They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 1 The Final Battle in the Hanging Gardens

On Earth, in Romania, a land where many legends have unfolded, a new legend is being born.

At an altitude of 10,000 meters, the Hanging Gardens, hailed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, are now appearing in modern times in their legendary form, becoming a true aerial fortress.

However, the fortress was now in ruins, its surface resembling a city that had just been bombarded by countless shells, with no intact buildings in sight.

However, in the very center of the hall, a black-haired man was engaged in a final battle with a heroic spirit named Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, with the Holy Grail, which had just been pulled from the castle of Yggdrasil, as the reward.

At this moment, the black-haired man, shirtless, wielding the holy sword Balmonk, with green lightning crackling around his body and azure star emblems flashing on his chest and abdomen, was moving at high speed along the walls of the circular hall, driving the lightning around him to strike his opponent.

However, his face was abnormally flushed and his lips were purple, indicating very obvious signs of poisoning.

Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, wielding a katana in his right hand and a black key in his left, and wearing a long priest's robe heavily decorated with crosses and chains, clearly unleashed his full power.

At this moment, relying on the "Mind's Eye (True)" and "Mind's Eye (False)" abilities activated by his twin-arm Noble Phantasms, he constantly moved and swung his weapons, unleashing magical blades to deflect the lightning striking from all directions, and slowly spoke...
“Mr. Danlei, I thought that as Aozaki Touko’s apprentice, you should be more skilled in puppetry and runes, but I didn’t expect you to be so good at physical combat as well.”

Amakusa Shiro Tokisada is using the conversation to buy time. This man, who killed the Black Assassin Master in Japan and stole his Command Seals to participate in this Holy Grail War, has just joined forces with the famous ancient Roman poison master named Locusta, who descended in the Assassin class, to poison Semiramis unconscious. Even the Command Seals cannot wake her up.

But this person was clearly also poisoned by Semiramis. Although it is unknown what methods he used to survive until now after being poisoned, time is on his side.

His servants have very low direct combat strength. Although his poison skills are unparalleled, there is no danger as long as she doesn't get close.

However, Amakusa Shiro Tokisada did not expect that while he was trying to stall for time, Dan Lei on the opposite side was also stalling for time.

As a time traveler, Danlei felt he had done everything he could in this Holy Grail War.

At this point, Danlei had used up all the Command Seals he had.

The first Command Seal was used to activate a substitution magic that surpassed his own abilities. He used his own heart to replace Siegfried's heart in the homunculus Siegfried's body, allowing him to overcome the weakness of his own magic circuits and directly possess magic power similar to that of a hero from the Age of Gods.

At the same time, Danlei, who is proficient in substitution magic, can use this heart as a medium to temporarily transfer Siegfried's power to himself. This is how the Holy Sword Balmonk and the Star Emblem on his body came about.

The second Command Seal was used by Danlei to exchange for the core of the deceased Black Berserker Frankenstein. In this Type-Moon world that he had interfered with, Frankenstein was killed by his own scheme. Before killing her, Danlei used a substitution magic at the cost of a Command Seal to exchange for the Frankenstein core, which could only be used once and would dissipate once its energy was used up.

At this moment, the green lightning surrounding Dan Lei is the power of this core.

With his final Command Seal, Danlei forced his Servant, Locusta, to unleash his EX Noble Phantasm on Semiramis, a weapon originally designed only for Nero: "Farewell, My Beloved Emperor."

Using a super poison created with all his might in his life—a once-in-a-lifetime effort—and stored in a small golden box, he forcibly poisoned Semiramis, who possessed the characteristics of a king.

All I can say is that it's an EX Noble Phantasm that can only be activated against a specific person, and it can achieve its goal by rejecting all external interference.

If Nero were actually here right now, even in his Beast Nero form, he would die.

Therefore, Semiramis was powerless to resist and was forcibly controlled in front of Locusta by the power of the Noble Phantasm, where she was given poison and died peacefully.

She will quietly extinguish the flame of life in her slumber, both allowing time for the subsequent battle and preventing the Hanging Gardens from collapsing immediately, and also removing the final obstacle before defeating the final boss. As an aside, the relic that Danlei used to summon Loxusta is that small golden box containing poison, which is why this Noble Phantasm can be activated.

In fact, Danlei's act of forcing Locusta to feed Semiramis a poison that didn't belong to her made his servant very unhappy.

However, their cooperation began when Danlei signed a self-mandatory certificate, so Locusta did not rebel against Danlei because of it.

However, in the short time it took to pass through Semiramis's room and use Command Seals, Danlei was already poisoned. The reason he can still move around and is even quite excited is because Locusta, who is proficient in toxicology, used his A+ level poison mixing ability to create a poison with conflicting toxicities, which can temporarily prevent Danlei from dying directly from the poison.

But if Danlei is lucky enough to be left with a pool of blood after the effects of the medicine wear off, he'll be fortunate.

Therefore, Danlei could only act quickly. The so-called "delaying time" actually meant distracting Amakusa Shiro Tokisada so that he would not discover that he was using lightning to draw runes on the basis of this hall.

After unleashing several more lightning bolts, Dan Lei launched a close-range attack, using the True Ether from the Holy Sword Balmonk to create an Etheric Sword Aura that added a new blade mark to the ground, forcing Amakusa Shiro Tokisada back as he spoke.

"You said yourself that I'm just an apprentice. According to Orange, my magic circuits are terrible, and my magic talent is only passable in displacement magic. The only two advantages I have left are patience and shamelessness."

In short, Orange explicitly refused to become my master, and also forbade me to publicly claim that I was her apprentice.

The reason they were willing to keep me as an apprentice and teach me some magic tricks for self-defense was because I have excellent Chinese cooking skills.

As for physical skills, haven't you heard the saying that all Chinese people know martial arts?

However, after being forced to retreat, Amakusa Shiro Tokisada silently complained to himself that he was just being polite. He thought that the martial arts skills that Dan Lei knew were only so-so, and that he only had at least B+ level strength and speed by relying on the strength of Siegfried and Frankenstein.

However, in martial arts, speed is the ultimate weapon. Amakusa Shiro Tokisada knew that his power was being forcibly released through Command Seals, and his strength and speed were far inferior to his opponent's. Moreover, his opponent's attacks were imbued with lightning, which put him at a disadvantage in close combat.

So he raised the black key, preparing to use a long-range throw to distract Danlei.

However, just as Amakusa Shiro Tokisada raised the black key, Dan Lei laughed.
"Is this really a good idea? That last slash contained some of my magic in the ether."

Upon hearing this, Amakusa Shiro Tokisada was immediately terrified. He immediately released the black key he hadn't yet raised and retreated while covering his nose.

Almost the instant Amakusa Shiro Tokisada let go, the black key was replaced by a bottle of poison, which fell to the ground and splashed up a cloud of poisonous mist.

Dan Lei watched this scene, plunged the Holy Sword Balmonk into the ground, and grinned maliciously.

"What a pity, this is a very precious poison carefully prepared by Locusta."

However, the last point has been drawn; the battle should end now.

After saying that, Danlei began to fully extract the magic power from his heart, mixing it with the true ether emanating from the holy sword Balmonk and injecting it into the stone slabs of the hall beneath his feet.

Semiramis was already asleep and awaiting death; no one could stop the activation of this runic magic circle.

(End of this chapter)