[222] The End of the First Night

"Getting serious, huh..." Kirei Kotomine remained silent for two seconds and said, "There's one more thing I haven't told you. While you and Lancer, as well as Rider, were fighting, our side summoned the second Heroic Spirit."

"Oh... and who is it?"

"A Servant, Saber... true name is Siegfried." With these words, next to him, the dragon-slayer knight named Siegfried walked out.

In the next moment, he drew his sword—

And charged towards the numerous Noble Phantasms shot at him!

Boom, boom, boom—

"What's going on?"

Next to him, Executor hurriedly approached and saw the aura behind Gilgamesh gradually disappearing. Siegfried, holding his sword, had cleared the area around him as if shells had plowed through.

"You, qualified mongrel, be grateful. You have the honor of fighting alongside this King!"

"What do you mean?" Siegfried sheathed his sword.

"Didn't this King mention it before?" Gilgamesh closed his treasury and said, "In this Holy Grail War, this King is ready to get serious. With Enkidu on the other side, this King can't afford to be careless."

"And that Sun King isn't bad either." Gilgamesh smiled and said, "With this King's grace, if you want to become this King's subordinate, you naturally need to be tested. Rest assured, the previous test was just the bare minimum. However—even so, you've proven yourself enough to boast for a hundred years! You have passed this King's test! Hahaha!"

...

"Haha! Isn't this my Master?" Ozymandias laughed and said, "How is it? Have you witnessed the brilliance of my radiance? It shines even brighter than the sun!"

"It feels okay." Barthomeloi Lorelei looked at the pyramid with some surprise. Even as the Lord of the Clock Tower, she had never seen such a structure.

"Haha!" Ozymandias pierced through Barthomeloi Lorelei's surprise in an instant and laughed. After all, this was his palace, his pyramid, and one of its values was to amaze people!

"Enough of that. Did you clash with the enemy Archer, Gilgamesh?" Barthomeloi Lorelei asked, "How does it feel, and what are the chances of winning?"

"Well, that Golden King is indeed formidable, with about eighty percent of his true strength. He's indeed tricky!" Ozymandias nodded, "But who do you think I am? I am the Pharaoh! The invincible God-King! How could I be defeated? Even that Golden King, if this King gets serious, can be taken down."

Barthomeloi Lorelei raised an eyebrow slightly. Did he think she was blind?

At that time, it was clear that only with his and Enkidu's combined Noble Phantasms did they barely catch up to the Noble Phantasm of that King of Heroes—EA.

However...

"The last time, it shouldn't have been your strongest Noble Phantasm, right?"

"No, it was, I've always been concealing it." Ozymandias said, "My strongest Noble Phantasm is beneath your feet, above your head, that's right! My strongest Noble Phantasm is this pyramid!"

"I mean the one you used when your Noble Phantasm clashed with that Archer!"

"Oh, that one. No, that one is still enough to kill a top-tier Servant. That Golden King indeed has some skills."

Barthomeloi Lorelei felt a slight sigh in her heart... These ancient kings were indeed too arrogant. The other meaning of his words just now was also quite obvious—he claimed his Noble Phantasm could kill a top-tier Servant, and Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm could defeat that Noble Phantasm, and then he could take down Gilgamesh...

Wasn't he boasting about being stronger than the other?

"Hmm?" Suddenly, Ozymandias looked up, "An intruder? No... wait, is it a ruler? Let her in!"

He wasn't talking to a person but to the guardians of this temple, the Sphinx.

...

"Make way for me! I've come... No, um, can you please step aside? I've come to visit the Servants and Masters here." The saint, who descended as a Ruler this time—Martha, tried to maintain a gentle expression as much as possible.

In response, she was met with the claw of the divine beast.

"Ugh..." Martha held her staff in front of her, taking two steps back. "Fine! It seems you have no intention of making way! Then—let me knock you out!"

As she spoke, she directly threw her staff away, revealing two gauntlets in her hands.

Just as she was about to say something...

The Sphinx in front suddenly walked to the side, clearing a path on both sides for her to move forward.

"..."

"Huh? How did gauntlets appear in my hands? I don't understand..." Martha sighed slightly, picked up her staff from the side, and squinted at the Sphinx in front of her. "Well, it has no intelligence, no intelligence..."

While saying this, the saint walked inside.

The gloves slowly disappeared from her hands, as if they had never appeared in the first place.

...

"Servant, Assassin, named Jing Ke. Whom are you here to kill this time?"

Assassin frowned as she looked at the chaotic room filled with demons dancing around. Then, she shifted her gaze to the person sitting at the desk, reading a book.

From that person, she sensed a nauseatingly evil aura!

"Oh, the renowned assassin turns out to be a woman... but it doesn't matter! How intriguing!"

DIO placed down his book and looked at the Assassin before him. "It seems the summoning this time was successful..."

"I see. So, you specifically summoned me to kill someone. Who is the target?" Jing Ke, the Assassin who failed to assassinate Qin Shi Huang in history, asked.

"There are two targets: one is the Pharaoh of Egypt, and the other is the King of Heroes, Gilgamesh. Can you handle it?"

"...Of course!" The Assassin determined to succeed this time replied, "This time... I will definitely succeed!"

"That's good!" DIO nodded in satisfaction. "If you need anything, just let me know. You can choose anything in this room."

"Roar!"

Just as Jing Ke was about to respond, a roar echoed from outside.

"Quite noisy! Gilles de Rais!"

"Don't worry," Caster, with fish-like eyes, spoke from the side. "Those kids have stopped him."

"That's good... Go then."

Dio Brando smiled and said, "Go test the defense of that Servant..."

As long as the power of his the world could break through the defense of the incoming Servant, the outcome was already predetermined.

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