Type-Moon, the Path of a Magician

"Let me correct you. The Servant I summoned was not Caster, but A. Venger."

"A.venger...Avenger?"

"Yes, it's the Avenger. His real name is the protagonist of The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantès, King of the Caves. He is the most famous Avenger in the world."

"As for the real Caster, he was killed by us long before the Holy Grail War began. We were just using Caster's identity as a disguise."

Sensing the rift between the few people, Xia Yuan did not intend to hide it and began to explain.

“Although he betrayed us, his only target was me, and you were all implicated by me, so don’t worry, he won’t attack you and Rider. His target from the beginning to the end was only one—”

"Kill me."

"Kill you?!" Hearing Xia Yuan say such horrifying words in a calm tone, Weber shuddered subconsciously.

"But……"

As he was about to continue asking about the cause of the incident, the reporter's report on TV suddenly attracted the attention of several people.

"...According to a considerable number of suburban residents last night, the night sky exploded with dazzling lights in the early morning, accompanied by deafening bombing sounds. Some residents even witnessed a golden galaxy running through the night sky, and took photos to record it—"

The next moment, the host took out a photo from his pocket, which was very blurry because his hands were shaking when taking the photo.

"Could this golden galaxy... be a treasure?" Weber widened his eyes.

"Wow, I didn't expect that little girl to have such a powerful treasure? I wonder which is stronger, this galaxy or my [King's Army]?"

Seeing the two people's surprise, Xia Yuan just shook his head. Compared to the two people who were unable to attend the event, he saw everything with his own eyes last night using Merlin's clairvoyance.

Therefore, the moment when Altria released her treasure was also within his observation.

The truth behind that dazzling galaxy is the sword of victory and oath (Excalibur) released by King Arthur against the city.

Although the holy sword could not be fully released, the power it unleashed was by no means something that ordinary Noble Phantasms could contend with, and it was eventually blocked by Gilgamesh's gift package of mythical defensive Noble Phantasms.

When multiple legendary defensive artifacts are stacked together, even the Sword of Victory and Oath cannot easily break through.

Still saying that he is worthy of being the old Flash? He is completely different from the brain-twisted A Flash in our impression. His fighting skills are capable and ruthless, leaving no hope for the opponent. Even when facing Altria and Lancelot who have been strengthened by the Command Spell, King Arthur and the strongest knight are not at all inferior.

They also fought with all their might, and the ones who were in the lead naturally didn't care about the rules of hiding.

The sound of fighting and the strange phenomena it caused could be heard in half of Fuyuki City. But this was not a big deal, after all, some people existed to deal with such incidents.

Look, he's on stage now.

"I am Kotomine Kirei, the person in charge of the Fuyuki City Church. Let me explain the situation in detail."

Kotomine Kirei took over the microphone from the host with a blank expression on his face, and then began to talk nonsense in a serious manner.

"Excuse me, Father Kotomine, what was the reason for the strange phenomenon in the night sky last night?" The host raised his eyes very cooperatively.

“It was a gas leak.”

"Cough cough..."

The host was choked by Kotomine Kirei's answer and looked at him in disbelief. Such serious nonsense? What kind of gas leak could emit golden light and be seen by half of Fuyuki City? If you want to fool people, you have to find a reasonable reason, right?

However, Kotomine Kirei had no intention of paying attention to the host's mood, and continued to speak on his own: "According to our investigation, a large-scale gas leak occurred in the natural pipelines near the residents' homes in the suburbs of Fuyuki City last night, which led to the hallucinations."

What the hell! The host couldn't hold back his expression at this moment. What kind of excuse could be so ridiculous? He even mentioned the large-scale gas leak that caused hallucinations.

Even the staff at the scene were speechless at Kotomine Kirei's explanation. Any normal person could tell that this was obviously nonsense.

"But, as far as I know, gas leaks won't cause hallucinations..."

Before the host could finish, Kotomine Kirei took out from his pocket the certificate that he had obtained from the police station after hypnotizing them overnight and threw it into her hand, which completely shut her up.

"So...please don't underestimate gas leaks. Many people die every year from hallucinations caused by gas leaks, so...you must pay attention to protection!"

Listening to Kotomine Kirei's bizarre explanation on TV, Xia Yuan's mouth twitched.

Can everything be explained by gas explosions?

The company responsible for installing gas in the Type-Moon world is in big trouble, and almost all the blame is placed on them.

"I remember this guy should be the supervisor of the Holy Church..." Waver was even more speechless as he pointed at Kotomine Kirei who was still talking nonsense.

"Doesn't the Bible say that if a believer tells a lie, he or she will go to hell after death?"

"Yes, no matter which religion the gods belong to, they must not lie. The punishment for Christianity does seem to be going to hell. But for a man like Kotomine Kirei, he probably wouldn't care. Whether it's heaven or hell, it doesn't matter to him."

"But... instead of discussing those unimportant things, shouldn't we consider how to welcome the guests now?"

Raising his hand to interrupt Weber's desire to continue complaining, Xia Yuan and Iskandar looked at each other, and then looked out the door together.

"It looks like a guest has arrived."

……

……

"hateful!!"

Inside the castle of Einzbern, Emiya Kiritsugu's brows twitched wildly, his nails had already dug deeply into his palms, and a few drops of bright red blood flowed out from the gaps between his fingertips.

Looking at the devastated environment around them, the castle's defenses were all precisely torn open, and various android corpses were thrown on the ground. Someone sneaked in here and kidnapped Irisviel while they were away.

In other words, he was busy hunting down Tōsaka Tokiomi all night, but someone came to take advantage of him! !

"Eri..." Emiya Kiritsugu glanced around with a gloomy face, and his right hand holding the cigarette began to tremble unconsciously.

“Kiritsugu…”

Seeing this situation, Maiya, as Emiya Kiritsugu's assistant, wanted to comfort him, but she didn't know what to say.

The situation changed too quickly. When they left the Einzbern castle, they had already built the most complete defense measures. The defense from every angle was perfect, and even if a Servant attacked, they could resist for a while. That's why they dared to leave Irisviel alone in the base.

But someone found a loophole in this defense and intercepted the distress message sent by Alice. Both the familiar and the electronic communication were intercepted by that guy.

In other words, the murderer not only had a high level of magic proficiency and could easily break the defensive spell, but he also knew that Kiritsugu Emiya was very good at modern technology and took countermeasures.

At this point, Emiya Kiritsugu probably had guessed who the murderer was who attacked the base.

That guy came for revenge...

I implicated Ellie...

"What should we do now? The murderer hid his tracks very well and didn't leave any useful clues."

Like Emiya Kiritsugu, Saber was very worried about Irisviel's safety.

"I see……"

Emiya Kiritsugu held his forehead and said tiredly: "You all should go out first, let me calm down for a while."

“But, Kiritsugu, you are…” Maiya was still a little hesitant.

"I am okay."

"Let's leave, Miss Maiya. It would be better for Kiritsugu to be alone now."

"I see……"

The two then left the room, leaving the rest of the time to the man.

Chapter 39: Kenneth's Attack

dong dong dong-

There was a knock on the door, and the unusual source of magic power was accurately captured by Xia Yuan and Iskandar.

"Who is it?" Weber was a little nervous.

"Want to take a look?"

Xia Yuan winked at Iskandar and asked for his opinion.

Faced with this unknown situation, it would be more appropriate for Iskandar, as a Servant, to go rather than letting him or Waver take risks, but this also requires the consent of the parties involved.

"Of course, leave it to me. You stay here and protect my little Master for a while. I'll be back soon."

"Do not worry."

"Hey, Rider, you have to be careful too."

After a few minutes—

"Oh, boy—"

Iskandar opened the door with a bright smile on his face.

"The king has returned triumphantly!"

"So fast?!"

"Of course, come and see who I met."

Waver then saw Kenneth coming in behind Rider, and then he saw a silver-haired woman with outstanding temperament and appearance coming in behind Lancer.

But she was not a guest, because her body was tightly entangled by two magic chains made of water, and her mouth was sealed by Kenneth.

That night, when the C4 exploded, all the defensive spells that Kenneth had prepared in advance were activated spontaneously. Under the protection of the Moon Spirit Essence, he escaped safely, and the minor injuries he suffered were easily recovered under Finn's healing water.

Because Xia Yuan and Weber were both wearing the magic costumes he had made in advance, which had defensive spells and vital sign monitoring spells on them, Kenneth breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that they were both still alive.

Using C4 to blow up a building was such a shameless act. Even without thinking, Kenneth could guess who did it. But as the Lord of Minerals and a genius in the magic world, could he stand such humiliation?

A gentleman's revenge should be done as soon as possible, so he decided to reciprocate, and after recovering a little, he took Lancer and rushed directly into Kiritsugu Emiya's base camp to destroy the annoying magician killer first.

Lancer's wisdom treasure can help him easily find Emiya Kiritsugu's base and catch him off guard. He has already figured out Saber's combat power before, so there will be no problem with Lancer holding her back. He just needs to take this opportunity to kill Emiya Kiritsugu.

In order to be on the safe side, he not only prepared defensive equipment to defend against Origin bombs and other heavy thermal weapons in advance, but also prepared many measures to restrain Kiritsugu Emiya's modern weapons, such as using lightning formation magic to simulate electromagnetic pulse bombs, directly destroying all modern equipment around.

In order to prevent him from asking for help from other groups of Masters, he also specially prepared the familiar detection spells and signal measures to quietly isolate the Einzbern Castle.

Then when he and Finn quietly broke the castle's defense barrier and rushed into the castle, they found that Kiritsugu Emiya was not inside at all. In addition to those boring autonomous puppet patrols, the only person left in the entire stronghold was Irisviel, a high-level android with rich magic power, so they captured her.

This morning, he followed the traces of magic on Weber's magic suit and came here specifically to meet up with his two unfortunate disciples.

Last night, compared to the fighting experiences of other Masters, Kenneth's wonderful adventure was no less exciting.

"Teacher, who is she?"

Seeing Irisviel tied up by Finn, Waver asked curiously.

That night at the port, because he and this Rider entered relatively late, they did not see Irisviel who had left early.

"It's just a magic puppet, and a smoke bomb thrown by Emiya Kiritsugu. But now it's my trophy."

"Compared to this." Kenneth frowned and looked around the base. "Is this... your magic workshop?"

"Weber Wilster!"

"Yes! Teacher Kenneth!!" Seeing Kenneth's expression, Weber stood up subconsciously and answered. "Ah, it hurts!"

His body stretched and the wound burst out in shocking pain. After a scream, a lot of cold sweat broke out on Weber's forehead.

"Idiot! Why are you still trying to be brave when you are already injured like this? Do you want to make your already weak body even worse?"

“No, I don’t want to…” After being criticized by Kenneth, Weber lowered his head silently like a student who had done something wrong, not daring to refute at all.

"Humph, even if you are mediocre, you should take care of yourself and not cause trouble to others."

"But...this base is really exaggerated?"

Kenneth looked at every corner of the room as if he were examining homework.

Touch the wall first.

"Not reinforced with magic."

Knocked on the door.

"There is no barrier set up on the door."

As Kenneth said, due to various reasons such as time shortage, the two of them did not set up this stronghold at all.

Weber was unable to set up the formation because he did not have enough magic power, and Xia Yuan had never learned how to set up a barrier and did not know how to set up a magic formation.

Kenneth seemed to have taken this into consideration and did not say anything harsh.

"However, the number of familiars used for vigilance is quite large, and the transformation you have undergone is also very remarkable. It seems that you have experienced a lot during my absence."

"And it seems that you have a lot of secrets that I don't know about... So what? Don't you plan to explain it to me, your teacher? The little secrets about you and your Servant?"

Kenneth sat back in his chair, raised his eyebrows slightly, and waited for Xia Yuan's reply.

"..."