I'm really not a top magician

So I can really feel that I am needed,

Able to put aside worries and pride,

Fighting each other,

Rely on each other!

And, only in battle, I am always alone,

Can be liberated from all kinds of shackles and face yourself honestly,

Only today, I don't need to play myself,

That's right,

I am just so weak.

So weak, but this is the real me!

Weber looked up at the morning glow.

He vowed to fight Sha Tiao with all his might.

This is not for the qualification of being a Sajo Aika, nor for the dignity lost in the past.

Just to prove,

He is so weak,

Here, you can also have a beautiful dream with rider.

He can also prove here,

Even someone as weak as me is qualified to fight!

ps: The Weber I created is somewhat different from the original. If you are a fan of the original, please forgive me for this.

PS: Accepting one's own incompetence often requires more courage. This is also what I first wanted the character Weber to understand.

As I write this, I can't help but cry a little, because I feel like this Weber is just like any ordinary person like us.

Chapter 275 The Location of the Decisive Battle

Maybe there have been too many strange things happening recently.

So much so that the weather in Fuyuki City was a bit abnormal today.

The seasonal north wind has unusually not appeared for several days.

And it's obviously approaching winter,

The sun was as hot as in summer, which surprised Emiya Kiritsugu.

Even the weather forecast experts on TV are puzzled by the recent weather in Fuyuki.

The best explanation they could come up with was the El Niño phenomenon caused by global warming.

Simply put, it is abnormal climate.

If we look at the climate anomalies that have occurred so far, they should appear in one area.

But the situation in Fuyuki City is completely different.

Judging from the satellite cloud map, this kind of abnormal phenomenon only occurs in Fuyuki City.

all in all,

Experts cannot even convince themselves of this phenomenon when they try to explain it.

Such reports gave the citizens of Fuyuki City a strange premonition.

Plus the recent series of strange things:

A series of gas leaks, brutal hunting murders, and missing children.

And the most recent and even stranger closed-room murder case.

Due to the occurrence of these mysterious cases, the curfew in Fuyuki City cannot be lifted.

Moreover, just the day before yesterday, an industrial wastewater disaster occurred in the Mion River. However, some onlookers even claimed to have seen a monster.

In short, the recent series of strange events have been constantly making people's fragile nerves jump, making people who are already insecure feel even more as if something big is about to happen.

But Emiya Kiritsugu understood.

The end to which these things lead,

It's the big battle tomorrow night.

His enemies,

Sandbar love song!

The scorching sun gradually changes the angle of the shadow,

Emiya Kiritsugu sat in the shade of a tree, staring around without any sleepiness.

It had been more than forty hours since his last sleep, and he was still on edge.

In a crisis situation, find an opportunity to take a nap and be fully prepared to deal with emergencies. This is the experience of combat experts.

Since the barrier has been set up in advance, anyone who approaches will wake up immediately.

While remaining on standby, it is possible to switch your consciousness to a light sleep state within a few minutes to relieve the accumulated fatigue.

But the current Emiya Kiritsugu has no such conventional ideas at all. Whether it is to remove emotions, maintain the best condition, or persist at the cost of hurting his own physical limits,

These actions are all preparations made by Emiya Kiritsugu to face the decisive battle tomorrow.

But can these preparations actually cause any harm to the invincible Aika Shajo?

This is the unknown.

However, facing the unknown future, Emiya Kiritsugu can only do his best.

Kiritsugu is currently at the foot of Mount Enzo, west of Fuyuki City's Miyama Town.

Last night, Emiya Kiritsugu confirmed the news of Zouken Matou's death at the Matou residence, and that Tohsaka Tokiomi officially joined forces with the Rider faction and declared war on Sajo Aika's faction.

To seize the Holy Grail.

Although Emiya Kiritsugu considered the possibility of a sneak attack on Aika Sajo and initially planned to use a long-range rifle attack, Aika Sajo seemed to have noticed this from the beginning. She used the weather magic she produced to set up a mysterious wind barrier around her. Anything that wanted to approach her would be attacked by this barrier.

Although the wind barrier wasn't particularly strong, and could be penetrated by firearms with high recoil, its greatest strength lay in its vast range. Even if someone managed to penetrate it and strike Satsuki Aika, the attack would be deflected by the wind, preventing a fatal blow.

For a master like Aika Sajo, the battle is just a matter of seconds.

With just a split second of reaction, she could kill herself.

And there are also Sajo Aika's followers and the great magician "Merlin"

In view of the above situation, Emiya Kiritsugu had to give up his idea of a sneak attack.

However, after confirming that Sajo Aika's target was Irisviel, Emiya Kiritsugu immediately hid Irisviel and specifically ordered Saber to protect her.

After arranging all these and having no more worries, Emiya Kiritsugu completely gave up the idea of protecting Irisviel.

Because, compared to his weaker aptitude for protection, Emiya Kiritsugu was better at assassination. If he continued to focus on protecting Irisviel, he would be more likely to fall into the enemy's trap by being the last one to act.

After fighting for the past few days, Kiritsugu Emiya knew very well that Sajo Aika was a person with a strong desire for control, and this kind of person did not want time to be out of their control.

Therefore, in order to seize the opportunity to win, Emiya Kiritsugu must turn the passive into the active, and cannot be a husband who only thinks about his wife.

To become a Master in pursuit of the Holy Grail,

A warrior pursuing victory!

Only with this change in thinking and strategy can Emiya Kiritsugu possibly defeat Sajo Aika.

Since Aika Sajo has not yet obtained the Lesser Holy Grail (Irisviel), Aika Sajo has chosen to speed up the Holy Grail War, that is, to have the final battle tomorrow.

The targets of the final battle are Rider and Archer.

therefore,

As a third party, Kiritsugu Emiya could have taken advantage of this opportunity to launch a surprise attack on Aika Sajo.

After making such plans, Emiya Kiritsugu decided to start from the expected location of the final battle and begin setting traps in advance.

On the surface, the Holy Grail War took on the form of a war of survival, but as the battle progressed, it gradually became a siege.

Controlling and protecting a place suitable for the Holy Grail to descend is the best way to win.

And in Fuyuki,

There are four places with spirits suitable for summoning the Holy Grail.

First up is Mount Enzo, home to the massive natural cave known as the Dragon Cave. The Greater Holy Grail is housed there, a secret altar known only to the Three Great Families. For 180 years, this has been the ideal location.

Over the past few days, Emiya Kiritsugu has been wandering around here.

Strangely enough,

This place is surrounded by a mysterious barrier. At first, Emiya Kiritsugu thought that this was a barrier set up by Sajo Aika to monopolize the Holy Grail.

However, after observing for a few days, Emiya Kiritsugu discovered that the structure of this barrier was completely different from the barrier set up by Sajo Aika near the base.

Therefore, Emiya Kiritsugu concluded that this barrier was set up by another force.

But who is it?

The truth about Emiya Kiritsugu is unknown.

However, there are a few things that Emiya Kiritsugu can determine.

Firstly, since this force has occupied Mount Enzo, the location of the Holy Grail, from the very beginning and has set up a barrier that is no weaker than that of Aika Sajo, it means that this force is also interested in the Holy Grail War.

Secondly, this additional force has not intervened in the Holy Grail War so far, and if it is interested in the Holy Grail War, then its purpose should be to reap the benefits.

Since this was his goal, Emiya Kiritsugu also planned to take advantage of the situation and use this extra strength to strike and distract Sajo Aika, thus increasing the chances for his own surprise attack.

Furthermore, Emiya Kiritsugu also excluded the decisive battle site from this place.

The second place is the Tohsaka residence.

The Tōsaka family, the land provider, had the primary right to occupy the best spiritual vein as their base. However, the magical power overflowing Mount Enzo was too powerful, making it too dangerous to train the next generation of sorcerers. Therefore, they chose to base their city on the second-best spiritual vein, which is now the Tōsaka residence. Although it is slightly lacking in spiritual power for the Holy Grail, it is still powerful enough to support the Holy Grail's arrival.

The third spiritual vein was given to the relocated Matou family, but the spiritual energy there was not compatible with the Matou clan's attributes. Therefore, the Matou residence was built elsewhere, and the original spiritual vein was occupied by the later intervention of the Holy Church. This is the hill where the Fuyuki Church now stands. Although it is far away from Enzoyama, located on the other side of the river in the suburbs of Shinto, its spiritual power is comparable to that of the first and second places.

The fourth spiritual vein did not previously exist in this land. Instead, it was formed by the magical manipulation of the three major spiritual veins, which accumulated and concentrated at a single point over a hundred years. This is the later-developed spiritual site. Subsequent investigations confirmed that the site contained sufficient spiritual power for rituals, and since the beginning of the Third Holy Grail War, it has been designated as a candidate site. Currently, it is located in the heart of a new residential area, and the crux of the matter lies in the construction of the Shinshin Civic Hall.

If the Holy Grail War is to be ended immediately, then Aika Sajo must complete the ritual in one of these four locations.

If you can set traps and ambushes in advance, you will have enough chances to turn the tables.

After ruling out the first possibility, the remaining possibilities are among these three locations.

Soon, Emiya Kiritsugu eliminated the spiritual veins of the Tōsaka residence and the Matou residence.

Let's first talk about the spiritual vein of the Tosaka Mansion.

The opponents of Sajo Aika's final battle this time are Archer and Rider.

But the main target is still Archer.

The Tohsaka Mansion is the headquarters of the Tohsaka family. Although the Tohsaka Mansion has its own magic field, Archer is not a Caster after all, so the advantage gained from this magic field will not be very great.

Therefore, if you fight in the base, the improvement in strength will not be very great. In fact, the actual situation may be completely the opposite. If many heroes fight here, the base of the Tōsaka family may be completely destroyed.

This kind of unpleasant behavior is obviously not a decision that a calculating person like Tōsaka Tokiomi would make.

Therefore, Tōsaka Tokiomi himself would try his best to avoid fighting near his own residence.

Therefore, the spiritual vein of the Tohsaka residence is also ruled out.

The same is true for the Matou family's spiritual vein.

Although Matou Zouken was killed by Sajo Aika, the master of the Matou family, Matou Kariya, was clearly an ally of Sajo Aika.

Therefore, Aika Sajo naturally would not have a decisive battle at the residence of her own ally.

Such a betrayal would never be done by Aika Sajo.

Emiya Kiritsugu fully believed this.

But Kiritsugu Emiya also had to admire Aika Sajo's character.

So judging from this, the most likely place for the decisive battle should be the fourth spiritual vein.