Chapter 524

Rin Tohsaka: "What is that thing?"

Waver: "It seems... to be a spear!"

Rin Tohsaka: "It wouldn't be the Holy Spear, would it?"

Kayneth: "Impossible! There is only one Holy Spear, and it's in Gray's hands!"

Kayneth: "And that spear is black, although I don't know if it's because it's too dark around it."

Shishigou Kairi: "Could it be a phantasm of the Holy Spear?"

Emiya Kiritsugu: "Indeed, this village can produce a phantasm of King Arthur; it wouldn't be surprising to create another phantasm of the Holy Spear."

Lancelot: "I'm afraid it's another masterpiece of Morgan."

【On the other side, as if guided by the stars, Waver and the others entered an open space.】

【There is a certain building in the space; that solemn stone building is a religious temple, and it is already very old.】

【Gray: "Underground, there is a temple?"】

【Waver: "This might be the tomb."】

【Gray was very confused in her heart. Is this the village's secret? It wasn't told to the Gravekeeper of Blackmoore. At least it's a part of knowledge that hasn't been told to me yet.】

【Waver: "How is it, Berserker? Do you have any insights?"】

【Berserker shook his head: "No, I've heard that there seems to be such a building underground, but this is my first time seeing it with my own eyes."】

【Seeing this, Waver didn't ask further, and the group stepped directly into the temple.】

【As soon as they crossed the entrance, a new figure came into view.】

【Oh, that's not a person, but a statue resembling a human body placed in the temple.】

【That is a statue that is already very familiar to them; after all, they have seen it countless times in the village above ground, and it is currently placed in a corner of the temple.】

【Gray: "Is there a Black Madonna here too?"】

Rin Tohsaka: "Another Black Madonna? What exactly is this statue..."

Feng Xi: "Haven't you noticed yet? This isn't a Black Madonna at all, but that woman."

The Knight of Rebellion: "Mother..."

Artoria: "Sister..."

Everyone now understands that this is not a statue of the Black Madonna at all, but Morgan's.

【"When I visited the village before, I made a hypothesis about this Madonna."】

【Waver looked up at the Madonna and said: "Black Madonnas can be seen all over Europe, but there are several different patterns, most of which are mixed with local earth mother goddesses."】

【Gray: "Earth mother goddess?"】

【Waver: "Many patron saints are also like this. Even a huge religion must have a certain degree of flexibility. When preaching in new areas, they won't just impose doctrine on the people, but will also retain space to absorb local myths and legends. The Black Madonna is one such manifestation."】

【"And in this kind of derivation of earth mother goddesses, there exists a witch, a witch who is mixed from several figures in multiple legends that differ in time and place."】

【"Right, 'Morgan le Fay'—that's also a very familiar name in the King Arthur legend you appear in, Sir Kay?"】

【Kay shrugged: "... What a headache-inducing teacher."】

【However, rather than actually feeling a headache, it felt more like he wanted to be sarcastic.】

【Waver: "Setting aside the King Arthur legend, the witch Morgan who often appears in Celtic mythology is sometimes the Queen of Succubi, sometimes the Goddess of War, and sometimes the Goddess of Fate. Legend has it that she travels with crows and prefers to transform into a crow."】

【Kay smiled bitterly: "Ha! Regrettably, I don't know much about Morgan; after all, she is a very complicated woman. No, most women are like that."】

【"It's just that this village should indeed have had something to do with Morgan. This Black Madonna statue vaguely has some of her shadow. Hmph, that's why they chose this village."】

【Waver shook his head: "I don't know what Morgan expected at the time. Since you don't know, I couldn't possibly know. However, regardless of whether Morgan hoped for it at the time, she left a spark. That spark was passed down from generation to generation, and produced a certain result after more than a thousand years."】

【"In other words, is that Gray?"】

Waver: "Sir Kay seems to think that Morgan was not the mastermind behind the village's behavior."

Kayneth: "That's just his guess."

【"Berserker, what is your view?"】

【Waver's gaze slowly turned to Berserker.】

【Berserker: "The previous Gravekeeper only told me information about the rules. Those rules, which are also related to the Black Madonna, are passed down to the Gravekeeper of Blackmoore from generation to generation."】

【Waver: "That's the four rules, right?"】

【Berserker nodded seriously.】

【"That's right. The magic crest passed down by the Gravekeeper will only sense how many rules have been broken. This part has not yet been transplanted to Gray."】

【"Rules... there are four..."】

【Waver muttered, pressing his brow.】

【"First, you must worship the Black Madonna when entering the village, then..."】

【He drew a circle on the ground with his finger; the slight depression matched the village on the map.】

【"Does not approaching the graveyard alone mean the same thing as having to go with the Gravekeeper?"】

【Berserker: "Right, that's it."】

【"Since when... no, in this situation, for whom..."】

【Waver lowered his head and fell into deep thought, while Berserker and Kay also stood silently on the side.】