Marisbilly's home was still the same as it was 10 years ago, but now the front door was very quiet, not at all as lively as when Tia had come before.
At the same time, after 10 years, Tia also saw that the surrounding buildings had changed a lot.
When Tia came before, this place seemed out of place compared to the surrounding buildings, but now the surrounding buildings were very similar to the huge building style of the Marisbilly family.
Clearly, the huge building of the Marisbilly family had a big impact on the people around.
After Tia and her group arrived here, they saw Marisbilly already waiting at the door.
"Tia, I heard you finally woke up, so I came out to wait for you," Marisbilly said, "10 years, and you've grown so much. 10 years ago, I kept doing my research according to what you said. If I hadn't seen you, I probably would have given up completely 7 years ago."
"Yes, 7 years ago, the head of the modern magic department came to see Director Marisbilly, I don't know why. Director Marisbilly also asked the head of the modern magic department to investigate the Holy Grail War," Aozaki Touko added.
Hearing Marisbilly and Aozaki Touko's words, Tia thought of what happened in The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II.
On the Rail Zeppelin, the priest with the mystic eyes, who was quite strong, committed a series of murders 7 years ago while being controlled by the head of the modern magic department, but the priest himself had no idea.
It wasn't until the incident on the Rail Zeppelin happened and was finally solved by Lord El-Melloi II that the priest realized he had been controlled and committed a series of murders.
But in this strange world, would the head of the modern magic department still have a chance to commit this murder? Waver was always around, and now Waver was Zhuge Liang, who had come from Chaldea, possessing El-Melloi II.
But Tia didn't yet know what Waver had gone through in the past 10 years, how he had gotten mixed up with Reines again, or how the El-Melloi faction's highest mystic code, Moonlight Mercury, had become Reines's maid.
The ruler now was Matou Sakura, not Reines, so Reines shouldn't have gotten these things.
Also, Moonlight Mercury should have become Kayneth's noble phantasm, so was this Moonlight Mercury maid the noble phantasm he had made himself? How did Kayneth give it to Reines?
At this time, a very subtle expression appeared on Waver's face.
"Dr. Heartless, the head of the modern magic department, ha, that guy was indeed talented, but unfortunately his story was a bit twisted, which led him to an extreme," Waver said, "7 years ago, he woke up some memory fragments because of something, which led him to find Director Marisbilly, hoping to use the equipment here to recover his memories. As a Servant from future Chaldea, I know very well what Dr. Heartless wants to do."
"It's a pity that his plan is destined to fail in this strange world, right, brother?" Reines raised her lips in her usual smile.
Tia was stunned for a moment when she heard Reines's words, but then she understood that it was normal for Reines to know the truth about this world.
"Senpai, Reines is like us now. After inheriting the noble phantasm Moonlight Mercury, she knows about the future," Matou Sakura said to Tia.
Just then, Marisbilly suddenly took out his phone and answered a call.
"Hello? What happened?" Marisbilly asked.
"Director, did Miss Aozaki Touko bring her back? Mash's situation is getting weirder and weirder. We can't figure out what's going on," the voice on the other end of the phone said.
"Okay, I'll take someone over right away," Marisbilly didn't ask anything else on the phone, hung up, and said, "Mash's situation has changed. Let's go over there quickly. Aozaki Touko, I'm counting on you."
Aozaki Touko nodded, "Don't worry, no matter what happens, I can save Mash."
Aozaki Touko said confidently.
Marisbilly also nodded and then led the way for everyone.
Soon, Tia saw 4-year-old Mash.
But what attracted everyone's attention at this time was not 4-year-old Mash, but the semi-transparent figure of the grown-up Mash next to 4-year-old Mash.
This semi-transparent figure of the grown-up Mash was always floating around 4-year-old Mash, and no one knew how she appeared. Along with this floating figure, 4-year-old Mash's body also had various problems from time to time.
If this semi-transparent Mash figure suddenly became more transparent, 4-year-old Mash's breathing would suddenly become weak, as if she would stop breathing at any moment.
If this semi-transparent Mash figure suddenly solidified, 4-year-old Mash's breathing would suddenly become very rapid, and her chest would rise and fall extremely violently.
"When did this happen?" Aozaki Touko asked.
"Just recently, specifically, when Tia woke up," Marisbilly said.
At this time, Lancelot couldn't help but frown, carefully staring at 4-year-old Mash and the semi-transparent Mash, and said, "Where is the king?"
"The king? King Arthur?" Marisbilly asked, slightly puzzled.
"Yes."
"King Arthur is in the Blackmoor Burial Ground," Marisbilly said.
"I asked King Arthur to go there. I told King Arthur that someone had wanted to revive him there and had done a series of bad things. She was very angry about this, so she went there," Waver said, "She's probably there by now."
"Just recently, King Arthur was still looking at records about herself in the Clock Tower and had been quietly waiting for Tia to wake up. Brother deliberately called King Arthur to the Blackmoor Burial Ground to give King Arthur something to do and to have a chance to see Gray," Reines added to Waver's words, "Ah ~~~ Sigh ~~ Brother really can't do without Gray ~~~"
"Ahem!" Hearing Reines say this, Waver coughed twice on purpose, and then asked Lancelot, "I don't know why you're asking this, Lancelot. What does Mash's situation have to do with King Arthur?"
"Because we just came from future Chaldea. We experienced some things there… In short, I suspect it has something to do with the king," Lancelot didn't explain much to them. "I want to go see what's happening with the king first."
"Lancelot, what do you feel?" Tia asked Lancelot in her heart, a little confused.
"Master, remember? We met the king in the fifth Holy Grail War over there, and even after Angra Mainyu was destroyed and the Greater Grail returned to normal, she was still summoned by Aozaki Touko. The king over there even has memories of being summoned to Chaldea in the future, but we don't know what happened to the king over there since we came back. Remember, this Aozaki Touko is very interested in King Arthur. Maybe all of this is connected," Lancelot explained to Tia in his heart.
However, Tia didn't quite understand Lancelot's explanation.
"Anyway, let's go take a look first. I hope I'm wrong," Lancelot said in his heart again, "I feel the king's magic power fluctuations from this grown-up Mash's illusion, so that's why I have these thoughts."
Tia also frowned. Although she still didn't quite understand, she knew that King Arthur might have something to do with Mash's current situation.
The Blackmoor Burial Ground is described in the original Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II as being in a very remote place in Wales, on a mountain.
There is a village there that is almost isolated from the outside world. The only connection is the traveling merchants who come to the village regularly.
Tia and the others rode the Wheel of Heaven and flew all the way over. Following Waver's instructions, they quickly found the place.
At this time, the village seemed very quiet, almost exactly the same as what happened in the original Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II.
In the Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II, Lord El-Melloi II and Gray had to return to this village for some reason, but at this time they encountered a huge trouble, which almost led to a world-destroying mistake.
At that time, Lord El-Melloi II had just experienced the Dr. Heartless incident on the Rail Zeppelin, so Lord El-Melloi II decided to find Dr. Heartless's whereabouts, and Dr. Heartless's whereabouts seemed to be in the Blackmoor Burial Ground, so Lord El-Melloi II decided to come back.
But when Lord El-Melloi II came back, he found that the whole village was unusually quiet. There wasn't a single person around. Everyone seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
Lord El-Melloi II and the others investigated the place, and after a series of adventures, they finally found the root cause. A bug appeared in Logos React, one of the seven world-destroying weapons of the Atlas Institute, and it almost went berserk and destroyed the world because of the bug.
The current situation was very similar to what was described in the original story.
The whole village was eerily quiet. There wasn't a single person to be seen.
The places where people should be coming and going were empty.
"Here, could the Logos React of the Atlas Institute have gone wrong ahead of time?" Waver suddenly said, "Follow me!"
Waver naturally knew, since he had already experienced it before.
Tia also knew, so she followed Waver all the way to the church in the village. There was a black Madonna statue placed in front of the church, but Tia knew in her heart that it was probably Morgan. The village probably worshiped Morgan.
There was a side door in the church. Going in through the side door, they would soon see a warehouse.
Tia remembered that there was a secret basement somewhere in the warehouse. As long as they went into the basement, they might be able to find the answer.
Waver was now doing what Tia remembered from the story. Soon a secret underground entrance appeared in front of everyone.
"Let's go. That Skeleton King should be in here, and the core of the Skeleton King should be the Logos React itself," Waver said. "If something really happened to King Arthur, it's likely to have happened in here."
"I didn't expect I'd have the chance to experience it with brother again," Reines said. "That Skeleton King is King Arthur's spirit, right? Gray is King Arthur's body, and the Servant who is King Arthur's soul was also called here by you at this time. I really wonder what your purpose is, brother."
Hearing Reines's words, Waver's face changed slightly.
Tia also frowned.
Was Waver really carrying out some impure purpose?
This made Tia curious.
As everyone moved forward, the secret underground entrance became very far from everyone. In front was a dark passage, without any light. Tia lit the way with magic the whole time.
Along the way, Tia couldn't feel any magic power fluctuations, which made Tia wonder if she had gone to the wrong place.
However, when Tia had been walking for an unknown amount of time and entered a huge fork in the road, Tia suddenly felt the fluctuations of magic power from one of the forks, and Tia was very familiar with this magic power. It was King Arthur's magic power.
Lancelot naturally felt it at the same time as Tia.
"Here, Master! Let's go quickly!" Lancelot said, and then immediately ran.
"There's a very strange shield here that prevents magic power from flowing out, no wonder I haven't felt any magic power fluctuations all this time," Waver also said. "Let's go quickly. King Arthur should be ahead."
As he said that, he chased after him.
When Tia and the others rushed over and saw King Arthur, there was indeed a person in front of King Arthur who looked exactly like King Arthur. She was holding a black holy lance in her hand.
"Pitiful existence, that black holy lance locks you here firmly. Those guys are just a bunch of bastards, doing such a sad thing for such a trivial matter. Morgan… she's really crazy," King Arthur said to the Skeleton King.
Tia saw that King Arthur's body was also stained with some black things at this time, and couldn't help but frown.
"King! What's that on your body?" Lancelot pointed out without hesitation.
"It's okay, don't worry. It's not a big deal. The most important thing now is to take the black holy lance from her, otherwise the black holy lance will continue to absorb the magic power of the villagers here, and in the end, the villagers here will undoubtedly die because of the depletion of magic power!" King Arthur showed concern for the people here at this time.
(End of The Chapter)