Chapter 777 Winter Forest

Night falls.

The entire Fuyuki City is dead silent, as if a curfew has been imposed. From time to time, police cars can be seen whizzing by on patrol. Apart from that, this originally uninhabited city looks even more deserted.

Duanmu Huai is also meeting with everyone to discuss the current situation.

"As of now, this Holy Grail War should be singularity F, but there is a problem."

Duanmu Huai knocked on the table.

"Problem?"

"Yes, I finally understand why we went to the Fourth Holy Grail War before. From a certain perspective, it is obvious that the Fourth Holy Grail War should be related to this Holy Grail War. In other words, the Fourth Holy Grail War had some kind of impact, which led to the opening of the Fifth Holy Grail War."

Duanmu Huai spread his hands, and Medea nodded.

"Indeed, if you look at it from this perspective, we changed the direction of the Fourth Holy Grail War, so it affected the original Fifth Holy Grail War... For example, if we hadn't rescued Sakura, she would have stayed in the Matou family now."

"But now the Matou family has disappeared."

Irisviel said.

"I went to see it before, and the Matou land has been sold to someone else. According to the information I got, the Matou family left Fuyuki City since the end of the Fourth Holy Grail War."

"However, the timeline chose to repair it, just like the Great Holy Grail that had been disintegrated."

Mashu also frowned and looked at Duanmu Huai.

"MASTER, is it still impossible to enter the Great Void?"

"The other party has brought the Great Holy Grail from another timeline. I can't do anything about it. This is not my area of ​​expertise."

Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders. If he was a being who could manipulate time, such as Yog-Sothoth or the Lord of Tindalos, there might be a way. Unfortunately, none of Duanmu Huai's priesthoods were related to time. Of course, he could use the power of the God of Destruction to destroy that space, but who knows if this would have an irreversible impact on this singularity.

The repair of the timeline is a big problem because it is not necessarily logical. Just like what Duanmu Huai said, according to the development of history, as long as Chaldea is built in the end, it will be fine. As for whether it was built by Animusphia or El-Melloi, they are all minor details. So the Holy Grail War is the same. Obviously, the timeline tries to make this Holy Grail War "conform to historical records" through this repair method. As long as the final result is consistent, then the middle is all minor details.

However, for Duanmu Huai and others, it is these "minor details" that give them a headache. Because they don't know what the original result of the Fifth Holy Grail War was in history. Although Singularity F has shown that the Holy Grail War led to the destruction of human history and turned Heroic Spirits such as Saber and Berserker into black bodies, it is unknown how this situation evolved.

Moreover, the CASTER encountered in Singularity F has now become Lancer...

Is this a distortion from the past? Or a correction from the future?

To be honest, this is really a question.

As for the actions of other Masters, the Masters of Saber and Archer seem to have joined forces to investigate the disappearance. This is also normal. After all, this land nominally belongs to the Tosaka family, and Tosaka Rin naturally has the responsibility to investigate the matter clearly. As for how she pulled the Master of Saber on board, no one knows.

However, since they are willing to investigate, it is naturally a good thing for Duanmu Huai to let Medea send a familiar to follow them. In case these two people encounter any clues by chance, it is also a good thing, right?

"Then, next..."

Just when Duanmu Huai was about to formulate the next battle plan, Alice suddenly trembled and stood up.

"What's wrong?"

"Master, that child... Illya is in danger!"

"Illya?"

Hearing this name, Duanmu Huai recalled.

"Your daughter in another timeline?"

"Yes... She is now facing a difficult enemy, and BERSERKER is no match for her..."

While speaking, Alice looked at Duanmu Huai with a somewhat complicated expression. Although she also knew that her request might be a bit excessive,... no matter what, she didn't want to see Illya being killed like this.

"Who is fighting her?"

"It's ARCHER from the Tosaka family."

"Tosaka? Isn't that guy investigating the city?"

"Not him."

Iris shook her head.

"It was summoned by the Tohsaka family during the Fourth Holy Grail War..."

"Isn't that bastard dead?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai suddenly remembered the yellow-haired monster he had fought with. He was sure that he had ripped off the guy's head and smashed it directly. How could this guy survive?

Or was it that the timeline was corrected and the yellow-haired guy from another timeline was summoned?

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

"Let's go!"

Duanmu Huai also stood up at this time and made a decisive decision.

No matter which timeline it is from, he will kill that bastard every time he sees it!

In the castle of Einzbern, the battle has reached a white-hot state.

The pitch-black, huge figure rushed forward without fear, blocking the girl who was trembling with fear, and launched a violent attack on the enemy in front of him.

However, the attack of this huge figure was ineffective. Countless treasures shone through the battlefield and pierced its body. It nailed it to the ground again and again. However, BERSERKER still rushed forward without fear. It roared and waved the stone axe in its hand, knocking away the weapons shot at it, roaring and leaping up, rushing towards the figure of the blond man standing not far away.

But that's it.

Chains appeared out of thin air, tightly wrapped around the giant's body, preventing him from taking further action. Dozens of sharp blades fell from the sky, turning it completely into a silent stone statue. The giant slowly lowered his head, and then turned into light particles and disappeared into the air.

"BERSERKER............"

The girl muttered to herself as she stared at her servant disappearing.

"No... BERSERKER!!"

While shouting, the girl ran towards her Servant. Watching this scene, the man sneered, then raised the long sword in his hand to the girl, and then swung it down.

"Bang!!"

Suddenly, a figure appeared in front of the girl and blocked the man's attack. Irisviel gritted her teeth, raised her hands, and the silver thread turned into a shield to block the sharp blade.

"Oh——?"

Seeing Irisviel in front of him, the blond man showed a surprised expression, but just when he opened his mouth to say something, the ceiling suddenly broke and exploded, and then Duanmu Huai fell from the sky like a meteorite and pounced on the blond man.

"Go to hell, you lowly bastard!"

"Disrespectful lunatic!!"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's roar, the blond man immediately raised his head, and murderous aura spread in his scarlet eyes. Several sharp blades flew out from behind him and stabbed Duanmu Huai in the air. For the latter, he had no way to dodge at this moment and could only watch these weapons shooting at him.

But………………

“Dang!!”

The weapon that was powerful enough to penetrate the servant and kill him did not even leave a trace of wound on Duanmu Huai's power armor, and was directly bounced away.

“How is it possible?”

Seeing this scene, the blond man widened his eyes in surprise, and at the same time, Duanmu Huai had already arrived in front of him.

“Your broken copper and iron are meaningless to me, lowly scum! Prepare to face your own death!”

“Bold!”

The blond man obviously did not intend to give up. With his shouting, the chains that bound the black giant before burst out again, entangled Duanmu Huai's limbs. However, unlike the black giant, Duanmu Huai grabbed the chain with his backhand, and then pulled it hard, and the black flames instantly ignited, turning the chains wrapped around his body into fragments.

"This kind of rubbish wants to stop me, wishful thinking!"

"How dare you say this about my king..."

At this moment, the blond man's anger has exceeded the sky - but it is meaningless.

Duanmu Huai punched the blond man in the face, smashing his cheekbone directly. His face, which was barely visible at first, was directly sunken under Duanmu Huai's blow. Several teeth flew out of the blond man's wide-open mouth, and flew into the air with the squeezed eyeballs.

But this is just the beginning.

"Ola!"

The next punch was to the chest, and the ribs were directly hit and turned back. The blond man's body was bent like a shrimp, and even his spine could not withstand such a degree of impact and was exposed from his back, and the broken rib fragments directly penetrated the blond man's body.

"Ola!!"

The next punch was to the lower abdomen, shoulders, arms, and head.

"Ola Ola Ola Ola Ola Ola!!!"

The violent bombardment hit the blond man, tearing his skin, breaking his bones, piercing his muscles, and smashing his internal organs. Under Duanmu Huai's continuous bombardment, the blond man didn't even have the strength to resist and swayed back and forth like a sandbag for boxing. His skull was completely broken, his face had collapsed like a pit, and his limbs had been broken. It was impossible for bones alone to block Duanmu Huai's iron fist.

"Ola-----!"

Finally, Duanmu Huai clenched his right hand and punched through the blond man's chest. In his right palm, he held the blond man's beating heart.

"Hmm?"

However, Duanmu Huai tilted his head in confusion.

"This time, the feeling of fighting seems to be a little better than last time?"

But Duanmu Huai's doubts ended there.

"I hope you can make me beat you more happily next time."

After saying this, Duanmu Huai didn't even look at the blond man, but clenched his right hand and crushed his heart. Then Duanmu Huai shouted, and the muscles in his right hand bulged and trembled suddenly. Then he saw the blond man's body was torn into pieces like a rag by the Qi force, and scattered everywhere.

"……………………"

Looking at the scene in front of her, the girl opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but the next moment, her eyes went black and she fainted on the ground.

"Is she okay?"

Duanmu Huai came over and took a look at the girl. Irisviel shook her head.

"It's okay. It's just because of excessive consumption of magic power and the shock."

"That's fine. Let's take her back first and then talk about it."

"Okay."

For Duanmu Huai, this matter has come to an end.

But the battle in the middle of the night did not end there.

"What are you...?"

Tousaka Rin gritted her teeth, endured the pain and stood up from the ground, staring at the servant opposite her, while the latter remained silent and just stared at her.

Being attacked was within Tousaka Rin's expectations. She teamed up with the Master of Saber and ran around Fuyuki City, trying to find the master behind the disappearance. In Tousaka Rin's view, this must be the work of the Master or the Servant, and no matter what, as the manager of this land, she must not let this behavior go.

Originally, Tousaka Rin thought that relying on her own ARCHER and the opposite Saber, she would be able to fight even if she encountered an enemy, but the fact was not the case.

In just one encounter, Saber, the main fighting force, was defeated... No, Rin Toosaka couldn't even be sure what happened to her. Because she only saw something suddenly appear from the shadow, and the next moment Saber didn't even have time to struggle, and was swallowed up silently with her master, and she was saved by ARCHER and hurriedly dodged.

This servant itself is not difficult to deal with, but... Why? Why do I have such an ominous premonition?

"Rin."

Just as Rin was thinking about how to deal with the enemy, ARCHER suddenly spoke without looking back.

"Leave this to me, you evacuate immediately."

"ARCHER?"

"The opponent is not an enemy we can deal with now. You can feel it, that powerful magic..."

"……………………"

Rin Toosaka gritted her teeth and said nothing. Of course, she knew what ARCHER meant. They were now trapped in this office building, and the opponent had set up a barrier. They were completely trapped. Plus there is that strange black shadow that can even devour servants…

“——————!”

“Be careful!”

At this moment, Rin Tohsaka suddenly heard ARCHER’s voice, and then she was pushed away by ARCHER the next moment. At this time, Rin Tohsaka was surprised to find that a black tentacle like a belt was attacking her from the side, and was about to penetrate ARCHER’s body———!

“Bang Bang Bang!!”

However, at this moment, a series of gunshots suddenly rang out, and the bullets shining with fire shattered the glass and concrete walls. The black shadow like a belt also shattered and exploded. For a while, the whole room was filled with smoke and dust, covering the vision like a smoke bomb.

“Woo…!”

Rin Tohsaka instinctively raised her hand, but at this moment, a hand suddenly appeared and grabbed Rin Tohsaka’s arm. At the same time, a voice that Rin Tohsaka didn’t expect appeared in her ears.

“Go!”

“…………!”

Hearing this voice, Rin Tohsaka was stunned for a moment, but she also knew that now was not the time to hesitate, and hurriedly followed the instructions to retreat.

Then, Rin Tohsaka felt as if her body was immersed in cold sea water, and she shuddered suddenly.

When she opened her eyes again, she found that she had left the strange office and came to a nearby mountain, and ARCHER was holding a double blade in his hand, blocking her.

"Huh..."

At this moment, Rin Tohsaka also breathed a sigh of relief, and then she turned her head and looked at the girl behind her—also her sister.

"Thank you, Sakura."