Just as Lord Locke Belfebon of the Summoning Department was meeting with the last Master, no, the Quasi-Master, the Quasi-Masters of the Thousand World Tree Clan were also thinking about the sudden abnormal situation.
Gold accompanied Danic to inspect the most important core area of Mirenia City besides the Holy Grail Altar, the artificial man-made house.
After patiently walking around the workshop, the short and fat Gold couldn't help but ask, "I heard that you helped one of the magicians who invaded the territory return alive?"
"Yes." Danik nodded, "According to our situation, we gave him a hint that he could take revenge."
"Why do you do that?"
Danik did not answer, which only aggravated Gold's dissatisfaction.
The Mujik family, from which Gold was born, was once known as a famous family in the field of alchemy, on par with the Einzbern family. However, before Gold was born, the bloodline of this family as a magician had already embarked on a path of no return to decline.
After years of not being able to achieve significant results and failing to rise to a high position in the Magic Association, the once famous family was reluctantly merged into the Thousand World Tree, which the Mujik family regarded as a great shame.
Since he was a child, Gold's parents have constantly instilled in him how superior the Mujiks were. Even now, at the age of thirty-six, he still cannot distinguish between reality and ideal, and the only thing that thrives is the pride that "he was once a prominent family."
Gold is the first child born since the Mujik family and the Yugdomirenia family were linked together. He is a first-class magician who has been born for a long time. This incident also makes his self-esteem in his bloodline grow excessively.
It is undeniable that Gold is indeed a first-class magician and has made outstanding contributions to the development of the Thousand World Tree Clan and this Holy Grail War.
He did not use the resources of the Thousand World Tree, but relied on his own talents to develop the magic of the Mujik family to a new level. Moreover, he successfully connected with the Einzbern family. Since the Holy Grail was taken away, the Einzbern family changed its closed style and began to communicate with the outside world. It is now a well-deserved giant in the field of alchemy.
Gold obtained the precious artificial human technology from Einzbern. The artificial humans mass-produced using this technology are an indispensable fighting force for the Thousand Worlds Tree Family.
More importantly, before the Holy Grail War began, a violation-level system interference - the division of the magic path - was proposed and realized.
To maintain the Servants summoned in the Holy Grail War, sufficient magic power must be provided, and this magic power should be provided by the Master. However, ordinary magi need to burn their lives just to maintain the presence of these praised Heroic Spirits.
Gold successfully diverted the huge amount of magic power needed by the servants and handed it over to the artificial humans created specifically for the purpose of supplying magic power. The culture tanks that Danic and Gold were inspecting were the ones that held these artificial humans.
No matter how good the magicians sent by the Magic Association are, summoning and using servants is a big burden for them. As long as this burden is removed, the gap in strength between the two sides will be greatly reduced.
Not to mention, this abundant magic power allows the servant to abuse the Noble Phantasm without scruples. That is the servant's trump card, with the power to instantly overturn the situation, but it requires a huge consumption of magic power. Now that this limitation has also been eliminated by Gold, no wonder he is so arrogant.
In his eyes, Danik, who developed the weak Thousand World Tree Family into a behemoth without attracting any attention, was just a villain who could only play politics. Apart from that, he had no other talents.
When Gold thought of the leaf he had prepared for the Holy Grail War, his confidence swelled unprecedentedly. He was the most outstanding hero in Northern Europe and even the whole world. Even in Romania, he would not lose to Mago Vlad III.
Whether it's the Magic Association that doesn't recognize the Mujik family, or the Einzbern family that prides itself on being the best in the field of alchemy, or that Danic who acts like the boss, you all have to keep your eyes open.
I, Gold Mujik Thousand Worlds Tree, am the pillar of the clan, and only I can lead the Thousand Worlds Tree clan to win the Holy Grail War.
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Of course, the other prospective masters are not as arrogant as Gold.
Serenika was venting her excitement in her workshop.
She is a black magician. She was born in the Eskel family, which has a relatively old bloodline. However, due to the prevalence of witch hunting in the Middle Ages, they had to flee from Western Europe to Siberia. As a result, they lost their magic base and embarked on a path of decline.
Serenika was a long-awaited newborn to this declining clan. The old ladies who had devoted their lives to the study of black magic doted on Serenika and thoroughly instilled black magic into her.
Black magic is a special kind of magic that requires a higher level of spirituality than magic talent. The prerequisite for learning black magic is to see if a person can disintegrate living sacrifices without hesitation. Wild animal cubs, human babies, kind humans, tame beasts, old people, old dogs, pregnant women, human or animal fetuses - try to be able to not be deceived by the plea if the pain is necessary.
She was taught to conceal her appearance and control her inner self. If she indulged in the joy of killing, she would be disqualified as a black magician.
If killing is necessary, then kill. If pain is necessary, then only give necessary pain. Serenika is indeed an excellent black magician. When offering a living sacrifice, she can use her iron will to control her reason and complete all cruel rituals brilliantly.
Yes. She really, completely suppressed her passions, whether it was the joy of hurting or the pleasure of sadism, because they were very dangerous elements for a black magician.
Therefore, when Serenika took off her identity as a black magician, she completely indulged her excessive desires. She made a living by killing with curses, and she was a being that went back and forth between the boundary between a magician and a mage.
The way she indulged herself was to defile and violate the people who were interested in her, mostly beautiful boys, and give them pain and suck their tears. There was not even one person who could spend a night with her without any harm.
Now, she was gazing at a tortured and bruised boy with extremely innocent eyes, and whispering in the boy's ear with an excited tone that was almost flying - even though the boy's eardrum had been destroyed by her and he could not hear any sound.
"The Holy Grail War was originally a ritual that was initiated by the mutual hostility of Servants. However, Danic tampered with the structure of the Holy Grail War, making all seven knights belong to the same faction, and successfully made the Servants become exclusive to us, the Thousand World Trees."
"The level of magic of a mere human is no match for the power of a Servant, but this gives them enough power to fight against the Magic Association - that's pretty impressive, isn't it?"
The woman, her body filled with a strong smell of blood, reached out to touch the boy's face, only to find that the boy's body was already cold.
"What? He's already dead. How boring."
Serenikae glanced at the corpse on the ground with disgust, then turned and walked towards a locker that was equipped with various protections.
There was a glass bottle there, and the little dirt on it made it look like it was filled with some liquid. Whenever she thought of the Servant that was about to be summoned, Serenika's lower body couldn't help but tremble.
Really, I want to see you soon, really, really, I want to defile you! (This girl is a hentai, it's a pity that she looks so cute.)
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Roger, who had just entered adolescence, came to the battlefield where Vlad III destroyed the magicians yesterday.
Although the battlefield itself has been pierced by Berserker's Noble Phantasm and there is no danger, this is the edge of the Thousand World Tree territory after all, and the enemy may invade at any time.
I don't know whether the young man dared to appear in such a place alone because he was ignorant and fearless, or because he really had something to rely on.
Roger's eyes did not linger on the bloodstains on the ground or the marks left by the "rafters". All his attention was attracted by the puppet that had been destroyed by the magicians before.
Picking up a piece of the puppet's debris, the boy wrinkled his nose in dissatisfaction.
"Tsk~ As expected, the puppets I made can't hold up if they encounter a magician with some skills."
That’s right, the puppets used to guard and fight off invaders at the border are all Roger’s works.
The Forlain family, where Roger was born, was a well-known family in the field of puppetry. The people of this family treated the golems as wet nurses for their children, and until the children were old enough to undergo imprint transplantation, they almost never left the workshop, never met with the children, and even completely neglected their education.
In this way, the children of the tribe became close to the golem. The children took it as common sense that the puppet imitated human movements, speech, and continued to work day and night.
The magus who grew up with this strange education lived not as a human, but as a golem. Although he could not even remember the faces of his parents, he remembered every shape of the golem that had taken care of him.
Roger was the same. He had no interest in humans, not even the greatest magicians. Of course, he would sometimes talk to people. Sometimes he would make deals, and sometimes he would fight with people for precious materials. But there was no spiritual connection between people or magicians.
The only things that could interest him and make him smile like a child were puppets and people who were superior to him in the same field. The Servant he summoned was such a being, and he had summoned his own Servant two months ago.
The young man's mood changed quickly. After a while, Roger no longer cared about the performance of the puppet. He cast his gaze towards the area outside the Mirenia Fortress with infinite longing on his face.
"It's good that Danic has let all seven servants fall into our camp, but in order to activate the Holy Grail ceremony, we still have to kill a certain number of servants. In this case, we have to kill each other."
"But now, this part is made up by the Magic Association. They will summon seven servants for us to kill."
"Haha, yahahaha, summoning seven heroic spirits was already impressive enough, but now there are twice as many."
"I'm so excited I can't stop."
Stretching towards Tuliphas, the boy had never been so eager to see the Holy Grail War coming.
PS: Fate is a group portrait drama after all, and the masters always have to explain their background and personality, otherwise the development of the story will be a bit troublesome, and the treacherous young master also needs to dig a few holes here.