, Sera felt a moment of weightlessness, as if she had passed through a layer of water film. She was in a trance for a moment, and when she came to her senses, she found that Iori had stopped, and the arrows did not chase her. The surrounding scenery had also changed greatly, and the distribution of trees was obviously much denser than before.

"Is this... teleportation? Spatial displacement?"

After all, Sera was a family-trained man, and she quickly realized that the two men were moving in an unconventional way.

The Einzberns themselves are experts in "displacement magic", so this was the first thing that came to mind, but she was obviously mistaken.

"It's not that type of magic, just a slightly faster sprint."

Iori spoke calmly, but energy gathered under his feet again—

bass!bass!bass!

Although the spirit particles were converted into magic power, with the blessing of the "painting style value", moves such as instant step were used without any awkwardness or hindrance. Iori transferred several times in a row before finally stopping.

"She probably won't be able to find it here for a while."

Iori put Sera on the ground, and the android girl looked puzzled.

"A good hunter will not give up her prey easily, unless both sides switch sides... You stay here. If anything unexpected happens, don't hesitate to use the Command Spell and call me back in time."

As he spoke, Iori raised his hand, and a bluish-white spiritual light emerged from his palm, and a series of smooth mirror-like slopes appeared out of thin air, "locking" Sera inside like a pyramid, and the same went for the Death Stranding package and the suitcase.

——【The Seventy-three Ways of Binding: Inverted Mountain Crystal】!

"I'll be back soon."

"...Well, I will provide good magical support." Sera was not pretentious. She had already promised to obey Iori's arrangements in terms of strategy and tactics. Now she could only ensure that she would not fall behind.

Although she was curious about why Iori, a Berserker, would use "magic"...but all she said was:

"Safe travels!"

-

"Disappeared?"

Somewhere in the forest, on a towering tree, a green figure like a mountain cat half-knelt on a branch, slowly lowering the gorgeous longbow in his hand, his heroic eyebrows slightly wrinkled, and a glimmer of magic shone in his emerald eyes.

This is a female hunter full of wild beauty. Her impression color is emerald green that can perfectly blend into the wilderness and forest. Although she wears a dress that barely reaches her knees, it does not hinder her movements. Under her seemingly slender appearance are well-trained muscles, especially her plump and powerful thighs, which seem to be able to give her body explosive power like an arrow from a bow at any time.

The cat ears on her head and the tail behind her made her look more cute and diluted her fierceness a little, but she was still intimidating. Her beautiful and heroic face always had an inviolable aura.

"Is it a cunning rabbit... no, a fox?"

The hunter was deep in thought, and put the fingers wearing metal armor under her nose, so that she seemed to be able to smell a hint of blood.

Although she lost her target, she was not in a hurry because the forest "told" her that the other party was still within the hunting range and was just playing hide-and-seek with her.

Maybe he's still thinking about killing her?