FATE: Target of Grand Master

"Ha ha..."

Inside a room with unknown coordinates, BB staggered toward the control panel.

At this moment, her hair was disheveled, and she had a very obvious penetrating wound in her abdomen.

She pressed a button on the control panel and said, "Activate voice command mode."

The electronic voice on the control panel responded immediately.

"Voice command mode is activated."

"Release all the defeated Masters in the storage room and send them back to their original world."

The electronic voice replied: "Command received. This command will be executed immediately and is expected to take 120 seconds to complete."

"I will freeze my highest administrator privileges in 10 seconds and remove all administrator privileges from SAKURA FIVE. I will use the remaining mana to activate the 'Absolute Isolation Firewall'."

"Warning: Doing this will leave your administrator privileges empty."

"Of course I know, just do as I say."

"Command received. This command will take effect in 10 seconds. 'Absolute Isolation Firewall' has been activated and is expected to complete deployment in 10 seconds."

"Alright, this is the final order. No new administrator privileges will be granted until I lift the freeze on your top-level administrator privileges."

"Instruction received. This instruction may be executed."

Hearing the electronic reply, BB breathed a long sigh of relief.

The situation was worse than she had anticipated, and this was the only way she could ensure the Master Trial could continue.

"I really don't understand why you, an AI, would go to such lengths for humanity."

A gray-haired man, holding a magnificent scepter and dressed in a black suit and cloak, slowly emerged from the darkness.

"You wouldn't understand such malicious intelligence."

BB glanced at the gray-haired man's heterochromatic eyes, one red and one green, and said sarcastically, "But I didn't expect that since you couldn't beat Fujimaru Ritsuka, you actually went to seek help from other worlds. And of course..."

boom!

After a sniper shot rang out, BB's head exploded in a cloud of blood, his words cut short.

"Oh, Miss BB, there are some things you'd better not say out loud."

A flamboyant woman with pink hair, wearing a black leather jacket, glasses, and two animal ears on her head, walked up to the gray-haired man with a pure villainous smile.

The sniper rifle in the beautiful woman's hand was still smoking; clearly, she was the one who had just shot BB.

The gray-haired man asked with concern, "Miss Koyanskaya, did your shot damage the BB control panel?"

Koyanskaya put away her sniper rifle, walked gracefully to the control panel, and entered a series of commands.

"I have good news and bad news, Count Cagliostro. Which would you like to hear first?"

Caliostro walked up to the control panel and said, "Good news."

"The control panel is perfectly fine and is still working perfectly."

Koyanskaya seemed to have anticipated the gray-haired man's choice and immediately blurted out her answer.

"And the bad news?"

"BB seems to have frozen the highest-level administrator privileges, and even adding or using lower-level administrator privileges is prohibited. This means that if we want to disrupt the 'Master's Trial,' we can only interfere by entering the game; we can't modify the rules using administrator privileges. Why don't you try using your malicious intelligence to see if you can infiltrate?"

Caliostro placed his left index finger on the interface of the external device, and the tip of his index finger immediately transformed into a data stream that slowly extended into it.

After a moment, he slowly pulled his finger out and then shook his slightly numb index finger.

"It is possible, but as you said, I can only intervene by entering the trial; I cannot change the underlying rules."

"After all, it's a super AI; in this respect, BB Chess is still a step ahead."

"Is this the time to sigh? Although it's just a bunch of data, if her plan is actually implemented to the end, it could create seven troublesome things."

"That's something you should be thinking about. After all, I'm a businessman, and I'm only responsible for fulfilling the obligations stipulated in the contract."

After saying that, Koyanskaya left with a smile.

Caliostro wasn't angry at Koyanskaya's attempt to shirk responsibility; they were merely cooperating partners with little personal affection for each other.

"Let's leave it at that for now."

Caliostro, who had implanted some of his malicious information into the control panel, took a few steps back and said to the white-haired man who had appeared beside him at some point, "Mr. Flöf, just to be on the safe side, please freeze this control panel."

Floff did not reply, but a blast of ice extended from beneath his feet, instantly freezing the control panel and BB's body lying in front of it in near-absolute zero.

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"Xia Yan, I conducted a series of tests, and the conclusion is that the magic seal effect of the safe house has indeed been reduced, but not completely eliminated."

Morgan conjured a black, lightning-shaped cloud out of thin air in his hand.

"Currently, the offensive magic that can be used inside the safe house is only of this level of power at most, while the limitations on auxiliary magic are not that great."

Compared to the extent that magic could achieve in Morgan's test safe house, Xia Yan began to ponder a deeper question.

In the past, safe houses were absolutely safe because magic was strictly prohibited. But now that the restrictions on magic have been relaxed, does that mean that safe houses are not as safe as they used to be?

Ring ring ring!

Suddenly, the telephone, which had been hanging inside the safe house door at some point, rang.

Morgan immediately went over and answered the phone.

"Okay, I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Morgan explained to the puzzled Xia Yan, "This is a communication magic spell I just installed. We have two enhanced outposts on the Holy Grail Front, so naturally we need to deploy manpower to defend them. This communication magic spell allows us to communicate with the safe house from our outposts on the Holy Grail Front, so if any other fools attack us, we'll know immediately."

"So, who was that on the phone just now?"

"That's right, there really are some blind fools who attacked."

"Oliver, I didn't expect there would actually be someone deploying defenses within the Holy Grail front."

At this moment, the two Masters were standing together, watching a fierce battle in which eight Servants were fighting each other.

The blond man named Oliver had his hands in the pockets of his gray trench coat, not immediately responding to his companion's words, but instead staring intently at the battlefield.

Despite having brought six Servants with him and the brown-haired boy named Damian, they still hadn't captured the stronghold. This was the first time since the two of them started cooperating to conquer a stronghold on the Holy Grail War front.

Although Cú Chulainn Alter and Nero are both extremely excellent Servants, Siegfried, Medea, Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Damian's Fuuma Kotaro, Hessian Robb, and Hephaestion are also quite good. In an average three-on-one situation, it shouldn't have taken so long. Could it be that the opponent's base has some kind of defensive buff?

While Oliver was still thinking, Nero, who was defending the stronghold, was the first to give in. He was stabbed in the back by Kotaro Fuma's kunai and then hit hard by Rob, sending him flying backward.

"Nero!"

Cú Chulainn Alter wanted to help, but Siegfried and Minamoto no Yorimitsu, empowered by Medea's magic, completely suppressed him. He almost got hit by the enemy even when he turned around to look at Nero's situation.

"Okay, once we've solved one problem, the rest will be easy."

Damian was excited because they were about to gain a stronghold with a bonus effect, and they were also able to kill two such excellent Servants, which would inevitably affect their Master's combat power in the subsequent trials.

clang!

Just as the headless horseman's scythe was about to strike Nero, a katana was placed in front of the scythe's blade.