Fog City, outside the city, in Sir Puskins' manor.
Inside the knight organization, in front of a huge round table, people were sitting around it. They were all the people in charge of the knight organization — at this moment, in front of them, there was a similar box.
This place was heavily guarded — because, outside the round table conference room, except for Lancelot who had been kidnapped, all the current twelve round tables were guarding here. In addition, there were nearly thirty grand knights and hundreds of elite knights.
"Let's begin."
Sir Puskins said softly, and first opened the box in front of him — he took out a green gem the size of a pebble.
At the same time, the people in charge of the knight organization also took out the same thing from the box in front of them almost at the same time.
After that, Sir Puskins unscrewed the carving on his cane, and then inserted it into a small indentation on the table in front of him … and turned it.
The sound of gears turning was heard, and the floor in the center of the round table opened at this moment. A king statue holding a sword slowly rose from the floor.
The stone sword held by the statue had circular indentations on the blade, which corresponded to the gem held by each person in charge.
When the gems seemed to be attracted by something, they automatically flew out from their hands and inserted themselves into the indentations of the stone sword, everyone held their breath and carefully watched this scene.
"Although I have always known of its existence, I have never really seen it since I took over … I didn't expect that I would be able to see it in my lifetime."
The one who spoke was an old man who was much older than Sir Puskins. His eyes were blurred, and he didn't blink, staring at every change on the statue.
Crack —!
Suddenly, a light sound startled everyone. They saw that the King statue, starting from the head, had split open and scattered in all directions … Like the blooming of flower petals, what was revealed in the end was a small stone.
And in the middle of that stone, was a simple stone cup.
"This … this is the legendary Holy Grail?"
The crowd, who had never thought that the Holy Grail would look like this, suddenly felt an indescribable sense of disappointment. Perhaps in their imagination, the Holy Grail should be more precious. Perhaps it didn't need to be too gorgeous. At the very least, it should make people feel that it was extraordinary at first glance.
However, this silence only lasted for a few seconds. After a few seconds, the Holy Grail on the stone platform suddenly trembled. A large number of cracks even appeared on its body.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
After an intense tremor, it completely shattered. A dazzling golden light filled every corner of the room in an instant, causing them to be unable to open their eyes.
After their vision had adjusted, they once again looked at the Holy Grail in bewilderment. After that, they could no longer conceal the excitement in their hearts — the Holy Grail in front of them was the real deal.
It was as if there was boundless magic. Even if one looked at it, their souls seemed to be drawn. Before their eyes, they could not help but see the scene of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Peace, happiness, contentment … The feeling of happiness that a human should bring filled their hearts in an instant … A strange yet infatuated smile of contentment involuntarily surfaced on their faces.
Cluck — cluck —!
A knocking sound suddenly rang out at this time. This time, everyone suddenly quivered and woke up one after another. They saw that this was the sound of Sir Hopkins knocking on the table with his cane.
"Everyone, please keep quiet." Sir Hopkins slowly said, as if he didn't see the crowd's loss of composure.
Everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
"The grape cup of the Last Supper, legend has it that it even once contained the blood of the Holy Son … A magical cup that can fulfill any wish." The old man muttered to himself.
"Everyone, this isn't the Holy Grail in the Bible, but something created by that sinful place a hundred years ago. It only has the name of Holy Grail, but it's definitely not a holy object." An old woman frowned at this time. "It's written very clearly in the literature that a sacrifice is required to activate it!"
Speaking of the sacrifice, the willpower of the other person in charge of the Knight Mechanism weakened a little. At this time, the person who was still infatuated with the cup on the stone platform seemed to have woken up from a dream, and cold sweat broke out all over his body.
"So. Hopkins, the Holy Grail has been taken out. What are you going to do with the most important part … the sacrifice? "
Facing everyone's gazes, Sir Hopkins took a deep breath and slowly said, "It needs to devour souls to activate. Of course, it's impossible to devour the souls of living people, so this time I'm going to use something else. "
"Hmm … In fact, it's best to use prisoners on death row as sacrifices, but unfortunately, the death penalty has been abolished now." Someone suggested, "Maybe we can try to use those super criminals. Anyway, our relationship with the Magician Association is a little stiff now, so we don't need to hand over those wanted criminals to them. "
Sir Hopkins shook his head. "After those criminals were captured, the Magician Association has been simultaneously notified. If we don't take them out now, it'll arouse their suspicion … Even if it's because of the country, we were once allies a hundred years ago, so there's no need to really make our relationship cold."
"Then what are you going to do? What other good sacrifices do you have? Are you going to use the Heroic Souls of the Heroic Soul Palace?! "
Sir Hopkins waved his hand and calmed everyone down. "Maybe it's fate. Just before the crisis of the 'Myth of Doomsday' was launched, the Knight Mechanism of the Fog City just happened to destroy a criminal group of Orcs smuggling … Currently, this group of Orcs is here."
"Orcs … Orcs?" Someone muttered.
"Since they were captured and sold as Orc slaves, I think those slave traders wouldn't dare to capture a few fierce Orcs protecting their clansmen … It's also possible." Someone was tempted.
"Then that's it. I won't see them." This person was even more direct.
"Alright, Hopkins, even if you've chosen the sacrificial offering, you can't do it openly …" The old man muttered, "Especially not in front of the twelve knights. This will shake their knightly beliefs."
"Don't worry, I've already taken care of it." Sir Hopkins was expressionless, but he knocked on the table with his cane again.
At this moment, the wall on one side of the round table conference room slowly moved aside, and a Knight with a cold face and body stained with blood slowly walked in with a long sword dripping with blood in his hand.
The strong smell of blood instantly made everyone frown, and the moment they looked at the Knight with cold eyes, they couldn't help but feel a chill.
"This is Grand Knight Simpton." Sir Hopkins said calmly, "I've already asked him to take care of it in advance … He's holding the magic sword [Hegni] in his hand. The souls of those Orcs have already been stored in this magic sword."
"Simpton? Is that him? That kid … "
The people in charge all started to re-evaluate this man with a gloomy face, and some information about Simpton began to appear in their minds.
Many years ago, there was a rioting Orc … The ferocity of this Orc gave the Knight Organization and even the entire Magician Association a headache.
In the end, this Orc was captured and killed. However, when the troops at that time found the base of this Orc, they also saved many innocent humans … Most of them were women.
What shocked the troops at that time was that these women were all raped by this Orc and gave birth to children … These children were all used for all kinds of experiments.
Even after they were saved, these children were basically broken … It seemed like there was only one conscious child left.
Later on, this child was raised by the Knight Organization and eventually became a Grand Knight …
…
Grand Knight Simpton slightly lowered his head as if he didn't see the gazes of those people in charge.
Hopkins also ignored those gazes and slowly said, "Ok, Grand Knight Simpton, I'll give you the glory of activating the [Holy Grail]. Are you ready?"
“Yes，my-lord.”
Grand Knight Simpton raised his sword and saluted. Then, he slowly walked to the table where the [Holy Grail] was placed. He placed the tip of his demon sword on top of the [Holy Grail] … Blood began to pour out of the blade and drip into the [Holy Grail].
"The power of the [Holy Grail] will increase according to the number of sacrifices." Sir Hopkins said with a serious expression, "There are 43 Orc souls here. It's impossible for the [Holy Grail] to directly solve this crisis."
"What do you plan to do, Hopkins?"
"The root of this chaos is the 'Doomsday Myth' organization." Hopkins said directly, "We need all the information about this organization, including the name list of their members and their location … Only by eliminating them from the root can we prevent something like this from happening in the future."
Drops of blood dripped down from the demon sword. When the cup was almost half full, the [Holy Grail] once again emitted a bright light.
At the same time, an ancient parchment scroll slowly appeared in front of Sir Hopkins …
…
— Paid to the Madam, 5 million dollars.
Of course, a prompt like this wouldn't appear. What appeared was just a prompt in a format similar to this.
The general content was:
You have received a sum of normal souls. Quantity: 43.
In Boss Luo's mind, he once again heard the loli voice of the altar that he imagined.
"Why do I suddenly feel like I found 100 dollars in the pocket of someone's clothes that I haven't worn in a long time …"
"Master?" Miss Maid didn't understand why her master suddenly said this. She slightly tilted her head, and her hair fell down.
"Ah … Don't move. This position is not bad."
Boss Luo, who had written a maxim for himself, decided to do a lot of things. At the same time, he didn't want to be trapped in endless transactions. Therefore, he restrained himself from the time-wasting activity of [Observation] all the time.
Inside the room, Miss Maid and her master were starting an activity called photography.
After all, it was a long night.
…
…
Without a mobile phone or a clock, in the dark stone room, the only thing that could judge the time was probably the human body's perception … The Queen felt a little tired.
It should be past her usual sleeping time.
Lancelot didn't lie down. When the Queen's palm was released from her eyes, she had recovered a little. She used the fastest time to eat the food sent by Caesar to replenish her strength.
She seemed to be a different person, but she seemed to be the same as before. The Queen smiled and looked at Lancelot's actions at this time.
"Is this useful?" The Queen couldn't help but ask curiously.
Lancelot was holding the shackles on her hands and began to grind on the floor of the stone room. A lot of stone powder had been ground out.
Lancelot said seriously, "This kind of shackles was developed by the Magician's Association. It is specially used to imprison extraordinary power. It is made of a special alchemy mineral called Hamu stone … But it has basically been eliminated now. In fact, there are still many of these tools left in the Knight's Mechanism. Although it is very convenient to imprison extraordinary power, it is not strong. There was once a prisoner who broke the chain in this way. "
"I see …" The Queen nodded with relief, "In your opinion, how long will it take to break it?"
Lancelot shook her head, "It's hard to say. At that time, the prisoner seemed to have spent more than half a month to break it. However, it's better to have a way than not. We can't keep waiting for rescue. Your Majesty, can you please pay attention to the outside? If someone is coming in, I want to stop this. "
"Alright, child, I'll help you keep an eye on it. Trust me, I can do it." The Queen was still smiling happily.
However.
More than half a month … The Queen couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart. She didn't tell Lancelot that Caesar would execute her before sunrise.
The Queen didn't intend to deny Lancelot's efforts at this time. Instead, she slowly walked to the door and pretended to listen carefully to the sound outside.
"Oh … It seems that someone is really coming." The Queen quickly turned around at this time.
Lancelot quickly lay on the ground, covering the stone powder that was ground out. At the same time, she retracted the chain and turned her body sideways.
When the door opened, the Queen took a few steps back and blocked in front of Lancelot.
"What are you doing?"
The people who came in were Judas and Katharine … Katharine looked at the Queen suspiciously at this time.
Her Majesty was neither salty nor indifferent at this time, with the anger and sarcasm of an imprisoned person, "Ladies and gentlemen. Don't you know that this kind of cold place can easily make me sick? If I don't stand up and move around, it is very likely that I will be cold … I ask you to give me a better treatment. "
Judas frowned. Obviously, he hated this so-called aristocratic behavior, "Then I hope you have enough exercise. Otherwise, it will be colder when it is late at night."
"You rude people!" Her Majesty immediately scolded angrily.
Katharine just sneered, but did not care. Instead, she looked at Lancelot on the ground, "This girl, is she still not awake?"
"What did you do to her!" Her Majesty continued to scold angrily.
"Let me see if she is dead or not." Katharine sneered and was about to walk past the Queen.
Unexpectedly, Her Majesty frowned at this time and stopped her, continuing to scold angrily, "You have already made her like this, do you still want to hurt her? As the Queen of Great Britain, I ask you to stop this rude behavior immediately! "
"Bad old woman." Katharine snorted lightly.
"Forget it." Judas said indifferently, "Caesar just asked us to take a look, there is no need to argue with her … How about this, Your Majesty, if you feel cold, I will send you a blanket later."
"I also ask for a pot of hot tea, and it is best to bring more fresh milk. I need fresh milk to sleep peacefully! "
"Do you think this is a hotel? Damn old woman!! Do you still not know your situation? "
Women always make things difficult for other women? Judas shook his head, reached out and pulled Katharine out, "Well, there is no fresh milk, but I can send you some hot water … If there is nothing else, just stay here."
After the door was closed, Her Majesty slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
She leaned against the door and listened for a while, then said, "Well, they should have gone far … Child, am I right? I can do it well."
Only then did Lancelot sit up and gratefully look at Her Majesty the Queen … who stood in front of him.
"Can you hear anything?" Her Majesty suddenly frowned at this time.
Lancelot was startled and listened attentively. She seemed to hear some sound coming from outside … The air seemed to be trembling slightly.
…
A huge fighter plane was slowly descending from the night sky at this time.
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