After Zuke deliberately manipulated "Black Bird: Requiem" to actively absorb, it wasn't long before the black mud in the Grail began to gradually dry up.
Clearly, the black mud magical power that the Greater Grail had stored for 60 years had been sucked out by Zuke's "Black Bird: Requiem" like pumping water, completely extracted through the Lesser Grail's "hole."
The Greater Grail now had no magical power at all. As long as this Holy Grail War ended, the Greater Grail would begin accumulating magical power again.
Not until 60 years later, when enough black mud magical power had accumulated, would another Holy Grail War open.
However, Waver clearly wasn't planning to let Fuyuki City's Holy Grail War continue—because the magical power accumulated next time would still be "All the World's Evil." This wouldn't change.
To prevent someone from truly making twisted wishes through the Grail, Waver had already decided to dismantle the Grail system afterward. Zuke had agreed.
After selecting the rewards, Zuke slowly opened his eyes, then saw Mordred right beside him, constantly using both hands to touch his body, as if searching for something.
"What are you doing?"
Zuke's eye twitched. He looked down at Mordred, who seemed about to reach toward an unspeakable location, and slapped her head with his free left hand, making her withdraw her hand.
"Ouch."
Mordred cried out in pain, covering her head and quickly stepping back. Then seeing Zuke's expression, she gave an awkward laugh and explained.
"I wanted to see exactly where on your body you were absorbing that black mud."
After all, Mordred wasn't a Stand user and couldn't see "Black Bird: Requiem's" presence. So from her perspective, the black mud fell along Zuke's hands and then vanished into thin air.
With Mordred's personality of doing whatever she thought of, she directly came up to put her hands all over him. It did fit her character, so although Zuke was somewhat speechless, he didn't blame her.
Zuke withdrew the foot that was still being massaged by Caster, then stood up under Caster's speechless gaze, saying to Mordred:
"Don't worry. The magical power you were supplied with by the Grail will be replaced by my magical power supply from now on."
Mordred was originally looking forward to testing her new strength when the black mud transformation was complete. Hearing Zuke's words, she couldn't help but pause.
"Does this mean I won't be able to become stronger after all?"
"Becoming stronger is one thing, but this isn't the right method."
Zuke shook his head. Originally, he had planned to let Caster help Mordred and Medusa transform their Saint Graphs, so the black mud wouldn't be of much use.
Continuing to let the black mud corrode them might even affect the success rate of the Saint Graph transformation.
"You should know that accepting too much power from 'All the World's Evil' will cause your personality to distort. Do you want to become unable to control your murderous impulses?"
Hearing Zuke's words, Mordred thought for a moment, then shook her head.
Indeed, as Zuke said, being corroded by "All the World's Evil" would cause personality distortion. She didn't want to turn into a madman who only knew how to kill.
"Then just accept it obediently. I'll give you a chance to become stronger, but not through this method."
Zuke smiled, then reached out and grabbed Caster's hand, pulling her to stand up as well.
Looking at Mordred and Medusa, he said:
"I'll leave you two here first. When I come back in three days, I'll pick you all up together."
To be continued…