082: God loves the world
The girls on both sides of Novia heard Novia's declaration clearly, and their reactions were naturally different.
Shion frowned cutely, but soon relaxed.
Presumably, after a brief discussion, the divided thoughts in their minds were finally resolved into a common idea. After all, she understood that those two people had been with Novia for a longer time than she had, so she could barely accept it.
However, this Sajo Aika has blonde hair. Could she be the reincarnation of Emperor Nero?
Shion glanced at Sajo Aika who was in a daze.
No, it shouldn't be. I'm already 37 years old, and there's no ups and downs there, as if it never existed. No matter how many times I reincarnate, there shouldn't be any difference in this aspect. But if it's not the case, it would be hard to accept.
Aika Sajo was in the brainstorming stage. Although she thought that Novia's words that he would not let her go did make her extremely happy, why were there two more people besides Shion? Was it possible that there would be more in the future?
"No matter what, this is too..."
Aige couldn't help but murmur, then like a student being scolded, she lowered her eyes and said no more.
Novia has said it openly, so there is nothing to complain about. If you don't like it, you can just leave.
However, if she really could never see Novia again, Aige believed that she would definitely feel lonely and sad, and even tears would well up in her eyes and her chest would burst with pain.
Because this is as it should be. Novia is the only one in my heart. I can't fall in love with someone else. Besides, everyone else is worthless except Novia. I would even sacrifice my life for him.
The past, present, and future, in this world, the only thing I like is what makes me like a human girl, everything about me...
Naturally, Novia saw through Aige's dilemma. After all, the girl named Sajo Aige was essentially a puppet that was both 'alive' and 'dead' at the same time. She understood emotions, but was unable to feel them. In other words, if she were a human being, she was missing certain 'parts', and if she were truly born as a 'human', it would bring disaster.
However, this is definitely not the case. At least, the 37-year-old Sajo Aika in front of Novia is not necessarily like this. She can play with her family and friends at will, enjoy the life of getting into trouble and being scolded by her sister, and can protect her sister when she is about to encounter danger.
Novia also understood that even if she didn't say much, Aika Sajo would convince herself to agree as if by self-hypnosis.
Because to her, the present self is more important than anything else. To be honest, anyone would be happy to be placed in the most important place in her heart, and he is no exception, because everyone likes the feeling of being valued.
However, his thoughts were still the same as when he had just returned and had not yet met Aika Sajo, that is, it would be great if she could continue to live like this. Rather than being treated as everything by her madness, he hoped that she could like him as a real "person", which was what Novia expected.
This is why Novia told Aige earlier that he did not fall in love with her at first sight.
Although I fell in love with her at first sight, since I have accepted her kindness, I must have a corresponding attitude and not abandon her and let misfortune plague me.
"Listen carefully, Aige, when you told me before that you fell in love with me at first sight, to be honest, I just regarded you as a good kid, but as I told you before, I really like Aige now."
Novia's words were without a trace of hypocrisy or concealment. After taking a deep breath, he continued,
"In fact, I know a lot about you, Aika. That's why I like you like this, the one who can happily call each other idiots with her sister, Aika Sajo."
Novia held onto Sajo Aika's arm a little tighter. Although the girl could have broken free if she wanted to, for some reason, she didn't want to do that, because at that moment, the girl felt that something had ended before it even began.
Novia is so mean. Why do you say such inexplicable things? I have almost convinced myself that I can become a real lady and do anything for you.
"Novia, if you say that, I... will still cry."
There were no tears at all on Aika Sajo's face. On her expressionless face, only her pale lips were trembling slightly.
"You will cry if I love you."
"I will cry, but I won't cry in front of Novia. I will only cry alone where you can't see me. So you will never see me cry in your life. You will only see my smile."
"Compared to the smile you always have, I hope you won't cry, but this is a bit too much to ask, so I still hope you won't hide from me when you cry."
Why did you do this? Compared to this question, why didn't you expose that I wasn't laughing and was lying? It was so obvious.
Although the girl thought this coldly mentally, her body could feel the temperature so close to her, so she was enduring the heat in her body, and she kept repeating in her mind, "Can I cool down a little?"
"Really...Since this is your wish for me, Novia, I will fulfill it."
Sajo Aika said this, and her expressionless face was now smiling naturally.
"Because I like you, Novia."
Because I like you, this feeling may come from my heart.
A slightly cool breeze blew, and short golden hair caressed Novia's cheek.
"Well, even I, the only audience, think that this confession scene is almost over. It's time to move on to the next level."
Shion said slowly and stood up quickly. She turned around and stood in front of the stairs leading to the third floor, and directly closed the split thoughts that were arguing because of the scene just now. After all, these discussions made her want to lock Novia up directly.
"...You really know how to choose the right time, the genius alchemist of Atlas Academy."
Because she lost Novia's embrace and body warmth, Aige spoke to Shion in a dim voice.
"Thanks for the compliment."
"Indeed, let's go and quickly end the Subspecies Holy Grail War here."
Afterwards, the three of them walked into the third level of the maze together, which was only one level away from the fourth level where the Subspecies Holy Grail was located.
083: Violence More Violent Than Magic
"Why, you, the humans who united the Holy Church and the Magic Association to strangle your own leader, and now you are just barely surviving, are you also interested in the Holy Grail War?"
In the deepest part of the magic cave, in a brick-built hall, the colorless magic light emitted by the Holy Grail illuminates the surroundings.
The white-skinned blood-sucking creature Wolfgang Faust in black clothes mocked the blond man in front of him. His attitude was as if he was carrying the supreme pride of an aristocracy, looking down from a high position at the pitiful creatures crawling on the ground.
The so-called vampires are undead beings born from humans who are positioned as standard creatures and children of the laws of physics. They can replenish their magic power by exhaling, maintain their bodies with a silent heart that does not beat, and suck life with their fangs.
Moreover, he was born in Arcadia, where the hunter Atalanta in Greek mythology lived, and is a vampire who has lived to this day.
Wolfgang is so proud because he was born in Arcadia.
“I am indeed a little interested.”
He was a blond man surrounded by countless angry curses, one of the twenty-seven ancestors of the Dead Apostles, the eighth seat, the White Knight, Fener Brad Sfeilding.
"People like you who have no dignity at all, do you have the qualifications?"
Wolfgang nodded in response with an elegant movement, colder than freezing, unmoved, emotionless, like a god of death waiting for the life of an innocent creature to be extinguished, then his fingertips made a circle, and then twenty light sources appeared above his head, on his right shoulder, and on his left shoulder.
"Oh? This kind of power......"
"I have already held seventeen subspecies Holy Grail Wars here, White Knight."
Following this declaration, the light source — the ultra-high-density magic power mass called the Heroic Spirit Core — began to flicker.
The magic stone crafted with the soul core as the axis is the best experimental material in Wolfgang's eyes. It is also the regret that the servants were summoned to the Holy Grail War convened with the sub-holy grail, but still fell in the "maze" with their wishes, losing their temporary bodies made of ether and having their soul cores occupied.
In other words, the Seventh Labyrinth of Elcatras has long been a giant digestive organ stomach modified by the vampires to hunt servants.
"From this point of view, I am naturally no match for you now. Perhaps only the me from 300 years ago could have had a chance." Brad said fearlessly, "But I have no ill intentions. I am here only to witness the moment of your success, Wolfgang Faust."
"Huh, you are quite sensible."
Seeing the White Knight's sincere attitude, Wolfgang naturally gave up the idea of fighting with him. After all, as long as he took the soul core of the last Servant, he could upgrade his own class and become an elf, which means nature has become a physical entity, the touch of the stars.
“If that Zhu Yue were still here, maybe you wouldn’t have fallen to the point you are today. Oh, but you’ve only gone from drinking pig blood to drinking chicken blood. Don’t count on human blood, hahahahahaha.”
Although he had no intention of fighting, Wolfgang continued to taunt.
Zhu Yue, the King of the Moon who responded to the call of the Earth, the origin of the True Ancestors and Dead Apostles, the first and strongest Ultimate True Ancestor.
However, in 300 AD, he was strangled by other True Ancestors, the Holy Church, the Magic Association and many other forces. He was eventually forced to gather all the lone ranger magicians, and was killed in Millennium City by Zelrich, known as the Marshal of Magic.
Although Zhu Yue is their leader, the True Ancestors are all Earth creatures created based on Gaia and Zhu Yue. Naturally, they are completely on Gaia's side. In theory, it is normal for them to execute Gaia's order to "annihilate Zhu Yue."
However, before that, the species of Dead Apostles were almost wiped out. The Templar Church and the Roman Empire destroyed the race of Dead Apostles themselves, crushing each other's heads, slaughtering all the vampires, and setting the entire territory on fire, leaving no grass behind. It was an absolutely destructive massacre.
Moreover, for some reason, the Demon Marshal secluded himself and was suppressed for three hundred years. The already shaky Magic Association Clock Tower and the Holy Church reached a shameful deal, and finally managed to survive in London, Britain with the supplies provided by the church.
But the True Ancestors were not so lucky. The Holy Church did not regard them as allies at all. The annihilation operation they launched caused heavy casualties to the True Ancestors who had lost the Vermillion Moon. They were unable to recover. Even Koback was hunted down mercilessly because of his identity as a Dead Apostle.
"By the way, I also heard that Kishua became a dead apostle after being ambushed by the True Ancestor after defeating Zhuyue, and therefore hid from the world. As a witness at the time, you should know this very well, right?"
Wolfgang sat on his throne in the hall, which was all bright red, both in the carpet and in the wall hangings.
This is a popular saying in the magic world today, otherwise it is difficult to explain why the Mage Marshal turned a blind eye to the catastrophe of the Clock Tower in the past.
"That's not the case, but the Demon Marshal is indeed injured."
"Zhu Yue was injured?"
Wolfgang asked with great interest. Although he had lived for a long time, he had always been in hiding, so naturally he didn't know these things.
"Although some of the Dead Apostles are saying that Zhu Yue was defeated because she was unfamiliar with magic," Brad said with a smile, "but in fact, Zhu Yue is no match for the Mage Marshal who has mastered magic. In popular terms, even Zhu Yue's maximum output is not a threat to the Mage Marshal."
"Oh? If that's the case, why was he injured? If Zhu Yue was no match for him, how could the Holy Church be so aggressive at that time when they were so powerful?"
"The answer is simple, because the Holy Church has mastered a power that is more terrifying than magic, and ultimately severely injured the Demon Marshal who defeated Zhu Yue." Brad sighed slightly, "That is what humans have always held. The so-called power of faith is, in other words, artificially created, powerful and violent."
Magic is the study of history. The good and evil deeds of people and the cycle of the stars are all determined by fate, but magic is determined by external gods.
Karma, magic, from which both humans and stars are excluded, exists as an enemy of humanity.
But those who master magic can use the specificity and transcendence of magic to erase the gap in magic technology and quality, and use violent means to change the world.
"Is it... so powerful?"
Brad's words did shock Wolfgang, but were soon washed away by new joy.
Because he felt that the dragon guarding the third floor, which he had created using twelve spirit cores, had been destroyed.
This also means that -
"It's finally here! The final sacrifice that will allow me to ascend in rank. Hahahahahahahaha, my Lord Lycaon, please bless me, the descendant of Arcadia!"
084: The Dragon's Heart Beats Again After Thousands of Years
Although the Holy Grail War held here was a subspecies of the Holy Grail War, not all the servants who appeared were unknown people. For example, in one of the seventeen games, the four servants were King Arthur, the British savior hero, Robin Hood, the legendary thief, Hassan of the Cursed Arms, and Medea, the princess of Colchis.
Without a Master, the Servants are unable to exert their full strength and can only become food for the vampires.
The guardian of the third level of the maze is the artificial dragon created by twelve spirit cores, which can be called a dragon golem or a replica of dragon power.
On its head, there are two dragon heads of the same shape - similar to what was called a two-headed snake in ancient times, which changed its appearance to a two-headed dragon in medieval Europe.
The magic contained in each fang is very close to that of a real dragon. Even the head and the bones of the whole body are probably mostly made up of real dragon bones. The limbs are covered with thicker hard armor than before, and the neck is thick and long.
It is twenty meters long in total, and the bright red magic light flickering on and off in its chest shows at a glance that it possesses incomparable magic power. Deep within its body there is an extremely large magic furnace operating, and the surrounding area is filled with magic crystals, and the entire cave is emitting a faint light.
It can be said to be the best pet for vampires to hunt servants. As time goes by, its spirit cores increase, and its strength gradually increases. Now it is an opponent that no servant without a Master can match.
And now, facing the three enemies who appeared again, the two dragon heads of the artificial dragon began to radiate magic power without interval, like heat lines, or flashes of light. The huge magic power output by the seven large magic furnaces operating in parallel was transformed into the form of magic light, sweeping the surrounding space. The shooting angle can reach 360 degrees. The freely radiating light beams brought the advantage of the two heads to the extreme, and at the same time turned into a violent blast without a clear target, bombarding the three people in front of them without distinction.
This attack, which is like a natural disaster, is a huge threat that no one in this world can avoid. In theory, even a Master or Servant without a Master in the upper three job classes would most likely be destroyed by the huge amount of magic power that has been converted.
However, at the end of the natural disaster, in front of the magical light that swept across everyone's vision, there was a warm light source called "relief" that protected the two people beside him, like the light flickering in an endless flame.
Seeing this, the artificial dragon stretched its neck and roared loudly, concentrating all the magic power in its body into its head.
Its actions clearly show that it has experience fighting Servants. Indeed, it has devoured a Servant before, and in the field of magic, there are also cases where a fake defeats the real thing.
A magic array slowly rose above the two heads of the dragon, and then the magic gathered. Finally, the two heads merged into one, radiating magic once again, but it already had a target -
Under the huge pressure of magic light, the man who was walking towards him step by step had his movements not fixed, as if the ultra-high temperature flames, great vacuum, diamond agglomerates, high-pressure water guns, and other physical attacks containing a mysterious mixture of pure magic formed by elemental transformation did not pose the slightest threat to his real body.
"A dragon? Come to think of it, I've been bitten by a real dragon."
Although Novia was facing enormous pressure from magical power, his body did not feel the slightest discomfort. This was not because his current state was similar to that of a sub-servant, but because his physical strength did not require any magical blessing. It had reached an incredible level under the unknown blessing, as if there was the remnant breath of a dragon's heart that could no longer beat in his body.
Because of this, how could the artificial dragons made from the remains of dragons that appeared under the influence of the remaining dragon factors after the Age of Gods pose the slightest threat to the true 'heart' of the dragon?
The artificial dragon looked at the person walking slowly towards him, and felt that these few seconds were unusually slow. Every minute and every second, his whole body was tortured by the dense sense of reality, as if he had instantly fallen into a sea of red fire, and felt a constant begging.
In other words, the dragon felt fear, a kind of oppression from the concept of "dragon", and even its mechanized artificial body was afraid of it.
So, when Novia was about to reach it unscathed, the dragon that had devoured the Servant fell into conceited madness.
In an instant, twelve spirit cores appeared around the body, and the madly roaring dragon golem reappeared as a massive virtual image, an ancient fantasy that should not exist in the modern era, sprinting with huge brute force—
boom!
Novia held up the huge mass of the dragon with both hands, and the power brought by the 'Dragon Heart' suddenly exploded, smashing the galloping dragon backwards, shaking the entire magic cave.
The intense pain all over its body caused the dragon to howl miserably, and then it quickly stood up and swallowed the twelve spirit cores into its mouth, turning into a red storm. The artificial dragon slowly rose up, using the magic power of the twelve spirit cores and the seven large magic furnaces in its body as the cost of a single blow -
The next moment, the red storm was obscured by the blue aurora that was immediately born. The world surrounded by the blood-red storm seemed to have instantly turned into an endless ocean of blue light.
This is because the glowing blue-black weapon appeared autonomously in Novia's hands.
