FATE: Target of Grand Master

Musashi, having cleaved through the Noble Phantasm, immediately charged forward and quickly reached Mordred's side.

Both preferred to communicate with swords rather than words, so the twin blades clashed with Clarent's, producing a series of metallic sounds.

Musashi was surprised that Mordred, who had already unleashed a large amount of magic power, was still so difficult to deal with, while Mordred was also amazed by Musashi's skills.

Even without Morgan, Cú Chulainn and Musashi alone would be very difficult to deal with, so the Knights of the Round Table deserved their defeat.

However, even though he was going to lose anyway, he had to hold off the enemy before his spirit foundation collapsed.

Ignoring the depletion of her magic power, Mordred used her unique skill "Magic Release" to forcefully pull her already exhausted Spirit Origin back to its peak state, and began a second round of battle with Musashi.

"Open the Heavenly Eye!"

Faced with Mordred's relentless attacks, Musashi dared not be careless and activated his Heavenly Eye.

clang clang clang!

The afterimages of the three swords appeared and disappeared between the two, and the shockwaves generated by their battle stirred up the surrounding sand, creating sandstorm after sandstorm.

Unfortunately, the evenly matched situation did not last long, and as time went on, Mordred gradually lost ground.

After two rounds of battle, Musashi acknowledged Mordred as an opponent. As the highest respect for an enemy he acknowledged, Musashi seized the opportunity when Mordred's magic power was waning and used the "Fire Form" of the "Niten Ichi-ryu" style, cutting Mordred down along with his armor.

Mordred's body finally gave way, and he collapsed to his knees.

Tristan was already close to escaping Musashi's sight; if they didn't give chase, he would truly escape.

Musashi didn't stop and immediately tried to catch up, but his right leg was held tightly by someone.

Looking down, he saw Mordred, who had already fallen to the ground, using her last bit of strength to grab Musashi's legs tightly with both hands.

In battle, Musashi is not the cheerful older sister she usually is. Without hesitation, she pierced Mordred's heart with her sword and then pulled her leg out of her grasp.

However, this delay allowed Tristan to escape Musashi's sight. Although Musashi chased after him for a while, he eventually lost track of Tristan.

"Xia Yan, I'm sorry, I lost him."

Musashi, who was the last to return to Xia Yan's side, took the initiative to apologize.

Xia Yan didn't seem to care too much. He patted Musashi on the back and comforted him, "Killing three of the four Knights of the Round Table while the Lion King was using the Holy Lance, and injuring another one, is already a very good achievement. There's no need to blame yourself."

Then, Xia Yan turned his attention back to Richard and Morley.

"King Lionheart, and the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, as I just said, since we have a common enemy—the Lion King, then cooperation is our best option."

Richard nodded and said, "We have already witnessed your strength. We would be more than happy to have your assistance. However, if you don't mind, our pseudo-Crusaders were severely damaged by the Lion King and the Knights of the Round Table. We are now left with only the people behind us and a small number of soldiers remaining in the camp in the northern mountains. If you don't mind, you can come with us to hide in the northern mountains. We will tell you the information that Master wants to know."

Seeing Richard's straightforwardness, Xia Yan had no reason to refuse, and the group followed the troops northward, hiding in a temporary camp set up in the mountains.

To express their gratitude, Richard and Morley handed Xia Yan a portion of the pseudo-Crusader's rations. Xia Yan politely took a bite and then politely put it down.

This is absolutely awful!

Looking at the unleavened, coarse-textured bread in his hand, Xia Yan felt that the low morale of the pseudo-Crusaders was partly due to this food.

Getting back to the main point, Xia Yan began to inquire about the current state of affairs in this world.

"There are currently three forces in this world. Besides us, the other two are the Lion King, who drove us out of the Holy Land Jerusalem and transformed it into the Holy City Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table who followed him, and the Sun King Osmandis, who occupied a large area in the west and turned the terrain into desert. Of course, if we don't count your Servants, Master, we are definitely the weakest of the three."

Xia Yan then asked the two how much they knew about the Lion King and the Sun King.

"Because of the previous all-out war, we have a more detailed investigation of the Lion Queen's side. Besides the Lion Queen, she had six Knights of the Round Table under her command: Gawain, Lancelot, Tristan, Agravan, Mordred, and Gareth. Now there should only be three left."

Furthermore, I've heard that a Servant claiming to be a "monk" and another Servant with Eastern features have been placed under house arrest in the holy city of Camelot as guests. As for the Sun King, we've only met Osmandis himself and his Servants, Nitocris and Nitocris.

If we're talking about monks from the Sixth Singularity, then Sanzang is the only answer. The other Eastern-looking Servant is naturally Tawara Tota.

These two were indeed in the holy city of Camelot when the Sixth Singularity storyline of the original work began.

"Have you heard about the 'Holy Battle' that the Lion King is going to hold?" Xia Yan asked.

Richard and Morley looked at each other, then shook their heads together.

"Have you ever seen a silver-haired man who calls himself Lucius?"

The two denied it again.

As Xia Yan listened to this situation, which seemed to be similar to but not quite the same as the sixth singularity in his memory, his brain began to work at high speed.

First of all, it can be confirmed that this is still the world of the Sixth Singularity, and both the Lion King and the Sun King are in their proper places.

However, the current situation is definitely not the timeline experienced by Fujimaru Ritsuka, because there is no "False Crusaders" in the original work, nor are there two Servants, Richard the Lionheart and Morai, the leader of the guild.

Combining the fact that Sanzang and Tawara Tota were still in the holy city of Camelot, the Lion King had not yet begun the "Saintly Extermination," and Lucius, or rather Bedivere, had not yet arrived here, Xia Yan came to a conclusion—this was a timeline earlier than that experienced by Fujimaru Ritsuka.

Xia Yan suddenly remembered that when he met Richard and Mo Lai, the pseudo-Crusaders were moving from west to east, which obviously did not match the route of the pseudo-Crusaders whose base was in the north.

"Did you two lead your troops into the desert earlier to form an alliance with the Sun King?"

Richard and Morley were surprised that Xia Yan had analyzed their actions so quickly after receiving information about the three-way situation, and they both showed expressions of admiration.

"Yes, but the result was not ideal. We did not expect that the Sun King would not accept our alliance. Even if he possesses the Holy Grail, he could not possibly be a match for the Lion King, who possesses the Holy Lance. The only explanation is that his arrogance as a king is at play."

Indeed, Ramses II was an extremely arrogant king, but he was not a foolish one. The biggest reason why Richard and Morley failed was that they did not demonstrate the qualities that Ramses II would approve of.

It's not that Richard and Morley weren't qualified, but rather that all Ravenclaw saw in their eyes was the bewilderment and despair of being crushed by the Lion King, without any awareness or dignity of fighting alongside the Pharaoh.

You can't blame the two of them for this.

After witnessing the Holy Lance obliterate eighty percent of their forces, it was truly remarkable that Richard and Morley still had the will to fight back.