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Almost at the same time as they found Lancer, Siegfried and the others also witnessed the disappearance of the 'Greater Grail'. Naturally, he also made a report to his Master and informed the other party that the 'Holy Grail War' had ended.
Naturally, this news was also told to Fiore.
When she learned that Black had won and that the 'Greater Grail' had even been used, she was a bit disappointed, but this disappointment was fleeting, because she had more important things to pay attention to.
If she was just an ordinary magus before, and the most important thing for her was to heal her legs, then as the leader of the Yggdmillennia family at this time, she needed to care more about the legacy of this ancient family.
Her predecessor Danic died from an assassination by Red (...), and she, who was originally unlikely to succeed as the head of the family, was forced into this position that countless people longed for but was also incredibly difficult.
'The Holy Grail War is over. According to my uncle, Clan Head Danic was originally planning to use the Servants in their final moments along with their Masters and the homunculus 'magical energy batteries' to cause a large number of casualties to the Clock Tower's active forces, and then, after they returned to the Throne of Heroes, rely on deterrence and the 'power' they had left behind to contend with or even replace the Clock Tower, but doing so would completely turn it into a life-or-death situation…'
As a member of the family, Fiore also cared immensely about her family, but the biggest difference between her and Danic was that she was not as insane as him, so she wanted to take a more 'prudent' path.
'Let's negotiate with the Clock Tower. We'll use the power of the Servants as a deterrent to negotiate with them, and we also have the 'Greater Grail' that our Black side obtained as a trump card…'
But when she thought of this, Fiore's expression became a bit disappointed.
She knew about Lancer defeat of Red's Assassin and Ruler. In her opinion, Lancer, this person with a mysterious identity, would definitely leave after obtaining the Greater Grail. The only thing she could hope for now was that the Clock Tower would not find out about Lancer departure.
But besides that, she also prepared another bargaining chip — the Holy Church.
It was less of a bargaining chip and more of an overt conspiracy.
All of Red's Masters died this time, and the culprit was naturally the 'Supervisor' sent by the Holy Church!
It can be said that the deaths of those seven Masters alone severely damaged the Clock Tower. Anyone with a little common sense would know that the Clock Tower and the Holy Church would probably have constant friction in the coming period, and what she needed to do was to win over the Holy Church…
Fiore, who was sitting in her wheelchair, crossed her hands on her thighs and didn't say a word, but in reality, her mind was full of various vertical and horizontal alliances. But at this moment, a knock on the door suddenly came.
"Come in."
As Fiore's voice fell, a somewhat bloated man also walked in.
"Fiore, the situation is not good. Although the 'Golem Factory' and the 'Homunculus Laboratory' were not affected by Red's Lancer Noble Phantasm because they were underground, the two areas were also damaged when Red took the 'Greater Grail' in the end. Only about 60~70% of them can operate normally."
Gordes, as the person in charge of the homunculus project in the family, and the person in charge of the Golem project, who preferred to study and learn rather than manage, was actually one of the keys to the operation of the entire family. Of course, it was also for this reason that he was not excluded from the core circle by Danic. After all, compared to his ability, that 'little bit' of a character flaw was insignificant.
"Mhm... at least it's not the worst news. Uncle, I hope you can join me in the negotiations with the Clock Tower..."
When Chiron arrived, it could be said that victory was already sealed.
Now there was a tank (Jeanne), a frontal combatant (Siegfried), a DPS (Chiron), and a versatile handyman (Astolfo).
Even if they had to protect the weakened Lancer, Mordred had no chance of winning at all.
But since her birth, she had faced countless similar battlefields. Had she ever backed down?
Without a doubt — no!
What's more, her only 'weakness', her Master... no, it should be said that her 'partner' also chose to live and die with her, so what was there for her to hesitate about? Let her die a heroic death right here! But even if she died, she would definitely drag someone down with her!!
But what she didn't expect was that when she had already decided to fight with her life on the line, Chiron did not attack them but slightly bowed to them instead.
"Saber, and Saber's Master, as a representative of the Masters, I hope the two of you can come to the Yggdmillennia family's base for a talk."
Chiron's words sounded like a 'Feast at Hongmen', but this idea was quickly dismissed by Kairi Shishigou.
Although it sounded a bit unpleasant, in the face of four Servants who each had their own roles, they could be said to have no chance of winning at all, and with the pride of the other Servants, it was impossible for them to do something like this. The only explanation was that the Yggdmillennia family had something they wanted to talk about.
Were they planning to use him as a messenger?
Indeed, before this, Yggdmillennia had only announced its independence and the establishment of a new magus association, not that they wanted to fight the Clock Tower to the death. The two sides were opposed, but in the end, it was only for their own reasons and they were not completely unable to coexist…
"What should we do next?"
Mordred also knew that she was not good at thinking about problems, so she very simply handed over the decision-making power to Kairi Shishigou, which also showed her trust in the other party. After all, even if she was afraid of trouble, she would not casually hand over her fate to just anyone, unless she truly trusted them.
"We'll go see what the Yggdmillennia family is up to, but..."
"Don't worry, I understand."
The words that Kairi Shishigou was interrupted from saying were nothing more than to tell Mordred to be on guard against an 'accident'. Mordred also simply did not take off her armor, and the group followed Chiron towards the castle.
But perhaps feeling that the 'crisis' was temporarily over, Astolfo, who was serious before, returned to his carefree self.
"Lancer, what did you see when you made your wish before? What did the Holy Grail look like? Was it a cup? And how did you make your wish? Was it a white-bearded old man? Or an angel?"
Perhaps because he didn't have any ambition for the Holy Grail himself, Astolfo said these words without any psychological burden. It was just simple curiosity at play, but Mordred, who was walking in front of Chiron, strangely paused for a moment.
There was no doubt that even now, she was still unwilling to believe that her opportunity had just disappeared like that, so she was very sensitive to topics related to the 'Holy Grail'.