"Kiritsugu, you didn't come into my workshop last night, did you?"
"Huh? Not in."
“Really? Kiritsugu, don’t go into the village today. In short, just don’t go out.”
Unable to understand his father's words, Emiya Kiritsugu stood there at a loss.
In the evening, Kiritsugu, who had agreed to meet Xia Lei, had been waiting at home for a long time but failed to see her.
To this end, he took the initiative to leave the house and went to a village not far away.
After arriving at the village, he went to Xia Lei's home, but did not find the girl there.
At this moment, a burst of poultry screams suddenly came from outside the house, and Kiritsugu was so scared that he immediately ran out of the room.
The next moment, what caught his eyes was a familiar figure holding a white chicken and eating it frantically.
As if she noticed the boy's movement, the girl turned her head in panic.
"Kelly..."
"Xia Lei?!"
Kiritsugu instinctively wanted to get closer, but he found that the girl was running back in panic, not daring to let him get close.
Then, Xia Lei murmured as if she had lost her soul:
"I... I wanted to prove that the teacher's research was correct, but it seems to have failed..."
As she spoke, Xia Lei began to struggle like crazy. The dark blue veins that emerged from her deathly pale skin covered her entire cheeks like cracks. Her expression of pain and convulsions made her look like a dying person.
"Kill me—"
Suddenly, the girl gently threw the silver dagger to the boy's feet and said painfully:
"I'm so scared, I can't do it myself, so please, just kill me..."
"How could it be..."
Unable to imagine such a thing happening, Emiya Kiritsugu stepped back in fear.
"Please..."
"I can't do it anymore..."
"Before I can't hold it back any more, hurry up..."
Xia Lei gasped in pain, revealing a row of jagged, sharp teeth in her mouth. She breathed like a wild beast and even bit her arm with her exposed teeth.
Seeing this scene, Emiya Kiritsugu was completely overwhelmed by collapse.
He ran away like crazy, trying to find someone for help. As a teenager, he naively believed that there were adults who could help solve everything and save the collapsed Xia Lei.
…
Audiences were stunned to see this sudden change in the movie.
No one expected that the originally peaceful life would have such an amazing change. Xia Lei's appearance was so terrifying, completely different from the pure and lovely girl before.
"What's going on? What happened to Xia Lei? Why has she become so scary?"
"It should be the influence of magic. Emiya Kiritsugu's father is a magician. Xia Lei may have touched something she shouldn't have touched, and eventually turned into this monster-like appearance."
"For some reason, I thought of the ancient secrets of some legendary magicians. Those things can also transform humans into various inhuman monsters that eat raw meat and drink blood."
"This is outrageous. Why should such a lovely girl be treated like this?"
"Is there really no one who can save her?"
"… "
Various sounds rang out in the cinema.
People were unable to accept this shocking change and were worried about Xia Lei who was being treated so cruelly.
…
At the same time, at the Imperial Magic Academy.
The magicians were also nervous when they saw the scene in front of them. They didn't expect the change to come so suddenly, or even completely unexpectedly.
"What kind of magic is this? Why would an ordinary person like Xia Lei be turned into this in an instant?"
"Isn't there something similar in reality? The Death Knight controlled by the Necromancer is the product of normal human warriors being transformed and their minds twisted."
"The essence of necromancy is to control the dead, but Xia Lei is obviously not dead yet."
"Didn't Xia Lei just keep gnawing on the chicken in her hand? This means that she is either replenishing a large amount of energy by eating chicken, or she is sucking the blood of animals. If it is the former, then it is the influence of the necromancy spell. If it is the latter, then in a sense, she is more like a degraded version of a vampire."
"You mean, Xia Lei has been transformed into some kind of degraded version of a vampire?"
"Just a guess..."
"… "
The magicians' voices rang out, and they couldn't figure out how Xia Lei had become so horrible. It was completely beyond their expectations.
At the top of the Mage's Tower, the great sages, who had already taken their seats as usual, began to discuss this issue.
Among them, the great sage of the Undead, Dirac, spoke decisively:
"This girl has definitely not been transformed into a spirit or a being related to the undead. Not to mention that the death energy on her body is not strong enough, in fact, her condition is more like her life form has been changed."
"The life form has been changed?"
No one expected the other party to say such words so confidently; even the other great sages showed slightly surprised expressions.
Chapter 285: The final chapter of "Fate Zero" is released! (Part 4)
Chapter 285
Faced with the remarks made by the great sage of the undead, Dirac, many great sages were surprised. They obviously did not expect him to say such a thing.
In response, Sage Dirac simply said slowly:
"The condition of this girl is very similar to an experiment I saw in the Forbidden Library. In short, it was a human experiment conducted by magicians back then. The original purpose of the experiment was to forcibly change the body's form in order to create a large number of undead, thereby giving birth to the most powerful army."
"But later, the experiment naturally went wrong. What was created was not an undead army with its own will and the ability to obey orders and fight. Instead, it was like a locust, without any rationality, and madly attacked ordinary humans. It was even able to transform ordinary people into the same kind of aliens."
"Regarding the follow-up of this experiment, according to the description in the data, after the great sage at the time took action and destroyed all the mother bodies, the experiment was completely ended, and all the experimental data were burned. Only a piece of paper record was left, which was kept in the forbidden library."
After hearing Sage Dirac's speech, the great sages were shocked. They obviously did not expect that such a record would remain in the forbidden library.
After all, due to thousands of years of accumulation, the books and materials in the Mage's Tower have become so numerous that it is necessary to open up another space to store them.
Therefore, even the top sages could not read all the contents in the forbidden library.
Now, after hearing the explanation of Sage Dirac, the great sages all looked at the movie in the distance, and couldn't help wanting to know what kind of problem the girl in the movie encountered.
Will it become a devastating disaster as described by Sage Dirac
…
In the movie.
Kiritsugu Emiya fled Xia Lei's house in a panic and came to Father Simon's church.
In the church, he told the priest about Xia Lei.
So the priest decisively asked him to stay in the church and went out to inform the villagers.
But what Kiritsugu didn't expect was that as soon as Father Simon left, many terrifying figures rushed out from the darkness, bit him, and collapsed to the ground.
"ah… "
Feeling that the people outside who had turned into monsters were beginning to move towards the church, Kiritsugu immediately locked the door in fear and huddled on the ground nervously.
However, the monsters sensed his presence and began desperately trying to break down the door of the room.
Just as the door was about to be broken, a sharp sword blade suddenly pierced the monster.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Kiritsugu fled the scene.
When he turned around, he saw several robed figures holding weapons called Black Keys, who were easily able to take out all the zombies.
Soon after, the entire village began to burn, with flames reaching the sky and sweeping in all directions.
"What's going on?"
Emiya Kiritsugu became more and more frightened by the situation and tried to escape in a panic. At this moment, he met a strange silver-haired woman in a black coat.
"Who are you?"
Just when Kiritsugu Emiya was unable to understand everything, the woman had already killed all the zombies around him neatly and efficiently, and took Kiritsugu out of the hell filled with flames.
"My name is Natalia Kaminsky."
“What’s going on here?”
"You should have heard of vampires. They increase their number of companions by sucking the blood of others. The situation on this island is similar now. Almost everyone has become a Dead Apostle. At the same time, there are two groups of people trying to kill these Dead Apostles. One group is the agents of the Holy Church. They will show no mercy to vampires and will not leave anyone alive after their blood is sucked. The other group is the Magic Association. They are a group of people who want to monopolize the secrets of the Dead Apostles and will kill anyone else who might know the details."
"Which sect are you from?"
"I'm a person who does business with the Magic Association. My job is to secretly obtain the secrets they want and then sell them to them first."
Kiritsugu was slightly stunned when he heard the information Natalia poured into his head.
Natalia said calmly:
"Okay, kid, do you know where the magician is on this island?"
"magician?"
"In short, that guy is the source of this incident. He created the first vampire and brought about all the disasters. Do you know where he is?"
"… "
After hearing Natalia's words, Emiya Kiritsugu immediately fell silent, and seemed to have made some kind of decision.
…
After seeing the content of the movie, the audience's expressions were completely shocked.
It can be said that by now, they have completely forgotten that they are watching "Fate Zero", and those who don't know might think they are watching "JoJo" on the next studio.
After all, no one expected that there would be the concept of vampires in Fate, and the cruelty displayed was far higher than that in "Jojo".
You know, people who are transformed into vampires in JOJO can still retain a certain degree of rationality, but the Dead Apostles in Fate are basically no different from monsters.
Moreover, by now, most of the audience has also got a feeling.
Although the young Emiya Kiritsugu was a little immature, as long as they knew a little about what the adult Emiya Kiritsugu did, they could completely guess what action he would take next.
As expected, as the movie continues, Kiritsugu Emiya returns to his home where his father is.
Facing Kiritsugu's arrival, his father, Emiya Norikata, showed a relieved expression from the bottom of his heart.
"Ah, Kiritsugu, I'm so glad you're okay..."
Emiya Norikane hugged him tightly and complained:
"I should have told you many times not to leave the forest boundary today. Why didn't you listen to me?"
"I'm worried about Xia Lei."
"… "
"Dad knew what happened to her a long time ago, right? That's why he ordered me not to go out, right?"
"I really feel sorry about that child. I have already told her that experimental drugs are dangerous and she cannot touch them. It seems that she still can't resist her curiosity."
"Dad, why are you studying Dead Apostles?"
“Of course, it is not my intention to study the Dead Apostles. However, the research of our Emiya family will take a long time no matter what. I, or Kiritsugu, or at least your generation must come up with a way to prolong life. It is impossible to reach the ‘root’ with this body bound by the fate of death.”
"Dad... do you want to turn me into that person someday?"
"What nonsense are you talking about... A Dead Apostle who cannot completely suppress his blood-sucking urge is basically a failure. Xia Lei unexpectedly provided me with the answer very quickly. Although I spent a lot of effort on this experimental potion, the result does not seem to be ideal. I must review it from the theoretical basis again."
"is that so?"
“Kiritsugu, let’s talk about this later. We have to flee from here first. Sorry, there’s no time for you to pack. The people from the association are almost discovering the forest barrier. We have to leave immediately.”
"… If we leave now, can we still escape?"
"I had anticipated that this might happen, and I had already hidden a speedboat on the south coast. This is called being prepared."