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What will happen next? Nobody knows.
(All players can now begin their actions)
As soon as he finished speaking, Leonard was able to control his body.
Leonard stretched his body and frowned.
I'm not used to it; my body is too weak.
"Meow~"
With a meow, a large orange head popped out from behind him, its fluffy fur gently brushing against his neck, making Leonard feel a little itchy.
"Alright, alright, I'll buy you guys some food later. Let me see, the lecture venue is... right in front of me."
After showing the lecture invitation, Leonard entered the venue, chose a corner seat, nodded to a handsome man in a black suit next to him, picked up "Orange" and gently stroked its fur.
After the lecture had been going on for a while, the elderly man on stage stood up, smiled broadly, and said into the microphone:
"Alright, next up is my student who will give a presentation. He's the author of that recent paper that caused a sensation in the psychology community, and his name is—"
"The moon guards the way to fullness."
At that moment, the handsome man in the black suit next to Leonard stood up and walked onto the stage with a gentle smile.
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"Hey, Da Vinci, doctor, what do you think would be a good gift for my brother?"
The girl with orange hair asked a question to the woman next to her, who exuded artistic beauty, and a young man with a submissive look. Her swaying hair was as dazzling as the sun.
Meanwhile, atop a distant building, a cool-looking young man with black hair, dressed in a black outfit, wiped away the tears from the corner of his eye and closed his eyes expressionlessly.
Then, he punched the wall next to him hard without holding back.
If you put two girls together, you'll find that their faces have some similarities.
"Why, why, why are there such cutting requirements!"
His expression finally broke down, and anger, sorrow, and hatred rose and fell across his face.
He is Fujimaru Ritsuka, the Fujimaru Ritsuka of FGO 2.0.
It's okay if you don't know FGO, you can think of it as—
To save your world, you must destroy the worlds that have been cut off.
These cut worlds can be seen as bad ending routes, but they are not bad endings for the player. Rather, they are special cases that deviate too much from the main route and thus lose most of the branching possibilities.
It has nothing to do with good or evil, or right or wrong.
It's just that you've lost your value.
This project, at first glance, represents an advanced and hopeful ideal world, but because it is completed and concluded, it has lost its value.
In other words, that is—
Fujimaru Ritsuka wants to achieve the true ending, so she has to destroy the happy ending...
How vicious.
It was as if the gods had played a cruel joke on him, forcing him, as the savior, to kill the person he had lost and who was important to him, in order to save his world—and to keep himself alive.
"........asshole."
“Master….”
Behind him, the fox-eared priestess spoke with concern.
"...I'm fine, Tamamo. It's just that I suddenly understand a little bit of what the Marshal was thinking..."
Gilles de Rae, the French marshal during the Hundred Years' War.
Or perhaps the legendary Bluebeard.
After Joan of Arc's execution, he suffered a severe mental breakdown. Driven astray in his quest to resurrect her, he became a mad alchemist who murdered hundreds of children—Bluebeard.
God, you are so wicked, you are so unjust!
If the ending was already predetermined for me, then why did you have to make me see this scene?
"Let's go. This Holy Grail War will be a little different. We need to prepare in advance."
If you could see Fujimaru Ritsuka's face, you would notice that he has heterochromia (different colored pupils).
As he approached the door, the boy turned back and gave the group of people who were still strolling happily in the street a deep look before turning away.
I have no intention of stopping!
For Tachibana, for the doctor, for Leonardo da Vinci, for Mashu—
I will fix this world!
At this moment, Mo Ye looked at the man on the verge of death beside him and tapped his head in exasperation.
Unexpectedly, the War of the Broken Blanket occurred in many parallel worlds, each with a different background.
And in this parallel world, it seems there are only the two of them.
Chapter 377 Unknown War - Before the War
"What should we do now, Mr. Moye?"
"I don't watch much anime... I do know what the Holy Grail War is, but I don't know anything about the background. Anyway, I remember that people with Command Seals can summon Servants..."
Mo Ye's voice gradually faded as he saw a bright red pattern appear on the back of the man's hand.
These are Command Seals, right? But what about mine?
Why don't I have it?
Looking at his smooth, white hands, Mo Ye smiled on the surface, but inwardly he was cursing.
"So these are Command Seals? Hmm, these suddenly transmitted messages are... a ritual for summoning Heroic Spirits? Then, Mr. Moye, how about we gather materials while searching for a base?"
"Okay, but leave the material purchase to my pawn to avoid being tracked."
"Okay, but which base should we choose?"
"Isn't it simple? Just dig a hole in the ground. Those places where spiritual veins converge are definitely occupied by someone. Staying in a hotel makes it easier to be targeted and attacked directly. It's better to be more discreet and dig a big hole underground."
"...Awesome."
It's a very simple suggestion, but it fully captures the essence of guerrilla warfare.
night--
"Be full, be full, be full, be full—"
... (Dialogue omitted)
"Declaration——"
"Your body obeys my command; my life is one with your sword—"
... (Dialogue omitted)
"Guardian of the Scales!"
"Archer, answer the call."
The pink-haired celestial being with pure white wings spoke in an inorganic voice, and a certain part of its body could be described as incredibly heartwarming.
"Assassin, answer the call."
The black-haired, arrogant gentleman in a bright red tuxedo exuded a faint scent of blood.
"Saber, answer the summons."
The silver-haired youth wielding a sword had a strangely shaped blade, and his aura seemed to belong to another world.
"Berserker, answer the call."
A black-haired shrine maiden exuding madness, but why is her shrine maiden outfit this kind of sexy, armpit-revealing dress?
"I am Lancer, the Chaos who always crawls to your side with a smile on my face, answer the call!"
A silver-haired girl with a long ahoge (a single strand of hair sticking up) makes her entrance in an extremely inelegant, slovenly squat. The reason she is a Lancer is probably because of the indescribable thing in her hand (a crowbar).
"Rider, answer the call."
The young man, dressed in a pristine white naval uniform, smiled. His chest was adorned with medals representing honor, and on the back of his uniform, the words "Admiral" were written in large black ink.
"Caster, answer the call."
The skeletal mage, clad in a magic robe, resembled a death emperor descended from the underworld, emanating a terrifying aura of despair that suffocated the senses.
In a garden in the city, a humanoid creature dressed in strange armor suddenly appeared and struck a bizarre pose.
"First, I will absolutely not act impulsively; second, I will absolutely not overlook any wrongdoing; third, I will ensure absolute fairness and impartiality in my judging. Dragonfly Captain, the referee robot, has come to pay homage as Ruler! I will be the referee for this Holy Grail War!"
Near a church, a man with a starfish-like hairstyle looked at his own hands, now youthful again, and murmured to himself:
"Sa/ver?......"
Near the police station, a baby-faced man in a jacket looked at the batons he held in his hands and shook his head helplessly.
"Why is it a Shielder? I was clearly using a baton, not a shield."
Before the man at the end of his road appeared a person enveloped in boundless, tangible malice. Simply standing near this person caused all negative emotions to rapidly grow. A thick, malevolent grin emerged from the darkness, wanting to tear at his skin, drink his blood, suck his marrow, and devour his flesh and organs.
Then, it was completely swallowed up by the "abyss" inside the body at the end of its life.
"How can this place be called hell if there were no human tragedies? A/venger, come and do all the most evil things in the world."
(Original character, conceived during my teenage years)
The evil person's face, shrouded in tangible malice, curved into an arc, seemingly in a smile.
"By the way, Master—what's your name?"
"What do you ask for this?"
"Because you look a lot like me."
"...Fuck God!"
At Chaldea's temporary base, Fujimaru Tachibana is summoning the Heroic Spirits with whom she has formed a "bond" in the past, while also waiting for her older brother's support.
Beside her, Caster, whose arms were completely wrapped up, watched her quietly.
Meanwhile, in another location, Fujimaru Tachibana, dressed in black, immediately seized the spiritual vein of Ryudouji Temple, where a group of Caster-class Heroic Spirits constructed a base. He sat silently on the temple rooftop, gazing at the brightly lit city in the distance.
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"Yuehua City wasn't always called Yuehua City? It was renamed Yuehua City after something happened? I feel like there's something interesting going on here, let me see..."
After much difficulty, the library managed to find several valuable books among the old books piled up in the warehouse. Leonard excitedly returned to his hotel and began to look through them.
After spending several hours reading the book, he finally understood some things.
Long, long ago, the ruler of this city was a witch. For some reason—whether it was immortality or eternal youth—she held an incredibly grand ceremony to sacrifice everyone in the city to an unknown god.
Then a group of fearless investigators arrived and had a great time with the witch.
In the final moments, the witch died, the ritual was forced to stop, and the core of the ritual was buried due to tectonic shifts.
Could it be that the content of this role-playing game is related to this ritual that was held? For some reason, the core location of this ritual was discovered by other cultists who intend to carry on the legacy of their predecessors and strive for a successful sacrifice?
"Okay, okay, I've figured out the general idea, but I want to know where my teammates are! I'm a total noob right now!"
Chapter 378 Unknown War: The Mad Holy Grail War
It's a mess, a complete mess, absolutely a mess.
met free