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Chapter 202 Crush the Holy Grail and Absorb the Curse

"Purpose?"

Upon hearing Gilgamesh's solemn words, Lin Yu couldn't help but chuckle.

"Couldn't it be for the Holy Grail?"

"There's no need to say such things in front of me, is there?"

Gilgamesh said calmly, "I absolutely do not believe that you cannot see the true face of the Holy Grail before you."

Lin Yu nodded and said, "That's right, I do know the true appearance of the Holy Grail, but even so, it still has great collectible value in my eyes..."

Gilgamesh's heart sank, and he said unhappily, "You want to steal what belongs to this king?"

Lin Yu glanced at him and said, "Your collection is just a prototype of the Holy Grail. What does it have to do with the Great Holy Grail in front of us?"

As he spoke, Lin Yu turned to look at the crowd below and said calmly, "Originally, I planned to let you decide the winner yourselves, but unfortunately, I'm in a hurry, so I can only ask you to be the last one to fill the Holy Grail!"

When he finished speaking, Lin Yu's gaze fell on Kirei Kotomine.

Kirei Kotomine's pupils constricted sharply, and he immediately shouted, "Lancer, take me—"

"puff!"

Before he could finish speaking, Kirei Kotomine exploded, instantly turning into a cloud of blood mist.

Lancer stared in astonishment at the blood mist before her, but could only watch helplessly as Kirei Kotomine's soul floated out, transforming into a streak of blue light that fell into Lin Yu's palm.

Generally speaking, the Master's soul is definitely not enough to serve as the contents of the Holy Grail.

However, Lin Yu had already made contact with the Throne of Heroes and could easily exploit it to transform them into Heroic Spirits, thereby gaining the qualification to fill the Holy Grail with its contents.

Soon, Kirei Kotomine's soul was transformed into a Heroic Spirit and then entered into that purplish-black heart.

At the same time, Bai Zemin's hand emitted a silver light, from which four equally massive magical powers emerged.

After all the magic power flowed into his purplish-black heart, Lin Yu turned around and looked down at Gilgamesh, who was standing on a flying boat with a gloomy face.

"It's really surprising that you didn't try to stop it?"

"Trying to be an enemy of the world is a delusion of mortals."

Gilgamesh said calmly, "I have already seen through your true nature, why would I do something so pointless?"

At this point, Gilgamesh paused, staring at Lin Yu, and said, "Furthermore, I am very curious about what method you intend to use to resolve the Holy Grail issue?"

"I see!"

Lin Yu's expression showed understanding, and he then smiled and said, "If that's what you're thinking, then I'm sorry, my method might disappoint you..."

Before he finished speaking, he threw out the still-beating, purplish-black heart in his hand.

Generally speaking, summoning the Holy Grail is far more complicated than that. It also requires a living sacrifice as the Master as the core, or some understanding of the magic circle of the Third Grail.

But none of these things were necessary for Lin Yu.

Because, in essence, summoning the Holy Grail is to open a hole leading to the Vortex of Roots.

Lin Yu knew the exact location of the Origin Vortex, so he naturally didn't need those tedious steps.

As the purplish-black heart landed in the center of the magic circle on the stone pillar, the entire magic circle suddenly lit up with a red light.

A vast amount of magical power surged from the red magic circle, then abruptly converged towards the Holy Grail at its very center.

In the next instant, a terrifying surge of magical energy spread out, and a huge and deep hole suddenly opened, as if the sky had opened a black eye, darkening the entire sky.

An endless, profound aura emanated from it, making the atmosphere between heaven and earth extremely heavy.

Below, at the ruins of Ryudong Temple, everyone, including Bai Zemin, stared in disbelief at the hole in the sky.

Those pairs of pupils, each a different color, reflected the darkness within the holes, a darkness as deep as the universe.

"Crash!"

Accompanied by a roaring sound like a rushing torrent, countless hot, red and black fluids surged out of the hole, transforming into a strange landscape resembling a black mud waterfall, continuously pouring down onto the stone pillars engraved with magical runes below.

"Chichi-"

Black mud dripped onto the stone pillar, instantly corroding it and producing large plumes of black smoke.

Everyone was startled, staring with trepidation at the ominous black mud flowing on the stone pillar.

"what is that?!"

"...It's a curse!"

Bai Zemin said in a deep voice: "An endless curse!"

Gilgamesh, riding on the Vimana flying boat in the sky, glanced at them and said indifferently:
"That's right, this is the true face of the Holy Grail!"

"...Are you kidding me?!"

Rin Tohsaka, Shirou Emiya, and the others stared incredulously at the black mud.

Saber frowned and asked in a deep voice, "You knew all along?"

“Of course,” Gilgamesh chuckled. “Speaking of which, this is all thanks to you, Saber!”

"Ten years ago, when I was just one step away from obtaining the Holy Grail, you stopped me, and the Holy Grail was cleaved in two by your holy sword right before my eyes..."

"What?! Saber severed the Holy Grail?"

Rin Tohsaka and Shirou Emiya were startled again, unable to resist glancing at the silent Saber beside them. Gilgamesh ignored their reaction and continued speaking to himself:

"...The Holy Grail shattered, and its contents transformed into flames, burning the surrounding streets to ashes. I, who was directly beneath the Holy Grail, was naturally swept away by the torrent. From that moment on, I obtained this body that could remain in the world, and it was also from that moment that I learned the true nature of the Holy Grail."

The contents of the Holy Grail materialized into flames, destroying the surrounding streets.
Emiya Shirou stared blankly at Gilgamesh, those words echoing in his mind.

If this guy isn't lying, then the culprit behind that great fire back then is none other than the heroic spirit standing beside him now!

Seeing the stunned look on Shirou Emiya's face, Saber looked guilty and hesitated to speak.

Rin Tohsaka, standing nearby, didn't notice their expressions, as she herself was also caught in shock and confusion.

"If the Holy Grail is such a thing, then hasn't our Tohsaka family's lifelong ambition always been a joke..."

Hearing Rin Tohsaka's murmured words, Bai Zeming glanced at her and shook his head, saying, "The Holy Grail wasn't always like this; it was corrupted into this state."

Rin Tohsaka's eyes lit up again: "Contamination?"

“That’s right.” Bai Zemin nodded. “This involves the previous Heroic Spirit with a special class!”

"During the Third Holy Grail War, the Einzbern summoned the first special class that did not belong to the seven major classes. Its true name was Angra Mainyu, the chief of the dark evil gods in Persian mythology, representing a terrifying existence of absolute evil."

"Was it He who contaminated the Holy Grail?"

"Yes and no."

Bai Zemin shook his head and said, "As a demon god symbolizing all the evil in this world, Angra Mainyu should not be able to be summoned. So what was actually summoned was a human who actually existed in history, who was given the name of the evil god 'Angra Mainyu' by ignorant villagers, and thus had to bear the burden of 'all the evil in this world'!"

"..."

Rin Tohsaka frowned, probably recalling some similar well-known events in European history.

Bai Zemin continued, "Since he was not created by his own desires or the wishes of those around him, Angra Mainyu only enhanced his specialized skills in killing humans, and his true power was extremely weak."

"When he died, his soul, carrying 'all the evil of this world,' entered the Holy Grail, completely corrupting the entire Grail."

"Since then, the Holy Grail has never been the same again."

"It carries billions of curses, and its ability to kill humans has been amplified. Once it flows out, all of humanity in the world will be killed by these curses..."

how so? !

Rin Tohsaka couldn't help but take two steps back, staring blankly at the black mud on the stone pillar.

At this moment, Lin Yu, who had not made any further moves, finally started to act.

He lightly stepped into the void, and the space within a radius of a thousand meters instantly distorted.

Streaks of silver light burst forth, quickly weaving together to form an intricate pupil outlined by dozens of silver lines.

The moment this silver eye appeared, a vast and profound will surged forth, blotting out the entire sky above Yuanzang Mountain.

In an instant, the black mud gushing out of the hole surged up, as if it had lost its gravity, and turned into clumps of mud that floated up.

The next second, a terrifying suction force suddenly erupted, and the suspended black mud accelerated abruptly, like a black mud waterfall flowing backwards, rushing wildly towards the direction of the silver eyes.

what? !

Gilgamesh's pupils contracted sharply, and his face showed astonishment.

He finally understood why Lin Yu had said those things earlier—

Because this guy really didn't have any clever methods, he planned to use the simplest and most brutal way to absorb all the almost endless curses in the Holy Grail!

This is way too reckless!
To Gilgamesh's astonishment, all the black mud gushing from the holes was swept up and flew up, transforming into countless black ribbons that surged wildly toward his silver eyes.

Perhaps feeling that the speed was not fast enough, the silver eye suddenly swelled in size, transforming in the blink of an eye into a terrifying eye that was thousands of meters long, blocking the hole like a curtain in the sky.

An invisible force was not only absorbing the leaking black mud, but it was even flowing upstream and surging into the holes.

Gradually, the flow rate of the black mud decreased, and the hot, dark red fluid also gradually diminished.

Until a certain moment, the scorching black mud stopped flowing from the hole, and in the entire silver-covered sky, only Lin Yu's palm still emitted a faint black light.

Everyone looked up and saw that Lin Yu was holding up a beating black heart.

Upon seeing the black heart, any human being could sense a chilling, profound malice that sent shivers down their spine...

"This is all the evil in this world!"

Lin Yu gazed at the black heart with satisfaction.

Just then, the hole, which had been calm, suddenly began to tremble.

Lin Yu frowned slightly, knowing that his actions had triggered the vortex of origin.

Without any hesitation, he decisively mobilized his authority and raised his hand to shake hands.

"Om-"

In an instant, the space within a radius of a hundred miles erupted in chaos.

Invisible ripples surged forth, tearing through space and pressing in from all directions.

Countless dark cracks spread wildly across the sky like a spider web, destroying the red-glowing magic circle pillar in an instant and bursting the black hole floating in the air.

But this was far from over; the torn spatial rifts continued to spread in all directions.

In the blink of an eye, the sea of ​​clouds covering a radius of a hundred miles was completely swept away, leaving behind countless dense black cracks, as if the entire sky had become a shattered mirror...

(End of this chapter)