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He rushed to the window and looked up at the eastern sky. For the first time, a look of horror appeared on his face, which was always etched with weariness and harshness.

"what is this?"

He muttered to himself, "The magic of the entire planet is flowing towards one point? Are you kidding me!"

The headquarters of the Holy Church.

The evangelists are conducting evening prayers.

An unprecedented, alien magical fluctuation appeared out of nowhere in the air. Its scale was so enormous that even the crosses hanging in the sanctuary hummed under its weight.

Several cardinals' expressions changed drastically, and they immediately activated the highest-level emergency plan.

"Location confirmed! Far East, Japan, Fuyuki City!"

"Immediately dispatch all available agents! At all costs, find the source of the magic! This is not the kind of commotion we should see in the Holy Grail War!"

On a highway hundreds of kilometers away from Fuyuki City.

Several black sports cars were speeding by, their license plates bearing the emblem of the Clock Tower Law and Politics Department.

Inside the car, an elderly magician, dressed smartly and wearing a monocle, was resting with his eyes closed.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them.

"parking."

He commanded coldly.

The convoy screeched to a halt on the side of the road.

"Sir, what's wrong?"

There are 'rats' ahead.

The old magician looked at the deserted road ahead and a cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth. "And it's a 'rat' who likes to play with fire."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the road surface several hundred meters ahead suddenly exploded without warning!

Flames shot into the sky, and the violent shockwave blew the first Rolls-Royce off its tracks, sending it tumbling through the air before crashing into the roadside guardrail.

"Tsk, we've been found out."

On the hillside beside the highway, W carried her grenade launcher, pouting slightly in dissatisfaction.

Beside her, dozens of remote-controlled bombs of different models, which she had carefully modified, were quietly flashing red lights.

"Forget it, it's just causing them some trouble anyway. And since the Holy Grail can grant wishes, let's just restore this place."

She grinned, revealing sharp fangs, her smile both radiant and wild. "Let's make this party even more exciting!"

Without hesitation, she pressed the main switch of the detonator in her hand.

"Boom! Boom boom boom—!"

The continuous explosions turned the entire highway into an inferno.

Meanwhile, in a more distant place.

An elite order of knights from the Holy Church is traversing a primeval forest, attempting to take a shortcut to Fuyuki as quickly as possible.

Suddenly, the sky darkened without warning.

The torrential rain poured down, each drop of water carrying a strong corrosive quality, sizzling as it landed on their armor.

Immediately afterwards, the ground began to shake violently. A small earthquake triggered a landslide, and huge boulders and mudslides rolled down the mountain, blocking their way.

"Damn it! What's going on? Why is this kind of extreme weather suddenly happening here!"

The captain of the knights roared in fury as he looked at the horrific, catastrophe-like scene before him.

Inside the shrine of Ryudong Temple, Gu Ye slowly opened his eyes.

One half of his mind was maintaining the stability of the magical tides, while the other half spread his perception throughout Japan through "weather forecasts".

He sensed the hostile magical fluctuations rapidly approaching.

Then, the typhoon changed direction, torrential rains fell, and an earthquake occurred.

Gu Ye seemed to be talking to himself, yet also to someone else: "It's starting to get noisy outside. Looks like tonight's going to be a sleepless night."

Medea was presiding over the ceremony with complete concentration. Sweat had soaked the stray hairs on her forehead, but when she heard Gu Ye's words, she still managed to spare a bit of attention and a confident smile appeared on her face.

Medea smiled confidently. "It's alright, Master. Our reliable King Knight is guarding outside. Just sit back and enjoy the grand performance I've prepared for you."

Outside the temple, before the mountain gate that Assassin had carried back, Artoria stood quietly on the stone steps, holding an unseen holy sword.

Behind her, Archer leaned against a tree trunk, polishing his twin swords, while Rider and Assassin remained hidden in the shadows on either side.

Artoria said to Archer behind her, "Archer, cheer up, the first wave of guests is about to arrive."

Archer didn't turn around, but simply let out a soft snort.

The night wind howled, swirling up fallen leaves from the mountainside like a group of silent messengers.

Below the first stone steps of the Ryudongji mountain path, several points of scarlet light appeared in the darkness—those were the magician's familiars, various hunting dogs and strange birds. They made no sound, but simply watched the crowd in front of the mountain gate.

"That's a really unpleasant gaze."

Rin Tohsaka stood next to Artoria with her hands on her hips, "Like a rat in the sewers, sneaking around like a shadow."

Raiden Mei gripped the hilt of the sword, a flash of electricity flickering in her eyes.

"There are quite a few, about thirty magic sources. It seems to be just the vanguard."

Medusa's figure appeared beside her like a ghost, her eye patch concealing her powerful demonic eyes.

"Not only that. There's something moving underground, it's an earth-elemental familiar."

Sasaki Kojiro leaned against the mountain gate, a twig still dangling from his mouth, and lazily said, "Oh dear, after waiting for so long, all I get are these ugly ducklings. Honestly, I don't even feel like stretching anymore."

W, carrying her grenade launcher, impatiently tapped the ground with the tip of her tail. "Huh? You think this little thing can charge up the mountain? Are you underestimating my masterpiece? I thought I'd get something bigger so I could set off some fireworks!"

"Don't let your guard down."

Emiya finally finished wiping his sword. He sheathed it at his waist, raised his head, and his sharp gaze was like that of a hawk. "Those who are sent to lead the charge are no ordinary people. They are probably all experts in assassination and infiltration."

The moment he finished speaking, the motionless horde of familiars suddenly moved.

Dozens of dark figures rushed towards the mountain gate from all directions at a speed that surpassed human dynamic vision!

"coming!"

With a low shout, several gems that had been prepared beforehand sprang from her fingertips, tracing dazzling arcs in mid-air.

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"Feuer!"

The fiery magic bullets exploded like shotgun pellets, instantly turning the leading hounds to ashes.

"Divine Judgment!"

The figure of the Thunder Queen behind Mei vanished instantly, appearing in the enemy ranks the next moment.

Purple lightning spread out like a spider web, turning all the familiars it touched into charred remains.

The blade flashed, each swing precisely severing the enemy's throat.

Artoria didn't even draw her sword; she only unleashed a small portion of the power of the "Wind King's Barrier." Invisible wind blades roared out, like the sharpest razors, slicing the strange birds that tried to attack from the air to pieces.

From the shadows on either side of the mountain gate, Medusa's chains emerged like venomous snakes, precisely binding the familiars who attempted to approach using earth magic, then tightening abruptly, crushing them into a mass of rotten flesh.

Sasaki Kojiro remained motionless, merely watching the one-sided massacre below with utter boredom.

He only moved slightly when a gigantic pangolin familiar, covered in hard armor, successfully broke through the blockade of lightning and fire and roared as it charged toward the mountain gate.

No one saw how he drew his knife.

All I saw was a faint purple flash of light, so fast it was almost an illusion.

The giant pangolin familiar had its body evenly divided in two from head to tail, with the cuts as smooth as a mirror.

"It's so boring."

Sasaki Kojiro slung the ridiculously long "Bizen Osafune Nagamitsu" back onto his shoulder and yawned.

The fighting down the mountain ended in minutes. But no one let their guard down.

"This is just an appetizer."

Emiya looked down at the darkness below, now silent again, and said in a deep voice, "The real trouble is yet to come."

Meanwhile, on the other side of the temple, Matou Sakura, Illya, and Kitagawa Kaimu were also busy.

Behind the temple was an open area, directly facing the dense forest behind Ryudong Temple. This was a weak point in the defenses.

"Sakura! There's something underground at the three o'clock position to the left!"

With her eyes closed, Ilya connected her consciousness with countless silver bird-shaped familiars, the "White Stork Knights," monitoring the entire forest like a radar.

"Yes!"

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Sakura responded immediately. Although she couldn't provide Medusa with a large amount of magic power like Gu Ye could, she was more than capable of providing small-scale defense.

She pressed her hands to the ground, and black lines spread rapidly across the surface.

"come out!"

A giant, earthworm-shaped familiar that was trying to crawl out of the ground had part of its body dragged into the imaginary space the moment it came into contact with the black patterns, and disappeared without a trace.

"Wow! Sakura-chan, you're so cool! You're like a great mage from a game!"

Kitagawa Kaimu excitedly shouted from the side, "Illya-chan, Illya-chan, what will the next enemy look like? Will it be one of those cool knights in armor? Then I can transform into the Black Knight and fight him!"

Ilya opened one eye, looked at the jumping around Haimeng, and said with a hint of helplessness, "Haimeng-neechan, now is not the time for cosplay! The next enemy is a flying gargoyle, coming right over your head!"

"Really?! That's amazing! If it's a gargoyle, transforming into a demon hunter would be perfect!"

Hai Meng's eyes shone brightly, and magical energy began to surge around her body.

On the other side, Hercules stood silently behind Illya, like an insurmountable mountain.

Any enemy who attempts to force their way through from the front will be mercilessly smashed into mincemeat by his massive axe-sword.

The fighting outside had just subsided when a loud explosion rang out.

"boom!"

The loud noise did not come from the foot of the mountain, but from the magnificent temple behind them.

It was a dull, heart-pounding sound, followed by a visible, pure black wave of magical energy that spread out like a shockwave, leaving the air itself seemingly tainted with filth.

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Rin Tohsaka was the first to react. She turned around abruptly, her blue eyes filled with shock: "Hey, hey, hey, are you kidding me? What happened? Did Medea mess things up?"

Emiya crossed his swords in front of him, his expression instantly darkening: "Tsk, this is incredibly troublesome! This isn't Medea's fault; it's that thing in the Holy Grail that escaped on its own!"

Black magic surged out from the cracks in the temple doors like a tide, and soon, a humanoid silhouette made of pure black mud, constantly changing shape, condensed and took shape at the temple entrance.

It had no facial features, only a bottomless blackness, but everyone felt the chilling malice emanating from the depths of their souls.

"Angola Mainyu".

Artoria Pendragon murmured the forbidden name, the one Gu Ye had told her was the root cause of the Holy Grail's corruption.

"Ha! Finally, a decent big firework! Those small fry before weren't even enough to fill a tooth gap!"

Vishdel, carrying a grenade launcher, had an excited glint in his eyes and even licked his lips.

The monster formed from the black mud seemed to notice them. It slowly raised its arm, and a long black whip appeared out of thin air, carrying a sharp whistling sound that tore through the air, and lashed fiercely at Artoria, who was standing at the front.

Artoria didn't speak; she simply swung the holy sword in her hand forward.

The compressed gale collided with the black whip, producing a deafening roar.

Inside the temple, Medea's urgent voice rang out through magical communication: "Everyone outside! The contaminant in the Holy Grail has become active and is resisting purification! The ritual cannot stop; we must suppress it, or the entire city of Fuyuki will be contaminated! Buy us some time!"

"Ugh, seriously, they're all so troublesome! Listen up! Saber, hold the line! Archer, aim and fire! Rider, and that lazy samurai, attack from both sides! Mei, W, get ready with your most powerful moves, listen for my signal!"

Rin Tohsaka scratched her hair in frustration, then quickly issued the command in a clear and loud voice.

Sasaki Kojiro leaped down from the mountain gate, took the long sword from his shoulder, held it in his hand, and smiled slightly: "Oh dear, there's no way to avoid it now. Sometimes you have to listen to the demands of a female fox."