To become a king and a magician

"Another method?"

Mash frowned slightly upon hearing Sajou Rei's words.

"Are there any other ways to reach a singularity besides spirit particle transfer?"

“Yes, there is, but it’s a bit complicated. To put it simply, it ran over.” Sajou Rei explained, “The specific principle is a bit complicated to explain, and the method was also stolen from a dream demon. In short, it ran over.”

"After arriving here, I came here as my master requested, to await your arrival and that of my master."

The master's arrival?

Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately asked, "Is the captain coming too? Is he also running?"

"That's right. [It's fine to let newcomers get some experience, but for such an important first time, we must make full safety preparations. As the department head, I have a responsibility to ensure the safety of my subordinates.] — That's what Master thinks."

"Judging by the time, it should be about time."

Buzz——————!

Almost the instant Sajou Rei finished speaking, a bright light suddenly shone in the center of the room, and then Natsukawa Tora stepped out from inside, landing right in front of Sajou Rei.

Sajou Rei stood up, smiled, and bowed.

"Welcome, Master. You must be tired from your journey."

13. Sajou Rei's magic power is insufficient.

Stepping out from the light screen, Natsukawa Tora looked around at the group of people and breathed a slight sigh of relief: "It seems everyone is alright. On the way here, I was worried about what would happen if you encountered Servants on the way."

"Hmph! So what if we run into each other? They can't possibly wipe us all out."

Hinako Akuta snorted coldly.

"Even without me, Mashu should be able to wipe out all the Servants in this singularity, right? No, to be precise, it should be that stinky knight inside her."

"This was just in case. I'm truly grateful to you, Akuta-senpai, for protecting Fujimaru, Mash, and Olga along the way."

Speaking of which, Natsukawa Torara turned to look at Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu: "You two have also worked hard. Mashu has conducted simulation experiments, so it's alright. Fujimaru, how are you feeling now? Were you scared again when you encountered this situation right away?"

"I was quite startled at first, but now... I'm not so nervous anymore," Fujimaru Ritsuka said with a hint of helplessness. "I guess I've just been bombarded with too much shocking information, and I feel a bit numb."

"You'll get used to it. You'll probably encounter even more shocking information in the future, so you can't be so easily startled every time—by the way, what's wrong with Olga? Is she asleep?"

Natsukawa Tora's gaze fell on the unconscious Olga Marie.

Could it be that she fell asleep because she was too tired from exercising at a high intensity in a short period of time? That shouldn't be the case. Xia Chuanhu makes sure she does physical training every week, and the self-defense lessons weren't taught for nothing. This level of exercise shouldn't have made her this tired.

“I made Mary fall asleep first, Master,” Sajou Rei explained. “Because I accidentally said something unnecessary, Mary was too shy and her mind was a little unstable, so I used a sleep spell on her.”

"I see. Well, there's nothing we can do about that then."

Natsukawa Torara readily accepted Sajou Rei's explanation: "Then let's begin the report, Rei. I already know about Fujimaru and the others' situation, but you must have done some on-site investigation after you arrived here, right? Explain your findings to me."

Yes. Then please look this way.

Sajou Rei stretched out her arm and conjured a screen of light out of thin air. The scene displayed on it was Fuyuki City, which was currently burning. Judging from the angle, it should be a bird's-eye view detected from a very high altitude.

"This is an aerial map of Fuyuki City captured in real time from a height of 500 meters by the swarm of familiars I released."

"After arriving here, I spent an hour conducting a general survey of the entire city of Fuyuki, and I can confirm that, as we know, a Holy Grail War is taking place in Fuyuki."

"But what happened here was not the Holy Grail War of ten years ago. During my investigation, I encountered several Servants, all of whom were different from those of ten years ago. Moreover, their appearances were not normal; they were closer to inverted forms and harbored strong hostility towards outsiders like me."

As she spoke, Sajou Rei marked seven points on the map and labeled them with the classes of the seven Servants.

"According to my detection results, there are indeed seven Servants in Fuyuki City. I encountered four of them: Rider, Lancer, Assassin, and Berserker. I have now eliminated them all."

"Of the remaining three riders, I didn't encounter Caster, I only had a long-distance battle with Archer, and as for Saber, her location is confirmed to be inside Mount Enzou, but I haven't gone to survey it yet."

"The above is a general overview of Singularity F."

After hearing Sajou Rei's report, Akuta Hinako couldn't help but snort coldly: "I see. No wonder we didn't encounter a single hostile Servant on the way here. So you took care of them all. Why don't you just go and take care of the rest as well?"

"I simply decided to remain on standby after considering various factors. Besides, the task my master gave me was not to resolve the singularity, but to wait here for your arrival. I will not do anything against my master's wishes."

Sajou Rei smiled and said, "Of course, there is also a problem with mana reserves. Berserker's servant is the great Greek hero Hercules. In order to defeat him, the mana consumed was slightly more than expected. Staying here is also to ensure that the subsequent arrangements will not have problems due to insufficient mana."

Not enough magic?

Xia Chuanhu's face paled involuntarily, and he instinctively covered his waist with his hand.

Seeing his sudden action, Mashu couldn't help but wonder, "Brother, are you feeling unwell? You look a little pale."

"It's nothing, I just felt a chill down my back. Someone must have been talking about me." Xia Chuanhu waved his hand. "More importantly, since Lingyi has already taken care of most of things here, and I'm here now, let's hurry up and finish the rest."

"The rest... is about going into Mount Enzo to defeat Saber, right?" Mash asked.

"Yes, but before that—Mash, is Galahad, the one inside you... no longer there?"

Galahad.

Upon hearing Natsukawa Torata mention this name, Mashu nodded slightly: "Yes, after saving my senior with my body and watching him reunite with Miss Akuta, Mr. Galahad left his Spirit Origin and Noble Phantasm to me and then dissipated on his own."

"I see. He really did leave cleanly and efficiently, which is certainly his style."

Galahad, the Knight of the Round Table seated at the throne of calamity, son of Lancelot.

A perfect knight, hailed as the boy who carried the next Round Table. One of the knights sent by King Arthur to find the Holy Grail, and the only one to find it. Afterwards, he returned the Grail to heaven along with himself.

Four years ago, he was summoned as Chaldea's Prototype Heroic Spirit No. 2 and the subject of the Demi-Servant experiment, possessing Mash's body.

However, after learning the whole story of how he was summoned, Galahad, dissatisfied with Chaldea's schemes and the inhumane experiments they conducted on Mash, not only refused to appear in the real world but also tried to destroy Chaldea. He was eventually stopped by Natsukawa Torara and Artoria, who were there to keep order.

Of course, in reality, only Artoria was stopping him. Natsukawa Tora mainly provided a place for the two of them to fight, so that even if the two of them fought, it would not affect the outside world.

In fact, the two did fight.

Galahad was puzzled as to why Artoria would allow Chaldea's actions. After all, she was a noble knight-king who hated evil more than anyone else. If her king condoned this inhumane behavior, then as a Knight of the Round Table, Galahad felt obligated to correct her king's thinking.

The battle between the two took place in a fictional town created by Natsukawa Torama through the materialization of his imagination. During the battle, unlike Mash, Galahad truly displayed the full power of the shield in his hand, even using a shield parry that Natsukawa Torama had only heard of in the game's lore.

After reducing most of the fake town to ruins, Galahad was undoubtedly defeated because Artoria possessed the invincible scabbard Avalon.

Finally, after listening to Natsukawa Torato recount the entire story, Galahad entered into a contract with Natsukawa Torato and Artoria.

[In the future, for one time only, I hope you can help Mash]—that's the content of the contract. That's why Galahad saved Fujimaru Ritsuka at that time and gave his Spirit Origin and Noble Phantasm to Mash.

"Mr. Galahad said that even now he still does not condone Chaldea's past actions, but now that humanity is facing a major crisis, he is willing to contribute all his strength. In addition, he hopes that I can apologize to Miss Artoria on his behalf for not being able to say goodbye to the King in person before leaving."

"I understand. I'll take you to see Lia later. But that'll be after we get back. For now—"

Before Xia Chuanhu could finish speaking, the ceiling above everyone's heads collapsed without warning.

14. A kick that ushered in a sweltering summer

The residential area outside the houses.

On a rooftop.

Looking at the house that had been completely destroyed by his shots, Archer put down his black longbow: "That should be enough, right? It really took me a long time to chase them, they ran quite a distance."

[Exclude all outsiders from entering this city]

This was the instruction given to him by Saber, who was now located in Mount Enzo. Although the first attack failed due to the defense of that Shield Servant, fortunately, these outsiders caused quite a commotion during their movement afterward.

Flying rocks and skeletons scattered everywhere—after following these remaining clues, Archer finally located the house where Natsukawa Tora and the others were, and immediately launched a carpet bombing raid.

He destroys the projected Noble Phantasm and instantly amplifies its power by detonating it. This is a unique technique called Illusion Collapse, which only Archer can use; no mere human could possibly survive an impact of that intensity.

"That leaves Caster. If we leave him alone, he'll come looking for us."

Once Caster is defeated and eliminated, Saber will undoubtedly be the one to win the Holy Grail War. Although it is a Holy Grail War that has long been distorted, it is good to have only this one time. At least let her get the Holy Grail once.

That's what Archer thought.

However, just as he put away the black bow and prepared to transform into spirit form and leave the spot—

"Thump—!"

The entire earth trembled violently, the earthquake-like shaking causing Archer to quickly crouch down to steady himself. But before he could even investigate the cause of such a violent tremor, he saw something in the direction of the house he had just bombarded...

"Snap!"

As if cleaved by an extremely large sword, a huge crack suddenly spread rapidly toward his location. On both sides of the crack, due to the enormous impact, a large number of sharp rocks protruded from the sides!

As the crack extended, Archer's instincts, which had saved him countless times, made him immediately aware of the approaching danger—an impact powerful enough to tear him apart was rapidly closing in on him!

Without any hesitation, Archer stretched out his hands in front of him and activated his projection magic at full power, instantly unfolding a semi-transparent light barrier with five petals!

Then, as the next moment arrived—

"Bang------------!"

The sound was so loud it almost shattered my eardrums.

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"It must have been blocked."

At the end of the crack on the other side, or where the crack begins to spread.

Standing amidst a pile of rubble, Natsukawa Tora gazed into the distance and said this.

Meanwhile, witnessing the spectacular scene before them, apart from Sajou Rei, who already knew Natsukawa Torato's true strength, and Olga Marie who was still unconscious, Akuta Hinako, Fujimaru Ritsuka, and Mashu were all dumbfounded.

"Minister, Minister, Minister, Minister, Minister, Minister, you, you, you, you, you, you..."

After stammering for a while, Fujimaru Ritsuka took a couple of breaths, then suddenly exclaimed in a loud voice, "Captain, you're so scary!!!"

"I thought you were going to say I'm amazing."

"Impressive, I know! But this is more terrifying than impressive! Minister, you created this scene with just one stomp! Are you even human?! Even Akuta-senpai isn't this powerful!"

"Tsk, I feel like I'm being underestimated... but I have to admit it." Hinako Akuta glanced at Torata Natsukawa. "We're both monsters, but even among monsters, you're a monster of monster level."

Natsukawa Tora smiled slightly: "It's not as amazing as you say. I definitely couldn't do this with my own body alone. It's basically the result of magic. It's indeed very impressive in terms of visual effect, but it's basically useless."

Summoning Magic: Earth Spirit.

The entity that caused the earth-shattering scene just now was this one. With Xia Chuanhu's own physical abilities, at most he could only stomp out a pit tens of meters in diameter and depth in this residential area with one stomp, far from being able to stomp out a huge crack that spreads for hundreds of meters.

But even so, it's surprising enough.

At least for Fujimaru Ritsuka, an ordinary person, and Mash, who had only recently gained her Servant powers, the power Natsukawa Torato displayed was on a completely different level.