Chapter 694: Assumptions
This strange combination is Su Xiao's group. He and Bubtney needed no introduction. After some observation, Su Xiao discovered that Mato Sakura was just a little girl at the moment, and other than sometimes being afraid of him and keeping a close eye on him, she didn't do anything strange.
As for the" Berserker", Mato Kariya, it has become quite interesting. Right now he smelled like paint and Sakura was watching him closely.
The strong smell of paint from his armor kept Sakura rolling her eyes.
Su Xiao looked at Mato Kariya's roe. The paint on his feet wasn't dry yet, and due to their very rough journey, the paint on his feet was peeling off in some places.
Bubtney snorted from time to time and looked at Su Xiao with pleading eyes. His eyes seemed to want to say, " Master, please get this guy away from me, his smell is too strong».
Su Xiao ignored the chatter. Although there were four of them now, if a battle suddenly broke out, he wouldn't have any problems.
Bubtni was responsible for making sure Mato Sakura was taken to a safe place, while Mato Kariya could do anything but attack Su Xiao. Right now, he could safely endure most of the attacks. Although the power of his attacks wasn't great, the other Servants wouldn't be able to kill him in just a few moments.
After looking at the map in his hands, Su Xiao continued to search for the Ryuudo Temple. However, after two hours of searching, he still couldn't find any traces of the Ryuudo Shrine.
Standing on a patch of grass, Su Xiao frowned and looked at the map in his hands. He had almost memorized it by now.
According to the markings on the map, the place under his feet should be the Ryuudo Shrine, but when he looked around, all he could see was a field full of weeds.
There were two possible explanations for this. The first was that the map was incorrect, and the second was that the temple was hidden.
It was unlikely that the map was wrong. If the Ryuudo Shrine was just an ordinary tourist attraction, no one would hide it.
But the Ryuudo Temple was definitely not an ordinary temple. The energy that summoned the Holy Grail for the fifth time came from under the Ryuudo Shrine. There was a large spiritual vein below it, and the mana contained in it was enough for anyone to try to get their hands on it.
Although this mana couldn't be absorbed directly by mages, once transformed, this mana could be used to create magic items or process magic materials.
Moreover, this mana flowed out of the vein naturally and no one dared to touch the vein itself that was underground.
Normally, the Ryuudo Temple was run by the Ryuudo clan, but now that the residence under the temple had become extremely active, this clan would obviously have a hard time soon.
The Ryuudo Shrine would be the cause of the fifth Holy Grail War, but right now, the fourth Holy Grail War was just about to start.
No one would have come here except for Su Xiao.
Standing in the middle of nothing, Su Xiao guessed that the Ryuudo Temple was probably hidden by someone. According to the original plot, the temple was surrounded by a barrier, so the fact that it disappeared wasn't something surprising.
Moreover, the Ryuudo Shrine was the destination of the talent awakening mission. Given the mission's maximum difficulty of level 26, was finding the temple such an easy task?
The answer was obvious. If the Ryuudo Shrine was so easy to find, it wouldn't take 4 days to find it. Given Su Xiao's current stats, it would have taken him more than 4 hours to find the temple.
The mission's level 3 difficulty level indicated that finding the Ryuudo Shrine would not be full of dangers, but the 4 days of searching indicated that finding the shrine would be a bit difficult.
— Since it's called a temple, it must have monks, " Su Xiao muttered, then turned and walked towards Fuyuki City.
If the Ryuudo Temple was really hidden, then there were only two forces that could hide it: the Mage Association and the Holy Church. Even if it wasn't done directly by these factions, it was definitely done by someone strong enough and domineering from these two forces.
There was no doubt that one of these two forces had done it, for they were the two strongest factions in Fuyuki and the surrounding areas, one responsible for managing the mages and the other for managing the Holy Grail wars.
From the jurisdiction of these two factions, it was obvious how strong these two forces were.
There were always contractors who acted rashly in this world, but afterwards, they all died at the hands of the Holy Church's" mad dogs".
Compared to the Mage Association, it was probably the Holy Church that hid Ryuudo. The Holy Grail War was currently about to break out, and this matter was under the jurisdiction of the Holy Church.
It wasn't difficult to find people from the Holy Church. Two of them even participated in the Holy Grail war, namely the father and son of the Kotomine family, Kotomine Rizei and Kotomine Kirei.
On the surface, Kotomine Kirei was an ordinary priest in the Fuyuki Church, but in reality, he was part of the Eighth Communion Congregation of the Holy Church. According to the assignment given to him by the Holy Church he should be responsible for overseeing the Holy Grail War.
As for whether anyone would listen to Kotomine Kirei's words or not, that was all left to chance.
Kotomine Kirei is the son of Kotomine Rizei and the master Assassin in this Holy Grail War.
More importantly, he and his father teamed up with Tohsaka Tokiomi, which led to the previous scene where Gilgamesh "killed" the Assassin..
But the Assassin didn't actually die, it was all just part of their plan. Even before the official start of the Holy Grail War, the three people formed an alliance.
In the eyes of Tohsaka Tokiomi and the old priest Kotomine Rizei, the outcome of this Holy Grail war was a foregone conclusion from the very beginning.
The Master Assassin, Kotomine Kirei, was a bit special. He wasn't a villain or evil incarnate, but he had a flaw. He couldn't feel happy about the same things that made ordinary people happy. Instead, he only felt pleasure from other people's grief. Only by seeing and enjoying the grief of others could he feel happy. Although he hadn't discovered it yet, he was already on the verge of revealing this fact.
If Su Xiao wanted to know about the Ryuudo Shrine, he should have gone to Father and son Kotomine. If that doesn't work, then he'll have to turn to someone else.
But since Kotomine Kirei was a Master in this Holy Grail war, it was safer and better to go find the old priest, Kotomine Rizei.
Su Xiao returned to the outskirts of Fuyuki in the early morning. The whole city has already started to wake up, the first restaurants and local eateries have opened.
After a busy night, Su Xiao was already hungry. Turning his head, he looked at Mato Kariya. This guy was too conspicuous, and let alone entering a restaurant, he wouldn't be able to go unnoticed even just walking down the street.
After asking Bubtney to wait in an alley, Su Xiao went to a nearby restaurant and bought a lot of food.
More than ten minutes later, Su Xiao was sitting on the roof of a residential building, eating a rice ball. Bubtney was standing behind him, rummaging through a bag of food. Mato Sakura was sitting next to him, eating a steamed white bun.
She chewed on the steaming bun she had just made, gagged and rolled her eyes at its extreme temperature, but she didn't stop for a second.
The reason why she was eating it so greedily was because all the other food was quite close to Su Xiao, which made Sakura not dare to touch them.
Only the steamed buns were quite far away from Su Xiao.
Ignoring Sakura who was panting and rolling her eyes, Su Xiao calmly ate a rice ball and looked at the map.
— Kotomine Church... Not far from the Tohsaka family. Sure enough, these two families have been in contact since before the Holy Grail started, " Su Xiao muttered, and when he saw Sakura's gaze on the water bottle, he picked it up and threw it right at her feet.
Mato Sakura hesitated for a moment and picked up the water bottle, but because of her weak body, she couldn't open the lid.
— Bubtni, please, " Sakura said to Bubtni and handed him the bottle.
Bubtny calmly picked up the water bottle and unscrewed the cap with his big front paws.
Seeing this, a smile appeared on Sakura's face.
*Ar-r-r~*
Matou Kariya growled, picked up another water bottle, "opened" it, and handed half the bottle to Sakura.
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