FATE: As Illya, I was summoned by Kotomine Kirei?!

Chapter 41: The Weak and the Strong! The Five Servants vs. Gilgamesh!

'If you really want to form an alliance with me, then follow me and show your determination.'

'What's the point of you using the Command Seal to promise me? What's the point of you simply showing me your sincerity? What kind of resolution did you have to say that you wanted to save Matou Sakura? You can only hide in a dark corner. You are afraid, right? You are afraid of the golden king summoned by Tohsaka Tokiomi. So, Mr. Matou Kariya, you are really ridiculous, aren't you? You simply want to save others, but you have never considered the consequences of saving them.'

'The choice is clearly before you. Only by letting the Servant of the Tohsaka Family leave the stage will you be qualified to speak of the so-called words of salvation and be qualified for me to take your determination seriously.'

'Do you think using the Command Seal to stop Berserker from attacking me is a big concession?'

'How incompetent! You proved yourself to be a coward when you chose to hide instead of fighting the Golden King.'

'You can't tell whether you want the Holy Grail or you want to save the Sakura you mentioned. Even these may not be your goals. You just don't accept Tohsaka Tokiomi and want to compete with him, but you are afraid when you see that his Servants are too powerful.'

'Do you dare to step forward?'

'To prove your courage and recognize your dying belief?'

'If you dare, I, Caster, swear on my honor and my pride.'

'The moment the golden king leaves the stage, you don't need to show any sincerity.'

'As long as I exist in this world in the name of Caster, I will help you save the person you want to save.'

"Is this the integrity of a magus from the Age of Gods? I was actually taught a lesson by a little girl who looked no older than a middle school student. I am really going backward…"

He remembered the heartbreaking words Miss Illyasviel said before she left.

Matou Kariya was in a trance, feeling the rumbling and shaking in the distance, like an earthquake.

He was somewhat confused by the other party's series of long sentences spoken without taking a breath and was also shocked by the other party's excellent character even though he knew he might be defeated and would not be able to help much if he went back. Perhaps his brain was indeed a little abnormal after the crest worm was implanted. Even though he was being scolded, he strangely felt that what the other party said seemed to make some sense.

It just seems that there is not much truth in it, but if you think about it carefully, it is indeed not nonsense.

Because he really didn't consider what Sakura would do in the future after rescuing her.

Tohsaka Tokiomi must be killed, and Caster will not let him go either, but after losing her husband, can Tohsaka Aoi really be happy raising her two daughters alone?

Moreover, Sakura is already a member of the Matou family. If he sends her back to the Tohsaka family, and Matou Zouken comes to snatch her away, how can the Tohsaka family resist Matou Zouken without Tohsaka Tokiomi? After all, in this matter, it is reasonable for others to just come to take back the heir to their own head of the magi family, and even the Holy Church has no excuse to intervene and help.

What about taking Sakura with him? That was impossible, because he didn't have much time left after the Crest Worms were implanted, and it was hard to say whether he could even live to the end of the Holy Grail War.

What's the point of Sakura following him? In the end, he will just add another little girl under ten years old wandering around the streets. After a long time, it might be better for her to stay in the Matou family. At least in the Matou family, Sakura will not starve or freeze.

"So, I am really a person who only thinks about myself all the time."

Matou Kariya gave a wry smile as he looked at his arm with bulging veins. Just as Miss Illyasviel commented, his salvation of Sakura was more of a self-touching feeling, and he was disgusted and unwilling to accept the person of Tohsaka Tokiomi.

In fact, he knew it himself, but he was just getting stuck in a rut and had no close friends or relatives to wake him up.

He didn't know that this was actually a kind of rhetoric, making others feel psychologically guilty by finding problems with them. After all, even if he knew, there was nothing he could do, because eighty percent of what Miss Illyasviel said was true, and Matou Kariya's plan to save Matou Sakura was indeed too careless.

"In the name of the Command Seal, Berserker, use all your strength to help the other Servants achieve victory, and knock down Archer's condescending attitude!"

He needed a new plan, a way to truly save Sakura.

But before that, as the magi girl said, he needs to show his inner determination and make the golden king leave the stage completely.

The Command Seals on the back of his hand lit up and disappeared. He actually did not have much desire for the Command Seals.

He just used it as a prop to replace the extraction of his own mana and temporarily maintain the Black Knight's battle. It was for this reason that he wanted the magi girl's blood before. His body was too poor, so poor that he couldn't even make the Black Knight show his Noble Phantasm.

'Hehehe! He believed it! He believed it! He believed it! He actually believed what I said!'

'As expected, it was right not to give him blood. With his current physical condition, he must use the Command Spell to supply mana if he wants to intervene in the battlefield. Does he really not understand the unspoken rules between magi? Tōhsaka Tokiomi gave his daughter away because he wanted to? He is such a newbie that he doesn't even know the basic knowledge of 'Seal Designation.' There is something wrong with the Matou family. Sending this guy to participate in the Holy Grail War, the people of the Matou family don't want to win this Holy Grail War~'

A magi will basically pass down his magecraft and research from one son to another, and the children other than the heir will not even know that the parents are magi. It is also said that the child will get involved in all kinds of strange events because of his own blood until he gets burned.

If the Mage's Association discovered such an ordinary person, those inhumane guys would be delighted and would soak him in formalin as a specimen in the name of protecting precious materials. This is what the magi world calls a seal designation.

Would Tōhsaka Tokiomi dare not send Sakura? Would he dare? Maybe he did, after all, as the successor of the Jewel Master, he would have some connections, but this was only a possibility.

Moreover, as a regular traditional magus, Tōhsaka Tokiomi, why would he bother with this? Wouldn't it be better for his second daughter to become the head of another family? This would greatly increase the possibility of future generations spying on his roots. As a magi, who could resist such temptation?

'He only has one stroke of the Command Seal left now, and the danger of backstabbing him later will be greatly reduced...' Miss Illyasviel hid in the container community in the haze.

After confirming that Matou Kariya had already used the Command Seal, she followed closely behind and moved between the containers.

In a sense, the mana provided by her blood and a Command Seal is not much different.

But with Matou Kariya's strange mental state, there was no need for her to waste her blood. Wouldn't it be nice if the other party could use another Command Seal? King Gilgamesh was her enemy, but she acted as if Matou Kariya was not her enemy. Why wouldn't she do anything to weaken the enemy's resources and combat power? After all, she never believed in Matou Kariya's promises. The so-called allies were pure bullshit. Even her former parents would deceive her and abandon her, not to mention other Servants and Masters who had direct conflicts of interest.

They have only temporarily reached a community of interests. This alliance is only based on the fact that King Gilgamesh is strong enough. Apart from that, there is no other interest relationship. She is such a bad girl who never thinks about why others betray her, but only thinks about why others will not betray her.

What's more, she doesn't know how to remove the crest worm at all, which is the most direct contradiction.

...........

"Damn it, how many Noble Phantasms does he have left?!"

The swordswoman, whose mana was rapidly depleted, swung the invisible sword

Even though the battle didn't last long, the mana that Illyasviel replenished for her was about to run out.

The sky was burned and distorted by the magical flames produced by the bombardment of Noble Phantasms. Endless Noble Phantasms fell from the sky without a gap, like hundreds of magic cannons with unlimited ammunition, sweeping every corner of the port terminal in all directions with almost no blind spots left, completely destroying the entire container unloading area, and the continuous explosions were incessant, even causing a small local earthquake!

The King's Treasure, with all its doors opened, completely suppressed the three Servants with an absolute firepower bombardment.

No one knew what Tōhsaka Tokiomi felt at that moment. The exploding magic power destroyed the coastline, cranes, and warehouse streets, and left behind only unbearable hellfire. Any normal person or even a magi would be burned to death on the spot by the rising magic steam if they set foot there.

"Young lady, the king of Knight of Great Britain, this situation may be a bit tricky."

Iskandar drove his chariot across the sky, swinging the sword in his hand without stopping for a moment. Wever Velvet beside him was already crouching with his head in his hands, and his generous and magnanimous look could no longer be maintained in such a situation.

Such devastating fire suppression had already exhausted his mana, but he knew very well that if he ran away at this moment, it would be difficult to gather such a lineup to fight against the Golden King in the future.

Fortunately, he had the air advantage, otherwise he would have been as wounded as the other two Servants.

"Saber, create a chance for me, I have a way!" Diarmuid, whose handsome cheeks were covered with wounds and scratches and whose eyes had turned bloodshot due to excessive exhaustion, shouted at the swordswoman. His monarch had already calculated the opportunity to win. As long as the distance was enough and they got a little closer, they would still have a chance of winning.

This was not just blind trust in the monarch, but his monarch was truly a genius.

"I understand Lancer, now let's go..."

"Hoo! Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

But the words were not finished.

The inky black beast rushed out from the direction of the industrial zone. The black knight grabbed the container that had turned into wreckage. The originally tattered iron sheet became a black Noble Phantasm, and in just an instant, it was thrown out with terrifying power!

This is one of the Black Knight's Noble Phantasms, an A++-level anti-personnel Noble Phantasm that will ensure that the Knight will not die unarmed.

He can endow the weapon in his hand with the attributes of a Noble Phantasm and can drive it. As long as it is within the range of what he "recognizes as a weapon", it becomes a Noble Phantasm equivalent to D-rank when he picks up the weapon. Even Noble Phantasms that were originally higher in level will fall under his control at their original level.

Boom, boom, boom!

"Haha, hahahahahaha, here comes another random mongrel, here comes another bug looking for death~"

Several Noble Phantasms flew out and smashed the deadly iron sheet into slag. King Gilgamesh laughed sarcastically, but the next moment he could no longer laugh.

Because the black knight, who was still a hundred meters away a few seconds ago, actually crossed the distance in the few moments when the iron sheet was shattered, and was about to arrive under the street lamp throne where he was sitting.

Agility A+.

Strength A.

Durability A.

The three basic attributes and skills even surpassed the Swordswoman after receiving the mana of the Command Seal, showing his terrifying numerical power that was even more difficult to understand than filling it with his feet. He held a Noble Phantasm spear he picked up casually and after instantly transforming it into his own Noble Phantasm, he shot it out!

This is a close-range projection, an inherent skill of A+, an endless trial initiated here, his martial arts and spirit are completely integrated, even if he is not good at shooting, he can still burst out with terrifying accuracy that is not inferior to that of a professional archer!

Crash!

A huge force passed through the Golden King's right shoulder, and the sound of the golden armor shattering rang in his ears.

Even though King Gilgamesh sensed something was wrong and took precautions in advance, he still underestimated the Black Knight's outrageous value.

The explosive force at that moment directly brushed past the right half of his armor and rushed into the sky, and half of his golden armor was also broken, dented like crumbling glass.

"Damn beasts! Today I will bury all of you bastards here!"

King Gilgamesh was blown out of the street lamp throne by the impact and fell on the relatively intact containers stacked up more than ten meters away and shrouded in mist. He was furious. He felt pain and was injured, even though the blow did not cause any serious harm.

But there was no doubt that he was injured, with a slight pain and a trace of blood coming from his shoulder.

It also proved the fact that he was injured by a mere wild beast.

"In the name of the Command Seal, my king, please let these disobedient enemies see your heyday. Victory will eventually belong to you, and you will eventually return triumphantly above the goddess of victory!"

The wounds healed quickly, and the Golden King's mana was replenished rapidly.

It was obvious that Tohsaka Tokiomi had used the Command Seal.

"Haha! Good! Very good! Hahaha! Mongrel, for your loyalty, the king will definitely reward you!"

King Gilgamesh was stunned for a moment, then burst into wild laughter of joy.

Although he did not need the mana of the Command Seals at all, as his treasury was full of collectibles that could replenish his mana, Tohsaka Tokiomi's loyalty and determination made him gradually acknowledge at this moment that the other party was indeed qualified to be his subject.

As his subject, how could he not reward such a loyal subordinate with the Holy Grail?

One hundred and twenty-eight golden wave gates opened at the same time!

"What is that?"

"How could there be so many mana fluctuations like this?!"

An A-rank Noble Phantasm that exuded a far greater flow of mana and a more brilliant luster than before was displayed for the first time in this port terminal!

That was a treatment that even Miss Illyasviel had never experienced, and it was also a symbol that the Golden King was truly serious. He did not think that these enemies were worth his attention!

Simply because he recognized Tohsaka Tokiomi, and as the oldest king, he had promised to grant him the so-called universal wishing machine. So his minister made him happy tonight, and he was so pleased that he naturally didn't mind granting it in advance!

"Hoohoo! Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

"You rude beast, use your howling to make up for your offense!"

The black knight rushed forward as fast as an afterimage, but suddenly a huge sword dozens of meters long came down with a bang. It was the impact torrent of the divine construct, the Mountain-Slashing Sword: Ig-Alima, which smashed directly on the black knight's body with a loud bang. The terror it caused was even enough to shatter and collapse the ground within a hundred meters.

"Bastard king who is a cross between a god and a man, your opponent is me!" The swordswoman, relying on her superb agility, quickly stepped closer during the interval between bombardments and slashed with a sword wrapped in a hurricane.

Unfortunately, less than twenty meters away from the Golden King, a Noble Phantasm collided directly with her invisible sword. The huge explosion even knocked her away, and even the magic defenses she barely raised were completely ignored.

At the moment she was knocked away, a torrent of Noble Phantasms followed.

Seeing this, Diarmuid faced the challenge without hesitation. He dragged his tired body to the front of the swordswoman and swung his spear, with blood on his forehead flowing uncontrollably!

King of Conquerors Iskandar also let out a war cry, and the thunder surging from his chariot reached its peak, charging towards the Golden King like a warrior charging towards a dragon!

This was a battle without suspense.

This was a losing battle.

Everyone knew this, but they still went forward without hesitation, trying to grasp the slim ray of hope.

Because they were heroes, they were heroic spirits, and they would never give up.

Until they took their last breath, they would never surrender to the enemy in front of them.

"Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! You're courting your own destruction! How foolish! When that venomous snake escaped, didn't you bastards realize what was happening? I didn't expect that in the end, only that venomous snake understood that my authority cannot be violated!"

The evil dragon that crushed all the heroes laughed loudly, and the flashing golden light behind it turned into a sad song for the weak, announcing their imminent death.

King Gilgamesh mocked these so-called heroes, just as he had mocked the so-called gods when he was alive.

It was an insult to him to compete on the same stage with blind, ignorant, self-destructive fools like these.

They pursued the hope of victory, but hope only stood on the side of the truly strong.

"You are so stupid. You are just like that poisonous snake. You are only this stupid..."

"Really? I don't think I can call myself a hero."

The flesh was cut, and blood splattered everywhere.

The red eyes of the Golden King, whose throat was cut, suddenly widened, and the fairy with silver hair and red eyes was reflected in his gaze!

That's exactly it.

The foolish heroes he spoke of...were waiting for the light of hope.

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