Another theory is that he was assassinated by hostile Wallachian nobles.
The head was preserved in honey by the Ottoman army and taken to Constantinople, where it was impaled on a stake for public display.
When the Black Castle was destroyed, Shirou Emiya asked Danic about some things about Vlad III in another villa.
Vlad III told Danik that his fate was to die in battle.
However, Vlad III was assassinated by nobles.
"Look at this wonderful offering! God has once again given us a rare opportunity! Right, Bloody King!"
As if he was communicating with someone, Vlad III spoke to himself with a mocking and angry expression, and Lan Lujun beside him had no intention of stopping him.
Instead, he stared straight at Emiya Shirou with those sticky eyes.
At this moment, Vlad III's words were full of madness, yet extremely calm, as if he was a madman with reason.
"Your heroic, noble gaze shines brighter than the moon!!! It is an honor to have you in this world."
"But I'm going to use this gun to penetrate your strong limbs!"
"If you want to know why!"
"Because I love people like you so much."
"At the funeral, the priest said that the deceased was so loved by God that he was invited to heaven!"
"Love is death, and death is love! Because I love you, I want to kill you. I want to use the gun in my hand to pierce your body."
The will to fight reached its peak at this moment. The crazy expression and calm words intertwined with each other, making Shirou Emiya unable to tell whether Vlad III in front of him was really crazy.
Chapter 570: Use Your Blood
As Vlad III's words fell.
The orange-haired woman in clown costume named Lanlujun also turned her head slightly and nodded at Vlad III who was bursting with strong fighting spirit.
A dark golden spear that looked like the spine pulled out of some living creature appeared in Vlad III's hand.
"Then, use your blood to complete this blood sacrifice!!!"
As these words came out, Emiya Shirou felt as if he was being stared at by some other kind of creature, and his back suddenly felt cold.
Shirou Emiya had experienced this feeling before, when he met a vampire named Dracula at Tokyo Butei High School.
"Buzz!"
Scarlet magic power suddenly exploded in Vlad III's body, and he slowly raised the dark golden, bone-like spear in his hand.
The power on his body began to rise rapidly.
He seemed to be waiting for something. Although his fighting spirit was already so strong, he still did not immediately launch an attack on Emiya Shirou.
Even though he has fallen into madness at this moment, even though he has been abandoned by his own beliefs, even though no one can understand him, he is still a glorious warrior.
Moreover, he was also worried that Shirou Emiya's Servant was an Assassin, and when he launched an attack, he would quietly attack his Master in the surrounding bushes.
Only by knowing the location of the enemy servants directly could Vlad III fight them with confidence.
"Where's your Servant? Call him out!!!"
Vlad III looked at the empty surroundings of Shirou Emiya, where he could not sense the presence of any Servant at all, and burst out with a strong fighting spirit and roared at Shirou Emiya.
At that moment, he walked forward without hesitation.
The evil spirits quickly surrounded Shirou Emiya, and his hands were tightly grasping two guns, one black and one white.
"He has things he needs to do-!"
Shirou Emiya did not give a direct answer to Vlad III, nor did he tell him that he did not have any Servant.
In this contest where all contestants must have their own Servant, no one would have thought that there is one person who doesn't even have a Servant.
Even this contestant without a Servant managed to make it through one round.
Almost everyone who fails to find Shirou Emiya's Servant will subconsciously think that his Servant is hiding somewhere else, or is an Assassin who is not good at frontal combat and can hide his aura.
In the Holy Grail War, there has never been an idea that one cannot take action against the Master.
This battle is not only a test for the Master, but also a test for the Servants. They need to complement and help each other.
Shirou Emiya can also take advantage of this information gap to distract the opponent when fighting with him, allowing himself to gain more advantages.
However, it was only after Toosaka Rin's reprimand that Emiya Shirou did not reveal the information that he had no Servant.
Otherwise, he really intended to tell his opponent that he had no servants and fight his way forward.
It's just that this kind of thing can only slightly affect the enemy servants. If you don't have the corresponding strength, such a little trick will not be able to stand out at all.
"You guy!!!"
Vlad III looked at Shirou Emiya who was walking towards him with an extremely determined look and without any fear at all, and couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart. Then he looked in the direction of Lan Lujun behind him.
He did not sense any unusual presence around him. It couldn't be that the Assassin's aura was so obscured that he could not sense it.
If this is true, then even if he is right next to his Master, the Assassin will be able to succeed.
Is he bluffing?
Vlad III's mind worked frantically for a short while, and then he tightly gripped the gun in his hand.
No need to think so much.
If Shirou Emiya's servant doesn't show up again, then don't blame him for accepting Shirou Emiya's blood without hesitation. Vlad doesn't believe that there is such an Assassin who doesn't even reveal the slightest trace of his aura.
"You and your Servant will pay the price for your pride!"
Vlad III lowered his body slightly, then suddenly let out a low roar, stomped on the ground, waved the spear in his hand, and rushed towards Shirou Emiya like a missile.
Wearing heavy armor, Vlad III was not that fast, and was not even as light as Drake, whom Shirou Emiya had fought before.
At least in terms of running speed, Drake was far superior to the armored Vlad III in front of him.
He was able to burst out with the speed of a missile, and he was able to do so by relying on his own powerful strength to stomp the ground.
Rather, this method of rapidly rushing towards the enemy is a skill that most people can master, and Shirou Emiya often approaches the enemy in this fast manner.
No one will give you time to prepare for the sprint, and the outcome of the battle often happens in an instant.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The moment Vlad III rushed towards him, bullets shot out from the muzzle of the gun in Shirou Emiya's hand, covering him in a very short time.
However, the speed of flying does not represent the speed of attack, nor does it represent skills and techniques.
Even Achilles, who possesses the fastest speed and agility of all human heroes and is even A+ level, finds it difficult to effectively suppress Arthur in close combat.
It is even possible that they can find your corresponding weaknesses and launch a counterattack.
At the same time, this gave Drake a huge headache. The spider-web-like barrage was nothing in Vlad III's eyes.
Vlad III faced attacks from all directions, penetrating every corner and leaving no blind spots. The spear in his hand trembled slightly, and several gun flowers appeared in front of him.
“Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!”
The sound of bullets being deflected continued to be heard around Vlad III.
Bullets fired from normal firearms are not a threat to servant-level beings.
Even a magician can block fired bullets through some means, not to mention servants with more powerful abilities.
But that was just a bullet fired from a normal firearm.
Just like the arrows shot by Archer are quite different from those shot by normal people.
Most of the arrows shot by Archer can hit the enemy thousands of miles away, and their power is even more terrifying than some sniper rifles.
Chapter 571: The Piercing Prince {Edited}
But in reality, the effective range of arrows shot by ordinary people is generally 100 meters. If the bow and arrow used are of good quality and there is a strong soldier with amazing strength, the maximum killing range of the bow and arrow can even reach 300 meters.
Compared with the arrows shot by the servants, this kind of lethality is nothing compared to them, or even not even a small one.
Firearms can be considered an extension of bows, using machinery to replace manpower to achieve goals that human power cannot achieve.
Those servants who can fight with guns are not weak. They can even use the guns in their hands to easily kill other servants.
Just like Drake, when she was a servant, the power of the bullets fired from the flintlock in her hand could naturally not be compared with those in front of her.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to collide with the bullets shot by Shirou Emiya in such a hail of bullets.
Instead, it was easily torn into pieces by the bullet shot by Emiya Shirou.
You should know that the double guns in Shirou Emiya's hands are not just simple modern weapons with reverse blades.
However, since it was modified from the Romantic Turret, whose power would increase according to the degree of crisis faced by the user, and with some improvements made by Shirou Emiya, the power of the bullets it fired should not be underestimated.
In addition, the bullets forged by Shirou Emiya are not ordinary products. Their quality and penetration are both top-notch.
Even so, the bullets fired by Drake and the bullets fired by Emiya Shirou could collide violently in the air, and then change their trajectories or explode.
This is enough to show that the power of the flintlock in Drake's hand should not be underestimated.
If Drake's own condition allowed, she might be able to do the same as Shirou Emiya and accurately hit the enemy thousands of miles away with just her dual guns.
If most Servants can completely ignore guns and easily block all incoming bullets, then those Servants like Drake who hold guns have almost no ability to confront other Servants head-on except for their Noble Phantasms.
And now, the power of the bullets in Shirou Emiya's hands is not only several times that of bullets fired from normal firearms, but it even has a technique that makes people applaud.
Vlad III simply had no ability to deflect all the bullets shot at him from all directions.
But he didn't need to isolate all the bullets. He just needed to block those that were flying towards his head.
Because except for his exposed hands and head, Vlad III was covered in pitch-black armor.
The spider-web-like barrage of bullets was no threat to Vlad III.
Most of the sounds, which sounded like something hitting something and then bouncing off the target, came from Vlad III's armor.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Facing Vlad III who was shooting towards him, Shirou Emiya retreated violently without stopping the shooting movement in his hand.
The bullets that were deflected by Vlad III also hit Shirou Emiya in an instant. The bullets that continued to be shot at Vlad once again formed a more complex barrage, continuously invading Vlad III.
In just the blink of an eye, Shirou Emiya replaced a new magazine between his double pistols.
Although this pair of black and white guns can shoot when empty, now that there are sufficient bullets, Shirou Emiya quickly reloads them.
After long-term training, Shirou Emiya can even complete the reloading in less than half a second.
"boom--!"
Red flames sounded behind Vlad.
That was the flame produced by the explosion of the bullet with explosive power.
Although there was only one magazine left, Shirou Emiya had already thought of a response strategy for this situation.
He was also glad that he was so skilled in using firearms. With the coordination between long-range and close combat, Shirou Emiya was able to exert most of his strength.
Otherwise, Shirou Emiya can only fight the enemy with close combat, which is his least savvy, and he doesn't know what kind of crisis he will be in.
"call out!"
At this moment, the dark golden tip of the spear turned into a dim shadow, and with unstoppable force, it viciously stabbed towards Shirou Emiya's neck, aiming at Shirou Emiya's throat.
The dark golden spear seemed to turn into a flash of lightning, and the surrounding air currents were also stirred fiercely at this moment.
"Qiang——!"
With a sound like steel hitting steel, the blade and the spear collided heavily, causing the impact force to vibrate at the collision point and sparks to burst out at this moment.
As Shirou Emiya's double-pike blades slashed fiercely, Vlad III's dark golden spear brushed past Shirou Emiya's helmet, tearing out a violent spark and piercing the air beside his head.
"boom--!"
A scarlet bullet came flying from the side and accurately hit Vlad III's right arm, causing a violent burst of fire.
Vlad III seemed to not care at all and casually waved the spear in his hand to deflect the bullet flying towards his forehead.
"call out!"
The dark golden spear in his hand once again tore through the air, making a sharp sound, and stabbed towards Shirou Emiya like lightning.
