Chapter 244: Heroic Spirit

On the surface of the columnar rock with a radius of more than fifty meters, there are countless layers of overlapping engravings.

It looks like a huge observation device operating alone in the wilderness of Arizona.

Full of overlapping circuits.

Layers are entangled and swirled into geometric shapes.

However, I can no longer see the saint in the heavenly clothes.

Hundreds of years ago, the founders of the Holy Grail Ceremony, Tohsaka Nagato, Matou Zouken, Zelrich and others, watched Justeza become a living sacrifice.

But from their perspective, Justeza disappeared at the other end of the light, and there was no too bloody scene.

Actually.

Justessa fell directly from the sky by this huge rock pillar and was crushed into juice.

Literally, the small universe of the human body is activated by the ritual of transforming the body into the Holy Grail.

The process is quite simple and crude, and also extremely unbearable to watch.

A ritual that conforms to the magician’s three views from head to toe.

Luke commented.

And now, when Luke and Artoria arrive here.

The magic circuit with a diameter of one kilometer emits a faint red light, illuminating the entire large cavity.

This place was named the cave where the dragon - a synonym for the spiritual vein - lived, the "Dragon Cave".

This is also the origin of the name "Liutong Temple" built on the mountain.

The real Great Holy Grail floats in mid-air.

"You are here."

An ethereal voice sounded.

It's Justessa.

Sure enough, after the Greater Holy Grail merged with the Lesser Holy Grail.

She really complements her personality.

The original Justeza only had a fragmented consciousness left to control the proliferation and growth of her magic circuits.

Now, with Irisviel's personality to supplement her, she can finally express a true, human way of thinking.

However, this is not a good thing.

The saint who had no independent personality before was able to become the nourishment of the Holy Grail War under the influence of the Holy Grail Ceremony.

But now, Justeza is fused with Irisviel.

Although she has no living body, she is already a human being.

And people's ideas may change anytime and anywhere.

She is now willing to stay here for years, decades, or even centuries.

After that, what will happen in the future?

No one knew that the saint Justeza would continue to carry out the Holy Grail War as her ancestors had expected.

Until, the third method captures all mankind.

From the current point of view, Justeza, who has Irisviel's personality as the main body, is not much different from the previous saints.

After all, Irisviel herself was an artificial human modeled after Justeza, the Saint of Winter.

Irisviel can essentially be considered a part of Justeza.

So the current Bai Aili can at least guarantee that she will not abuse the Holy Grail ritual.

If it were Black Ellie who was dominated by the personality of Angola Newman in the original work, the black mud would have swallowed up the entire Fuyuki City by now.

"Should I call you Justeza or Irisviel?"

Luke couldn't help but ask.

Arturia on the side also had a look of nostalgia on her face.

For her, getting acquainted with Irisviel was a long, long time ago.

But it would be fun to see friends again.

"Justeza should have left this world long ago. I think Irisviel is more suitable for me now."

The ethereal sound is like a dream.

"Liya, long time no see."

Saying that, Irisviel also said hello to Artoria.

To her, the separation between her and Artoria lasted only a few dozen minutes.

But Arturia has already spent her military life as the King of Knights.

Arturia looked happy and nodded with a smile.

Bai Qiandai, who has not been completely assimilated to the will of the goddess in the Holy Spear, not only retains the power of an almost demigod, but also has the complex and deep emotions of human beings.

This wave can be said to be a win-win situation.

White Gun Dumb wins twice.

The goddess's blood is lost.

"Irisviel?"

Luke murmured.

He did not believe that a centuries-old autonomous consciousness could be absorbed by a nine-year-old Irisviel.

Even if this consciousness does not have its own personality.

It can only be said that Justeza gave up the idea of ​​pursuing the past.

Choose to face the world with your new identity.

She was expressing Justeza's will in Irisviel's way.

Luke understood who was dominant in this fusion.

Of course, it doesn't matter who it is.

If Justeza takes the lead, it will be more helpful to Luke.

After all, if anything happens, the Great Holy Grail led by Irisviel will definitely favor Emiya Kiritsugu.

He had no time to be a partner in justice.

The third method is somewhat useful for the heroic spirit mechanism studied by Luke.

So, it belongs to me.

"Irisviel, I will put an end to the possibility of the third method and completely end this wrong Holy Grail ceremony."

"Do you need me to let go of control?"

Irisviel was not surprised.

Just asked softly.

She didn't seem to care at all.

It was clear that once the Holy Grail ritual disintegrated, she would be close to death.

After all, she is the Holy Grail, and the Holy Grail is her.

Even so, in the face of death, Justeza still chose to accept it calmly.

In the big hole under the ground, although Justisa couldn't go out.

But through the perspective of the Holy Grail, she, who had an independent personality, watched the Holy Grail ceremonies for the first time.

The cruel duel between the masters, the injured civilians, and the close friends who gradually decayed and fell into the abyss.

Let Justisa think of destroying the Holy Grail.

The disciples of the Third Law are pursuing the salvation of all mankind.

However, the plan that is constantly revised has completely deviated from the original ideal.

She believes that the responsibility for this disaster lies with herself.

If she hadn't left the city and hadn't chosen to be a living sacrifice.

All the sins might not have happened.

In order to make up for this endless sin, she is willing to sacrifice her life again.

End this ceremony that should not have been held.

In fact, both Irisviel and the Saint of Winter Justisa are rare saints.

"No, I'll do it."

Luke spread his hands.

This time it was not bombed with a solar flare.

It was a serious "healing technique".

Um. Maybe it's not too serious.

So far, there has been no Holy Light Luke or Priest Luke in the Mist Space.

He just wanted to try to see if he could turn her into a Heroic Spirit.

Then contract her to his Heroic Seat.

That is, his inherent barrier, the Mist Space.

Combining the space spell of the HP world, the world research of the Marvel multiverse, and the special datafication of Digital Luke,

he transformed the entire inherent barrier in a short period of time.

Judging from the overall effect, it should be successful.

But he hasn't started trying yet.

Today, this half-dead Irisviel can be used to try his hand.

If he gets it, he will make a profit.

If he doesn't get it, it won't be a loss.

At worst, he can directly forcefully withdraw from Irisviel's transformation into a Heroic Spirit and artificially create a body for her to put in.

She is not Altria.

It can make two stupid inhibition forces willing to sign a contract at the moment before death.

As long as Irisviel can remain alive, the stupid inhibition force will naturally disconnect the program of receiving.

Of course, this does not mean that the restraining forces in the Type-Moon world are rigid.

On the contrary, they are very smart.

One is the Earth consciousness, and the other is the collective of human pan-consciousness. How can they be stupid?

If there is a private house that really travels through time and thinks they are some cute little lolita.

I am afraid that their bones will be sucked dry.

Luke can do this because the two restraining forces can't touch him at present.

If they are forced, they will directly clean the surface of the earth and perform magnetic field madness.

Then they will dig out the core of the earth with a heart-breaking punch.

Just find a parallel world and dive into it to continue to cause trouble.

There are too many endless parallel worlds in Type-Moon.

Countless timelines, countless parallel worlds, just one or two, it will not attract the attention of the two top restraining forces.

Besides, even if they notice him, what can they do?

In the case that the two major restraining forces cannot get out, unless the awakened one or the pigeon god can be found, no one can be his opponent at present.

The inexplicable power takes effect, and the magic circuit with a diameter of one kilometer continues to shrink.

No, it's not just shrinking.

It is withering!

Altria realized the truth.

She carefully watched the changes in the big hole.

The huge colorless power continued to gather, and the magic circuits shrank rapidly as if they were squeezed dry.

It dimmed and finally turned into powder and floated in the hole.

‘Just to gather a heroic spirit, does it need to consume so much? ’

Luke frowned.

Impossible.

The restraining force cannot be a losing business.

The colorless power he consumed now is almost catching up with the amount released in a Holy Grail War.

So, something is wrong.

There are many ways for heroic spirits to be born, and the categories are not exactly the same.

But one thing is certain, the heroic spirit is the existence of the hero who gathers faith after death.

Of course, some heroic spirits do not exist in real history, or they are originally in myths.

But these heroes in myths and legends will also be born by gathering faith.

The similarity between the two lies in faith.

Or in other words, the "traces" that survived.

Is the Winter Saint Justisa famous?

Of course she is famous.

In the records of the magic, she is considered a relatively famous artificial person.

But, she is only a magician.

In the records of the clock tower, there are only a few sentences about Justisa's life:

Justisa Lizleich von Einzbern, female, unknown year of birth, died between 1790 and 1800.

It took a total of ten years from the beginning to the end of the establishment of the Holy Grail system. It is impossible to determine when and at what moment the Winter Saint became the living sacrifice of the Holy Grail, so the time of death is unknown.

Yes, this "living sacrifice" that is crucial to the Holy Grail consciousness, the Winter Saint Justisa, has only this little historical record.

Her faith is obviously not as good as the great heroes who passed down the legends thousands of years later.

Therefore, it is definitely not possible to take the path of faith cohesion.

This colorless power is just the magic power accumulated by Fuyuki City for several decades. How can it compare to the faith of hundreds of millions of humans over thousands of years?

However, it is not completely impossible.

Luke's eyes moved.

He thought of something.

There is another kind of heroic spirit, who was unknown in their lifetime, and may even be ordinary people in daily life.

However, when the main cause of the destruction of the world occurs, the world will automatically summon and annihilate the main cause.

They are the guardians!

For example, the future heroic spirit Emiya.

Of course, it is not Emiya Kiritsugu, but Emiya Dogou. Ahem, Shirou.

The condition for the guardian to be summoned is only "destruction caused by human beings themselves", and the destruction caused by natural or external factors is solved by the planet's restraining force.

It can be regarded as a special emergency force created by the restraining force.

It saves the heroes cultivated before from suddenly dying and losing their growth potential.

Just find a group of people to block the disaster first.

Let the heroes continue to grow brilliantly.

As for this group of "heroic spirits" who are temporarily pulled in for emergency, there are also many differences.

The most common one.

The restraining force adheres to the price contract, giving "miracles" to those who sigh for powerlessness, and temporarily shaping that person into a hero.

As long as that person is someone who "does something for the survival of mankind", it will give him unlimited magic power and opportunities, and use him as a tool to maintain human history.

As a price, it will take away the soul that temporarily becomes a Heroic Spirit after death.

Of course, that's what it says, but it's definitely not what it actually does.

After all, what the restraining force wants is a powerful Heroic Spirit.

Rather than a waste that is forced to be promoted and has no strength once it leaves the restraining force.

They must have their own line.

If it exceeds this line, the gains are not proportional to the efforts, and the restraining force will inevitably choose to give up.

At most, a few helpers can be pulled down from the Heroic Seat, and it is not necessary to rely on this group of people.

There is another kind, which is quite precious.

Heroes who make a contract with the world to become Heroic Spirits.

They can be guardians or first-class Heroic Spirits who are high on the Heroic Seat.

For example, Bai Qiangdai, who is now next to Luke.

It is a small part of the Heroic Spirits who have concluded a contract and successfully met the conditions required for the contract.

The restraining force never does a losing business.

Although I admire you, if you can't bring me enough benefits.

Why should I spend a lot of energy to realize your wishes before you died?

Take the previous King of Daimao for example.

Before the conditions of the contract were fulfilled, she could only obey the requirements of the two restraining forces, travel through time and space again and again, and constantly pursue the Holy Grail.

Or the future dog.

Acting as the executioner of the restraining force again and again.

Destroy the enemy, destroy everyone, and even the past self, all have to be killed.

In order to get what you want and fulfill the conditions of the contract.

Although the process is quite tortuous, even most guardians choose to give up in this long process.

Rely on the previous accumulation to become a heroic spirit and submit to the seat of the heroic spirit.

However, once successful.

That is a step to heaven.

Yesterday you looked at me like an ant, today you can't reach me.

It is undoubtedly the most true portrayal.

Bai Qiangdai, the heroic spirit of heaven, can even be said to be half a god because of the holy spear.

The attitude of the restraining force will naturally change a lot.

For example, like today, she comes when she wants and leaves when she wants.

Thinking of this, Luke narrowed his eyes.

He had some ideas. (End of this chapter)