Chapter 554 The holy relic is actually me
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Before the battle began, Shirou Emiya suddenly spoke, looking at Lin Zhongtian seriously and said: "Your Majesty the referee, what if I choose to surrender?"
Lin Zhongtian glanced at him, shook his head and said, "You cannot surrender. Only Saber herself can choose to surrender..."
Tohsaka Rin glanced at the two people who had already started fighting on the battlefield, frowned and said: "But Emiya-san, you know, there is no way she will surrender."
Emiya Shirou raised his right hand, looked at the command spell on the back of his hand and whispered: "I can use this to force her to surrender."
Lin Zhongtian said in surprise: "But that requires you to die personally."
Emiya Shirou nodded calmly: "I understand."
Lin Zhongtian blinked and asked curiously: "Why?"
Emiya Shirou did not answer, but asked a question.
"Why do we have to kill each other?"
"I think I have already explained that the heroic spirits are the contents of the Holy Grail. Only by gathering the magic power of the six heroic spirits can the Holy Grail be filled."
"Then why did you allow Gilgamesh to surrender?"
Emiya Shirou looked at Lin Zhongtian steadily: "I can see that if he hadn't provoked you, you wouldn't have killed him..."
"..." Lin Zhongtian blinked and looked at Shirou Emiya.
Tong Shen and Tohsaka Rin beside them also raised their heads and stared at Lin Zhongtian with different expressions.
Suddenly, Lin Zhongtian winked and said with a chuckle: "Okay, you discovered it!"
"I don't care about the Holy Grail, the heroic spirits, or the contents. I just want to watch these heroic spirits from different eras and different civilizations fight..."
Emiya Shirou looked at Lin Zhongtian in shock and couldn't help but said: "So you did such a thing just for fun?"
Lin Zhongtian thought for a while: "Absolutely!"
Tohsaka Rin couldn't help but asked: "Why, is it really that interesting to watch the heroic spirits kill each other until they die?"
"Wrong!" Lin Zhongtian glanced at them and said calmly, "Who told you that they are dead? You don't really think that you can summon the heroic spirits on the other side of the world, do you?"
"No, the so-called heroic spirits are existences separated from the timeline. They will be summoned to all eras, whether it is the long past or the distant future. However, the only thing that can summon the heroic spirit body is the world itself. What you are summoning are only heroic spirits. Servants’ projections, the real ones still exist in the Seat of Heroic Spirits on the other side of the world.”
"When everything is over, these servant projections will return to the body at the same time as they die. The heroic spirit body can know the actions of the followers in a recorded way like reading a book..."
"This is why Saber, who has participated in two Holy Grail Wars, remembers the events of the last Holy Grail War."
Having said this, Lin Zhongtian paused, looked at the shocked three people and said with a chuckle: "To a certain extent, they just played an immersive role-playing game. As an outsider in the game, Investing in a competitive match between players shouldn’t be a heinous thing, right?”
"..."
Hearing Lin Zhongtian's explanation from a strange angle, Tong Shen and the others were stunned for a moment.
Tohsaka Rin quickly reacted and said angrily: "What about us, Kotomine Kirei, Kuzuki-sensei, and those Masters who fought and died in the previous Holy Grail Wars? Who do we count?"
Lin Zhongtian glanced at her and shook his head, sighing and saying: "Although it's a bit cruel to say this to you, in this game, you so-called masters are the real NPCs!"
"What about me?" Tong Shen suddenly spoke, staring at Lin Zhongtian, "Am I an NPC too?"
"..." Lin Zhongtian blinked, thought for a moment, sighed, and reluctantly told the truth, "Of course you are not an NPC. You are an outsider just like me."
Tong Shen's eyes lit up and he subconsciously blurted out: "So you are really..."
Before he could finish speaking, an invisible force strangled his throat, preventing him from speaking the following words.
Lin Zhongtian glanced at him speechlessly, then sighed and turned to look at Lu Bu and Saber, who were fighting fiercely below.
"Fengxian, have you had enough fun?"
"..."
Lu Bu frowned slightly, waved his halberd to repel Saber in front of him, and then raised his head to look at Lin Zhongtian.
"Sir, what do you mean?"
"It's nothing." Lin Zhongtian shook his head, "I just accidentally let this guy know our identities... Fengxian, it's almost time. It's time for Yougang to come forward and end this battle!"
Lu Bu said reluctantly, "But sir!"
Lin Zhongtian said with a smile: "Yougang is the only one among us who practices the spirit-binding general. With him here, will you still worry that you will not be able to fight these heroic spirits from different time and space in the future?"
"..."
Lu Bu fell silent, hesitated for a moment, then nodded respectfully and said: "I will obey your Majesty's decree!"
As he spoke, the expression on Lu Bu's face changed, from the original solemn respect to a helpless smile.
He raised his head, looked at Lin Zhongtian and sighed: "Boss, I have already agreed with Fengxian that he should take action in this battle. Are you not making things difficult for me by suddenly interfering?"
"When did I interfere?"
Lin Zhongtian glanced at Deng Yougang and said with a half-smile: "When we announced the start of the battle just now, you two didn't have to refute it!"
"ah?"
Deng Yougang was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that when Boss Lin announced the start of the battle, he said that the swordsmen were fighting against the descendants, but he never said that Lu Bu was fighting against King Arthur Arturia!
...It turns out there was an ambush here.
Deng Yougang looked astonished, and then showed a helpless smile.
At the same time, everyone, including Saber and Hong A, couldn't help but look at each other.
Emiya Shirou looked confused and couldn't help but ask: "What are they talking about?"
Hong A glanced at him, then looked at Lu Bu in disbelief, and said solemnly: "If they are not joking and my logical thinking has not been distorted, then there should be a soul in Lu Bu's body." !”
Tohsaka Rin said in confusion: "Is there another soul?"
Emiya Shirou said in shock: "Could it be that they are one body and two souls?!"
"Idiot, of course not!" Hong A couldn't help but sneered at him, and then said calmly, "According to the referee, the other soul in Lu Bu's body is the real descendant!"
Having said this, Hong A paused, then looked at 'Lu Bu' on the field and murmured: "I finally know why he is the descendant and not the pretender..."
At the same time, in the venue, Deng Yougang turned his head and looked at Saber holding the sword of victory in front of him with a solemn expression.
"Let me introduce myself again..."
As Deng Yougang spoke, he controlled the light to cover his whole body.
The huge body, which was originally more than two meters tall, gradually shrank in the blue light.
When the light completely faded, a black-haired young man about 1.8 meters tall, with a medium build and a delicate face appeared in front of everyone, with a slightly shy smile on his face with a little baby fat.
"My name is Deng Yougang. I once led the Northern Expedition and unified the land of China in the distant past. I will also step into the universe in the near future and fight against the interstellar legions from the stars..."
"Now, I am summoned as an Adventer to participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War."
Saber's eyes were shocked and solemn, and she couldn't help but ask: "So, you are the one who descended?"
Deng Yougang nodded and said, "That's right."
Tong Shen in the audience couldn't help but pick up the railing and asked loudly: "Who is Uncle Bu?"
Deng Yougang looked up at him and said with a smile: "I am a disciple of the Chuma Immortal family in the Northeast. I am best at the art of inviting gods. In addition, I also have the magical power [Restraining Spirits and Sent Generals]. Fengxian is the strongest in my hand." The great spirit of martial arts.”
Tong Shen said in a deep voice: "So, the heroic spirit I really summoned is actually you!"
Deng Yougang nodded and said, "That's right."
The corner of Tong Shen's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but raise his head and look at Lin Zhongtian.
"Then what happened to the piece of horse bone you sold me?"
"Of course it's fake!" Lin Zhongtian said with a half-smile, "Grave robbing is illegal, have you forgotten?"
Tong Shen: "..."
After being lost for a moment, Tong Shen showed a look of loss on his face.
"So... all of this is fake?"
"Uncle Bu, the heroic spirit, and my identity as master are also all fake?"
Looking at the expression on Tong Shen's face, Lin Zhongtian shook his head: "No, your identity as Master is true."
"What about the holy relics?" Tong Shen retorted, "A fake can't really summon heroic spirits, right?"
Hearing Tong Shen's words, Lin Zhongtian and Deng Yougang couldn't help but look at each other and smile.
Seeing the smiles on the faces of the two people, Tong Shen was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to understand something, and screamed with shock on his face.
"Could it be that...the holy relic is...is..."
It's me? !
Tong Shen's eyes widened and he looked at the smiling Lin Zhongtian in the sky, feeling a turmoil in his heart.
Yes, he should have thought of it a long time ago. If Lin Zhongtian and Deng Yougang are both time travellers, then he, who is also a time traveler, is the best medium to introduce them to this world!
Thinking of this, Tong Shen couldn't help but laugh at himself.
He was still teasing Tohsaka Rin's identity as the 'Holy Widow' before, but now it was his turn to be the Holy Relic.
"Okay, we have answered all the questions that can be answered."
"I can't tell you the rest here. I'll tell you after this matter is over!"
With that said, Deng Yougang retracted his gaze towards the audience, and instead smiled and looked at Saber in front of him who was still digesting the information.
"King Arthur from Britain, are you ready?"
"I'm not Fengxian. If you don't concentrate in front of me, you will be killed instantly"
Hearing Deng Yougang's chuckled words, Saber came back to her senses, her face straightened, and the invisible barrier climbed up, hiding the shining golden sword invisible again.
"Come on!" Saber held the invisible sword in both hands and said solemnly, "No matter who the opponent is, I will go all out!"