Book 3: Chapter 27: Even the Ashes of the Bones Got Scattered
The wooden sword attack came from Chen Heng. As he was unsure whether Reincarnator 9527 could control metal flying swords, he chose a wooden flying sword from his spatial storage. Although this was a wooden sword, one shouldn’t look down on its offensive power.
This thing was made from a very tough branch of a one-thousand-year-old locust tree spirit king. It could even erupt with Ghost Energy.
As a cultivator clan with a single line of descent for over a thousand years, the Chen Clan had plenty of resources. The Chen Clan stored all these resources in the inherited spatial storage. Just imagine how much was in there. Even Chen Heng himself had yet to figure it out.
When he took time to tidy up a small part of the spatial storage, he would often stumble over some pleasant surprises.
Actually, the Chen Clan’s rules forbade carrying the inherited spatial storage necklace on one’s person lest someone snatched it away. That would reduce the Chen Clan’s many years of accumulation to nothing. Even if one carried it around, they had to bring another spatial storage as a smokescreen.
However, Chen Heng gave up and stopped bothering. After all, he had no descendants yet. If he died, it would not matter if the spatial storage got snatched.
“I say, you natives are very troublesome. Obediently hand the Holy Grail to me, alright?” Reincarnator 9527 grumbled impatiently. Following that, he took out a custom-made rocket launcher from his storage space and shot an artillery shell at Chen Heng and Jeanne d’Arc Alter using electromagnetism.
Perhaps because this rocket launcher was custom-made, vast flames engulfed Chen Heng and Jeanne d’Arc Alter when the artillery shell struck Chen Heng’s barrier. Fortunately, they had the repulsion barrier; otherwise, this attack would have injured them.
However, Chen Heng could not see what Reincarnator 9527 did after because the fire obstructed his vision.
Suddenly, he sensed a spatial jump behind Jeanne d’Arc Alter. Furthermore, the spatial fold was extremely close—a distance of ten centimeters—nearly touching her back. He had not set up his repulsion barrier to wrap around the two, and Reincarnator 9527 had targeted a gap in his defense.
As this happened suddenly, Chen Heng could not react. By the time he pulled Jeanne d’Arc Alter into his embrace, a large hole had already mangled her flesh, revealing her internal organs. However, her Spiritual Core was undamaged.
Chen Heng looked at the spatial fold and saw a hand there. It held a Holy Grail.
Just as that hand was about to return, Chen Heng used his attraction ability to affect the spatial fold. The distant Reincarnator 9527 cried out in pain. The hand holding the Holy Grail broke off and remained.
After spending some time analyzing the spatial jump, Chen Heng could already interfere with another person’s spatial jump even though he still lacked the confidence to perform a spatial jump himself.
Chen Heng quickly stored that hand and the Holy Grail in his spatial storage. Then he controlled the wooden sword he tossed out earlier, sending it into a spatial fold and using his untried spatial jump to stab it into Reincarnator 9527’s back, pinning Reincarnator 9527 to the ground. Finally, he triggered the Ghost Energy stored in the wooden sword.
When the one-thousand-year-old Ghost Energy erupted, a chill immediately filled Reincarnator 9527’s heart. This prevented him from using his spatial jump.
Although Chen Heng was unfamiliar with the spatial jump and did not dare to test it himself, that did not stop him from testing it with a sword. This experiment was a success. The location of the spatial jump’s destination did not deviate too far from his expectations.
When the other Servants saw this, they rushed over to deal the final blow, attacking while Reincarnator 9527 was dazed. Although they did not know where Reincarnator 9527 came from, knowing that he was an enemy was enough.
“Requiem for Death!”
“Samadhi Through Transforming Flames!”
“Báthory Erzsébet!”
“Guillotine Breaker: Glory to the Crown of Lilies!”
“Ascalon: The Blessed Sword by Which Force is Slain!”
The five Noble Phantasms nearly drained Fujimaru Ritsuka of mana. Although these Servants’ mana was provided by Chaldea’s electrical generators, they still needed a medium. Who could endure five Noble Phantasms launched simultaneously?
As the Ghost Energy, which had been stored for one thousand years, had attacked Reincarnator 9527, he remained in a stunned state, unable to use his spatial jump. Thus, the five Noble Phantasms all struck home.
After Reincarnator 9527 got struck by five Noble Phantasms, even the ashes of his bones scattered in the wind.
Ding! You have completed the mission. Please collect the rewards promptly.
Chen Heng did not have time to care about the rewards. The most important matter was Jeanne d’Arc Alter, who was vomiting blood in his embrace.
The nearby Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mash, and Jeanne d’Arc rushed over.
“Can we save Jeanne d’Arc Alter?”
“Of course we can. Although her injuries are extremely severe, there is hope for her because her Spiritual Core did not get damaged. An ordinary person would have died. All we need is…”
Chen Heng took out the Holy Grail he had stored away earlier and placed it back in Jeanne d’Arc Alter’s body.
The Holy Grail’s vast mana mended Jeanne d’Arc Alter’s injuries. She recovered slowly, the hole in her back closing.
“You…. Why did you return the Holy Grail to me?” Jeanne d’Arc Alter had thought her death certain when Chen Heng placed the Holy Grail in his spatial storage.
After all, if it were her, she would not return the Holy Grail, an all-powerful wishing device.
“Holy Grail? What are you saying? Why do I need this Holy Grail?” Chen Heng did not lie. He had no use for the Holy Grail. Even if he wanted to take it away, Alaya would not permit it.
“…”
“This Holy Grail is truly incredible. To think it can even heal such severe injuries? Is a Holy Grail truly all-powerful?” the Magecraft novice Fujimaru Ritsuka asked.
“A Holy Grail is not all-powerful, just practically all-powerful. A Holy Grail uses extraordinarily vast mana to make wishes come true. However, it is not all-powerful. It cannot do things like reviving the dead. Take Jeanne d’Arc beside you, for example. Gilles de Rais wanted to revive her with the Holy Grail. However, he failed.” Time for Doctor Roman’s lecture.
[Author Note: Trashy Holy Grail. It cannot even lengthen Mash’s lifespan. What is the point of having it? In the end, it is just a better mana resource. These are Romani Archaman’s words verbatim. Of course, I mean just the last part.]
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