After hearing Lin Zhongtian's words, Emiya Shirou and Toosaka Rin, who were unaware of the truth, were both stunned.

Tong Shen and Hong A, who knew the plot, remained silent, with the former having a sigh on his face.

Deng Yougang suddenly realized, "No wonder this child possesses such powerful magic. So she is the Little Holy Grail?"

Lin Zhongtian nodded and said, "That's right."

Illya raised her head and stared at Lin Zhongtian with her ruby-like pupils.

"Brother Judge, will you kill Illya?"

“…”

Lin Zhongtian blinked his eyes, smiled slightly, and said, "Of course not."

Illya looked at him steadily, then suddenly lowered her eyes and said softly, "It doesn't matter. Whether you live or die, it's up to you. This is Illya's fate..."

Lin Zhongtian chuckled when he heard this: "Okay, stop being naughty, I won't kill you."

As he spoke, Lin Zhongtian gently raised his right hand: "Besides, you are lucky."

"Destiny means nothing to me..."

“Puff——”

The palm pierced into Illya's chest like a blade, and blood spurted out. In mid-air, it turned into a strange blood like blue-black ink, and then was wrapped and enveloped by countless silver-white lights. Not a drop fell on Illya's clean clothes.

Illya looked a little pale, but she didn't feel any pain.

She slowly lowered her head and watched the large hand wrapped in silver light slowly withdraw from her thin chest.

As the tingling sound of flesh and blood rubbing against each other was heard, a purple-black heart kept beating in Lin Zhongtian's hand.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the audience was stunned.

Even Deng Yougang's eyes widened, as if he didn't expect Lin Zhongtian to attack Illya so decisively.

"…Is this the Holy Grail inside Illya?"

Tong Shen looked at the heart that was still beating apart from the body with a complicated expression, and then he couldn't help but look at Illya, whose face was pale and there was a hideous bloody hole on her chest.

The next second, gray mist emerged from the forest like a snake and wrapped around Illya's body.

Under the nourishment of that incomparably pure life energy, Illya's rapidly losing life force body began to recover, and the bloody hole on her chest healed rapidly under the entanglement of the gray mist.

Soon, Illya felt a strong sense of sleepiness and closed her eyes involuntarily.

"Have a good sleep." Lin Zhongtian touched her head with his left hand and said with a smile, "I promise you in the name of the Lord of the Void Gap that when you wake up, you will be a real human being!"

“…”

Illya blinked her eyes and opened her mouth slightly, looking as if she was saying thank you.

Lin Zhongtian smiled, loosened his arms, and let the sleeping Illya fall into the audience seats.

Toosaka Rin hurried forward, sniffed her breath, touched her neck, then breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Lin Zhongtian had thrown the purple-black heart in his hand forward.

The purple-black heart that was still beating lightly flew up and landed in the center of the magic circle on the stone pillar...

Generally speaking, summoning the Holy Grail is far from simple. It also requires a living sacrifice as the core, or some knowledge of the magic circle of the Third Grail of the Law of Heaven.

But for Lin Zhongtian, these are not necessary.

Because the so-called Holy Grail is actually to open the hole leading to the root vortex.

The Vortex of Origin is the origin of this world, the starting point of everything, and contains the cause of everything. It is the ultimate knowledge that all magicians in the world dream of, and it is also a dreamland that humans cannot reach in their lifetime.

As long as you go to the vortex of origin, you will master the fundamental cause and effect and laws of all things in the world, and you can change the pattern and order of the world. In other words, it is a power close to that of a creator.

Such ability cannot be matched even by Lin Zhongtian today.

However, compared to the God next door and Ilúvatar in Middle-earth, the two creator-level bosses, the root vortex of this world does not have any consciousness similar to personality.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Zhongtian can act recklessly in this world, and even forcibly stuff Deng Yougang into the Seat of Heroes, allowing him to be born into the world as an eighth-ranked Hero.

Similarly, as long as Lin Zhongtian wanted, he could use his own power to get a glimpse of the full picture of the vortex of origin.

However, due to his identity as the Lord of the Void Gap, the root vortex of this world instinctively rejected him and was unwilling to let him truly step into the root.

Lin Zhongtian also tried to force his way in, but he almost caused the entire Type-Moon world to collapse.

After discovering this, Lin Zhongtian stopped in time and ran to ask God and Ilúvatar.

It was from the mouths of these two big men that Lin Zhongtian finally realized how reckless his behavior had been.

The root vortex of this world is the beginning of the universe and also its final destination. Everything in the universe flows out from the root vortex. Such an existence has no consciousness itself and cannot have direction.

However, Lin Zhongtian's actions made it possible for the Root Vortex to give birth to consciousness like the 'two restraining forces'.

The two great men, God and Ilúvatar, regarded them as of the same kind, and the message revealed in their words was roughly that this world already has the possibility of "giving birth to great beings like them."

Although this possibility is very small, on an infinite time scale, any tiny possibility will become inevitable.

In other words, Lin Zhongtian's behavior has led to the birth of another creator-level boss with the universe and the world as his egg.

Of course, this time would be very long, perhaps tens of thousands of years, or perhaps hundreds of millions of years.

But no matter how long it takes, He will appear one day.

After a detailed discussion with the two big guys, Lin Zhongtian decided not to prevent the birth of this fellow.

On the contrary, he planned to lend a helping hand and prune some of the less good branches for this future big boss.

For example, the curse called [All the Evil in This World]...

As the purple-black heart fell in the center of the magic circle, the entire magic circle suddenly lit up red.

A huge amount of magic power surged from the red magic array, and then suddenly gathered towards the Holy Grail in the center.

Along with the extremely terrifying magical fluctuations, the entire sky darkened, and a huge and deep hole suddenly opened, as if the sky had opened a single black eye.

An infinite and profound aura emanated from it, making the atmosphere between heaven and earth become extremely solemn.

In the audience, everyone including Deng Yougang stared blankly at the hole in the sky. The darkness in the hole, as deep as the universe, was reflected in their pupils.

The next second, countless red and black hot fluids rushed out from the holes, turning into a strange sight like a black mud waterfall, pouring towards the stone pillars below which were engraved with magic array patterns.

“Squeak—”

The black mud dripped onto the stone pillars, instantly corroding into large amounts of black smoke, and then flowed down along the stone pillars and fell onto the ground of the arena.

In the blink of an eye, the entire ground of the arena was filled with black mud, forming a huge black lake surrounding the stone pillars.

"……What's this?"

Shirou Emiya stared blankly at the black lake in front of him and couldn't help but ask this question.

"It's a curse." Tong Shen sighed softly, looking at the black lake in front of him that was constantly emitting foul black smoke, and said, "Endless curse... This is the true face of the Holy Grail!"

"You must be kidding..."

Toosaka Rin couldn't help but take two steps back, looking at the black lake and muttering to herself: "If the Holy Grail is such a thing, then our Tosaka family's lifelong wish is a huge joke!"

Tong Shen shook his head: "The Holy Grail has not always been like this. It was contaminated and became like this."

Toosaka Rin turned her head in a daze and looked at Tong Shen: "Contaminated?"

"That's right." Tong Shen nodded and said calmly, "This involves the last special class of Heroic Spirit."

"During the Third Holy Grail War, Einzberenga summoned the first special class that did not belong to the seven major classes, the Avenger. His real name was Angra Mainyu, the head of the dark evil gods in Persian mythology. He was a terrifying existence that represented absolute evil."

"Is it He who has polluted the Holy Grail?"

"Yes and no."

Tong Shen shook his head: "As the demon god that symbolizes all the evil in this world, Angora Mainyu should not be summoned, so the one who was actually summoned was a real human who existed in history, who was named the evil god 'Angora Mainyu' by ignorant villagers and therefore had to bear the responsibility of 'all the evil in this world'."

“…”

Toosaka Rin and Emiya Shirou looked at each other, their brows tightly furrowed, obviously remembering some similar well-known events in European history.

Tong Shen continued, "Since he is not a heroic spirit created by himself or the wishes of those around him, Angra Mainyu only strengthened his specialized skills in killing humans, so his power is very weak."

"But when he died, his soul carrying 'all the evil in this world' entered the Holy Grail and completely polluted the entire Holy Grail."

"Since then, the Holy Grail has never been the same again."

"It carries billions of curses, and has enhanced its ability to kill humans. Once it leaks out, all humans in the world will be killed by these curses..."

After hearing Tong Shen's calm description, Toosaka Rin and Emiya Shirou were both shocked.

"So that's how it is..."

"But how did you know that?"

Tong Shen's voice choked, and then he coughed twice and said, "This is not important. What's important is that these curses..."

As he spoke, Tong Shen looked up at Lin Zhongtian in the sky.

What he asked for was not to close the hole and keep the curse out of the world, but to destroy the Holy Grail that carried the curse...

Can he really fulfill such a request?

Under the solemn gazes of Tong Shen and others, Lin Zhongtian gently stretched out his right hand.

Behind him, brilliant silver light burst out, instantly outlining a pattern formed by several twisted lines.

The entire pattern is one kilometer wide in diameter, like a silver umbrella, covering the sky and the sun.

As the Seal of the Void emerged, a great will as vast as the ocean and as deep as the abyss surged out.

Unfortunately, the existence of this great will is too lofty to be perceived by all life. Only Deng Yougang and Tong Shen, who were immersed in the gray fog, could vaguely feel an indescribable sense of oppression.

The next moment, a violent suction force appeared out of nowhere.

Black mud floated up from the ground, stone pillars, and holes in the sky.

Endless black mud hung upside down and gathered madly towards Lin Zhongtian.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the audience couldn't help but widen their eyes.

"…What does he want to do?"

"If I'm not mistaken." Deng Yougang said with a strange expression, "The boss... probably wants to drain all these curses?"