Why fight the Holy Grail War? Let's play cards!

"I pull out two more X-Materials! Activate the second Shine of the Lance of the End!"

Jiang You launched a second bombing of the front field without mercy.

Bai Qiangdai jumped into the air again, and a golden light spear fell from the sky.

"I won't admit defeat. The effect of [Sky Boat Ma Anna] will be destroyed instead of me!"

The huge bow-shaped aircraft was reduced to ashes by the attack of the Holy Lance, but at least Ishtar survived.

"Well done, then, the third strike!"

The last of the excess material was also removed, and Bai Qiangdai released his treasure for the third time.

This attack finally engulfed Ishtar, sending her to the graveyard. By this point, Ishtar's front and back fields were completely depleted, leaving only one card, Bai Qiang, on the field of ten empty slots. Ishtar returned to the main station area, hoping Jiang You's card wasn't a Servant that could be summoned directly.

"Then I activated the effect of [Indestructible Lake Light] in the graveyard, selected [White Spear Dai] as the target, and equipped it to her!"

The indestructible Lake Light that can jump from the graveyard is really useful.

【White Gun】Attack power 2500 → 3100

"Enter the combat phase! Right..." Jiang You directly commanded Bai Qiangdai to attack.

"Looks like there's still a chance!"

Ishtar breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she was at full health, and Bai Qiangdai's attack could not take her away.

"As long as you survive this round, you will be the one in danger!"

"That's true, but there's no next round!"

Jiang You slapped the last card onto the field. "I activate the Quick-Play Magic Card [Light Rush]! This card can only be activated by selecting a Gyz Servant. Place two Servants from the deck as Gyz Materials below. If the selected card is [Altria], equip her with a [Holy Lance] or [Holy Sword] from the Graveyard! Therefore, her attack power needs to be further increased!"

The holy spear in Bai Qiangdai's hand released its form again, and the golden magic power made her momentum rise steadily.

【White Gun】Attack power 3100 → 4100

"This is the final blow, Artoria, win the victory for me!"

Ishtar had no way to block this attack. She could only watch helplessly as Bai Qiangdai's attack pierced her! She was defeated very cleanly.

Ishtar LP 4000 → LP 0!

"Wow wow wow wow wow wow—"

Ishtar was hit directly by the attack, and the huge force knocked her to the ground, smashing through the wall of the temple before stopping.

Jiang You hurriedly followed her out, only to see Ishtar lying on her back, staring blankly at the sky. Seeing Jiang You squatting down beside her, a tear suddenly streamed down her cheeks.

"?"

Jiang You felt as if he was bullying her.

"No, if you lose, you lose. Why are you crying?"

"I'm a useless goddess!"

Ishtar had no desire to live; she was just overcome with grief, not really intending to cry.

"It was a complete defeat."

"There are so many goddesses who have lost to me. You are no different. There is nothing to be ashamed of."

Although Ishtar's performance in front of Jiang You was similar to that of a certain Oil King, the level of interaction was much stronger, and Jiang You lost more than half of his blood anyway.

"But I'm the only one defeated in one round. Not even as good as that shady girl! I'm so useless!"

Although it was the third round, Jiang You couldn't move in the first round. Currently, there was no OTK method for the linkage, so for Ishtar, it really didn't last a single round.

"I'm a useless goddess!"

Jiang You scratched his head. With Ishtar suddenly going Emo, everything he did seemed like a mockery. So Jiang You chose to treat this greedy guy with the right medicine. After all, the treasure provided by Gilgamesh had no practical value to him, so he just took it as a gift: "I almost forgot that the purpose of my coming here was to form an alliance."

Jiang You then dumped all the financial reports from his inventory onto Ishtar. This weight was nothing for a goddess.

"Actually...there are so many?"

Even weakness couldn't stop Ishtar from standing up and throwing herself into the pile of gold. Her twinkling eyes didn't have the emo feeling from before.

"You are so realistic."

Jiang You didn't quite understand whether this greedy character was more like Rin Tōsaka or Ishtar.

293

Chapter 293: You have to choose between Gilgamesh and Merlin to be your teacher. What will you choose?

For the sake of the treasure, Ishtar finally agreed to Jiang You's request. Because Jiang You had an inventory, the Hero King gave him treasure without considering the need for transportation. It was more than originally intended, perhaps because the living expenses of the subjects were added?

By the way, Jiang You also took a 20% kickback, although Jiang You didn't care about it at all. The gold left by a certain master is still enough to squander, and this thing can't be used to buy cards.

Jiang You couldn't quite understand Ishtar, swooping down in the pile of gold. In this era, such wealth seemed useless. Why was Ishtar like the dragons in Western fantasy stories, drawn to treasures for their own sake, not their value?

"Then, in the next few days, I will arrange for the ordinary residents of Uruk and Ur to come here for refuge. And then, you won't need to attack Tiamat directly. You just need to block the Lakhmu emerging from the Primordial Sea... Oh, and you might also need to deal with something like the Eleventh Son, who seems to be called Baal Lakhmu."

"Since I've been defeated by you, I can't stop you."

Ishtar's smile faded slightly at this question. "But can you guarantee that you can defeat Tiamat? You're taking humanity's future for granted. You're really going too far."

"Will win!"

The duel with Jingu also provided some information. In addition, there were cards targeting Tiamat in his own deck, so Jiang You felt that he had no reason to lose.

"Alright...it's my fault that I'm not as skilled as others."

Ishtar once again stated that she had only come to help out of help because of the treasure.

Now, the entire Seventh Singularity's forces, save for Kingu and Tiamat, were on Jiang You's side. All that was left was to complete the personnel migration and begin the final battle. If it weren't for the overwhelming force of Rahmu, Jiang You could have even summoned Tiamat without any preparation, as the duel was always 1v1 anyway.

When Jiang You returned to Uruk, he heard Gilgamesh's iconic laughter from afar.

"Run away, run away! I am a mountain that you can never surpass! No matter my wisdom or strength!"

Jiang You approached the divine tower and saw that Jin Shanshan was beating Yao Cui unilaterally.

From the broken mud slabs on the ground, it can be seen that the two men initially used these things as weapons to hit each other, and then they became angry and started fighting with real swords and guns.

Gilgamesh's firepower was truly formidable, and Yao Cui's defense was insufficient. Although she possessed a Noble Phantasm capable of a single strike, its activation, similar to the curse or the Seven Arrows Book, required a medium and a long lead time. Furthermore, Gilgamesh wouldn't give her a chance; the saturation attack of her Noble Phantasm left Yao Cui unable to close in, leaving her in a state of extreme distress.

"Pause."

Jiang You ran to the middle and stopped the two from fighting. "Although I had guessed this result a long time ago, isn't it a little too fast?"

"Fast? Very slow!"

When talking about Jin Shanshan, he became extremely angry. He felt that teaching this guy would make him infamous in the education field.

"Miscellaneous cultivator, do you think I'm very patient? Any of my subjects would be more suitable to be a lord than her! How on earth is it that she can't remember anything but the punishment! I think she shouldn't be a princess, but a torturer!"

"I agree with that..."

The fact that Yao Cui is only good at curse magic is written into the setting. She was tortured to death every time in her previous life, and in this life she tortures others when she is happy, and she tortures others when she is unhappy. It is impossible for her to have any talent in governance because of her weird personality.

"What do you mean!"

Yao Cui rushed towards Jiang You and bit him. Since she was Jiang You's token here, she couldn't trigger Jiang You's passive effect. The bite directly broke Jiang You's neck, and Yao Cui sucked Jiang You's blood.

Jiang You had been using the lowest level of pain sensitivity. This level of pain was almost equivalent to no pain, so he just thought of it as a mosquito bite.

Yao Cui took a few puffs before pushing Jiang You away in disgust.

"Why is your blood tasteless?... And I've worked really hard to learn. No one can learn in one day!"

"What flavor do you want? It's not duck blood. Do you want me to add some seasoning next time?"

Jiang You wiped his wounds. With the C-level durability, the two tooth holes quickly scabbed over. For a heroic spirit, these minor injuries were nothing.

"You said you were serious, and I don't deny it."

Jin Shanshan said bluntly, "But you can't even learn this in one day. Is your head filled with straw?"

"Teacher Hero Wang is really strict."

Gilgamesh had said so, so Jiang You had no reason to think Yao Cui hadn't tried hard. After breaking through the third level in the game, she was cursed and rotted to the point of losing all her memory. Even at that point, she still clung to Morgan, saying, "Ah, if I can use this to make the village prosperous, will everyone treat me kindly...?"

So Yao Cui actually thought about becoming a popular fairy in a normal way.

"As a lord, as a king, I must be the best, the most outstanding, and the only one who is supreme!"

Jin Shanshan thought, isn't this the most basic requirement? If you can't do this, what's the point of being a king?

"My dear friend Enkidu can recreate a weapon from clay with just a glance. I think it might be a bit difficult, but perhaps there will be someone who can copy their opponent's Noble Phantasm while fighting!"

"Don't raise any weird flags."

Later, Gilgamesh was chopped off his elbow by the very person he was talking about. In the space of a few days during the Holy Grail War, Emiya Shirou went from being an "ordinary" high school student with third-rate swordsmanship and a mastery of nine out of ten magic techniques to a top-tier warrior capable of defeating the careless Gilgamesh head-on. This speed moved all the Heroic Spirits to tears of blood. It was no longer just genius; it was the privilege only afforded to the author's own son.

Anyway, Jiang You is a guy who has to spend several days memorizing English words. He is not a genius at all, and he does not agree with Jin Shanshan's values.

"Bawanshi has enough time to learn slowly. There's no need to rush."

"That's right. I can't claim that everyone can reach my level. There are still many mediocre people in the world who make me laugh."

Jin Shanshan nodded in agreement. "We don't have much time left, right? Even if you only taught me for a short while, you are still my student. To prevent you from embarrassing me, the intensity of my teaching will be increased tenfold!"

"Can't you change someone else?"

Yao Cui felt that with Jin Shanshan's teaching method, which was ten times more intense, it would be better to just kill her directly.

"Who? Merlin?"

Jiang You pointed at the white servant who was watching the fun from the side.

"..."

Yao Cui found that there seemed to be no choice.

294

Chapter 294: The eve of the battle against Tiamat.

In the end, Yao Cui gritted her teeth and continued studying with Gilgamesh. She had accidentally heard Merlin's name from Morgan. For her, there was no way she could work with someone who didn't get along with her mother.

"it's a pity."

Merlin said with a smile, but Jiang You could sense that he didn't really mean that at all.

"I still want to see what this 'Tristan' will become."

"Forget about the second Altria. She was such a lovely girl when she was young. How did she become like this when she grew up?"

Jiang You glanced at Merlin out of the corner of his eye and said, "I feel like even a fluttering moth can teach better than you."

"You can't blame me for this, the environment is like this."

Merlin shrugged, "Anyone in that position, burdened with the fate of all of Camelot, would be in trouble. You can't question my professionalism!"

"Where do you get your professionalism from?"

Jiang You decided not to continue chatting with this guy on this topic. "Next, we need to prepare to fight Tiamat. Ur is the front line, and Medea's position alone is probably not enough. I need you to assist her."

"It's easy to talk about."

Merlin's purpose in coming here was to allow humanity to continue writing its own epics, so that he could continue to have fun during his long life. A little work wouldn't be a problem. And that ancient Greek magician named Medea seemed quite easy to please.

"It just so happens that this rainforest is also suitable for plant growth. I've wanted to turn Camelot into a city of flowers for a long time, but unfortunately Altria has never agreed."

Next, Jiang You came to the underworld again.

Ever since Medea used the teleportation array in the magic workshop here to establish a connection with the underworld underground, Jiang You often went down to play with Ai Lei, and Ai Lei also got used to this guy who suddenly appeared in her territory.

"Is the decisive battle coming soon?"

Ai Lei actually thought this wasn't a bad life. Her time as a god hadn't been as rich and varied as these few days. Just as she was about to reveal a look of disappointment, she noticed Jiang You grinning at her with a look of "as expected." She quickly turned her head away, "This chaotic singularity is almost over."

"Don't forget the agreement between us."

Jiang You will not let go of the reward he has already obtained.

"I get it...but you, don't lose." Facing Jiang You's increasingly unbridled smile, Ai Lei had no choice but to explain, "...What I mean is that the survival of mankind depends on you. If you lose, I will not let you off!"

"Don't worry, with my Noble Phantasm, I don't need to compete with Tiamat in hard power."

Jiang You alone would be enough for a frontal fight. With the current number and quality of servants, they were far superior to the original. As long as Wang Ha could deliver a blow that cost him his crown, he could easily defeat Tima in a direct fight. "You, on the other hand, have been moving the underworld towards the underworld of Ur lately, right?"