All Lilith needed to do was to make him her own property. Whether the other party was willing or not was not something she considered.
The moment Lilith showed up on the barren land, countless sword arrows tore through the air and turned into an endless rain of swords that poured down.
However, for Lilith, who was invincible, there was no need to worry about such a terrifying attack.
Looking at Lilith running away into the distance, Shirou Emiya took a step forward and wanted to chase after her.
“Senior——! Stop it!!”
The white-haired Sakura managed to stand up, and with all her strength she yelled at Emiya Shirou, who seemed to have lost his mind.
Shirou Emiya's steps in chasing after Lilith suddenly stopped.
As if it was struggling with something, the purple-black "evil" that permeated its entire body was constantly surging like a quagmire, turning into various extremely distorted shapes.
“Ugh—!!!!”
A low voice came out from the depths of Shirou Emiya's throat. He grabbed his head fiercely. The purple-black quagmire kept trying to surge out. He struggled, trying to escape, but he couldn't.
Its size continued to condense until finally, all of the purple-black substance entered Emiya Shirou's body, and the burning flames around it also stopped at this moment.
"puff--!"
As if he had suffered an extremely severe attack, blood gushed out of Emiya Shirou's mouth and a feeling of weakness burst out from under his body.
Shirou Emiya suppressed the dizziness and half-knelt on the ground. Endless malice and endless pain filled his mind, wanting to devour him completely.
“Senior——!”
Looking at Shirou Emiya spitting blood and half-kneeling on the ground, Sakura Matou cried out in great concern. She really wanted to go forward and support Shirou Emiya, but her current physical condition could not support her to do so.
“Ahem! Ahem!”
“Master——!”
Jeanne on the side dragged her almost dissipated body to Emiya Shirou's side and used her last bit of strength to help him up.
The damage in this battle was too severe.
Sakura's body is extremely weak due to overload, and she may not even be able to use her own authority for the time being.
The mansion was almost completely destroyed, leaving only Shirou Emiya's more remote bedroom and an even more remote utility room.
Joan of Arc was hit by a punch from Li Shuwen Wuer, and the circuits in her body were completely destroyed, and she was about to dissipate in the next second.
Emiya Shirou is even more infected by the "evil" on the back of the moon that no one dares to touch, and he may be swallowed up by it at any time.
The most devastating thing was that Kiara Sesshōin was killed by Lilith, and Andersen disappeared along with his master.
They lost their companions forever, and Shirou Emiya watched helplessly as a life passed away right in front of his eyes, while he was powerless to do anything.
Self-blame, regret, anger, all the negative emotions surged into Shirou Emiya's heart.
At this moment————
"Hello! Hello! Hello! Can you hear me?"
A familiar voice came from everyone's ears.
Chapter 734: Connection from the Old School Building
"This voice is Leo——"
Faced with this sudden voice, Shirou Emiya immediately determined that it was Leo.
After all, he didn't do anything to hide it, so it was almost easy to identify.
Sakura had already stood up, enduring the discomfort of her body, exhaled, slowly stretched out her hand, and an illusory keyboard appeared in front of her.
"Zheng——!"
A light curtain appeared in front of them at this moment, and an elegant man wearing a black old school uniform and with short golden hair sitting on a chair appeared in front of them - Leo.
"Phew! I feel relieved to see that you are still alive and well by my side—"
Leo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the screen was connected.
"What!? Have they contacted you? Don't just stare at the screen, let us see how Emiya and the others are doing!"
A sharp female voice came from the other side of the screen. It was a voice that Emiya Shirou was very familiar with - Toosaka Rin.
"Okay! Okay! Okay! Don't worry, set it up right away, set it up right away!"
Looking at Toosaka Rin who was about to walk over with her arms folded, Leo shrugged helplessly and projected the screen onto the one behind him.
That is a place specially used for screen projection. When Shirou Emiya was in the student union to understand what the back side of the moon was like, he used the screen behind him to explain.
Suddenly, as the screen disappeared, the screen of the student council appeared in front of Shirou Emiya and the others.
At this moment, faces that were extremely familiar to Shirou Emiya appeared on the screen.
Toosaka Rin, Matou Shinji, Ginake, Leo, Julius, and Rani, who Shirou Emiya only vaguely knew.
They seemed to be the main members of the student council, but Shirou Emiya was not too surprised, because when he was in the old school building before, he had already decided who would head towards the maze that appeared, and they were roughly these people.
To be honest, they are all the most outstanding masters in this Holy Grail War, and each of them has his own talents.
"Where's Hakuno?"
After a quick glance, Shirou Emiya discovered that there was still one person missing from the student council, and that was Hakuno Kishinami, who had a Servant that he did not get along with at all.
"He is currently conquering the maze with Archer and is not in the student council for the time being—"
When Toosaka Rin saw the situation of Shirou Emiya and the others, she looked extremely anxious and couldn't help but want to ask, but was stopped by Leo, who answered Shirou Emiya's question first.
Otherwise, with one question here and another there, the answers and questions will become extremely confusing.
The interior of the student union was not as simple and elegant as when Emiya Shirou first entered.
The large table that was originally placed in the middle and could accommodate dozens of people for discussions is now nowhere to be seen.
In front of each person was a wooden table carried from the classroom, which made people feel that the students were extremely poor.
But what is even more puzzling is that the entire student union seemed to have experienced a thrilling battle. Traces of burning flames, traces of heavy blows and collisions, and traces of being pierced by various weapons can be seen everywhere on the ground.
This made the student union, which was already in a state of disrepair because the large wooden table was replaced with a small one, even more shabby.
However, if a battle really broke out, the large wooden table would definitely not be able to withstand it and would be easily shattered.
The white-haired Sakura did not turn on the screen and just stand there watching the conversation between Emiya Shirou and Leo and the others. Instead, she dragged her weak body to Jeanne's side to check on her condition.
Sakura used all her strength to stabilize Jeanne d'Arc's form. The current situation was bad enough. If Jeanne d'Arc disappeared because of this, Sakura really didn't know what to do next.
"What happened over there? Where are your servants?"
Hearing what Shirou Emiya said, Leo couldn't help but sigh, and then he told the story.
"Those are not our followers, but puppets that BB set up to monitor us. When you were attacked, those puppets attacked us without hesitation."
"The people in the student council are fine. After all, they are just puppets, not real servants. We can still deal with them. But many other masters in the old school building were injured by these puppets that suddenly jumped up."
"We can only be thankful that BB doesn't seem to have any murderous intentions towards us. The purpose of these puppets is just to delay our progress in supporting you and to destroy the functions of the old school building."
"Now that we have retrieved the memories, the only masters who truly have servants are those who survived the fifth round between you and Hakuno."
"Because the battle you and Hakuno fought was the last of the five battles, and the others had already finished fighting, so there were only five true servants at that time - Jeanne d'Arc, Wuming, Lu Bu, Andersen, and Elquet Brunstad."
"Andersen and Jeanne fell with you. Lu Bu was taken away by force by BB. Wado Moji's Servant Elquet Brunstad is extremely powerful."
"BB used her authority to release her from her frenzy, and Elquit Brunstad simply ignored the control of the Command Spell, tore open the barrier between the spirit world and the real world, and left."
"So, now the only force that the student council can mobilize to explore the maze is Shirano Kishinami?"
"Is such that--"
Leo also held his head and sighed. There was absolutely no way to do this. The remaining two servants were both Berserker-class servants, and they only had one Command Seal left to prove their identity. Under such circumstances, there was no way to stop BB from doing anything to these Berserker-class servants.
That's why they explored the maze so slowly, or rather, they could only move forward slowly.
Although Leo and the others were very anxious and wanted to rescue the abducted Shirou Emiya as soon as possible, they could not just ignore everything and put Kishinami Hakuno in danger.
Every time they explored the Sakura Labyrinth, they were fully prepared. Even if the situation was so urgent, they would let Kishinami Hakuno get enough rest.
What's more, Leo also guessed that since BB chose to kidnap Shirou Emiya instead of killing him on the spot, and even the puppets responsible for monitoring them had no intention of killing, then Shirou Emiya must be safe now.
At least there should be no danger to life.
But from what we can see from the footage from Emiya Shirou's side, it doesn't look like his life is not in danger.
Chapter 735: The Vanishing Jeanne
"Emiya, what's going on over there right now!?"
Without Leo asking, Toosaka Rin couldn't wait to ask. After all, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Shirou Emiya had just experienced a big battle.
There were traces of battle everywhere.
The mansion was almost in ruins.
The ground was shattered like a spider web.
A wasteland filled with swords and arrows.
A raging fire that burns everything around.
There are also three people who can obviously feel weak: Shirou Emiya, Sakura Matou, and Jeanne d'Arc.
If Shirou Emiya had not been able to communicate with them calmly at this time, Leo would not have solved the other party's questions before asking about the situation over there.
The battle seemed to be over, and there should be some time to rest, but Leo was not sure whether there were any rooms in such ruins.
"The servants from the next floor are launching a surprise attack on us—"
Without too much detailed explanation, Leo and the others instantly understood why it turned out like this.
It is obvious that Shirou Emiya has experienced battles, but he just doesn't know who he fought against.
"What were you doing down there? All the servants on the upper level disappeared. Were they transferred to deal with you?"
Leo quickly figured something out. After all, he was fully aware of Shirou Emiya's strength, and Jeanne was an equally powerful servant.
Even if Shirou Emiya is unable to release his Noble Phantasm, simply using his personal skills is enough to deal with normal servants, and it is even possible for him to counterattack.
In addition, a considerable number of those called down were Shirou Emiya's former opponents. It can be said that Shirou Emiya still has experience in dealing with these servants.
If you want to defeat Shirou Emiya and Jeanne, you will need at least three Servants.
If we follow this line of thought, it can completely explain why BB transferred so many servants away, the purpose of which was to stop Shirou Emiya.
"Break through a layer——"
"When did you wake up—"
"The day before yesterday——"
"hiss!"
The speed was a bit too fast. They were in a stalemate with Cu Chulainn for a long time on the first level. It took them two full days to break through the first level. If Cu Chulainn had not been urgently transferred away by BB, they would have been able to break through the first level now.
After all, they have to deal with not only Cu Chulainn, but also the maze guards who are like an army. Among them there are even some beings created by BB with special abilities, which makes them a little overwhelmed.
"The depth of the far side of the moon is just like this. You are now on the 17th floor. After passing the 18th floor, you may reach a position very close to the Mooncell. In other words, you are now very close to BB."
"She may have thought that you were unable to capture the place so quickly, or that you would never be able to escape her captivity, so she chose to bring you to such a deep level."
"I just didn't expect you to conquer the floors so quickly. If I continue to let you go down, you might catch up before BB reaches the Mooncell, and then I will hurriedly recall those Servants on the upper floors."
Leo thought about it for a moment and then gave an answer.
"Is that so? It seems that we are quite threatening—"
Shirou Emiya gave a bitter smile. His mood right now was extremely bad. Anyone who saw his companion die tragically in front of him would not have any other emotions.
Lilith doesn't care about human life at all, just like Esdeath he had met before, both of them have indifference to human life in their eyes.
"We have now reached the 10th floor because there are no servants blocking us. If there are still no servants blocking us, we should be able to reach you the next day—"
After careful consideration, Leo gave a more conservative answer. At their current speed, they should be able to conquer five floors a day, and Kishinami Hakuno would need to come back to rest and replenish his magic power and energy.
"Although I may have guessed it, I still want to confirm it from you, Sesshōin--?"
"He has lost his life—"
Shirou Emiya lowered his head and began to feel endless regret and self-blame.
