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Immediately afterwards, light golden lightning appeared and exploded in the void, and a winding, slender figure emerged from the void behind Xia Yan, then soared into the sky.

Then, a long dragon roar resounded in all directions.

The sky and the earth change color.

"Naga... no, is it a dragon from Cathay?"

Karna showed a look of surprise, looking up in amazement at the mythical fantasy species that flew up into the sky, bathed in countless golden lightnings. After the end of the Age of Gods in this world, it should be impossible to see it again. Amid the echoing dragon roar, it opened its mouth and held a lightning sword that was condensed from thunder and was as long as its body.

At the same time, he who possessed divinity could also feel that the dragon sword condensed from lightning was definitely not just lightning. Under the cover of the golden lightning, there was also some kind of essence that occupied a very high status and priority in the "mysterious" rules.

That is a force that can definitely break through the defense of the Sun Wheel Armor.

"Ah, if this is a grand way to exit, and being sent out by a mythical fantasy species from Zhendan, then..."

The words are not finished yet.

The dragon holding the thunder blade in its mouth was already circling and swooping down.

Thousands of lightning flashes follow.

Thunder shook the world.

Dragon sword, cut down.

boom--!

The dragon sword, with lightning as its external appearance and time and space as its core, swept through Karna's original position with a devastating force in a dazzling golden light, engulfing the hero who took the initiative to take off his armor and calmly chose to face defeat.

Second copy: 49. System, let me see your limit (4k+)

When countless zombie soldiers, in coordination with infantry and tanks, successfully broke into the wide-open Yogdomirenia Castle.

The war has come to an end.

Even in the crumbling castle, there is still a small group of androids who luckily did not die in the self-explosion of the Red Berserker Servant Spartacus. They hold heavy cold weapons strengthened by magic and use magic to strengthen their bodies, and carry out the order to fight to the death and resist stubbornly.

In addition, a large number of mass-produced clay golems created by the Black Sorcerer Servant Avisbronn were activated, causing a series of brutal positional battles to take place inside the Yogdomirenya Castle.

But in the end it didn't last long.

The NC zombie soldiers that attacked the castle seemed to have extensive experience in positional warfare. No matter how Yogdomileni's androids and clay golems tried to use the corridors, stairs, and secret passages in the building, they were still slaughtered unilaterally.

So much so that after Danic and other Yogdomirenian masters escaped from underground with the help of Avisbronn's Clay Golem, Achilles, the Red Knight Servant, who was too lazy to take action because there were no enemies of interest, was amazed when he saw it.

The demigod hero from the last glorious period of the ancient Greek Age of Gods, who shone brightly in the early stages of the Trojan War, was a little puzzled as to how these zombie soldiers could be so 'elite'.

In the enemy position of Yugdomilenia Castle, the androids can easily handle attacks from any blind spot or secret passage.

After watching for a while, the only conclusion Achilles could draw was that this group of NC zombie soldiers who attacked the castle might have participated in a more massive, more brutal, and longer-lasting positional battle in their 'previous life'.

Therefore, compared with the wars these soldiers had experienced in their 'lives', the positional battle inside the Yogdomileni Castle was not difficult for them at all.

"These armies of the dead from Hades, if we don't take into account the difference in physical fitness brought about by the high concentration of ether in the Age of Gods, are far more elite than the professional soldiers of the Greek coalition assembled by Menelaos and Agamemnon..."

Achilles touched his chin, and after comparing them in his mind, he had to admit that compared to these zombie soldiers who were said to be active in this era decades ago, the professional soldiers of the ancient Greek coalition he led in the Trojan War were just a group of bandits with no discipline and no quality.

Even the professional soldiers of the Age of Gods were not much better than these zombie soldiers in terms of physical fitness, even when immersed in a high-concentration ether environment. If the Greek coalition soldiers of the Age of Gods were on a scale of ten, they would still have a chance to win, but if it increased to a scale of a hundred, with the same number, without a hero with divine blood to support them, they would have no chance at all.

"...As expected, they conquered almost all of Europe a few decades ago, and they still have an army that covers almost half the world."

Achilles sighed again and again.

At the same time, he was also sincerely disappointed with the Master and Servants of Yugdomirenia who fled decisively when the situation was hopeless.

After all, without an enemy that was strong enough and resisted stubbornly to the end, even if he led (one-sided thinking) this elite army to capture the enemy city-state in one fell swoop, he would not be able to gain any glory or achievement.

"A bunch of cowards who are no better than the Trojans, bah."

Thinking of this, Achilles spat on the ground, expressing his disdain for the fleeing Master and Servant of Euglena.

However, the demigod hero of the Trojan War did not know that the gap between the military and combat skills of the zombie soldiers who attacked the castle of Eugedomreni and the Greek coalition soldiers in his lifetime might be greater than that between humans and dogs.

Because they were called back from hell by the treasure of a certain German youth, all of them, without exception, had participated in a battle in which the casualties of soldiers alone exceeded two million, with a total of more than five million troops involved, which is known as the bloodiest battle in modern history.

The elite of the elite is no longer enough to describe this group of zombie soldiers.

This was also the reason why the German youth deliberately selected Danik, the former "debtor", to kill him.

It's a pity that the fist hit cotton.

The German youth, who was constantly watching the changes on the battlefield through the eyes of the zombie soldiers and was always ready to perform some micro-manipulations such as "ordering the machine gun to move 50 meters to the right", was also disappointed and secretly annoyed with the Master and Servant of Eugene Domirenia.

Fortunately, the resistance in the castle was completely crushed by the hail of bullets and the roar of tank shelling.

Soon, the zombie soldiers who successfully occupied the Yugdomirenia Castle conveyed the good news.

They found an underground chamber in the castle that was used to house and study the Holy Grail.

The Greater Holy Grail, the final prize of the Romania/Tulipas Holy Grail War, had actually been taken by the Red Faction through a speedrun on the first night of the official war.

"A boring victory."

In response, Achilles looked away with disdain as he saw an inverted swastika rising on the castle's spire.

next second.

"Ok?"

The ancient Greek demigod hero suddenly turned his head and cast his gaze in another direction, his eyes reflecting the sudden change in the celestial phenomenon in the distance.

then.

Roar.

A long dragon roar, accompanied by bursts of dull thunder, echoed in the nearby mountains and forests for a long time.

"Dragon? In this era, there are still fantasy creatures of this level?!"

Achilles grinned, then summoned his own treasure [Undead Chariot of Raging Winds and Waves], jumped onto the silver chariot pulled by three divine horses, and was about to gallop towards the direction where the dragon's roar came from.

"That's so… wait, what did you say, Master?"

But just as he had driven his chariot and galloped into the sky chasing the lightning, a message from the contract brought him bad news.

"Lancer on our side died? How is that possible?"

Achilles' eyes widened in surprise and disbelief, followed by an angry roar.

"What did you say? You want me and Archer to guard the castle together and protect the Greater Holy Grail, and not go out... What a joke!"

"I don't know how Lancer died on our side. That guy is not someone who can be easily dismissed. Even if he died in battle, the enemy will definitely not have an easy time. If they chase him—uh~!"

Achilles suddenly uttered a muffled groan. The mandatory order from a Command Spell extinguished the fighting spirit and will in his heart at this moment.

After struggling for a while, the demigod hero finally succumbed to the forced order of the Command Seal and could only reluctantly land his chariot. He picked up Ta'meow, who had also received the Master's order to withdraw from outside, and returned to the Yogdomilenia Castle.

……

At the same time.

In a hidden room in an Orthodox church.

The young priest stood expressionlessly in front of a wine table, looking at the men and women sitting side by side behind the table. He watched as two of them, like puppets controlled by strings, raised the backs of their hands engraved with Command Seals and issued orders in a dreamlike voice. The Command Seal on the back of one of their hands disappeared immediately. The slight joy that had arisen in his heart after capturing the Yogdomilenian Castle and taking control of the Holy Grail disappeared in an instant.

"Lancer, did you notice something?"

"Heh, you're out of the game now. As a Servant's soul, you've returned to the Greater Holy Grail. Even if I wanted to ask, I wouldn't get an answer... Lancer's Master, how did Lancer die in the end?"

"A dragon... a mythical Eastern dragon... biting a blade made of lightning... killed Lancer..."

A confused voice answered.

"Dragon? There's no way a fantasy creature of this level could exist in this era? Is this a Noble Phantasm of a Heroic Spirit?"

Hearing this, the priest frowned, and thought about the situation that was originally very favorable, which became confusing again after Karna's sudden withdrawal, and he suddenly felt a little anxious.

"Forget it. Now that the Greater Holy Grail is in our hands, Danic will definitely counterattack. Plus, Lancer already has most of the minimum Servant souls required to activate the Greater Holy Grail. If three more Heroic Spirits die, no, two more..."

The priest looked down at the pile of Command Seals carved all over his arms.

He made up his mind to defend the Greater Holy Grail until he reached Nico and regrouped to fight back. No matter whether the dead were the heroic spirits of the Thousand Worlds Tree or Achilles or Atalanta on his side, if two of them died, he would immediately use the Command Spell to make the German youth commit suicide.

By then, the minimum requirements for activating the Holy Grail will definitely have been met. He can then enter it and make a wish. Even if the Holy Grail is taken back, no one can stop the Holy Grail from pushing the wish to come true.

……

"Ah! So that's where it is, Master."

In the church's public prayer area, a young German man leaned back on a prayer chair, looking up at the cross above his head with a hideous smile on his face.

Beside him, several zombies dressed in officer uniforms, looking no different from ordinary NC zombie soldiers, and even summoned by him as staff officers not long ago to explain the strategic layout to the priest... were performing different magic tricks, presenting the actions of the young priest while... isolating and interfering with the monitoring methods left behind by a certain Assyrian empress who was preparing to deploy her own treasure and could not be too distracted.

"My naive Master, since you know that I once received support from magi during my lifetime, and you also know about the existence of the Willy Society... but who says that magi cannot appear as officers of the General Staff?"

"One more thing. At the time, Greater Germany was the world's leading science and technology country. Naturally, its application of occult technology was far superior to the Clock Tower, which played the boring feudal aristocratic political game with its own little treasures..."

"It was with our support that that thief, Danic, was able to win the Third Holy Grail War in the Far East and defeat the three great families of the Holy Grail War... From whom do you think did he get the relic that allowed him to summon Finn?"

"Soul-sentencing magic, do you think that our scientists and magicians in Greater Germany have never tried it, and that we really have no research on Servants?"

"What a ridiculous, pathetic, and fool."

After muttering to himself, the German youth looked up at the NC zombie officer beside him who was skilled in magic and had a decent level of skill. A dark red haze appeared in his eyes, and his shadow in the light began to distort. Two pairs of twisted sharp corners suddenly extended from the original humanoid outline.

"How is the empress now?"

The German youth did not speak again, but his voice had already sounded in the zombie officer's mind like heavenly sound.

"She's still unfolding her Noble Phantasm..."

"But the contamination of her spirit core is already underway, and so far everything has gone smoothly..."

"The magical black mud generated by your unique skill, [The Greatest Evil in Human History], was mixed into the materials she used to deploy her Noble Phantasm, and that ancient queen was completely unaware of the situation..."

"It is estimated that the moment she fully unfolds her Noble Phantasm and interacts with it through her own spirit core, the contamination will penetrate directly into the deepest part of her spirit base..."

"At that time, she will bend to the will of the NC, and to your will, great leader..."

'sehrgut (German).'

"Then, the next step is to gamble on whether our supreme, benevolent, omniscient, and almighty Lord of Hosts will still favor us."

The German youth clapped his hands with a smile on his face.

Then, his thoughts focused on one of his inherent skills - [War Maniac Favored by Misfortune].

That was a skill inherent in him, a skill that had been refined through his repeated success in making political and strategic gambles at the most critical moments of his life.

As long as it is not the end of the war, this skill will enable him to make adjustments to the success rate of any form of risk and gamble in all political and strategic games, which will be beneficial to his development.

That is:

'Because the Lord of Hosts is with me, haha.'

'His knights will be commanded by me.'

'I will bring the Apocalypse to the world.'

'I will ride on a red horse and will be given authority to take peace away from the earth and cause people to kill one another...'

……

……

The dragon sword slashed down.

The lightning gradually died down.

In the Romanian Holy Grail War, it was undoubtedly a truly exceptional level. Even within the F/A storyline, with the protagonist's halo constantly bursting with power and cheating, with the naive, love-brained Saint whistling a dirty whistle and paying the price, and teammates dropping gold coins before their deaths, and even former enemies turning against them at the last minute, it was like Sieg, whose luck was in his hands, but in the end, like a deus ex machina, he pulled out a sword treasure that Astolfo had transferred, and coincidentally pierced the soul core of Karna, who was defeated...

He left the Holy Grail War in a more deus ex machina-like development than the original plot.

But looking at the dragon hovering above him that had almost crushed him to death, Xia Yan glanced down and saw that the two golden wheels and earrings in his hands had not disappeared with Karna.

a long time.

"Inhibition, Alaya... hehe."

If nothing unexpected happens, he can use what Karna stripped off and gave it to him, but there will definitely be a time limit or limitation.

As for some things that Karna had not said before, after all, they could not be hidden from him, a time traveler with the advantage of foresight, especially after he realized that the butterfly effect that caused the change in the plot originally came from his entry into this "copy" world. It happened that at the moment when the Holy Grail was selecting the Master of the Red Camp in Romania, he happened to replace the qualifications of a Red Camp Master in the original work.

So, if we compare the subsequent changes with Sieg in the original plot, everything will become clear.

Sieg, the android who inexplicably awakened himself in the original plot, was inexplicably rewarded with Jeanne's love-brained cheating, Siegfried's voluntary heartfelt thanks, Astolfo's Master qualification to obtain the Command Seals, and the fragments of Frankenstein's mother's Noble Phantasm... All the gifts he received were ultimately for the purpose of creating the result that he transformed into the evil dragon Fafnir and voluntarily sacrificed himself to drag the Holy Grail into the inner sea of ​​the stars.