How come the Ace of Cups isn't considered the Holy Grail?

Mashu was clearly uncomfortable with interrupting other people's conversations. When she heard Siduri's question, her reaction was like that of a student who was daydreaming in class and was called on by the teacher. It was obvious how nervous she was.

"That guest is currently having dinner in the room arranged by the King. Please don't worry, I will take you there later."

Siduri smiled at Mash, and although half of her face was veiled and not clearly visible, the kindness was undoubtedly conveyed to Mash.

"And then? Did you find the Tablet of Destiny over there, Merlin?"

Gilgamesh put down the clay tablet in his hand and looked up at Merlin, who was grinning from ear to ear.

Unfortunately, Merlin could only shake his head regretfully when faced with this question.

"No, we came up empty-handed over there too. The thing isn't in the forest to the west either."

As he spoke, Merlin complained to Gilgamesh in a somewhat helpless tone.

"Honestly, if Your Majesty remembered where you put the clay tablet, I wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble."

"That's very disrespectful. Please shut up."

Siduri offered a mild remonstrance, seemingly already quite used to such things.

"Alright, Siduri, take them to the house that has been arranged."

Gilgamesh, not wanting to see this useless nightmare any longer, waved his hand dismissively and told Siduri to take them to find Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Yes, everyone, please follow me..."

Siduli led the group to their assigned housing.

When the group finally met Fujimaru Ritsuka, they saw her facing a table laden with delicious food, looking like she wanted to eat but didn't want to eat alone.

Upon seeing Siduri leading Yudo and the others over, Fujimaru Ritsuka, finally free from further restraint, immediately invited everyone to sit down.

Yuuto hesitated for a moment when he saw Fujimaru Ritsuka, whose eyes were practically glowing with hunger. Worried that she might start eating too fast and then grab him and start gnawing on him, he chose to sit in the seat furthest away from her.

Fortunately, what Yuwatari feared did not happen. Despite being hungry, Fujimaru Ritsuka remained rational.

After a hearty meal, the group, feeling sleepy, went back to their rooms. Only Yuuto, a night owl who was used to staying up late, and Merlin, the nightmare demon, showed no signs of going to sleep.

Merlin planned to invite Yuto to the rooftop to enjoy the moon and drink ale, but Yuto's thoughts drifted to the corpses of the dead monsters on the battlefield.

The magical beasts of the Age of Gods... must have many parts that can be used as materials to forge, right?

For example, things like fetal hair, blood, dragon scales, etc., which are believed to be the origin of something...

However, compared to dragons, most of the monsters in Warcraft Frontier seem to be beast-like species.

This might allow us to obtain a lot of materials that can be used to craft cards related to the Beast race and Beast Warrior race.

Even if a significant portion of such a large battlefront cannot be recovered, the amount of materials obtainable from the remaining small portion is definitely not to be underestimated.

The more Yuuto thought about it, the more tempted he became. He declined Merlin's invitation to drink ale and admire the moon, and returned to the Divine Tower to find Gilgamesh.

"Materials from magical beasts?"

Gilgamesh continued to look at the clay tablet in his hand, then looked up at Yudu without asking what he was going to do. He simply said that he would have someone deliver it to him tomorrow before lowering his head to continue handling official business.

Seeing that he looked ready to work through the night without sleep, You Du kindly reminded him before leaving.

"If you keep pushing yourself like this, you might die from overwork..."

"Ha, laughable, a mere case of death from overwork... Siduri, put these unfinished clay tablets aside, I need to take a short rest!"

……

The next day, Yuwatari arrived at a place that looked like a warehouse, led by a soldier. Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others, who were curious about what he was going to do, followed behind.

Merlin was called away by Gilgamesh and didn't come along, but he has those all-seeing eyes that can see the entire world, so even if he didn't come, he can still see it...

"I'm sorry, there are too many materials to take them all."

The soldier opened the warehouse door, revealing a mountain of various materials that caught everyone's eye. Even Anna couldn't help but widen her eyes in astonishment.

"Please feel free to take whatever you need."

Looking at the densely packed B-grade and A-grade materials displayed, You Du was momentarily at a loss as to where to begin.

He had no choice but to let the soldiers leave for the time being, and then he could choose at his own pace.

Chapter Sixty-Four. Quetzalcoatl: Hey! I've got it!

"Mr. Yudou, what are you going to do with these materials?"

After the soldier who was leading the way left, Fujimaru Ritsuka walked up to Yuwatari, who was picking through the pile of materials, and asked her with some curiosity.

Although she was just a novice magician who had just entered the path of magic, after experiencing six singularities, she dared not say anything else, but at least in terms of perspective, she was definitely more broad-minded than most other magicians.

Normally, the various materials from monsters are used to make magical costumes or to construct certain rituals or magic circles.

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the materials that Yuuto had selected...

"The first hair of origin, the poison needle of ten thousand deaths, the gallstone of a cursed beast, the fat of a black beast, the scales and teeth of some unknown magical beast, the claw of chaos..."

"Hmm...no, I can't even imagine what kind of thing would be made by mixing these things together..."

Fujimaru Ritsuka rubbed her forehead in frustration, unable to fathom what kind of magical costume would require such a complex array of materials.

Or is it that Yuuto is using these materials not to make magical costumes, but to construct some kind of large-scale ritual or magic circle?

I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out...

"If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it. You'll find out what I'm going to do soon enough."

After selecting the materials he needed, Youdu clapped his hands and stood up.

The warehouse contained a large quantity of materials, but they were all easy to store. Items like the flesh and blood of monsters, which would rot and stink if left for too long, were simply thrown onto the battlefield.

He saw Fujimaru Ritsuka squatting beside him, her brows furrowed, staring intently at the pile of materials he had selected. Mashu, though confused, also stared at the materials alongside Fujimaru Ritsuka.

Even a fool could guess what Gudako is thinking.

"But before that, we need to find some pots first..."

……

It's not difficult to find a few pots in Uruk these days. Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash just strolled around the market and bought three pots of roughly the same size with the coins Siduri gave them.

"So, doctor, can you tell what Yuto is doing?"

After obtaining Yutari's consent, Fujimaru Ritsuka, worried that she might disturb him, stood aside and established a stable connection with Chaldea through Mash's shield, transmitting the images from here to there.

Romani and Leonardo da Vinci in Chaldea watched as Yutaka, seemingly simmering soup, added various ingredients into a vortex created by a card-shaped Mystic Code, and wore expressions that were hard to describe.

"This... uh, this should be some kind of alchemy... right?"

Romani spoke hesitantly, glancing with a troubled look at Leonardo da Vinci beside him, as if seeking some help from this omnipotent man.

After all, the other party has an A-rank item creation skill, so they should be able to tell what kind of alchemy this heroic spirit named Yuwatari is using, right?

However, faced with You Du's behavior of simply putting in the ingredients and then throwing the pot aside without a second thought, continuing to 'cook soup' in the next pot, even this famously omnipotent person couldn't help but fall silent.

Subway, elderly people, mobile phones.

She didn't recall ever hearing of such a strange form of alchemy!

Meanwhile, just as the two 'old men' of Chaldea were at a loss for words, Yuwatari had already filled the last pot with the remaining ingredients.

"Alright, all we have to do now is wait!"

He put different ingredients into each of the three pots.

The first pot he put in contained mainly A-grade Origin Fetal Hair and Chaos Claws, supplemented with other lion-type magical beast materials.

The second pot mainly contains the scales, claws, and reverse scales of B-grade dragon-type magical beasts.

For the final, third pot, he even put a portion of every kind of monster ingredient into it.

If all goes well, these three pots will, in turn, produce a card related to a lion, a dragon monster or related magic/trap card, and a card related to a chimera.

And the final result was pretty much what Youdu had expected.

After waiting for about half an hour, a 6-star Dark Manticore, a trap card Dragonblood, and an 8-star True Beast Gazette were successively extracted from the three pots.

It's a bit of a shame that not a single one of them is usable...

However, the effect of this [Dragon Bloodline] is to change the type of monsters on your field to Dragon before the end of the turn... Will it turn out the way he imagined?

Yudu thoughtfully stroked the newly created trap card in his hand, preparing to find a place to test it out.

Upon hearing that Yuuto was going to test the cards that she had just created using methods she couldn't understand, Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately said that she wanted to go with him, and Mash, worried, chose to follow.

Anna, while marveling at how Yuwatari's Noble Phantasm could be mass-produced, silently followed behind the group.

As for communication with Chaldea, it was unilaterally cut off by Chaldea as soon as they saw that Yuto had actually created the card in that way.

The group quickly reached an agreement and, after leaving the warehouse, headed towards the Divine Tower, intending to ask Gilgamesh for a place infested with magical beasts to conduct their experiments.

However, before they could even step into the tower, they encountered Siduri walking towards them.

"Good afternoon, everyone. The King is aware of your purpose and has ordered me to bring you the passes to the North Wall."

After saying that, Siduli took out a small cylindrical ceramic ornament that looked like a pendant, with diamond patterns engraved on it, and handed it to Youdu.

“This is my seal. With this, you may proceed to the North Wall.”

However, upon seeing the seal of Siduri in Youdu's hand, everyone unanimously thought of another person.

'It's Merlin, isn't it...'

Without a doubt, the only one who could know in advance that they were coming and what their purpose was was Merlin, who possessed the EX-rank clairvoyance to see everything and who also had a great fondness for spying.

"Honestly, he's always spying on people. Can't he do something productive?"

Yuuto couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark about Merlin.

After putting away the seals, the group headed towards the North Wall, the location of the monster battle line that blocked the invasion of numerous monsters from the north.

……

Meanwhile, in the dense forest south of Uruk, a leopard-man dressed as if in a mascot costume was 'reluctantly' bidding farewell to Quetzal Koyatl.

"Are you really leaving, Kukul? I'll be so lonely! You know, leopards die if they're too lonely!"

As she spoke, she covered her face with her hands, as if to cry, but in reality, she was trying to hide the upturned corners of her mouth that she couldn't help but make because Quetzalcoatl was about to leave.

'It'll be soon, very soon. Once Kukul leaves, no one here will be able to control me! Hehehehehe…'

"Really? So you're that reluctant to let me go? But I also feel like something's drawing me there, and I have no choice but to go..."

Upon hearing the leopard-woman's 'sincere' words, Quetzalcoatl pretended to think, then revealed a kind smile and, taking advantage of her unpreparedness, tucked her head into his arms.

"I've got it! In that case, why don't you come with me?"

Leopard Man: "Huh?"

Chapter 65 Gudako: I am terrifyingly strong now!

North wall.

This is the last hope of mankind, the location of the largest and last stronghold in the world, the Absolute Demonic Front—Babylonia.

This is a massive fortress built to counter the attacks of the monsters driven by the Beast Goddess, the greatest force in the Three Goddess Alliance that was destroying humanity.

Having withstood the monsters' attack for half a year, this place has long been home to numerous camps, with all kinds of supplies readily available, and has practically become a small city.

"There are so many people..."

Looking at the crowds moving back and forth beneath the massive city walls, Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't help but sigh.

Perhaps it was because of the dense population here, but she felt that there were more people on the north side of the wall than in Uruk.

After handing over Siduri's seal to the soldiers guarding the area and being brought before King Leonidas, who was in charge, the voyages were granted the right to move freely within the North Wall.

"You mean you want to go out now and head to the Northern Wilderness?"

After removing his helmet and revealing short red hair, Leonidas frowned and shook his head after hearing the purpose of Yudo and the others' visit.

"I do not recommend that you go out at this time."

"What happened?"

As always, Mash took on the role of asking questions within the group.

She and Fujimaru Ritsuka had heard Merlin mention Gilgamesh summoning Servants during their dinner yesterday, so they weren't surprised by King Leonidas's existence.

"Actually, the monsters' offensive has slowed down recently. I suspect they may be gathering somewhere, preparing to launch a beast tide against the North Wall."

Leonidas explained to the crowd with a calm expression.