#580Chapter 580: In the Demon City of Wind and Cloud, you can also fight mechas!AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 580: You Can Even Pilot Mechs in the Castle of Devils!
As a core investigator, Waver, having witnessed the advent of the Castle of Devils, was clearly unable to remain uninvolved.
But then again, this scene had completely exceeded all his expectations.
They were supposed to be investigating the Holy Grail's curse, so how did such a reality-eroding, pseudo-Bounded Field appear!?
Although there was no evidence pointing to the source, Waver subconsciously believed that this matter was inextricably linked to that strange fellow who brought his own Gate of Babylon.
Flat, whose magical circuits were already malfunctioning due to the black mud curse's eruption, gasped for air like a drowning man finally reaching shore, his whole being still in shock.
But then, he gave Waver such a reply.
The curse, which had originally spread along the ley lines throughout Fuyuki City, began to actively retract, or rather, was absorbed by the castle itself, as it appeared out of thin air.
It was both another manifestation of this evil curse and, at the same time, it suppressed and even recycled the spread of the curse.
Waver couldn't help but frown upon hearing this reply.
From Flat's description, this strange castle currently resembled a balloon, sucking in all the curse overflowing from the ley lines, and even absorbing the curses that had already spread out.
But the problem was, if it was a balloon, there must be a limit to its capacity. While it could suppress the curse in the short term, once it reached its limit in the future, Fuyuki City might face a complete explosion, spilling out an ultra-concentrated curse.
Although he didn't know why it had turned out this way, there was no doubt that the curse within Fuyuki City's ley lines had materialized in the form of this castle, and this also meant that, theoretically, the curse could be dealt with in the same way as a physical entity.
So, what method could destroy the castle?
There was only one answer, and that was demolition!
There must be some core hidden somewhere within this cursed castle!
What Waver didn't know was that the incredibly firm belief in demolition that had risen in his heart had, to some extent, also been influenced by the Castle of Devils itself... Although there was only one boss guarding the stage, the monsters along the way could be refreshed without consequence, because Cheng Tian was directly freeloading the ley line's magical power to generate dark monsters, not using his own MP at all, so he refreshed them without any heartache.
As Qiuqiu advanced, Cheng Tian also took the opportunity to load and replace the ordinary monsters ahead, bringing higher levels of fun to subsequent challengers.
He didn't know if they were laughing, but Cheng Tian, who was currently enjoying blood tofu, was laughing very happily.
The zombies in the outer corridor of the Castle of Devils were replaced by Cheng Tian with the living corpses from "Metal Slug," highly infectious, capable of resisting small-caliber bullets, able to dig out their own organs as projectiles, and occasionally interspersed with a few elite units capable of spitting high-pressure blood columns.
The black panthers in the same area were replaced by ordinary xenomorphs, borrowing from Irene's dungeon experiences, possessing high mobility, acidic blood, sharp claws, and tail stingers.
The Merman monsters in the sewer area were replaced by plesiosaurs by Cheng Tian; they no longer came ashore, staying in the water, extending their long heads like turrets to spray water at the challengers, causing little damage but significant insult.
Of course, these changes on the monster side combined were not as significant as the Lancelot armor and Medusa heads in the chapel area.
The big dog, who had been forced to become Qiuqiu's Servant, was currently in the second tier of challengers. Having fought Rider and seen her face, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide when he saw a large number of identical Medusa heads flying around, and he paused to observe for a full ten seconds before moving again.
Too bizarre! Was all this done by that guy with the Gate of Babylon (Cheng Tian)?
Is this the ability of a planetary will adjudicator!?
Clearly, this bizarre phenomenon caused more mental damage than actual damage to the local Masters and Servants.
And Artoria, currently in the third tier, probably had her brain fried when she saw a group of familiar armored figures shouting "Arthur" and charging at her.
Until a familiar yet somewhat strange magical energy fluctuation emanated from Gray, the guard among Waver's group, who arrived just in time.
Gray's coffin-shaped metal box in her hand quickly deformed, finally turning into a V-shaped boomerang, which Gray then threw with great force.
The boomerang easily knocked off the helmets of the Lancelot armor, revealing their hollow interiors, and then returned to Gray's hand, finally settling into the shape of a scythe.
The wind pressure from the weapon's retrieval blew off Gray's hood, revealing a face almost identical to Artoria's herself—
She was a special vessel in her family line, imbued with the King Arthur factor, prepared for the purpose of using the family's inherited Noble Phantasm, "Rhongomyniad," and for resurrecting King Arthur.
Due to the sudden eruption of the King Arthur factor within her, her body shape and facial features were fixed in the form of a 15-year-old girl, identical to the standard Artoria.
But it is worth noting that the weapon she currently used was a replica of the Holy Lance that Artoria, commonly known as Lancer Artoria, should possess.
Originally, Gray's facial features and figure were only highly consistent with Artoria, but after stepping into Fuyuki City, her gray-white hair also gradually changed to Artoria's signature golden color.
The moment Artoria saw Gray's face, her pupils dilated again!
If one lives long enough, they will encounter all sorts of strange things. It could be said that since entering the Castle of Devils, Artoria's state of shock had never ended.
While they were still delaying, Qiuqiu had already defeated the two Mummy Bosses of the third act.
Looking back at Cheng Tian's past dungeon experiences, there weren't many monster templates that could adapt to mummies, so he simply merged the "Metal Slug" mummy template with the two Mummy Bosses, giving them the ability to spit cursed smoke and cursed rolling balls.
If hit by the curse, anyone would be forcibly transformed into a mummy unit for a short period.
The big dog, who was forcibly summoned by Qiuqiu with a Command Spell to take a hit, was transformed into... a mummy dog carrying a demonic spear!
Putting aside the question of whether the dog was miserable or not, Qiuqiu, who had taken so many Command Spells from Kirei Kotomine, was indeed extremely extravagant.
However, as smooth as the first three acts were, the fourth act was just as difficult.
Because Cheng Tian, that guy, replaced the combination of Fleaman + Frankenstein that should have been stationed here with another form of chimeric madman—
Velociraptor Warrior + Six-Machine Combined Hyakuryu-Oh!
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