Chapter 743: Honor of the Heroic Spirit

A blue sports car sped through the streets of Fuyuki City. Although it was late at night, the sports car was severely speeding.

Su Xiao sat in the driver's seat of the sports car, with Matou Sakura in the passenger seat. As for Bubu Wang, it was responsible for finding Matou Kariya's traces.

Su Xiao stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, the speedometer directly exploded, which could be described as lightning fast.

Screech~

The sports car drifted through the corner. Su Xiao's expression was calm, but Matou Sakura in the passenger seat was pressed tightly against the car door, her small face pale.

The tires rubbed against the asphalt road, and a burnt smell permeated the road.

With a screech, the sports car stopped abruptly in front of the church in the city center. Su Xiao grabbed Matou Sakura from the passenger seat and got out of the car. At this time, Matou Sakura was already "wandering outside the heavens".

Su Xiao carried Matou Sakura with his left hand and held Zhan Long Shan with his right, walking slowly toward the church.

The church's main door was half-open. The night wind blew, and a few newspapers flew up. Fuyuki City at night looked a bit desolate.

Su Xiao stood at the church entrance, looking into the church from the half-open door.

At this time, the inside of the church looked like it had been blown by a tornado. The originally neat pews were scattered messily all over the church, and the ground was full of wood chips.

From the magical power that had not yet dissipated in the church's air, it could be seen that a battle had occurred here not long ago. It looked like a fierce fight, but in reality, those damages were a bit deliberate, as if someone wanted to cover up the situation at the scene.

Su Xiao walked into the church, and the heavy smell of blood rushed into his nasal cavity. Looking in the direction of the smell of blood, half a body lay on the ground. These were two legs + half an abdomen. Judging from the attire, this should be the lower body of the old priest.

There was a bloodstain as wide as a person on the carpet, and intestines were scattered in the bloodstain. The old priest might not have died after being cut in half, dragging half his body and crawling a long way.

Following the bloodstain to search, Su Xiao found the upper body of the old priest in a room inside the church.

The old priest lay on his back on the ground, his eyes closed, holding a glass bottle in his hand, which contained some white powder. There was also white powder at the corner of the old priest's mouth. He should have eaten this thing.

Just when Su Xiao thought the old priest was dead, the old priest's eyes slowly opened, very much like a corpse scam.

"You... came."

The old priest's voice was very weak, and his pupils were dim and lusterless. Su Xiao squatted down and pressed his hand on the old priest's chest. There was no heartbeat.

"Who are you."

Su Xiao's tone was not good. Obviously, the old priest should have died. With that kind of cut in half and that kind of blood loss, the probability of survival was close to zero.

"It's me, no need to doubt. I used this thing. It can let me persist until you come. I have some things I want to tell you."

The old priest raised his hand and handed the glass bottle in his hand to Su Xiao.

【Dead Apostle Bone Powder】

Origin: Fate/Zero · Holy Church

Quality: Dark Purple

Type: Consumable (Used)

Effect 1: After swallowing, it will accelerate the necrosis of body functions. When body functions are completely necrotic, consciousness will remain in the necrotic body for 30 minutes without dissipating.

Rating: 213

Introduction: A powerful "life-extending" prop, provided you can return to Reincarnation Paradise within half an hour, otherwise only death awaits you.

Exchange price: 360 Holy Church merit points

Su Xiao had seen this thing when he exchanged items at the old priest's place before.

For a lone wolf like him, this thing didn't have much significance. However, adventure groups liked to buy this thing very much. If a member of an adventure group was on the verge of death when performing the final mission, they could use this thing to let that member's consciousness not dissipate temporarily. As long as they obtained the qualification to return within half an hour, it was equivalent to picking up a life.

"The bone powder is about to expire. You came just in time, Byakuya."

The old priest learned the name Byakuya when Su Xiao signed the "Self-Forced Certificate".

"Priest, who did it?"

Although Su Xiao had already thought of a few suspicious targets, he still needed the old priest to confirm it himself.

"Nothing, just a 'monster'."

The old priest turned his head away, and apart from sadness, no other emotions could be seen in his eyes. There was no greater sorrow than a dead heart.

"Byakuya, you are a Heroic Spirit, right? Although you give me the feeling of a modern person."

"I am."

"I said so. How could a mage kill Caster and blow up Ryudoji Temple."

White patterns appeared on the old priest's skin, and his body began to turn into dust.

"Other Heroic Spirits have appeared, so to speak, you are Berserker? Incredible, I actually cooperated with Berserker for so long."

The old priest raised his arm.

"Pull up my sleeve, I have a gift for you."

Su Xiao pulled up the old priest's sleeve, revealing the old priest's strong arm. There were many Command Spells on this arm, which were Command Spells not used in previous Holy Grail Wars, collected by the Holy Church and stored with the old priest.

But now, there was nothing on the old priest's arm. Those Command Spells had been taken away.

"Did Kayneth do it? No, he has already lost his Heroic Spirit, so he should have withdrawn from the Holy Grail War."

Su Xiao couldn't figure it out. Who exactly killed the old priest and took away the Command Spells on the old priest's arm? Could it be the old priest's son, Kotomine Kirei? It shouldn't be. The Holy Grail War had just begun not long ago, and the other party shouldn't have awakened that personality of seeing others' misfortune and thus feeling pleasure.

But Kotomine Kirei was not without suspicion. When Su Xiao was fighting Hundred Faces before, Kotomine Kirei could have completely used a Command Spell to forcibly summon Hundred Faces away, thereby escaping Su Xiao's pursuit.

What was Kotomine Kirei doing at that time? Was he so busy that he didn't even have time to use a Command Spell to summon his servant away? Or did he not care about the life or death of his servant Hundred Faces at all, and even hoped that Hundred Faces would die, so that others wouldn't pay attention to him, and he would successfully hide in the dark.

"Were they all taken away..."

The old priest sighed.

"Unfortunately, I wanted to give your Master a few, thereby increasing your advantage. Command Spells are not as simple as controlling Heroic Spirits. If used properly, Command Spells are also weapons."

The old priest looked at Matou Sakura, mistakenly thinking that Matou Sakura was Su Xiao's Master. He had seen this little girl before. She was originally the daughter of the Tohsaka family, and later adopted to the Matou family. With the ability of that old worm in the Matou family, making this little girl a Master was not difficult.

"It doesn't matter, and this thing can't control my actions. Priest, do you need revenge?"

"No, it's no longer important. What Holy Grail War, this is wrong from the start. Greed from mages, mages summon those heroes, let them kill each other, it's simply absurd. Using human nature to insult those deceased Heroic Spirits, let them not rest in peace, sooner or later it will bring retribution."

What the old priest said actually made sense. Mages summoned Heroic Spirits, treated them like tools to kill each other, letting those deceased heroic souls experience the taste of unwillingness and failure.

"Byakuya, promise me, don't let those greedy mages succeed, let them get the punishment they deserve. You were right before, I shouldn't have pursued the Holy Grail."

The old priest was smiling, smiling hideously and terrifyingly.

"Can do, Priest."

As soon as Su Xiao finished speaking, the old priest's body began to turn into dust. 30 minutes had passed.

"In the end, I actually started not to understand you, my..."

The old priest's upper body drifted in the air. His last sentence was likely not said to Su Xiao, but to someone.

Just as the old priest's body dissipated, the Reincarnation Paradise prompt suddenly appeared.

【Hint: Hunter triggered hidden quest: Honor of the Heroic Spirit, accept/decline.】

Su Xiao frowned. The old priest's death actually triggered a hidden quest. After hesitating for a moment, he chose to accept the hidden quest.

【Checking...】

【Hidden quest conflicts with main quest.】

【Calculating tier, hidden quest tier is higher than main quest.】

【Checking current main quest completion, Hunter has killed three Heroic Spirits, personal main quest contribution exceeds 90%, main quest judged complete.】

【Hint: Main quest · Heaven's Cup has been completed.】

【You obtained 6 attribute points.】

【You obtained 5000 Paradise Coins.】

【Remaining stay time in this derived world, five minutes.】

【Hint: Hidden quest detected not completed, remaining stay time in derived world increased.】

【Hidden quest: Honor of the Heroic Spirit】

Difficulty level: Lv. 20

Quest introduction: Destroy all Command Spells held by Masters, or kill all Masters, until the number of Command Spells returns to zero. Current number of surviving Masters: 6 people, remaining number of Command Spells: 41.

Quest information: Dust to dust, earth to earth, where it came from, where it goes.

Quest deadline: 45 hours

Quest reward: Can specify any skill level +1 (ignoring the limit).

Quest penalty: Imprisonment in the Abyss Cage for one hour.

Quest temporary skill: Large-scale detection (Active), after use, can randomly detect the location of a Master, effect lasts for 10 minutes, this function can be used twice.

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