People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

Prelati was in a roaring underground space. Seeing that the upper structure was about to collapse, he was smiling and not panicking at all.

"......!" Faldius was not idle. He left here decisively, and while running, he notified the upper-level personnel to evade. At the same time, he prepared to blow up the underground space together with the upper buildings to make the servants behave themselves. This was originally a trap intended for the enemy, but he could not care less now.

Well, I learned how to catch Pokémon without any instruction.

"Rumble--"

A few minutes later, the explosions and roars were endless, almost rupturing Faldius' eardrums.

Faldius, who destroyed an entire building of the magic workshop, finally signed a contract with this mechanical monster and obtained the Servant's true name: Humbaba.

"Huh? Why is it Humbaba? We already have the Royal Law Key, so the selectable summoning target should be unique, right?" Faldius felt that something was wrong. He wanted to ask Prelati, but Prelati would not go to the trouble of getting another relic of Humbaba to exchange it.

"But Gilgamesh and Humbaba cannot be said to be unrelated," Prelati said.

"After all, he was an enemy during his reign, the guardian of the cedar forest and the keeper of the ancient treasury. Even before conquering this great enemy, Gilgamesh even felt fear. Legend has it that Humbaba's cedar forest spans seven mountains and stretches for a million kilometers. Humbaba's roar causes floods, his mouth spits out fire, and his breath kills people. He is the embodiment of human disasters. In the epic, Gilgamesh's successful conquest and harvest of the treasury are also the source of his legal principles as the most powerful emperor in the world. It can be seen that the two are deeply related."

"...That's not unacceptable." Faldius originally wanted to reprimand Prelati for his previous tampering, but considering the amazing strength of Finbaba and the ease of control of the Berserker class, he gave up the pursuit and asked another question instead:

"So, why does it look like a mechanical monster?"

"Oh, ha ha ha, maybe the reason is," Prelati thought of the catalyst of the light bulb he replaced earlier, "It's probably influenced by modern times. The city can be seen as a conceptual 'steel forest', and Humbaba naturally came as the guardian of the forest."

The conversation between the two was interrupted by their subordinates not long after.

"Oh no!"

Faldius frowned, "Something happened?"

The magic workshop collapsed just now and there was a lot of noise, but this place is far away from the city area, so there is no problem. My men have already moved to the backup monitoring room to work.

"Yes, yes," the staff member from the special department said with a trembling voice, "Surveillance shows that two figures appeared in the sky above the city (Xueyuan City)!"

Without further ado, Faldius and his team quickly found the location of the problem in the room, "It's the residence of the mansion!"

The picture shows a monkey with a pointed mouth, shrunken cheeks, fiery eyes, and a long stick in hand, and a ferocious woman in white clothes with green seal-like lines from her cheeks to her throat.

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a few minutes ago.

The Uchika Residence in Xueyuan City.

As one of the collaborators of the pseudo-Holy Grail War, the couple are preparing a summoning ceremony for the Holy Grail War. The husband is responsible for the summoning, and the wife is responsible for providing magic power. As for their daughter, she was born not long ago and cannot help much.

The holy relic the couple prepared for the ceremony was the crossbow that Qin Shi Huang used to kill the sea god.

"It's almost the time agreed upon by Faldius," the husband said excitedly, "The vibrations of the land (spiritual veins) will soon be full, and then the Command Seal will be lodged in my hand. Yes, the preparations are perfect."

"Yes, this crossbow is already a catalyst that can be called a treasure. If anything happens, it can still play an additional role."

"...Yes, but if you summon the First Emperor, you must show the appropriate respect."

However, all this was in vain.

Their Command Seals have been targeted by a malicious being.

"——Is this the spiritual conjuration spell of your Western ritual?"

In the room, a terrifying, roaring, and grand will sounded, directly transmitted to the brain.

"Oooooh!" The couple felt like they couldn't move at all. It was as if a materialized pressure was suppressing their souls.

"Hmph, I thought what Kitz was talking about was just some mysterious Taoist method similar to summoning souls and controlling spirits. It was just to separate an incarnation. The object to be summoned still depends on fate... Well, let me show you a little bit, so as to broaden your horizons. What is the emperor of the world?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a hair fell down, replacing the crossbow that originally served as a catalyst.

Chapter 406: The Six-Jia Heavenly Book and the Golden Cudgel

"Sir, may I ask...?"

Just from the terrifying pressure, the Qiu couple could tell that the visitor was definitely not an easy person to get along with. It might be that there was something wrong with the source of the holy relics they were preparing. Everything was fine until they were ready to summon, but in the end, they hooked out an old monster.

The husband, Yukaku Uchika, asked tentatively.

"Noisy!"

The loud and frightening female voice scolded, "I have already roughly understood this Western formation. Wait for me to transform the structure of this formation. Humph, I want to see what Kitz is talking about."

Then, the female voice seemed to be silent for a while, and then began to mutter a spell in a strange singing tone.

The couple tried very hard to look around and see the speaker's appearance, so as to determine where the old monster came from, but unfortunately they couldn't move a finger. Yukaku Yukaku planned to use the family's bacterial magic to secretly explore the room.

However, nothing was found. There was no extra existence at all. The woman's voice came out of nowhere. Could it be that she was communicating through magic from a distance?

But how to explain the spell she cast to bind the two of them inside the room and workshop through numerous barriers?

In the inexplicable atmosphere of horror, the Qiu couple heard the woman's chanting of incantations with some despair, a chanting that clearly carried the magic style of Shenzhou thought.

"......When the heaven and earth were first created, yin and yang were in harmony, a star shone on the human door, and the descendants of the phoenix built a high house. The year and month determined the auspicious direction. The killers of the sky returned to the sky, the killers of the earth returned to the earth, the killers of the year returned to the year, and the killers of the month returned to the moon. When encountering mountains, they fly over them, and when encountering water, they float over it......"

Even if they were slow-witted, the Kaname couple realized that the other party had seized their summoning rights and was trying to use a completely different magic system to replace the Heroic Spirit Advent Ceremony.

How... how is this possible? The Holy Grail ritual, which is the basis of the ritual, uses the Western alchemy system passed down by the Einzbern ancestors. Using Eastern thought magic indiscriminately is simply a mixture of two different directions that are fundamentally contradictory.

Eastern magic, thought magic, is completely different from Western magic that advocates privatization of magic imprints. Thought magic is cloud computing and membership-based local area networks. The users of thought magic don't even need magic studios. This is not to judge which form of magic is more advantageous, but it is obvious that there is a conflict of direction. In the face of the fading of mystery, the thinking of Western magic is to explore new rules and develop new techniques, while Eastern magicians change the rules to adapt to themselves. These conflicting concepts will reduce the success rate infinitely...

The chant gradually came to an end.

"...Heaven and earth are in position, water and fire do not shoot at each other, mountains and lakes are connected, thunder and wind fight each other, the Taiji Star Lord is stationed in the center, and the divine soldiers are in a hurry as if ordered by the law!"

As the words came to an end, a powerful light surged into the sky from the summoning formation. If it weren't for the barrier blocking it, this light would have shot straight into the sky.

"Huh?" The female voice seemed surprised. At the moment the summoning was successful, she felt something strange.

While she was exploring carefully, the couple didn't care about these things. They fell to the ground in an instant when they were summoned. Fortunately, the burden on their souls seemed to be gone at once, which made them relax easily.

Yuzuru Uchiha checked the back of his hand and found that the Command Spell still appeared as planned, but his expression was still solemn. The unknown female monster was still in control of everything, because the summoning was successful. Obviously, this summoning was not the Holy Grail Heroic Spirit summoning as he knew it.

Although he realized that the summoning was successful and he had a new Servant, he didn't think that his rash ordering of the Servant to fight back would be enough to fight against the old monster. It might even lead to retaliation... No, he should first see what a Servant is.

“I didn’t expect… that there are people practicing the Six Jia Heavenly Book in this era?”

The people in the summoning circle spoke in a masculine voice, but it gave off a sharp tone.

As for the Liujia Heavenly Book, it originated from the Taoist classic "The Secret Method of the Six Jia Prayers of Shangqing" and is included in the "Orthodox Taoist Canon" in the category of Dongzhen techniques. The most common version comes from "The Return of All Laws to the Origin". "The Return of All Laws to the Origin" named this technique "The Liujia Heavenly Book", which is a relatively advanced technique for controlling ghosts and gods.

Obviously, the unknown woman modified the spirit summoning ceremony. Unlike the simple summoning of spirits and then signing a contract, the Six-Jia Heavenly Book can easily do two steps and then command the summoned spirits, so Yukaku Yukaku immediately became the master of the Servant.

"...Ha, I thought the so-called Holy Grail War was nothing special, but they actually called you out, you naughty monkey!"

Suddenly, Yuzuru Uchiha spoke, but he felt extremely terrified in his heart - he was controlled by someone, and the female voice just now came out of his mouth.

"Hmm? Who are you? How come you know me?"

Yuzuru Uzumaki felt the figures in the summoning circle surge rapidly, and in the blink of an eye they came close to him - a furry face with a thunder god's mouth and a monkey standing upright on two feet appeared in front of him. At the same time, Yuzuru Uzumaki saw his real name through the power of the master:

Lancer, Sun Wukong.

Very good, very powerful, but Yuzuru Uchiha did not feel happy at all, because he was completely manipulated by someone.

"Huh? You are not the real master!" Sun Wukong saw the command spell of Wanqiu Xihe at a glance, but the real master was not him.

Shanqiu Xihe seemed to see a flash of light in Sun Wukong's eyes.

"--Oh, it's in the sky!" Sun Wukong didn't know how he found the source directly, "You two wait for a while, I'll be back soon!"

A golden light flashed, leaving the frozen couple in a daze.

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Above Xueyuan City.

"Who was I thinking? It turns out to be you, the water ape devil," Sun Wukong flew in the clouds and immediately spotted the eagle that was commanding from a distance. "You thought I was a naughty monkey, but why don't you look in the mirror and see what your true form is? Wuzhiqi!"

"Hahaha--"

The flying eagle transformed into a young woman in white.

Wuzhiqi showed a ferocious expression, "According to the ancient covenant, it would take some time before I devour you, but this Holy Grail War is quite mysterious, so let me test this 'you' first!"

The hand was raised, and the wind and clouds surged. Endless clouds mixed with water vapor formed a storm in the sky. A giant hand made entirely of clouds and shaped by divine power instantly covered the sky of the city.

"Hehe, you still want to eat me, Old Sun? Aren't you afraid that your teeth will break?"

Sun Wukong understood the intention instantly, and the golden cudgel in his hand emitted golden light, and its size increased rapidly!

Chapter 407: Cloud Sea God War, Myth Prototype

The water vapor that covered the sky was surging and rolling. All of this was a result of Wuzhiqi's divine power. Just like Wuzhiqi himself, it was a living mystery.

What humans call magic is the privilege of God, and the techniques used by humans are all miracles that imitate God. To humans, Wuzhiqi's every move, word, action, breath, and breath are all mysterious.

Compared to Sun Wukong who was summoned by the Holy Grail, Wuzhiqi herself is not a spirit but a living immortal. She can move freely and perform rituals in the world because she is one of the creators of the "Thought Disk".

The magnificent immortal magic was at his fingertips, and the vast dark clouds were like a bunch of light cotton that could be easily picked up, spreading out over the Snowfield City into a giant hand that was tens of kilometers long, mixed with a huge amount of suffocatingly heavy water and blue lightning that twisted and meandered like sharp claws.

It was like a tsunami rising from the sky. Wuzhiqi's divinity as the god of water was fully manifested at this moment.

However, in contrast, a ray of golden light did not avoid it.

Sun Wukong holds the golden cudgel, which was originally forged by Taishang Laojun himself in a furnace from nine-turn iron. It was used by Dayu to measure the depth of the sea when he was controlling floods. It is similar to the sacred spear "Rongomyniad" in the Western world. It is used to stabilize the world. Therefore, it is also called "Dinghai Shenzhen". Of course, the real Dinghai Shenzhen is not this cudgel. What Sun Wukong holds is just a projection, just like the sacred spear held by Gray.

Sun Wukong simply stretched out his long stick and chanted "long, long, long...", and the Dinghai Shenzhen instantly expanded in size. The magic iron was solid and extremely heavy, but Sun Wukong had unparalleled strength, and he could easily swing the golden cudgel even if it grew thousands of times longer.

Moreover, as a divine tool that anchors the world, the golden cudgel also has the ability to solidify and fix everything and even the space itself. Countless surging waves can be smoothed out just by sweeping it with unparalleled divine power.

"Haha, you think you can eat me with this trick? Dream on!" Golden light crisscrossed between heaven and earth, traveling back and forth above the waves of the sea of ​​clouds. Sun Xingzhe's words stirred the air like a divine iron staff, "Wuzhiqi, you monster, why don't you show your true form quickly!"

"Don't think about it!"

Wuzhiqi shouted loudly, the anger of the god connected heaven and earth, the madness of the god could easily permeate the rules of the world. With a loud roar, the cloud hand lost its shape and became a surging wave of the sea of ​​clouds that rushed forward. Even the golden cudgel could not completely resist it for a while.

Although it was not too noticeable at night when viewed from the ground, magicians and other people who observed carefully were all deeply terrified by this sudden change in the celestial phenomenon.

Because they could find that the multi-layered sea of ​​clouds in the sky seemed to have accelerated countless times, rushing towards the south outside the city. There were golden lights flying around, wind and thunder roaring, and even a naturally formed typhoon could not match this scene.

"Today, I will eat your flesh alive!"

Although this is the case, Wuzhiqi's swallowing is not eating in the literal sense, but rather a conceptual annexation. As the ancient prototype of Sun Wukong, Wuzhiqi is said to be "shaped like an ape, with a flat nose, a protruding forehead, a white head and a green body, and fiery eyes and golden pupils". It often causes chaos in the Huai River area, causing wind and thunder, and the sound of trees and stones, disrupting the flood control work of the god Dayu.

At that time, the god Dayu used the Liujia Heavenly Book to summon the gods and ordered the heavenly soldiers and generals to capture Wuzhiqi, and finally suppressed him at the foot of Guishan Mountain in Huaiyin.

——Whether in terms of appearance or their respective experiences, they are very similar.

If this is the case, then from a temporal perspective, the divinity that was born later - the Monkey King of the Water Curtain Cave in Mount Huaguo - can be seen as an independent existence separated from Wuzhiqi.

Therefore, Wuzhiqi's desire to devour Sun Wukong is not devouring in essence, but returning.

The act of returning eventually leads to an ultimate concept in mythology - archetype, which is also an important concept in mythology. A "primitive concept" proposed by scholar Adolf Bastien emphasizes that myths from all over the world have archetypes. In fact, in the ancient history of magic, these archetypal concepts are the cornerstones of human beings' construction of the system of gods - the gods were originally just natural concepts, but through human archetypal stories, these gods have taken on a posture that conforms to human imagination.

The archetypal concept of Wuzhiqi and Sun Wukong is a unique monster narrative that rebels against the gods. There are similar stories all over the world, such as Typhon, the strongest monster that made the Greek gods tremble, and Nidhogg, Fenrir, Surut and other monsters in Norse mythology, which brought destruction to the gods.

However, Sun Wukong did not dodge or evade the oncoming huge cloud tsunami. His "Water Avoidance Technique" allowed him to swim freely in the water and even directly separate the waves.

But the latter seems very difficult at the moment. This is the sea of ​​clouds controlled by Wuzhiqi. Although the sky is not Wuzhiqi's divine domain, it is also not Sun Wukong's divine domain. The two of the same origin are deadlocked with similar means.

However, the one who has a slight advantage is Wuzhiqi. Compared to Sun Wukong who is only a spirit, Wuzhiqi is a living entity. She does not have any fancy settings such as "treasures" and "skills". She can fully display all her magic skills.

As she began to get serious, the wind and thunder became more powerful. Clouds and water, several times larger than the previous clouds, came rapidly from other places. At the same time, the affected atmospheric circulation began to change. Countless gases seemed to converge to form a powerful eye of the typhoon, and bright blue thick thunders fell down densely.

"Hey! Old Monster Wuzhiqi," Sun Wukong said as he flew out of the water, the strong wind and lightning were like gentle breeze and rain against his copper head and iron arm. He was not affected at all and asked the other party, "When will this fighting method end? How about a truce?"

"..."

"Old monster, haven't you noticed yet? This so-called 'Holy Grail' is very strange."

How could Wuzhiqi not realize it? She even discovered something unusual the moment she summoned Sun Wukong. The scale of this strange holy grail seemed beyond imagination. It would be too exaggerated to say that it was a miracle creation of mankind - how could it be so easy to summon multiple gods and maintain their presence in the world?

This is not the Holy Grail, this looks more like a divine cup, a vessel of the gods.

From this point of view, we should not rashly underestimate other participants if there are people of the same level.

"it is good."

The storm subsided for a while, and everyone dispersed.

Chapter 408 Ishtar, the Great Shining Crown

Just when the battle between two gods was taking place in the sea of ​​clouds in Xueyuan City.

The underground space far beneath the city is the center of the Snowfield City's Holy Grail system and the place where the earth veins converge and intersect.