Merlin, Morgan, and Artoria

"Ugh ugh ugh!" Upon hearing Ryunosuke's words, the children, who were too terrified to move, began to struggle frantically.

"What would it feel like to be killed by a demon? That would be a very valuable experience... Ouch..." As Uryuu Ryunosuke was happily describing what the other person might be about to experience, Ryunosuke suddenly felt a sharp pain.

"What is this...?" Uryuu Ryunosuke subconsciously looked at the spot of his pain, the back of his right hand.

There, a special mark is appearing.

The mark that signifies the qualification to become a Master by being chosen by the Holy Grail.

The next moment, the magic circle drawn by Ryunosuke with human blood began to glow and emitted a sound like a thunderbolt.

As the light grew brighter...

"Boom!" A bolt of lightning appeared out of nowhere and struck the floor, smashing the magic circle drawn in blood to pieces.

The summoning ritual that was about to begin was also forced to stop.

"Hmm?" I was surprised by the magic circle's glow, and then surprised again by its destruction.

What snapped Uryuu Ryunosuke out of his shock was an even more intense pain than before.

Suddenly, Uryuu Ryunosuke felt a figure flash by. Looking at the person, he saw that it was a boy much younger than himself, and the boy was holding... half an arm.

That's... my own arm?

And the beautiful, dazzling, and moving liquid that flowed out... was... his own blood?

The next moment, Ryunosuke fainted.

After glancing at the unconscious Uryuu Ryunosuke, Chen Luo used his Stripping Ability to remove the Command Seals from the back of the other's hand and then placed them on the back of his own hand.

The entire set of movements was performed smoothly and seamlessly.

As for Uryuu Ryunosuke... Chen Luo sealed the other's pressure points to stop the bleeding, and then left him alone for the time being.

"I wonder if this Command Seal can be used..." Chen Luo muttered, looking at the Command Seal in his hand.

Logically speaking, Chen Luo should have waited until the opponent summoned their Servant before taking their Command Seals.

But Chen Luo didn't want that Magus.

Too brutal, too disgusting, at least judging from their current attitude.

"Buzz!" But the answer to the question Chen Luo had just asked appeared in front of Chen Luo the next moment.

The Summoning Array in front of Chen Luo, which had been smashed, restarted, but this summoning was different from the last one; at least, the same heroic spirit could not appear.

"Good grief, I wasn't prepared at all, I didn't even get the relics, and I'm already being summoned silently and obligated? Oh well, I originally wanted to use the Angel Ring to summon, but it seems that gods can't appear in the Holy Grail War."

"Hmm, I've heard that true love always comes from Group C. I wonder who my true love is..." Chen Luo muttered to himself before excitedly looking at the magic circle.

And the Servant summoned based on compatibility should be a good match for me, right?

For example, Morgan shared a savior-like attribute with himself.

Smoke billowed, and after the summoning was successful, a somewhat flippant voice rang out.

"Oh dear, what's going on? How could I, who isn't dead, be summoned by the Holy Grail? Hmm, I don't know why, but it seems quite interesting."

As the smoke dissipated, the other person's figure appeared in front of Chen Luo.

"I am Merlin, the so-called Flower Magus... Uh, what's with this strange environment?" Merlin was stunned by the scene before him.

Although I can't really be considered a good person, I believe that the Master who summoned me shouldn't be so bad as to kill an entire family, right?

"By command of the Command Spell... commit suicide, Merlin." Chen Luo said coldly to the person who appeared.

"Wait a minute! I just came on stage, why am I leaving so soon?"

Chapter 622 Merlin, Morgan, and Artoria

"Sigh, no Command Spells used? What a mischievous Master, gave me quite a fright." Merlin breathed a sigh of relief after realizing that he hadn't been forced to commit suicide in any way.

Looking at his current Master's Command Seals, he also noticed that the other Master's Command Seals were not missing.

Only...

"But Master, don't you have a lot of Command Seals?" Merlin looked at Chen Luo's arms covered in Stigmata with some uncertainty.

Although the newly acquired Command Seals haven't been copied using the River God Ability yet, combined with the nine Command Seals that originally belonged to Morgan, they already total 12.

"Alright, forget about that, let's save them first." After glancing at the other person, Chen Luo sighed.

Chen Luo is now starting to worry about how Merlin and Morgan will get along.

Moreover, Chen Luo was also very worried about what he had done to deserve being able to summon Merlin simply by virtue of his affinity with Merlin.

How am I similar to Merlin?

Don't you have any humanity?

Or is it a nightmare?

Well, from the perspective of nightmares, inner demons and nightmares do seem to be quite similar.

Damn it, I'm screwed!

But Merlin wasn't entirely useless...

"Wait a minute, Merlin, shouldn't you still be trapped in the tower? And aren't you still alive? Why did I summon you as a Heroic Spirit?" Chen Luo, who had just untied the child, suddenly turned to look at Merlin.

"I don't know either. I'd like to know why I'm here," Merlin said, shrugging.

You ask me? Who should I ask?

This is neither science, nor magic, nor even the Holy Grail.

Damn it, it must be Alaya's fault!

Chen Luo cursed under his breath!

Huh? A misunderstanding? Just kidding, besides Alaya, Chen Luo hasn't met any other special beings, has he?

If it's not Alaya, then who is it?

Is it the root cause?

"What exactly happened here?" After listening to Chen Luo's words, Merlin began to scan the room and found that it was indeed quite bloody.

Putting aside the obvious human blood next to it, Merlin could even smell a faint, damp stench.

"Simply put, it's about a murderer with Magus qualifications who was just about to summon a Servant by chance, and the other party's holy relic should be this boy." Chen Luo turned his head and glanced at the child who had just been untied by him, but whose pupils were still filled with shock and fear.

In a sense, Uryuu Ryunosuke didn't summon a Servant without using a relic. His relic was a child, and the Servant he summoned was Gilles de Rais, also known as Bluebeard, a legendary demon who skinned many children.

Chen Luo summoned Merlin solely based on his compatibility with Merlin.

To be honest, although Chen Luo summoned two 5-star Servants without using any artifacts, Chen Luo wasn't happy at all.

One is the Lord of the Lostbelt, the other is the scoundrel Merlin.

In a sense, neither of these two belongs to any particular order or faction.

Although Chen Luo didn't feel like he was a good person either, but...

Well, it's hard to say.

Merlin isn't so naive as to do whatever others tell him to do, but as a nightmare, he does have his own special abilities. For example, Merlin can see that the child is terrified, but the object of his fear isn't Chen Luo, but the person lying on the ground with a broken arm.

That is, the guy who was originally supposed to become Magus's master.

"Master, I feel like we're quite compatible. Shall we introduce ourselves?" Merlin asked, leaning closer to Chen Luo.

"I feel that instead of thinking about these issues, you should think about how to save your life," Chen Luo said with a sigh.

"Uh, what do you mean?"

"Don't you have clairvoyance? And it's extremely high-level clairvoyance, go see how many Servants there are now. And who my other Servant is." Seeing Merlin's cheerful expression, Chen Luo gave him a hint.

Merlin and Morgan, Vivian...

Tsk tsk.

What a tragic fate.

Of course, it's important to note that the Morgan in the alternate history world is not the Morgan from the Pan-Human History.

Although Morgan's reputation in Pan-Human History is indeed not very good, Morgan in Lostbelt merely accepted the other party's memories.

The two Morgan are not the same Morgan; please do not confuse them.

Morgan in this alternate world is at most a bit cruel to fairies.

Yes, [some].

While Merlin was using his clairvoyance, Chen Luo was also using the power of the Herrscher of Knowledge to influence the child in front of him.

Chen Luo felt it was necessary to erase part of the other person's memory, after all, it was still too much for a child.

Chen Luo turned his head and glanced at the direction of the corpse again, and couldn't help but sigh.

This house wasn't originally Uryuu Ryunosuke's house; it was once home to a happy and harmonious family.

Until they met Ryunosuke.

All of this can only be attributed to bad luck.

After infiltrating a family of four Uryuu Ryunosuke killed the parents and eldest daughter, and used their blood to draw a magic circle.

Leaving the young boy alone was purely out of a perverse sense of humor.

After all, once you summon a demon, you need to prepare a gift in order to have something in common with it, and the gift prepared by the other party is a child.

Summoning demons to kill alongside the enemy— Uryuu Ryunosuke, you truly live up to your reputation.

"Kid, you're lucky you ran into me." Chen Luo patted the head of the listless little boy.

Uryuu Ryunosuke killed on the spot, and summoning a demon naturally requires the freshest blood. Therefore, the time when the other party's parents and sister were killed must have been within 6 hours, and Chen Luo had been monitoring them for 6 hours.

Faced with someone dying in front of him, especially an innocent person involved in the Holy Grail War, Chen Luo himself tends to try to save them if he can.

However, Chen Luo couldn't let anything go wrong with Uryuu Ryunosuke obtaining the Command Seal qualification, so Chen Luo couldn't interfere too much. Therefore, Chen Luo casually gave each of the four people a Puppet Mark.

The kind that's triggered upon death.

And as it turned out, Chen Luo's Puppet Mark was indeed very effective. At the moment of the other party's death, the other party truly became Chen Luo's puppet.

"The dead are resurrected!" Looking at the blood-soaked home ravaged by the murderer, Chen Luo snapped his fingers.

The room, which had been smeared with blood, suddenly became exceptionally clean, and the faint stench of death also disappeared.

Because the other person's body was retrieved.

Just as Merlin was feeling surprised, the child's parents and her sister slowly emerged from the Puppet Collection Vault.

Reviving ordinary people is indeed very quick, and for Chen Luo, the cost is also minimal.

After gently patting the little boy's head and subtly altering his consciousness, his eyes regained their liveliness. Upon seeing his parents and sister suddenly appear, he seemed not to sense anything unusual.

In this way, Chen Luo has brought benefits to his family.

Of course, Chen Luo wouldn't dare say he was a good person, because he had indeed witnessed the other person's death firsthand.

"Ah, did I forget to complete the quests? Oh well." Chen Luo slapped his forehead after seeing the family reunited.

The other person's parents and sister had just died, yet Chen Luo went to complete their commission. Although the other person didn't suffer any losses, Chen Luo still felt it was a bit excessive.

"What a convenient ability!" Merlin's eyes lit up after seeing Chen Luo's manipulation of his consciousness.

Merlin could probably tell that Chen Luo's abilities just now tended to Consciousness Control, which could lead to illusions.

Of course, it's not quite the same as Merlin's illusions, which are almost indistinguishable from reality.

"Stop probing my abilities here. Did you check the information about the other Servants who participated in the battle?" Chen Luo glanced at Merlin.

Then Chen Luo slowly walked over to Yu Ryunosuke's side.

While turning the other Puppet Transformation, Chen Luo thoughtfully reattached their hand.

The Stripping Ability does indeed have this effect; as long as the cut is flat enough and the preservation is good enough, the Stripping Ability can reconnect the other party.

In fact, the opponent's hand was severed by Chen Luo using his Stripping Ability.

Its Stripping Ability is still quite lethal.

Chen Luo usually doesn't use the Puppet Transformation on people in non-emergency situations, but if the other party is a murderer, then Chen Luo has no psychological burden at all.