Hogwarts and the Holy Grail War

Could it be that she had fallen in love with me at that time?

In other words, everything that happened afterwards, including what happened outside the Gryffindor common room that night... was actually a trick she used to flirt with me?

Alanna, you are so scheming!

"Master, what's wrong with you? I see you don't look very well. Is there something wrong with what I said?"

"No, nothing." Ethan looked miserable. "I just thought I accidentally picked up a girl that night, but I didn't expect that the girl picked me up."

But on second thought, I got such a lovely girlfriend because of this, which is not a loss at all, it’s more like a profit.

This wave, this wave is a win-win situation.

"Well, I don't quite understand this. After all, I have never loved anyone, nor have I been loved by anyone, so I really don't understand these things." Xiao Mo laughed, then became serious again, quietly moved closer to Ethan, and looked directly into Ethan's eyes.

"But I really envy the way you two get along with each other. You understand each other and tolerate each other. It's really harmonious and warm."

"And Master, you are actually very good to me. From the moment I was summoned by you, you trusted my abilities, acknowledged my capacity, and stayed with me all the time... just like a real family. Although I have only been with you for two days, I really feel happier than in the past 10 years combined."

"In fact, I was thinking, if Master, you are really my family, how great it would be. With you by my side, you can help me at the critical moment. Even if my father rejected me at the beginning, I would definitely not do such irrational things."

Xiao Mo tentatively moved closer to Ethan and got close to him. When he saw that Ethan showed no resistance, he breathed a sigh of relief and smiled slightly.

"To be honest, I am really reluctant to end this Holy Grail War. Once I end my present world and go to Avalon, I may never be able to respond to the summons again, and there will be no way for me to see you again, Master."

"Don't worry about that. I will definitely find a way to go to Avalon later. After all, I am still quite resistant to being entered into my dream again and again by a pleasure monster." Ethan looked at Xiao Mo with confidence, "I believe you won't have to wait too long. You will see me again soon."

"Really, Master? Are you serious about what you said?" Xiao Mo's eyes lit up with joy, and he immediately put his head close to Ethan and asked hopefully.

"I can only say that I will try my best, and pay attention to social distance..." Ethan's eyes twitched, and he put his hand on Xiao Mo's head, trying to push her away a little.

"What are you doing?!"

A surprised cry came from behind the two of them. They turned around at the same time and found that Alanna had climbed onto the roof at some point and was standing behind them, covering her mouth with her hands, looking at the two people who were so close to each other that it was completely abnormal with a look of shock.

Ethan's perspective: It's too close, he wants to push Xiao Mo away.

Alanna's POV: Ethan's hand is on Xiao Mo's head, and given the distance between them... he wants to press her head and kiss her!

It’s over, my house has been robbed!

"Alanna? When did you come?" Ethan's heart suddenly tightened.

"It doesn't matter when I came." Alanna smiled miserably and shook her head helplessly. "It seems that I came at the wrong time. I'm sorry to bother you two."

"No, Alanna, let me explain..." Ethan panicked and uncontrollably exerted force with his hands, pushing Xiao Mo directly off the roof.

Alanna covered her ears and shook her head frantically:

"No! I don't want to hear it, you scumbag!"

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These are stock, so the clothes are very mixed~

Chapter 223: The Master's ability has its limits after all

Ethan took two quick steps forward and grabbed Alanna, who was turning to escape, and pulled her into his arms. Regardless of her struggle, he whispered in her ear for a long time before he finally explained the whole story to her.

But even though the jealous girl understood the reason, she didn't completely get rid of her little emotion. She just stepped hard on Ethan's foot, broke free from his arms, ran back to the bedroom angrily, locked the door and locked him out.

Although a door alone could not stop Ethan, there were still several ways to force his way in if he wanted to, but he did not force his way in. Because this was not a problem that could be solved by being tough. Doing so would only backfire and make Alanna more disgusted. He still had to take the girl's feelings into consideration.

Just now, he didn't feel anything when Alanna stepped on his foot. He just needed to continue to hold her tightly so that she couldn't escape. But he was worried that Alanna's resistance might become more and more intense, and he might even hurt her, so he could only pretend to be in pain and loosen his grip slightly to let her break free.

After trying to cheer the girl up through the door but to no avail, Ethan, whose lips were sore and his mouth was dry from talking so much, collapsed on the sofa with a haggard look on his face.

It seems that the words I have said to please girls in my two lifetimes combined are not as many as those I have said in the past two days.

so tired.

"I'm sorry, Master. It's all my fault. I caused you two to have a conflict again."

The culprit, Mordred, walked over to Ethan with a head of dry grass and sat down. He handed him a glass of water in a flattering manner, avoiding his gaze somewhat embarrassedly.

"It's okay, I'm used to it."

Ethan took the cup of water and drank it all, then raised the corner of his mouth weakly towards Xiao Mo.

"You...don't blame me?"

"Why should I blame you? What should I blame you for?" Ethan seemed to have heard something funny and sneered indifferently, "I'm not the kind of person who will just put all the responsibility on other people. To put it bluntly, this matter is still my fault as the Master..."

Ethan suddenly stopped talking, turned his head and looked at Xiao Mo steadily.

"What...what's wrong, Master? Why are you looking at me with such strange eyes?" Xiao Mo felt a little uncomfortable with Ethan.

"Hmm..." Ethan frowned and moved his gaze from Xiao Mo's face down to the Command Seal on the back of his hand. It was unknown what he was thinking, but a strange smile inadvertently appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Master, you..." Xiao Mo only felt a chill running down her back, and her inherent skill "Intuition" was frantically reminding her of what bad things might happen next.

"Xiao Mo, I suddenly feel that the Master's ability has its limits after all." Ethan began to chant with a melancholy look on his face:

"I learned one thing from my brief experience as a Master. The more I want to win the Holy Grail War, the more I will feel the limitations of being a Master. I must surpass the Master."

"What do you mean? Master, what do you want to say?!"

"I don't want to be a Master anymore, Xiao Mo! I want to surpass the Master and transfer your Mastership to someone else!"

Ethan jumped from the sofa to the front of the bedroom with a "wryyyyy" sound and knocked on the bedroom door hurriedly. His tone suddenly became gentle:

"Alanna? Can you please come out for a moment? I need to discuss something with you."

The door opened a crack, and the girl's resentful eyes came out from the crack, and she said in a muffled voice:

"what's up?"

"Okay, don't be angry." Ethan smiled apologetically, "It's about the next action. I thought about it and decided to give you another layer of insurance."

"...Does your foot still hurt?" Alana lowered her eyes and looked at Ethan's left foot that she had just stepped on.

"It doesn't hurt anymore. Who do you think I am?" Ethan moved his left foot back slightly. "This injury is nothing to me."

Alanna curled her lips, opened the door, and gently pulled Ethan's hand that was supporting the door frame:

"Come in and talk."

Outside Red Tomb City, professors gathered on a hillside, looking at the quiet town gradually disappearing into the night, and they all felt a little helpless.

After they left the barrier of the Wole Manor, they tried to Apparate to Red Cemetery, but for some reason they kept failing and teleporting randomly. They even nearly split when they tried to cast spells forcibly a few times. Red Cemetery was not within the range of the Floo Network, so they couldn't use Floo powder to move. So they had no choice but to Apparate to the nearest town to Red Cemetery, and then walk the rest of the way.

However, they were not able to successfully enter the Red Tomb City. An invisible wall blocked them, preventing them from moving forward even a single step.

"The prototype is revealed."

As Dumbledore lightly tapped the old wand in his hand, a nearly transparent dark red barrier appeared before their eyes, covering the entire Red Grave City.

The professors looked at each other in bewilderment; they had never encountered such a situation before.

The fact that he was able to set up such a huge barrier without alerting anyone, and even the Muggles in the city didn't notice anything unusual, is enough to show the strength of the wizard who set up this barrier.

This is definitely not something Ethan would do. No matter how talented he is, it is too outrageous for him to be able to do this.

Moreover, traces of dark magic can be clearly detected on this barrier. Although Snape's knowledge of dark magic is so extensive that he cannot recognize which kind of dark magic it is, the suffocating and ominous feeling unique to dark magic emanating from it cannot be concealed.

A brown long-eared owl flew from a distance and landed steadily on Professor Figo's shoulder, holding a piece of paper in its mouth.

Professor Figo took the note from the owl's mouth and quickly glanced over the contents. His face instantly became serious. He looked up and said to the other professors:

"It's a letter from Tony. He found something incredible and is now rushing to Red Tomb City."

at the same time.

hum-

Ethan rode his motorcycle with Alanna to the northwest of Red Tomb City and stopped the car far away from an abandoned mine outside the city.

Alanna released her arms from around Ethan and got out of the back seat of the car. There were three bright red command seals on the back of her hands.

Since she summoned servants by giving up the summoning ceremony halfway, she originally did not have the magic crystal that could command servants, such as the Command Spell. She could only rely on her own magic to make the Shadow of the Spiritual Base cast the treasure. But before Ethan left, he transferred Xiao Mo's mastership to her. Now she replaced Ethan as Xiao Mo's master, so the Command Spell also appeared on the back of her hand.

Ethan did this because he was worried that Alanna, the fake Master, might not be able to make a wish with the Holy Grail, although he could make the same wish with the Holy Grail as the winner. But he always had a premonition that if he continued to be the Master, something bad might happen, so to be on the safe side, it would be better to transfer this identity.

And in order to prevent Alanna from being dragged down in the next battle due to the need to supply magic to two servants at the same time, Ethan transferred all of her Spirit Base Shadow and Xiao Mo's magic supply to himself. In this way, Alanna now has no magical burden at all and does not have to worry about being in poor condition due to the drain of magic by the servants.

Those who are capable should do more work. He has more magic power, so he will be responsible for providing the magic.

This was the reason Ethan gave her.

At first, Alanna didn't believe it and thought Ethan was just showing off, so Ethan had no choice but to let her experience a little of the magic power in his body. After seeing the bottomless magic power in Ethan's body, which was like the ocean, and feeling the magic power in her own body, which was about the same as Lake Windermere, Alanna acquiesced to Ethan's behavior.

She was concerned, but she was also reasonable. Since this was not a burden at all to Ethan, what reason did she have to insist on not letting him do this?

"According to what that pervert said, the entrance to their lair is here. We have to be careful next. Those Fire Snakes will attack with the killing curse without saying a word. Although our strategy is to attack head-on, it is better to kill them before they notice us."

Ethan led Alanna into the mine stealthily, hiding behind a small hill of waste slag. He stuck half of his head out to look at the three Fire Snake Party members who were standing guard at the entrance of the mine listlessly, then turned around and whispered instructions to Alanna.

He didn't want to bring Alanna here at first, not because he was worried that her strength would be a hindrance, but because he was more worried about Alanna's mental state. After all, he was going to fight these dark wizards to the death, and the scene would definitely not be harmonious. She was still just a student, and if such a bloody scene caused a shock to her mental state...

Then the smiling girl in front of him described to him briefly and calmly how she had chopped them into pieces under the siege of dozens of armors, and also beaten three Fire Snake Party members on the edge, killing two of them and seriously injuring one, and then escaped.

Well, I didn’t expect that you are also a rose with thorns, so let’s just pretend nothing happened.

Wait, why should I say that?

"The two on the left are yours, and the one on the right that's standing far away is mine."

Ethan and Alanna exchanged glances on both sides of the slag mountain. Three flying swords, two blue and one white, shot out quickly and hit the foreheads of the three people at the same time.

Their bodies fell down limply, and before they could touch the ground, they were transformed into fragments and scattered in the cold wind under the effect of the magic contained in the swords.

This is the good thing about magic. It can kill people and cremate them in one go, saving them the extra effort of destroying the bodies... ahem, dealing with all the traces.

The two came to the wellhead and looked down at the bottomless dark cave. There should have been a vertical elevator for passage, but due to the abandonment of the mine, the elevator stopped running and became rusty. When the Fire Snake Party came here, they simply dismantled the rubbish and threw it aside. So now the ground part of the mine is bare, without any superficial means of passage.

I really don’t know how they usually get in and out of here. Do they climb up by themselves?

"Come on, leave it to me if it lands."

Ethan stretched out his hands towards Alanna. The girl blushed and put her arms around Ethan's neck, allowing him to pick her up like a princess.

Ethan turned his head and took one last look at the direction of the tall tower in the town. After confirming that it was due east of his current location, he jumped directly from the mine entrance.

despair--

After about four or five seconds of free fall, the two landed silently at the bottom of the shaft. In the last few meters, Ethan used a spell to slow down his falling speed, so he did not stir up a large amount of dust or make too much noise like the Earth Destroyer.

The bottom of the mine was not a low, dark tunnel. On the contrary, it was brightly lit by an unknown light source. A spacious Greek-style hall enclosed the two of them. There was a passage surrounded by marble bricks in front, behind, and on both sides. I think from here, they have entered Asterios's treasure.

Their arrival obviously triggered some kind of alarm. All of a sudden, a large number of bronze knights poured in from the passages on all sides, surrounding the two men.

Alanna fell from Ethan's arms to the ground. Just as she was about to summon the Spiritual Shadow to start fighting, Ethan reached out to stop her.

"Leave this wave of monsters to me first. Let me warm up. You can come up with the next wave of monsters." Ethan said eagerly.

"Oh~" Alanna blinked, watching Ethan pull out the wand from his sleeve and place it at his side, as if sheathing a knife, and slowly uttered a voice full of tumbling tiles:

"SLAY-ALL!"

Even through his glasses that were cast with a detection-enhancing spell, Alanna was unable to capture Ethan's figure. He could only see several silver-white scratches quickly appearing beside him, and the bronze knights were also trapped in place.

After a moment, several shadows gathered around her from all directions. Ethan slowly stood up from them and gently shook the wand in his hand.

At the same time, the scratches in the air emitted a dazzling white light and began to tremble. The surrounding space shattered along the scratches like glass, and the immobilized bronze knights also shattered to the ground like fragile pieces of clay.

"Hmm..." Looking around at his achievements, Ethan nodded with satisfaction.

After deciding to quickly push the enemy base, he decisively abandoned his previous strategy of hiding a trick and instead adopted a full-fire, unparalleled mowing-down style of play.

After all, as long as you kill quickly and thoroughly enough, the enemy will not be able to pass your information back. Even if they manage to pass the information back, they will be killed by you again before they have time to take countermeasures.

In a sense this is also a perfect infiltration, isn't it?

(Master Kong gave a thumbs up)

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