Chapter 118

"Although the outcome of the melee was beyond our expectations, we have indeed achieved all our goals." Dion stood by the window of the guest room, looking at James Bond, who had taken off his disguise and was half leaning on the sofa. "In a sense, the current situation is already the most favorable for us."

——As of this moment tonight, the number of participants in this Holy Grail War has been reduced from the original twenty-one groups to only six groups.

——The Black Camp became the first of the three camps to have only one group left, and the only remaining Black Saber group was the one that got the ticket to the Holy Grail Showdown in advance.

Time goes back to the moment when the melee has not yet ended and the mental attacks of the technological side and the mysterious side have swept the entire battlefield.

Before playing the golden flute, Surant used the Command Seal to allow his Servant to dodge Anastasia's Noble Phantasm. Black Rider was just transferred from the predicament to the side of the Lord by the power of the Command Seal, and the Noble Phantasm was deployed as Surant raised the flute to his lips.

——It was a horn shaped like a conch shell.

The real name of Black Rider was completely confirmed at this moment - the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Amphitrite, the queen of the sea, Triton, the messenger of the sea!

Just as this phantom fusion servant with two sides once made a choice for New Chaldea - at that time he chose Captain Nemo's side, driving the Nautilus "Storm Border" to help them break through Atlantis; and now Rider chose the side of Triton that he gave up at that time, and raised the conch horn representing his identity as the Messenger of the Sea.

"The messenger of the sea "Triton"! "

Terry blew his horn - and just as the myth describes, when he blew hard on the conch shell, the sound from the horn was like the roar of a fierce beast.

At the same time, the mental attacks from both the technological and mystical sides swept across the entire battlefield. In this situation, thanks to Mashu's prompt deployment of the Noble Phantasm, and the protection prepared by the Moon Goddess Artemis before they set out, only Peperoncino and Tai Gongwang, who joined the battlefield last in the plan, were not affected by the mental attacks from both sides.

"…Mashu can't hold on any longer." Peperoncino made a judgment when he saw the Chalk City in the center of the battlefield begin to flicker. "No matter how much Mashu strengthens herself, as long as the essence of this power is still based on Galahad's template, that wall will never be able to protect herself."

"If it was any other enemy, it would be fine." Tai Gongwang gave a fair assessment, "But this time, the enemy's power is the type that can tap into and induce the evil in people's hearts to grow. I'm afraid only Galahad himself would be unaffected if he came here. If it was Solomon... even if he didn't do anything abnormal, Solomon would probably be killed by this power."

"And even though Mashu has experience as a sub-servant, most of the members of Chaldea train her as a human being like themselves, not as a religious saint."

"As human beings, we must admit that we have evil thoughts - for example, we trample on other lives in order to survive."

Even without mentioning that New Chaldea cut down the fantasy trees on the blank earth and destroyed seven strange belts one after another - just the normal life of human beings is already trampling on the lives of other creatures; it is only because destroying the strange belt is destroying the world that this trampling on other lives as a prerequisite for survival is completely placed in front of the protector of New Chaldea.

Although the lady protector of Phoenix Chaldea chose to shoulder the entire world because of the burden of rebuilding the world, in the final analysis, Phoenix Chaldea has a stable retreat, so unlike the pan-human history, she has the obsession to survive even if she has to trample on everything.

Add to that the subtle tradition of the sect that started with Solomon of self-destructing when in doubt... On the surface, Phineas Chaldea doesn't look like the type of people who would do anything to survive like New Chaldea - although New Chaldea hasn't done anything excessive, but who can blame Phineas Chaldea for being a comparison?

"Although he doesn't look like someone with bad intentions..." Peperoncino exchanged glances with Tai Gongwang helplessly, "But at this time, we can only blame the teachers for leading the students astray, right? Mashu and Ritsuka didn't have so many weird ideas to play with before."

“My dear, are the treasures of Poseidon’s family all a little abnormal?” Artemis, who had already drawn the bowstring and was ready to take aim, looked at where Triton was, and asked Orion, who was lying on his head, in a subtle tone, “Amphitrite and Triton are both Riders…”

“But Amphitrite’s Noble Phantasm is for the gods of the sea, not for Rider’s ‘mount’. This one of Treton’s is just a horn to boost morale…”

"It's no use dwelling on this now." Orion patted Artemis' head with his soft stuffed paws. "If you really care, I'll make a summary report after we return to Chaldea. You'll definitely get the answer if you ask Ritsuka. Besides, you can just ask the sea nymph directly..."

“This location is an opportunity!!!”

“Come on, dear. Let’s shoot out love!” Artemis aimed at Surante’s position and poured a large amount of divine power into the sharp arrow that served as his treasure. “The Moon Goddess’s Love Arrow ‘Tri-star Amore Mio’!”

Although the arrows of the Moon Goddess are no longer the main cannon scale of the past when she still possessed the Mecha God's true form, a single arrow carries such a large amount of divine power that it is enough to create a grand and violent explosion at the point where the treasure lands, emitting a dazzling light as pure white as moonlight.

"That arrow almost cleared the entire battlefield." James Bond stopped recalling and looked at Dion who was leaning against the window. "The White Faction's calculations were more sophisticated than ours - they took advantage of the last chance for Asclepius to use his Noble Phantasm and let the arrow fall."

"And according to our previous agreement, they must not be eliminated before Euryale shows up." Dion continued to review the day's melee following James Bond's words, "So when Euryale and her suzerain appeared in front of Yicun Luansu and them..."

——No one would have thought that at this moment, a Servant would unleash his Noble Phantasm and pierce through the two gods along with the ground on the spot.

"From the results, it's good enough." James Bond gave the final verdict on the outcome of the daytime melee. "On the surface, we were lucky enough not to participate in this melee - that's why we became the only group of participants in the Holy Grail War in the Black Faction that have not yet withdrawn."

——From this perspective, the goal can even be considered to have been exceeded...

"By the way, speaking of the sudden bell ringing during the day--" James Bond looked at Dion and asked the knight who was almost blending into the shadows, "Have you discovered anything about this?"

"I found the Bell Ringer's Code at the entrance to the bell tower." Dion gave James Bond an accurate answer. The similarity in their lifestyles provided enough tacit understanding for their cooperation. "According to the rules, the bell that rang today means that someone has completed the coronation ceremony to become the queen."

"The Queen's Coronation..." James Bond moved his gaze to the black roses in the vase on the corner of the wall, and suddenly remembered the "810 Laws of the Queen of Hearts" he saw in the banquet hall on the first day. "In 1865, Lewis Carroll published "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", and six years later published the sequel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"——"

"The Queen of Hearts, the croquet court, the red roses painted red by the white roses... and Alice from the Red Camp."

"I should have thought of that earlier."

"Master?"

"No, nothing - I think I should have guessed why the bell rang." James Bond laughed softly, "So, this is the power of the camp? However, assistants are always necessary in the plan - just like if William is alone, he will never be able to complete the Moriarty plan."

- Although he could even be considered the last member to join the Moriarty Project, he also knew that what they did would never succeed if only a few ordinary people followed their lead, or if William had not included Albert in the plan from the beginning.

——What happened after the White Faction no longer concealed the fact that they were allies, just like when they were advancing Moriarty's plan.

——Every member performs his or her duties to ensure the perfect achievement of the ultimate goal.

——It was just like the melee during the day.

"The members of the White Faction have completed their coronation." James Bond tapped the armrest of the sofa slowly, and the battlefield ground that was severely smashed by the Whip appeared in his mind again. "Then they should have deduced the conditions required to enter the final battle of the Holy Grail War earlier - that's why they saved the sixth puppet group."

"To delay the end of the Red Faction's battle - no, even the initial melee was a delay... They were waiting for the coronation bell to ring. And when they return to the battlefield again -"

The White Berserkers dispersed the battlefield, and after the Black Riders appeared, they killed the Black Berserkers outside the battlefield; the White Assassins and White Casters surrounded the Black Riders; after Amura Ransu and Surant launched a counterattack, when the rest of the people on the battlefield were almost defeated by them - an arrow as bright as moonlight pierced Surant's chest, and an explosion occurred in the center of the battlefield.

The explosion forced Ransu and Asclepius to use their last chance to use their Noble Phantasms in a short period of time, and at this moment, Nicole Yazawa and Euryale, who had been waiting outside the battlefield for a long time, came in front of Ransu - and then, a black whip fell from the sky, piercing through the two God Servants and their Lord together.

Although the Black Riders who released this Noble Phantasm soon withdrew from the scene for unknown reasons, the huge traces left on the ground clearly showed the powerful force held by the White Faction - they were far more powerful than what they said when they introduced themselves that day, that there was only one member who could kill gods.