Chapter 248

Standing on a snow-capped mountain at an altitude of 6,000 meters, Lansermelo looked at the howling wind and snow in front of him and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

The clouds that brought the snow and wind blocked the faint light of the sea of ​​stars, so the Antarctic continent, which was still in the polar night, was pitch dark. If it were not for the guidance of the Clairvoyance and the spiritual veins, Lancermello might not even be able to arrive smoothly. For the members of Chaldea, this coordinate only represented Chaldea - but this was the daily life of Chaldea that they had been accustomed to long ago.

It wasn't magic that caused the blizzards outside Chaldea all year round - it was just the weather in this part of Antarctica that was always like this.

Even standing inside the observatory, the only thing that was always brightly lit was the Chaldea Main Building, which was in operation 24 hours a day.

"...Very good, the spiritual vein is normal - it can be used." Although the magic was used to block the wind and snow to keep warm, Lansemero couldn't help but breathe into his hands, "But whether they will come to Antarctica is still a question... Forget it, just treat it as a surprise egg placement for the treasure hunt game - it doesn't matter even if Poseidon's people take it out and decipher it in the future."

"Well then..."

The fairies of Paradise wantonly mobilized the magic power "Mana" belonging to nature, leaving a bold and clear magic signature on the extremely cold snowy mountains - Phoenix Chaldea, the human survival guarantee agency.

Even out of some personal interests, Lancermello left a bunch of words similar to Merlin's prophecy in addition to the magic symbol of Chaldea - not to mention the fact that before the future Bronze Saints went to the Sea Realm, a large-scale civil war broke out in the Sea Realm because of these contents.

As soon as the Gemini brothers left the sanctuary, she summoned them to the Tunguska region to record the natural ecology - in fact, they went more than a hundred years in advance to observe the birth of a creature that only appeared in human history and represented non-primate will, which was essentially the Tunguska land itself.

——Other human evil can be left alone, but after all, this is a group connected to the land "Gaia", and there is a high probability that it will appear in a place where the origin of this planet "Gaia" becomes consistent with all the "Type-Moon" worlds.

At this moment, Lancermello stood alone in the snow-capped mountains, freeing his mind for a rare moment, and recalled the pure white observatory built in the snow-capped mountains long, long ago. The part of Chaldea exposed on the surface was an elliptical flat cylindrical building, and the nuclear power plant and laboratories were all deeper underground. The only parts above ground were the conference room, the control room, the cafeteria, the infirmary, the library, and the staff dormitories.

——and the transparent dome observatory at the top.

Although the Chaldeans who are now drifting in the sea of ​​stars can see the almost eternal stars by just glancing out the corridor windows that used to only see blizzards, the observatory at the top of Chaldea still has an irreplaceable special meaning for some members - such as Lancermello, who almost always teaches Kirshtalia, Olgamari and Fujimaru Ritsuka in the observatory.

"...You can't see the stars here." Deep in his mind, Asclepius interrupted Lansemello's recollection and said, "Where else do we need to check out?"

"Ah... Although I don't know if there is a Fuyuki City here, I still need to confirm the situation of the Great Void." Lansermello came back to his senses and outlined the magic of relocating the location. "But we can't act so ostentatiously there... I don't have the hobby of distorting historical nodes to create special points. Even if the Great Void exists and there is really a problem, the most I can do is find a place to leave the compressed data for the two of them to deal with."

"I have no objection." Asclepius looked at Lansemello drawing golden lines of magic, "However, you ran away for half a year. In addition to doing some magic research, you were actually considering how to deal with those Saint candidates. Really, didn't you tell them to handle it themselves at the beginning?"

"I told them that those who could not obtain the Cloth but awakened their Microcosms should handle it themselves - not including the work of hiding these candidates from history." Lansemello closed his eyes and sighed, mentioning the changes in the candidates that he had not discussed with Dieter, "especially now that some Cloths have shown the desire to actively choose the wearer."

——The number of Saints must be controlled, at least the number on the surface cannot exceed the number that will be recorded in the future.

"Hmph." The God of Medicine snorted and pointed out her solution to the Fairy of Paradise, "So you plan to hide them in the underworld? Or somewhere else?"

"But the prerequisite is that there is a complete plan that can be made public - among them, only William's follower Dieter will unconditionally obey my arrangement." Lancer Melo paused when mentioning the name of the separated Servant, "This time when I go back, I should also change his puppet body to a body made by the Third Law."

The restrictions on Servants in this world have indeed been lifted, but the restrictions on divine Servants in this world have not yet been lifted - so Asclepius and Ereshkigal still remain together in the depths of Lanthimero's consciousness, half-heartedly pretending to be gods relying on humans.

"Let's go - we may need to visit some special holy clothes."

On the other side, in the sanctuary that was temporarily abandoned by Lancermello, except for the members who could not return, the rare Golden Saints who gathered together had held nearly twelve meetings on the same topic - Dieter, who had a job in corporate management, even learned remote work without any guidance with the help of William's magic, just to stay in the sanctuary and witness every discussion of his companions.

"...Since the Cloth is the one that chooses the wearer, then what are the various selection competitions we have held in the past around the Cloth?"

As the Pope, Shion also pays attention to the Saint Warrior candidates in the Sanctuary - so the theme of their meeting is the distribution of the holy clothes. However, because Dieter told everyone about Lansemello's theory of "the holy clothes choose the wearer", their meeting is still stuck at the first step until today.

"Although it is called a tryout, it is not that all the candidates in the Sanctuary are competing for the same holy garment." As the oldest person present, Sifus pressed the relatively young Pope and explained the original holy garment distribution system again. "In fact, it is consistent with what that adult said - the candidates who will participate in the same tryout are originally trained as Saints of the same constellation."

"That is to say, our past selections were just to select the best person from the range of people who would have been chosen by the holy garment to wear this holy garment."

"But the problem now is that a candidate has been noticed by the Holy Cloth." Shion, who was sitting in the Pope's seat, drew everyone's attention back to the topic of the meeting, "and we have to make sure whether he can get the Holy Cloth - it's not that I still doubt her! I will complain! I think she is terrible! But -"

"Will the future that has already been fixed change because these candidates obtain the holy garments?"

"I'm not the same person as when I first took office ten years ago!"

"It would be better to ask directly, right?" Abelfica, who had been assigned a lot of nonsensical natural ecological survey tasks by Lansemero, glanced at Dieter, who was sitting next to him with a blank expression. "Although she rarely gives explanations when assigning us to do something, as long as you ask a question, you will basically get an answer from her - no matter what the question is."

"I think her opinion is to not publish anything for the time being." Dieter pushed his glasses and glanced at Regulus and Caludia who were about to say something. "The number of Saints who will actually participate in the next Holy War should be very small. In order to ensure future stability, she should control the number of Saints who actually show up."

"And our session has the largest number of Saints since the Age of Gods."

"Then the Pegasus Cloth is vacant - it will not be put out for the candidates to compete for the time being." El Cid spoke up to help everyone sort out the current situation, "and the Gemini Cloth is now traveling around the world with Aspros and Defteros; and because of its special nature, the Virgo Cloth is not the type that is suitable for public competition."

"...Did the lord tell me the number of Saints who will be recorded in the next Holy War?"

Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on Dieter.

"Let me make it clear first. I can't guarantee that she has told me how many Saints there will be in the next Crusade." Dieter flipped through his notebook and reminded his colleagues at the meeting, "But she probably doesn't agree with the option of not allowing any candidate to obtain a Saint Cloth in order to ensure that the number of people meets the future situation. Found it."

"In addition, due to the initial confidentiality agreement, I will only tell you the number of people, but not the details - at most I can add which constellations they are." Dieter spread out the notebook on the table, his eyes falling on the black Greek letters that recorded the relevant content. "The next generation of Golden Saints will have a full twelve members - although half of them died in the civil war."

Before the Trial of the Seven Gates began, at the first full meeting, Lancel Mello told all of them that half of the next generation of Saints, the Gold Saints who had the highest combat power, had died in the civil war - so now that Dietel mentioned this matter, it was just a simple reminder to his companions.

"Silver Saints, sixteen. Bronze Saints, excluding the well-known Pegasus, there are ten in total." Dieter simply counted the total number and looked at Shion, "Thirty-nine in total - for us, it is equivalent to losing half the number of people. Can the matter of the Saint Cloth be postponed?"

"Delay?" Shi Ang frowned in disapproval and was about to speak when he was interrupted again by Dieter.

"She should have a solution - but she hasn't come up with a complete plan to share." Dieter calmly flipped through the increasingly thick handmade notebook in his hand, "Just hold her out until she returns to the Sanctuary. Maybe I need to record the names of the students who have caught the attention of the Saint Cloth and their corresponding constellations. Also -"

"in addition?"

"You should all be prepared. I always feel that she will prepare a plan that is beyond our expectations - just like when she asked Sisiphos to shoot down Hades from the sky with an arrow."