Chapter 120

Looking at the nervous Waver, Iskandar laughed and patted him on the shoulder. "Hahaha, don't worry, how could I do anything stupid? But since Gilgamesh can do it, I must be able to as well."

Iskandar was a man of great pride. Although he didn't show it as obviously as Gilgamesh, his inner pride was no less than Gilgamesh's.

On the side, Gilgamesh raised his head to look at Iskandar and sneered, "Heh, if you want to commit suicide, I don't mind collecting your corpse."

Gilgamesh had already seen through the essence of the black mud—that is, the denial of human guilt. Modern people generally only want kindness and deny sin, so they have guilt. Thus, the black mud can use this 'sin' to corrupt and swallow them.

But Gilgamesh was different. He believed that existence is reasonable; whether it is kindness or evil, it has its necessity. And he was a King; what he had to do was control both good and evil in his own hands. This series of reasons led to the black mud being unable to corrupt him and only being able to reject him.

Many people looked at Gilgamesh's performance in Fate/Stay Night and said that he was so evil because he was corrupted by the black mud and his personality changed drastically. In fact, that wasn't the case at all. How could the black mud influence a King's thoughts? The so-called 'evil' in FSN was just him discovering that human society was 'sick,' so he wanted to destroy this world and lead the surviving humans to establish a new order similar to Uruk.

Having figured this out, Lin Ye looked at Iskandar and said:

"Iskandar, I don't deny your dominance, nor do I think your King's Way is weaker than Gilgamesh's, but... you wanting to obtain a physical body from the black mud... is not necessarily possible."

Lin Ye felt he had persuaded Iskandar enough, but there was no helping it. Who was Iskandar? He was the King of Conquerors! How could he be persuaded by Lin Ye!

"Hahaha! Since you don't want that Holy Grail, then just offer it to me! I want to try it and see if I can obtain a physical body!"

Seeing Iskandar like this, Lin Ye stopped saying anything. He raised his wine cup and said to Iskandar, "Then... I can only wish you a smooth journey."

Watching Lin Ye raise his cup, everyone present raised their cups simultaneously. At this moment, they drank the wine in their cups in one gulp.

Lin Ye's banquet ended, and at this moment, everyone began to bid farewell to Lin Ye.

Iskandar left with Waver, and Diarmuid left with Kayneth. But when it came to the Assassin, the Hundred Faces looked at Lin Ye.

"Master, I won't fight for the Holy Grail. In the future, can I follow you?"

"Of course," Lin Ye welcomed her. The Hundred Faces—he didn't expect her to go up and fight or anything. Lin Ye now had Mana A, so supplying Jeanne and the Hundred Faces was no problem. As for the King of Knights, Irisviel was enough. As for Katsushika Hokusai, she was a Foreigner, so he could just supply her mana.

"However... looking at it this way, next time I need to obtain some mana attributes, otherwise, supplying the Heroic Spirits won't be enough."

Lin Ye thought, then took out Rule Breaker and stabbed the Hundred Faces in the chest!

Swish!

In an instant, in the Tohsaka basement!

"Ah!"

Kirei Kotomine felt a pain in the back of his hand, and then he felt he had lost his connection with Hassan of the Hundred Faces.

"What's wrong? Kirei?" Tokiomi Tohsaka asked on the side.

Kirei Kotomine raised his wrist and said, "Assassin has left."

"Left... I see," Tokiomi Tohsaka nodded. "Now that the Holy Grail is corrupted, she has no reason to fight for it. Left, it's better that she left."

Tokiomi Tohsaka was truly disheartened; he didn't want to fight for the Holy Grail anymore. A corrupted Holy Grail—he really had no reason to fight for it.

He prepared to go back and check the literature to see if there was any way to get the black mud out. Tokiomi Tohsaka patted Kirei Kotomine on the shoulder and said, "Go back. Everything is over. Take a good bath and rest. I've troubled you during this time."

Tokiomi Tohsaka left after speaking. Looking at his back, Kirei Kotomine lowered his head. "Giving up just like that... didn't you hear that the black mud said they wanted to descend into this world? How delightful..."

Kirei Kotomine turned and left the Tohsaka residence silently. He, for one, didn't want to give up at all...

At the same time, in the darkness, Kariya Matou had also secretly watched this scene. He hadn't attended the banquet, but he had secretly watched the whole thing. "That old guy! He lied to me again!"

Seeing this, how could Kariya Matou not understand? Lin Ye wasn't a villain who kidnapped Sakura; he was the benefactor who saved her!

"The Holy Grail is corrupted? I really don't know what expression that old guy will have when he finds out! But, will the Holy Grail fulfill every wish in the most evil way? Then, what if my wish is evil?"

Making someone die—that's not a good wish, after all.

Kariya Matou thought of this and left.

And at Kayneth's magic workshop:

"My lord, let me escort you away," Diarmuid said to Kayneth.

Kayneth was stunned. "Leave? Why leave? I originally came to gild my resume... no, I originally came aiming for victory in the Holy Grail War. If the Holy Grail can't grant wishes, so be it. Kayneth, winning the Holy Grail War single-handedly and solving a crisis that could threaten the world... no, threatening the world is a bit exaggerated, solving a major crisis threatening Japan—this resume is beautiful enough, right?"

"Does my lord want to solve this human crisis? Then, Diarmuid is willing to continue being my lord's spear."

"Hahaha! Good! Diarmuid, once we solve this, you come back to the Clock Tower with me! Don't worry, with my status as one of the twelve Lords, supplying you with mana is no problem."

The Holy Grail being corrupted was important to some people, but it didn't matter to others.

As for Lin Ye... it mattered even less.

Now, Lin Ye was in his bedroom, saying to the system in his mind:

"System, draw me a new target."

[Congratulations, Master, for drawing the target characters: Cu Chulainn, Scathach.]

(Fate/Zero is almost over, starting to lay the groundwork for what's next. Cu Chulainn is quite versatile, can be written for FGO or FSN, and... there's also the Master!)