"Mom is dead...Mom is dead...Mom is dead..."

In a residential area on the Upper East Side, Jack the Ripper lay in a pool of blood, his eyes vacant as he repeatedly uttered meaningless words. His legs had begun to dissipate into spiritual particles, and he would disappear from this world in less than two minutes.

"That child!"

Meanwhile, in the distance, Atalanta, who was struggling to fight the other side, finally managed to spare a glance at the area where Jack the Ripper was, only to find that the other side had already begun to disappear!

Her eyes suddenly turned blood red.

"You! You killed her! You damned man! You executioner!"

Seeing Shen Qiu standing there with an indifferent expression, not even a hint of sadness, Atalanta felt her blood surge and her eyes filled with boundless rage!

"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"

Unable to contain her rage any longer, Archer drew her bowstring to its fullest extent, and green magical energy surged from her body into her arms. She was about to use her Noble Phantasm!

"To the great goddess Artemis..."

"Two-tailed!"

Before Shen Qiu could finish speaking, the enormous, dark blue beast roared and charged toward Atalanta, who was crouching on the roof, its right palm mercilessly slapping across the cat-eared girl!

"Ugh!!!"

Because she was completely consumed by anger, she had no time to pay attention to the two-tailed beast Matatabi, who was still fighting her closely. As a result, she was trapped in a blind spot by the tailed beast, which was not very agile, and was finally slapped away without mercy!

Even with her superior physique and basic attributes, she would definitely not feel good for a while after that palm strike.

"You killed my mother!! You killed my mother!! I will not let you get away with this, I will not!"

Just before she was about to disappear as spirit particles, she suddenly screamed wildly. At that moment, an endless black room suddenly appeared out of thin air around her and rushed outwards at an extremely fast speed, covering the entire Tulifas in just a few dozen seconds!

This black mist has a wider range of effects than her Noble Phantasm, and its acidic smell is much stronger. Not only that, it is also mixed with a terrifying curse. If it cannot be eliminated in a short time, I don’t know how many civilians will suffer!

Hidden Noble Phantasm: [The Resentment of 80,000 People - A! No]

The curse and resentment released by Jack the Ripper before his death, containing the curses of countless drowned fetuses of prostitutes at the end of the 17th century, has a strong spiritual pollution and interference effect, with a wide range. Even heroic spirits with weak wills may be affected, or even commit suicide!

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Chapter 269: The Primordial Flame - Burning Everything (Please Subscribe!)

"Why, why did you kill me..."

"Yes, why do we do this? We just want to go back to our mother's arms..."

As the dark fog rapidly expanded, one child after another appeared in Shen Qiu's field of vision, some boys and some girls, some with European features and others with features from other regions.

However, everyone kept repeating the same words around Shen Qiu. If it were just one person saying it, it might not seem like much, but if several, dozens, or hundreds of people were muttering to themselves at the same time, it would instantly put one's brain into a state of confusion.

Shen Qiu didn't speak, but just sighed with a hint of helplessness.

The Assassin Jack the Ripper who descended here is not the real Jack the Ripper from history. Her true form, just like the scene before Shen Qiu's eyes, is the resentment of tens of thousands of abandoned and dead children in the late 17th century, possessing a strong desire to return to the womb.

Their existence is both a tragedy and a painful reminder of the times.

From the mid-15th century onwards, the rapid development of the wool textile industry in Britain brought enormous profits, which in turn led to a bloody period in British history.

"Sheep eat people!"

In order to obtain enough land for grazing, lords and nobles colluded with capitalists to seize the land of 607 peasants, driving them out of their homes. The peasants who lost their land had no choice but to go to big cities to survive.

They went to Cambridge, to Liverpool, to Birmingham, but most importantly, hundreds of thousands of farmers poured in—

London!

Impoverished farmers who have lost their land and have no skills can only do the lowest-level jobs even if they go to big cities. Men go to factories, while women with weaker physical strength can only do the most pathetic work: prostitution.

In that rather backward era, it was common for prostitutes to get pregnant, and it was even more impossible for them to raise the children after they were born, because they couldn't even support themselves.

As a result, tens of thousands of babies who should have been born safely into this world were brutally aborted before they were fully formed. Even those who were born as fully developed babies could not escape the same fate.

That is, being thrown into the Thames.

One after another... one innocent child after another died tragically before they even had a chance to see the world. When data scientists in later generations compiled statistics, they confirmed that at least 80,000 babies drowned in the Thames River during this period.

They were in pain, they were resentful, they wailed, and the appearance of the murderer Jack the Ripper only catalyzed all of this, thus giving birth to a false heroic spirit called "Jack the Ripper".

She wasn't the real killer, but she was no less ruthless than him.

"Please, please, I don't want to die!"

"Let me live! Let me live, big brother!!!"

One plea after another rang in Shen Qiu's ears, but what answered them was the surging magic power emanating from Shen Qiu's body!

"I'm sorry, I can't help you, and it's impossible for me to make your wishes come true."

Shen Qiu's hands flew up and down, and in just a few seconds, the runes representing the primordial fire were finished and quietly floated in the air.

“I understand your resentment, but such a horrifying wish as to return to your mother's body is neither possible, nor can I grant it to you. So, the only option is—”

Seemingly sensing Shen Qiu's hostility and coldness, all the children simultaneously began to leave him and run to the other side of the street.

And standing there was Atalanta!

She looked tenderly at the children who kept flocking to her side. For her, her greatest wish in life was to become a figure like the goddess Artemis, protecting every child so that they could grow up safely.

This expression didn't last long before it abruptly ended, because she turned her gaze to Shen Qiu, and her originally gentle face turned into boundless disgust and hatred.

"Even now, are you still going to hurt these children?!"

Atalanta's face was somewhat crazed, even distorted, her voice was extremely hoarse, and there was a huge cat claw-shaped wound on her abdomen, indicating that she had not yet recovered from the serious injuries she had suffered.

After using her Noble Phantasm, the Arrow of Complaint, she finally managed to drive Matatabi back to the Spirit World, but in doing so, she herself suffered considerable injuries.

"I don't want to hurt them, I want to help them pass on to the afterlife."

Shen Qiu did not stop guiding the magic power within his body; in fact, he accelerated it. Compared to the Grand Duke, Atalanta's strength was indeed not that great.

"Sister! Save us!"

"Please, sister, I'm so scared..."

Upon hearing Shen Qiu's words, the children surrounding Atalanta showed expressions of panic one after another, and then pleaded with the green archer in their childish voices.

"Don't worry, I will definitely protect you and keep you from getting hurt..."

Atalanta tried her best to put on a smiling face in response to each and every wronged soul, while her right hand gripped the bow tightly.

It's a shame she can't contact her Master right now and can't use Command Seals, otherwise she would definitely teach this Lancer a lesson!

"My name is Shen Qiu, and I am a disciple of Queen Scáthach of the Land of Shadows."

Just as Atalanta was racking her brains trying to figure out how to save these children from their suffering, a surge of magical energy emanated from the Japanese boy in front of her, and his words filled her with shock!

"Scáthach, the Queen of the Land of Shadows, is her personal disciple!"

Scáthach's name is naturally known to everyone, and her most famous disciple in history should be the hound of Kuran, but what the heck is this Shen Qiu? Isn't that an Eastern name?

Why would an Easterner be Scáthach's direct disciple? That doesn't make any sense at all!

"In my name, I beseech the power of the primordial runes."

Before Shen Qiu, the rune symbols instantly magnified dozens of times, and from those symbols, something seemed to be already restless and ready to act!

"Oh no! The enemy is about to use their Noble Phantasm!"

Atalanta was instantly terrified upon sensing this immense magical power. However, just as she raised the Sky Bow in her hand, Shen Qiu's final incantation had already quietly fallen.

"O primordial flame, burn away all evil!"

Chapter 270: The Wild Boar of Divine Punishment - A Fight to the Death (Please Subscribe!)

"Why...why...why do this...."

Atalanta stared blankly at the raging flames around her and the vengeful spirits of the children who had turned to ash and drifted in the wind. Her whole body was trembling uncontrollably.

She wasn't afraid, but angry, boundless angry!

“If we don’t deal with them now, their resentment will cause suffering to all the innocent people and civilians in Tulifas. There may be hundreds... thousands... or even tens of thousands of innocent lives lost because of them.”

"Even with a thousand kinds of suffering, the seventeenth century has vanished like a bubble, and we can't possibly go back. Besides, the innocent deaths of those eighty thousand children in London were far more than just those of the eighty thousand children in London. Atalanta, are you telling me you're going to save them one by one?"

Shen Qiu reprimanded the cat-eared girl in front of him without any mercy. As a Heroic Spirit, it would be extremely foolish for her to interfere too much in the Holy Grail War, no matter what.

Throughout the long course of history, every choice humanity has made has had a reason, regardless of the consequences. This is how humanity has gradually progressed to where it is today.

“I don’t care! For me, being abandoned in the wilderness as a princess is the most painful thing in my life, while being rescued by my goddess Artemis is the luckiest thing in my life.”

“She loved those abandoned children and thus lovingly rescued them. I received her grace and decided to carry on her will. No matter what era these children came from, since they saw me and decided to accept my protection, they have a relationship with me.”

"And you! Since you killed them so ruthlessly, from this moment on we are mortal enemies! In the name of my goddess Artemis and the sun god Apollo, I swear here and now, Lancer, as long as I live, I will be your sworn enemy!"

By the end, Atalanta's tone was almost a roar! At the same time, the cat-claw-shaped wound on her abdomen was healing at an extremely fast pace, revealing the domineering nature of the three basic attributes of the upper class.

"I admit it, Lancer! You are indeed very powerful, with many tricks up your sleeve. I cannot defeat you easily. So, then! Let me show you this Noble Phantasm!"

In her hand, a piece of pitch-black boar hide had been taken out at some point. The boar hide emanated a tremendous curse and hatred, even surpassing the resentment of Jack the Ripper in its intensity!

"So you really have to use that Noble Phantasm after all... I originally planned to let you go today, but now that things have come to this, then as you said, it's a fight to the death."

Shen Qiu's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan activated once again. Under normal circumstances, he hoped to reason with the girl, but now it seemed that this was a foolish approach, as there was a huge difference in their views.

Was Atalanta's philosophy foolish? Of course it was foolish, but was it laughable? Not necessarily. Everyone pursues different things and takes different paths. It is laughable to have no dreams.

"In that case, I'll kill your dream."

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