Otherwise, you can find another savior.

Sakura landed behind Mordred and turned slightly to greet Kallen with a smile.

"I'm also worried about whether I can hold on until then." Kallen freed her hands and used healing magic on Hassan with Cursed Arms.

After entering the mountains, the dune buggy could no longer be used, and Sakura and the others could only follow Chaldea's instructions and quickly advance towards the coordinates of the Round Table Fortress.

The appearance of reinforcements did not shake Agrawen. What made him angry at the moment was Mordred who was in league with Chaldea.

"What do you want to do? Are you going to betray our king again now?" asked Aguiwen.

"It's not betrayal, but correction." Mordred clenched his sword. "Although we have chosen to follow our father to carry out the plan, we all know the essence of this plan—"

"So you regret it and decided to stand on the side of Chaldea? It's really disappointing, Mordred." said Aguiwen.

"No, I have no regrets." Mordred said, "I just chose a path that is opposite to my father and you, based on my own will."

"Have you forgotten who you are? Without the Knights of the Round Table and the king, you are nothing." Agguiwen did not expect Mordred to admit his guilt.

Anyone who has betrayed the king once will do it again sooner or later.

The Lion King must have known this, which is why he unilaterally granted Mordred "Rampage" and allowed her to stay in the wilderness instead of Camelot.

"It doesn't matter whose knight or successor I am! What matters is that I get to be myself!" Mordred shouted, and magic power surged.

Agguiwen discovered that the fluctuations of her magic power were different from before. The blessing of the Lion King still existed, but it was more stable and powerful than usual.

"We've made a contract with Chaldea." Aguiwen raised his hand.

The frenzied Knights of Justice stood up again and rushed forward again.

"Let the wrath of the stars boil! 'Rebellion against my magnificent father'!"

The 『Glorious Royal Sword』 burst out with soaring magic power, and in Mordred's hand, it swept forward, creating a fan-shaped attack.

Even with the blessing of berserk, the Knights of Justice fell to the ground as their Noble Phantasms' True Names were released. Only Agragwin avoided Mordred's Noble Phantasm.

"Saber, don't release your Noble Phantasm's True Name too often. Even with my support, you won't be able to hold on!" Sakura reminded from behind.

"I know! At least I won't die before I see my father and stop that plan!" Mordred responded while staring at Aggravin. "You are the only one left now, get out of here!"

After saying that, she rushed forward with her sword raised, and Aguguiwen drew his sword and fought back.

More Knights of Justice rushed out of the fortress, advanced towards the central square, and surrounded the group of people who were trying to break into the prison.

"The one wearing the skull! Protect the Master and the others! Leave these guys to me!"

Mordred ordered Hassan the Cursed Wrist without even turning his head.

She had similar concerns as Kallen, but Sakura was very rational and had no psychological trauma towards Hassan, whom she had met before. That was why Mordred entrusted the responsibility of protecting his companions to Hassan the Cursed Arm.

"Leave it to me."

With Mordred as the vanguard, the tide-like attack of the Knights of Justice was blocked outside a vague line. With the help of his flying knives and the attacks of the two masters, most of the force was delayed here.

Aguiwen did not rush forward to fight, but instead sent all the Knights of Justice into a frenzy, hoping to use the advantage in numbers to safely crush these rebels.

But what's wrong?

Even on such a dangerous battlefield, Aguiwen never lost his composure. While commanding the killing of Mordred and Chaldea, he captured the incongruity of the battle in the fortress.

Scathach and the East Village soldiers at the main gate were blocked by Lancelot's troops. Moreover, the main gate had the advantage of geographical location and was not so easy to be breached.

As their real purpose, these people tried to sneak into the fortress and break out of the prison, but they were surrounded in the square inside the fortress.

Morgan would not appear on the battlefield, Agguiwen was very sure, because he was determined that the Camelot-style fortress surrounding the mountain village needed Morgan to be stationed inside.

In this way... there are still three people left who have not appeared.

A girl sub-servant holding Galahad's shield, an orange-haired girl Master, a silver-haired adult female Master, and a girl with the same appearance as the king.

Those three girls should be with the new Master that Mordred was previously ordered to hunt down.

Have you gone to the village to participate in the defense?

Aguguiwen speculated secretly.

The possibility is very high, but it is still not enough for him to give up speculation.

There was a bang.

A golden light shone on the fortress wall, and then Tristan fell from it with bleeding wounds. He landed in a place where the Knight of Justice made way, and then struggled to stand up.

Bedivere also jumped down from above and landed behind Mordred. He knelt on the ground exhausted, with smoke coming out of his prosthetic right arm.

"Haa ...

Tristan stood up, and with his trembling fingertips, an invisible arrow flew straight to Bedivere's back, but was intercepted by Sakura's open magic defense.

The battle situation in the square began to become more chaotic than before, and Aguiwen suddenly woke up.

If even this side is suspicious——

Click.

He sensed that the "Heroic Spirit Killer" he used to restrain Serenity Hassan was destroyed.

Those are chains that will bind Servants if they touch them. Only living humans will not be affected, but to destroy them, effective weapons are needed - and Chaldea naturally has no shortage of such things.

A few seconds after he turned around and ordered another group of the Upright Knights to rush towards the prison where Quiet Hassan was imprisoned, the door of the dungeon passage exploded and the Upright Knights flew out.

"Sakura-senpai! Mission accomplished!"

Ritsuka Fujimaru carried the temporarily unable to move Hassan Serenity on his back, and under the cover of Gray and Mashu, he broke through the blockade of the berserk Knights of Justice and retreated along the predetermined route.

The overcast sky gradually began to rain, and the drizzling rain wet the battlefield inside the fortress.

Aguguiwen blocked Lixiang and his group's way out.

"Sir Tristan, can you still fight?"

"Of course... before I use up my last bit of strength for the Lion King, I will pluck the strings of the harp in my hand." He slightly raised his face that was wet by the rain, with a faint smile on his face, making it difficult to tell whether it was sad or happy. "At the cost of our friendship, I will kill you here--"

Before he finished speaking, a strong wind blew in the fortress.

The crows let out a cry that was enough to scare the Knights of the Round Table.

"dad?"

Sakura and Kallen blurted out sounds of surprise when they saw Shiomi emerge from the flock of crows.

"king?"

Tristan and Agguiwen were also extremely surprised at the Lion King that descended from the sky.

Chapter 43: Killing the "Old Man in the Mountain"

Earlier, when the soldiers led by Scathach began to attack the main gate of the Round Table Fortress, Shiomi and the Lion King also arrived at the top of the mountain overlooking the fortress.

"Lancelot is in charge of the defense of the main gate... Agguiwen and Tristan did not show up." Shiomi half-crouched on the edge of the cliff. After using magic to enhance his vision, he saw the battle in the Round Table Fortress. "It seems that they have seen through the master's feint all the way."

"The fortress has a geographical advantage. Even Scathach has no way to break through Sir Lancelot's defense." The Lion King stated the facts indifferently. "In order to conceal their presence, the actual team is limited in number. It is only a matter of time before this team is strangled."

Xijian glanced at the Lion King and said, "I told you that you and I will go our separate ways from now on."

"Even if this is not the Holy City, the Command Seals can still bind you." The Lion King raised his hand, and the remaining two Command Seals lit up.

"Command Spell? I think it's more appropriate to call it Geis." He stood up slowly and looked at the Lion King who was only four or five meters away from him. "Compared to the legendary one Grania used to restrain Diarmuid, it's more powerful and effective. Can I say that she is worthy of being a goddess?"

"If you understand, then give up your pointless actions. You are different from the Knights of the Round Table and are qualified to follow me to the end." said the Lion King.

"They tried their best to carry out the plan for you, but they didn't get even a little bit in return." Shiomi raised his hand, and Odin's spear appeared in his palm.

The Lion King restricted his summoning of weapons under normal circumstances, but the "Okami Declaration" was obviously not included in this list. Perhaps she simply could not stop Shiomi from using this special gun.

"Is that so? Then I order my captive (Master) with the Command Seal not to disobey me." The Lion King declared in an emotionless voice.

The more vague the command, the weaker the effect of the Command Spell.

The Lion King is not bound by this rule. As a deity, her words are absolute.

An invisible coercive force enveloped Shiomi's body. He felt as if the space around him was fixed. Even moving his fingers slightly required a thousand times more effort than usual.

"...But I can still speak..." Shiomi used all his strength to hold Gungnir in his hand, "Anyway, this attack may not kill you...I will use it as a signpost for separation--"

The "Great God Declaration" does not require aiming, posture or preparation. Its user only needs to say his real name, and the gun will follow the user's wishes and hit the target.

Something more powerful than the Red Spear is the so-called Spear of Destiny.

However, before Xi Jian could say his real name and release the power of the gun, death suddenly approached from behind.

It's not murderous intent, nor is it chilling coldness, but the concept of "death" itself.

Silent and breathless.

——Is it the breath blocking? !

Xi Jian, who had just come to his senses, had only enough time to turn his eyes away before the cold sword slashed through his body from behind, as if cutting it in two.

Shiomi, who had lost all his power like a puppet with its strings cut, suddenly knelt down and fell to the ground.

His body was intact, with no blood or breaks.

"What on earth do you mean, Old Man of the Mountain?"

With a slight sound of "dang", the Lion King withdrew his gaze from Shiomi and looked at the tall figure standing at Shiomi's feet, using the sword as a staff with both hands, and asked her question.

Under the black cloak was a face covered with a skull, and a pair of eyes faintly glowed with a light blue light from the valley.

"Nothing special. I just wanted to untie the wheel of fate that was imprisoned. I walked out of the temple and gave this person a push."

The man whom the Lion King called the Old Man of the Mountain said so.

She knew very well that unlike the Hassan Sabah who guarded the two villages in the east and west, the person in front of her was the original Hassan Sabah, an existence standing between life and death.

"I already know this." The Lion King looked at the old man in the mountain. "Your sword is powerful enough to kill me directly. Why didn't you take this action? Is it because you gave up on the humans who were protected by your successors?"

"Lion King, your destiny has not yet been severed. It is not my responsibility to put an end to what you have done. Therefore, even I am not qualified to kill you here." The old man in the mountain responded indifferently.

So the old man in the mountains appeared here and pointed the sword in his hand at Shiomi.

But it didn't take his life, but killed the contract that bound him to the Lion King.

"In other words, some things have to be done by people in the present?" Xi Jian touched his neck and slowly stood up from the ground. "But your actions are already equivalent to helping me. I thought that people like you were completely neutral and would always look down on human history."

"Thank you for your compliment. Overlooking human history is the duty of the judge. I am just an assassin, killing those whose destiny has been exhausted." The old man in the mountain had a normal attitude, with the power to see through everything. "You and I are in different positions, and we are not enemies. For those who have not yet exhausted the "principle of life", completing your mission is-"

As the words gradually faded away, the figure of the old man in the mountain seemed to melt into the night, disappearing without a trace. Only when it completely faded away did people feel that he had "already left".

"'Principle of Life'..." Shiomi waved Gungnir, its light illuminating the mountaintop shrouded in darkness. "From this moment on, the contract between you and me has been severed. I am no longer your prisoner."

The Lion King raised his hand, the storm wrapped around his palm, and the shadow of the Tower of the End - the Holy Lance appeared.

"The battle in that fortress is their business. You must stay here and return to Camelot with me."

"But I refuse!"

Shiomi flatly refused the Lion King's old order, rushed out with his gun, and went to the Round Table Fortress to assist Kallen.

Naturally, the Lion King blocked his way. The lance was as tall as a man, but the Lion King held it in his hand as easily as if it were a sword.

The strength and speed are both impeccable.

At the moment when the two guns clashed on the top of the mountain, the light illuminated the area, but no one in the Round Table Fortress noticed it.

Because Sakura and the others, who had detoured from the foot of the mountain to the back of the fortress, launched a surprise attack on the fortress almost at the same time.

Shiomi was deeply relieved when she saw Mordred fighting off the Knight of Justice from the corner of her eye.

In the end, between "whose child" and "who am I", she chose the latter.

The fortress and the mountain top expanded separately, and the conflict between the two extraordinary spears caused the ground on the mountain top to gradually crack. Finally, in the last conflict between the Holy Spear and the God's Spear, the small natural platform on the mountain top collapsed in an instant.

The shattered boulders slid down the hillside toward the abyss, and Shiomi activated teleportation magic the moment they fell together.

Chapter 44: The Holy Spear is Not Your Patent

just now.

Whether it was Xijian Tianxi or the Lion King, the appearance of either of them shocked the people here, and temporarily interrupted the battle and everyone's actions.

"That is... the deified King Arthur..."

Gray saw the profile of the Lion King through the gap between the Knights of Discipline.

In the darkness, that familiar yet unfamiliar face shone brightly, leaving her stunned for a moment, unable to breathe.