"roar--!!"

Vlad III rushed towards the enemy again, while Atalanta and Chiron quickly retreated. They bent their bows and aimed at Vlad III. Arrows flew across and shot at Vlad III. Facing the attack of the two, Vlad III suddenly turned into a ball of thick fog, quickly dodged the attack of the two AECHERs, and flew to the corridor on the other side.

"No! Stop it quickly, we can't let it reach the Holy Grail!"

Hearing Atalanta's call, the Red Lancer - Karna nodded silently, then he raised the spear in his hand. But just as Karna was about to act, another figure blocked his way. Achilles swung the spear and stabbed Karna's body, preventing him from taking any further action.

“What a hassle.”

Seeing Achilles standing in front of him, who had turned into a vampire, Karna frowned. This was another reason why the four of them failed to kill Vlad III. Achilles's protection was well known, and indeed, he was difficult to kill. But even so, he could not resist the curse of "being bitten by a vampire and then turned into a vampire", and became the current appearance of a half-human, half-ghost.

It is also because of this that the other four servants are careful to keep their distance from Vlad III. After all, fighting is one thing, but being bitten by the other party and turning into a vampire is another matter.

"Red Lancer, CASTER and I will stop RIDER. Red Archer, Vlad III is in your hands!"

"I see!"

After hearing Chiron's answer, Atalanta nodded, then quickly turned around and continued to chase Vlad III.

"Hahahaha, the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail, it belongs to me, the Holy Grail belongs to me!!"

With a triumphant laugh, the misted Vlad rushed towards the gate with a howling gale, but at the same time, a flash of fire suddenly appeared in front of Vlad III.

The pitch-black sword drew a perfect arc in the air and slashed into the mist. With screams, the mist quickly spun and exploded, then condensed again and turned into the appearance of Vlad III. He fell to the ground wailing and rolling around. Then several arrows whistled in, piercing through Vlad III's body and nailing him to the wall.

"Is it you?"

Atalanta landed on the ground and looked at Fang Zheng standing not far in front of her in surprise. She knew this mysterious knight in front of her. In the first battle at the beginning of the Holy Grail War, it was he who almost killed Karna, the strongest Servant on his side, and even forced his Master to use a Command Seal to let him escape.

Because of this, the Red Faction's servants were extremely concerned about the mysterious knight, but after that battle, the knight never appeared again. But what Atalanta didn't expect was that the other party would actually appear here? !

Not only that, Atalanta was also surprised to find that looking at the mysterious knight, Vlad III actually began to tremble in fear.

“Ah…Ah…”

"I never thought you would become like this, Sanshi."

Fang Zheng held the greatsword in his hand and slowly walked towards Vlad III who was nailed to the wall by an arrow. Looking at Fang Zheng approaching him, Vlad III began to tremble. He struggled to try to break free from the arrow that pierced his body, but suddenly stopped.

Then, another voice came from the mouth of the vampire in front of him.

“Kill me…Kill me…! I’m not a vampire! I’m human…I’m not a vampire…!”

"Of course, as you wish."

Fang Zheng raised the pitch-black sword and stared at the enemy in front of him. He had not originally intended to burn Vlad III, but after learning about Danik's tricks from the android, Fang Zheng had no choice but to change his priority target.

He still remembered that in the Type-Moon world he had seen, the Holy Grail was polluted because the souls of the servants summoned illegally died and polluted the Holy Grail. And now, Danic survived by assimilating his soul with Vlad III, and activated a Noble Phantasm that looked very evil, which meant that the soul of this servant had mutated. If he was simply killed, then after the mutated soul of Vlad III was recycled, the Holy Grail might also be polluted or blackened like that...

This kind of thing only needs to happen once! Can't we just end the Holy Grail War normally? !

"I can't die. I want to get the Holy Grail. I must get the Holy Grail!"

Danic's voice emerged from the vampire's mouth. He seemed to instinctively feel something from the flames burning on the black sword. At this moment, the vampire burst out with all his strength, and the howling black storm even forced Atalanta to retreat backwards.

But Fang Zheng stood there motionless, holding a big sword in his hand, staring at the beast that erupted from the storm, and then narrowed his eyes.

At this moment, time stopped.

“Puff.”

The flaming sword mercilessly pierced through the vampire's body, nailing it to the wall. The fire of the soul erupted instantly, and even the dark storm flying around was burned into a bright red.

“Aaaaaaaaaaah!!”

The soul began to burn, and the First Fire mercilessly devoured the body of Vlad III, who had turned into a vampire, burning up all the miscellaneous souls in his body.

"No... I can't die... The Holy Grail belongs to me..."

The vampire raised his hands, which were burning with flames, and looked at the sky unwillingly. But before he could finish his words, the flames had already entered his mouth, burning his vocal cords and tongue, turning them into ashes. As the flames burned, Fang Zheng could feel a warm force flowing along the pitch-black sword into his body... It was a violent, pitch-black force, the darkness from the depths of his soul...

“Buzz——!”

But at this moment, as if there was some kind of resonance with this power, the black sword in Fang Zheng's hand suddenly began to tremble!

What's going on?

Fang Zheng looked at the pitch-black sword in his hand in surprise. He could feel that something in the sword seemed to be about to awaken - could it be that the spirit that inhabited the sword was finally awakening?

"Owner!"

But at this moment, Fang Zheng suddenly heard Esther's voice.

"Quickly suppress Restia, her power is out of control, that's the power of the Dark Elf King..."

However, before Esther could finish her words, Fang Zheng suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill entering his body along the hilt of the sword.

The next moment, he felt that his whole body seemed to have turned around!