FATE: Target of Grand Master

Bystander (Hu Xia): Xia Yan, are you still there? Hurry up and reply.

Gathering the Fairy Knights (Xia Yan): I'm here. I already know the situation. What do you want to ask?

Netizen (Hu Xia): Tell me, who have you met recently?

Collecting Fairy Knights (Xia Yan): I just got back from the trials not long ago, and only yesterday I encountered two guys attacking my base on the Holy Grail Front. I crippled one of them, and the other ran away when he saw me.

Bystander (Hu Xia): What did the person who ran away look like?

Collect all the fairy knights (Xia Yan): You suspect that he leaked my information?

Netizen (Hu Xia): Very likely.

Collecting all the fairy knights (Xia Yan): But that's my business. Why are you so concerned?

Bystander (Hu Xia): Xia Yan, that's hurtful. I sincerely wanted to join forces with you. Our ally is being targeted, shouldn't I be worried?

Hu Xia's answer was perfectly fine, so Xia Yan stopped dwelling on it and carefully recalled his impression of the person's appearance.

Collect the Fairy Knights (Xia Yan): A man in his thirties with short, blond hair. Sorry, because he ran too fast, I could only make out these details vaguely.

Bystander (Hu Xia): It's okay, that's enough. In short, just be careful.

Collect all the Fairy Knights (Xia Yan): Yes, I will. Thank you for letting me know. Consider this a favor I owe you.

Bystander (Hu Xia): Then I won't be polite. I'll find a chance to make you pay.

After finishing his communication with Hu Xia, Xia Yan immediately began to set up the defenses of the Holy Grail front.

Originally, he intended to leave Cú Chulainn Alter, Musashi, Ibuki, and Ereshkigal behind, and take Morgan and Tiamat into the Trial with him. However, based on Husha and Damian's descriptions, the pressure of the Holy Grail War would be much greater than he had originally imagined, and he had to leave one of them behind to keep things under control.

Ring ring ring!

The telephone on the gate rang, indicating that the front lines of the Holy Grail War were under attack.

This time, Xia Yan answered the phone himself.

Cú Chulainn's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Quickly, call everyone over! This time, the enemies are as numerous as locusts!"

Xia Yan immediately gathered all the Servants in the safe house except for Miss Crane and the injured Nero, and they rushed to the front line together.

When they arrived at the stronghold, they saw a densely packed army of Servants, a dark mass like a storm cloud.

"Tch, just some inferior goods."

Morgan casually unleashed several laser beams, destroying more than a dozen clone Servants, but for the nearly ten thousand and ever-growing army of clone Servants, it was completely insignificant.

"Mommy, use the magic weapon!"

Tiamat immediately transformed into a dragon and unleashed a barrage of light cannons, instantly wiping out all the enemies within sight.

Although using Tiamat's Noble Phantasm to attack these clones that aren't even proper Servants is like using a cannon to kill a mosquito, Xia Yan actually had the purpose of testing the speed of these Servant armies' advance and their replication efficiency.

Sure enough, less than ten seconds after Tiamat's Noble Phantasm swept the battlefield clean, a new copy of the Servant appeared on the battlefield.

Looking at the army of cloned Servants, Xia Yan realized that this was not a problem that could be solved simply by fighting head-on.

"Morgan, build two high mountains in front of us, and leave a passable valley between them."

Morgan immediately understood that Xia Yan was trying to emulate ancient military tactics, using confined terrain to gradually whittle down the enemy with minimal losses.

"Mom, you take the first baton."

"Okay, let's leave it to Mom."

Fortunately, none of these cloned Servants served as commanders. They did not think about tactics except for advancing and fighting. When the army encountered mountains, they all mindlessly plunged into narrow canyons.

Tiamat stood in the center of the canyon, like a warrior unleashing his full power, taking down one enemy with a single punch, and managing to block the army of cloned Servants.

However, the army was still too large. Just like a blocked sewer pipe causing water to overflow, the canyon was blocked by Tiamat, and the cloned Servants piled up at the entrance of the canyon.

As time went on, these clones gradually moved upwards, attempting to climb to the top of the two mountains.

Before Xia Yan could even speak, countless rocks and laser cannon fire rained down from the two mountain peaks. Clearly, these were traps that Morgan had prepared in advance.

"Honey, well done!"

Xia Yan gave Morgan a thumbs up.

"Now that I've received quite a bit of magic power, I should make good use of it. I'll ask you for more when I feel I need more."

"Ahem...ahem...well, I'd like to check out the situation over there in the canyon."

Morgan, who had teased Xia Yan for a moment, immediately returned to a serious expression and projected the scene on the other side of the canyon in front of Xia Yan.

A large number of cloned Servants were reduced to dust and disappeared, but the Servants behind them continued to advance relentlessly.

"These locusts climb faster than the recharge rate of the Autonomous Counterattack spell."

Morgan felt he was losing face and wanted to fly directly to the other side of the canyon to "repel the insects," but Xia Yan stopped him.

"Ibuki, Ereshkigal, thank you for your help."

"No need to be so polite."

"Exactly, exactly. Xia Yan, sometimes you're too polite, which makes us seem distant."

After the two flew into the canyon, Euryale, hands on her hips, asked somewhat disgruntledly, "Xia Yan, what about me? When are I going to be sent on?"

"Don't worry, your chance to shine will come soon."

After calming down Euryale, who was eager to show off, Xia Yan took out his phone and quickly shared the information he had obtained from Damian about the patterns of the Holy Grail War yesterday and the situation of his attack today in the Lighthouse group. The group immediately erupted in discussion.

Lord Fengxian is invincible (Diao Yunshang): Xia Yan, are you alright?

Linghu Shi: Is there anything we can do to help?

The two new female members immediately expressed their concern.

Daily updates of 30,000 words (Feng Yan): Don't worry, based on my understanding of Xia Yan, he wouldn't say it in the group if things were out of control.

No reply means he's busy making soup (Lan Muyan): Hmm, I agree with Feng Yan's opinion. Xia Yan should be able to hold on for now.

Although Feng Yan and Lan Muyan usually act like they're doing a comedy routine, when it comes to serious matters, their judgment of Xia Yan is more accurate than that of the two new female members.

No reply means I'm making soup (Lan Muyan): By the way, don't you guys think this attack is a bit strange?

Lord Fengxian is invincible (Diao Yunshang): What do you mean? Isn't this someone targeting Xia Yan?

Linghu Shi: That's right, this is targeting Xia Yan. But the problem is, this kind of attack has never appeared before; it doesn't seem like BB's behavior. But if it's another Master, how could that person have the ability to replicate a large number of Servants?

No reply means they're making soup (Lan Muyan): Maybe it's because they're relying on the servant's abilities?

Linghu Shi: That would require a lot of magic power to support it; it's definitely not something that can be done by just one person's small source.

30,000 words a day (Feng Yan): Instead of speculating here, you should all check the coordinates of your own safe houses. Is there one that is relatively close to Xia Yan? If so, you can go and help Xia Yan.