Claude, who was in the distance, was holding the Holy Grail in his hand. Seeing this scene, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He raised his fingertips.

Snap——!!

A thick bolt of lightning struck from the sky, instantly splitting the petrified old city lord into pieces of flesh.

The golden scepter fell on the ancient stone bricks, making a buzzing sound, and rolled forward along the bumpy road.

The old city lord who lost his [scepter] was just an ordinary person and could not withstand even a trace of Claude's thunder power.

After borrowing the power of the [Holy Grail] and killing the old city lord in one blow, Claude turned to look at the two agents in front of him who were in a very embarrassed state. The latter's faces were already extremely ugly.

In terms of direct combat power, the two of them were no match for Claude in the first place, and now the other party had snatched the [Holy Grail] one step ahead, so their chances of winning were extremely slim.

"Claude, this is a misunderstanding..." One of the agents swallowed his saliva and forced a smile.

“Look, even if you kill us now, you can only harvest two bodies... but there are more than a dozen people out looking for the Holy Grail.

If they join forces, even if you hold the [Holy Grail], you may not win. If you let us go, we will help you set up a trap to kill them, and you can get a lot of sacrifices in one go..."

"Yeah, we're not good at direct combat, but we're good at using tricks and schemes!"

"We can help you, really!"

Hearing the two people's almost pleading tone, Claude was not moved at all.

He glanced at the Holy Grail in his hand and spoke calmly, "Now that I have the Holy Grail, even if more than a dozen of them come together, they will not be my opponent... To me, your only value is to become a sacrifice."

Sizzle——!!

Dense lightning bolts crashed down from the sky, like a forest of lightning, instantly submerging the two agents.

Claude did not use the [Holy Grail]. After all, every time he used this artifact, he consumed all the life force he had collected. So he simply turned his body into thunder and rushed directly into the Forest of Lightning with great power to fight with the two agents.

at this time.

Under the ancient well that had become ruins, the figures of three stone statues slowly emerged from nothingness.

They raised their heads and looked at the thunder that roared in the sky.

"Yes, things are developing as we expected..."

"The vitality of those agents is far stronger than that of ordinary people. As long as the [Holy Grail] absorbs more, it will be completely complete."

The central stone statue did not speak, but just stared at the sky silently, as if looking for something.

Finally, its gaze narrowed slightly.

In a corner of the dark night sky, a light blue light flickers gently. If you don’t look carefully, it is easy to ignore it.

If you fly up into the sky and look carefully, you can see clearly that it is a rotating star coin.

It was high in the sky, jumping and spinning, moving towards the melee battlefield below, like an interested audience member approaching the stage little by little.

"It's the Star Coin." The central statue spoke, "It was indeed attracted here."

"【Star Coin】likes negative emotions like anger and despair the most. The betrayal and fighting between these agents are very much to its liking." said another stone statue.

"Star Coin is very cautious. It is too far away from us now. If we act rashly, we might alert the snake and scare it away. We should wait until it gets closer and then catch it."

"good."

The three stone statues simultaneously stared at the approaching [Star Coin] in the sky, like a group of hunters waiting for their prey to approach.

As the [Star Coin] decreased in height, the three stone statues trembled slightly, as if ready to attack at any time. But at this moment, the [Star Coin] rotating in the sky seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly changed direction, "looking" in a certain direction outside the city-state.

It spun a little faster, and with a flicker of light blue, it disappeared without a trace in an instant.

The three stone statues were stunned at the same time.

"【Star Coin】 is gone? How is that possible?"

"The battle here isn't over yet, but it's no longer interested in the negative emotions here? How could this be..."

"It's not that it's not interested." The central statue was silent for a moment. "I think it saw a 'stage' that was more attractive to it, so it was led away."

"Where else can there be so many negative emotions except here?" asked a stone statue in confusion.

The central stone statue did not answer. It turned its head slightly, followed the direction where the [Star Coin] left, and looked somewhere outside the city-state.

…

Dry oasis.

Dozens of completely different divine ruins waves collided with each other, making a loud roar.

Lin Qiye stood at the edge of the oasis, calmly watching the chaotic battlefield in front of him.

Under Wangcai's deliberate guidance, the suspicion and doubt that Lin Qiye had buried in the hearts of many agents completely erupted. Under the oppressive feeling brought by the countdown of life and the temptation of the [Holy Grail], everyone fell into madness, began to regard each other as sacrifices, and continued to approach the golden light in the sky.

Everyone wants to get the Holy Grail, and no one wants the other to get it.

Once this "supreme" level artifact falls into the hands of an agent, the battle situation will be completely rewritten, presenting a crushing situation.

"That agent of the God of Fire from Persian mythology is quite powerful... but unfortunately he was too aggressive and was directly attacked by everyone."

"The few agents wandering around are actually still waiting and watching. If we don't take action now, we will have no chance at all..."

"As expected of the fourth-ranked guy among the Ten Gozen, this Vishnu's agent, Parkash, is really something."

“…”

While paying attention to the battlefield, Lin Qiye secretly analyzed the situation in his mind.

No matter how these agents fought and killed each other, no one came to trouble Lin Qiye. They even tacitly avoided the area where Lin Qiye was. This was a gesture of goodwill and also a form of protection.

In everyone's eyes, Lin Qiye's identity as a prophet is the guarantee for them to leave here alive.

As time passed, more than half of the agents in the melee were killed or injured. Parkash, who had been silently wandering on the edge of the battlefield, finally began to exert his strength. With his terrifying strength, he broke through the siege and approached the golden light in the sky.

At this moment, he could vaguely see that it was a golden wine jug.

[Holy Grail]...Shouldn't it be a cup?

A doubt flashed through Parkash’s mind.

But he soon put this question behind him. There is not much difference between a wine jug and a cup. Perhaps in the culture of the Uruk period, this thing was a special vessel classified as a "cup".

Parkash's mental power rolled out, and his grindstone-like palm smashed the heads of the two agents again, and he reached out directly to grab the golden wine jug!