Lord of Mysteries: Starting As A Reader

While Ebner was deep in thought, the battle at the mountain gate changed again.

Although the three enemy Heroic Spirits were quite powerful, their "souls," or what was called "Roselle's phantom," had already entered Edwina's "Silent Winter" oil lamp, entering the "Lesser Holy Grail." Now, they were merely shells.

This state made their actions appear rigid. Ebner's Heroic Spirit, Lya, quickly seized an opening, using her holy spear as a medium to release an Angel-level "Holy Light." With just one strike, she first purified the "King of Heroes."

Then, with the previous Command Seal's blessing from Ebner, she unleashed a second Angel-level attack, successfully inflicting severe injuries on the "King of Conquerors" as well.

On the other side, "Bluebeard" Marshal Gilles, upon seeing Lya bathed in light, became noticeably excited. With the 'Prophet' Tayles's cooperation, he systematically reproduced the powerful spells "recorded" in his magic book, continuously killing the Hassans who had split into different personalities.

—Since Tayles was previously the Master of the Assassin-class Hassan, he was very familiar with his abilities, making the eradication particularly smooth.

But just then, silver electric snakes leaped out from the mountain, rapidly growing, crackling and intertwining, quickly extending forward, evolving into a dazzling ocean of lightning, attempting to engulf the entire mountain gate.

Seeing this, Lya immediately pointed her spear forward and devoutly declared, "God says, invalid."

Before her words even finished, the ocean of lightning before her significantly subsided. Both the flying electric snakes and the dense lightning net diminished or vanished by nearly seventy percent out of thin air.

On the other side, "Bluebeard" and Tayles also quickly abandoned their opponents. The former turned to a page in his magic book, also releasing a lightning net, while the latter internally constructed a barrier with "Secret Arts," barely managing to block this lightning invasion.

But while they could block it, the heavily wounded "King of Conquerors" and the Roselle-version "Medusa" were powerless against this strike. They were instantly engulfed by the lightning and vanished into the air.

The remaining low-strength "Hassans" suffered the same fate. The entity on the mountain evidently didn't hold back just because they were his own kind.

Edwina, observing from the rear, immediately felt more souls appearing within the "Silent Winter" oil lamp in her hand. Immediately after, it broke free from Vice Admiral Iceberg's control, uncontrollably soaring into the air, flying towards the mountain enveloped in lightning and black mud.

As expected, unlike the Holy Grail War in the anime of my previous life, here, as long as all the "fragments" of Old Huang's phantom are gathered, the Holy Grail can be activated... Thinking this, Ebner pretended to intercept the oil lamp but deliberately failed to keep it.

At the mountain gate, seeing the "Holy Grail" about to fly into the black mud on the mountain, Heroic Spirit Lya initially intended to shoot it down, but then she heard Ebner's command transmitted through the Command Seal and deliberately slowed by half a beat.

It was this slight time difference that allowed the "Silent Winter" oil lamp, which had been modified into the Lesser Holy Grail, to fall into the hands of a giant over five meters tall.

The strongest Heroic Spirit in this Holy Grail War, the "Profane Presbyter," finally appeared.

He casually threw the Lesser Holy Grail into the continuously gushing black mud hole at the top of the mountain. Immediately after, a spacious passage appeared behind the hole, faintly revealing a castle at its end.

The black giant ignored the two Heroic Spirits swiftly ascending the mountain, only having the black mud-contaminated monsters try their best to delay them, while he himself turned and walked towards the passage.

The black giant ignored the two Heroic Spirits swiftly ascending the mountain, only letting the black mud-contaminated monsters try their best to delay them, while he himself turned and walked towards the passage.

Seeing this, Ebner continued with his devised "script." He first had Edwina use the "Live Sand Table" to pull Tayles back to the villa, then continuously expended several Command Seals, ordering his Heroic Spirit Lya to manifest her mythical form.

Upon receiving the command, Lya didn't hesitate, directly transforming into a Sun God Bird with pure white feathers, where everything in her wake turned into an ocean of light.

The divine bird vibrated its wings, and dots of white light purified the monsters formed from contamination on the mountain path one by one. It then locked onto the five-meter-tall figure on the mountaintop and swooped towards him.

But just as Lya was about to pounce on him, the "Profane Presbyter" suddenly turned around and uttered an ancient Hermes word: "Light!"

Immediately after, his figure erupted with endless, pure radiance, seemingly transforming into the sun itself, descending upon reality.

Under the "sun's" illumination, Lya's radiant wings melted, the "ocean of light" subsided, and even her swooping speed slowed increasingly, finally stopping before the opponent, unable to harm him in the slightest.

The "Sun Chaser" was ultimately unable to harm the true "Sun."

This scene, akin to the descent of a true god, shook Klein and the others in the rear. Though they dared not look directly at the battlefield, they understood what was happening on the mountain through the "Live Sand Table."

At this point, Lya, who had manifested as the "Sun God Bird," also rapidly melted in such scorching sunlight. In a short while, she reverted to the appearance of a female knight with tattered armor and fell from the mountain.

Although this mountain wasn't high, Lya's current physical state couldn't withstand the impact of a high-altitude fall.

Fortunately, the Heroic Spirit "Bluebeard," also known as the High Summoner who believed in the Primordial Moon in life, arrived in time to catch her, and while wiping away tears, quickly opened his magic book to heal her.

But Lya's body was on the verge of collapse... Just as she had judged earlier, once she activated her mythical form, this "imagined" body would be damaged no matter what. Now, being directly beaten back to her "original form," it was just more thoroughly damaged.

However, before the outer shell collapses, I must complete the task entrusted by My Lord... Thinking this, Lya forced herself to take out a card and handed it to "Bluebeard," saying intermittently, "I can only go this far... Stopping him is up to you... Don't disappoint me, Gilles.

"This card might help you. Its activation incantation is... 'Etna'!"

Before she could finish, her body completely shattered, dissipating with the light.

"No! Your Holiness Saintess! Don't leave me again!" The deranged High Summoner was clearly influenced by the Heroic Spirit persona. At this moment, he had completely immersed himself in the role of "Bluebeard." He glared hatefully at the tall figure on the mountain, then resolutely turned to the last page of his magic book and placed that card on it as well.

.....

In the villa in the rear, Ebner, who had just recovered the evil spirit of the former Pope of the "Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun," saw this scene through the "Magic Mirror" and couldn't help but criticize himself:

"Did I make this plot too melodramatic?

"I wonder if the one on the moon will believe it..."