[213] Lottery and Military

Looking at the brick in front of him, Kazuya pondered slightly.

This time, what he drew was not something ordinary—it was this brick.

On the brick, there were two circles formed by blood, with a larger circle enveloping a smaller one. In the middle of the two circles, a series of characters were written. The same characters also surrounded the outer part of the two circles. At the center was a pentagram, connected to five notches on the circle, each marked with a letter.

At a glance, it was clear—it was a magic circle.

Some blood oozed out from the stone, spreading a bit.

"Unexpectedly... drew this thing..."

In terms of manga, this time, he drew "Rurouni Kenshin," a manga he liked very much. It replaced the last gap and was immediately drawn out. He didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

However, what surprised him even more was another thing he drew.

It was the stone in front of him now—In "Hellsing," Alucard, the vampire, was an extremely powerful existence. Unaffected by sunlight, silver bullets, holy water—none of the typical weaknesses of vampires applied to him. He was a Dead Apostle without weaknesses, possessing only strength.

Moreover, he had powerful immortality. Alucard's usual battle strategy was to let someone spill his blood, get killed by someone else, and then counterattack.

He could be considered completely immortal, with tens of thousands of souls in the River of Death, meaning one had to kill him tens of thousands of times to truly defeat him. Once he started drinking blood, his life would continue to increase.

He could also absorb the souls of the dead by drinking their blood, allowing them to fight for him. When Alucard unleashed the River of Death, he was at his weakest because, although the absorbed souls would materialize to assist him in battle, at that time, his life had only one chance—he would die once he was killed.

However, after absorbing Schrodinger's blood that committed suicide...

He became omnipresent, existing everywhere and nowhere.

But because of the tens of thousands of souls within him, he became lost, not knowing who he was or where he was.

At that time—

The remaining essence of Alucard disappeared into this stone.

Later... Alucard spent more than thirty years killing all but one of the 342,467 souls within him.

Thus finding himself, he returned.

And now...

Kazuya held this stone in his hands.

He felt a bit overwhelmed...

What? Wait a few decades, and he could hatch another Alucard by himself here?

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

Without a doubt, this world was home to Dracula, but it was not a vampire. Instead, it was very averse to others assigning identities to him.

But... what about now? What about this summoning?

Could he summon him... in the form of Alucard?

This was really... worth a try!

"The progress of the Holy Grail War is getting faster, probably about a year left..." Kazuya's words were not far from reality. In 1992, when the Holy Grail War began, countless people would go to Egypt at that time!

...

"Oh, this is good, very good."

"What are you looking at again, Hansa?" Speaking was an elderly priest with white hair, wrinkles on his face deep enough to catch flies, and age spots on his forehead. However, from the scars that peeked out from under his priest's robe, one could tell that he was not an ordinary priest.

He had undoubtedly experienced numerous battles before.

"Ah, this, this, Kurokawa Kazuya's new manga. It just ended its serialization recently, and I immediately bought the tankobon." The speaking priest looked to be in his twenties.

Medium-length black hair, an eye covered with an eye patch.

"Kurokawa Kazuya's new manga..." The elderly priest slowly approached. "What?"

In the church and mage's association, few people bothered to read manga because, whether for God or Magecraft, it was unnecessary. At most, there were a few magus who saw it as a hobby.

It wasn't until "Fate/Zero" appeared...

That this manga slowly spread in the magical world. It revealed a lot of information that most magus and priests did not know about—The Holy Grail War, Heroic Spirits summoning...

And so on.

People began to understand more about this system...

Especially in this period... with the new Holy Grail War about to begin in Egypt—

They needed to understand how Heroic Spirits were stored, what Heroic Spirits were, and how to deal with them after summoning... especially the research on Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

After all, this time the church was ready to summon that Heroic Spirit...

And then—after reading Fate, some people didn't care anymore and didn't bother to watch other manga. But some people were attracted by the manga world, starting to explore and read other manga deeply.

Hansa was one of them.

"This is it, Father Anderson is so handsome... Ah~↑Gate————↓like this..."

"Haha, if you like it, that's good." The priest smiled.

"By the way, master." Hansa said to the priest, "What do you think if our church also establishes a group called 'Iscariot'? It looks cool!"

"Impossible." The priest chuckled. Although he didn't know what Hansa was talking about, just the name itself made it clear. Iscariot, it seemed, was mentioned in it. It was definitely not something to face the believers—that is to say, "Don't forget, we have Executors and Burial Agency."

"No, it feels slightly different, master. You'll understand when you see it!"

"I understand." Taking the manga and putting it aside, the priest said, "This time, you came with a new mission."

"Ah~ a new mission?"

"Yes." The elderly priest nodded. "The Holy Grail War in Egypt is about to begin. According to the intelligence, Barthomeloi Lorelei is preparing to bring her squad.. no, it's already deployed. So, to deal with them, our church also needs to form a team to deal with them... and Hansa, I think you are suitable."

"Huh? Isn't that great!" Hansa's eyes lit up. "Okay! I'm in, but—can this new organization be called the Iscariot? Ah~↑Gate————↓"

"...But I don't have control over this..."

"Huh? Then... who's in charge?"

"Archbishop Alvin and... the Executor Ambrose Conant, just like us."

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