Chapter 166

Kirei Kotomine: "That place is also known as the Forest of the Dead Apostles."

Emiya Kiritsugu: "The Child of Einnashe, I have heard of this place as well."

Illya: "Forest of the Dead Apostles, do vampires live there?"

Kirei Kotomine: "No, there are no vampires there, nor any living creatures at all."

Kirei Kotomine: "Or rather, the place itself is alive."

"Hey, hey, Feng kid, do you know what kind of place this Child of Einnashe is?"

Seeing them talking in the group chat without context, Iskandar asked Xiang Junior Feng Xi.

Xiang Junior Feng Xi: "The Child of Einnashe—to talk about this place, one must first mention another creature: Einnashe, the Forest of Einnashe."

Iskandar: "Einnashe? Who is that?"

Artoria and the First Emperor also listened curiously to Xiang Junior Feng Xi's explanation.

Xiang Junior Feng Xi: "Einnashe is the seventh of the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors; it is a blood-sucking plant that can think and hunt on its own."

"Einnashe has a fifty-year cycle; once the time comes, it appears in the world to forage, and there are even records of it slaughtering an entire town."

"Every time it appears, the Holy Church sends people to try and destroy it, but every attempt ends in failure."

"It is rumored that the blood it consumes condenses into a crimson fruit on the great tree at the center of the forest, and whoever eats this fruit can become an immortal being."

Iskandar: "Appearing every fifty years, is that an ability similar to a Reality Marble?"

First Emperor: "Immortality, does such a fruit really exist?"

Xiang Junior Feng Xi: "Who knows, but the birth of the Child of Einnashe is related to this fruit."

Artoria: "Tell us quickly."

Xiang Junior Feng Xi: "Legend has it that after the fruit of Einnashe ripens, it often drips blood. Some of these blood droplets turn into seeds, which sleep underground for a time before choosing a different evolutionary path from the mother and growing."

Artoria: "I see, that is the birth of the Child of Einnashe."

Diarmuid: "All things in the world are truly miraculous."

Gilgamesh: "Hahaha, the subsequent developments should be quite interesting."

["Can you slow down?"]

[Learning that the train was actually heading toward the Child of Einnashe, Leandra could no longer remain calm.]

[Luo Dan: "There's no way, the power can no longer be adjusted."]

[The train violently changed tracks, entering a forest of ice and snow.]

[There was no choice; now they could only inform the others first.]

["There is a message to inform all passengers: unfortunately, this train has intruded into the Child of Einnashe."]

[Caules: "The Child of Einnashe!"]

[The Director: "Forest of the Dead Apostles, are you kidding me!"]

[Now the passengers on the train were no longer calm.]

["We apologize for the inconvenience caused before service is restored; please ensure your own personal safety."]

[After entering the Child of Einnashe, the train could not move forward because the path ahead was blocked.]

[Helpless, Luo Dan had to find three bold mages to get off the train and use fire magic to clear the way.]

[The three mages set fire together, but the forest remained motionless. Just as they relaxed their vigilance, they were pierced by branches that suddenly emerged, and within seconds, they were sucked dry into mummies.]

[All of this was seen by the passengers on the train, who were instantly terrified and began setting up barriers in their rooms.]

Darnic: "Three mages killed in an instant, is this the terror of the Child of Einnashe?"

Fiore: "How terrifying."

Gordes: "So this is the Child of Einnashe; just looking at the appearance, one really wouldn't think it was this dangerous."

Vlad III: "Sucking blood, how disgusting."

Having inexplicably become a vampire, Vlad III felt great disgust toward these blood-sucking species.

[On the other Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side, Shishigou and Luviagelita found a host named Mario Spinella to ask for information.]

[This guy was an intelligence expert from the Clock Tower and also a gourmet; when they found him, he was filming a show called Zombie Cooking.]

[This made Luviagelita somewhat doubt Mario's identity.]

[Mario and Shishigou were old acquaintances; after treating them to his own cooking, he got to the point and asked about their intentions.]

[Shishigou and the others were there to inquire about the headless corpse case that happened in London seven years ago.]

[At that time, seven victims had their heads cut off. After receiving the information from Shishigou, Mario suggested that those people might all have been Mystic Eye possessors.]

[Mario then told them that because of the secret obstruction by the Clock Tower and the Holy Church at the time, the case did not blow up in the media, so very few people knew about it.]

[Afterward, the Holy Church worked with Scotland Yard to investigate the case, and after some time, they announced it was solved.]

Rin Tohsaka: "So the culprit had already been out committing crimes."

Illya: "Solved? Why are there victims appearing again now?"

Emiya Kiritsugu: "It's simple: it could be a coincidence, a copycat, or perhaps the 'solved' case was just a cover-up."

Xiang Junior Feng Xi: "In the world of ordinary people, such things are not rare, let alone among mages."

[Afterward, Mario mentioned that just a few days ago, a woman from the Department of Celestial Bodies had also come to ask for the same information.]

[Luviagelita understood and immediately handed over a check.]

[Mario took the check and told them the woman's name: it was actually Trisha.]

Kayneth: "What, Trisha had already inquired about this case?"

Darnic: "It seems this case is not as simple as imagined."

[On the Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side of the Rail Zeppelin, Gray heard a tapping on the window and went to check, when suddenly a bloody hand pressed against the glass, giving her a fright.]

[Then the owner of the bloody hand appeared; it was Melvin.]

[This guy had actually caught up to the Rail Zeppelin.]

[It turned out Melvin had taken a helicopter to chase them last night and only just caught up to the train, but he wasn't watching the road and foolishly followed the train into the Child of Einnashe, where he was instantly knocked down by branches.]

[This guy was still in the mood to joke in such a dangerous place; after spitting out a mouthful of blood, he asked Gray to open the barrier to let him in.]

[After tidying up, Melvin saw Waver's haggard face and was instantly furious.]

[This is what a best friend is: only I can bully my best friend; others, no!]

"Melvin, this guy..."

Seeing that Melvin had chased after them regardless of the danger, Waver felt both moved and helpless.

Thinking about the cause and effect of how he and Melvin met, Waver wanted to laugh.

He and Melvin were classmates, and that time, because he couldn't stand Melvin showing off his wealth in the classroom, he beat him up.

Later, in order to participate in the Holy Grail War, he had to swallow his pride and ask Melvin for money, and the other party lent it to him without much hesitation.

Since then, they could be considered close.

In the video, their relationship was even closer, probably because they had shared hardships in Babylon once.

But why was this guy even weaker than him in the future, spitting blood at every turn?

He didn't know that Melvin's weakness and blood-spitting were innate; he just hadn't seen it before.

[After resting for a while, Luo Dan brought Karabo and Ivet to find Gray and the others, hoping they would help restore the train's operation to escape the Child of Einnashe.]

[Karabo, who came from the Holy Church, had some understanding of the Child of Einnashe and said that as long as they found the main ley line and set up a few markers on it, the train could continue to run.]

[They had actually asked other mages for help, but they all refused because of the three who had died earlier, even that woman, Hishiri Adashino.]

[Thinking that her master's condition had been poor since entering the Child of Einnashe, Gray agreed directly.]

[Melvin took out his violin again and used his skilled tuning magic to add some buffs to everyone.]

[Too many people going would be a hindrance, so only Karabo, Ivet, Gray, and Melvin went down.]

[Ivet also showed her Mystic Eyes, a pair of iolite-like eyes, to guide the way for everyone.]

[This gemstone Mystic Eye was a man-made Mystic Eye specially crafted by their family, fusing eight different Mystic Eye powers, and it took several generations of physical modification to adapt to it, plus Ivet's own genius, to achieve such results.]

[Ivet was currently using the Compass Mystic Eye, and its ability was naturally to locate directions.]

[With Ivet guiding the direction and Karabo searching for the ley line, they soon found the first node: a dead tree several times larger than those around it.]

[Karabo took out a specially made Black Key and inserted it into the roots, which counted as setting the marker.]

[Just as they were rushing to the next node, Add suddenly warned Gray that a very dangerous person was watching them.]

[Gray immediately understood who that person was and stayed behind to cover the rear.]

[After the other three passed, that person stopped hiding and appeared; it was Hephaestion.]

[As the saying goes, there is no point in talking to those who don't understand; the two started fighting immediately.]