Chapter 268

Kayneth: "A secret basement, sure enough, there's a problem."】

Waver: "Does that Father Fernande know about the existence of this passage?"】

Kayneth: "Heh, he stays here all day, do you think he wouldn't know?"】

【At the same time, on the square Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side.】

【Sister Irmia received a letter addressed to her from the old man who ran the grocery store and frowned faintly.】

【"... h, it's here."】

【On the other Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side, Gray's mother was accompanying an old woman with a withered figure.】

【The old woman is the oldest person in the village, who should have long exceeded one hundred years old, so everyone respectfully called her Grandma.】

【Suddenly, Grandma's lips, which were like withered leaves, moved.】

【"There is a sound from the basement."】

【Gray's mother: "From the basement?"】

【"Yes, a very distant sound, I only heard it once when I was a child, and I haven't forgotten that sound until now."】

【Grandma murmured: "Gray's completion is very good."】

【Gray's mother laughed: "Yes, the moment for that child has finally arrived."】

Shishigou Kairi: "Is it a magical alarm left behind? This isn't surprising."】

Waver: "A centenarian in the village, it seems this one is the main person in charge of this village."】

Emiya Kiritsugu: "Lord El-Melloi II and their actions seem to be in other people's plans."】

Emiya Kiritsugu: "I have great doubts about whether this is the timeline of the past."】

【The screen returns to the church Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side.】

【The two walked down the stairs cautiously, constantly checking to prevent encountering mechanisms.】

【Lord El-Melloi II walked in front, casting spells to circulate the air while creating a ball of light for illumination.】

【Gray: "Where is this..."】

【Lord El-Melloi II: "Even you don't know?"】

【Gray: "I'm seeing this place for the first time."】

【Lord El-Melloi II: "Hmm? There are footprints!"】

【Lord El-Melloi II stopped, and saw footprints left by being stepped on many times clearly on the ground.】

【It's very obvious that someone came here not long ago, and the number was quite large.】

Kayneth: "Heh, it seems this isn't a secret at all."】

Waver: "The whole village knows, but Gray doesn't, that's really..."】

Rin Tohsaka: "In other words, the whole village is an enemy."】

Waver: "Maybe, but Mr. Bersac shouldn't be."】

【"Is this the main body of the church? Or was the church built to hide this place?"】

【Thinking of this, Gray couldn't help but feel afraid.】

【This is her hometown, but she seems to have never known the true face of this place.】

【Although her heart became more and more uneasy, Gray still pretended to be calm and followed behind Lord El-Melloi II.】

【"In the past, the underground was equal to the underworld itself in many places in the world."】

【Lord El-Melloi II also saw Gray's anomaly and spoke to help her divert some attention.】

【"Some people call the world after death the underworld or the netherworld, and some people call it the Land of Shadows. No matter which one it is, the world of the dead is connected to reality, and as long as there is a will, one can reach it by walking."】

【"By the way, are there spirits here?"】

【Gray: "... o, on the contrary, it's empty..."】

【Logically, in any place, she would feel the existence of some spirits more or less, because there is almost no place on this earth where no one has died, but it's very wrong here.】

【Not just spirits, she couldn't even feel a trace of magical energy.】

【Logically, with so many footprints left on the ground, there should be some residual thoughts attached to them. However, only empty emptiness remained ahead.】

【Lord El-Melloi II frowned, but didn't stop, and soon brought Gray to the end of the stairs, a space that was surprisingly wide.】

【The two froze here directly.】

【Not marveling at the area here, but because there were a large number of skeletons scattered here.】

【The number of these skeletons was so huge that looking around, there were human bones all over the ground, and there was nowhere to stand.】

Rin Tohsaka: "God! Is this a mass grave?"】

Iskandar: "Good guy, this number, there must be thousands, right?"】

Lancelot: "I'm afraid there's more."】

Sola-Ui: "So scary! To think such a place is hidden under the village!"】

Shishigou Kairi: "This number, it's my first time seeing it, and it doesn't look like it could be accumulated in a short time."】

Waver: "Wait a minute, could this be the real graveyard!"】

【"... lackmore's graveyard."】

【Lord El-Melloi II murmured: "So, the main body of the graveyard isn't on the ground, but here."】

【Gray: "Eh?!"】

【"No, is this really a graveyard?"】

【Lord El-Melloi II frowned: "Different from the surface, there is still some crystallized mystery left underground. Then, is it the same here..."】

【Just as he was thinking, an anomaly occurred.】

【I saw those bones floating up as if manipulated by invisible threads and combined together, turning into skeleton soldiers holding weapons.】

【Could it be that the magical energy here was swallowed by these skeleton soldiers?】

【But there was no time for him to think, and the skeleton soldiers began to attack them.】

Illya: "It's increasingly feeling like playing a game."】

Emiya Kiritsugu: "Is it necromancy?"】

Shishigou Kairi: "It looks a bit like it, but I can't be sure either. After all, separated by a screen, it does look like necromancy, but to be able to manipulate so many at once..."】

Waver: "It should be something like a puppet."】

Waver: "The only thing that can be determined is that this is man-made, because there is no scene of triggering a spell."】

Rin Tohsaka: "In other words, there are other people here."】

【Although Add fell into a deep sleep, its basic abilities could still be used, and Gray immediately held a large scythe and greeted them.】

【It's just that she didn't expect that the skeleton soldiers, who looked weak, had surprisingly great strength.】

【Gray: "These guys aren't spirits!"】

【Spirits basically can't act in such a uniform way.】

【Lord El-Melloi II: "These are mostly different existences from pure spirits. It seems that the magical energy in the surroundings is injected into the record tape engraved in the space, and the bones are used as a medium to barely form the shape of a soldier... Ah, this is simply a failure of the user."】

【At the same time, they also noticed that there were others here.】

Rin Tohsaka: "What do you mean? I didn't understand?"】

Lord El-Melloi II: "It means that someone is using these corpses to experiment, wanting to make Heroic Spirits descend, but it didn't succeed."】

Lord El-Melloi II: "These are all products after failure."】

Shishigou Kairi: "To think they want to try to summon Heroic Spirits outside the Holy Grail War, is it another masterpiece of that Heartless?"】

Kayneth: "No, looking at this number, this experiment must have been going on for a long time, and it might have even started before Heartless was born."】

Waver: "Shouldn't we be concerned about the person who launched the attack now?"】

【I saw a figure hiding behind the skeleton soldiers who were standing up one after another, watching them quietly.】

【"Eh?!"】

【Gray was stunned subconsciously after seeing that figure.】

【Although the other party was wearing a metal mask, she was too familiar with that figure and standing posture.】

【That was what she could see in the mirror every day.】

【"Why, come?"】

【Although the other party didn't speak, for some reason, Gray felt that the other party was asking her like this.】

【"It's too early. The King of the future hasn't awakened. You are on the ground, and I am underground. We should wait there."】

【For the other party's statement, Gray was confused, and then she seemed to understand something.】