Chapter 544

【The Second: "Please rest assured, you achieved your goal. The years you spent, absolutely not a day was in vain."】

【Magdalena looked at the Second and smiled: "Is that so? So that's how it is. That's great..."】

【She covered her mouth as if accepting the fact, and then, disappeared.】

【That's right, as if she didn't exist from the beginning, she disappeared without a trace in front of everyone, leaving only an old curved dagger.】

Rin Tohsaka: "Hey hey, what exactly is going on?"】

Kayneth: "Magic interference, interference... wait, could it be!"】

Waver: "Turning King Arthur's flesh into Magdalena, is this Hartless's achievement!"】

Rin Tohsaka: "So, Gray's mother disappeared because!"】

Kayneth: "The ceremony has ended, spirit and flesh have already become one."】

Rin Tohsaka: "But the situation just now..."】

Kayneth: "It was the first round; the second round became a completely different situation from the first round because of various variables, but only death cannot be changed."】

【Gray was already occupied by fear and despair, squatting in the place where her mother disappeared like a crying child, trembling: "Mother! Where is mother?"】

【The Second pointed to the King of Bones' corpse and said: "This is her body; both can exist before determining who is the subject. Once determined, the simulated phantasm only has the path of disappearing, similar to a clone."】

【"The death of Priest Fernand should also be that he accidentally discovered his own corpse."】

【Gray was dumbfounded; he didn't understand what his teacher was saying at all.】

【"Lord El-Melloi II! What exactly did you do!"】

【The old woman couldn't help but speak out. That tone was closer to begging than questioning.】

【"Unfortunately, I didn't do anything."】

【The Second lit a cigar and said: "I couldn't do anything; I just made predictions from the clues left behind."】

【Old woman: "You said you predicted?"】

【The Second: "You said Gray is King Arthur's flesh. This means you know the King of Bones is King Arthur's spirit, and you are also very clear that the soul is still missing. On this premise, you intend to fuse two factors here. However, that ceremony has been distorted."】

【"!!!"】

【Hearing this, everyone in the village was hit hard.】

【Old woman: "You said the ceremony was distorted..."】

【The Second picked up the dagger at his feet and said: "This dagger is the Mystic Code required for the ceremony, Erosion."】

【The Second: "Then, the answer is very simple."】

【"The King of Bones should have had no face like Sir Kay. The King of Bones with only spirit is as incomplete as Sir Kay. So, there should also be a ceremony passed down in this village to fuse these factors. Especially stripping the Mystic Code or magic formula of both from a body that possesses the original spirit and soul like Gray. However, someone intervened at this time. Let's temporarily define this person as 'he'."】

【The people in the village didn't know, but Gray and Kay both knew well who this 'he' referred to.】

【"He has been eyeing this village for a long time; he is a magician who knows the three factors of flesh, spirit, and soul. To achieve his goal, he instigated a villager..."】

【"Snap snap, snap snap..."】

【Just at this moment, abnormal noise swept across the space again, and the frequency and range were obviously expanding, but no one discovered it except us.】

【Gray: "Teacher, the noise is spreading."】

【"The answer is ahead."】

【A drop of sweat flowed across the Second's temple; it was clear that he didn't think this situation would be peaceful, but now he could only gamble everything on this moment.】

【"Several magic alarms were originally set in the village; even if it were him, it should be difficult to deceive all the alarms to get information. Finding a collaborator can be said to be a natural result. This allowed him to obtain clues related to the village's magic formula, and the person who provided the information obtained the means to interfere with King Arthur's resurrection ceremony from him."】

【Old woman: "The person who provided the information, is it Magdalena?"】

【The Second: "Other than her, there is no one else."】

【"However, Magdalena is not a magician at all. She is different from Gray; she is a failure who failed to fully transform into King Arthur's flesh. Just getting a little help from an external magician, how could such a person interfere with the ceremony magic formula. She originally had a major means to interfere with the ceremony's core figure."】

【Old woman: "Are you referring to Gray?"】

【The Second looked at Gray and said: "Gray, have I talked about it when you were present, not just the act of condensing magical power and driving magic formulas, but eating and sleeping, sometimes even defecation is included, and every move in life is connected to magic and other mysteries?"】

【Gray was stunned; the Second's words made her remember.】

【After her father passed away, her mother invested more enthusiastically in her life management; needless to say about sleep and worship, she also began to pay attention to the order of my eating and the way I dressed, and the attitudes of the people around me naturally were also affected by her. Is such a life also a kind of magic ceremony?】

【Calling the macrocosm that actually changes the world from the microcosm called life, that is exactly one of the true magics. By incorporating the flow of ley lines and the movement of planets into the tiny human body, great mystery becomes possible.】

【The Second: "Your mother's genes were originally similar to King Arthur's. She is your mother, and this village has been cultivating this kind of gene, so of course it will be like this."】

【"In short, the method of interfering with the magic formula she was taught is very simple. Establish a path sufficient to directly interfere with the village's magic formula by synchronizing the wavelength of the first finished product with your wavelength, which has the highest affinity with the village's magic formula."】

【Gray: "Synchronize with me?"】

【The Second: "That's right. She fully participated in your diet, your sleep, everything in your life, cleverly letting you synchronize with her wavelength, and at the same time used that wavelength to interfere with the village's magic formula."】

【"Although the method itself is very simple, it is of course not simple to practice. It should be said that it should be a difficult and persevering act; even real magicians would not be able to stand it. In order to make the mutated daughter match her own wavelength, not a single mistake can be allowed. In diet, a change of a few grams will also affect the precision of the magic formula, and even the time and number of chewing must be managed in detail, not to mention having to carry it out every day."】

【"Since she couldn't tell the inside story to ask for help, she must have had a mental strength strong enough to be terrifying."】

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "This, actually has this kind of method!"】

Kayneth: "Deceiving the magic formula through synchronization. Hartless, this guy actually thought of this method."】

Emiya Kiritsugu: "... The truly amazing Magdalena, she insisted on it for several years in secret to complete the synchronization with Gray, and the reason she did this..."】

Irisviel: "It's to save her own daughter, not wanting her to become a sacrifice for the resurrection ceremony."】

Kirei Kotomine: "This is family affection, the greatest family affection, willing to endure pain for her daughter and sacrifice herself."】

Rin Tohsaka: "Her fanatical believer appearance before was all to cover up and disguise."】

Waver: "Death cannot be corrected; so to say, the one who died in the first round was actually..."】

Kayneth: "It is her; she successfully replaced Gray and also destroyed the ceremony to resurrect King Arthur."】

Rin Tohsaka: "So to say, that Priest Fernand is also..."】

Risei Kotomine: "In the first round, he probably died for some reason, but the Second didn't know."】

Waver: "So to say, the corpse Bersac saw was actually the corpse of Fernand who died in the first round."】

【Gray's body trembled slightly; her brain could no longer understand the meaning of the Second's words.】

【Although she couldn't understand, she understood that it was an irredeemable truth. The thoughts she had held for her mother until now gradually reversed with the pain like peeling off her skin.】

【The Second: "She succeeded, succeeded... next, is to carry out the magic formula written by Hartless on the affinity diagram. Although the magic formula is extremely complex, as long as the synchronization is successful, the implementation itself is not difficult."】

【"The result is obvious; the unstable King Arthur's spirit received two sets of parameters. The parameters as King Arthur's spirit, and your mother's parameters that are similar to it. What floats to the surface consciousness is of course King Arthur, but your mother's similar parameters also lurk in the subconscious. The King of Bones herself likely only realized it at the last moment."】

【The Second raised the dagger he had just picked up and asked the old woman: "Is this dagger a Mystic Code required for the ceremony?"】

【Old woman: "Exactly, the Mystic Code that strips the soul and spirit from the flesh, Erosion."】

【The Second: "Then, the answer is very simple."】

【"Magdalena rushed here first in the first round, replaced her daughter and stabbed herself with the dagger, leaving behind the flesh after stripping the spirit and soul, and the unstable King Arthur's spirit was dragged into that flesh. It's just that Magdalena stabbed her chest with an ordinary knife before taking action. When the flesh that was dragged in was already dead, even King Arthur could do nothing and could only die like that."】

【Old woman: "What!"】

【The old woman was speechless for a time, and the surrounding villagers didn't know how much they understood, only shaking along with the old woman.】

Kairi Sisigou: "It really is, a simple and rough solution."】

Irisviel: "She used her own life to solve all the worries for her daughter."】

Artoria: "..."

Iskandar: "Ah, it really is a great mother."】

【"Snap snap snap, snap snap snap..."】

【The sound had become a noise, and the cracks sweeping across the swamp and the temple now also swept across the bodies of several villagers.】

【The Second: "Gray, you also saw that noise, right?"】

【Gray: "Ye, yes."】

【The Second: "If the Director of Atlas were here, he would say that the stage has perceived a contradiction. Once it cannot bear the contradiction, calculation no longer has meaning. Because the foundation collapsed, it can only start over. So, we must arrive here before it collapses."】