Chapter 740: Tokiomi's Heart is Bitter

"Berserker, Saber, Assassin."

When everyone was silent, the Conqueror King spoke.

"There is little meaning in continuing to confront each other like this. Although there must be a battle between us, a chaotic battle now is inevitably rash."

The Conqueror King meant that it should end here for tonight.

"Agreed." Saber agreed with the Conqueror King's point of view. Her proxy Master was present, and once a chaotic battle broke out, the possibility of the Masters present surviving was not high.

"No objections."

Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces) of the Assassin class also agreed with the Conqueror King's opinion. His assassination failed, and his aura was locked by other Heroic Spirits. Retreating now was the best choice.

The three Heroic Spirits all looked at Su Xiao, the reason being that Su Xiao's aura was the most dangerous.

"End here?"

Su Xiao hesitated for a moment, and Zhan Long Shan slowly returned to its sheath. He just put away his blade but didn't express his stance.

"Since that's the case, then we..."

Before the Conqueror King could finish speaking, Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s figure gradually faded. This was not the Heroic Spirit's spirit form ability, but Hundred Faces' A+ rank ability: Presence Concealment.

Presence Concealment (A+): Completely hide one's own aura. But when entering an attack state, the rank of Presence Concealment will drop significantly.

Hundred Faces suddenly used Presence Concealment. The Conqueror King and Saber's expressions became serious. Saber took her proxy Master and retreated quickly, soon disappearing into that abandoned factory.

The Conqueror King was more direct. Blue electric light flashed, and an ancient chariot manifested. This was the Conqueror King's Noble Phantasm, Gordius Wheel + Flying Hoof Thunder Bulls.

The Conqueror King grabbed his Master with one hand, and the two sat on the chariot. The Conqueror King flicked the reins, and the thunder bulls in front of the chariot lifted their hooves and ran forward.

Rumble.

The chariot's momentum was astonishing. Wherever it passed, two ruts appeared on the road, and electric light flashed on the ruts.

Hundred Faces suddenly concealed his aura, undoubtedly causing dissatisfaction for the Conqueror King and Saber. Their Masters were both present. What did suddenly concealing his aura mean? Assassinating their Masters?

Only Su Xiao was left on the field. Would he let these three leave? Of course impossible.

The Apostle's Eye floated in mid-air. As a pale gold quality reconnaissance equipment, the Apostle's Eye had already locked onto Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces), even though he used Presence Concealment.

Equipment effect 3: Aerial Guard (Active): The Apostle's Eye floats to mid-air or high altitude, detecting within a radius of half a kilometer. Any suspicious creature entering this range, the Apostle's Eye will issue a warning.

Hint: Aerial Guard (Active) consumes 120 points of Mana each time it is used, and the effect lasts for 12 hours.

Hint: Aerial Guard (Active) can detect 82 types of concealment abilities such as invisibility, perception shielding, underground stealth, and magical energy shielding.

Hint: The cooldown of Aerial Guard (Active) is 24 hours.

The ability of Presence Concealment looked powerful, reaching A+, but in reality, it was not so. If Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces) used "Presence Concealment" in advance, it would be difficult for the Apostle's Eye to capture the opponent's traces.

Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces) used Presence Concealment during the detection period of the Apostle's Eye. It would be strange if he could escape the detection of the Apostle's Eye.

Su Xiao connected his mental power with the Apostle's Eye. A red phantom appeared 300 meters away. Su Xiao seemed to have mastered X-ray vision, but in reality, it was not so. This was the enemy location information transmitted back by the Apostle's Eye.

For Su Xiao, who had "X-ray vision" on, Hundred Faces, this assassin who had already turned invisible, was about to be in big trouble.

Pitch-black, wearing a white skull mask, Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces) shuttled through the night. Night was his home field, whether in his previous life or after becoming a Heroic Spirit.

According to normal circumstances, Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces) should go to rendezvous with his Master, Kotomine Kirei.

Kotomine Kirei was the son of Kotomine Risei, and Kotomine Risei was the old priest.

The old priest had helped Su Xiao before. Based on the relationship between Su Xiao and the old priest, he shouldn't have chosen to deal with Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces) first. After all, this was the Heroic Spirit of the old priest's son, belonging to the old priest's faction.

Was this really the case? It was not. The old priest's son, Kotomine Kirei, had personality flaws. According to the original information, Kotomine Kirei was not in the same faction as his father, the old priest, at all.

Not only that, in the original work, the old priest was shot to death. When Kotomine Kirei saw the old priest's corpse, he had no expression. What was even more absurd was that Kotomine Kirei even felt a bit of regret at the time, regret that the old priest didn't die by his hands, because the old priest didn't understand him.

Ridiculous? Whether it was ridiculous was unknown, but from Kotomine Kirei's personality, it could be seen that he and the old priest were only in the same faction on the surface; in reality, they were not. It was just the old priest unilaterally treating Kotomine Kirei as his own person, and the most trusted one at that.

Now the old priest didn't know the true face of his son. In the old priest's heart, Kotomine Kirei was upright in character, excellent in various abilities, and the most ideal successor.

If the old priest could obtain the Holy Grail, he might not share it with his ally Tohsaka Tokiomi, but he would definitely share it with his son, Kotomine Kirei.

The old priest's faction looked like three parties on the surface: the old priest himself (Holy Grail War supervisor), Kotomine Kirei (Assassin faction), and Tohsaka Tokiomi (Archer faction).

Kotomine Kirei's servant was Hassan-i-Sabbah (Hundred Faces). Tohsaka Tokiomi's servant was the Heroic King.

Calculated this way, the old priest's faction was the strongest faction in this Holy Grail War. Even the old priest already had an idea that they had secured this Holy Grail. Unfortunately, the old priest's faction was actually two groups.

One group was the old priest and Tohsaka Tokiomi, without a Heroic Spirit. Although these two didn't cooperate sincerely, before the final battle, they wouldn't stab each other in the back.

As for the second group, it was Kotomine Kirei and the Heroic King. The two were not yet in a Master-Servant relationship, but the Heroic King felt that Kotomine Kirei was more interesting than Tohsaka Tokiomi, and from time to time, he would incite Kotomine Kirei to kill Tohsaka Tokiomi. What was even more interesting was that some time ago, Kotomine Kirei had already become a disciple under Tohsaka Tokiomi, and the two became master and disciple. This was the old priest's idea. With a master-disciple relationship, the alliance would be more stable.

Tohsaka Tokiomi was also a bitter person, not to mention being targeted by "Berserker" Matou Kariya every day, his disciple Kotomine Kirei also had the idea of killing him.

The threat from these two was actually okay. Tonight, Tokiomi used a Command Spell to order the Heroic King to retreat, so the Heroic King's determination to kill Tokiomi was even firmer. This really responded to Matou Kariya's words: it was all Tokiomi's fault.

Su Xiao didn't know if Tohsaka Tokiomi was wrong, but he knew that Tohsaka Tokiomi was destined to be the king of being shot while lying down.

Under the targeting of Matou Kariya + Kotomine Kirei + Heroic King, he didn't know how long Tokiomi could live. In short, there shouldn't be much time left.

He didn't know which of these three could succeed first. Su Xiao was more optimistic about Matou Kariya, because this big brother was persistent enough. After going mad, the only three words he would say were "Tokiomi, Sakura".

Su Xiao, who was following Hundred Faces, curled his lips. The Holy Grail War was getting more and more interesting. The Heroic Spirits weren't fighting fiercely, but the Masters' tearing-each-other-apart war was about to begin. ===== CHAPTER 741 =====