Shape Moon, The Road to the Magician

We got on the car arranged by Kotomine Kirei and drove for about twenty minutes.

Looking at the city gradually getting away, Xia Yuan realized that they had reached the suburbs of Fuyuki City with more and more trees. If they drove in this direction, they would leave the scope of Fuyuki.

He was quite familiar with the location here. After all, in the years when he was in the Jidao, turf wars between organizations were common. Of course, they couldn't have large-scale armed fights in the city.

Therefore, the Fuyuki City Pier at night and the inaccessible suburbs can be considered places he often visits.

Following Xia Yuan's random thoughts, the car finally stopped in front of an older church. Kotomine Kirei helped him open the car door and said to him

"Mr. Xia Yuan, we are at our location. My father is waiting for you inside."

"I see."

After Kotomine Kirei got out of the car, the open church door showed that they had been waiting here for a long time.

"Are you back, Kirei?"

Accompanied by the deep male voice, a somewhat burly elderly priest was slowly walking towards here holding a Bible in his hand.

"Well, I'm back dad."

Kotomine Kirei nodded, then raised his hand in a respectful gesture, brought Xia Yuan to the old priest, and began to introduce him.

"This is my father, the priest of the Fuyuki District Church, Kotomine Rimasa, who is also the person in charge of this Holy Grail War. He will answer your questions next."

"Hello, I am Xia Yuan"

"Well, it's nice to meet you. The person chosen by the Holy Grail, the seventh Master, Mr. Xia Yuan."

After the two briefly introduced themselves, Xia Yuan pretended to be an outsider who didn't understand anything and asked him directly.

"Well, Mr. Father, can you tell me in detail about the Holy Grail War and this strange pattern?"

Taking off his gloves, Xia Yuan very naturally revealed the command spell on the back of his hand to the two of them.

"Sure enough, it was indeed a Command Seal."

Kotomine Rinzen carefully studied the command spell on the back of Xia Yuan's hand, and he had already confirmed the identity of Xia Yuan's seventh master.

Although he was a little surprised when he first received the information, how could an ordinary person be chosen by the Holy Grail? Is it true? Did the person who investigated the intelligence make a mistake? Now he didn't believe this outrageous thing until the facts were presented to him.

But... Ordinary people are not bad

, compared to those lawless heretical magicians. Ordinary people are easier to be controlled by them. Since then, the number of participants in the Holy Grail War has been reduced from seven to six, and the difficulty of winning has been greatly reduced. It seems that my old friend is really lucky.

"Please sit down, now that you have been chosen by the Holy Grail, I will slowly summarize for you the matters and rules of the Command Spell and the Holy Grail War."

Inviting Xia Yuan into the church and raising her hand to signal him to sit down first, Kotomori suppressed her emotions and looked at him seriously and said

"Mr. Xia Yuan, next I want to tell you a piece of news that is both lucky and unfortunate. You have been chosen by the Great Holy Grail and become one of the Masters participating in the Holy Grail War, and the red mark on the back of your hand is the best proof of being chosen.——【Command Seal】"

"Speaking of which, you and another priest have been bringing up the Holy Grail War. What is the Holy Grail? Is it the one mentioned in the Bible?"

"oh?"Hearing this, Kotomine Rizheng asked with some surprise:"Has Mr. Xia Yuan also read our teachings?"

"Ah... To be honest, I am actually a relatively devout Christian believer."

Xia Yuan put his hand into his pocket and touched it, then took out the silver cross pendant he had bought at his own gift shop and handed it to Kotomine Rimasa.

After seeing the cross in Xia Yuan's hand, Kotomine Rimasa He couldn't help laughing, and his attitude was obviously much more friendly:"No wonder, I didn't expect Mr. Xia Yuan to be a believer in the Lord. If you have time, you can come to my place to pray."

"But unfortunately, the Holy Grail is not a sacred vessel containing the blood of the Holy Son, but just a nickname. It is essentially a universal wishing machine that can grant any wish."

"Ah... It's such a pity to say this. I thought I could really see the legendary holy weapon." Xia Yuan said pretending to be sorry, with a slightly surprised tone.

"But...a universal wishing machine? Like Aladdin’s magic lamp, does that kind of thing really exist?"

"Who knows? Although the rituals of the Holy Grail War have been held several times, each time they failed due to some force majeure factors, so the Holy Grail only exists in rumors, and no one has seen it yet."

"What about the Holy Grail War?"

Seeing that Xia Yuan was a little anxious, Kotomine Rizheng waved his hand, telling him to calm down first, and continued to explain to him:"The so-called Holy Grail War is when seven selected Masters take the Servent they summoned to fight for the Holy Grail. A war breaks out for ownership, and the reward for the final winner is the Holy Grail."

After listening to Kotomine Rimasa's explanation, Xia Yuan nodded.

Although Kotomine Rimasa was a black whistle, he did not conceal the rules and other information. He reported everything truthfully. He did not know that he had made up the identity of a believer. After brushing up his favorability, he still felt that ordinary people like him were not a threat, or maybe both.

As for the failure of the Holy Grail War, he almost understood it.

Because the Holy Grail system had just been established, neither the Master nor the Servants participating in the battle had the experience and awareness to cooperate.

The Master did not even have a command seal to restrain the Servants such as a Command Seal.

As a result, the Master could not control the actions of the Servants at all.

Therefore, due to various factors, Under the influence of , the first Holy Grail War collapsed directly.

Although the Second Holy Grail War learned the lessons of the first Holy Grail War, created a command spell system, and planned various rules, it was due to factors such as instability. As a result, it failed again.

The construction of the Holy Grail system was not truly completed until the third time.

But all the bad luck happened in the third time

, because of the disastrous failure of the first two times.

The Inzbern family came up with the idea of wanting to cause trouble, and actually violated the rules and summoned Angora Mainyu, who was an additional class A.

venger.

However, they did not expect that his own strength was pitifully weak, and he quickly retreated.

However, the evil and distortion attached to it were so ridiculously strong that the Great Holy Grail was contaminated by the resentment carried in his soul.

As a result, the magic ritual failed again, laying hidden dangers for the fourth and fifth battles this time.

, maybe if it weren’t for this family’s chaos, there wouldn’t be such bad things later, maybe the Holy Grail War will come to an end in the third time, after thinking of the two androids, Irisviel and Illya From the results of the story, it seems that this family is really successful but failed.

However, I don't seem to be qualified to criticize them this time.

After all, my servant's rank seems to be Extra A.

Venger - Count of Monte Cristo.

, the same Qiu class, if the count also enters the Holy Grail, will he and Xiao An be able to purify the black mud?

No, that kind of thing is impossible no matter how you think about it ?

"……"

"Mr. Xia Yuan."

The voice of Kotomine Rimasa brought Xia Yuan's thoughts back to reality.

Originally, his work as a referee was over here, and it was time to see off his guests. But he glanced at Xia Yuan Yuan still had the silver cross hanging on his hand and the face that he didn't hate. He sighed slightly and then gave instructions:

"Mr. Xia Yuan, with all due respect, you are the only ordinary person in this Holy Grail War, so your situation will be very dangerous. The Holy Grail War is a magic ritual that revolves around the mysterious side. As an ordinary person, you have no need to take risks.

If possible, please summon Servent as soon as possible to ensure your own safety. If your Servent is destroyed during the war, please abstain immediately and rush here as soon as possible to ask for asylum from the church. Kirei and I will always be here."

"Finally, may God bless his believers...Amen"

"Amen."

After a pause, Xia Yuan also imitated the Amen gesture and made the sign of the cross.

"Thank you for your information, Father Kotomine. May the Lord bless you as well."

"Then I'll take my leave first."

"Okay, goodbye, little friend Xia Yuan. Hope you are safe and well"

…………

At the same time, in Fuyuki City, somewhere in a luxurious manor.

The elegant man with a goatee also received information from the church in Fuyuki City.

There is information about the seventh master - Xia Yuan.

Seeing the paper crane familiar flying into his hand, Tokiomi Tosaka stretched out his fingers to take it apart.

The information recorded above surprised him a little

"Oh, the seventh Master is actually not a magician, but an ordinary person involved?"

"Hmm... he seems to be a little gangster, and there are no traces of using magic or having contact with the mysterious side in his past records. It seems that he is a simple ordinary person, just a lucky person selected by the Holy Grail."

After reading the information he had just received, Tokiomi Tosaka felt disdain from the bottom of his heart, and he was full of contempt for Xia Yuan's existence.

For him, Xia Yuan was chosen by the Holy Grail and accidentally entered their ritual. There is no threat to ordinary people at all. Even if he can use the magic power of the Holy Grail and the earth to summon a Servant, he cannot provide magic power to the Servant without a magic circuit.

Therefore, this Xia Yuan is definitely the first Master to be eliminated in this Holy Grail War..

Then this Holy Grail War is only a war between six people from now on.

Now counting him, all the Masters of this Holy Grail War have appeared, and among these seven Masters, half of them are. He doesn't need to worry.

Kotomine Kirei is his trusted disciple. Not only will he not threaten him, but he will also help him win the final victory.

Not to mention the other weird ones, the already down-and-out Matou family can't even win. Suitable candidates, even giving up the third level, and the evil magic hired by Einzbern are not a concern, not to mention the ungraduated people of the Clock Tower, and now there is another one who is involved. Among them were ordinary people.

In Tosaka Tokiomi's opinion, these four contestants were no threat to him. The only one he had to watch out for this time was the famous Ore Lord of the Clock Tower, Kenneth Elmer. Luo Archipelud.

Facing Kenneth alone, who is known as the magic prodigy, Tosaka Tokiomi knew that he would have no hope if he just competed in magic. But now, the Holy Grail War is not just about magic. Achievements.

This time, even the Holy Church, as the referee, stood on his side. He also had Kirei's assistance. He had two Servants in his hands, and he even spent time to ensure victory. I bought the sacred relic that only existed in legends at a high price.——【The Relic of the Original Snake], and prepared to use this as a medium to summon the strongest heroic spirit.

With this absolute advantage, he was convinced that not even that monarch could defeat him, and this Holy Grail War was already within his grasp.

The right time, the right place and the right people are on his side, how can Feilongqi face lose?

Suppressing the restlessness in his heart, Tokiomi Tosaka's excited palms trembled a little, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but start to rise.

"Will the long-cherished wish of the Tohsaka family... finally come true in my generation?……"